URI’s College of Nursing hires former dean at University of Vermont

Betty Rambur has been named URI’s Routhier Chair of Practice in the College of Nursing. / COURTESY BETTY RAMBUR
Betty Rambur has been named URI’s Routhier Chair of Practice in the College of Nursing. / COURTESY BETTY RAMBUR

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Betty Rambur has been appointed the University of Rhode Island’s Routhier Chair of Practice in the College of Nursing. She joins URI’s College of Nursing as the Academic Health Collaborative, a broad-based reorganization of the university’s health education and research programs, gets underway. Rambur succeeds Lynne Dunphy, who took another academic position in Florida, after serving in the post for nine years.

“We are very fortunate to have Dr. Rambur join the URI College of Nursing,” Nursing Dean Barbara Wolfe said in a statement. “Her longstanding contributions to health policy and transformation of clinical practice are tremendous assets and an ideal fit with [URI]. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Rambur brings an exciting energy and ability to enhance innovative partnerships to improve health care that cuts across disciplines and conventional boundaries.”

“I’m delighted to be joining URI in this era of unprecedented transformation of the U.S. health care system, including payment and delivery reform rooted in a keen understanding of broad determinants of individual and societal health,” Rambur said. “I am eager to join this community of scholars, teachers and researchers to advance the mission of intellectual, educational and service contributions to Rhode Island, the nation and the world through the work of an inspired academic institution.”

From 2000 to 2009, Rambur was an academic dean at UVM where she led the merger of the School of Nursing and School of Allied Health Science to establish the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. The Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board, on which she serves, oversees the state’s health care system and its transition from a fee-for-service model to value-based care and other health reform issues, including population health, reducing disparities in access to health care and cost containment.

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Rambur, who earned her doctorate in nursing from Rush University in Chicago, is widely published on health care economics, health policy and reform and leadership development. She will become a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in October 2016, an honor awarded to those demonstrating exemplary leadership and accomplishment.

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