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Richard Kimball, RN, PhD, MSN, MPH
Secretary
Richard Kimball is a board member and founding member of The Truth About Nursing and its predecessor The Center for Nursing Advocacy, being involved since 2001. He holds a PhD in health policy from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Masters degrees in Community Health Nursing and Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Universities School of Nursing and Public Health. Dr. Kimball is a board certified advanced practice nurse in public health.
Dr. Kimball is an Assistant Professor holding an appointment in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also holds a joint appointment with the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, in the Department of Acute and Chronic Care.
He practices as a research and clinical care nurse in the nurse-directed Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Clinic at the School of Medicine, a position he has held since 2002. He helps manage over 200 ALS patients and their families.
In addition, Dr. Kimball worked as a psychiatric nurse at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, a position he held from 1999-2000. Dr. Kimball also worked with terminally ill patients as the coordinator of a health care decision-making study at the JHU School of Nursing from 2001 until 2002.
Dr. Kimball earned his Bachelor of Science in nursing degree (BSN) at JHU's School of Nursing in 1999. He served in the Peace Corps in Moldova from 1993-1995 and subsequently worked for two USAID contractors (The Counterpart Foundation and American International Health Association) in Moldova and central Asia from 1995-1997. Dr. Kimball decided to become a nurse after seeing effective nursing interventions in infection control and women's health programs during his service overseas. He graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in integrated life sciences in 1992.
He has been a Peace Corps Fellow at JHU School of Nursing, an Albert Schweitzer Scholar at JHU, and a Sargent Shriver Peaceworker at UMBC. He is the 2010 recipient of the Shriver Peaceworker Program's Practical Idealist Award.
He lives in Baltimore with his wife and son.
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