Joan L. Frey, EdD, MSN, RN, NEA-BC

Joan Frey is Dean of Galen College of Nursing. Mrs. Frey received a BS in Music Education from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; an ASN from Triton College, River Grove, Illinois; a MSN with a focus in Nursing Administration from the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio; and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio. She has over 28 years of nursing experience in Medical-Surgical nursing, Critical Care Step-Down, Dialysis, Quality Assurance, and Head Nurse roles. Since 1991, she was Director of Aultman Hospital School of Nursing’s Diploma nursing program in Canton, Ohio; and, from 2004 until her appointment at Galen College in 2008, she was Director of the Division of Nursing for Aultman College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Canton, Ohio, an Associate of Science in Nursing program. Dr. Frey has represented nursing education on the national level as a Board of Director member of the National League for Nursing.

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