Chaminade Associate Professor Marife Aczon-Armstrong, MSCP ’03, Ph.D. has been selected for induction into the American Academy of Nursing’s 2025 Class of Fellows, a prestigious honor reserved for leaders in the field who have made substantial contributions to health care.
This year’s fellows hail from 42 states and 12 countries. They will join 3,200 active Academy Fellows who “together advance the Academy’s mission of improving health and achieving health equity by impacting policy through nursing leadership, innovation, and science.”
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Aczon-Armstrong has been a nationally board certified nurse case manager for 25 years, and a Fulbright Senior Specialist for more than a decade. In addition to a doctoral degree in nursing, she holds master’s degrees in nursing and counseling psychology along with multiple certifications.
Lorin Ramocki, DNP, interim dean of Chaminade’s School of Nursing and Health Professions, congratulated Aczon-Armstrong on receiving “one of the highest honors in our profession” with her induction as a 2025 fellow.
“This recognition reflects not only her extraordinary contributions to leadership and nursing education, but also elevates the national profile of our School and its commitment to advancing health equity and innovation,” Ramocki said.
The academy said the 2025 Class of Fellows was selected from a historically high number of applicants.
The fellows will be formally recognized at a conference in October in Washington, D.C.
“I cannot emphasize enough at this pivotal time in history the vital importance of recognizing this extraordinary and sizeable group of nurse leaders. With rich and varied backgrounds from practice, policy, research, entrepreneurship, and academia, they have been instrumental in using nursing’s holistic approach to improve the health of patients and communities throughout the world,” said Academy President Linda D. Scott, Ph.D.
Also among the 2025 Class of Fellows: Sondra Leiggi Brandon, a member of the University’s Board of Governors. Brandon is vice president of Patient Care, Behavioral Health at the Queen’s Health Systems.