Faye Gary, Ed.D., R.N., distinguished service professor

Faye Gary, Ed.D., R.N., a distinguished service professor, has bee a College of Nursing faculty member since 1975 and held a joint appointment in the department of psychiatry at the College of Medicine. She has worked as a teacher and consultant in more than 15 countries and had work-related experiences in a variety of settings, including community-based health-care delivery systems, hospital-based acute care, and secondary and higher education.

Gary has provided consultation to numerous world communities, including the republics of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, the kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland, and others. Her efforts have enabled several African nurses to participate in advanced studies at UF and other leading universities worldwide. She also has visited China and Japan, gaining a better understanding of their health and mental health-care systems. In collaboration with the UF College of Law, she provides health-related consultation to the indigenous people of Ecuador.

She is a W.K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellow and the recipient of the National Honorary Human Rights Award, presented by the American Nurses Association in 1996. Gary has conducted research on a number of prevention topics, including HIV/AIDS, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, femicide, and hormone replacement in rural black women.