Laurie Marie Lauzon Clabo PhD, RN, FAAN (fx1599)

Dr. Laurie Lauzon Clabo was appointed the eighth dean of the College of Nursing at Wayne State University in April 2015. Dean Clabo has a strong background in academic leadership, including ten years of experience as a successful dean. From August of 2020 until July 2021, she served as Wayne State University’s Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

She is a nationally recognized expert in nursing education, with a record of strong national leadership. She is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and the AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program and has served in a variety of leadership roles in professional organizations. She is a member of a number of editorial boards and a frequent national speaker on issues related to workforce development, interprofessional education and competency-based education. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Dean Clabo is recognized for her national leadership in innovation regarding education for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs). From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Clabo served as the Chair of the AACN APRN Clinical Training Task Force. She led the Competency Based Education for Doctorally-Prepared APRNs Work Group, a multi-stakeholder work group coordinated by AACN that produced the nation’s first set of consensus-based competencies for doctorally-prepared APRNs. She has also chaired the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Standards Committee for Nurse Practitioner Residency Programs.

In addition to her role as dean, Dr. Clabo also serves as Wayne State University’s inaugural Chief Health and Wellness Officer. In this role, Dean Clabo assumes primary focus for major health-related policies and services on campus, including policy development and implementation, campus health-related surveillance and planning, regulatory compliance, support for health-related research and education, response to health-related issues and crises, including efficient use of resources and the promotion of health and wellness on our campus.

Dean Clabo received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of Windsor, her master’s in Nursing Administration from Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia and her PhD in nursing from the University of Rhode Island.

• BSN - University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

• MN - Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

• PhD - University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

• Workforce development, particularly the development of a diverse, interprofessional healthcare workforce
  

• Development of critical thinking in medical and nursing students
  

• The sociocultural context of nursing practice

• Critical care nursing

• Nursing administration

Giddens, J., Lauzon Clabo, L. M., Gonce-Morton, P. Jeffries, P., McQuade-Jones, B., & Ryan, S. (2014). Re-envisioning clinical education for nurse practitioner programs: Themes from a national leaders' dialogue. Journal of Professional Nursing. 30(3), 273-278.

Papp, K., Huang, G.C., Lauzon Clabo, L.M., Delva, D., Fisher, M., Konopasek, L., Schwartztein, R., & Gusic. (2014). Milestones of critical thinking: A developmental model for medicine and nursing. Academic Medicine. 89(5), 1-6.

Lauzon Clabo, L.M., Giddens, J., Jeffries, P., McQuade-Jones, B., Morton, P., & Ryan, S. (2012). A perfect storm: a window of opportunity in nurse practitioner education. Journal of Nursing Education. 51(10), 539-541.

Lauzon Clabo, L.M., Giddens, J., Jeffries, P., McQuade-Jones, B., Morton, P., & Ryan, S. (2012). Response to: A perfect storm: a window of opportunity in nurse practitioner education. Journal of Nursing Education. 51(12), 665-666.

Lauzon Clabo, L.M., Giddens, J., Jeffries, P., McQuade-Jones, B., Morton, P., & Ryan, S. (2012). A perfect storm: a window opportunity in nurse practitioner education. Journal of Nursing Education. 51(10), 539-541.

Provost Clabo has a strong background in academic leadership, including more than 14 years of experience as a successful dean. She is a nationally recognized expert in nursing and interprofessional education with a record of strong national leadership.

Dr. Clabo is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and the Wharton Executive Leadership Program and has served in a variety of leadership roles in professional organizations. She is a member of several editorial boards and a frequent national speaker on issues related to workforce development, interprofessional education and competency-based education. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Her leadership of two transformative national policy initiatives spearheaded a bold agenda for the national-level redesign of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) education. Her three-year leadership of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) APRN Clinical Training Task Force led to AACN’s adoption of strategies designed to increase the APRN workforce, reduce bottlenecks in the education pipeline and prepare APRNs with identified competencies for practice.

Subsequently, her leadership of the APRN Competency-Based Education for Doctorally Prepared APRNs Work Group — a working group of 26 national nursing organizations — led to the establishment of the first national common competencies for APRNs, impacting the education and practice of the approximately 250,000 advanced practice nurses in the United States and the first common taxonomy for competency-based education accessible to nurses, interprofessional partners, regulators and the public.

During her time as dean at Wayne State University, the College of Nursing has grown in national prominence. Dr. Clabo’s accomplishments include significant growth in philanthropy, the reversal of a decline and now solid growth in research funding and graduate enrollment, and an extraordinary rise in national rankings that now place the college’s graduate programs among the top 50 in the country and the undergraduate program in the top 5% nationally. Dr. Clabo also led the opening of the new Campus Health Center, considered state-of-the-art in its field, and the Taylor Street Primary Care Clinic, a patient-centered, nurse-managed primary care practice serving the residents of Virginia Park.

As interim provost, Dr. Clabo led the university’s successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She also spearheaded the integration of student-facing health services on campus under a single umbrella, including the adoption of a single point of contact for mental health services, the expansion of clinical services provided by Counselling and Psychological Services (CAPS) — including 24/7 after hours services provided for all WSU students — and the establishment of the Office for Sexual Violence Prevention and Education (OSVPE).

As Wayne State’s chief academic officer, Dr. Clabo is the second-ranking executive officer of the university and responsible for all matters related to the instructional mission of the university including faculty matters, student performance and retention, and academic personnel policies and decisions, among other duties.

Dr. Clabo received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of Windsor, her master’s in nursing administration from Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia and her Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Rhode Island.