Dr. Katherine Rocklein, Loyola SON alumna and Associate Professor at Queen's University, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing at the October 2026 induction ceremony. She is the Chief Science Officer and Advisor to the U.S. Congressional Armed Services for the Froede-Larkin Initiative, and served as a tenured health science faculty, with over $11 million in affiliated federal funding. Dr. Rocklein pioneered evidence-based legislation for military neurotrauma, driving historic, billion-dollar shifts in defense funding for blast overpressure research and traumatic brain injury protocols in recent years. She is the principal architect of transformative armed services mandates and strategy, generating funding lines, advancing precision drug therapies and force-wide cognitive surveillance, suicide prevention, family systems, and neurorehabilitation protocols. Dr. Rocklein also served the New York City Fire Department during 9/11 as well as Chief Nursing Officer of the Larkin NYP COVID hospital in 2020. Congratulations, Dr. Rocklein, on this most prestigious recognition of your work!