Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare

Julie Sanford completed her DNS in 2002 from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. Currently, she is a Professor and Director of the School of Nursing

at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia and has over 30 years of academic nursing experience. In 2017, she was inducted into the American Academy of

Nursing. She has worked tirelessly to increase access to higher education for educationally disadvantaged and rural nursing students. Her research interests include patient

safety, informal caregiving and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She holds multiple offices in nursing leadership and has published and presented extensively.