CATHERINE ALICIA GEORGES, EdD, RN, FAAN
Herbert H. Lehman College
City University of New York
New York, New York
Catherine Alicia Georges is an educator, practitioner and community activist. Alicia, as she is known to most people, has worked in various professional roles in New York City. She is a sought-after speaker and has spoken throughout the United States, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Georges is currently a lecturer and coordinator of the RN sequence in the Department of Nursing at Lehman College of the City University of New York.
Dr. Georges' involvement in nursing spans over three decades. She has been involved in not only the educational and community health arenas but has devoted a great deal of time to policy-making bodies. Dr. Georges has taught for the past 20 years and has been an independent contractor for a number of home health agencies in the greater New York area. She has worked as a public health nurse consultant for various head start and pre-school programs in New York, New Jersey and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Dr. Georges has conducted workshops on conflict resolution and alcohol, tobacco and other drugs for nurses, human services, and educational professionals.
Dr. Georges served as the fifth president of the National Black Nurses Association from 1987-1991. This organization is headquartered in Washington, DC and represents more than 130,000 Black registered nurses, licensed /vocational nurses, and student nurses in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Dr. Georges is currently the president of the National Black Nurses Foundation. She has served on the US Department of Health and Human Services National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice and the New York State Governor's Health Care Advisory Board. Georges is the former chairperson of Bronx Community Board #12, and currently serves as the secretary/treasurer of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks, Inc.; vice president of the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association, treasurer of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS); and member of the boards of the Health Care Quality Alliance and the National Family Partnership.
Dr. Georges has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her continued work in nursing, and health care and the development of health, social and public policies. In June 1998, Dr. Georges was the recipient of the American Nurses Association Mary Mahoney award at the Association's biennial convention in San Diego, California.
Dr. Georges is licensed to practice nursing in the states of New York, New Jersey and the US Virgin Islands. In 1994 she formed CAG Home Health Services, a healthcare business in the US Virgin Islands. This business is approved as a continuing education provider by the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure.
Dr. Georges received a bachelor of science in nursing from Seton Hall University College of Nursing, and a masters of arts degree in community health nursing administration and supervision from New York University School of Education, Division of Nursing, and a doctorate degree in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Vermont. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, the Golden Key Honor Society, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the American Public Health Association, the American Nurses Association, the New York State Nurses Association, the National Black Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing, a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and an honorary member of Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority.
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