Credentials and Background of the Theorist

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse is currently a professor and Niehoff Chair at the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago. She is founder and editor of Nursing Science Quarterly, president of Discovery International Incorporated, which sponsors international nursing theory conferences, and founder of the Institute of Human Becoming, where she teaches the ontological epistemological and methodological aspects of the human becoming school of thought.

Dr. Parse is a graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and received her master's and doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a member of the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, Dean of the Nursing School at Duquesne University, Professor and Coordinator of the Center for Nursing Research at Hunter College of the City University of New York (1983-1993), and Professor and Niehoff Chair at Loyola University Chicago (1993-2006). Since January 2007 she has been a Consultant and Visiting Scholar at the New York University College of Nursing. Dr. Parse is founder and current Editor of Nursing Science Quarterly, and President of Discovery International, Inc. She is also founder of the Institute of Humanbecoming.

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse is an articulate, courageous, and vibrant leader with a strong vision and a deliberate determination to advance the discipline of nursing. She is well-known internationally for her humanbecoming school of thought a nursing perspective that focuses on quality of life and human dignity from the perspective of patients, families, and communities. Dr. Parse is an inspirational mentor whose diligent loving presence, consistent and willing availability, and respectful and gentle urgings have helped many seasoned and budding nurse scholars to pursue their dreams. Those who have had the honor of working with her, as students and colleagues are honored to know and to have been mentored by this truly outstanding nurse leader.