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Leadership | NINR

NINR Director

Courtney F. Aklin, Ph.D.

Director, National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

Learn more about Courtney F. Aklin

NINR Senior Leadership

William Duval, PhD	Acting Director, Division of Extramural Science Programs
Barbara J. Sanford	Executive Officer
Yvonne Bryan, PhD	Senior Advisor to the Director
Shalanda A. Bynum, PhD, MPH	Strategic Scientific Advisor

Previous NINR Directors

Name	In Office from	To
Doris H. Merritt (Acting)	April 18, 1986	June 1987
Ada Sue Hinshaw	June 6, 1987	June 30, 1994
Suzanne S. Hurd (Acting)	July 1, 1994	April 2, 1995
Patricia A. Grady	April 3, 1995	August 31, 2018
Ann Cashion (Acting)	September 1, 2018	September 30, 2019
Lawrence Tabak (Acting)	October 1, 2019	December 31, 2019
Tara A. Schwetz (Acting)	January 1, 2020	September 13, 2020
Shannon N. Zenk	September 14, 2020	2025