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'{{short description|American nurse}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Claire Fagin | image = | caption = | order = Interim | title = [[President of the University of Pennsylvania]] | term_start = 1993 | term_end = 1994 | predecessor = [[Sheldon Hackney]] | successor = [[Judith Rodin]] | title2 = Dean of the School of Nursing of the [[University of Pennsylvania]] | term_start2 = 1977 | term_end2 = 1992 | predecessor2 = Dorothy Mereness | successor2 = Norma Lang | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1926|11|25}} | birth_place = [[New York City, New York]] | death_place = | death_date = | spouse = Sam Fagin | children = | alma_mater = [[Columbia University]]<br>[[New York University]] }} '''Claire Mintzer Fagin''', [[Registered Nurse|RN]], [[Ph.D]], [[American Academy of Nursing|FAAN]] (born November 25, 1926) is an [[United States|American]] nurse, educator, academic, and consultant. She has a bachelor's degree in Science from [[Wagner College]], a Master's in Nursing from [[Columbia University]] and a Ph.D from [[New York University]], all in [[New York City]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4PN4GnsrSgC | title=The international who's who 1991-92| isbn=9780946653706| last1=1991-92| first1=5. 5.| last2=1991-92| first2=5. 5.| date=1991-07-25}}</ref> Fagin’s major contributions to psychiatric nursing, nursing education and geriatric care was always underlined with a strong belief in the power of the activist consumer. As a result of her work to change hospital visiting policies Dr. Fagin is considered to be one of the founders of [[family centered care]] and is the first woman to serve as president of an [[Ivy League]] university.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2013/september/claire-fagin/|title=Claire Fagin (M.A. '51)|website=Teachers College Columbia University}}</ref> ==Biography== Fagin was the daughter of Mae and Harry Mintzer, immigrants to [[New York City]]. Her parents wished for her to become a medical doctor like her aunt, who was a dermatologist in Queens.<ref name=Fearless>{{cite news|last1=Manchester|first1=Lee|title=Fearless|url=http://wagner.edu/wagnermagazine/?p=1469|accessdate=December 14, 2014|work=Wagner Magazine|issue=Fall 2011|publisher=[[Wagner College]]}}</ref> She elected to study nursing at [[Wagner College]] and earned a doctorate at [[New York University]]. Her doctoral dissertation covered the concept of "rooming in" for parents of hospitalized children. She continued her research in this area, which influenced the perception of parental visitation in hospitals.<ref name=ANA>{{cite web|title=ANA'S 2010 Hall of Fame and Honorary Awards Program|url=http://www.nursingworld.org/clairemfagin|publisher=[[American Nurses Association]]|accessdate=December 14, 2014}}</ref> She served as Dean of the School of Nursing at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] from 1977 to 1991, when she left to do geriatric nursing research as a Scholar in Residence at the [[Institute of Medicine]], [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. She was Presidential Chair in early 1993 at the [[University of California, San Francisco]]. In 1993 she was named interim president of the University of Pennsylvania (from July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1994), the first woman to serve in the capacity of a university president with any [[Ivy League]] university. She continued to focus on geriatric nursing after returning to the professoriate in 1994 and has done so ever since. In 2005 she completed five years as director of the "John A. Hartford Foundation Program: Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity", which is coordinated in [[Washington, D.C.]], at the [[American Academy of Nursing]]. She is a past president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.<ref name=AJO>{{cite journal|last1=Brown|first1=Bertram|title=Claire M. Fagin, Ph.D.: President: American Orthopsychiatric Association|journal=American Journal of Orthopsychiatry|date=April 1985|volume=55|issue=2|pages=164–165|doi=10.1111/j.1939-0025.1985.tb03429.x}}</ref> She is Leadership Professor Emerita, Dean Emerita at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and has received 15 honorary doctoral degrees as well as the prestigious Honorary Recognition Award of the [[American Nurses Association]]. On November 30, 2006, the nursing education building at the University of Pennsylvania was renamed Claire M. Fagin Hall. She is an Honorary Fellow of the UK [[Royal College of Nursing]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/fagin |title=Claire M Fagin RN PhD DNSc FAAN FRCN |accessdate= 2011-08-15 |year=2002 |work=RCN Fellows |publisher= Royal College of Nursing |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904215902/http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/fagin |archivedate= 2008-09-04 }}</ref> was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2010 and is a member of the [[National Academy of Medicine]], the [[American Academy of Nursing]], the Century Association and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. She is currently emeritus on the Board of Trustees of the [[Visiting Nurse Service of New York]]. Sam Fagi retired from a very successful career as an engineer/mathematician died on Christmas Eve, 2019at the age of 96. The Fagin's had been married for 65 years. Fagin and her husband, Samuel Fagin, had two sons.the elder, Joshua a musician/ composer in New York died of Covid-19 in November 2020. ==See also== *[[List of Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing]] ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} {{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{s-bef|before=[[Sheldon Hackney]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[University President|President]] of the [[University of Pennsylvania]] | years = ''interim''<br/>1993–1994}} {{s-aft|after=[[Judith Rodin]]}} {{s-end}} {{University of Pennsylvania presidents}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fagin, Claire}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American consultants]] [[Category:American nursing administrators]] [[Category:Teachers College, Columbia University alumni]] [[Category:Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development alumni]] [[Category:Chief Administrators of the University of Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Honorary Fellows of the Royal College of Nursing]] [[Category:People in public health]] [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:Nursing school deans]] [[Category:Nursing educators]] [[Category:20th-century women scientists]] [[Category:American academic administrators]] [[Category:Women academic administrators]] [[Category:Women heads of universities and colleges]]'