Gail Pisarcik Lenehan, RN, MSN, EdD, FAEN, FAAN
2008 Director

Gail Pisarcik Lenehan, RN, MSN, EdD, FAEN, FAAN, is currently serving as a member of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Board of Directors, the specialty nursing association serving the emergency nursing profession through research, publications, professional development, and injury prevention. Lenehan’s term ends in 2010.

Lenehan has worked in emergency nursing since graduation from nursing school, first as an ED staff nurse, then as an ED Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, and most recently, as a Nurse Clinical Specialist per diem at the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department.

Lenehan has been involved in ENA at the national level since 1977. She was Editor-in-Chief of JEN for 25 years and served on dozens of committees and task forces, including the original Standards of Emergency Nursing Task Force, the original Academy of Emergency Nursing Task Force, the Occupational Health & Safety Committee, and the ENA Membership Vision Council. In addition, she has also been active at the state level since the 1980’s, serving as a member of the Massachusetts State Council board and as the Program Co-chair for the New England Regional Symposium.

Lenehan was the recipient of the ENA Lifetime Achievement Award, ENA’s Judith C. Kelleher Award, the Pine Street Inn Shelter’s Humanitarian Award, the Mosby Award of Excellence, and the Journal of Emergency Nursing Special Recognition Award, among others. In 2000, the Gail P. Lenehan Award for Advocacy was named in her honor. She has made significant contributions as an advocate for the health care of the homeless, for victims of sexual assault, and for the health and safety of other nurses. She has worked with the MNA Congress on Occupational Health and Safety for 10 years and is currently a member of the Author Mentoring Project of the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses (MARN).

A Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Nursing and the American Academy of Nursing, Lenehan has authored numerous articles, position papers, grants and chapters, and co-edited the Manual of Emergency Nursing. She is a reviewer for the Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the American Nurse Today.

Lenehan received her diploma in nursing from St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, Hartford, CT, her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Boston College, and her Master of Science degree in nursing from Boston University. In addition, she received her doctorate in Education from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

For more information, please contact the ENA Executive Services Office at 847/460-4095 or ExecOffice@ena.org.

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