CAROLINA
NURSING
Better Births
Carolina students partner
with doulas to gain experience
and to improve deliveries
Fall/Winter 2016
FROM THE DEAN
Dear Friends,
It is truly bittersweet to come to the end of my tenure as interim dean
of this great school. It was an honor and privilege to take the helm
here and lead it for the last two and a half years. We have seen many
successes together, undertaken important organizational improvements,
graduated new classes of our nation’s finest and most well-educated
nurses, and dreamed big on behalf of the future of Carolina Nursing.
As I look back over my time in the dean’s
office, I am struck by the incredible
generosity of spirit I’ve met with from our
alumni, friends and supporters, as well as
fellow deans, faculty, students and staff. I
am grateful to everyone for their kindness,
support, wisdom, encouragement and
enthusiasm as we introduced the School’s
critical and exciting “next chapter” and
have accomplished so much good work.
We created magic!
As we turn the page on 2016, Dean
Peragallo-Montano will be assuming the
leadership of a dedicated, smart and carefully
stewarded School. My thanks to each of you
for your ongoing loyalty to this wonderful
institution and for the support you have
provided me.
For the time being, I will return to my role as professor and nurse
scientist. I will enjoy a sabbatical which will include returning to
my research to promote quality nursing practice and patient care
environments, improve care in NC emergency departments, hold
the Frances Bloomberg International Visiting Professorship in the
School of Nursing at the University of Toronto — focused on
“shaping systems to promote desired outcomes,” serve as the “voice
of Carolina” for an alumni tour to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos
Islands, consult in Australia and…relax and take some deep breaths.
On behalf of all of us here, I invite you to please keep in touch with
the School and stay up-to-date on its many activities on campus and
around the globe. And do plan to visit us if you’re in Chapel Hill!
With gratitude,
Donna S. Havens, PhD, RN, FAAN
“I am struck by
the incredible
generosity of
spirit I’ve met
with from our
alumni, friends
and supporters.”
—Donna S. Havens
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FEATURES
3 Dr. Peragallo Montano Named Dean
of UNCSON
4 Caring for Their Own
6 Better Births
SCHool NEwS
10 Delivering Care Where It’s Needed
Most
12 SON, First Quality Hold Inaugural
Care Summit
13 T32 Renewed for Interventions for
Preventing and Managing Chronic
Illness
14 SON Hosts Tribute, Establishes Fund
to Honor Elizabeth Tornquist
15 SON Hosts Hillman Scholars
Program Annual Meeting
FACUlTY NEwS
16 Deborah Mayer Tapped to Serve on
Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel
17 Alexander Named Special Assistant to
Chancellor
19 SON Welcomes Dr. Judith Webb
19 Retirements and Farewells
19 Appointments and Promotions
19 New Clinical Faculty
19 Faculty Awards and Accomplishments
NEwS BRIEFS
22 DNP Student Kouchel Receives
Geriatric Workforce Enhancement
Fellowship
22 SON Hosts Visiting Faculty from
Jönköping University
23 SON Receives Jonas Scholars
Program Grant
SpECIAl SECTIoN
23 Honor Roll of Giving
FoUNDATIoN NEwS
31 Well Care Home Health Scholars
Program
32 Dhillon’s Gift
32 Announcing the M. Vivian Baker
Expendable Fund
34 Freund Creates Fund to Support
NP Program History
35 SON Receives Prestigious Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Grant to
Prepare PhD Nurses
36 SON Recognizes Donors at Annual
Spring Event
38 SON Celebrates Inaugural LeVine
Professorship
40 Flynn Partnerships
AlUMNI NEwS
41 2016 Alumni Award Recipients
Honored
41 Classes of 1956 and ’66 Gather for
Reunions
42 Third Annual Alumni and Student
Mentor Mixer
44 Alumni Notes and In Memoriam
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Carolina Nursing is published by
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Nursing for
the School’s alumni and friends.
This magazine is produced and
printed with private funds.
Interim Dean
Donna S. Havens, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research
Ruth Anderson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Vacant
Associate Dean for Practice and
Global Initiatives
Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Administrative
Services
Lisa Miller, MBA, CPA, BGMA
Editor-in-Chief
Kelly Kirby, Director of Communications
Images and Photography
Helen Hall
Kelly Kirby
Katisha Paige
Brian Strickland
Graphic Design
Alison Duncan, Duncan Design
School of Nursing
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Carrington Hall, Campus Box 7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
Email: sonalum@unc.edu
nursing.unc.edu
On Aug. 3, Chancellor
Carol Folt announced that
Dr. Nilda (Nena) Peragallo
Montano had been selected
as the new dean for the UNC
School of Nursing. She will
begin Jan. 1, 2017.
Peragallo Montano is
currently dean and professor
for the University of Miami
School of Nursing and
Health Studies, professor
on the graduate faculty
at Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile School
of Nursing and adjunct
professor at Australian Catholic University in North Sydney.
“We are pleased to welcome Nena Peragallo Montano
as the dean of the School of Nursing,” said Executive Vice
Chancellor and Provost James W. Dean, Jr. “She is an
internationally recognized expert and widely published
researcher who has dedicated her career to improving
individual and public health, with a particular focus on
minorities and other underserved minority populations. I am
confident that the combination of her academic and clinical
experience will help the School of Nursing continue to grow
as a leader for nursing education, research and practice.”
Since 2003, Peragallo Montano has been at the University,
where she has a strong record of successful competitive
research funding. From 2007 to 2015, she served as director
and principal investigator of the Center of Excellence for
Health Disparities Research: El Centro, the first National
Institutes of Health P60 center grant awarded to a school of
nursing. She is also co-principal investigator of El Centro,
which has been funded continuously by the National Institutes
of Health/National Institute of Minority Health and Health
Disparities since its inception.
“Serving as dean of Carolina’s School of Nursing is a
wonderful opportunity to continue the school’s tradition of
excellence since it became the state’s first school of nursing to
offer a four-year baccalaureate degree in 1950,” said Peragallo
Montano. “I am committed to working with students, faculty,
staff, alumni and leaders in the School of Nursing and across
the University to improve the health and well-being of the
people of North Carolina, the nation and the world.”
UNC Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees approved Peragallo
Montano’s appointment. She will succeed Donna S. Havens,
who has served as interim dean since 2014. During Havens’
tenure, the school’s graduate programs have grown
significantly. This expansion includes the graduation of the
first class of Doctor of Nursing Practice students, along with
additional cohorts of Hillman Scholars who are working
to obtain both a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in nursing.
The School of Nursing placed 21st in the 2016 U.S. News &
World Report Best Graduate School Master’s Program rankings.
Peragallo Montano is past president of the National
Association of Hispanic Nurses and founding co-editor of
Hispanic Healthcare International. Prior to joining the University
of Miami, she held positions at the University of Maryland at
Baltimore School of Nursing, the University of Illinois College
of Nursing in Chicago and the University of Central Florida
in Orlando.
Peragallo Montano earned a doctorate in public health
from the University of Texas, a master of science in nursing
from the University of West Virginia and a bachelor of science
in nursing from the University of Chile. She is a fellow of the
American Academy of Nursing, a member of the nursing honor
society Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) and an inductee
of the STTI Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.
DR. PERAGALLO MONTANO
NAMED DEAN OF UNCSON
“I am committed to working with
students, faculty, staff, alumni and
leaders in the School of Nursing and
across the University to improve the
health and well-being of the people of
North Carolina, the nation and the world.”
—Dr. Nena Peragallo Montano
By unanimous vote, the Council agreed to create the fund
and award three $100 grants each semester to undergraduate
students.
“A hundred dollars may not be a lot to some, but to the
people we help it means the world. Nursing is a profession
that helps those in need, and by starting this, I felt that I could
start something that could help many,” Hilton said.
While the SON has a number of dedicated funds available
to help students in significant short- and longer-term financial
difficulty, the Foster grant fills a special type of need, said
Kathy Moore, MSN ’90, RN ’78, clinical assistant professor,
assistant dean of student affairs
and the UGSGC faculty advisor.
“We certainly have students who
are independently funded by
family and don’t have needs at
all, but we have a notable number
of students who are trying to
manage on financial aid alone,
or on financial aid and a little bit
of savings or financial aid and
part-time jobs,” she said. “There
are those who simply need that
hundred dollars to make ends
meet that month.”
Grant applicants, whose names are kept confidential, list
a variety of purposes for the funds, said Moore, who reviews
applications twice each year with the current UGSGC chair.
They include stethoscopes and scrubs, books, transportation
and parking for clinicals, NCLEX prep and sometimes
groceries.
UGSGC Chair Hannah Bivens, BSN ’16, noted that
students sometimes request a grant to offset study abroad
expenses, with even the relatively small amount helping to
make an international experience more attainable: “Getting
access to go abroad and see how different cultures handle
health care is just a really enriching learning experience, and
I think this fund allows students to do that.”
Help from a friend
Over the last two years, UGSGC members have held
numerous fundraisers to increase the amount of available
grants. When Lexi Pagnatta, BSN ’15, UGSGC chair ’15,
served on the Council, bake sales and pizza lunches helped
provide 12 recipients with $100 checks — double the amount
set aside in the Council’s budget during her senior year.
Along the way, the Council has had help from a friend.
When she learned about their fundraising efforts, Dr. Foster —
who has no oversight over the grant — offered to match the
money UGSGC students raised for it. “I really admired the
students’ work in doing this,” she said. “Bake sales have very
limited results in terms of cash, so I just decided to do it. I
thought it might encourage people to go down and pay $10
for a cookie instead of 50 cents.”
Foster’s strategy worked, said Heather Freddosso (BSN
’16), the 2016 UGSGC’s fundraising chair. She’s found that
SON faculty are very generous during the pizza fundraisers,
where a slice and a soda typically sell for $3–5: “They’ll give us
a $20 and say, ’Oh, it’s for the fundraiser — keep the change!”
The Commitment to Caring
For Dr. Foster, the UGSGC’s work to create and sustain
the grant named in her honor illustrates the commitment to
caring that is fundamental to nursing. “This grant, and the
many others student groups do, indicates the kind of
professionals they’re becoming,” she said. “Many of them of
course came in already very much attuned to service and the
needs of others, so I think doing what we can as a school to
foster, acknowledge and encourage that is very important.”
Moore agrees: “It really underscores why they have
selected the nursing profession, why they have undertaken
this career. And it’s because they care about others and are
committed to supporting them, whether it’s a patient and
family in their care or the student sitting next to them in
class. It’s just a very amazing, wonderful program. It honors
somebody that we all respect and admire, and it came from
the hearts of the students.”
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In her 21 years directing the undergraduate nursing program,
Dr. Beverly Foster, PhD, RN, has attended more than her fair
share of commencement exercises. While each one has been
special in some way, May 2013’s pomp and circumstance
included a surprise that reduced the typically unflappable
Foster to tears.
As she sat on stage in the Dean E. Smith Center preparing
to welcome the graduates, Dr. Foster was stunned to hear
Sheena Hilton, BSN ’13, chair of the SON Undergraduate
Student Council (UGSGC), announce the Dr. Beverly Foster
Grant for Student Support, a student-created fund to help
peers in financial difficulty.
“It was a total shock to me that something was being
established with my name on it,” said Dr. Foster, who recalled
struggling to compose herself before addressing the crowd of
hundreds. “I mean, I wasn’t retiring, I hadn’t died, so it was
quite a lovely gift.”
For Hilton and her UGSGC colleagues, naming the fund
for Dr. Foster made perfect sense. “We wanted to recognize
Bev for her years of leadership in the nursing school,” Hilton
said. “She always helped students and went above and beyond,
and we felt this grant did the same thing.”
Students helping students
Hilton came up with the idea for the fund when she and
Joe Biddix, BSN ’12, UGSGC chair ’12, needed to spend
a surplus in the Council’s account. She felt providing grants
to help the students served by the Council was the best use of
the money.
“School is hard in general, but it’s especially hard for
people when finances are difficult, whether it’s school-related
or just life-related,” said Ethan Cicero, BSN ’14, UGSGC chair
’14. “So we wanted to make it easier for them. We wanted them
to see ‘We’re working for you.’”
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Students establish
fund to help peers,
honor respected
faculty member
CARING
FOR
THEIR
OWN
“A hundred dollars may not be a lot to
some, but to the people we help it
means the world. Nursing is a
profession that helps those in need,
and by starting this, I felt that I could
start something that could help many.”
—Sheena Hilton, BSN ’13
Dr. Beverly Foster
by Lisa Mincey Ware
Joya Bland’s dream is to deliver babies.
A recent Carolina graduate, she’s getting a master’s degree
in physiology at N.C. State and preparing to apply to medical
school. After that, she’ll seek a residency in obstetrics and
gynecology.
And though there are years between Bland and those
babies, she’s no stranger to what a birthing mother needs. As a
volunteer doula at UNC Hospitals, Bland has supported
women through 12 hours of nonstop labor, held their hands
through contractions and explained increasingly intense stages
of labor with words of comfort and encouragement.
Learning how to dial into the patient side of childbirth
before becoming a physician was Bland’s mission when, as a
women’s and gender studies major at UNC in 2014, she signed
up for an innovative APPLES service-learning class at the
UNC School of Nursing that matches volunteer doulas at
UNC Hospitals with Carolina students to offer a unique
experience in patient-centered care.
Having the opportunity to attend births as part of her
undergraduate curriculum is something Bland describes
as “life-enhancing.”
For the first birth Bland attended as
a student, she stepped in for the last 12
hours of a labor already 36 hours long.
By the time Bland entered the room, the
mother was exhausted and worried. The
family needed support, too.
"While the doctor and nurse treated
her, I was there to remind her that she
was doing fine, to help her change
position in bed, breathe with her, help
her get comfortable and encourage her
to rest so she would have strength to
push,” said Bland. “I didn’t leave her
side. I kept reminding her that soon
she’d be holding her baby, and I helped
her keep going.”
A unique model of education and care
Birth doulas aren’t clinicians — they are professionally trained
birth companions who can offer physical and emotional support
to the woman laboring and her family. Their presence can help
women cope with pain, provide non-medical assistance to the
mother and her family, and take some of the burden off nurses
who are providing treatment and might not have time to stop
and soothe.
Doulas provide educational and emotional support during
labor and birth, helping mothers navigate their way through the
unique experience of childbirth. They offer suggestions to help
labor progress — walking, the use of a birthing ball, relaxing in
the tub. If the patient has had an epidural, a doula can help her
change position to help the baby move down the birth canal.
And, at N.C. Women’s Hospital, laboring women can
benefit from the support and care of a doula free of charge,
courtesy of the Birth Partners volunteer doula program. More
and more women are choosing to request their support.
“Not a lot of hospitals have this. It’s pretty unique to have
doulas in a public hospital environment,” said Rhonda Lanning,
a certified nurse midwife and faculty
member at the School of Nursing who
runs Birth Partners, the growing volunteer
doula program, and teaches “Supporting
the Childbearing Family,” the APPLES
service-learning course that brings
together the doulas and students for an
immersive, hands-on educational
experience. “This fall we tripled the
number of families served in the Birth
Partners program, and this is largely due
to our service-learning course.”
The class, made possible with a grant
from the Carolina Center for Public
Service, is offered once a year, and
Lanning accepts between 12 and 16
students from a pool of nearly 60
applications. She builds the class with a
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An APPLES service-learning class at
Carolina partners with volunteer doulas
at N.C. Women’s Hospital to enhance
students’ educational experiences and
better serve women delivering babies.
BETTER
BIRTHS
by Courtney Jones Mitchell, UNC Women’s Care
UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
“I was there
to remind her that
she was doing fine,
to help her change
position in bed,
breathe with her, help
her get comfortable.”
—Joya Bland
6
“I didn’t leave her side.
I kept reminding her that soon
she’d be holding her baby, and
I helped her keep going.”
—Joya Bland
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F EATUR E S
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diversity of academic disciplines, backgrounds, interests and
experiences, and spends the first few weeks of class on
childbirth and breastfeeding education as well as formal doula
training. When they’re ready, students are paired with one of
the volunteer doulas and work under that mentor to begin
attending births. As part of the APPLES requirements, the
students must put in 30 hours of service as a volunteer.
Brooklynne Travis, who graduated with her BSN from the
School of Nursing in May 2016 and is pursuing training in a
dual Doctor of Nursing Practice and Certified Nurse Midwife
program, said Lanning’s class this past fall helped her focus her
career goals by allowing her to explore how she felt about
childbirth.
“This class was a great way for me to engage more
specifically in women’s health in addition to the other maternity
classes I took in nursing school,” said Travis. “It was a very
good hands-on experience and helped me formulate concretely
what I felt about birth and learn about birth from an evidence-based
perspective.”
Travis has three children of her own and said that she’d
not had positive birth experiences. By being a doula, she got a
chance to see women’s bodies at work, something she said was
healing for her and helped solidify her passion to become a
midwife.
“Midwifery supports women’s bodies to do what they are
designed to do, and being empowered to let your body do what
it is designed to do is what I believe about birth,” she said.
“I was able to see that we can support and help advance that
birth process as a doula in the hospital where, if there is a
problem, modern medicine can very quickly come to the
rescue.”
During one birth she attended as part of the class, Travis
noticed fear in the husband’s eyes after his wife’s water had
broken. She was able to calm him, telling him that the water
breaking was a good sign — his wife’s body was progressing
the way it should, and though it was intense, he didn’t need
to be scared.
“This is an opportunity for future health care providers
to think about the patient care environment and work with
patients and families to provide comfort and support and
education, which often takes a back seat to diagnosing, treating
and medicating. Here, they really get the value of patient-centered
care, and we hope they take that back to their
medical or nursing school experiences,” said Lanning.
“Through this class, I’ve been able to see birth as
something that is very hard, but can be very beautiful. I’d never
experienced a peaceful birth until I was a doula,” said Travis.
“Being a doula has given me back a lot of perspective, and now
I know midwifery is what I’m called to do.”
Benefits based in evidence
People have undervalued the measures doulas provide, said
Lanning, even though research shows that the use of a doula
has clear benefits for families during childbirth and after, with
no known risks.
A 2013 review published in the Cochrane Library revealed
that women who have support from a companion who is
neither a member of the hospital staff nor a friend or family
member are less likely to have a cesarean section, use synthetic
oxytocin to speed labor, use pain medication or report a
negative childbirth experience than women who labor alone.
Birth Partners makes it part of their mission to reach out to
vulnerable populations: women who are laboring alone, women
with a long hospital stay prior to birth, women experiencing a
loss or the incarcerated.
“Incarcerated women are giving birth alone, and they
deserve that care,” said Lanning. Lanning has a letter from the
Department of Corrections that affirms Birth Partners’ goal to
offer support to incarcerated women.
Lanning said there are always pros and cons with bringing
students into a volunteer program, because they come and they
go. But “they come with such enthusiasm, passion, energy and
optimism,” she said.
“This is an opportunity for future health care providers
to think about the patient care environment,” Lanning added,
“and work with patients and families to provide comfort and
support and education, which often takes a back seat to
diagnosing, treating and medicating. Here, they really get the
value of patient-centered care, and we hope they take that back
to their medical or nursing school experiences.”
School of Nursing students Rachel Tarwater and Brooklynne
Travis listen during Lanning’s class.
Rhonda Lanning leads her class, “Supporting the
Childbearing Family”
Mariam Lam (left) was one of Joya Bland’s (right) mentees in
the program.
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The men and women who come to Dorcas Ministries are in
need. In need of a meal, in need of counseling, in need of
secure housing.
In need of care.
And that puts them squarely within the mission of the
UNC School of Nursing.
“We’re really invested in the well-being of the whole
community,” said Professor Marianne Cockroft, standing just
outside the storefront entrance of Dorcas on a cold and blustery
February morning. “Every visit we have here is meaningful.”
Inspired by a conversation at her church, Cockroft
spearheaded the creation of a School of Nursing mobile health
care clinic, which sets up shop each week outside Dorcas
Ministries in Cary and Western Wake Crisis Ministry in Apex.
Operating from a specially equipped van rented from the
UNC School of Medicine, the clinic offers free checkups,
health counseling and referrals. The effort is funded by a grant
from Cockroft’s congregation at Christ the King Lutheran
Church in Cary.
“It really fills a gap in the community,” said Howard
Manning, executive director of Dorcas Ministries. “It not only
improves the quality of life for people, but it’s a much more
economical approach to health problems.”
More than 73 percent of the clients at Dorcas and Western
Wake Crisis Ministries suffer from at least one chronic illness.
Treatment for those conditions can fall by the wayside when
more immediate life troubles intrude, and that can lead to long-term
health complications and much steeper costs. By offering
a free consultation and medical counseling at the crisis
ministries, Cockroft and her colleagues hope to prevent more
severe problems down the road.
“Stress can make chronic health problems more
troublesome,” Cockroft said. “And most of the people we’re
seeing here are facing pretty significant stress in their lives. We
can educate people on ways to manage their health care, and
connect them with other resources in the area.”
Behind her, a mother and daughter climbed aboard the van
for a checkup. The mobile clinic is staffed by faculty volunteers
from the School of Nursing, along with nursing students on
clinical rotation. The mobile site is offering an especially rich
education for nursing students interested in public health.
Diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions are
some of the most common concerns, but nurses have to be
prepared for anything.
“It gives me some very direct insight into community
health needs,” said Katie Steinheber, a nurse at Duke
University Hospital who is pursuing her master’s degree at
UNC. “Some people have very specific health questions, and
some people just want to be able to talk to someone, to debrief
about their health problems and their worries.”
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10 Fall/Winter 2016
Finding ways to serve patients outside the medical
mainstream is crucial in reducing the overall burden of health
care. A 2014 study in the American Journal of Managed Care
found that mobile clinics “have a critical role to play in providing
high-quality, low-cost care to vulnerable populations.”
At UNC, Cockroft won immediate support for taking
nursing expertise on the road. “The faculty have been great,
just really enthusiastic,” she said. “There’s so much potential
for what we could do with this.”
Realizing that potential will mean measuring outcomes for
the mobile clinic, a major challenge when working with low-income
and often transient populations. School of Nursing
faculty are already considering ways to measure the value of
preventative care, mainly in terms of costs avoided through
timely intervention.
“We have to show results if we want to grow,” Cockroft
said. “We need to find out: if we weren’t here, where would
these folks have gone? Would they have gone to the emergency
room, or nowhere at all?”
In the Dorcas parking lot, the nurses working directly
with grateful patients are already convinced. “Did you see
how relieved she was?” asked Assistant Professor Wanda
Wazenegger, speaking about a patient who spent more than
20 minutes in the mobile clinic. “She was so glad to have
someone to talk to, someone to care.”
Then Wazenegger went back to organizing the van,
readying for the next patient.
DELIVERING CARE
WHERE IT’S NEEDED MOST
Story and photos by Eric Johnson
Cockroft, upper left,
joins SON faculty and
student volunteers
each week in the
mobile clinic.
“It really fills a gap in the community.
It not only improves the quality of
life for people, but it’s a much more
economical approach to health
problems.”
—Howard Manning
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S CHOOL NEWS
12 Fall/Winter 2016
The UNC School of Nursing is pleased to announce the
renewal of the T32 training grant that funds its “Interventions for
preventing and Managing Chronic Illness” training program for
five more years.
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the Ruth l.
Kirschstein Institutional National Research Award — or T32 — is an
institutional training grant designed to prepare qualified
individuals for scientific careers that have significant impact on
the health-related research needs of the nation.
Now in its fifth round of
funding, the School of Nursing’s
T32 program has been
producing renowned nurse
scientists for nearly a quarter
century.
First established under the
direction of Dr. Merle Mishel in
the 1990s, the program is
designed to equip pre- and postdoctoral trainees with the
knowledge, skills and experience needed to develop a program of
research that will lead to improved outcomes for people at risk of,
or living with, chronic illness.
with this latest renewal announced in June 2016, the program
will focus on abbreviating the time taken for research to enter into
practice by emphasizing the development of interventions that
are designed with practice in mind, as well as focused study on
dissemination and implementation science.
Dr. Sheila Santacroce and Dr. Jennifer leeman will direct the
five-year, $2.41 million T32 program, which funds stipends, health
insurance, and some professional travel and other research-related
expenses for doctoral and postdoctoral trainees. T32
trainees enjoy mentorship from School of Nursing faculty, as well
as those at top-ranked UNC academic departments, health affairs
schools and centers, including the UNC Center for Health
promotion and Disease prevention, NC TraCS, UNC Center for
Bioethics and the UNC lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
“Through the guidance provided by the T32 program, I have
begun thinking of myself as a nurse scientist. It has empowered
me as I move forward in the doctoral program,” said Becky
Salomon, current predoctoral trainee.
“The renewal of this T32 training grant well positions the UNC
School of Nursing to continue its important work of producing
some of the nation’s best nurse scientists and effective and high-impact
nursing science on chronic illness,” said Interim Dean
Donna Havens. “we’re thrilled to be able to serve the health needs
of North Carolina and the broader world in this way.”
UNC is one of just 17 schools of nursing in the United States
to receive T32 funding from NINR, and is tied for second with
UCSF for duration of T32 funding.
T32 Renewed for Interventions
for Preventing and Managing
Chronic Illness
SON, FIRST
QUALITY HOLD
INAUGURAL
CARE SUMMIT
From the halls of research to the bedside, Carolina Nursing
faculty embrace the nitty-gritty of real-world care and are
fearless in their pursuit of new knowledge that will lead to best
care practices. In June they joined a longstanding partner
in this pursuit, First Quality®, to inaugurate a Care Summit
to address current challenges to patient care and how best to
solve them.
First Quality, a solutions-based corporate leader in
products for long-term, assisted living and acute care,
sponsored the summit, which took place in Chapel Hill June
7–8, 2016. UNCSON research faculty joined First Quality
for a dynamic dialogue
centered on a common
goal: Meeting Vulnerable
Populations Where
They Live: A Summit to
Address Care Challenges
and Solutions.
Assistant Dean for
Advancement Anne Webb
collaborated with First
Quality Technical Service
Director and former SON
Foundation Board member
Jim Minetola to secure
funding for the summit. The summit grew from the vision
of Dr. Mary Palmer, Helen W. & Thomas L. Umphlet
Distinguished Professor in Aging, who led the event along
with Michele Mongillo, clinical director at First Quality.
“The School of Nursing is a vibrant community of nurse
scientists and educators engaged in real-world solutions,” said
Palmer. “First Quality is incredibly innovative and forward-thinking
on behalf of a rapidly increasing patient population.
Bringing our strengths together to brainstorm solutions for
the good of vulnerable patients was a goal of this summit,
and it was fantastic working with them.”
With corporate funding from First Quality, more than
60 students, faculty, First Quality employees and School of
Nursing Foundation Board members explored the latest
advancements in caring for the elderly, those with chronic
physical or mental illness, inmate populations and the
homeless.
Faculty from the Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Social
Work, along with the UNC Gillings School of Global Public
Health, presented a holistic look at the influences of govern-ment
policy, low-resource communities, medication delivery,
communication and preventive and palliative care. “After the
presentations, we broke into small groups of lightning talks —
fast bursts of information to encourage discussion,” Palmer
said. “It was very intentional to think creatively. It was a high-energy
meeting.”
Organizers hope the partnership with First Quality will
continue. “They’re interested in seeking real-world solutions,
and that’s why they mesh so well with our faculty. The summit
created a lot of energy and creative thinking for solution-finding,
and we want to carry that forward,” said Palmer.
An earlier partnership with First Quality created a
graduate student merit scholarship that, through leadership
opportunities, exposed students to the latest developments
in evidence-based care while networking with First Quality
health care professionals to learn more about their industry.
Santacroce (L) and Leeman (R)
Dr. Mary Palmer
speaks at the
Inaugural
Care Summit
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S CHOOL NEWS
On April 12, gray skies and chilly spring
temperatures gave way to warm sunshine
just in time for the UNCSON to
celebrate the life and work of Elizabeth
Tornquist — “ET” to all who knew her
here. ET passed away unexpectedly in
late January.
A crowd of current and former
faculty and staff, alumni, Tornquist
family and friends gathered in Fox
Auditorium to pay tribute to the person
and career that affected so many so
positively. An editor of uncanny insight
and skill, Tornquist mentored SON
faculty, indeed nursing faculty the world
over, to unprecedented success in grant
funding and publication.
“Nursing was her special cause —
and thank God for that — we needed
her!” said Mary Champagne, dean
emerita of the Duke School of Nursing
and former SON faculty member.
“I doubt there is anyone more
responsible for helping researchers
with good ideas for improving health
care get grant funding than our
Elizabeth.”
Further remarks and readings were
offered by Deans Emerita Cindy Freund
and Linda Cronenwett, by Professors
Mary Lynn and Linda Beeber, by
Interim Dean Donna Havens and by
Chrish Peel, Elizabeth’s nephew.
The tribute was followed by a
reception featuring some of ET’s
favorite recipes, catered by her daughter
Amy, a celebrated chef and restaurateur
in Durham.
A fund has been set up to honor
ET’s extraordinary legacy — the
Elizabeth Muse Tornquist Endowment
for Scientific Writing — designed to
fund programs and other activities to
support the writing efforts of faculty,
students, health care clinicians and
scientists from many disciplines both
at the SON and across the country.
Programs may include institutes for
scientific writing, terms for editors-in-residence,
workshops and lectureships
— all designed to continue in some
fashion ET’s remarkable contributions.
To donate to the fund, contact
Assistant Dean for Advancement
Anne Webb at 919.966.4619 or visit
nursing.unc.edu.
ELIZABETH
TORNQUIST
SON HOSTS TRIBUTE,
ESTABLISHES FUND TO HONOR
The UNC School of Nursing was pleased to host the annual meeting of the
nation’s prestigious Hillman Scholars program in Nursing Innovation in late May.
The Scholars program was established by the Rita and Alex Hillman
Foundation in 2010 to identify and prepare — swiftly — the next generation of
nurse scientists and scholars. offered only at the universities of North Carolina,
Michigan and pennsylvania, the highly selective program is designed to furnish
Hillman Scholars with BSN and phD degrees in fewer than six years.
The theme of this year’s meeting was The Many Facets of leadership:
Research, practice, policy and Innovation. A busy three days of sessions kicked
off in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, May 24, with a compelling discussion on diversity,
inclusiveness and policy, led by Dr. Rumay Alexander, director of the SoN’s office
of Inclusive Excellence and special assistant to the Chancellor.
The second annual Charles and Colleen Astrike Symposium on Health Care
Solutions was held Tuesday evening, with panelists linda Aiken, phD, RN, FAAN;
Cathy Madigan, DNp, RN; and Gwen Sherwood, phD, RN, FAAN, offering views
on nursing leadership in quality and safety from the front lines of research,
practice and education.
A thoughtful question-and-answer session followed the moving testimony of
the Astrike family’s experience with their mother’s nursing care — a tragic case,
with consequences all the more grievous for having been due to errors in health
care, and avoidable for her and her loved ones.
Dr. Bill Roper, dean of the UNC School of Medicine, vice chancellor for
medical affairs and CEo of UNC Hospitals, was a highlight of wednesday’s
sessions, serving as the special guest in an informal discussion on leadership at
the Intersection of Research, Health Care and policy, led by Dr. Aiken and UNC
Hillman Scholar leah Morgan.
The meeting wrapped up midday Thursday following leadership
development activities, social and networking opportunities and further sessions
on leadership in the areas of research, policy and professional development.
“It was an honor to host such a thought-provoking and inspiring three days,”
said professor Cheryl Jones, phD, RN, FAAN, director of the Hillman Scholars
program at UNC. “The annual meeting is only one of the highlights the Hillman
Scholars program brings to the universities that benefit from this recognition.
However, we were especially honored to host this year’s event, which allowed us
to showcase the many initiatives under way here at UNC-CH. we’re so grateful to
all the speakers who made it such a rich opportunity for us all.”
SON Hosts Hillman Scholars
Program Annual Meeting
(L to R) Interim Dean
Donna Havens joins
former deans Linda
Cronenwett, Cindy
Freund and Mary
Champagne
Bill Roper, CEO of
UNC Hospitals (center),
answers questions
on leadership.
Members of Tornquist’s family
and friends listen to moving
tributes offered to ET’s memory.
(L) Linda Aiken, (R) Hillman Scholar Leah Morgan
Starting courageous
dialogues
Rumay Alexander was recently
named special assistant to Chancellor
Carol L. Folt. In her new role,
Alexander is focusing on integrating
initiatives across campus to accelerate
diversity, inclusion, and family and
work-life balance. She maintains her
role as professor and director of the
office of inclusive excellence at the
School of Nursing.
Rumay Alexander loves questions.
Her favorite one has always been
“Why?”
The simple word leads to
explanations, which can become
understanding. But at the very least, it
begins a discussion.
“It’s those kinds of questions that
will allow us, as a community, to become
more inclusive,” Alexander said. “It’s not
that you have to know everything, but
it’s about how we work on ourselves
and have enough self-awareness to
say, ‘You know, I need to ask some
questions because more than likely,
unintentionally, I’m not thinking of
something.’”
Asking the right questions has
become one of Alexander’s greatest tools
as she works to make the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill a better
and more inclusive community through
her new role.
Appointed as Folt’s special assistant
last November, Alexander is using her
new role to integrate initiatives across
campus to accelerate diversity, inclusion,
and family and work-life balance. She is
working closely with the University’s
Office of Workforce, Equity and
Engagement, the Office of Diversity and
Multicultural Affairs, and the Office of
Student Affairs, among others.
“Rumay brings a deep
understanding and an experienced
perspective on how we can more
effectively establish an inclusive
community for every one of our
students, faculty members and staff,”
Folt said. “She already is bringing
together organizations from across
campus to assess current programs and
develop new initiatives to fill important
gaps and advance our University.”
For Alexander, who is already the
diversity lead for the Schools of Public
Health and Dentistry, and the chair of
the Faculty Committee on Community
and Diversity, the new position is the
most recent stop in her long journey of
building inclusive environments.
Navigating Tennessee
Alexander grew up in the small western
Tennessee town of Humboldt, where
white and black residents were divided
by a single train track. There, she
quickly learned how to read her
environment — and to build a personal
grit that would help beat circumstances
designed to set her up for failure.
As a sixth grader, Alexander begged
her parents to let her and her younger
sister join the 25 African-American
students who would integrate the local
all-white school. Although her parents
were nervous — they well knew their
daughter’s knack for confronting
wrongs — they ultimately agreed.
“I was walking into a very dangerous
space,” she said. “I was navigating that
space as somebody who was intentionally
educated inferior to my white
counterparts.”
Not only were older students
physically abusive — sometimes pushing
the middle-schooler into lockers or
down the stairs — Alexander said she
was put in a situation created to make
her fail in the classroom as well.
For years, Alexander had been
learning by using outdated textbooks —
the ones passed down to her school after
the all-white school received updated
books. She immediately went from an
honor roll student to D’s.
It took her a year of staying up until
3 in the morning, then getting extra help
from teachers, before she caught up with
her classmates.
But she did.
“This is what you’ve got to do,” she
remembers telling herself at the time.
“You just have to do this if you are going
Carolina Nursing 17
Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN,
FAAN, has been named to the panel of
national experts guiding the “Cancer
Moonshot” unveiled during President
Barack Obama’s 2016 State of the Union
address.
During his annual speech to
Congress in January 2016, President
Obama called for $1 billion in new
funding to fast-track promising research
for the prevention, early detection,
treatment and ultimate curing of cancer.
Calling the initiative the “Cancer
Moonshot,” he tapped Vice President
Joe Biden to lead the effort to “eliminate
cancer as we know it.”
Dr. Mayer, professor of adult and
geriatric health at the UNC Chapel Hill
School of Nursing and director of
cancer survivorship at UNC Lineberger
Cancer Center, is among the nationally
recognized experts who will recommend
how the proposed funding should be
spent.
“This is a wonderful recognition
and opportunity to bring nursing and
patient perspectives to this prestigious
panel,” said Dr. Mayer. “Our work
will be significant in identifying
opportunities to reduce the burden
of cancer.”
Dr. Mayer has decades of
experience with national efforts to
improve cancer care, having worked
for more than 30 years as a specialist
in cancer nursing practice, education,
research and management experience.
Dr. Mayer is past president of the
Oncology Nursing Society, and a former
member of the National Cancer
Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors
and National Cancer Advisory Board
(a presidential appointment). Dr. Mayer
was also elected a fellow of the American
Academy of Nursing. She was the editor
for the Oncology Nursing Society’s
Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing
(CJON), and has published nearly 100
articles and book chapters. She lectures
internationally on oncology and
oncology nursing, and also maintains a
clinical practice working with breast
cancer survivors at UNC Chapel Hill.
“Dr. Mayer brings to the panel
tremendous acumen and understanding
of the crucial role nurses play in the care
and treatment of cancer,” said Donna
Havens, interim dean of the UNC
School of Nursing. “They couldn’t have
made a better choice, and we are so
pleased that she will represent UNC as
a home for world-class cancer research
and care.”
FACULTY NEWS
16 Fall/Winter 2016
DEBORAH MAYER TAPPED TO SERVE ON
CANCER MOONSHOT BLUE RIBBON PANEL
Mayer, an advanced
practice oncology
nurse and cancer
survivor, joins the
national panel to
help guide more
than $1 billion in
federal funding for
breakthrough
cancer research.
ALEXANDER
NAMED SPECIAL
ASSISTANT TO
CHANCELLOR
By Brandon Bieltz, Office of
Communications and Public Affairs
Mayer with
Vice President
Joe Biden
In February 2016, Judith Webb, DNP,
ANP-BC, ACHPN, joined the SON
faculty as an assistant professor in the
Division of Adult and Geriatric Health.
She was previously an assistant professor at
the MGH Institute of Health Professions
in Boston, MA, where she served as the
coordinator of the adult gerontology
primary care nurse practitioner track and
taught in the DNP program. She helped
develop the course, “Introduction to the
DNP,” and has continued to teach this
distance course since leaving MGHIHP.
Since joining the faculty, Webb has
become an advisor to LGBTQ students in
the School of Nursing and has agreed to
serve on the Provost’s Committee on
LGBTQ Life at UNC.
Dr. Webb is from central New York,
where she earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in nursing and a Master of Science
degree in nursing from State University
of New York Institute of Technology in
Utica, NY. She earned the Doctor of
Nursing Practice from the MGH Institute
of Health Professions, summa cum laude,
in 2010. Her doctoral project focused on
the long-term impact of surrogate
decision-making after the death of a
loved one.
She is board certified as both an adult
nurse practitioner and a palliative care
nurse practitioner, with clinical practice
experience primarily
with older adults. She
has extensive practice
experience in end-of-life
care and caring for people
of all ages with life-threatening
conditions.
She previously taught in New York at
Morrisville State College, Binghamton
University and SUNY Institute of
Technology in Utica.
While at the MGH Institute of
Health Professions, Dr. Webb served as
the chair of the Appeals Committee and
co-chair of the Judicial Board, and was
the advisor to the LGBTQ student group.
Dr. Webb served on the Legislative
Committee of the Massachusetts Coalition
of Nurse Practitioners, and was an officer
in the Mohawk Valley Chapter of the
New York state NP organization.
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SON WELCOMES DR. JUDITH WEBB
to achieve your hopes, dreams and
aspirations.”
After high school, Alexander
attended the University of Tennessee-
Knoxville, where she earned a bachelor’s
degree in nursing. She went on to
receive a master’s in nursing from
Vanderbilt University and then a
doctorate in education from Tennessee
State University.
“I loved everything about what
nurses did,” she said. “That was
probably one of the best decisions I’ve
made. I’m a nurse and proud of it. …
I’ve taken care of patients and advocated
for them, I’ve been at the bedside, I’ve
been a nurse supervisor and I’ve been
faculty.”
A huge chunk of Alexander’s work
also has been in the public policy arena.
In 1981, she became the senior vice
president of the Tennessee Hospital
Association. As the only nurse, the
youngest vice president and the only
person of color in the association,
Alexander was a triple minority at the
white-male-dominated organization.
There, she made her next big push
into creating inclusion.
“When you have been considered
the least and not one with legitimate
standing on the rungs of humanity, you
can speak about the lived experience
and impact of such a label,” she said.
Representing those who provided
hands-on care, Alexander’s job was to
bring the nurses’ and other care
providers’ concerns to the forefront
of hospital issues.
“My position was often one of
‘How do I help [the association and its
members] understand they’re not being
inclusive or that there are other
perspectives to consider?’” she said.
“They were very well-meaning, very
smart and intelligent individuals, but
what you don’t know, you don’t know.
Part of my job was to put the wicked
questions on the table, allow a safe way
for people to respond and then facilitate
the courageous dialogues around
intended and unintended consequences.”
Fostering human
flourishing in Chapel Hill
For 21 years, Alexander ignited those
inclusive conversations with the Tennessee
Hospital Association. Then in 2003, she
brought her skill set to the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As director of the office of inclusive
excellence in the School of Nursing,
Alexander has spent more than a decade
working to improve retention of faculty,
students and staff, and leading a diversity
discussion series.
“I believe that success is
transferable,” she said. “If something
works over here, what parts of that can
work in this place? My worlds all blend.
I will pull from all those places and all
those experiences.”
And now, what worked for her in
Tennessee and in the School of Nursing
is being put into practice campus-wide:
making sure everybody is represented
in decision-making and having what
Alexander calls “courageous dialogues.”
These dialogues, she said, begin
with asking questions and learning to
understand perspectives outside one’s
own.
“Most people, when you ask them
about diversity, they give you the
dimensions of diversity — how we
differ,” Alexander said. “That becomes
race, ethnicity, physical abilities, gender,
sexuality and you can go on and on. But
that’s how we manifest differences often
referred to ’diversity of presence.’ I
define diversity as holding multiple
perspectives without judgment. It’s the
judgment part that gets us in trouble.”
By coming to a better
understanding of what people know and
what they don’t know, Alexander said,
positive strides can be made. That’s why
she hopes viewpoints from throughout
the Carolina community can help mold
diversity goals — and make an impact
on the retention and recruiting of
minority faculty and other coordinated
initiatives across campus.
It all begins by using her favorite
question: “Why?”
“My overarching goal is ’human
flourishing,’” she said. “That’s for
faculty, that’s for staff, that’s for students.
When we better understand, we can help
others flourish.”
FACULTY NEWS
18 Fall/Winter 2016
APPOINTMENTS AND
PROMOTIONS
(as of Aug. 2016)
Beth Black
Chair, Health Care Systems Division
Betty Nance-Floyd
Director, Center for lifelong learning
Jennifer Leeman
Associate professor with tenure (July 1, 2016)
Cheryl Giscombé
Associate professor with tenure (Jan. 1, 2016)
SeonAe Yeo
professor (Jan. 1, 2016)
RETIREMENTS
(as of Aug. 2016)
Wanda Wazenegger
(late April 2016)
FAREWELLS
(as of Aug. 2016)
Debra Barksdale
(Jan. 3, 2016)
Pamela Johnson Rowsey
(June 20, 2016)
MiKyung Song
(June 30, 2016)
Jabar Akbar
Clinical Instructor
(Aug. 1, 2016)
Kristen Allison
Clinical Instructor
(Jan. 1, 2016)
Kristen Cole
Clinical Instructor
(Aug. 1, 2016)
Rachell Davis
Clinical Instructor
(Jan. 1, 2016)
Louise Fleming
Clinical Assistant professor
(Aug. 1, 2016)
Kate Griffith
Clinical Instructor
(Aug. 1, 2016)
Margaret Guzowska
Clinical Instructor
(Aug. 1, 2016)
Nancy Havill
Clinical Assistant professor
(July 1, 2016)
Erica King
Clinical Instructor
(Aug. 1, 2016)
Hilary Mendel
Clinical Instructor
(May 9, 2016)
Britt Pados
Clinical Instructor
(Aug. 4, 2016)
Elizabeth Trianni
Clinical Instructor
(Aug. 1, 2016)
Tracy Vernon-Platt
Clinical Instructor
(Jan. 1, 2016)
Judith Webb
Clinical Assistant professor
(Feb. 1, 2016)
“My worlds all blend. I will
pull from all those places
and all those experiences.”
NEW CLINICAL FACULTY
(January–August 2016)
20 Fall/Winter 2016 Carolina Nursing 21
FACULTY NEWS
Kathy Alden received the 2015 American
Journal of Nursing Book of the Year
Award for her work in co-authoring the
11th edition of Maternity & Women’s
Health Care with retired faculty member
Dee Lowdermilk. She was also awarded
the annual UNC Class of 1996 Award for
Advising Excellence by Carolina students.
________________________________
Jennifer Alderman received the Junior
Faculty Development Award from the
UNC Chapel Hill office of the provost.
Alderman will use her grant funding to
examine student characteristics as
predictors of success in her “path to
Academic Success (pASS)” study.
________________________________
Ruth Anderson co-authored a study
published by the Journal of Nursing
Regulation titled “Detecting Medication
order Discrepancies in Nursing Homes:
How RNs and lpNs Differ.” The study was
funded by the National Council State
Boards of Nursing and examined the
extent to which RN or lpN licensure
related to the detection of medication
discrepancies.
________________________________
Anna Beeber received grant funding from
the North Carolina AHEC Innovation Fund
for her proposal “Intraprofessional
Development of Nurse leaders: working
Together toward Quality Improvement in
long-term Care Health Care
Environments.”
________________________________
Linda Beeber was recently elected
president of the Board of Directors of the
American psychiatric Nurses Association.
Beeber also received NIH funding for
her study, “Enhancing Communication
between Children in Early Intervention
and Their Depressed Mothers.”
________________________________
Diane Berry was awarded a Sigma Theta
Tau International grant to study the
management of type 2 diabetes with
researchers from Univerisidad Autonoma
de Tamuilipas School of Nursing,
Tampico, México.
________________________________
Ashley Leak Bryant received the 2016
oNS Excellence in Care of older Adults
with Cancer Award at the Annual oNS
Congress in San Antonio, TX.
________________________________
Linda Cronenwett was appointed to the
Board of Directors of Spectrum Health
ludington Hospital.
________________________________
Mary W. Dunn was named a 2016 Health
Care Hero by Triangle Business Journal.
The award recognizes those who have
put innovation and compassion to work
to improve the human condition.
________________________________
Bev Foster was selected to receive the
2016 Ned Brooks Award for public
Service. Dr. Foster was recognized for
more than 30 years of providing and
supporting public service within UNC and
across North Carolina.
________________________________
Cheryl Woods Giscombé received the
2016 Faculty Excellence in Education and
Mentorship Award. phD students
described Dr. Giscombé as a mentor who
goes above and beyond the faculty role
and pushes mentees out of their comfort
zone while believing in and supporting
them through every step of the program.
________________________________
Chris Harlan was awarded the 2015
American Journal of Nursing Book of the
Year for her book, Global Health Nursing:
Narratives from the Field. This was
Harlan’s first AJN book of the year award.
________________________________
Eric Hodges received NIH funding for his
study to test a novel intervention to help
parents and preverbal infants better
understand one another during feeding
and to offer new insight into how self-regulation
of energy intake develops
during infancy.
________________________________
Coretta Jenerette earned the 2015 C.
Felix Harvey Award to Advance
Institutional priorities. Dr. Jenerette will
use the funding for her study “Developing
a Virtual Training Technology to Enhance
patient-provider Communication.”
Jenerette was also named a member of
the sixth class of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill Thorp Faculty
Engaged Scholars.
________________________________
Saif Khairat was awarded a Junior
Faculty Development Award from the
UNC Chapel Hill office of the provost.
He will use the grant funding for his
study “VICUT: A Clinician-centered
Visualization Dashboard to Improve ICU
patient Information Representation and
Delivery.” Khairat also received a course
development grant from Data@Carolina
Initiatives to develop data skills and data
literacy among undergraduate and
graduate students.
________________________________
Rebecca Kitzmiller received a course
development grant from Data@Carolina
Initiatives to develop data skills and data
literacy among undergraduate and
graduate students.
________________________________
Kathy Knafl was selected as the inaugural
Suzanne Feethan Distinguished lecturer
at the 2016 Midwest Nursing Research
Society Conference, co-sponsored by the
University of wisconsin-Milwaukee
College of Nursing.
________________________________
Rhonda Lanning received the 2016 office
of the provost Engaged Scholarship
Award for her work training birth doulas
in her interdisciplinary service learning
course. The award recognizes faculty
members or university units for
exemplary engaged scholarship in service
to the state of North Carolina that serves
as an example of excellence, including
responsiveness to community concerns
and strong community partnerships.
________________________________
Mary Lynn received a grant from the
National Council of State Boards of
Nursing to study the “Successful
Transitions of New Graduate RNs in US
Hospitals: Education, practice and policy
Implications.” Dr. lynn’s project is the first
of its kind on the topic.
Deborah Mayer was named a 2016 Health
Care Hero by Triangle Business Journal.
The award recognizes those who have
put innovation and compassion to work
to improve the human condition.
________________________________
Betty Nance-Floyd was awarded a
Fulbright Specialist grant in education to
work with the faculty of Kamuzu College
of Nursing in Malawi. She also received
the preparing Future Faculty Assessment
Award from the Graduate School of the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro for her outstanding job of
developing a syllabus for Nursing 491,
Improving Nursing practice: Application
of Concepts, Theories, and Research, and
equating the student learning outcomes
to specific graded activities.
________________________________
Britt Pados received grant funding from
the National Association of Neonatal
Nurses Research Institute for her study
"Assessment of the psychometric
properties of the Neonatal Eating
Assessment Tool (Neo-EAT)."
________________________________
Julie Page was recently accepted into the
highly competitive Experienced Nurse
Faculty leadership Academy of Sigma
Theta Tau International/Chamberlain
College of Nursing Center for Excellence
in Nursing Education.
________________________________
Mary Palmer was a keynote speaker at
the Continence Foundation of Australia’s
24th National Conference in Melbourne,
Australia. In addition to participating in
the conference, Dr. palmer spent time as
a visiting scholar at Flinders University
in Adelaide, Australia.
________________________________
Theresa Raphael-Grimm received
the 2015 laurel Archer Copp literary
Award for her book: The Art of
Communication in Nursing and
Healthcare: A Multidisciplinary Approach.
The award was endowed by laurel
Archer Copp, former dean of the
UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing,
to stimulate the scholarly writing of
School of Nursing faculty.
Cecilia Roscigno received the 2016
Student Undergraduate Teaching Award
for her excellence and innovation in
undergraduate teaching.
________________________________
Hudson Santos was chosen to receive NC
TraCS Funding for his study “postpartum
Depressive Symptoms in latinas:
Associations with oxytocin Function and
Stressors.”
________________________________
Gwen Sherwood was selected to serve
as a faculty advisor for the Nurse
Faculty leadership Academy Cohort III
of Sigma Theta Tau International. She
will be serving to guide aspiring nurse
educators and their mentors through
a rigorous leadership development
program. Dr. Sherwood’s book Reflective
Organizations: On the Front Lines
of QSEN & Reflective Practice
Implementation received second place
in the professional Issues category
of the American Journal of Nursing’s
2015 Books of the Year Awards.
________________________________
Victoria Soltis-Jarrett was appointed to
serve on a steering committee for new
Certified Community Behavioral Health
Clinics (CCBHC) in North Carolina.
________________________________
Sue Thoyre and the Feeding Flock
research team were featured in the
July/August issue of the American
Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing for
the research studies on preventing,
identifying and managing feeding
difficulties in children. The Feeding Flock
research team members are Thoyre,
Britt Pados, Jinhee Park, Hayley Estrem,
Cara McComish and Eric Hodges.
________________________________
Debbie Travers led a team of emergency
nurses and physicians in developing a
toolkit for use by the CDC to triage
patients in the event of a pandemic flu
outbreak.
________________________________
Marcia Van Riper received a Fulbright
Specialist Grant and was hosted by the
University of Navarre in pamplona, Spain,
in November and December 2015.
Julee Waldrop served as a panelist at
the National organization of Nurse
practitioner Faculties Special Topics
Conference in Arlington, VA. Dr. waldrop
joined two other seasoned Np educators
to provide perspectives on strategies
and content for developing the Np
clinical scholar.
________________________________
Hugh Waters received a course
development grant from Data@Carolina
Initiatives to develop data skills and data
literacy among undergraduate and
graduate students.
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Judith Webb was appointed to the
provost’s Committee on lGBTQ life at
UNC Chapel Hill.
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Megan Williams received a Junior Faculty
Development Award from the UNC
Chapel Hill office of the provost. williams
will use her grant for her North Carolina
Nurse leaders Study.
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SeonAe Yeo worked with faculty at St.
luke’s International University in Tokyo
to assist in developing the first DNp
program in Japan.
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Jessica Zegre-Hemsey earned a spot
in the NCTraCS Kl2 program, an NIH-funded
grant that offers Kl2 Scholars
mentorship and additional training to
achieve their research and career goals.
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Meg Zomorodi received grant funding
from the North Carolina AHEC Innovation
Fund for her proposal “Health Care
pRoMISE (populations for Reformed
outcomes Management from
Interprofessional, Systems-based
Education.”
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Thomas N.P. Johnson III
Cynthia McNeill King
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Jane Snyder Norris
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Josephine Nelson Osborn
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Carol Morde Ross
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American Cancer Society - HQ
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Carl S. Swisher Foundation, Inc.
Childrens Medical Research Institute
Christ the King Lutheran Church
First Quality Enterprises Inc- HQ
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Estate of Charles Boyd Fondow
Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence
Josiah Macy Jr Foundation
National Council of State Boards
of Nursing
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Susan Flynn Oncology Nursing
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UNC Hospitals
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NEWS B R I E F S
The School of Nursing has received a
$70,000 grant from The Jonas Center for
Nursing and Veterans Healthcare to fund
three phD Jonas Nurse leaders Scholars,
three phD Jonas Veterans Healthcare
Scholars and one DNp Jonas Veterans
Healthcare Scholar for a total of seven
scholars funded at $10,000 each.
The SoN’s seven Jonas Scholars will
join two current SoN Jonas Scholars,
Kayoll Galbraith and lauren Hamilton, and
a total cohort of more than 1,000 Jonas
Scholars spread throughout all 50 states.
As the nation’s leading philanthropic
funder of graduate nursing education, the
Jonas Center is addressing the critical
need for qualified nursing faculty. U.S.
nursing schools turned away nearly
70,000 qualified applicants from
baccalaureate and graduate nursing
programs in 2014 due in large part to an
insufficient number of faculty1. Further,
nearly two-thirds of registered nurses
over age 54 say they are considering
retirement2.
“In 2008, we set an ambitious goal
to support 1,000 Jonas Nurse Scholars.
This year, on our Center’s 10th anniversary,
we celebrate this achievement and are
amazed by the talent of this cohort of
future nurse leaders,” said Donald Jonas,
who co-founded the Center with Barbara
Jonas, his wife. “In the decade to come,
we look forward to continuing to work
with our partner nursing schools and to
the great impact that the Jonas Scholars
will have on improving healthcare around
the world.” —February 4, 2016 ENews
Congratulations to Dana Kouchel, RN,
BSN, a second-year BSN-to-DNp student
who recently received the nursing
Geriatrics Interprofessional Fellowship as
part of the Carolina Geriatrics workforce
Enhancement program (CGwEp).
CGwEp, a three-year, $2.55 million
HRSA grant-funded project housed in
the UNC School of Medicine’s Center
for Aging and Health, is designed to
improve health outcomes for rural and
underserved geriatric populations across
North Carolina.
As a fellow, Kouchel joins an
interprofessional team consisting of a
practicing North Carolina nurse, dentist
and physician who meet all day every
other Monday to be trained in the
principals of geriatrics and
interprofessional geriatrics care, to
develop care protocols and to care for
patients. The first topic the team is
tackling is one of common concern for
many geriatric patients — weight loss
and proper nutrition.
“I really enjoy learning and working
with all members of the interprofessional
team. It’s exciting to be developing a
program that both improves care for this
vulnerable population and facilitates the
learning needs of the health care
community,” said Kouchel, who is focusing
her DNp studies to become an
adult/geriatric nurse practitioner. “This
program is really a two-way educational
street—as the team learns and develops
protocols together, we can then pass that
education along to fellow caregivers for
better patient outcomes.”
The team works with piedmont
Health SeniorCare in pittsboro, NC, a
program of All-inclusive Care for the
Elderly (pACE) that helps patients meet
their health care needs in the community
rather than going to a nursing home or
other care facility.
“we’re so privileged to be able to
care for older people,” said Kouchel. “It’s
important to me that my classmates and
other health care providers see and
appreciate the value and art of geriatrics
care. It may not be glamorous, but we
have a duty to help our older patients
maintain their independence and dignity
as long as possible.”
Among its other goals, CGwEp aims
to increase the geriatrics workforce
pipeline. Mary H. palmer, phD, RN, FAAN,
Umphlet Distinguished professor in Aging,
is the interprofessional education nursing
team leader for the project.
“Dana is a perfect fit for this
fellowship,” said palmer. “She brings
considerable intelligence, creativity, and
devotion to her role on the team and is a
wonderful ambassador for the care of the
elderly—a champion this population sorely
needs.” — Feb. 12, 2016 ENews
SON Hosts Visiting Faculty
from Jönköping University
The School of Nursing is very pleased and
privileged to host Drs. Maria Björk and
Susanne Knutson of Sweden’s Jönköping
University this week and next.
while here, the pair are working with
Drs. Eric Hodges and Sheila Santacroce
on various clinical and research projects.
on Thursday, March 3, they offered
the SoN
community
a two-part
presentation,
the first
sharing the
results of
their research
and the
convention
on children’s rights, “Giving Children a
Voice,” and the second on “Swedish Health
Care and Education.”
1 American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2014–2015 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing
2 AMN Healthcare, 2015 Survey of Registered Nurses: Viewpoints on Retirement, Education and Emerging Roles
SON Receives Jonas Scholars Program Grant
“We have a duty to help our
older patients maintain
their independence and
dignity as long as possible.”
DNP Student Kouchel Receives Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Fellowship
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Michael Anderson Spittle
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Carol Cobb Williams
Thomas Wintermeier
Victoria Wintermeier
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Sophia M. Yarborough
Mabel Broadwell Yelvington
Tiffany Maryl Young
1 9 5 5
BSN
Gwenlyn Huss Butler
Winnie Williams Cotton
Bette Leon Davis
Geraldine Snider Laport
Mary Anderson Leggette
Janet Merritt Littlejohn
Gloria Huss Peele
Ramelle Hylton Starnes
Louise Norwood Thomas
1 9 5 6
BSN
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Natalie Salter Baggett
Sally Smith Baldwin
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Lee McCarter Cranford
Elizabeth Hamilton Darden
Dorothy McNeely Elliott
Landon Lewis Fox
Jane King Grizzard
Jessie Carraway Heizer
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Jane Kelly Monroe
Jane Snyder Norris
Billie Dobbs Rogers
Geneva File Williams
1 9 5 7
BSN
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Donna Dopler Geiger
Jean Crisp Jackson
Anne Glenn Johnson
Sara Burt Mursch
Katherine Randall Peck
Ann Page Ransdell
Barbara Hedberg Self
Martha Lentz Waters
MSN
Audrey Joyce Booth
1 9 5 8
BSN
Cloydia Carstarphen Dixon
Carolyn Roberts Greene-Wright
Geraldine Y. Haynes
Gail G. Hudson
Billie G. Matheson
Marjorie Staub Mosher
Sally Price Ormand
Norma Cupp Pitzer
Nancy Charles Rawl
Patricia Russell Raynor
Frances Ader Read
Rosemary Lemmond Ritzman
Elizabeth Sumner Sanders
1 9 5 9
BSN
Jo Anne Lasley Alston
Alvene Williams Buckley
Bess Chandler DeLaPerriere
Elizabeth Nicholson Fisher
Diane Snakenburg Gordon
Jo Ann Sowers Mason
Martha Oliver Meetre
Beverly Heaton Miller
Patricia Kline Robertson
Celia Strader Sabiston
Peggy Brown Stivers
Nancy Turner Sturdivant
Mary Helen Shelburne Watkins
Faye Mewborn White
1 9 6 0
BSN
Margaret Evans Adams
Harriette Zimmerman Beaven
Claudia Barnes Deese
Sara Elizabeth Garvin
Anita Whitener Hoffler
Catherine Carden Long
Sandra Roberts Montgomery
Jean Sutherland Pridgen
Sandra Darling Reed
Beverly Ann Segee
Jane Burt Williams
MSN
Barbara Williams Madden
1 9 61
BSN
Ann Tolton Bergamo
Jeanne Crewes Carroll
E. Elaine Curtis
Sandra Regenie Haldeman
Carolyn Mayo Holloway
Frances Coltrane Hutchison
Ann Linville Jessup
Alice F. Keiger
Linda Ann Lewis
Charlotte Andrews Lloyd
Karen Magnuson Mauro
Margaret Thompson McCain
Carolyn Nifong Morgan
Alice Kent Roye
Patricia Long Vaughan
Mabel Broadwell Yelvington
1 9 6 2
BSN
Mary Alice Willwerth Blevins
Lillian Ward Bryant
Jane Huber Clark
Judith Buxton Collins
Beverly Desmond Davis
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Shirley Snyder Frantz
Undine Caudle Garner
Mary Harrison Hall
Patricia Ann Hunter Key
Elizabeth Finley Macfie
Carolyn Houchins Meyer
Elizabeth Chambers Payne
Patricia Heilig Poret
Ann Bennett Propert
Linda Trembath Reeder
Esther Mae Tesh
1 9 6 3
BSN
Elaine Gettman Bourdeaux
Katharine Pickrell Bryson
Phyllis Ferguson Callicott
Barbara Caldwell Fletcher
Elizabeth Lusk Gregg
Faye Mills Haas
Roberta Brown Hackett
Mary Pleasants Hogg
Sylvia Vincent Jackson
Carol Elledge Koontz
Linda Laxton Lawrence
Catherine Johnson Lee
Lynn Humphrey Locher
Patricia Barlow Lowery
Linda Hutchins Myrick
Martha Tate Roberts
Margaret Sutton Wade
Barbara Jo Philbeck Warren
Eugenia Hruslinski Weeks
Muriel Hogg Welborne
Judith Clifton Wright
1 9 6 4
BSN
Mary Green Buie
Jayne Crumpler DeFiore
Carolyn Mitchell Elgin
Frances Booth Hart
Patricia Hildebrand Horton
Beverley Haynes Johnson
Jean Burley Moore
Lynda Colvard Opdyke
Laura Carlo Piver
Mary Coleman Rose
Mary Hamrick Saunders
Mary Roberts Shapiro
Betty Jene Sones
Laura Hughes Yates
MSN
Jo Anne Lasley Alston
Elizabeth Finley Macfie
1 9 6 5
BSN
Beth Ann Rendell Abbott
Rebecca Wells Baucom
Nancy Rieman Caldwell
Sharon Kennedy Casey
Karen Hopkins Coley Harrison
Bettina Kay Holder
Constance Newnam Parker
Barbara Easkold Pringle
Katherine White Slattery
Margaret Weidel Sprott
Anne Palmatier Tapper
Nancy Beasley Turner
Elaine Adams Underwood
Helen Carswell Wilson
MSN
Katherine Camilla Bobbitt
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Roberta Brown Hackett
1 9 6 6
BSN
Margaret Colison Alderman
Carole O’Brient Bordelon
Brenda Dockery Dunn
Mary Howard Dunn
Karen Gunderson Hayward
Anne Barbee Houston
Sara-Louise Camlin Krantz
Kay Goodman McMullan
Leith Merrow Mullaly
Jerri Moser Oehler
Anne Whitaker Peedin
Linda Fox Reeves
Suzanne Bennett Reilly
Sharon Ranson Thompson
Marie Phillips Williams
Rebecca Story Wilson
MSN
Amie Modigh
1 9 67
BSN
Elena Codispoti Aseltine
Anne Elizabeth Belcher
Rene Clark
Nancy Rankin Crutchfield
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Mary Bowsher Friedman
Olivia Womble Griffin
Nancy Rogers Harrison
Patricia Dodson Hayes
Patricia Humphrey-Kloes
Marilyn Beaver Hutcheson
Toni Cline Kenerly
Judy Heller Knauer
Elizabeth Beattie Lewis
Carolyn Mitchell Martin
Genevia Sanderson Mozolak
Carolyn Buck Pearson
Nancy Carr Porter
Margaret Ferguson Raynor
Shirley Spaugh Rosen
Susan Willey Spalt
Vivian Harris Varner
Carole Norman Willmot
1 9 6 8
BSN
Lois Greenfield Boyles
Elizabeth Margaret Carr
Carol Malcolm Davis
Judith Reavis Essic
Kathryn Robinson Kuykendal
Sara Jane McVicker
Susanne Smith Newton
Joan Frances Reinhardt
Johana Renfro Roberts
Linda Hamlin Titus
Betty Oldham Westerholm
1 9 6 9
BSN
Beth Norman Barnes
Christine Budd Cassidy
Linda Kibler Cockrell
Judith Van Dyke Egg
Dorothy Mosley Ellmore
Patsy Ruth Farlow
Judith Hoskins Haupt
Patty Maynard Hill
Jane Carey Karpick
Margaret Riggan Light
Nancy Nicks Stephenson
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Jo Lentz Williams
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MSN
Leota Lovina Rolls
1 970
BSN
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Joyce Schilke Cohen
Allene Fuller Cooley
Kathryn Minton Holliday
Virginia Lane
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Barbara Ann Nettles-Carlson
Phyllis Walker Newman
Marjorie Williams Phillips
Patricia Cox Rogers
Sallie O’Keef Simpson
Gwendolyn Hightower Waddell-
Schultz
P. Kay Wagoner
MSN
C. JoAnn Foust Cardarella
Marjorie Huitt Hawkins
Gwendolyn Dorminey Sherwood
Vivian Harris Varner
1 97 1
BSN
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Jeanne Lilly Griswold
Kerry Allen Hensley
Charlene Blake Knapp
Catherine Packard Licata
Kay McNeill-Harkins
Josephine Nelson Osborn
Doris Ann Dixon Reavis
Elizabeth Moate Robinson
Jane Hackney Schult
Marian Crane Sharpe
Sarah Horton Stewart
Deborah Thompson
Mary Grace Crist White
1 97 2
BSN
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Nina Whitaker Hackney
Betsy Newton Herman
Patricia Pittman Hotz
Janith Jones Huffman
Nancy Ann Laughridge
Anne Lowe Murphy
Carol Dixon Murray
Lynne Ann Oland
Christa Parks Sexton
MSN
Leigh Andrews
Anita Stoddard Hammerbeck
Carol Lynne Watters
1 97 3
BSN
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Ann Miller Calandro
Anne Smith Cole
Cynthia Lee Earthman
Teresa Weaver Foster
Nancy Barrett Freeman
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Jolynn Edwards Hurwitz
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MSN
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P. Allen Gray Jr.
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Linda Ann Lewis
1 974
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MSN
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Laureen Sue Froimson
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Margaret Riggan Light
Rebecca Jean Patterson
Anita Wanthouse Virgilio
Rebecca Story Wilson
1 97 5
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Preston Noe Comeaux III
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Evelyn Rose Paul
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Diane Marie Shaffer
Reid Tatum
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MSN
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Elizabeth Burke Goolsby
Betty Jean Haddock
Betsy Mickey McDowell
Susan Foley Pierce
Patricia Cox Rogers
Deborah Thompson
1 976
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Mary Spencer Palmer
Jane McInnis Penny
Linda Garner Phillips
Diane Phillips Smith
Mary Victorine Spainhour
MSN
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Linda Cade Haber
Sue Greenwood Head
Gwendolyn Hightower Waddell-
Schultz
1 97 7
BSN
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Constance Waddell Beckom
Patti Sue Burke
George Washington Butcher III
Denise Taylor Darden
Susan Benbow Dawson
Leigh Watson Garmhausen
Linda Allen Hammett
24 Fall/Winter 2016
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Carolina Nursing 25
MSN
Madelyn Miscally Ashley
Saundra Obie Clemmons
Leslie Louise Davis
1 9 9 0
BSN
Maria Daneen Bernhardt
Mary Elizabeth Brewer
Sharon Anne Cullinan
Ellen Hampton Davis
Richmond Lee Griner II
Dia Del Paggio Roberts
Stephanie Roach Thacker
Amy Smith Turner
MSN
Beth Perry Black
Ellen Hart Doyle
Katherine Anne Moore
Melody Ann Watral
1 9 9 1
BSN
Derek Clarkston Chrisco
Lori Prevatte Chrisco
Robert Thomas Dodge
Michelle Ekanayake-Lin
Suzanne Getman Gifford
Mary Elizabeth Haire
Veronica Ann Hendricks
Linda Wood Medlin
Sherrie Evelyn Page
Amanda Sue Rebbert
Dana Snipes Svendsen
Vanessa Harrell Yencha
1 9 92
BSN
Amanda Watson Adams
Elizabeth Thomas Ashe
Carlye Lorraine Carr
Cheryl Moseley Conway
Edith Geer Johnson
Carol Matulevich-Alonso
MSN
Jeanmarie Rampolla Koonts
Annette Leslie Robinson-Brun
1 9 93
BSN
Pamela Wells Akhter
Sandra Webb Dawson
Christopher M. Herring
Michelle Simoneau Mill
Frank Douglas Moore
Michelle Porter Parker
Allison Burrows Parrott
Bobbie Jo Lee Peterson
1 9 9 4
BSN
Shauna Wood Austin
Mary McNeill Bowers
Linda Sue Hale
Cheryl Wasserman Powers
Cheryl Ann Smith-Miller
MSN
Karen Hogan Cabaniss
Carlye Lorraine Carr
Vickie Blount Curtis
Suzanne Getman Gifford
Ann Neighbours Jessup
Deborah Scheele Minanov
Susanne Smith Newton
Jean Ann Smith
Valerie Ann Stafford
Debbie Ann Travers
Margaret Anne Wasserman
Wanda Eileen Wazenegger
PhD
Audrey Elaine Nelson
1 9 9 5
BSN
Jessica Stewart Brueggeman
Barbara Ann Gordon
Ida Jivotovski
Susan King-Zeller
Carol Voigt Marriott
Amanda Kier Nichols
Ronald Stephen Riggle
MSN
Debra Logue Ezzell
Margaret Berg Mullinix
Susan Gatlin O’Dell
Donna Suzanne Odem
Mary C. Tatum
PhD
Mary Jean Thorson
1 9 9 6
BSN
Keena Ennis Chung
Amy Wrazen Clark
Micha Gittelman
Tanya Henley Lam
Marie Elizabeth Stockstill
Tracy Elizabeth Vernon-Platt
Deborah Fox Wright
MSN
Sharon Anne Cullinan
Carolyn Susan Huffman
Jill Katherine Mount
Sandra Jarr Reynolds
Richard Anderson Sutton
Debra Kirby Thompson
Marlene Stone Yates
PhD
Deborah Assad Lee
Esther Mae Tesh
1 9 97
BSN
Karen Harris Chance
Virginia Baity Ervin
Glenda Marks George
Rachel Beth Heller
Gayle Haviland Ipock
Karen Dellinger Leadbitter
Kelly Michele Margraf
Kelly Mullis McNeill
Delores Ann Price
Susan Catherine Rebert
Julie Michelle Schneider
Amy Hausman Thomure
Deborah Kerens Wagner
MSN
Bonita Craft Aycock
Jill Causby Barbour
Natasha Greene
Cecelia Agnes Landon
Carol Matulevich-Alonso
Kelly A. Fogarty Mergy
Bobbie Jo Lee Peterson
Dia Del Paggio Roberts
Brookie Allen Wood
PhD
Barbara Jean Speck
Wanda Christie Stutts
1 9 9 8
BSN
Holly Covington Boals
Amy W. Eller
Melanie Berthel Good
Lisa Swencki Haik
Kathryn Coulter Jones
James Alton McGowan III
Laura Michele Quarino
Kelly Might Wilson
MSN
Patricia Garrett Bernstein
Sujuan Cai
Suzanne Margaret Clark
Patricia Diane D. Nielsen
1 9 9 9
BSN
Christy C. Arrowood
Danielle Nicole Koonce Cecil
Aimee Adams Feste
Amy Giles Howard
Kimberly Orwoll Oliver
Keith Avery Slick
Jennifer Sanford Tuchinsky
Stephanie Walker Vann
Tiffany Maryl Young
MSN
Jenny Leong Abernathy
Kathleen M. Baluha
Amy Elizabeth Jeroloman
Frank Douglas Moore
April Griffin Thomas
Janice Marie Wheeler
PhD
Eve Lynn Layman
Julie Smith Taylor
2 0 0 0
BSN
Sandra Krol Baker
Nancy Rowe Cameron
Roulhac Clark Johnson
Abigail Ensign Snow
MSN
Patricia S. Ashland
Donna Finn-Kuo
Shivanthi Ponniah
Aline M. Taniguchi
PhD
Debra Huffman Brandon
Susan Elizabeth Burger
2 0 01
BSN
Renee Pouliot Bridges
Cheryl Sunderhaus Briner
Naomi Rebekah Buehrle
Noelle Dorsey Davenport
Leigh Nicole Fry
Ashley Bolin Gardner
Julie Lane Herrick
Walter George Jones Jr.
Brandi Hamlin Newman
Oritsetsemaye Grace Otubu
Yasmin Natasha Singleton
Amy Call Spittle
Meg Zomorodi
MSN
Linda Sue Hale
Karen Dellinger Leadbitter
Heather Thompson Mackey
2 0 02
BSN
Amy Davis Bell
Kristen Stott Camplin
Leslie Collins Hege
Ann Warren Hussey
Megan Bumgarner Manuel
Courtney Allison Queen
Benjamin J. Roberts
Kimberly Marie Russell
Teresa Evette Wiley
MSN
Christopher R. Berge
Irene Powell Strickland
PhD
Donald Etheridge Bailey Jr.
Cydney King Mullen
2 0 03
BSN
Kimborli Walters Adams
Sean T. Gallagher
Terri Sue Giles
Georgia L. Gray
Melissa Williams Toper
Julie Christine Warren
MSN
Karla Jean Brown
John Emmett Fesperman
Robin Lynn Gusmann
Angela Jean Keene
Deane E. Schweinsberg
2 0 0 4
BSN
Carolyn Howard Ellison
Monica Lowe Przybylek
Patricia Anne Puhalski
Bridget M. Rasmussen
Iryna Zhytkova
MSN
Cheryl Lynn Elliott
Brandi Hamlin Newman
Debbie S. Weaver
PhD
Bradi Bartrug Granger
2 0 0 5
BSN
Ashley Lacquement Arnold
Pamela Nance Bowman
Jilleon Formanczyk Inman
Amy Lawler Munday
Anne McPherson Pringle
Audra Noble Rankin
Jennifer Marie Strong
Rattiya Amy Wongsarnpigoon
MSN
Amy Davis Bell
Barbara Ann Jordan
Kimberly Orwoll Oliver
Tracy Elizabeth Vernon-Platt
PhD
Beth Perry Black
2 0 0 6
BSN
Kellie Shay Bowles
Kelly Adkins Cunningham
Kimberly Lynn Jones
Laura Yow Marks
MSN
Sala Ray Pradhan
PhD
Stewart Michael Bond
2 0 07
BSN
Amy Verreault Athavale
Lessley Merklein
Leigh Grant Mullen
Megan Ann Marie Myers
Trina DiPaola Seals
Melody Wong Warren
Jennifer Brice Williams
Ann Plonk Wilson
Martha Lynn Harris
Elaine Merchant Jeffcoat
Linda Sherman Kimel
Melissa Ann D. LeVine
Susan Perry Lineberry
Margaret Ann May
Scarlott Kimball Mueller
Sally Van Nelson
Yvonne Boies Nicopoulos
Susan Gatlin O’Dell
Helen Krick Poole
Lynn Peacock Spaw
Laura Conn Stout
Barbara Girouard Yeh
MSN
Rebecca Wells Baucom
Karen Friedsam Duncan
Emily Scovil Eklund
Marianne Frances Marlo
Diane Gracy Vester
Louise Elsner Watts
1 97 8
BSN
Elizabeth Dortch Beswick
Rachel Harper Fulp
Jane King Fulton
Barbara Sessoms Gillmer
Elizabeth Sheely Godkin
Catherine Freeman Halligan
Renee Warner Hill
LaDonna Washington Howell
Mary Capehart Hulbert
Mona Brown Ketner
Sara V. Mayhew
Betty Womble Michal
Katherine Anne Moore
Caswell Smith Patmore
Robin Elaine Remsburg
Jeannie Godley Rigdon
Nancy Brand Saulino
Sally Mozelle Taylor
MSN
Juliet McGuire Beckwith
Harriet Walker Buss
Margaret Gorely Bye
Brenda Marion Nevidjon
P. Kay Wagoner
1 97 9
BSN
Janet Boggs Arthurs
Beverly Harrell Barnett
Cheryl Banks Batchelor
Angela M. Brice-Smith
Sally A. Bulla
Syvil Summers Burke
Brenda Denice Cumpston
Sally Kaye Dove
Marsha Coggin Farrell
Sandra Sleeman Franklin
Mary Ann Yenc Gaster
Kina Walker Jones
Jennifer Elesha Manning
Cindy Andes Nance
Kathryn King Perkinson
Barbara Ann Senich
Zolia Lorraine Smith
Anita Star Tesh
Marianne Bab Vidal
Deborah Cecil Watson
Pamela Bowling Watson
Anita Petrucci Whaley
Kimberly Collins Woodard
Charles Herman Wray Jr.
MSN
Kathryn R. Alden
Susan Huffman Gordon
1 9 8 0
BSN
Lee Bennett Bailey
Marian White Byerly
Terri Cameron Capps
Darlene Huggins Ennett
Doris McFadyen Fritts
Amanda Lynn Greene
Melody Slaughter Heffline
Leslie Carolyn Hicks
Sherry Jean Kelly
Donna Winston Laney
Bunny Coble Day Lewis
Margaret Berg Mullinix
Elisabeth Scott Murphy
Kay Overcash-Jenkins
Sue Cook Peacock
Elizabeth Norwood Peele
Pamela Linhart Sonney
Deborah Boles Southern
Carolyn Cook Spalding
Beverly Lynn Wagner
Alma Kay Bullock Woolard
Jenifer Amling Wrigley
MSN
Lynn Grier Coleman
Kathryn Phillips King
Jean Marie Raue Larson
Jannie McCray
Janet Cheyfitz Meckler
Angel Mariano Vasquez
1 9 8 1
BSN
Barbara High Arne
Beth Perry Black
Linda Prior Bolin
Ruth E. Boone
Dorothy Lynn Cage
Beth Herring Chadwick
Nancy Heiges Colman
Susan Adams Doughton
Joan Williams Grady
Lucy Ligon Heffelfinger
Diane Carol Hudson-Barr
Martha Hennessy Hutson
Donna Renee Jarvis
Denise Farlow Jones
Phyllis Dew Justus
Pamela Kay Lowrance
Monica Miller Muldoon
Nora Ellen Raynor
Kendace Felgar Sanders
E. Anne Shortliffe
Andrew Franklin Shotwell Jr.
Annette Rountree Thompson
MSN
Elizabeth Jane Abernathy
Debra Huffman Brandon
Mary Ann Carr
Linda B. Ellington
Melissa Ann D. LeVine
N. Jane Randall
Brenda Gail Summers
1 9 8 2
BSN
Wanda Mayo Adams
Tamara Hinson Barker
Carolyn Anderson Boone
Paula Goetz Bruening
Julia Stout Dyer
Sharon Speer Gentry
Reena Grigg Hathcock
Frances Morgan Irby
Andrea Mickle Irwin
Kathy Lynne Joyce
Constance Farleigh Lanier
Myrtle Magdalene Maness-Craft
Harriet Vess McGinnis
Carol Fraser Myers
Karen G. Randle
Pamela Davis Rock
Ann Elgin Rudeen
Mary Gray Gilchrist Sachtjen
Joan Von Lehmden Senter
Debra Farlow Surratt
Laura Liebert Weisner
Diane Wendelken-Johnston
Glenda Sue Wooten
Edith Juanita Wright
MSN
Marilyn Jane Chapman
Carol Lynn Fowler Durham
Josephine Altieri Glos
Carol Eiler Glover
Janet Dunnwald Lageson
1 9 8 3
BSN
Kathleen Murphy Baum
Thomas Lanier Bell
Anderson Fisher Black
Melanie Gayle Bunn
Mary Maddrey Chandler
Robin Breeze Coleman
Charlene Jackson Dunlap
Beth Robinson Francis
Alma Marie Holley
Jean Hix McDonald
Jana Green Newsome
Annette Ivey Peery
Christy Morton Secor
Lee Walker Smith
Laureen Starkenberg
Margaret Ham Sturdivant
Julie Smith Taylor
Dawn Merritt Winstead
MSN
Jo Ann Harrelson Adams
Mary Capehart Hulbert
1 9 8 4
BSN
Anita Gaston Boland
Dorothy Peterson Burchall
Janet Peele Crumpler
Rebecca Atkins Dodson
Brenda Lovvorn Featherstone
Alice Cordel Griffin
Lisa Janelle Hedgepeth
Theresa Williams Kyle
Diane Fites Schifter
Janice Rainey Washington-
Fleming
Susan Tant Whitaker
Sandra Pierce Wilusz
MSN
Rosemary Cathleen Bootes
Sandra Hines Glantz
Laura Pole
Deanne Erickson Printon
Cynde Grace Putney
Susan Christman Sweeting
1 9 8 5
BSN
Pauline Van Haaren Bach
Linda Bertsch Barber
Catherine Elaine Bell
Gloria Monkoski Boudreau
Willa Jeanne Lee Brown
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Ann Faye Cox
Leslie Louise Davis
Heather Virginia Domville
Jennifer Faris-Bailer
Kay Sutton Hollowell
Mary Tuck Jones
Cynthia Cumbo Klaess
Julie Moorefield Knock
Ann Boggs Parker
Cynthia Stringer Shaw
Marianne Kankowski Spinola
Elizabeth Sawyer Webber
Jennifer Metsger Wetherby
MSN
Cynthia Darlyn Garrett
1 9 8 6
BSN
Daphne Lynn Bell
Rizza Hermosisima de la Guerra
Sandra Whittington Faw
Dana Whitener Froetschel
Denise Marie Hodson-Pronesti
Susan Louise Johnson
Frankie Watson Keen
Lea Bryant Lane
Regina Snyder Pearson
Anne Boduch Serody
Kimberly Ferguson Wiggins
Susan Ludeman Zarzar
MSN
Linda Garner Phillips
Pamela Linhart Sonney
1 9 8 7
BSN
Susan Powell Andrews
Karla Jean Brown
Constance Lee Carroll
Marion Harrison Dreifuss
Karen Susan Glass
Renee Hardy Hirniak
Carolyn Susan Huffman
Glenda Marett Jeffries
Lynda Williams Lewis
Janet Allen Marable
Tammy Reavis Marshall
Diana Nielsen Moore
Cheryl Richter
Maryanne Salerni
Teresa McDonald Shoup
Joanna Weathers Smothers
Annie Stukes
Vangela Royal Swofford
Allyson Perry Tetterton
MSN
Gale Adcock
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Claudia Cagle Hayes
1 9 8 8
BSN
Laurie G. Armstrong
Belinda Mills Bagan
Teresa Lynn Blackwell
Kristi Wright Chitwood
Millyn Kelley Gaaserud
Amy Elizabeth Hauser
Margaret A Moylan Marsden
Elaine Crosbie Matheson
Patricia O’Keefe Odell
Elizabeth Buchanan Paramore
Mary Mann Sappenfield
Joyce Breeden Smith
Melissa Baron Timm
Christine Mencini Waldrip
MSN
Stewart Michael Bond
Laura Tynes Gantt
Elizabeth Binder Gray
Amanda Lynn Greene
Nina Whitaker Hackney
Tresha Lawing Lucas
Mary Query Welch
1 9 8 9
BSN
Kelley Wayco Barney
Denise Ray Clark
Teresa Lynne Collins
Debra Hearn Freeman
Susan Kay Jordison-Jones
Sonia Benita Joyner
Terri Argabright Keller
Karen Lee McDonald
Karen Casey Packey
Anita Vann Royal
Alyshia Wood Smith
26 Fall/Winter 2016 Carolina Nursing 27
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Carolina Nursing 29
MSN
Celia Sayers Brinker
Mary Anne Callahan
Kristen Stott Camplin
Mary Elizabeth Haire
Brenda King Landau
Megan Bumgarner Manuel
Virginia A. McLean
Janette Leigh Stender
PhD
Ann Neighbours Jessup
DaiWai M. Olson
2 0 0 8
BSN
Christina Latricia Allen
Kathryn Marie Bauk
Jennifer Pothoven Dougherty
Amy Jensen Dunlap
Carla Rojas Fallas
Kendall Hager Hankins
Ella Vongai Madenyika
Avil H. Pulliam
Jessica Elizabeth Savidge
Karlin Haskins Talerico
Jenna Hobbs Wineka
Laura Badalamenti Xanders
MSN
Julie Elizabeth Bentley
Virginia Kay Chafin
Monica Christina Schmucker
PhD
Meg Zomorodi
2 0 0 9
BSN
Ashley Marley Davis
Tamryn Fowler Gray
Mary Trimigan Holmes
Heather Elizabeth Jackson
James Isaac Ludemann
Julie Teresa Mikus
Caryn Elizabeth Sayles
Adam Clark Smith
Kristen Pratt Wuescher
MSN
Cheryl Lynnette Giscombé
Courtney Allison Queen
Julianna P. Rhodes
Rattiya Amy Wongsarnpigoon
PhD
Natasha Greene
Susan Lynn Rasmussen
2 01 0
BSN
Jillian Suzanne Cannon
Bilach Hassan Diba
Heather Lavon Ferrell
Catherine Suitt Fournier
Cynthia Beth Hatch
Ethan James Hazelrigs
Anneka Geary Huegerich
Brian Harris Sealy
Richard Charles Stratton
Stephanie Paulus Yee
MSN
Kevin David Cox
Glenda Marett Jeffries
Melody Wong Warren
2 01 1
BSN
Michael Roy Barnes
Ashley Heath Capel
Anna Coil
Ludmila Fedarenka Crenshaw
Erika Stratton Garber
Megan Betsy Hayes
Francisco Bacatan Hilvano
Colleen Whitney Kensey
Amanda Ann Love
Samuel Mbugua Njenga
Virginia C. Purrington
Sara Anne Schumann
Aprylle Christina Thomas
Lara Elizabeth Whalley
Anna Ward Wilkins
MSN
Kathryn Marie Bauk
Catherine Ryan Hawley
Mary Elizabeth Mazer
Megan Ann Marie Myers
Heather Norden
Jessica Grantham Sparrow
PhD
Ashley Leak Bryant
Leslie Louise Davis
Nora Elizabeth Warshawsky
2 01 2
BSN
Sarah Annette Adcock
Alexandria Earnhardt Bearder
Joseph Michael Biddix
Destiny P. Breland
Heidi Nicole Brown
Claire Louise Hagerman
Rebekah Marie Hardin
Gigi Harrell
Jessica Brittain Helminen
Nathaly Infante Hill
Marie-Anne Sylvie Jean
Karen Schmitz Mendys
Rebeca Alejandra Moretto
Catherine Leigh Stang
Lisa Skiver Walsh
MSN
Kristin Renee Allison
Puspamala Ananthan
Sandra Krol Baker
Tamryn Fowler Gray
Leigh Grant Mullen
Barbara Maria Buerke Stephen
Diane Sue Tilley
Jessica Farmer Turner
PhD
Cynthia T. Bacon
Karen Elizabeth Jakub
Cheryl Ann Smith-Miller
2 01 3
BSN
Adrienne Gayle Himmelberg
Dana Lee Kleber
Suzann Elizabeth Riddle
Rachel Marie Stowe
MSN
Mary Trimigan Holmes
Cameron Leigh Mull
Tiffany Dianalee Yoder
2 01 4
BSN
Ashlyn M. Berry
Kelly O’Daniel Onyenwoke
Kula Marina Sackey
Steven Patrick Sump
Laura Katherine Wert
MSN
Renee Pouliot Bridges
Catherine Suitt Fournier
Sean T. Gallagher
Tiffany Maryl Young
FNP
Jean Hix McDonald
PhD
Carolyn Susan Huffman
2 01 5
BSN
Jemima Balintongog Boncales
Cheri Ann Distefano
Rachel Laine Erkes
Matthew Gibson Marvell
Sarah Jane Mauney
Mariah Elizabeth Normant
Jennifer Ashley Powell
Meredith-Scott Marie Powell
MSN
Lara Elizabeth Whalley
PMHNP
Tammy Denise Garcia
DNP
Jessica Grantham Sparrow
PhD
Britt Frisk Pados
2 01 6
BSN
Elizabeth Anne Ambler
Marriam Saddiqa Azam
Lauren Elizabeth Barkley
Faith Walker Bauer
Hannah Jayne Bivens
Ashley Morgan Brinkman
Jon Alan Catoe
Lekhoi Huynh Chau
Grace Sofia Cordoba
Leslie DeAnne Dail Creech
Mildred McGehee Dasher
Kathryn DeLeon
Emma Raquel Dollhopf
Katherine Virginia Dougherty
Gabrielle A. Dugal
Sara Belle Earle
Jake Christopher Edwards
Cheyenne Danielle English
Kathryn Claire Epling
John Joseph Escano
Kevin Christian Pineda Flores
Rebecca Ann Fontaine
Heather Nicole Freddoso
Yajun French
Heather Lynn Gill
Grace Ellen Haaland
Carolyn Abshire Hall
Haley B. Hamilton
Kristy Hansen
Miranda Leanne Harmon
Mary C. Heideman
Tori Shae Holmes
Jessica Leanne Kaat
Casey Morgan Kaufman
Christa Marie Lauffenburger
Diane Nicole Leadbetter
Leslie MacKeen
Anna Melton
Amelia N. Miles
Catherine Nevins
Mary H. Ort
Kenneth Odhiambo Ouma
Niveditha Palanivel
Vanessa Pang
Carrie Rebecca Parker
Caslin Ann Pavy
Gabriela Hilst Phillips
Marisol Rodriguez
Ashley Marie Roy
Emily Salo
Claire Elizabeth Scott
Kaitlyn Cassandra Shaw
Vanessa Ann Sillaman
Jean Strandberg
Kellum Tate Svendsen
Lauren Elise Swords
Kelly Rebecca Tan
Mario David Tobias
Brooklynne Olds Travis
Bailey Elizabeth White
Chloe Leona Winecoff
Jennifer Worley
Katherine Sara Zamora
MSN
Lori Prevatte Chrisco
Faculty, Staff and Former
Faculty
Kathryn R. Alden
Ruth Anderson
Beth Perry Black
Janet H. Blue
Audrey Joyce Booth
Ashley Leak Bryant
Linda R. Cronenwett
JoAnn B. Dalton
Diane Holditch Davis
Janna L. Dieckmann
Margery Duffey
Carol Lynn Fowler Durham
Laurice Ferris
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Beverly Brown Foster
Cynthia Mary Freund
Sandra Gail Funk
Jean Goeppinger
Cheryl Lynnette Giscombé
Donna Sullivan Havens
Norma L. Hawthorne
Patty Maynard Hill
Lauren Hipp Hundley
Ann Neighbours Jessup
Cheryl B. Jones
Kelly Carole Kirby
George Knafl
Kathleen A. Knafl
Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk
Mary R. Lynn
Deborah K. Mayer
Gail O’Sullivan Mazzocco
Margaret S. Miles
Amie Modigh
Katherine Anne Moore
Leigh Grant Mullen
Virginia Johnston Neelon
Barbara Ann Nettles-Carlson
Marilyn H. Oermann
Katisha Kent Paige
Mary H. Palmer
Susan Foley Pierce
Margarete Sandelowski
Mary E. Schuler
Todd Andrew Schwartz
Gwendolyn Dorminey Sherwood
Anita Star Tesh
Debbie Ann Travers
Marcia L. Van Riper
Wanda Eileen Wazenegger
Anne Aldridge Webb
Judith Webb
Meg Zomorodi
Corporations, Foundations
and Organizations
American Cancer Society — HQ
American Nurses Foundation
Camp Ground United Methodist
Church
Carl S. Swisher Foundation, Inc.
Children’s Medical Research
Institute
Christ the King Lutheran Church
First Quality Enterprises Inc — HQ
First United Methodist Church
of Cary
Jonas Center for Nursing
Excellence
Josiah Macy Jr Foundation
National Council of State Boards
of Nursing
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Rutherford College Realty LLC
Susan Flynn Oncology Nursing
Development Program
UNC Hospitals
War Heroes’ Initiative Fund of the
Community Foundation Serving
Richmond and Central Virginia
Well Care Home Health
Friends
John Clifton Adams
Samuel Dean Adams
Thellie Rupert Ainsley Jr.
Helen Keck Aldridge
James McMillan Allison
Christine Alston
Kenneth F. Anderson Jr.
Kenneth George Anderson
Melissa Kate Anderson
Thelma M. Anderson
Richard C. Andringa
Paul Harold Arne
Matthew Walker Arnold
Douglas Paul Arthurs
Todd Aaron Ashe
Nancy Charlene Astrike
George Ray Avant
Phyllis Kesler Avant
Robert Joseph Bach
Mark Donald Bacon
A. John Bailer
Steven Eugene Bailey
John Linley Baker
James Owen Barber
Edward Stanley Barclay Jr.
Margaret Allen Barclay
Timothy Eric Barker
James Albert Barnes III
John Allen Barr
Carol Basnight
Habib F. Bassil
Kathleen A. Bassil
J. Gary Batchelor
Robert P. Baucom
B. Cameron Bearder
Harold Grier Beaty
Laura Zikowitch Beaty
Bruce W. Beaven
Walter Joseph Beckwith
Patricia B. Berge
Donna Billings
James Gunter Billings
Kimberly Bivens
Mark Brantley Bivens
Lawrence Clinton Black Jr.
Richard Peters Blankenship
J. William Blue Jr.
M. Robert Blum
Paul Bolin Jr.
William Jennings Booth Jr.
Julia Ann Borbely-Brown
Linda Bourque
Cristiana Gresham Bray
Bradford Blaise Briner
Timothy Richard Brinker
Jeanne Herring Britt
Johnny Page Britt
Robert Dale Brock
Jean Johnson Brower
Andrew Blake Brown
Kevin T. Brown
Paul Dean Brown
Steven Edward Brueggeman
David Leigh Bruening
Karen Jean Bruggers
Donald Sigmon Buckley
Matthew Douglas Buehrle
John Gilbert Buie Jr.
James Burchall
Peter Burger
Clarence Harvey Burke
Elizabeth Burrows
Allan Charles Buss
Randy James Bye
Wesley Grimes Byerly III
John J. Byrne
Joseph Handel Callicott Jr.
Joanne Rita Campione
Matthew Douglas Camplin
Louis James Cardarella
Betty Moore Caruso
Deborah W. Carver
Marvin Jefferson Carver III
M Louise Caudle
Chad Eric Cecil
George Harris Chadwick III
Allison Inscoe Chandler
Dudley Carlyle Chandler III
John Preston Chandler
Evan Chapman
Robert B. Chen
David L. Chetwynd
Madge Revell Chetwynd
Debbie Rockenhauser Chused
Paul Leon Chused
Ann L. Clack
Norman K. Clack Jr.
Joseph Madison Clark II
Joseph P. Clark
Robert M. Clark
Lois Van Cleve
Brian Leslie Coatney
Anne W. Coffey
Andrew Cogdell
Joseph Lawrence Cole
Robert Joseph Coleman
Gretchen Slick Cooley
Jacob Alan Cooley
Jimmy Dean Cooley
Mary Carolyn Cooper
Hannah Lynn Corley
Margaret S. Covington
Dale Smith Cox
Robert Walter Creed
Theron Ritchie Crump
Paul Edward Crumpler
Charles William Darden
James Elijah Dasher
John Ballard Davenport
B. Joan Davis
Benjamin Franklin Davis Jr.
Georganna Davis
Kennie Tucker Davis
Mark Charles Davis
Richard S. Davis
Stephen Robert Dawson
Barbara Jean Degen
Janet Swiatocha Delatte
Michael William Delatte
Todd B. Delk
Mollie Hood DeWalt
Mark Wesley Dewhirst
Robert W. Dickey III
Ann Fountain Dill
Thomas Green Dill Sr.
Emily Distefano
Matthew Distefano
Donald R. Domm
Tim Donahue
Luning Dong
Michael Kevin Dougherty
Stephen Mark Doughton
James Inman Dunlap
Jack Delbridge Dunn
Patrick James Dyer
Susan J. Dyer
Martha Engelke
Stephen Engelke
L. Wood Farless
Joseph Nicholas Farrell III
Robert Jackson Faucette Jr.
G. Lynn Featherstone
Donald Burton Feldman
Rose Marie Fife
Kathryn Fort Fitzpatrick
J. J. David Fletcher
Jill F. Fletcher
John David Fletcher
Mildred Price Fletcher
Joseph E. Foley
Jim Leslie Foster
Jennifer Joan Foudy
John Patrick Foudy
Daniel L. Fox
Debra A. Fox
J. Thomas Fox Jr.
William Thomas Francis Jr.
Robert Aaron Frantz Jr.
Homa Jackson Freeman Jr.
Lloyd R. Freeman
Gary Stephen Fried
Matthew Roy Friedman
I. Allan From
Jeremy Randall Fry
Richard Meryl Frye
Monica Witterholt Fuller
Nancy Scott Fuller
W. Erwin Fuller Jr.
W. Scott Fuller
Gary William Fulton
Eric Jon Gaaserud
Susan Gallagher
Edward Carlton Garner
Carl T. George
Frank Byron Gibson Jr.
Sue Gainey Giles
Terry Scott Giles
John Christopher Glantz
George A. Glaubiger
Karen Eikenberry Glaubiger
Alan S. Glos
Robert Alan Golombik
Haywood Good
Linda Sipress Goodwin
Thomas C. Goodwin
Frank Joseph Gordon
Mark Lloyd Gordon
Don Avasco Grady
E. Dianne Greenhill
Mary Cameron Griffin
Richard L. Griffin
Joyce Johnson Griner
Lawrence J. Haber
David Lee Haire
Barney Conrad Hale
Angela Hall
John Samuel Hammett
Calli Gabrielle Hamrick
Cynthia Harless
David Alan Harless
Gigi Harrell
Janet C. Harrington
Thomas L. Harrington
David Gwyn Harrison
R. Woody Harrison Jr.
Charles M. Hart
Emily R. Hart
John Smith Hart
Phillip Wayne Hathcock
John Wick Havens Jr.
William Edward Hayes
Richard Louis Hayman
Sidney Alexander Head
William E. Hege IV
Juliana Herrera
Benjamin Wright Herrick
Gary Prevost Hill
Stephen M. Himmelberg
Linda Ann Compton Hodges
John Hodgin
G. Wyckliffe Hoffler
Cynthia P. Holley
R. Wayne Holliday
John R. Holt
John Rufus Holt
Joseph F. Holt
Judith Gisonna Holt
Mark Anderson Hord
Leonard Horne Jr.
Fred Lane Horton
James Allen Hotz
Bradley Howes
Patricia Hudgens
Kristen J. Huffman
Macon Edward Huffman
David Hulbert
Robert Miller Hundley III
Wilma H. Hunter
John Ambrose Hutcheson Jr.
Allie Albert Hutchison Sr.
Benne Cole Hutson
Michaela Maria Idhammar
Dennis Scott Ingersoll
Max Ivan Inman
Claude R. Ipock
Alex Robert Jeffcoat
Thomas Lee Jeffries
Bonnie M. Jennings
Darlene Elizabeth Jesse
Richard F. Jessup
Christine H. Johnson
Robert Latham Johnson
Sue Roberts Johnson
Thomas N.P. Johnson III
Bryan Randall Jones
Charles B. Jones Jr.
Christopher P. Jones
Marcia Scraper Jones
Marilyn Brownell Jones
Joseph Anthony Joyce
Joseph Harvey Jupiter
Steven George Justus
Scott Edward Kaczynski
Paul E. Keene
Ronald Darr Keiger
Margaret Keller
A. Bowman Kelly
Jeffrey Scott Kelly
Twila K. Kelly
William Dudley Kenerly
Stephen William Kenkel
Jessica Leigh Kesler
Samuel Alexander Kimel
Madonna A. Kindl
Cynthia McNeill King
David P. King
Douglas Scott King
Annie K. King-Gaines
Andrew W. Kinghorn
Kathryn Schanen Kissam
Maud Kissam
Allan Klein
Marilyn Klein
Franklin Paul Koonts
Reginald Clifton Koontz
Gary Robert Krieger
Janice Krivanek
Ramsay Kuo
Robert Lee Kuykendal
David Labiner
Christina Caruso LaFuria
Steven Jay Landau
Julian Walter Laney III
Robert Edmund Laport
Bruce Dean Larson
Gregg Alan Lauffenburger
Jeanna Ring Lauffenburger
William Gage Leadbitter
William David Lee Jr.
Fern D. Lefkowitz
Ivan Martin Lefkowitz
Vickie Lester
Harry LeVine III
Jonathan Keith Levine
June Canberry Levine
Clifford Thomas Lewis Jr.
William Bird Lewis III
Arthur Heath Light II
Kate Curtin Lindsey
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Edwin Alan Link
Ralph E. Locher
Deborah Yandle Lockler
Jacquelyn Logan
Diana Jones Long
James Monroe Long
Joe O’Neal Long
Woodrow Wilson Lowery Jr.
William Hamilton Lowry
Dana Cribb Lynch
Anne Mader
John Mader
Robert P. Majors Jr.
Karen Rives Mann
R. Tucker Mann
Wilson Fletcher Manuel
Russell Reid Margraf
Daniel Burrell Marshall
J. Ronald Martin
Jennifer G. Mason
Robert William Matthews
Thomas Joseph Mauro Jr.
Kenneth Nolan May Jr.
Michael Joseph Mayhew
Stephen Mazer
Richard Wray McBride
K. Franklin McCain
Jay Thornton McCamic
Michele M. McCarthy
Jennifer Richards McGowan
Diane L. McKay
James McLean
Andrew T. McMains
Mabel McNeill
Larry McPherson
Gary Mitchell Meckler
Philip Murray Mendys
Robert John Menhinick
Charles Henry Mercer Jr.
James A. Mergy
Alan H. Meyer
Pei Miao
Michael R. Mill
Kristijan George Minanov
Betty Minetola
Jim Minetola
John Thaddeus Monroe Jr.
L. Grayson Montgomery
Jennifer Joyce Moore
Jennifer Wiggins Moore
Steve Findley Moore
Christopher Morgan
H. Grady Morgan Jr.
James Hunter Morgan
Joel C. Morgan
Sonya Morgan
Heather Celeste Morton
Asa H. Mosher
Behrad Moshfegh
Leslie Carla Moshfegh
Steven John Mozolak
George W. Muldoon Jr.
Charles Francis Mullaly Jr.
Shawn Brian Munday
James Edward Murphy Jr.
John H. Murphy
Joel Muse Jr.
Brian Patrick Myers
Fairrell D. Myrick
Richard Lynn Nance
Francis Albert Neelon
Omar Jamil Newman
John Stanley Newsome
Harold Alfonzo Nichols
James Luther Nichols IV
Charles Nienow
Joan M. Noell
William Edward Noell
Thomas Lloyd Norris Jr.
Kathryn Bosworth North
Johanna H. Novis
Douglas E. Nuernberger
Sloan Crumley Nuernberger
Ted Gwyn Oakley
Tara O’Brien
Curtis R. Odem
Charles William Oehler
David Oermann
Cindy M. Olson
P. Richard Olson
Alison B. O’Reilly
T. Lane Ormand
Frank Delbridge Osborn
John Arthur Paar
Karen Lynn Paar
Marcia Davis Padgett
Michele A. Page
Robert E. Page Jr.
William Fredrick Palmer
Gary Stephen Parsons
Judy B. Parsons
Thomas G. Payne
Philip Soldier Pearson Jr.
Stephen K. Pearson
Robert Brantley Peck
Elizabeth Peel
Lucia Claire Peel
Dianna J. Pepe
Hiram Perkinson III
H. Christopher Perry
Mary Ann Rohrhurst Peter
Robert Hatton Peter
Kim E. Phelan
Julius Caesar Phillips Jr.
R. L. Phillips III
Peter Miller Pickens
Richard William Planer
Philip Wade Ponder
John Marshall Porter-Acee III
Whitney Anna Porter-Acee
Lucia H. Powe
Ashutosh Ashok Pradhan
Howard Charles Price
Robert Pringle
Gregory P. Pronesti
David Boyd Propert
R. Jermaine Pulliam
Nancy Gray Pyne
Matthew Rachleff
Charles James Ragland Jr.
Nancy Anne Ader Ragland
Ananthan S. Ramasamy
Leslie Hall Ramsey
Gregory Terrance Rasmussen
Manasada Ratanajittung
Bobby Carlyle Raynor
Elizabeth Bender Read
Wilton McLean Reavis Jr.
Holly S. Restel
Theodore Charles Restel
Elizabeth Chandler Rhines
Mark Nelson Rhines
Sara Lewis Rhoades
Marilyn Moore Riddle
Christine Louise Rife
Steven Williams Rigdon
D. Thomas Roberts Jr.
Shannon Page Roberts
Erin Tremper Robertson
Joe Sam Robinson Jr.
David Warren Rock
Joe Mark Rogers
Eliot Moore Rosen
Carol Morde Ross
Coleman DeVane Ross
James Henderson Rosser
Jeffery L. Royal
Lao Rubert
Gary Cole Ruppalt
Frank Sabiston Jr.
William Eugene Sanders Sr.
Lisa U. Sandman
Michael Gary Sandman
Patrick F. Saulino
Herbert Crane Saunders
Alison Whisnant Saville
Frederick Stevenson Saville
Stephen M. Schewel
Tobias Schifter
Leonard Schoenberg
Roberta Schoenberg
Robert William Schult
James Leroy Schultz
Rachel Ann Schwartz
Kathryn Elizabeth Scott
Eugene Daniel Secor
William Edward Self
Joyce Semradek
Jonathan Stuart Serody
Alexander V. Shalaurov
Irina Y. Shalaurov
Matthew Michael Shaw
Arthur Sherwood
Carl Michael Shy
Eve Shy
Katherine D. Skinner
Katherine M. Skinner
Michael J. Slattery
Howel William Slaughter Jr.
Caran Smith
Christopher Edmund Smith
Hermon Walter Smith III
Lee Barfield Smith
Melissa S. Smith
Michael Jay Smith
Miguel A. Smith
Monte Lloyd Smith
Frederick William Smothers
Ellen Joan Solomon
David Jonathan Solow
Benjamin F. Sottile
Susanne M. Sottile
Gregory Lee Southern
Allen Evan Spalt
David Avery Sparrow
Albert Thomas Spaw
Stanley M. Spinola
Michael Anderson Spittle
Byron Thomas Spooner
Jan Elizabeth Spooner
Richard Lawrence Sprott
Benjamin Clyde Staples
Melvie W. Stephens
Thomas Patrick Stephenson
Rodney Owen Stewart
Martin Ray Stout
Iva M. Stowe
Robert Theodore Stowe Jr.
Kimberly Prather Strazis
D. Braxton Strickland Jr.
Scott Douglas Surratt
Thor Owen Svendsen
James Clemons Swofford
Bruce Henry Swords
Diane L. Swords
Cindy Tarwater
Donald Tarwater
Stephen W. Theobald
Frances Ann Thompson
James Alfred Thompson
Monte Carroll Thompson
Rachel Thompson
Leonora Tubbs Tisdale
William Alfred Tisdale Jr.
G. Neal Titus Jr.
Carol E. Tobias
Arrel D. Toews
Kathleen Toews
Miles Everett Travis
Stephen John Tremont
Jim Trice
Patricia Broyhill Trice
Adam Max Tuchinsky
Janet L. Tysinger
Kees Trevor Van der Wege
Grant Bernard Varner Jr.
Brenda Jenkins Vasquez
Richard Bolling Vaughan III
Charles Timothy Vester
Levy G. Vidal
Richard J. Volz
Teresa J. Volz
Theodore Walter Wagner
Adair L. Waldenberg
Gregory Robert Waldrip
Julee Briscoe Waldrop
Tony Gerald Waldrop
Charles Edward Walsh
Lance Anthony Warren
W. Dale Warren
Bruce Warshawsky
Adeline Gracey Washington
Alan Wasserman
Gaye M. Watanasiriroch
Sitthisin Watanasiriroch
Harry Thomas Watkins Sr.
Pierce Eugene Watson
Susan Lynn Watts
Scott Weaver
Steven Alan Webber
H. Raymond Weeks Jr.
Christine M. Wehner
Bradley Kent Weisner
Barry McNeil Welborne
Richard Lee Welch
Carolyn L. Weller
Gary G. Weller
Harold S. Westerholm II
C. Timothy Wetherby
Robert Norton Whitaker Jr.
Roy Whitaker Jr.
Von Best Whitaker
Richard Johnston White
David Wiener
Leonard Barbee Wiggins
Robert Earl Wiggins Jr.
Ann Y. Williams
D. Robert Williams
David Robert Williams
John Colon Williams
Lawrence Lanier Williams
James Thomas Williford
Amanda G. F. Wilson
Anne Campbell Wilson
Daniel Culp Wilson
Franklin Wilson Jr.
John David Wilson Jr.
John David Wilson Sr.
Martha G. Wilson
Robert A. Wilson
Robert Gale Wilson Jr.
Samuel Have Wineka
Thomas Wintermeier
Victoria Wintermeier
Jeffrey Witte
Karen Witte
Amorn Wongsarnpigoon
Charles Richard Woodard
Leon Festus Woodruff Jr.
Bruce Wayne Wright
Ted Wright
James Frederick Wueste Jr.
George Laucks Xanders
Shu Xu
Michael Francis Yarborough
Sophia M. Yarborough
Myron William Yencha Jr.
Gerardo Zamora Jr.
Sara A. Zamora
Nicholas Saleh Zarzar
Donald N. Zehl
Susanne J. Zehl
Julia Qing Zhao
Shengli Zhao
Ali Reza Zomorodi
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In August 2016, the UNC School of Nursing introduced
the Well Care Home Health Leadership Scholars Program,
the result of an innovative new partnership with North
Carolina–based Well Care Home Health, a leader in health
care for in-home post-acute patients. Funded through
charitable contributions from Well Care Home Health, the
Scholars Program seeks to attract highly qualified master of
science in nursing students to the home health industry
through focused coursework and clinical experiences in the
home health field. Well Care Home Health Scholars will be
enrolled in UNC's Health Care Systems Clinical Nurse
Leaders graduate program, ranked #4 in the nation.
The program will fund scholarships for Well Care Home
Health Scholars annually, as well as provide oversight by
Associate Professor Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, CNL, who will
serve as the Well Care Faculty Scholar and liaison between the
two organizations to create unique learning experiences for
both home health providers and students. Well Care Scholars
will participate in an intensive interprofessional curriculum
designed to prepare them for team-based management and
for focused study into quality and process improvement in
the home health setting. Scholars will gain clinical experience
with Well Care Home Health and will participate in activities
and projects focused on home health care, leadership and
interprofessional collaboration.
“At a time when the home health industry is facing ever-increasing
demands and exceptional growth, this kind of
forward-thinking educational program is particularly needed
and welcomed,” said Zomorodi. “Well Care Home Health
Scholars will be uniquely positioned to utilize skills that are
much needed in today’s changing health care system. This is a
unique opportunity to partner with a top-tier home health
organization to prepare a workforce focused on delivering
quality care through care coordination and teamwork.”
“We are tremendously excited about this partnership with
Well Care Home Health, as it provides a new model for
immersive education that is as practical as it is innovative,” said
Donna Havens, PhD, RN, FAAN, interim dean of the School
of Nursing. “Our students gain on-the-ground experience and
training with a dedicated eye toward assessing system strengths
and areas for improvement. The genius of public-private
partnerships like this one is that not only do the two
institutions benefit, but patients in North Carolina are better
served by our joint expertise on their behalf. It’s a win-win-win.”
“Well Care is proud and excited to partner with the UNC
School of Nursing to found the Well Care Home Health
Leadership Scholars Program,” said Wayne Long, CEO of
Well Care Home Health. “This collaborative venture unites a
premier academic nursing program with a leading home health
provider in order to provide a truly unique and progressive
developmental experience for select nursing students. This
exclusive program seeks to identify high-performing and
motivated students to deliver highly specialized scholastic
experience along with real-world, practical experience that
enables accelerated career development opportunities in the
nursing profession. As home health and post-acute care
increasingly become larger and more important components of
the health ecosystem, Well Care is committed to driving
positive change and excellent patient outcomes.”
As part of the ongoing partnership, the UNC School of
Nursing will provide special education sessions for Well Care
Home Health staff each year.
UNCSON AND WELL CARE HOME
HEALTH JOIN TO CREATE UNIQUE
EDUCATION-PRACTICE
PARTNERSHIP
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Nursing teams up
with leading home health provider to
establish the Well Care Home Health
Leadership Scholars Program—a program
funded through gifts to the UNC School of
Nursing Foundation to prepare nurse
leaders for the home health industry.
people, pushing himself to do it even
when his body was resisting…he did not
let the setbacks he experienced steal his
joy.” Dhillon loved to perform magic
tricks, create complicated Lego
structures, race remote-controlled
vehicles and visit the beach on annual
trips with his family — collecting shells,
doing crafts, riding the waves and
blowing bubbles off the deck. While
living with his illness, he and his family
traveled to 10 countries.
Support from an informed
community outside the hospital was
important to Dhillon’s care. He enlisted
his grandmother to help explain his
“special heart” to friends, classmates and
new teachers at his Montessori school.
The two of them sat at the kitchen table
and developed a PowerPoint, then
collected a pulse oximeter and a model
heart for props. “We talked about what
he wanted me to say about his limitations
and what kind of understanding he
wanted from his classmates and teachers,”
Foster said. “We told them there are
visible disabilities you can see when
someone walks with a white cane or
sits in a
wheelchair,
but many
invisible
disabilities
can also leave
you with special
needs. Dhillon said it
would be helpful to him if
his classmates walked more slowly
when they changed classes so he could
keep up with them…and to know why
he couldn’t play soccer on a hot field or
throw a football for long periods of time.
He would be the scorekeeper.”
The goal of the Dhillon Jordan Shah
Innovation Fund for Congenital Heart
Disease is to stimulate the career path
development and lifelong interest of
health professionals in congenital
heart disease: prevention, patterns of
occurrence, assessment, treatment, family
and sibling resources and needs across the
continuum of care, and the growth and
development of the child into adulthood.
The need is great. Each year, as many
as 40,000 children are born with a heart
defect — eight out of every 1,000 infants.
More than
1.3 million
Americans
live with
some form of a
congenital heart
defect, and chronic
illness and disability
push the numbers even
higher: as many as 10–20 million. To
help meet the need, “Dhillon’s Gift” gives
preference to projects that represent
interprofessional efforts. “On one day
between morning and noon, I counted
17 different health professionals who
contributed to Dhillon’s care,” Foster
said. “There is a huge context involved
in illness, recovery and death — a whole
cadre of people — not just the person
in the bed.”
Those who would like to be part of Dhillon’s legacy
are invited to contribute to the Dhillon Jordan Shah
Innovation Fund for Congenital Heart Disease.
More information is available on the Facebook page,
“Dhillon’s Heart Journey.” Online gifts can be
made at giving.unc.edu or by check c/o Anne Webb,
School of Nursing, Carrington Hall, CB# 7460,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599. For more information,
contact Anne Webb, assistant dean of advancement
at (919) 966-4619 or aaldridge@email.unc.edu.
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Before Nora warshawsky earned her phD from the
UNCSoN in 2011, she was a multitasking full-time graduate
student who taught for four years in the classroom and clinic,
served as graduate student representative to the University,
pursued her own research, traveled to professional conferences
and cultivated an off-campus network of like-minded
colleagues.
It wasn’t easy, but warshawsky hopes to make it easier
on the next generation of nurse scholars by creating the M.
Vivian Baker Expendable Fund for Graduate Student Support.
Named in honor of warshawsky’s aunt, this gift provides
financial support for professional travel or research, quality
improvement and practice projects for doctoral students
matriculating in one of the health care system’s graduate
nursing programs.
“The Vivian Baker Fund hopes to seed research endeavors
that can inspire someone’s lifework,” said Katisha paige,
associate director of advancement and alumni affairs at the
UNC School of Nursing.
After she graduated from Carolina,
Nora warshawsky, phD, RN, CNE, joined the
University of Kentucky College of Nursing
as an assistant professor. She teaches health
systems courses in the Doctor of Nursing
practice (DNp)