Foundation. This collaborative service-education model served as an impetus for several important on-going programs of gerontological research, including the collaborative work on risk factors in pressure sore development that she and Dr. Nancy Bergstrom began in 1983. Dr. Braden is best known for her work in the development of the Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk which has become widely used in the U.S. and is one of the tools recommended for use in the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Pressure Ulcers in Adults, put forth by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. This tool is in use on all continents and has been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Italian, German, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Flemish, Dutch and French. She has been a co-investigator with Dr. Nancy Bergstrom on two NIH research grants, studying etiological factors in pressure ulcers and testing the Braden Scale. The results of these studies and others have been reported in top tier nursing and multi-disciplinary research journals. Dr. Braden is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a member of the NPUAP board of directors. She has received many awards for her work, including lifetime achievement awards from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and NYU Division of Nursing. She has received Alumni Merit Awards from all three of the universities from which she received degrees and an award for leadership in Gerontological Nursing from the Midwest Alliance in Nursing.