Donations made are in memory of Duke University School of Nursing Dean Dorothy Brundage. Her family has asked that in lieu of flowers this is how we can best remember their mother.
Dorothy Brundage, PhD, RN, FAAN, was the Interim Dean at Duke University School of Nursing from 1987-1991.

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Dorothy Brundage received her BSN in 1953 from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. For several years thereafter, Dr. Brundage worked as a nurse before earning her MSN in 1968 from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Brundage arrived at Duke as an instructor in 1968 and was quickly promoted to assistant professor in 1970 and later to associate professor in 1979. Dr. Brundage’s serious approach to nursing and scholarly demeanor while working on her doctoral degree impressed many of the students and faculty members. In 1980, Dr. Brundage received her PhD from Walden University, an accomplishment that was still uncommon at that time for many faculty members in the discipline of nursing.

Dr. Brundage was one of a very few faculty members from the School of Nursing who achieved the more senior rank of associate professor. But like many of her colleagues at the School, Dr. Brundage was an expert clinician. Her special areas of expertise were in both obstetrical and medical-surgical nursing. She remained engaged clinically while teaching at the School of Nursing and regularly consulted with clinical staff, making rounds on the medical intensive care unit to stay current in her clinical knowledge. Within her specialty of renal nursing, she published several books and research papers and encouraged students to do the same.

From 1984 to 1985, when the School of Nursing’s BSN program was closed and the MSN program was under reorganization, Dr. Brundage returned to clinical care at Duke Hospital. After the end of her role as interim dean, Dr. Brundage remained at the School of Nursing as a faculty member and was actively engaged in implementing new programs and developing curricula for the new nurse practitioner programs.