Terry A. Lennie PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN

Terry Lennie holds a joint Ph.D. in nursing and psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in neurobehavior at the University of Michigan. He came to the UK in 2003 from The Ohio State University, where he was an associate professor of nursing. He currently serves as co-director of the RICH Heart Program and associate dean for graduate faculty affairs at the College of Nursing.

Dr. Lennie received a Heart Failure Society of America Nursing Research Finalist Award in 2003. The American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing awarded him the Arteriosclerosis/Heart Failure Research Prize in 2004, the Research Article of the Year Award in 2006, the Best Abstract Award in 2007, and Clinical Article of the Year Award in 2014. In 2014 Dr. Lennie was also awarded the Best Oral Abstract Presentation by the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professionals, European Society of Cardiology and the Distinguished Achievement Award by the University of Wisconsin’s School of Nursing Alumni Organization. In 2016, he was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. He is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Nursing.