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Barry Gallison, corporate director of clinical quality and risk management at Broward Health, has been appointed president of the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA). Prior to being named AHNA president, he served on the organization’s board of directors as treasurer for two terms.
Gallison is a certified holistic nurse leader with more than 25 years of experience in clinical and nursing operations, quality management and performance improvement. In addition to his role at Broward Health, Gallison also holds a faculty advisor position at the Birch Tree Center for Healthcare Transformation, where he advises in the Integrative Healing Arts Program, and is a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Holistic Nursing. He is on the Advisory Board for the Advanced Holistic Nursing Master’s Degree at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University.
Gallison graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1995 from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. After graduating, he relocated to New York Presbyterian Hospital to begin his holistic nursing career as a senior staff nurse on a vascular surgical floor. His subsequent roles at New York Presbyterian Hospital included geriatric nurse practitioner, patient care director and director of nursing quality and improvement initiatives. Gallison later received his Doctor of Nursing Practice from Stony Brook University, where he completed his research on acute care nurses spiritual care practices.
