Doris M. Modly

Doris M. Modly (née Matherny; January 20, 1933 – March 17, 2018) was a Director of International Health Programs at Case Western Reserve University's (CWRU) Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Director of the World Health Organization's Center for Research and Clinical Training in Home Care Nursing at CWRU (now Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Center, PAHO/WHO), a Professor Nursing at CWRU, and a Consultant for the World Health Organization European Office for Nursing. During her time at CWRU she aided in the development of the doctorate in nursing program and the bachelor of science in nursing program. She is most notable for her work in Central East Europe, especially Hungary, where she established nursing education programs at the university level. Modly received the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Pro Cultura Hungarcia, and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for her efforts in advancing nursing in the country. She immigrated to the United States of America as a high school student in 1952 speaking three languages: German, Serbo-Croatian, and Hungarian. On June 5, 1957, she married Zoltan Modly and together they had five children: Charlotte, Thomas, Dora-Maria, Suzanne, and Mira Modly. Doris M. Modly died March 17, 2018, at the age of eighty-five.

Education

1957 B.S.N. Case Western Reserve University 1977 M.S.N. Case Western Reserve University In 1979 she became as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Mental Health and remained in the position until 1982 eventually serving in the role again from 1988 until 1989.

Foreign work Modly's service spanned Central and East Europe where she as a consultant for the World Health Organization European Office of Nursing; there she facilitated the reconstruction and improvement of nursing programs. Her service also touched Latin America and Africa where she functioned as a program consultant. The scholarship allowed her to spend five months in Hungary giving faculty development workshops in four extensions of the University of Pecs nursing program, seminars of nursing research and nursing issues, and teach how psychiatric mental health related to death, dying, and bereavement. "Paranoid States" "Comparison of Teaching Behaviors Used by Nurse Practitioner and Physician Faculty Teaching Primary Care" Home Care Nursing Services: International Lessons Member of the editorial board of Nover: the Hungarian Nursing Journal Hungarian Republic's of Department of Education created the annual award in 1991 in order to honor citizens of foreign countries whose educational activities in Hungary received the highest recognition while simultaneously playing an important and outstanding role to disseminate Hungarian and other nations culture abroad. The award was given on account of Modly's six years of work to advance nursing education from vocational and secondary schools to higher levels of education in Hungary. Modly was the first nurse-educator to receive the award.

Other awards

Proclamation of Congratulations: Mayor of the City of Cleveland 1994 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing 1995 Certificate of Appreciation: Project HOPE 1995 Who's Who in American Nursing 1995 Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 1996 Distinguished Alumna Award- Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing 1997