2024 Katharine A Lembright Award and Lecture - Holli A. DeVon PhD, MS, RN, FAHA, FAAN

 

Holli DeVon, PhD, MS, RN, FAHA, FAAN, is professor and Audrienne H. Moseley endowed chair in research in the UCLA School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the identification and management of the symptoms of acute coronary syndromes and chronic ischemic heart disease.Dr. DeVon’s ACS symptom checklist has been used by investigators in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She has received multiple extramural and intramural research grants. Her current grant is an R01 from the National Institute of Nursing Research to study the effects of acupuncture for patients with stable angina. She received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Rwanda in 2018 and completed a study on cardiovascular disease in people with HIV.

She has been honored with several research awards, including the 2002 Martha N. Hill New Investigator award and the 2014 best research paper award from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (CVSN). In 2020, she was inducted into the Sigma International Researcher Hall of Fame. Dr. DeVon has published 140 articles in multidisciplinary journals and written commentaries in journals including JAMA Internal Medicine and The Lancet. She is a founding editorial board member for the Journal of the American Heart Association and is past chair of the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science. Dr. DeVon currently serves on the Leadership Committee for the CVSN. She has mentored more than 50 undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral trainees and junior faculty.