Nursing Leaders Articles

Nursing’s worldwide impact on global health is reflected in the work of four of UC San Francisco School of Nursing’s faculty and alumni.

When she joined the UC San Francisco School of Nursing late last year, Stella Aguinaga Bialous brought an impressive résumé as a tobacco researcher, policy expert and nursing scholar.

Professor Emerita Barbara Resnik founded the School’s Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing program and has seen it grow into one of the finest of its kind in the nation.

A UC San Francisco alumna and retired faculty member continues her career-long effort to champion transcultural nursing.

UC San Francisco School of Nursing alumnus Joe Niemczura has spent many summers and most of 2015 in Nepal, teaching advanced cardiac life support skills to nurses and medical students. When the April earthquake shook the country, the Nepali students he trained were prepared to help.

Certified nurse-midwife Tekoa King has spent a career collaborating with midwives and physician colleagues to bring evidence-based birth practices to students, clinicians and patients.

A former UC San Francisco School of Nursing faculty member runs into a former student at a boutique hotel and cultural center she runs in southwest China.

PhD student Ilufredo Tantoy is combining practical experience with research to bring better drugs to patients with cancer.

Doctoral student Hamza Alduraidi is using his research training to understand and address the drivers of poor health among Palestinians living in refugee camps.

Kord Kober, a bioinformatics expert and evolutionary biologist, brings “big data” analysis to UC San Francisco School of Nursing’s nationally recognized research efforts on symptom management.

Shirley Sears Chater – former UCSF vice chancellor, head of the Social Security Administration and leader of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Program – built her career on thoughtfully and graciously forging new paths for women and nurses.

Veronica Ramirez brings both her clinical training and life experience to deliver hope and compassion to patients with HIV/AIDS.