Professor Angela Barron McBride is Distinguished Professor and University Dean Emeritus at Indiana University School of Nursing.  She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Georgetown University, her master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing from Yale University, and her PhD in developmental psychology from Purdue University.  She is known for her contributions to women’s health, particularly the psychology of parenthood, and to psychiatric nursing.

Her own leadership experience includes serving as president of Sigma Theta Tau International (1987-1989) during the building of the International Center for Nursing Scholarship in Indianapolis, and as president of the American Academy of Nursing (1993-1995).  She has served on various statewide and national policy-shaping boards which include the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (1987-1991), NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health (1997-2001), and Indiana University Health (2004-2016).  Passing on her leadership savvy, she spent 15 years designing the annual leadership conference sponsored by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence, has chaired the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, and was the founding chair of the national advisory council for the American Academy of Nursing’s Institute for Nursing Leadership.  She currently serves on the board of advisors for the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy which is based at Frances Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve.

For her contributions, she has been honored with various professional awards—for example, the "Outstanding Contributions to Nursing and Health Psychology" Award of the American Psychological Association’s Division on Health Psychology, the MacDonald Hospital for Women Award of University Hospitals of Cleveland, Sigma Theta Tau International’s Melanie Dreher Award for her abilities as a dean, the Ross Products Pioneering Spirit Award of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the Melva Jo Hendrix Award for Leadership of the International Society for Psychiatric Nurses, honorary fellowship in the Hong Kong Academy of Nursing, and the National League for Nursing’s President’s Award—and seven honorary doctorates, elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and designated as a “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing.