Doreen Wagner PhD RN, CNOR, FAORN, FAAN

Dr. Doreen Wagner is a Professor, Nurse Scientist, and the Assistant Director of Research and Scholarship at the Kennesaw State University, WellStar School of Nursing, in Kennesaw, Georgia, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate nursing students for over 16 years. For the last three decades, Dr. Wagner has been extensively involved in volunteer service leadership. She has found that service is hard to isolate it as a separate entity with her service intermingled in practice, teaching, and research. Dr. Wagner’s sustained volunteer leadership focuses on improving patient safety in the perioperative arena through committee service, policy work, and research evidence dissemination. Additionally, Dr. Wagner’s policy work includes legislative activism in the Georgia Nurses Association and the Georgia Council of Perioperative Registered Nurses in support of healthcare and nursing legislation. Dr. Wagner is the recipient of the AORN Award for Excellence, the Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Nursing Research, and the Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Academic Nursing Education. She is a charter Fellow of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.