Biography
Mark Lazenby, a professor of nursing and philosophy, is the second dean of the UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing. As an international expert on psychosocial cancer care, Dean Lazenby’s research has focused on the spiritual support of cancer patients from religious minorities. He has conducted psychosocial cancer research in Botswana, Jordan, and the United States, giving him a broad societal and religious basis for addressing the human side of cancer. His book publications with Oxford University Press have attracted a global audience from well beyond the nursing community to consider the meaning and the importance of the profession of nursing to a good society. Prior to UCI, he was professor of nursing and philosophy and associate dean for academic and student affairs at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing (2019-2021) and Yale University (2006-2019), where he was associate professor of nursing (Yale School of Nursing), associate professor of religion and health (Yale Divinity School), and core faculty on The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
Research Interests
Psycho-oncology, particularly spiritual well-being; end-of-life care; health care ethics; and thinking about nursing’s contribution to a good society.
Education
MSN, Yale, 2009, Nursing
PhD, Boston University, 2001, Philosophy of Religion
Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1900, Philosophical Theology
MA, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1990, Philosophical Theology
BA, Sothern California College, 1987, Religious Studies
Honors and Awards
- 2014 – Fellow, American Psychosocial Oncology Society
- 2013 – Dorothy Sexton Mentor Award, Delta Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International
- 2012 – Ten Best Abstracts, 24th Annual Scientific Sessions of Eastern Nursing Research Society
- 2012 – Best Poster, 9th Annual Conference of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society
- 2009-10 – Fulbright Traditional United States (Post-Doctoral) Scholars Research Award
- 2009 – The 2009 Milton and Anne Sidney Prize (for best scholarly inquiry praxis)
- 2004 – Oxford Round Table, Inducted
- 1994-98 – Boston University Full Tuition Fellowship
- 1989-90 – Lowell Berry Fellowship
