Barbara Ann Todd, director of advanced practice in the department of nursing and director of the Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration project at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).

As director of the Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration project, Dr. Todd oversees a five-year, $200 million Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) funded initiative designed to develop new models of clinical training for advanced practice nurses. She completed her doctorate of nursing practice at Thomas Jefferson University School of Nursing in 2010.