Awards
Brenda Lyon Leadership Award
The Brenda L. Lyon Leadership Award recognizes extraordinary leadership in service to NACNS. It is named for Brenda Lyon, PhD, FAAN, a founding member and the second president of NACNS
2020
Brenda Lyon Leadership Award Winner Susan Dresser PhD, APRN-CNS, CCRN, FCNS
Susan Dresser is an adult critical care CNS with over 35 years of experience in the care of the acutely ill cardiovascular patient. Over the course of her career she has remained an active member of NACNS- serving first on the Practice Committee in 2004 , as Director at Large, and Secretary of the Board of Directors from 2005-2010. She is a co-editor of the CNS Toolkit: A Guide for the New Clinical Nurse Specialist.. She is currently the Adult-Gerontology CNS Program Director at the Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
2018
Brenda Lyon Leadership Award Winner Melissa Craft, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCN,
Assistant Professor, Interim Associate Dean for Academic Administration and Graduate Education and PhD Program Director, at the Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, for extraordinary leadership in service to NACNS.