Laureate Education Announces Appointment of Barbara Heller to Maryland Commission on the Shortage in Healthcare Workforce

Laureate Education, an international leader in higher education, is heralding the appointment of Dr. Barbara Heller to Maryland's Statewide Commission on the Shortage in Healthcare Workforce

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) June 24, 2007 -- Laureate Education, Inc., an international provider of higher education, has announced Dr. Barbara R. Heller's appointment to Maryland's Statewide Commission on the Shortage in Healthcare Workforce (www.waldenu.edu). Barbara R. Heller, Ed.D., R.N., F.A.A.N, is the vice president of strategic initiatives for nursing and health sciences with Laureate Education. Dr. Heller will be serving a two-year term as the Greater Baltimore committee representative on the commission, which was enacted as a legislative initiative in 2006.

Dr. Heller has more than 40 years of academic and leadership experience in public and private institutions in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. She has held several executive positions with the University of Maryland since 1981, including dean of the School of Nursing from 1990 to 2002 and executive director of the Center for Health Workforce Development.

The Commission on the Shortage in Healthcare Workforce was created in response to Maryland's severe shortage of health care workers. Walden University, the flagship online university in the Laureate International Universities network of accredited higher education institutions, offers a Master of Science program in Nursing. www.waldenu.edu also offers master and doctoral degrees in Public Health, and a doctoral degree in Health Services. These degree programs are designed to prepare health care leaders and educators to address the critical shortage, while fitting into their professional schedules.

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