Dr. Holli DeVon

UCLA School of Nursing Professor Holli DeVon, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA, has been selected to present the Katharine A. Lembright Award and Lecture by the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing.

Dr. DeVon received the award at the organization’s 2024 Scientific Sessions and was presented it by Dr. Nancy Pike, a UCLA Nursing faculty member and current chair of the AHA’s Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing. The Katharine A. Lembright Award and Lecture was one of a series of lectures from some of today’s foremost clinicians and researchers as well as those with a lifetime of contributions to the field of cardiovascular disease.

Holli DeVon and Nancy Pike pictured together
Dr. Nancy Pike (left) presenting Dr. Holli DeVon (right) the Katharine A. Lembright Award.

The Audrienne H. Moseley endowed chair in research at the UCLA School of Nursing, Dr. DeVon’s research focuses on the identification and management of the symptoms of acute coronary syndromes and chronic ischemic heart disease. Her ACS symptom checklist has been used by investigators in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She has received multiple extramural and intramural research grants. Her current grant is an R01 from the National Institute of Nursing Research to study the effects of acupuncture for patients with stable angina. She received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Rwanda in 2018 and completed a study on cardiovascular disease in people with HIV.

She has been honored with several research awards, including the 2002 Martha N. Hill New Investigator award and the 2014 best research paper award from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (CVSN). In 2020, she was inducted into the Sigma International Researcher Hall of Fame. Dr. DeVon has published 140 articles in multidisciplinary journals and written commentaries in journals including JAMA Internal Medicine and The Lancet. She is a founding editorial board member for the Journal of the American Heart Association and is past chair of the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science. Dr. DeVon currently serves on the Leadership Committee for the CVSN. She has mentored more than 50 undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral trainees and junior faculty.