Nursing News: Honors, Awards and Accomplishments
Faculty and Alumni Honors and Appointments
Barbara Drew, David Mortara Distinguished Professor in Physiological Nursing Research, was selected to give one of two Director’s Lectures for the National Institute of Nursing Research, which brings top nurse scientists to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to share expertise with an interdisciplinary audience of scientists, researchers, clinicians and the public. Her presentation, “Electocardiographic Monitoring: Two Decades of Discovery,” is scheduled for May 20 on the NIH campus and will draw on Drew’s decades of research into improving cardiac monitoring techniques for better outcomes.
Professor Emerita Carroll Estes, founder and former director of the Institute for Health and Aging, was one of four people to receive the 2014 UCSF Medal, the university’s highest honor, at an April 10 reception. Estes was selected for the honor in recognition of a distinguished career devoted to improving the health and economic security of vulnerable and underserved populations, and for her work as a teacher, researcher and advocate.
Ruth Malone, chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, was recently named the School of Nursing’s Nursing Alumni/Mary Harms Chair, established in 1997 in honor of the late Mary T. Harms to support the teaching and research of an eminent School of Nursing faculty member. Announcing the appointment, Dean David Vlahov cited Malone’s vast body of tobacco-related and other health policy research. In keeping with her commitment to teaching and education, Malone plans to make a portion of the chair’s annual endowment available to fund health policy students who pursue summer residencies outside the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, the School’s Research Committee has selected Malone as the 34th recipient of the Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award.
Master’s program alumna Patricia McFarland, CEO of the Association of California Nurse Leaders, received the 2014 Mentor Award from the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, during its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. In a YouTube video posted by AONE, McFarland called on viewers to commit to mentoring current and future nurse leaders, saying, “It’s important for all of us to reach back and mentor that next generation.”
NIH Funds Professor’s Clinical Trial to Help Dementia Caregivers
Glenna Dowling, professor in the Department of Physiological Nursing, and Judith Moskowitz, professor in the UCSF School of Medicine, have received a four-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research (a center of the National Institutes of Health) to test the Life Enhancing Activities for Family Caregivers (LEAF) intervention, a positive-emotion skill-building program designed to improve psychological well-being and coping among caregivers of people with dementia.
Faculty, Students Publish Diet, Health Policy, Risk Reduction Research
Kathryn (Katie) Ferraro, registered dietitian and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing, recently published her first book (with co-author Cheryl Winter, RD, APRN), Diet Therapy in Advanced Practice Nursing (McGraw-Hill, 2014).
Quinn Grundy, a PhD student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is the first author of “Interactions Between Non-Physician Clinicians and Industry: A Systematic Review,” published in the November 26, 2013, issue of PLOS Medicine. Department Chair Ruth Malone and UCSF School of Pharmacy Professor Lisa Bero were co-authors.
Malone, who is also on the faculty of UCSF’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, was a panelist at a March discussion and launch of a new book, Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health (Oxford University Press, USA, 2014), by Nicholas Freudenberg, distinguished professor of Public Health at City University of New York School of Public Health.
Adam Carrico, assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Systems, is the lead author of a paper published online in the Journal of Urban Health on April 18, which found that participating in a harm-reduction substance use treatment program, the Stonewall Project, decreases use of stimulants, such as methamphetamine, and reduces sexual risk behavior among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. The findings were also highlighted in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Faculty, Alumni at the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Meeting
Several UCSF School of Nursing faculty and alumni made presentations at the March 2014 annual conference of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners:
- Angel Chen and Jyu-Lin Chen, both from the Department of Family Health Care Nursing, presented a poster, “Childhood Injury Prevention Program at Family Connections: Connecting Family, Children, Staff, and UCSF Interprofessional Learners.”
- Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program alumnae Shawna Sisler, Emily Rodda and Sarah Oppenheim (2013 graduates of the PNP program) presented a poster on their peer-learning website, NPStudent.com: “Leveraging Peer Resources for Graduate School Success.”
- Karen Duderstadt, clinical professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing, presented a conference session on health care reform: “Promise of the Affordable Care Act 2014: Update on Uptake and Impact Across States.”
At the conference, Duderstadt also received the 2013 Nelms Mullins Department Editor Service Award from the Journal of Pediatric Health Care and publisher Elsevier for her work as health policy editor for the journal.
Faculty in the News
Dean David Vlahov penned an April 10 guest column for the San Francisco Examiner outlining how federal funding of nurse practitioner (NP) residency programs in primary care could help alleviate the country’s growing primary care crisis. Among his key points were the substantial body of research demonstrating that NPs’ outcomes are as good as those of physicians, and the willingness of NPs to work in underserved areas.
Jenna Shaw-Battista, director of the UCSF/SFGH Interdepartmental Nurse-Midwifery Education Program, was interviewed for NPR’s “Shots” blog in March. She defended the practice of immersion in water for labor and delivery in response to a joint opinion issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics that was critical of the practice.
A March 24 article in Medscape Nurses, “Interprofessional Education: It’s Here to Stay,” highlighted several UCSF education programs and interviewed JoAnne Saxe, director of the adult nurse practitioner master’s specialty, who discussed the value of interprofessional education. The article was prompted, in part, by a series of Science of Caring stories that covered different types of interprofessional education the School is engaged in.
