Brother Ignatius Perkins, OP, PhD, RN, ANEF, FRSM, FNYAM, FNCBC, FAAN, Director of the St. Martin De Porres Center for Health and Human Dignity, Providence College, School of Nursing and Health Sciences
The National League for Nursing (NLN) honored Brother Ignatius Perkins with the Lifetime Achievement for Transformative Excellence Award last fall.
Brother Perkins has been recognized twice in the last few years for his over 60 year influential vocation in nursing.
This October, he is also being named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing — the academy’s highest honor. Those awarded this honor “have generated policy change through innovative thinking, scientific pursuit, and adept leadership to ensure meaningful health care change is influenced by nursing expertise,” American Academy of Nursing (2025)