Leadership in Action: Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Student Milestones
Dean Gilliss Named Inaugural Margretta Madden Styles Dean’s Professor of Nursing
Catherine Gilliss In February 2018, UC San Francisco School of Nursing Dean Catherine Gilliss was named the inaugural Margretta Madden Styles Dean’s Professor of Nursing. The first Dean’s Professorship to be established on the UCSF campus, the position honors a former dean of the School and one of nursing’s greatest leaders.
“I am deeply, deeply honored to be so recognized on our campus – particularly in the name of ‘Gretta’ Styles,” says Gilliss, who, prior to her return to UCSF in 2017, served as dean at Duke University School of Nursing (2004-2014), dean at Yale University School of Nursing (1998-2004) and chair of the UCSF School of Nursing Department of Family Health Care Nursing (1993-1998). At UCSF, Gilliss also serves as associate vice chancellor for nursing affairs. For more, please see this month’s Dean’s Blog.
Judith Martin-Holland Named Inaugural Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Outreach
Judith Martin-Holland Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Diversity Initiatives Judith Martin-Holland has been named the inaugural Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Outreach. She will begin her new position on July 1, 2018.
Martin-Holland’s new role will expand her responsibilities for diversity, inclusion and outreach activities to help the School access communities that have been difficult to reach, including students, prospective faculty, staff and others who would benefit from the School’s research and service activities.
In announcing the appointment, Dean Catherine Gilliss said, “[This appointment makes] clear our commitment to diversity and inclusion, which are core campus values.” The School will recruit an associate dean for academic programs to oversee the administrative aspects of its five degree programs.
Barbara Drew to Be Inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame
Barbara Drew Barbara Drew, professor emerita of Physiological Nursing and founder of the School’s ECG Monitoring Research Lab, has been selected for the American Nurses Association (ANA) Hall of Fame for 2018. Initiated in 1976, the ANA Hall of Fame recognizes the lifelong commitment of individual nurses to the field of nursing and their enduring impact on the health of the United States.
Drew is being honored for her work in electrocardiography (ECG), which has significantly impacted the care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias worldwide. Her founding of the ECG lab at the School has enabled nurse-scientists to partner with scientists from industry to help develop better monitoring products and protocols. Through her teaching, she has educated a generation of nurses on how to best use the tools available to monitor and improve the health of their patients. Her long research partnership with David Mortara was a major factor in his 2017 gift to the School of $25 million to establish the UCSF Center for Physiologic Research.
The School will also honor Drew for her contributions and celebrate her induction into the ANA Hall of Fame at this year’s UCSF Alumni Weekend Nursing Gala on June 2.
Sandra Weiss Selected for Sigma Theta Tau 2018 Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
Sandra Weiss The Alpha Eta chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) is pleased to announce that Professor of Community Health Systems Sandra Weiss has been selected as one of 20 inductees into Sigma’s International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame for 2018.
Weiss, the Robert C. and Delphine Wentland Eschbach Chair in Mental Health and co-director of the UCSF Depression Center, was selected for her groundbreaking work on the mental health of women and children, including the interaction between biological and sociological factors, precursors of emotional regulation, and the effects of adverse events such as parental depression during pregnancy and infancy.
The honor, which recognizes nurse-researchers who have achieved significant and sustained national or international recognition, will be presented at Sigma’s 29th International Nursing Research Congress in Melbourne, Australia, on July 21.
Abbey Alkon Named to Inaugural Barbara Durand Presidential Professorship
Abbey Alkon Abbey Alkon, professor of Family Health Care Nursing and noted children’s health researcher, has been appointed to the inaugural Barbara Durand Presidential Professorship. The professorship honors former School of Nursing faculty member Barbara Durand, who was a leader in the preparation of pediatric nurse practitioners.
Durand, who was named a Living Legend in 2014 by the American Academy of Nursing, will attend the on-campus celebration of the establishment of the professorship on April 11.
Xiao Hu Protocol Selected for NASA Experiment in Monitoring Astronauts’ Intracranial Pressure
Xiao Hu Xiao Hu, associate professor of Physiological Nursing, is the developer of a noninvasive monitoring protocol that has been selected for use in a project to determine whether spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS), a constellation of vision changes that can affect astronauts during and after long-duration spaceflight, is associated with changes in intracranial pressure (ICP).
Hu’s work first came to NASA’s attention when he entered and won an open challenge to develop approaches to noninvasive ICP measurement.
The current project, which is sponsored by NASA and the Swedish National Space Board, will comprise a series of experiments conducted by a group of investigators using both invasive and noninvasive protocols to measure astronauts’ ICP and related biomarkers before, during and after spaceflight. Hu hopes the project will provide valuable information for the development of countermeasures to protect astronauts’ vision and will further his work in developing noninvasive approaches to measuring ICP.
Barbara Koenig on Physician-Assisted Death at National Academy of Sciences
Barbara Koenig Medical anthropologist and bioethics researcher Barbara Koenig, professor at the School’s Institute for Health & Aging, was invited to present at the February 2018 meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.
At a workshop titled “Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape and Potential Approaches,” Koenig presented a summary of the work done by a collaborative project she leads that examines policies and experiences with California’s End of Life Option Act.
Daniel Linnen Receives Carol A. Lindeman Award
Daniel Linnen Third-year PhD degree student/candidate Daniel Linnen received the 2018 Carol A. Lindeman Award for a New Researcher from the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN) for his study “Hospital-Level Risk Adjustment Reduces Hospital Variation of Pressure Injury Risk,” which has been accepted for publication by Nursing Research. The award will be presented at the 2018 WIN Research Awards Luncheon on April 12 in Spokane, Wash.
WIN has also accepted Linnen’s study on rural inpatient mortality, which evaluated the association of rural-urban county classification in California with mortality, for a poster presentation at their annual conference in April. The study has been accepted for publication in the Permanente Journal.
Brianna Singleton and Katherine Khatsenko Receive UPS Foundation Academic Studies Scholarships
Doctoral degree student Brianna Singleton and master’s degree student Katherine Khatsenko have been selected by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) Foundation to receive United Parcel Service (UPS) Foundation Academic Studies Scholarships for 2018. They will be acknowledged at the award ceremony during the upcoming AAOHN 2018 National Conference in Reno, Nev., in April.
Debra Hemmerle, Alicia Swartz to Present Posters at WIN
Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing PhD degree students Debra Hemmerle and Alicia Swartz have been chosen for poster presentations at the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN) 51st Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference in Spokane, Wash., in April.
Annesa Flentje Receives RAP Award
Annesa Flentje Assistant Professor of Community Health Systems Annesa Flentje has received a Resource Allocation Program (RAP) award from the UCSF Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology Center for AIDS Research. It will support her in examining the relationship between epigenetic mechanisms and minority stress among sexual minority (i.e., nonheterosexual) men living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In addition, Flentje is the author of an article on minority stress and leukocyte gene expression in sexual minority men living with treated HIV infection, which found differences in gene expression, including genes related to inflammation, immune function, cancer and cardiovascular function, between men in high and low minority stress groups. The article appears in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
Recent Publications
Emergency Department Use by Community-Dwelling Individuals with Dementia in the United States: An Integrative Review (Lauren Hunt, Lorinda Coombs, Caroline Stephens), March 1, 2018
Health Care Experiences of Pregnant, Birthing and Postnatal Women of Color at Risk for Preterm Birth (Monica McLemore, Linda Franck), February 16, 2018
Perspectives and Insights from Vietnamese American Mental Health Professionals on How to Culturally Tailor a Vietnamese Dementia Caregiving Program (Van Ta Park), January 30, 2018
Online Information for Parents Caring for Their Premature Baby at Home: A Focus Group Study and Systematic Web Search (Linda Franck), January 30, 2018
Structural Factors of Elders’ Isolation in a High-Crime Neighborhood: An In-Depth Perspective (Elena Portacolone), January 13, 2018
Rates of Exposure to Victimizing Events and Use of Substances Among California’s Middle and High School Students (Susan Chapman, Joanne Spetz), January 1, 2018
Nurses’ Communication of Safety Events to Nursing Home Residents and Families (Laura Wagner, Victoria Flores, Katerina Melino, Joanne Spetz), October 9, 2017
