role of full professor in 1980 and continued to serve there until 2001. From 1975 to 1977, she worked with the Kuwait Ministry of Education and the University of Kuwait School of Medicine to help establish their Health Institute, a precursor to their Nursing program established in 1982. (This nursing program has since been incorporated into their College of Health Sciences.) In Kuwait, Meleis was surrounded by global communities and cultures, and she began forming research questions about immigration, transitions of immigration, and their impacts on healthcare experiences, with a focus on vulnerable women. This served as the foundation for her and her team's development of Transitions Theory, a framework for understanding the experiences, responses, and consequences of change for patients, families, communities, and organizations. University of Pennsylvania After 34 years at the University of California, Meleis led the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing from 2002 to 2014, serving as the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing and Director of the School's WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. She returned to the faculty as a Professor of Nursing and Sociology in 2014 before formally retiring in 2016. Known as the “Energizer Dean” by her colleagues, Meleis led a $109.3 million fundraising campaign, which went toward expansive initiatives and goals in the School of Nursing. Under Meleis’s leadership and in collaboration with Mary Naylor and NewCourtland Elder Services, Penn Nursing established the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health in 2007. Meleis continued to advance the School by establishing the Center for Global Women’s Health (CGWH) in June 2011. The CGWH is a pioneering research center that contributes to women's health scholarship, education, clinical practice, and leadership on a global level. It officially opened on May 11, 2012. Selected works Meleis, A. I. (2016). The Undeaning Transition: Toward Becoming a Former Dean. Nursing Outlook. 64 (2), 186-196. Langer, A., Meleis, A., Knaul, F. M., Atun, R., Aran, M., Arreola-Ornelas, H., ... & Claeson, M. (2015). Women and health: the key for sustainable development. The Lancet, 386(9999), 1165-1210. Meleis, A.I. (2011). Theoretical nursing: Development and progress (5th Ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Meleis, A.I., Birch, E., Wachter, S. (Ed.). (2011). Women's Health and the World's Cities. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press Bhutta ZA, Chen L, Cohen J, Crisp N, Evans T, Fineberg H, Frenk J, Garcia P, Horton R, Ke Y, Kelley P, Kistnasamy B, Meleis A., Naylor