Dr. Eva Stone on Resilience Engineering

Dr. Eva Stone is a resilience engineer.   Resilience engineering is a term defined as the "focus on understanding the nature of adaptations, learning from success and increasing adaptive capacity."    She is the District Health Manager of Jefferson County Public Schools, Kentucky's largest school system with 98,000 students.  Eva earned her bachelor’s degree in Nursing from West Virginia University and her master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Kentucky.    She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Kentucky College of Nursing.  

Dr. Stone was selected as the 2015 Health Schools Campaign School Nurse Leadership Award, the 2019 Kentucky Nurse Association Nurse of the Year and named a 2020 Louisville Business First Health Care Hero.   She has worked in public school health for over 20 years, and equips her nursing team with tools needed to break down the tall barriers that stand between children and their education.   She is a strong advocate for policy change in Kentucky, and drove legislative change to amend the state of Kentucky's Medicaid plan to allow for expanded billing for school health services to help increase access to care for children.  Her passion is evident: the health of students.  She seeks to adapt and improve educational spaces to facilitate physical, social, and cognitive growth of public school students. 

Be on the lookout: Dr. Stone is a leader on the Kentucky Nurses Association and is on the Kentucky School Nurse Task Force.  This year the KNA continues hold legislative priorities and will be advocating for the for the presence of a school nurse in every school, all day, and every day throughout Kentucky. 

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