Catherine Wilson Cox

Catherine Wilson Cox is a retired U.S. Navy Nurse who came to GW Nursing in 2016. She started her career as a Navy nurse in the ICU at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, was stationed at Cherry Point, NC, transferred to the U.S. Navy Reserves, and retired in 2014 as a Captain (O-6). From 2012-2016 she was the Director of Programs at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in Washington, D.C. She has taught nursing students at Marymount University, Georgetown University, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In recognition of her contributions to advancing the science of military nursing, she was inducted in 2020 as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). She now sits on the Academy’s Expert Panel on Military Veterans Health. Her innovative nursing education research focused on the experiences and outcomes of military/veteran nursing students contributes to the evidentiary base aimed at their academic success; hence, in 2022 she was inducted into the Academy of Nursing Education as a Fellow (ANEF). Also in 2022, she was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to serve on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS). She is a Docent for Wreaths across America at Arlington National Cemetery, she is a key volunteer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs/DAV Annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic “Miracles on the Mountain” in Snowmass, CO, and she is a Red Cross Volunteer in the PACU at the Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center in Fort Belvoir, VA. Most recently (2024), she received the Navy Nurse Corps Association’s Meritorious Recognition Award.