Biography of Harry Jacobs Summers, Senior Advisor

Harry Jacobs Summers
Senior Advisor

Harry Summers has served as Senior Advisor to The Center for Nursing Advocacy since early 2003, and has provided informal advice since the Center's founding in 2001. Since 1998, he has been a litigation attorney with the Federal Election Commission, which enforces federal election campaign law, in Washington, DC. In the mid-1990's, Mr. Summers spent several years in USAID-funded legal positions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He served as an American Bar Association Legal Advisor to the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce, and as a Program Officer at The Asia Foundation, where he led a multi-national team in creating commercial law texts and teaching law to Cambodian government and court officials. In the early 1990's, Mr. Summers worked as a litigator with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco. Prior to that he spent a year in New Zealand on a Fulbright scholarship studying indigenous fishing rights at the University of Auckland.

Mr. Summers has a J.D. from Georgetown University (1989) and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia College (1985). His undergraduate years included a semester of study in Paris and work for an independent film company in New York.

He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children. He was born and raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Publications:

Sandy Summers & Harry Jacobs Summers. (2009). Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk. Kaplan Publishing, New York.

Sandy Summers & Harry Jacobs Summers (in press). Media and Decision Making. In S. B. Lewenson & M. Truglio-Londrigan (Eds.). Decision Making in Nursing. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.

Sandy Summers & Harry Jacobs Summers. (2006). Changing Poor Portrayals of Nurses in the Media: The Center for Nursing Advocacy. In D. J. Mason, J. K. Leavitt, & M. W. Chafee (Eds.). Policy and politics in nursing and health care, 5th ed. (pp. 184-194). St. Louis, MI: Saunders Elsevier.

Claire Fagin, Sandy Summers & Harry Jacobs Summers. "The Nursing Shortage," Kango Jissen no Kagaku (Science of Nursing Practice), the Japanese Journal of Nursing Science, Nov. 2005, Vol. 30, No. 12, pp. 37-45, and Dec. 2005, Vol. 30, No. 13, pp. 48-57 (co-author with Claire M. Fagin and Harry Jacobs Summers); republication as part of book tentatively titled Nursing Strategies to Protect People's Lives, LifeSupport Company (2008).

Sandy Summers & Harry Jacobs Summers. (2004). "Viewpoint: Media 'Nursing': Retiring the Handmaiden: What viewers see on ER affects our profession." American Journal of Nursing 104 (2), p. 13.