CAROL LEGER PICARD received her BSN in 1972 from Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts, her MS from Boston College in 1976, and PhD from
Boston College in 1998. She is President, Carol Picard Associates, and Founder of the Nursing Art Quartet. Her professional career includes the following experience: Professor, Graduate Program Director, PhD Program Director, University of Massachusetts; Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Associate Clinical Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Cantor Center, Boston; Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Visiting Professor, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Associate Director and Professor in the Graduate Nursing Program at MGH Institute of Health Professions; Associate Professor, Fitchburg State College Department of Nursing. Dr. Picard was also a Psychotherapist in Private Practice; Clinical Supervisor, Geriatric Services of Central Massachusetts; Chief Nurse Clinician, Marlboro (MA) Mental Health Clinic; Lecturer, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley, MA; Nurse Clinician and Community Mental Health Nurse Advisor at various clinics in Massachusetts, and began her nursing career in 1972 as a Staff Nurse, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Dr. Picard has received the following grant funding: Research - 1988-2002: UK National Health Service, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Kenneth Schwartz Center, Sigma Theta Tau - Epsilon Beta and Alpha Chi chapters. Programs: US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); US Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN).
As of August 2010 she has published 19 peer reviewed journal articles, 11 book chapters, and one book [Picard, C. & Jones, D. (Eds.) (2005). Giving voice to what we know: Margaret Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness in nursing practice, research and education. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.] She has presented keynote addresses in 26 states, as well as Canada, Colombia, England, Japan, Mexico, Scotland, South Africa, from 1999-2010. Her peer-reviewed presentations and posters from 1990-2007 were at national, international and regional conferences, including travels to Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, the Netherlands, Russia, Scotland, and Taiwan. Invited presentations during 1983-2006 were for universities, colleges, Sigma Theta Tau chapters, national and international professional conferences, hospitals and medical centers. Topics primarily focused on leadership in nursing, caring, compassion, creativity, stress disorders, psychotropic medications, family systems theory, and self-care.
Dr. Picard’s consultation work has included projects for hospitals, colleges of nursing, and corporations, in the US, UK, and Russia. In 2007 she participated in the Think Tank: Creating
Optimal Healing Environments at Samueli Institute, Esalen, California.
Dr. Picard has served on the Manuscript Review Panel, Editorial Board, Advisory Board, or as Peer Reviewer for Nursing Science Quarterly, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (UK), NT Research (UK), International Journal for Human Caring, Nursing Spectrum, Global Institute for Nursing and Health, Holistic Nursing Task Force Mass. Board of Registration, N & HC: Perspectives on Community, Medical Care (Russian nursing research journal), Bay State Nurse News, Waking Dreams and Warrior Women.
She was Tour Leader and Conference Planner for US/Russian Nursing Conferences held during 1995-1999.
Professional affiliations include the American Holistic Nurses Association, American Psychiatric Nurses Association (Research Council, 2005-present), International Society of Psychiatric Nurses, International Association for Human Caring (President, 2002-2004), Massachusetts Nurses Association (Vice President – District II, 1991-1993), Massachusetts Nurses Foundation (Trustee, 1992-1995), Massachusetts Psychiatric Nurses Association, Oncology Nursing Society, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (President, 2005-2007), Society of Rogerian Scholars.
Dr. Picard’s major choreography: Bringing it all back home: ICU nurse stories and relationship-centered care (2006); Who can I turn to? (based on findings of study with parents of bipolar children) (2001); Healing reflections: the transformative mirror (1997); Songlines, A work in progress for dancer and cello (1994); Love in any language (1994); Meditation on Hildegarde of Bingen (1993); Heal the world (1993); On Caring (1992). These dance pieces were performed at conferences of the International Association for Human Caring and other nursing and health care related organizations, and in academic settings.
Dr. Picard’s honors and awards include Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses Living Legend Award, 2008; The Sage Colleges Delta Pi Chapter STTI Distinguished Leadership Award, 2007; Emmanuel College Clara Barton Humanitarian Award, 2006; Academic Keys Who's Who in Health Sciences Education, 2005; Fitchburg State College Alumni Achievement Award - First Recipient, 2003; Massachusetts General Hospital Partners in Excellence Award, 2001, 2002; Sigma Theta Tau International Epsilon Beta Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award, 2001; Association of College Honor Societies & Sigma Theta Tau International Certificate of Distinction, 2000; Boston College Doctoral Candidate with Distinction, 1997; University Fellow 1995-98; Epsilon Beta Chapter Sigma Theta Tau Mentor Award, 1995; Massachusetts Nurses Association Image of the Professional Nurse Award, 1995; Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing Faculty Development Award, 1994; Who's Who in American Nursing, 1983. [Complete CV as of August 2011 is archived.]