University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus

After spending nearly a half century elevating the concept of caring into the realm of hard science, former University of Colorado College of Nursing Dean Jean Watson has been selected as a "Living Legend" of the American Academy of Nursing for extraordinary contributions to her profession.

"I feel that the work I have done all of these years is exactly what’s needed now due to the transformation of health care and the need to go beyond traditional Western approaches to disease," said Watson.