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Dorrie Fontaine, who has been Dean of the School of Nursing since 2008, is retiring on July 31.\u00a0 She has been a strong proponent of mindfulness, compassion and promoting healthy work environments during her tenure as Dean.\u00a0 Among her many accomplishments, she founded the Compassionate Care Initiative (https:\/\/cci.nursing.virginia.edu\/<\/a> ), and supported many UVa health care providers involved in end of life care to attend the Being with Dying program with Roshi Joan Halifax at the Upaya Zen Center.\u00a0 \u00a0She gave the 2019 Commencement Address at the University of Virginia which can be viewed here https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQnKGu2o0uE<\/a> . Read more about Dorrie\u2019s distinguished career at https:\/\/magazine.nursing.virginia.edu\/feature\/<\/a> .\u00a0 She has been an ardent and articulate supporter of contemplative practices at the University of Virginia and truly led by example.\u00a0 Her presence will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dorrie Fontaine, who has been Dean of the School of Nursing since 2008, is retiring on July 31.\u00a0 She has been a strong proponent of mindfulness, compassion and promoting healthy work environments during her tenure as Dean.\u00a0 Among her many accomplishments, she founded the Compassionate Care Initiative (https:\/\/cci.nursing.virginia.edu\/ ), and supported many UVa health care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-updates"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"\nDorrie Fontaine, Dean of the School of Nursing, to Retire on July 31 - Mindfulness Matters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.med.virginia.edu\/mindfulness\/2019\/06\/26\/dorrie-fontaine-dean-of-the-school-of-nursing-to-retire-on-july-31\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dorrie Fontaine, Dean of the School of Nursing, to Retire on July 31 - 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