Mary Ersek

Mary Ersek, the Killebrew-Censits Chair in Undergraduate Education and professor of palliative care in Penn Nursing’s department of biobehavioral health sciences, was chosen for the 2017 Norma M. Lang Award for Scholarly Practice and Policy. 

The annual award recognizes a Penn Nursing faculty member or doctoral program graduate who has made a distinguished contribution to nursing through scholarly practice.

Dr. Ersek, who is also a professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, is a national and international expert on pain and palliative care for older adults, with an emphasis on the nursing home setting. She has served on the IOM Expert Panel on Advanced Dementia, as chair of the National Nursing Research Field Advisory Committee of the VHA and as an editorial board member of the Journal of Palliative Medicine. She is a Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.