Donna Behler McArthur

UA's Behler McArthur gains Neurology Department post

Donna Behler McArthur, clinical professor with the University of Arizona College of Nursing, received a joint appointment as clinical professor in the Department of Neurology at the UA College of Medicine in Tucson.

She is one of 12 nursing faculty members with appointments in other disciplines.

McArthur has more than 45 years of experience as a nurse, including 35 years as a family nurse practitioner, nurse practitioner educator and administrator in ambulatory health-care settings in the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Her current research is focused on initiatives involving amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In 2006, she was awarded the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation/Endo Pharmaceuticals Grant for her research study, “Pain Perception in Adults with ALS.”