Mary Dioise Ramos-Tamayo ‘04 is this year’s recipient of the PNAA Nursing Excellence Award in Research. This is one of the five major PNAA given out every year which include Education, Clinical and Community Service. Ramos-Tamayo’2004 from the UST College of Nursing then her Master of Arts in Nursing at UST in 2009 and her Doctor of Philosophy from Georgia State University in 2018.

She has a long history of leadership participation in her young professional career particularly as the immediate past president of the Philippine Nurses Association of Georgia. Aside from her chapter activities she has a massive involvement and engagement in various national committees of the Philippine Nurses Association of America’s Scholarship and Policies and Procedure Committees.

Along with the other four major awardees this year, Mary Diose Ramos-Tamayo shall receive her award virtually during the virtual PNAA National Convention this July. She is also a member of the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society (MuPhi at-Large Chapter)

Ramos-Tamayo is the immediate past president of the Philippine Nurses Association of Georgia who was the leader in planning the national convention last year. She was also a speaker at last year’s USTNAI Convention and Leadership Summit last year in New York.