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Ruth Ann Churley Strom
School of Nursing
School of Nursing
Ruth Ann Churley-Strom, Ph.D., R.N., Assistant Professor of Nursing
B.S.N., Carlow College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; M.S.N., Yale University, 1975; M.S., public health, Walden University; Ph.D., public health, Walden University, 2015.
Instructor in Nursing (Parent-Child Nursing) 1975-1977, Assistant Professor of Nursing 1977-1978, University of Michigan School of Nursing.
Subsequently Churley-Strom was associated with St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan where she was an education specialist with the Nursing Staff Development office and later a research scientist.
Churley-Strom’s Master of Science thesis (Yale, 1975) was called “Preparation of Children with Leukemia for Administration of Intravenous Chemotherapeutic Agents in an Ambulatory Care Setting.” Her doctoral dissertation was called “Post Hysterectomy Discharge Destination and Risk of Hospital Readmission in Elderly Women.”
Ruth Ann Churley, daughter of John Churley and Ann Mikolay Churley, graduated from Westinghouse Memorial High School, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania in 1962. Churley-Strom resides in southeastern Michigan with her husband, Paul G. Strom, Jr.