Following his term as president-elect, Demetrius Porche, DNS, PhD, FACHE, FAANP, FAAN, professor and dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been installed as president of the Southern Nursing Research Society.
The Southern Nursing Research Society was founded in 1986 to advance nursing research. There are 14 states in the society region, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. In 1991, the boundaries were expanded to include the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Bahamas.
Porche, who also holds an appointment in the LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, leads the only school of nursing within an academic health sciences center in Louisiana. He is certified as a clinical specialist in community health nursing and is a family nurse practitioner.
Porche served as associate editor of the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS for 10 years. He is currently the chief editor of the American Journal of Men's Health and serves on the editorial board of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. He was elected president of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing and served two terms.
The Governor appointed Porche to the Louisiana State Board of Nursing for two terms, where he served as its president for two years. He is a former chair of the Louisiana State Nurses Association Continuing Education Committee.
His involvement at the national level includes serving as a member of the governing council of the American Public Health Association and chair of the Public Health Nursing Section Development Committee. He has served on the research committee of the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators, the education committee of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, the doctoral conference planning committee of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and as treasurer of the Southern Nursing Research Society. He is a Virginia Henderson Fellow of Sigma Theta Tau International and a Fellow in the Society of Luther Christman Fellows for Contributions to Nursing by Men. He has served as a national mentor in the Sigma Theta Tau International Chiron mentoring program and as a mentor to novice deans for the American Association of College of Nursing. He is the national university representative on the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Education Programs. Porche was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners as well as the American Academy of Nursing, and as a National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education Fellow.
Porche also provides local, state, national, and international consultation in the areas of governance, leadership, regulation, and program development and evaluation. He has provided expert witness testimony in legal cases. He serves as a men's health consultant to the Men's Health Network in Washington, DC.