LPSF Welcomes New Board Member

The Lois Price Spratlen Foundation is proud to welcome Elaine Walsh, PHd, RN, PMHCNS-BC, to the Board of Directors.

Dr. Elaine Walsh is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington in the Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing department and was the Vice Chair for Education from 2013-2020.

Elaine has provided mental health and suicide risk assessment, intervention, and training in inpatient and community settings. She has been involved in oversight of a number of federally-funded clinical trials addressing adolescent depression, suicide risk and other problem behaviors. Elaine is also a Nurse Scientist at Seattle Children’s and conducts research on nurse resilience.

She received her Master of Nursing degree from UCLA in 1991 and a PhD in Nursing Science from the University of Washington in 1999. Elaine has been ANCC certified as a Child/Adolescent Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist since 1991. As a faculty member at the UW since 2004, she has taught BSN, PhD and DNP students.