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              Carolina Nursing 3
Fall 2013 Vol 13, No. 1
Inquire,
Innovate, Inspire
from the dean
Fall 2013
by the Graduate School, former
Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost Bruce W. Carney, and
former Chancellor Holden
Thorpe. Our School continues to
realize incredible administrative
support from Chancellor
Carol Folt and Executive Vice
Chancellor and Provost James
Dean. This year, they provided
the School with a budget that
enables recruitment of additional
tenure-line and clinical faculty to
help lead the DNP program.
Inquiry, Innovation, Inspiration
In this issue, we highlight faculty who exemplify our tradition
of inquiry, innovation, and inspiration. Some are seasoned
investigators and educators. Others are emerging experts.
What they all have in common is taking positive steps to
become part of the solution to transform health care and
achieve better health for more people at a lower cost.
We also celebrate donors who enthusiastically support
the School. A heartfelt debt of gratitude goes to Carol
and Coleman Ross, who created the Carol Morde Ross
Distinguished Professorship in Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nursing (see story on p. 22). The UNC-Chapel Hill
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program is
the only such graduate nursing program in the state of North
Carolina. Carol and Coleman’s gift is a much appreciated
investment in the future of the program and our School.
By educating students in an environment where inquiry is
encouraged, innovation is celebrated, and inspiration is abun-dant,
we aspire to develop nurse scholars and leaders who
will reshape the future of healthcare. The need for providers
ready to deliver safe, effective, affordable, and accessible care
is growing. Carolina Nurses stand ready to serve.
Sincerely,
Kristen M. Swanson, RN, PhD, FAAN
Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor
From the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends,
We are circling in a holding pattern where the air traffic
controllers are the Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
we all love to hate and the vessel attempting to land is a
jumbo jet labeled ‘the promised future of healthcare.’ The
Affordable Care Act is now the law. In early 2014, millions
of American families will be newly eligible for healthcare
(assuming the sign-up websites will cooperate!). What is
that promised future?
Since the early 2000s, the Institute of Medicine has rec-ommended
that the wants and needs of consumers must set
the bar for a new form of care that relies on continuous heal-ing
relationships with knowledge shared amongst patients,
their families, and their health care team. The next generation
of healthcare and health outcomes will be evidence-driven.
A fully deployed EHR system will increase our capacity to
better understand and manage population health through
“pooling” information across many individuals and exploring
how genetics, daily practices, medical treatments, lifestyle
changes, and environment impact health.
At the School of Nursing, we are looking at what it takes
to prepare health professionals to offer optimal health
care to society. Stewarding our legacy of being part of the
University of the People, we are proud to uphold Carolina’s
history of graduating nurses who bring scholarship and
leadership to practice, research, education, and health policy.
Last Spring, the UNC Board of Governors unanimously
voted to enable six NC state-supported schools of nursing
to establish programs of study leading to the Doctor of
Nursing Practice (DNP) degree. This decision increased
access to the most-advanced level of clinical education
available to North Carolina nurses. Through the tireless
and passionate work of Dr. Debra Barksdale, our newly
appointed DNP Program Director; Dr. Jennifer D’Auria,
MSN Program Director; Gwen Sherwood, Associate Dean
for Academic Programs; Kathy Moore, Assistant Dean
of Student Affairs; Dr. Deborah Mayer, DNP Executive
Committee Chair and many others, our DNP program
is now up and running. In August of 2013, we admitted
our first class of 14 masters-prepared nurses to our DNP
program. In August of 2014, BSN-prepared students
seeking to become advanced practice nurses or nurse
executives will have options to apply to programs of study
leading to either their MSN or DNP degree.
We have deeply appreciated the unwavering endorsement
of the importance of a clinical nursing doctorate offered
Dean Kristen M. Swanson
News
2 DNP welcomes inaugural class
4 School-based health center
brings high-quality accessible
care to Alamance County
5 Higher nurse-to-patient ratios
reveal mixed result on quality
of patient care
6 News Briefs
SON FOUNDATION
22 Ross Distinguished Professorship
to support psychiatric-mental
health nursing
24 New endowed scholarship honors Frances Emily Gilreath
25 Three new directors join the SON Foundation
26 Funding the future: Donors meet their scholars at annual alumni
award reception
Faculty News
26 Faculty appointments and accomplishments
26 Dr. Margaret Miller—beloved leader
Alumni
31 Alumni News
36 My Alumni Story
37 Class Notes
Fall 2013 Vol 13, No. 1
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.
Dean
Kristen M. Swanson, RN, PhD, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research
Kathleen Knafl, PhD, FAAN
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Gwen Sherwood, RN, PhD, FAAN
Associate Dean for Administrative
Services
Lisa Miller
Editor-in-Chief
Meagen Voss
Office of Advancement
Anne Webb, MPA, Assistant Dean
for Advancement
Meagen Voss, MS, Associate Director of
Communications and Public Relations
Katisha Paige, Associate Director of
Development and Alumni Affairs
Talat Qazi, Stewardship and Donor
Relations Administrator
Nancy Lamontagne,
Communications Liason
Images and Photography
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table of contents
Carolina Nursing 1
On the Cover: Associate Dean for Research
Kathleen Knafl and Dr. Coretta Jenerette
are two researchers whose inquiry leads
to better understanding of ways to
improve care.
7 global health
Featu res
8 Advancing practice through inquiry
10 Fostering innovative practice
12 Inspiring students to flourish
14 2012–2013 honor
roll of giving
On the first day of fall semester, the
SON welcomed its inaugural class of
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
students. The DNP program of study
will prepare graduates to fill critical
roles in an increasingly complex health
care environment in which people
need better access to primary care,
chronic illness management, and
preventative health services.
Until this year, there were no state-supported
colleges or universities
offering the DNP degree in North
Carolina. UNC-Chapel Hill and
five other state-supported schools
join Duke University and Gardner
Webb University in offering the
most-advanced level of
clinical education to North
Carolina nurses.
Advanced Clinical
Education
“The health of our nation relies on
the availability of a highly educated
nursing workforce,” says associate
professor Debra J. Barksdale, PhD,
RN, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, CNE,
FAANP, FAAN. She is the newly
appointed director of the DNP
program. “UNC-Chapel Hill will
educate nurses at the doctoral level
to practice collaboratively with other
care providers and offer care that
is accessible, affordable, and of the
highest caliber.”
DNP students can choose
preparation for direct care as nurse
practitioners or for leadership roles
as nurse executives. Along with three
years of coursework, students will
complete a capstone project in which
Nnews
DNP Program WELCOMES
INAUGURAL CLASS
2 Summer 2013
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Debra Barksdale Named
Director of the DNP Program
Dr. Debra Barksdale, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, CNE, FANP, FAN, has
agreed to serve as the inaugural DNP Program Director. Dr. Barksdale is a
nationally certified family and adult nurse practitioner. She has worked as an
FNP in urgent care, primary care, and home health care. Since joining the
SON in 2002, Dr. Barksdale has pursued innovative research on stress and
cardiovascular disease in Black Americans. She is also currently serving as
President of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and is
actively shaping national standards for DNP curricula as well as influencing
the roles DNPs will be expected to fill in health care.
“I am honored to be the first Director of the DNP program at UNC-Chapel
Hill,” says Dr. Barksdale. “Health care is rapidly changing, and nurses with the
DNP degree will be leading transformations in health care delivery and systems
of care by improving the quality, cost, and outcomes of care.”
they study new approaches to improve
care delivery or patient care outcomes.
“In addition to coursework and
clinical training in advanced nursing
practice, students in DNP programs
study population health, patient safety,
clinical leadership, and health policy,”
says Dean and Alumni Distinguished
Professor Kristen M. Swanson,
RN, PhD, FAAN. “This advanced
education enables nurses to serve as
leaders at the bedside, in the board
room, or in the legislature.”
Meeting Health
Care Challenges
According to the 2010 Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation/Institute of
Medicine report The Future of Nursing:
Leading Change, Advancing Health, it
is essential that nurses have access
to the highest level of education
that enables them to join physicians,
pharmacists and other health-care
providers in improving health care by
making it more accessible, affordable,
safer, culturally relevant, and patient/
family centered. Educating nurses
at the doctoral level is a vital step in
preparing a workforce ready to care
for the 32 million Americans who are
newly eligible for care through the
Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act. DNP-prepared nurses have
the knowledge and skills necessary to
provide primary care, partner with
other health professionals to manage
chronic illness, and to design, lead and
evaluate care delivery systems.
Following the recommendation
made by the American Association
of Colleges of Nursing, the DNP
program of study will replace masters
education as the appropriate level
of preparation for nurses to serve in
advanced-practice and administra-tive
roles. As admissions to the DNP
program increase, the SON will phase
out certain master’s options for nurses
seeking advanced-practice and ad-ministrative
roles. Currently enrolled
master’s students in these areas will
have the option to competitively apply
to the DNP program.
Excellent job prospects for DNP
graduates are likely. Between 2006 and
2010, an average of 90 percent of grad-uates
in the master’s program secured
employment within six to 12 months
of program completion. Approximate-ly
80 percent of the graduates were
employed in medically underserved
areas of North Carolina. Ninety-one
of its 100 counties are designated as
medically underserved areas.
Additional details concerning
the application process and admission
to the program are available on
the School of Nursing website at
nursing.unc.edu/dnp. 
News
The School of Nursing has partnered
with Piedmont Health, a nonprofit
federally qualified health center, and
the Alamance-Burlington School Sys-tem
to open a nurse-managed health
center in Alamance County. The
Sylvan Community Health Center,
located next to Sylvan Elementary
school in Snow Camp, NC, will make
it easier for students and members of
the community to access affordable,
high-quality care.
Residents of Snow Camp have few
local options for health care. More
than half of them also commute long
distances to work, which makes it
difficult to fit in health appointments.
“I’m a big believer in increasing access
to care for everybody,” says SON
Clinical Instructor Leslie Sharpe,
FNP. She is the center’s lead provider.
“We’re working to determine ways that
health centers located in schools can be
sustainable models for providing pri-mary
care to small, rural communities.”
Adria Shipp, PhD, former Manager
of School Health Programs at Pied-mont
Health, was one of the driving
forces behind the unique partnership
that led to the opening of the center.
When she was a fifth grade teacher at
Sylvan Elementary, a student grappling
with his father’s suicide inspired her to
obtain her doctorate degree and begin
a new role as a school counselor at
Sylvan. Working with former principal
Whitney Oakley, she began to brain-storm
other ways they could support
the students at Sylvan Elementary.
“What ultimately inspired us to
pursue a health center was the knowl-edge
that classroom performance is
tied to many factors in addition to
classroom istruction,” says Dr. Shipp.
“We needed community partners to
help us pursue a whole child approach
to education, and that included finding
a way to provide access to primary
care on campus.”
In collaboration with staff at Sylvan
Elementary, Dr. Shipp determined
the health care needs of students and
community members. Along with the
school system, she was successful in
obtaining federal funding from the
Health Resources and Services Ad-ministration
to renovate space for the
center. At the recommendation of the
Alamance Regional Medical Center,
she and other school system officials
asked Piedmont Health to operate
the center. With Piedmont Health on
board, the project received additional
financial support from the Kate B.
Reynolds Charitable Trust and the
NC Office of Rural Health and
Community Care.
“We are grateful and proud to
have the UNC School of Nursing
invited into this community-based
health center,” said Dean and Alumni
Distinguished Professor Kristen M.
Swanson, RN, PhD, FAAN. “I am
certain that the creative alliance be-tween
our organizations will become
a model program for delivering health
care that is truly community-focused,
evidence-based, and service-oriented.”
Dr. Shipp is already seeing that Ms.
Sharpe’s efforts to reach out to the
community are making a difference.
Dr. Shipp was standing outside the
school at dismissal time when a man
in the car line called her over and said,
“Have you been out to that health cen-ter?”
Dr. Shipp smiled and told him yes.
He said, “I’m a patient there. Those
are some good people in that health
center. I used to have to drive all the
way to Greensboro to go see someone.”
Dr. Shipp said hearing this testimonial
justified every ounce of effort that went
into opening the center. 
From left to right: Leslie Sharpe, FNP (SON), Dr. Adria Shipp, PhD, and Brittany Mann (Piedmont Health).
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Higher Nurse-To-Patient
Ratios Reveal Mixed ResultS
In 2004, California legislation increased
nurse-to-patient ratios, providing a rare
opportunity to examine how increasing
nurse staffing affects patient care and
hospital economics. A study from
the School of Nursing found that the
mandate had mixed results regarding
quality of care for patients. Sarah
Frances Russell Distinguished Professor
Barbara Mark, PhD, RN, FAAN, led
the study, which appeared in Health
Services Research.
Through prior research, Dr. Mark
found that after the legislation, wages
rose for nurses due to the demand for
more nursing staff. However, hospital
financial performance and charity care
decreased in some California hospitals.
“There is a measurable cost to the in-crease
in staffing,” Dr. Mark says. “Be-fore
implementing similar nurse staffing
requirements elsewhere, more studies
should examine the effects of mini-mum
nurse staffing requirements on
all aspects of patient care and whether
staffing increases are worth the cost.”
News
Dr. Barbara Mark
The new study compared quality of
care and staffing in California hospitals,
before and after implementation of the
legislation, with hospitals in 12 other
states without staffing legislation. Dr.
Mark and colleagues divided California
hospitals into four groups based on their
staffing levels prior to the legislation.
To measure the quality of patient
care between 2000 and 2006, they
analyzed data on patient deaths from
complications (known as failure to
rescue), infections due to medical care,
post-operative respiratory failure, and
post-operative infections.
After the mandate, California
hospitals, for the most part, increased
nurse-staffing levels significantly more
than hospitals in comparison states.
The study showed that, compared
to similar hospitals in 12 states
without staffing legislation, California
hospitals with the lowest and highest
pre-legislation staffing levels had
a significant decrease in failure to
rescue. Another group of hospitals,
with somewhat lower levels of pre-legislation
staffing than the best-staffed
hospitals, initially showed a statistically
significant increase in the number of
infections due to medical care. The
increase may reflect better detection
due to higher staffing levels. Yet the
increase was not significant at the
conclusion of the study. The analysis
revealed no significant changes in the
occurences of respiratory failure and
post-surgical infections for any of the
hospital groups.
“The study didn’t tell us the best
nurse-to-patient ratio,” Dr. Mark said.
“Patients vary widely in the amount
of care they need from nurses, and as
of yet we don’t have a way to quantify
that from the nursing point of view.”
At the School’s end of year celebration, facilities manager Sam Deal was awarded
both the Outstanding Staff of the Year Award and the H.O.P.E. (Helping Other
People Excel) Award. The H.O.P.E. award recognizes staff or faculty who help
to create a welcoming and inclusive environment in the school. Mr. Deal is the
first staff member in the history of the SON to be selected for both awards in
the same year.
Mr. Deal, who has served the SON for almost a decade, was honored for his positive attitude, his willingness to help,
and the many hours of hard work he has contributed to keeping the SON’s facilities running smoothly.
“Sam is a joy to be around,” says Lisa Miller, Associate Dean for administrative services. “He goes out of his way to help
people. He is very helpful and very caring.” 
Sam Deal Receives Two
Prestigious SON Awards
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news briefs
BSN Student Published
in Vaccine
After Group B Streptococcus (GBS) took
the life of her newborn son Keegan in 1989,
Gina Burns organized the GBS Association
along with other parents who had lost
children to the infection. Ms. Burns, who is
pursuing her BSN degree at the SON, has
published a review about the association’s
GBS advocacy in the journal Vaccine.
GBS is not typically harmful, but it
can be fatal to a newborn if the infection
spreads to the birth canal before a
woman gives birth. In the review, Ms.
Burns and her coauthor Jane Plumb,
who leads a British advocacy group
called Group B Strep Support, described
how the GBS Association assembled
a national medical advisory board and
developed guidelines to prevent the
infection. Due to their hard work, routine
GBS screening for all pregnant women
was adopted in the United States in 2002.
Screening has helped reduce early-onset
GBS cases, but Ms. Burns says
that infants will be at risk for late-onset
GBS until a vaccine is developed. The
association is collaborating with the
Maternal Immunization Working Group
created by the National Vaccine Advisory
Committee to determine barriers to
vaccine development and federal
opportunities to overcome these barriers.
Her 22 years of advocacy ultimately
inspired Ms. Burns to enroll at the SON.
“My work with GBS Association is a labor
of love,” says Ms. Burns. “My volunteer
efforts have helped me to make sense of
a preventable loss.
Two Bald Heads Are
Better Than One
For a second year, SON assistant profes-sor
Eric Hodges, PhD, FNP-BC, shaved
his head to raise money for child cancer
research. This year, Dr. Hodges faced the
electric razor alongside BSN student Ian
Urbaitis (pictured above). Their two-man
team, the Carolina Chrome Domes, raised
nearly $4,000.
SON Receives Award
for Charitable Giving
The School of Nursing received the
Davie Poplar Award for achieving 61%
participation in the 2012 Carolina Cares,
Carolina Shares charitable giving cam-paign.
The campaign is an annual effort
led by North Carolina state employees
to raise money for charity. The SON was
also recognized for raising nearly $17,000
and finishing among the top ten divisions
at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Honors Student Presents at
Campuswide Undergraduate
Research Forum
Honors student Devin Fohn presented
her research at UNC’s 14th Annual
Celebration of Undergraduate Research.
Her project, “Hippotherapy as a
Rehabilitation Method for Regaining
Ambulatory Function in Spinal Cord
Injury Patients,” focused on a form of
physical therapy that incorporates the
patient riding a horse. According to
Ms. Fohn, there is some evidence that a
horse’s steady gait can improve muscular
function in patients with neurological
disorders, such as cerebral palsy
After conducting a thorough literature
review, Ms. Fohn uncovered no current
research on using hippotherapy to
rehabilitate patients with spinal cord
injuries. She did find that many of the
reported physiological benefits of
this type of physical therapy, such as
improved coordination and strength
training, correlate with the treatment
needs for spinal cord injuries. Clinical
assistant professor Beth Lamanna, RN,
MPH, WHNP, was Ms. Fohn’s advisor for
her undergraduate honors project.
From Left to Right: Team Captains Eric Hodges,
Talat Qazi, Brett Coleman, and Group Leader Lica
Strasner. Not Pictured: Team Captain Kathy Lebbad
Keegan’s short life left me with a big
piece of work to do. I am doing this in his
memory and with my love.”
To read a copy of the review, see
http://go.unc.edu/Ly87G.
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Global health
SON Junior Awarded
Class of 1938 Travel
Fellowship
BSN student Leonora Tisdale was
awarded a $5,000 University-based
fellowship established by the Class of
1938 endowment. She spent part of her
summer volunteering at a health clinic
in Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxaca appealed
to Tisdale because she wanted a better
understanding of the cultural background
of her Spanish-speaking patients.
During a typical Oaxaca day, Tisdale
would check patients in, give vaccines,
and change wound dressings while
also educating patients and scheduling
appointments. Some days, she and her
colleagues would travel to the town
market to find mothers whose children
needed to be vaccinated and remind
them to come by the clinic.
What Tisdale found in Oaxaca was not
just ample opportunity to practice her
Spanish, but a society rich in deeply held
culinary traditions, music, and art. “I feel
like I have more of a sense of where many
of the folks who immigrate to North Caro-lina
are coming from,” she says. “They are
coming from rich cultural homes and now
I understand why many are interested in
eventually returning to Mexico.”
The SON and King’s
School of Nursing
Strengthen Their
Alliance
Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor
Kristen M. Swanson, PhD, RN, FAAN,
hosted a visit from Professor Helen
McCutcheon, RGN, RM, and the Head of
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing
and Midwifery at King’s College London
at the SON during the winter break.
After a tour of the SON, the two leaders
discussed ways to strengthen the global
alliance between their schools.
They continued their conversations
when Dean Swanson visited King’s Col-lege
London in July. In addition to con-tinuing
faculty exchanges, Dean Swanson
and Prof. McCutcheon explored other
possible collaborations, including student
exchanges and research collaborations.
Dean Swanson also presented the
keynote lecture at the inaugural research
conference hosted by the Florence Night-ingale
School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Her talk focused on how caring has the po-tential
to improve healthcare internation-ally
by transforming the culture in which
caregivers practice and students learn.
“It has been a pleasure welcoming
Kristen to King’s and we are delighted with
her excellent contribution to our research
conference,” said Prof. McCutcheon.
“King’s and UNC have a strong relation-ship
through an alliance that spans both
institutions, so it is great to be strengthen-ing
these ties through our schools.”
Dean Swanson was recently appointed
to Florence Nightingale School of
Nursing and Midwifery Scientific Advisory
Board for a period of three years.
Thank you to Kings Worldwide for
contributing to this story.
Cronenwett
Scholar Volunteers
in Kenya
Lisandro Hernandez, the 2013 Cronenwett
Scholar, traveled to Kenya this summer
to volunteer at the Carolina for Kibera
medical clinic. Hernandez, who is a BSN
student at the SON helped conduct medi-cal
home visits, administered care that the
clinic, and provided health advice to pa-tients
in the clinic’s new nutrition center.
A native of El Salvador, Hernandez has
nearly ten years of experience in health
care, four of which he spent working
to improve public health conditions in
El Salvador. During his time in Kibera,
he noticed health problems that were
similar to those he addressed in his home
country. Yet he was also aware of his role
as a volunteer, knowing that attempting
to “fix” these problems without cultural
sensitivity would inevitably lead to conflict.
“I wanted to offer what I know to the
Kiberans because I could empathize with
their living conditions,” says Hernandez.
“That’s something that I really love, to
share what I know with others, and to help
others with what I have.”
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Advancing
Practice
Through
Inquiry
SON researchers are providing
knowledge that can inform
interventions that improve the
lives of patients.
Cover Feature
The Family Impact of Chronic Disease
Frances Hill Fox Distinguished Professor Kathleen Knafl,
PhD, FAAN, has been advancing the field of family nursing
for decades. She is known for her contributions to the
development of the Family Management Style Framework
(FMSF), an evidence-based conceptualization of the family
response to chronic conditions.
The FSMF emerged from an early collaboration between
Drs. Knafl and Janet Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN, at Shriner’s
Children’s Hospital. Dr. Deatrick, who was director of
nursing research at the time, was asked to conduct research
that would provide the basis for family-centered care at
the hospital. Together, they launched studies of families’
needs during a child’s hospitalization, family preferences for
involvement in the child’s care, and family management of
the child’s condition following hospitalization.
“We focused on how families responded to a child’s
chronic illness,” says Dr. Knafl. “We wanted to identity
different patterns or styles of family response and examine
the relationship between the family’s pattern of response
and the child’s wellbeing. We thought understanding the
relationship between the pattern of family response and
child’s wellbeing was an important first step in interven-tion
development.”
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The FMSF led to the Family Management Measure
(FaMM), a questionnaire measure that Dr. Knafl and her
colleagues used to more precisely study the relationship
between family response and the child’s health outcomes.
In a recent investigation, they examined 575 parents of
children with diverse chronic conditions, such as type
1 diabetes or cystic fibrosis. Participants completed the
FaMM as well as additional questionnaires to determine
family functioning and child adaptation.
Based on the FaMM results, the investigators
determined the pattern of family management used to cope
with the child’s condition. For example, families identified
as having a Family Focused management pattern were
caring for the child’s condition effectively. Their lives did
not revolve around condition management. In contrast, for
families identified as Condition Focused, a great deal of
their everyday life was centered on the child’s special needs
and the treatment regimen.
Dr. Knafl and her colleagues found a relationship
between the management pattern and a family’s wellbeing.
Family functioning and child adaptation were significantly
better for families who were Family Focused or Somewhat
Family Focused versus families who were Condition
Focused or Somewhat Condition Focused.
Because of the relationship between condition manage-ment
and family functioning, the FaMM, could be a useful
tool in practice settings. Responses to the FaMM would
launch discussions with a family’s care team about strategies
that would lead to a better balance between family func-tionality
and caring for a child with a chronic illness.
Dr. Knafl is continuing her work by examining the inter-section
between childhood chronic conditions and family
life on a larger scale. She recently received a grant from the
National Institute of Nursing Research to synthesize the
findings of all available empirical research related to family
life and childhood chronic conditions. Cary C. Boshamer
Distinguished Professor Margarete Sandelowski, PhD,
FAAN, is the co-principal investigator for the study.
In addition to her faculty role as a distinguished professor,
Dr. Knafl is Associate Dean for nursing research at the SON.
She oversees the SON’s Office of Research Support and
Consultation, which offers researchers technical, scientific,
and editorial support for their grant proposals.
“Nursing has increasingly become research-focused, and
the sources of support for nursing research have expanded
considerably,” she says. “With a growing number of well-prepared
nurse researchers and a growing emphasis on
research in our educational programs, nursing research has
really come of age.”
Self-Care Strategies For Sickle Cell
Assistant professor Coretta Jenerette, PhD, RN, has built a
program of research around improving the lives of people
with sickle cell disease, a disorder in which a gene mutation
results in sickle-shaped red blood cells that can cause signif-icant
pain. It is the most common inherited blood disorder
in the United States, affecting 70,000-80,000 Americans.
When she was practicing as a staff nurse, Dr. Jenerette
noticed that patients with sickle cell disease were treated dif-ferently
than other patients who had similar pain symptoms.
At the peak of a sickle-cell crisis, how a person responds to
the pain can range from being severely withdrawn to out-wardly
suffering. Both states make it difficult for providers
to determine the patient’s needs.“If patients come in a little
earlier, perhaps they’ll be able to give a better medical history
and be perceived as more credible,” says Dr. Jenerette.
Seeing an opportunity to enhance care for individuals
living with sickle cell disease, Dr. Jenerette decided to
investigate self-care strategies that might improve their
health outcomes. In a pilot study aimed at decreasing health-related
stigma in young adults (18-35 years old) with sickle
cell disease, she focused on two things: 1) getting young
adults to the hospital sooner during a crisis and 2) teaching
them how to communicate better with their providers.
In the study, Dr. Jenerette taught participants to use a
communication technique called SBAR, which stands for
situation, background, assessment and recommendation.
Health-care providers use this standardized technique to
share patient care information with each other. Using SBAR,
a person with sickle cell disease can communicate health
needs using a strategy with which the provider is familiar.
Dr. Jenerette has seen positive results from the pilot
study and is now fine-tuning an intervention to improve
health outcomes for young adults with sickle cell. She is
conducting a similar study with teenagers living with sickle
cell disease and is also exploring the relationship between
sleep and pain in young adults with sickle cell disease.
“If the health care system can’t currently meet a patient’s
needs,” says Dr. Jenerette. “Then researchers and health
professionals need to help develop strategies that will leave
patients more satisfied with the health care system and lead
to better outcomes. That’s what I’m hoping to do with my
work on sickle cell disease.”
Dr. Coretta Jenerette (left) studies the impact of sickle-cell disease on patients’ sleep patterns. Dr. Kathleen Knafl (right) is Associate Dean for Research
and is a mentor for Dr. Jenerette and many other SON faculty.
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Reflecting on Safety
Associate Dean for academic affairs Gwen Sherwood, PhD,
RN, FAAN, has spent most of her career investigating issues
surrounding the safety and quality of nursing practice.
She developed a reflective practice approach to practice,
which helps nurses improve their work by considering their
experiences. “Reflective practice is thinking about a situa-tion
or something you’ve done in a meaningful and objec-tive
way,” says Dr. Sherwood. “Thinking about actions in a
systematic way can help uncover new perspectives.”
Reflective practice is important because in school, nurs-ing
students are taught ideal patient care, but in clinical
settings, they are often confronted with complex situations
that differ from the ideal or textbook scenario. Thinking
back to those situations and reflecting on them using an ob-jective,
structured approach, encourages ongoing learning
and growth throughout a nurse’s career.
Dr. Sherwood often gives workshops on reflective
practice, including an annual three-week intensive for health
care professionals from Thailand. She also recently published
Reflective Practice: Transforming Education and Improving
Outcomes as a practical guide for reflective practice.
Dr. Sherwood worked with former Dean Linda R.
Cronenwett as co-investigator and facilitator of the initial
Fostering
Innovative
Practice
Nurse leaders at the SON
provide innovative clinical
education that is preparing
the next generation of nurses
for practice.
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Associate Dean Gwen Sherwood’s (left) scholarship has worldwide
reach, and clinical associate professor Meg Zomorodi (right) is an emerg-ing
expert on end-of-life care.
phases of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
(QSEN) initiative, which is funded by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation. The Goal of QSEN is to better inte-grate
the Institute of Medicine’s quality and safety compe-tencies
into nursing education.
According to Dr. Sherwood, clinical procedures are
changing constantly, yet the model for instructing nurses
in clinical settings (one instructor or preceptor teaching
a small group of nursing students) has changed little in
decades. Strong dialogue between academic and clinical
partners could lead to curricula that ensure nursing students
are learning material that is relevant and meets current
data-driven safety practices. Such discussions are a critical
feature of QSEN.
The first four phases of the QSEN project, in which
leading nurse scholars developed and disseminated QSEN
competencies, were completed at the SON. The competen-cies
were successfully piloted at fifteen nursing schools. The
book Quality and Safety in Nursing: A Competency Approach to
Improving Outcomes, which was edited by Dr. Sherwood and
Jane Barnsteiner, PhD, FAAN, was named a 2012 Book of
the Year by the American Journal of Nursing.
Coordinating Communication,
Improving Care
Clinical associate professor Meg Zomorodi, PhD, CNL,
RN, often invites her students to speak up about potential
clinical problems and then consider how they can imple-ment
system-wide changes to prevent them.
The inspiration for Dr. Zomorodi’s own attempt to
change care practices came from personal experiences she
had as an intensive care unit nurse. The first patient she was
assigned to was dying. “I wasn’t sure what to do,” she says.
“I didn’t feel fully prepared to care for patients who are
reaching the end of their lives.”
Not long after she began practicing in an intensive
care unit, Dr. Zomorodi’s mother, also a nurse, was
admitted to the hospital after becoming terribly ill and
within three days, she died in an intensive care unit. “I
wasn’t acting as a nurse because she was my mom,” says
Dr. Zomorodi. “That perspective as a daughter made
me realize that as nurses, we could be doing more for
patients receiving end-of-life care and we could be doing
more for their families.”
Since that experience, Dr. Zomorodi has developed
a class on caring for patients who are dying and how to
interact with and keep their families informed. “As our
health system becomes more complex,” says Dr. Zomorodi.
“It’s important for nurses to develop skills to assist patients
and families as they transition through different stages of
care delivery.”
One role that has been developed to assist families when
moving through a complex healthcare system is the Clinical
Nurse Leader (CNL). Dr. Zomorodi believes that CNLs
are a logical choice for coordinating communication across
specialists, departments, and sometimes competing agen-das.
CNLs can also help keep patients and their families
informed, and they can assure the family’s wishes are taken
into account.
“The CNL role is all about care coordination, transi-tioning
care for patients, and optimizing their time in the
hospital so that they aren’t readmitted prematurely because
their at-home needs had not been taken into account,” says
Dr. Zomorodi.
Dr. Cheryl Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN, helped bring the
CNL program to Chapel Hill in 2005. Since the first CNL
student graduated in 2010, the program has doubled in
enrollment each year and currently has 13 students.
Dr. Zomorodi sees the CNL role as constantly evolv-ing.
For example, she thinks that CNLS could be help-ful
in community and population health settings, not just
acute care settings. She recently received funding from the
North Carolina Area Health Education Center to expand
the CNL role from acute care to community care. Students
in the CNL program will partner with Piedmont Health
Services to work with community leaders in care transi-tion.
They will develop educational materials, identify tools
to reduce readmissions to acute care facilities, and work
closely with preceptors to gain a deeper understanding of
community health practice.
“To be truly innovative, we have to think about where we
need to go as a profession,” says Dr. Zomorodi. “I believe
exposing our students to a variety of clinical experiences
and encouraging them to think about patients and their
families as a unit is one step towards improving quality and
safety in the healthcare system.”
Nursing in the Genomic Era
Professor Marcia Van Riper, PhD, RN, FAAN, has a
program of research that focuses on families experiencing
genetic testing or living with a genetic condition. She makes
a point of sharing what she has learned about these families
with her students.
Dr. Van Riper, PhD, RN, has studied how parents
respond to the challenges of raising of a child with Down
syndrome. She is also interested in other ethical aspects of
genetic testing. With a recent Fulbright award, she traveled
to Ireland to study how culture, interactions with health
care providers, and family factors influence adaptation and
resilience in families of people with Down syndrome.
“We all carry five to 50 significant genetic alterations,”
says Dr. Van Riper, chair of the Family Health Division at
the SON. “Students often think that negative consequences
are inevitable when a family member is diagnosed with a
genetic disorder. So they are surprised to learn that many
families living with genetic disorders are resilient and some
actually thrive.”
In her course on family-centered genomic health care,
Dr. Van Riper challenges students to think about how
people with genetic disorders and their families adapt to
living with a genetic disorder. Students conduct a semester-
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Inspiring
Students to
Flourish
SON educators encourage
students to think about the
broader picture of health care,
to challenge their preconceptions,
and to hone the knowledge they
will bring to the bedside.
“Even in the classroom, I feel that
the relationship between students
and faculty is reciprocal,” says
Ms. Woodley. “I learn just as
much from them as they do from
me, and that reciprocity makes
the learning environment engag-ing,
interactive, and fun.”
Knowing the students’ names
makes Ms. Woodley more attuned
to their needs. When she sees
confused looks, she addresses students directly and asks
if they need help. Such attention keeps students on alert
knowing she can call on them to answer a question at any
point during the class.
Detailed lesson plans are key as well. Much of Ms.
Woodley’s effort outside of the classroom goes towards stay-ing
on top of evidence and studying new practice protocols.
Plus, she believes that keeping abreast of the rapid changes
in clinical technology is critical for nurse educators.
“Lisa is extremely articulate and well-read,” says Dr. Van
Riper, Chair of the Family Health Division. “Her ability to
make complex information understandable is remarkable.
She is passionate about her work and very willing to
share her vast expertise with others. Her dedication and
enthusiasm for the students she works with is contagious
and admirable. Ms. Woodley is an exceptional role model,
mentor, and advocate for her students and colleagues. It is
obvious that she wants both her students and her colleagues
to succeed.”
Ms. Woodley’s teaching philosophy ultimately revolves
around the human elements of practice. “Nursing is the art
and science of caring,” says Ms. Woodley. “I share stories
from my practice. I make sure to share things I’ve done
poorly, along with things I’ve done well. By sharing
personal experiences, including mistakes, I’m trying to model
the reality of nursing practice. I want students to know that
they can trust me with their experiences, and that they can
ask questions or ask for help if they need it. I want them to
know that I’m their safe zone, and they can bring anything
to me.”
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long family and genetics group
project. Each group focuses on
a family with a specific genetic
disorder. They assess “their”
family using the Resiliency Model
of Family Stress, Adjustment,
and Adaptation as a guiding
framework. Using this framework
helps students to examine a
variety of family factors that may
influence how well a family adapts
to the ongoing challenges associated with living with a
genetic disorder. Factors they examine include how family
members view their situation, what resources they have access
to, and how well family members communicate with each
other. Based on their assessment, the students then identify
family-specific interventions that can be used to promote
adaptation and resilience.
The project culminates with poster presentations at the
annual Nursing in the Genomic Era Conference organized
by Dr. Van Riper. At the conference, students also hear
presentations by experts as well as first-person accounts
from speakers living with a genetic disorder.
“The families I work with in my research have been
some of my best teachers, and they have motivated me
to pass that knowledge on to my students,” says Dr. Van
Riper. “I’ve seen a big change in how students respond to
individuals with genetic conditions because of what they
have learned in class.”
Teaching the
Art and Science of Caring
Clinical assistant professor Lisa Woodley, RN, was recently
recognized for her inspirational teaching with the UNC-Chapel
Hill Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching. She has also received 17 Educational Excellence
awards from the SON. Her success in the classroom reflects
years of focusing on the quality of the content covered as
well as the quality of her relationships with students.
Even though Ms. Woodley’s classes range from 50-100
students, she is committed to learning each student’s name.
BSN Students Amber Fesel (left) and Jesutofunmi Mabo (right) work
together on an exercise during a small-group work session in
Dr. Frances Hill Fox Auditorium.
Dr. Marcia Van Riper Ms. Lisa Woodley
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1968
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1969
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Wendelin Jones McBride
Rebecca Dewees Olson
Louise Badham Peele
Sara Rollins Ramsey
Celeste Ann Roberson-Smith
Carolyn Triplett Robinson
Laura McLeod Sorrell
Brenda Gail Summers
Patsy Schupper Theobald
Diane Carol Wilson
Kathryn Payne Wueste
MSN
Frankie Duncan Brock
Margaret Begler Bryan
Laureen Sue Froimson
Margaret Riggan Light
Betty Ann Taylor
Anita Wanthouse Virgilio
Rebecca Story Wilson
1975
BSN
Jean Gail Allen
Marye Cornelia Barden
Catherine Crane Bouboulis
Preston Noe Comeaux III
Judith Hendricks Furr
Ann Cox Hutchins
Peggy Cabe Kuppers
Sharon Caston McDow
Louise Shook Nezelek
Gaynelle Bass Nichols
Evelyn Rose Paul
Diane Marie Shaffer
Reid Tatum
MSN
Betty Jean Haddock
Betsy Mickey McDowell
Jacqueline Jones McKinney
Susan Foley Pierce
1976
BSN
Frances Mervin Andringa
Bonita Craft Aycock
Elizabeth McKinney Bailey
Debra Huffman Brandon
Kathi Roberts Byrne
Deborah Sarita Cathcart
Carolyn Miller Cerco
Mary Redfearn Creed
Charlene Caulkins Eason
Patti Barnes Farless
Mary Lou Caviness Faucette
Dorothy DeWitt Fiddleman
Deborah Webb Frye
Marsha Newton Golombik
Rachael Brugh Holmes
Sue Baker Isaac
Pamela Ellis Jameson
Christine Earle Jones
Marcia Kastan Kaufman
Janis Hackney Labiner
Jimmie Drennan McCamic
Sue Shivar Morrow
Linda Garner Phillips
Diane Phillips Smith
Mary Victorine Spainhour
Joyce McKeon Wynia
MSN
Elizabeth Margaret Carr
Linda Cade Haber
Sue Greenwood Head
Gwendolyn Hightower
Waddell-Schultz
Diane Carol Wilson
1977
BSN
Susan G. Baker
George Washington Butcher III
Patricia Packard Conner
Denise Taylor Darden
Lynn Harris Davis
Johanna Ruth Dewees
Iona Fox Graham
Linda Allen Hammett
Elaine Merchant Jeffcoat
Linda Sherman Kimel
Melissa Ann D. LeVine
Susan Perry Lineberry
Scarlott Kimball Mueller
Yvonne Boies Nicopoulos
Susan Gatlin O’Dell
David Roger Shoemaker
Mabeth Vanessa Smith
Lynn Peacock Spaw
MSN
Susan Waldrop Donckers
Emily Scovil Eklund
Patricia Ann Merwin
Margaret M. Miller
Patty Sue Sanders
Diane Gracy Vester
1978
BSN
Nancy Jane Ashe
Margaret Phelps Dow
Deborah Smith Ellis
Deborah Gardner Emmons
Elizabeth Simpson Friedman
Rachel Harper Fulp
Jane King Fulton
Barbara Sessoms Gillmer
Elizabeth Sheely Godkin
LaDonna Washington Howell
Mary Capehart Hulbert
Anne Marie Jones-Sutton
Mona Brown Ketner
Jane Ranson Little
Sara V. Mayhew
Betty Womble Michal
Katherine Anne Moore
John Slate Oldham
Caswell Smith Patmore
Jeannie Godley Rigdon
Mala Denise Sherrill
Sally Mozelle Taylor
Kay Lambert Walker
MSN
Juliet McGuire Beckwith
Harriet Walker Buss
Brenda Marion Nevidjon
P. Kay Wagoner
1979
BSN
Cheryl Banks Batchelor
Sally A. Bulla
Syvil Summers Burke
Miriam Owen Chitty
Brenda Wallace Cumpston
Sally Kaye Dove
Sandra Sleeman Franklin
Mary Ann Yenc Gaster
Millicent Hecht Hair
Janice Joyce Hoffman
Kina Walker Jones
Marissa Fieselman Laster
Jennifer Elesha Manning
Vandy Bass Matthews
Cindy Andes Nance
Kathryn King Perkinson
Jean Cotten Schnaak
Barbara Ann Senich
Sharon Tate Taylor
Marianne Bab Vidal
Deborah Cecil Watson
Sharon Marlowe Weynand
Charles Herman Wray Jr.
MSN
Debra Gaddy Cohen
Polly Denefield Spears
1980
BSN
Lee Bennett Bailey
Rebecca Hall Brooks
Laura McGeachy Brown
Terri Cameron Capps
Linda Rebecca Causey
Doris McFadyen Fritts
Wanda Dennis Glenn
Melody Slaughter Heffline
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Carolina Nursing 17
Leslie Carolyn Hicks
Susan Page Kane
Sherry Jean Kelly
Donna Winston Laney
Francine Lavent
Margaret Berg Mullinix
Elisabeth Scott Murphy
Arlene Murray
Kay Overcash-Jenkins
Sue Cook Peacock
Elizabeth Norwood Peele
Sandra Durham Pulliam
Donna Renfrow Rutala
Carolyn Cook Spalding
Katherine Patterson Tommerdahl
Lida Westbrook Wachel
Beverly Lynn Wagner
Elizabeth Ellis Watts
Barbara Langan Wefing
Alma Kay Bullock Woolard
MSN
Sandra Bradley Baden
Lynn Grier Coleman
Kathryn Phillips King
Jean Marie Raue Larson
Janet Cheyfitz Meckler
Angel Mariano Vasquez
1981
BSN
Katherine Yamin Benevides
Beth Perry Black
Linda Prior Bolin
Dorothy Lynn Cage
Beth Herring Chadwick
Deborah Groves Chaffee-Harding
Jennifer Eisenmenger Charlton
Susan Adams Doughton
Lelia Cornatzer Gray
Lucy Ligon Heffelfinger
Diane Carol Hudson-Barr
Martha Hennessy Hutson
Phyllis Dew Justus
Pamela Kay Lowrance
Cheryl Jean Marcus
Monica Miller Muldoon
Nora Ellen Raynor
Jennifer Castelloe Riker
Kendace Felgar Sanders
E. Anne Shortliffe
Andrew Franklin Shotwell Jr.
Kathyrn McKelvey Smith
Donna Christie Snead-Bruce
Annette Rountree Thompson
MSN
Debra Huffman Brandon
Mary Ann Carr
Linda B. Ellington
Melissa Ann D. LeVine
Marilee Schmelzer
Elizabeth Brooks Spangle
Brenda Gail Summers
1982
BSN
Tamara Hinson Barker
Josie Allen Bowman
Paula Goetz Bruening
Laurie Elmore Cain
Julia Stout Dyer
Sharon Speer Gentry
Jill Bridgette Hamilton
Reena Grigg Hathcock
Frances Morgan Irby
Andrea Mickle Irwin
Kathy Lynne Joyce
Leslie Ellis Kieffer
Constance Farleigh Lanier
Carol Fraser Myers
Pamela Davis Rock
Ann Elgin Van Meter Rudeen
Mary Gray Gilchrist Sachtjen
Joan Von Lehmden Senter
Nancy Gambrell Sullivan
Debra Farlow Surratt
Laura Liebert Weisner
Diane Wendelken-Johnston
Glenda Sue Wooten
MSN
Mary Lober Aquilino
Carol Lynn Fowler Durham
Josephine Altieri Glos
Janet Dunnwald Lageson
1983
BSN
Mary Neilson Bishop
Anderson Fisher Black
Pamela Ramsey Bonacci
Michelle Bowie Brooks
Melanie Gayle Bunn
Mary Maddrey Chandler
Charlene Jackson Dunlap
Beth Robinson Francis
Alma Marie Holley
Leigh Beck Kuhnly
Jana Green Newsome
Dawn Nicholson Palmer
Annette Ivey Peery
Deborah Lewis Reiman
Christy Morton Secor
Laureen Starkenberg
Margaret Ham Sturdivant
Julie Smith Taylor
Carlie Arthur Testerman
MSN
Laura McGeachy Brown
Mary Capehart Hulbert
Brigid Mary Riordan
1984
BSN
Wendy Byrd Buchanan
Dorothy Peterson Burchall
Eleanor Mangano Cioffi
Janet Peele Crumpler
Rebecca Atkins Dodson
Brenda Lovvorn Featherstone
Diane Ely Littlefield
Judy Putnam McLendon
Tamara Harrison Murphy
Diane Fites Schifter
Brenda Rourke Singer
Cynthia Tipton Wilson
MSN
Josie Allen Bowman
Sandra Hines Glantz
Laura Pole
Susan Christman Sweeting
Diana Jean Walker-Moyer
1985
BSN
Linda Bertsch Barber
Catherine Elaine Bell
Gloria Monkoski Boudreau
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Janet Ruth Cutler
Leslie Louise Davis
Lisa Gentry Duncan
Linda Brown Esposito
Jennifer Faris-Bailer
Pamela Watts Garty
Madonna Mason Goodwin
Dana Hull Hickman
Mercer Tucker Issermoyer
Mary Tuck Jones
Cynthia Cumbo Klaess
Julie Moorefield Knock
Johanna Norman
Ann Boggs Parker
Heather Domville Scarff
Cynthia Stringer Shaw
Marianne Kankowski Spinola
Elizabeth Sawyer Webber
Jennifer Metsger Wetherby
MSN
Diane Clark Meador
1986
BSN
Karen Godfrey Burke
Rizza Hermosisima de la Guerra
Sandra Whittington Faw
Jane A. Frye
Dawn Marie Garcia
Robin Tate Harper
Tessa Colville Kankelfritz
Kimberly Crickmore Osborne
Regina Snyder Pearson
Kena Blackwelder Sigman
Kathryn Kramer Watts
Kimberly Ferguson Wiggins
MSN
Susan Beaty Hamner
Linda Garner Phillips
1987
BSN
Jennifer Byrd Borton
Vonda Mendenhall Brown
Constance Lee Carroll
Renee Hardy Hirniak
Carolyn Susan Huffman
Wendy Williard Jenkins
Lynda Williams Lewis
Janet Allen Marable
Devon Draffen Plumer
Maryanne Salerni
Jon Edward Seskevich
Teresa McDonald Shoup
Annie Stukes
Allyson Perry Tetterton
Susan Lorraine Williams
MSN
Gale Brown Adcock
Deborah Kaye Betts
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Claudia Cagle Hayes
Elizabeth Ackerson Hudson
Sherrie Bragg Lessans
1988
BSN
Robin Sharp Caddell
Kristi Wright Chitwood
Joyce Breeden Johnson
Kendra Argo Kruse
Margaret A Moylan Marsden
Elaine Crosbie Matheson
Teresa Blackwell Myers
Patricia O’Keefe Odell
Elizabeth Buchanan Paramore
Debra McMehan Parker
Mary Mann Sappenfield
S. Mary Ann Tormey
Christine Mencini Waldrip
Elizabeth Parker Wright
MSN
Stewart Michael Bond
Nina Whitaker Hackney
Mary Query Welch
1989
BSN
Kelley Wayco Barney
Robert Franklin Jessup
Susan Jordison Jones
Sonia Benita Joyner
Terri Argabright Keller
Karen Lee McDonald
Karen Casey Packey
Anita Vann Royal
Alyshia Wood Smith
Kathleen Tyler
MSN
Katherine Yamin Benevides
Leslie Louise Davis
Jill Bridgette Hamilton
1990
BSN
Mary Elizabeth Brewer
Sharon Hollifield Bryan
Sharon Anne Cullinan
John Andrew Davis
Richmond Lee Griner II
Carolyn Stewart McCurry
Dia Del Paggio Roberts
Stephanie Roach Thacker
Amy Smith Turner
MSN
Beth Perry Black
Katherine Anne Moore
Nailah Amal Siddique
Barbara Lee Trapp-Moen
Melody Ann Watral
Elizabeth McManus Watson
1991
BSN
Derek Clarkston Chrisco
Lori Prevatte Chrisco
Colleen McLaughlin Gove
Michele Gamble Manion
Sherrie Page Najarian
Amanda Sue Rebbert
Dorothy Mae Taylor
MSN
Jennifer Byrd Borton
Diane Ely Littlefield
1992
BSN
Elizabeth Thomas Ashe
Kathleen Rush Boykin
Sheri Brisson Brosnahan
Carlye Lorraine Carr
Cheryl Moseley Conway
Veronica Strasser Douglas
Kristi Leigh Dreyer
Stephanie Stephens Jernigan
Michele Foster Lewis
Rhonda Michelle Messer
Linda Lauber Shaffer
Shonda Michele Stacey
MSN
Sally Walter Gillooly
Katherine Sawyer Mann
Maxine Crawley Marretta
Donna Kriegbaum Weber
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1993
BSN
Pamela Wells Akhter
Deborah Brown Ballard
Pamela Proctor Criscitiello
Sherry Caprice Goodin
Susan Dupree Hines
Bobbie Jo Lee
Michelle Simoneau Mill
Frank Douglas Moore
Michelle Porter Parker
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Karen Louise Schachner
Susan Ann Shafer
MSN
Robin Foell Johns
1994
BSN
Mary McNeill Bowers
Kimberly Baynes Bowman
Linda Sue Hale
Joan Steiniger Lucas
Sandra Thompson McCormick
Cheryl Wasserman Powers
Cherie Ann Smith-Miller
MSN
Karen Hogan Cabaniss
Carlye Lorraine Carr
Mary Kathleen T Helak
Ann Neighbours Jessup
Joanne Mary Kuszaj
Barbara Ellen McGurgan
Deborah Scheele Minanov
Susanne Smith Newton
Kim Walker Ratledge
Jean Ann Smith
Valerie Ann Stafford-Fox
Barbara Louise Wise
PhD
Audrey Elaine Nelson
1995
BSN
Virginia Alexander Barnes
Jessica Stewart Brueggeman
Jayne Roberts Byrd
Shelby Collins Dunivant
Barbara Mialik Fisher
Barbara Ann Gordon
Michelle Snyder Gruver
Mary Edel Holtschneider
Melba Hefelfinger Jordan
Susan King-Zeller
Vicki Ferrell Lewis
Maria Lisa Lockwood
Carol Voigt Marriott
Amanda Kier Nichols
Colleen Rodite Wessler
MSN
Sandra Rose Hoffman
Margaret Berg Mullinix
Susan Gatlin O’Dell
Donna Suzanne Odem
PhD
Mary Jean Thorson
1996
BSN
Sheri Lyn Favenyesi
Elizabeth Langford Hall
John Richard Hanlon
Melissa House Nichols
Faith Junghahn Shaw
Beth Perry Stanfield
Tara Henley Stewart
Marie Elizabeth Stockstill
Amy Lauren Talbert
Deborah Fox Wright
MSN
Cindy Duke Compeggie
Sharon Anne Cullinan
Ann Leichtle Hart
Carolyn Susan Huffman
Sue Ann Campbell Jatko
Marlene Stone Yates
PhD
Esther Mae Tesh
1997
BSN
Kathleen Cheney Broyles
Jason Noel Driggers
Mildred James Driggers
Kimberly Cox Dunn
Virginia Baity Ervin
Rachel Beth Heller
Gayle Haviland Ipock
Karen Fink Kissel
Karen Dellinger Leadbitter
Kelly Michele Margraf
Delores Ann Price
Julie Michelle Schneider
Amy Hausman Thomure
Deborah Kerens Wagner
MSN
Linda Morgan Allen
Bonita Craft Aycock
Jill Causby Barbour
Bobbie Jo Lee
Dia Del Paggio Roberts
PhD
Barbara Jean Speck
1998
BSN
Jennifer C. Ferguson
Melanie Berthel Good
Betty Jean Green
Lisa Swencki Haik
Crystal Yarbrough Horton
Kathryn Coulter Jones
James Alton McGowan III
Laura Calamos Nasir
Ann Robertson
Travis Knott Treat
Tiffany Krajicek Yelverton
MSN
Kathleen Rush Boykin
Sujuan Cai
Charlotte Clark McNeill
Cindy Thrower Surrett
1999
BSN
Christy C. Arrowood
Danielle Nicole Koonce Cecil
Amie Billings Ehrman
Dana Batey Etheridge
Amy Giles Howard
Tana Black Jenkins
Linda MacMorran McElveen
Kimberly Orwoll Oliver
Georgia Hamilton Patterson
Jennifer Sanford Tuchinsky
Stephanie Walker Vann
Susanne Relfe Winslow
MSN
Jenny Leong Abernathy
Deborah Brown Ballard
Frances Anderson Ballard
Kathy Baluha
Jayne Roberts Byrd
Rhonda Michelle Messer
Frank Douglas Moore
Paul Lewis Moore
April Griffin Thomas
Lora Dishman Wentz
PhD
Susan Gale Sherman
Julie Smith Taylor
2000
BSN
Allison Lipe Abate
Sandra Krol Baker
Nancy Rowe Cameron
Kathryn Pinder Hannah
Roulhac Clark Johnson
Andria Sessoms Kokoszka
Megan Sarah Randall
MSN
Anna Catherine Alston
Patricia S. Ashland
Elizabeth Langford Hall
PhD
Debra Huffman Brandon
2001
BSN
Cheryl Sunderhaus Briner
Angela Marie Capone
Noelle Dorsey Davenport
Ashley Bolin Gardner
Walter George Jones Jr.
Adam Darrell Kokoszka
Brandi Hamlin Newman
Julie Denise Reynolds
Amy Call Spittle
Meg Zomorodi
MSN
Mildred James Driggers
Linda Sue Hale
Karen Dellinger Leadbitter
Heather Thompson Mackey
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Gregory Alphonzia Simpson
PhD
Jill Bridgette Hamilton
2002
BSN
Amy Davis Bell
Kristen Stott Camplin
Tonya White Ezzelle
Jennifer Todd Farrell
Katie Lethanel Gwynn
Laura Kathryn Hart
Leslie Collins Hege
Ann Warren Hussey
Megan Bumgarner Manuel
Benjamin J. Roberts
Alicia Siam Sechrist
Sebastian Christopher White
MSN
Christopher R. Berge
Laura Calamos Nasir
Beth Perry Stanfield
Irene Powell Strickland
PhD
Donald Etheridge Bailey Jr.
Cydney King Mullen
2003
BSN
Susan Elmore Davey
Jona Martino Fitzgerald
Toni Watt Fortner
Sean T. Gallagher
Terri Sue Giles
Lovella Sarona Hailey
Cathy Howard Long
Lisa Clemmer Nachbar
Lilian Atieno Omburo
Monica Sanchez
Ann Marie Lee Walton
Julie Christine Warren
MSN
Robin Lynn Gusmann
Kandice Leigh Jones
Angela Jean Keene
Peketa H. Long
Deane E. Schweinsberg
Sarah Sidiqi
PhD
Robin Bartlett
2004
BSN
Lindsey Renee Clayton
Marla Kasper Clemente
Rebecca Jean Hall
Eunchong Young Krum
Meghan Buie Markman
Seanna Poulsen Morgan
Laurie Hudson Powers
Monica Lowe Przybylek
Kimberly Ann Schnitzler
Sandra Lynn West
MSN
Cheryl Lynn Elliott
Aubrey McBryde
Brandi Hamlin Newman
PhD
Patricia Flannery Pearce
2005
BSN
Tanya Faye Bush
Timothy L. Chilton
Jilleon Formanczyk Inman
Amy Lawler Munday
Anne McPherson Pringle
Jennifer Lynn Warber
MSN
Amy Davis Bell
Teresa A. Gaston
Lori L. Ingle
Kimberly Orwoll Oliver
Megan Sarah Randall
Sebastian Christopher White
PhD
Beth Perry Black
2006
BSN
Chelsea Marie Armitage
Jennifer Lagasca Barrett
Kathryn Berrien
Gretchen E. Everson
Elizabeth Heier Hopewell
Christopher Derek Miller
Lauren Rebecca Moore
Kay Nelson
Melanie Ann Pitts
Cristina Pace Searcy
Jennifer Lynn Simpson
Gretchen Umberger Steelman
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Carolina Nursing 19
Erin Wheeler Whitaker
PhD
Stewart Michael Bond
2007
BSN
Lessley Merklein Harwell
Ehrin M. Irvin
Lydia Michelle Mayes
Mary Winstead McKeithan
Marquita DeEonka Wallace
Melody Wong Warren
Jennifer Brice Williams
Ann Plonk Wilson
MSN
Kristen Stott Camplin
D. Nicki Gatton-Kendrick
Megan Bumgarner Manuel
Jennifer L. Schmitz
Janette Leigh Stender
Hongling Xia
PhD
Ann Neighbours Jessup
2008
BSN
Christina Latricia Allen
Amanda Claire Bandy
Lesley-Anne Bandy
Kathryn Marie Bauk
Holly Anne Broadbent-Horvat
Bonnie Frances Corbin
Jennifer Marie Cullip
Jennifer Pothoven Dougherty
Deirdre Brett Fraller
Kendall Hager Hankins
Ella Vongai Madenyika
Alexis Martinez-Suarez
Darci Distefano McClary
Megan DeBell McManus
Catherine Michelle Sechrest
Jennifer Meyer Tauber
Christina Maria Torres
Jenna Hobbs Wineka
Lindsey Hill Wooten
Laura Badalamenti Xanders
MSN
Sylvia Foster Hicks
Monica Christina Schmucker
PhD
Meg Zomorodi
2009
BSN
Lindsey Megan Carpenter
Liling Chen
Julia Billotte Cowden
Ashley Marley Davis
Stephanie Elizabeth Fountain
Carrie Anne Lavallee
Kathryn Kamphaus Malarkey
Kathryn Ellen Menzel
Julie Teresa Mikus
Alphonsus C. Nwafor
Daraya Pawapootanont
Ivy Lea Settlemires
Kellie Beth Shobe
Adam Clark Smith
MSN
Rebecca Jean Hall
PhD
Susan Lynn Rasmussen
Denise Jean Spector
2010
BSN
Miriam Ruth Chicurel
Sydney Stafford Cooke
Heather Lavon Ferrell
Michelle M. Gardner
Anneka Geary Huegerich
Trevor Patrick Jordan
Angela Denise Little
Emily Elizabeth McCamy
Patricia Ann McElroy
Jennifer Jayson McGowen
Kimberly Christine Podrazik
Jessica Henderson Shore
Catherine Lea Suitt
Caroline McArthur Tedder
Erin Taylor Wallace
Anna Hamm Winslow
MSN
Kevin David Cox
Katie Lethanel Gwynn
Tanya Elizabeth Moore
Melody Wong Warren
2011
BSN
Brittany Lauren Barker
Michael Roy Barnes
Kristin Lyn Bonstingl
Terri L. Dorn
Nicole Ashley Frazer
Michael David Galligan
Erica Nowak
Virginia C. Purrington
Kara Elise Timmons
Lara Elizabeth Whalley
MSN
Gregory Thomas Anderson
Dawn Barnard Bartoc
Kathryn Marie Bauk
Heather Lea Carroll
Tabatha Long Horner
Mary Elizabeth Mazer
Heather Norden
Jennifer Lynn Simpson
Jessica Grantham Sparrow
PhD
Leslie Louise Davis
Ashley Nicole Leak
2012
BSN
Amanda Rae Brown
Alexandria Catherine Earnhardt
Dorothy Akofa Freeman
Timothy Hunter
Karen Schmitz Mendys
Jane Wanjiru Njenga
Randall Scott Pollard
Virginia Seay Russell
MSN
Sandra Krol Baker
Lindsay Katherine Buchert
Deirdre Brett Fraller
Kimberly Rae Lawrence
Candace McInnis Moore
Karen Schramm Saylor
Jessica Farmer Turner
Erin Wheeler Whitaker
PhD
Cheryl A. Smith Miller
2013
BSN
Kellie Anne Archer
Sarah Elizabeth Ayers
Hannah Alexis Boatright
Lydda DeGuia
Milana Dezube
Bentley Grey Fisher
Devin Christel Fohn
Stacy Lynn Forrester
Lauren Elizabeth Georges
Graziele dos Santos Vile Hansen
Patrick Andrew Harrison
Claire-Elisa Anne Hartman
Sheena Thompson Hilton
Tyler Franklin Horne
Jennie Jeune
David Nathaniel Johnson
Inneke Miesha Johnson
Kathryn Lane Johnston
Rebecca Ashley Kabatchnick
Sarah Abigail Kaminer
Anna Pauline Kanoy
Michele Ann Kennedy
Dana Lee Kleber
Kelsey Margaret Knight
Kayla Ann Mccommons
Ashley Marie Miller
Lakisha Shavell Morgan
Courtney Megan O’Connor
Ashley Nicole Pack
Winona Elizabeth Poulton
Morgan Marissa Price
Lance Edward Ramsey
Karley Elizabeth Saffer
Taylor Christine Schmidt
Micah Shizue Alika Seifert
Luis Serpa
Steven Joseph Seta
Rebecca Shaw
Christine Uy Smith
Stephen Michael Wesner Jr.
Alison Nicole Young
MSN
Lindsey Megan Carpenter
Megan DeBell McManus
Faculty, Staff, and
Emeritus Faculty
G. Rumay Alexander
Anna Beeber
Linda S. Beeber
Beth Perry Black
Janet H. Blue
Linda R. Cronenwett
Nancy Crowell
JoAnn B. Dalton
Jennifer Pierska D’Auria
Margery Duffey
Carol Lynn Fowler Durham
Karen B. Hearne
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Beverly Brown Foster
Sandra Gail Funk
Jill Bridgette Hamilton
Joanne Summey Harrell
Donna S. Havens
Norma Hawthorne
Patty Maynard Hill
Sandra Rose Hoffman
Coretta Jenerette
Ann Neighbours Jessup
Cheryl B. Jones
George Knafl
Kathleen A. Knafl
Vicki Kowlowitz
Beth Fallers Lamanna
Vickie Lester
Deborah K. Mayer
Gail O’Sullivan Mazzocco
Lisa H. Miller
Margaret M. Miller
Merle H. Mishel
Katherine Anne Moore
Laura Calamos Nasir
Virginia J. Neelon
Barbara Ann Nettles-Carlson
Marilyn H. Oermann
Sonda M. Oppewal
Julianne Bilyeu Page
Mary H. Palmer
Susan Foley Pierce
Pamela Johnson Rowsey
Margarete Sandelowski
Gwendolyn Dorminey Sherwood
Victoria Soltis-Jarrett
Mi-Kyung Song
Kristen Marie Swanson
Theresa Swift-Scanlan
Suzanne Thoyre
Marcia L. Van Riper
Anne Aldridge Webb
SeonAe Yeo
Meg Zomorodi
Corporations,
Foundations and
Organizations
Beth Hines and Associates LLC
Carl S Swisher Foundation
Center for Creative Leadership
Holcim (US) Inc.
Home Care of the Carolinas
IntraHealth International
Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence
Justgive
Martin Brothers Equipment Co Inc
McKesson Foundation
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
National Council State Boards of
Nursing
Network for Good
PGX Strategies LLC
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Rutherford College Realty LLC
The Doctors Company Foundation
The Geneva Foundation
The Rita and Alex Hillman
Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation
Friends
James Kenneth Adams III
Helen Keck Aldridge
David Bruce Anderson
Kenneth F. Anderson Jr.
Kenneth George Anderson
Melissa Kate Anderson
Charles Leander Andrews Jr.
William Joseph Anseaume
Steven A. Aquilino
Todd Aaron Ashe
George Ray Avant
Phyllis Kesler Avant
Elizabeth A. Ayers
A. John Bailer
Steven Eugene Bailey
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Callie Bailey-Hester
Daniel Wayne Ballard
Rodney Buck Ballard
G. Bryant Barber
James Owen Barber
James Albert Barnes III
Michael Lynn Barringer
J. Gary Batchelor
Elizabeth Bauk
Michael Stephan Bauk
Donald John Bergamo
David Michael Bishop
Lawrence Clinton Black Jr.
J. William Blue Jr.
M. Robert Blum
Brantley Cleveland Booe Jr.
Bradford Blaise Briner
Jean Johnson Brower
Daniel Elmer Brown
H. David Bruton
E. C. Bryson Jr.
Charles Henry Buchanan Jr.
Matthew Douglas Buehrle
John Gilbert Buie Jr.
Clarence Harvey Burke
Joseph Ros Burns
Patricia Strauss Burns
Frances A. Bush
Kenneth Alfred Byrd
John J. Byrne
Richard Earl Caddy Jr.
Charles Alton Campbell
Matthew Douglas Camplin
J. Douglas Caston
Chad Eric Cecil
George Harris Chadwick III
Allison Inscoe Chandler
Dudley Carlyle Chandler III
John Preston Chandler
Clark Hanes Charlton
Robert B. Chen
Evangeline Hinson Clark
Franklin St Clair Clark
Robert Burns Clark Jr.
Brian Leslie Coatney
Anne W. Coffey
Andrew Cogdell
Keith Eric Collier
Joseph Irwin Converse Jr.
Sue Folger Converse
Jimmy Dean Cooley
Sally McDonald Covington
Dale Smith Cox
Robert Coyle
Vicki Coyle
Robert Walter Creed
John Lewis Crouse
Nancy Crowell
Theron Ritchie Crump
Paul Edward Crumpler
Marshall Emory Daniel Jr.
Charles William Darden
John Ballard Davenport
Bette Davis Davis
Diane Holditch Davis
Mark Charles Davis
Richard S. Davis
Barbara Jean Degen
Mollie Hood DeWalt
Mark Wesley Dewhirst
Ann Fountain Dill
Thomas Green Dill Sr.
Sally Ann Distell
Noel Dunivant
James Inman Dunlap
Jack Delbridge Dunn
James Millard Eason Jr.
Margaret Whisenhunt Ehle
Robert Starnes Ehle
L. Wood Farless
Employee GIVING PROGRAM
HELPS ALUMNA SUPPORT
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Jona Martino Fitzgerald, ’03, is a proud Carolina nurse who
began her philanthropy for the School of Nursing while
she was still an undergraduate. She and her classmates sold
t-shirts, held fundraisers, and made personal contributions
to generate an unprecedented $10,000 for the BSN Class
of 2003 scholarship. After graduation, many continued to
make annual contributions to keep the class fund going.
Ms. Fitzgerald, who was one of the gift organizers as a senior, continues to
support the scholarship through the Givingworks program set up by her employer,
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. Many companies allow employees to
give to organizations via payroll deduction. Some even match the gift, increasing
the overall impact while offering convenience. “Payroll deduction makes it very
easy to give,” Fitzgerald says. “It also seems less painful to my pocketbook to give
every pay period.”
The BSN Class of 2003 scholarship has continued to thrive and has already
supported six Carolina Nurses. This scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate
student who excels in the areas of academics, leadership, and community service.
For this close-knit, hard-working group, helping students thrive is an exciting
legacy. “We were like a big family,” Fitzgerald remarks. “I wouldn’t be who I am
without the program.” 
Friends (cont.)
2012–2013 Honor Roll of Giving
The School is fortunate that
employers like Blue Cross
Blue Shield of North Carolina
make it easy for employees
to donate to causes they
love. To see if your employer
offers a matching option visit
http://matchinggifts.com/unc.
To explore ways to give back
to the School of Nursing,
please contact Katisha Paige
in the SON Advancement
Office at Katisha_Paige@
unc.edu or (919) 966-4619.
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Mary Merritt Farmer
G. Lynn Featherstone
Sandra Hudson Felix
Nancy Ferguson
J. Hugh Fletcher
J. J. David Fletcher
John David Fletcher
Katherine Elizabeth Fletcher
Mildred Price Fletcher
Joseph E. Foley
James Earl Ford
John Patrick Foudy
J. Thomas Fox Jr.
Homa Jackson Freeman Jr.
Gary Stephen Fried
Monica Witterholt Fuller
Nancy Scott Fuller
W. Erwin Fuller Jr.
W. Scott Fuller
Stephen Lewis Gardiner
Laura Shoffner Garrett
Elaine Littlejohn Gennett
J. Frank Gilreath Jr.
John Christopher Glantz
George A. Glaubiger
Karen Eikenberry Glaubiger
Mark Dwight Glenn
Robert Alan Golombik
John Henry Gray Jr.
Beverly Allen Greene
Mary Cameron Griffin
A.D. (Zander) Guy
Lawrence J. Haber
Beverly Jones Hafer
Bram Christopher Hall
Christine Dyott Hall
James Samuel Hall
Marshall Bowes Hamill
Keith Hamilton
Rosalie Hamilton
John Samuel Hammett
Mark Benjamin Hamner
Patrick Edward Hannon Jr.
Cynthia Harless
David Alan Harless
James Robinson Harper Jr.
Gigi Harrell
Scott Harrell
Thomas L. Harrington
R. Woody Harrison Jr.
Cynthia Hasspacher
Phillip Wayne Hathcock
Richard Louis Hayman
William E. Hege IV
Frank Heinsohn Jr.
Timothy J. Herrmann
Ronald Hess
Andrew Winston Hester
Gary Prevost Hill
Gregg Alan Hill
Jo Ellen Hill
Douglas Albert Hodgson
Scottie Hogg
Jamie Line Hollowell
Eleanor R. Holt
John Rufus Holt
Mary Holt
Macon Edward Huffman
C. David Hulbert
John Ambrose Hutcheson Jr.
Lincoln T. Jayson
Alex Robert Jeffcoat
Catherine Hill Jenkins
John Milton Jenkins Jr.
Julia Thomas Jenkins
Christine H. Johnson
Sue Roberts Johnson
Steven George Justus
Ronald Darr Keiger
William Dudley Kenerly
Casondra L. Kilgore
J. Thomas Kilgore
Samuel Alexander Kimel
Cynthia McNeill King
David P. King
Douglas Scott King
Katherine Kisslo
Kristin Bochicco Klebanov
Leon Boris Klebanov
Robert Lee Kuykendal
David Labiner
Bruce Dean Larson
Marc Byron Laster
Ronald Lawrence
William David Lee Jr.
Ivan Martin Lefkowitz
Clifford Thomas Lewis Jr.
William Bird Lewis III
Arthur Heath Light II
Sophia P. Livas
Stephen G. Lobb
William Lord London IV
Diana Jones Long
James Monroe Long
Joe O’Neal Long
Maureen Looby
Robert O. Lunn
Diane Parker Mann
Julian Mann III
Wilson Fletcher Manuel
Russell Reid Margraf
Edward Lamar Martin Jr.
J. Ronald Martin
R. Jason Martin
Shannon Schneider Martin
Jennifer G. Mason
Robert William Matthews
Michael Joseph Mayhew
Victor Eugene Mazzocco
Jay Thornton McCamic
William H. McCormick III
Michael L. McCurry
Larry Stephen McDevitt
Jennifer Richards McGowan
Eva Daneke McLanahan
Paul William McLanahan
Philip Murray Mendys
Robert John Menhinick
Charles Henry Mercer Jr.
Michael R. Mill
Grady L. Miller
Wilma M. Miller
Jim Minetola
John A. Moen
James Hunter Morgan
Lisa M. Morgan
Stephen B. Morgan
Fred G. Morrison Jr.
Asa H. Mosher
Shawn Brian Munday
Brian Patrick Myers
Richard Lynn Nance
Ben Lindsey Neal
John Stanley Newsome
Harold Alfonzo Nichols
William Edward Noell
Thomas Lloyd Norris Jr.
Kathryn Bosworth North
W. Thomas Norwood Jr.
Douglas E. Nuernberger
Sloan Crumley Nuernberger
Jacquelyn Logan Ogburn
P. Richard Olson
Marcia Davis Padgett
Michele A. Page
Robert E. Page Jr.
Henry Edward Parfitt Jr.
Philip Soldier Pearson Jr.
Robert Brantley Peck
Anna Nicole Perez
H. Christopher Perry
Mary Ann Rohrhurst Peter
Julius Caesar Phillips Jr.
Peter Miller Pickens
Michael Robert Plumer
Justin Poe
Philip Wade Ponder
John Marshall Porter-Acee III
Howard Charles Price
John Craig Quick
Diane Blake Racey
Leslie Hall Ramsey
Gregory Terrance Rasmussen
Bobby Carlyle Raynor
James Thomas Raynor
Nancy L. Raynor
Elizabeth Bender Read
Joseph F. Read
Ruth T. Read
Wilton McLean Reavis Jr.
Ann C. Reis
Edward B. Rettig
Elizabeth Rhines
Mark Rhines
Sara Lewis Rhoades
D. Thomas Roberts Jr.
Shannon Page Roberts
Justin Dale Robertson
Eric Rosand
Sarah Rosand
Carol Morde Ross
Coleman DeVane Ross
William Anthony Rutala
William Eugene Sanders Sr.
Stephen Terry Savitz
Tobias Schifter
Eric Michael Schmidt
Sandra Willa Schoenfisch
Robert William Schult
James Leroy Schultz
Todd Andrew Schwartz
William Edward Self
Matthew Michael Shaw
Richard Edmund Shore III
Naomi Priscilla Slifkin
Caran Smith
Charles Holman Smith
Christopher Edmund Smith
Melissa S. Smith
Monte Lloyd Smith
Karen Whisnant Spangler
Kevin Martin Spangler
David Avery Sparrow
Albert Thomas Spaw
Neil Lee Spector
Charlene L. Sperger
Thomas E. Sperger
Michael Anderson Spittle
Richard Lawrence Sprott
Kevin John Stanfield
Joseph Stanton
Pamela Stanton
Benjamin Clyde Staples
Thomas Patrick Stephenson
Ingrid Clay Stogner
Robert Theodore Stowe Jr.
Ellen Ragan Strong
George Vaughn Strong
Sara Clancy Sturm
Warren Wolf Sturm
Arles Allen Taylor Jr.
Bobby Gene Taylor
Jesse Ireland Taylor Jr.
Kenneth Taylor III
William Howard Taylor
James Alfred Thompson
Monte Carroll Thompson
Frances Ann Thompson
Virginia Nelson Tinnell
Leonora Tubbs Tisdale
Arrel D. Toews
Adam Max Tuchinsky
Grant Bernard Varner Jr.
Lawrence Virgilio
Theodore Walter Wagner
Gregory Robert Waldrip
Daniel Murray Lee Walker
Lance Anthony Warren
W. Dale Warren
Gaye M. Watanasiriroch
Sitthisin Watanasiriroch
Harry Thomas Watkins Sr.
Robert Bowman Watts
Susan Lynn Watts
H. Raymond Weeks Jr.
Elmer Jesse Weems
Agnes Binder Weisiger
Olivia Smith Welsh
Harold S. Westerholm II
C. Timothy Wetherby
David Bryan Weynand
Susan Irvin Whisnant
Roy Whitaker Jr.
Von Best Whitaker
Frances Lena White
Leonard Barbee Wiggins
Julia D. Williams
Lawrence Lanier Williams
Anne Campbell Wilson
John David Wilson Sr.
Amanda G.F. Wilson
John David Wilson Jr.
Martha G. Wilson
Robert A. Wilson
Daniel Culp Wilson
Samuel Have Wineka
Thomas Wintermeier
Victoria Wintermeier
Jeffrey Witte
Karen Witte
Jarrett Lane Wood
Daniel Worth Wright Jr.
Ted Wright
Jia-Rong Wu
Carole Wilson Wynn
Herbert Joseph Wynn
Michael Frisby Yelverton
Marco Zarate
Susan Zarate
Donald N. Zehl
Susanne J. Zehl
Ali Reza Zomorodi
Friends (cont.)
2012–2013 Honor Roll of Giving
22 Fall 2013
SON Foundation News
Carol Ross never intended to be a nurse when she trans-ferred
from Mary Washington College to The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962. That sentiment
may seem odd coming from an advanced practice nurse
(APRN) who dedicated decades of her life to alleviating
the suffering associated with psychiatric illness and mental
health challenges. Yet her journey from a UNC religion
major (UNC ’64) to an APRN, along with the example of
her mother’s career in nursing, ultimately led Carol and
her husband Coleman Ross (UNC ’65) to create the Carol
Morde Ross Distinguished Professorship in Psychiatric-
Mental Health Nursing.
As a young mother with three sons, Carol quickly
realized the value of becoming a nurse. While living in
Tampa, Florida, Carol returned to school at Hillsborough
Community College and earned her associate of science
degree in nursing. Yet even when she was completing that
degree in 1976, she never imagined working in mental
health. “When I was in nursing school, the one thing I was
not going to do was psychiatric nursing,” says Carol, MA,
APRN, PMHCNS-BC. “I was just terrified of it.”
Carol’s first nursing position was at a nursing home in
Connecticut, where as head nurse she was responsible for
the care of sixty patients. Over time, she came to realize
that she particularly enjoyed spending one-on-one time
with patients, but found it very difficult to do with her
administrative responsibilities.
Making A Difference
In 1985, Carol returned to school for a third time, this time
to earn her master’s degree in Counseling from St. Joseph’s
College in Hartford, CT. Not long after graduating in
1988, she realized her practice could be further enhanced
by becoming certified as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
in adult psychiatric-mental health and obtaining her Drug
Enforcement Administration license. She then started a
private practice that would last for eighteen years. “I loved
working in mental health,” said Carol. “I realized the power
of the therapeutic relationship. I felt that I could really
make a difference in someone’s life now that I had enough
time to work with them.”
A desire to care for her ailing mother brought Carol and
Coleman back to North Carolina in 2006. Differences in
state regulations prevented Carol from launching a private
practice because North Carolina denied prescriptive
authority to CNSs. Instead, she teamed up with a local
nonprofit, the Inter-Faith Council for Social Services, and
Ross Distinguished Professorship
to Support Psychiatric-Mental
Health Nursing
Carol Ross ’64 and her mother Eunice Morde Doty, who is the namesake
for the Eunice Morde Doty Scholarship in undergraduate nursing.
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was asked to open a volunteer mental health clinic at the
men’s homeless shelter in Chapel Hill. That clinic, which
opened early in 2008, continues to provide psychiatric care
and medications to approximately 300 people annually.
Carol and Coleman began to think about how to make an
even bigger impact on mental health practice in the state.
Over the years, they maintained a strong connection to
UNC through generous donations, creating scholarships
at the Educational Foundation and the Kenan-Flagler
Business School. In 2004, they created the Eunice Morde
Doty undergraduate nursing scholarship to honor Carol’s
mother. Carol also served the School of Nursing for eight
years as a Director on the SON Foundation Board.
In 2013, Carol and Coleman decided that a professor-ship
would lay a foundation for nurses to pursue advanced
degrees in psychiatric-mental health. It would also create the
powerful and positive legacy that they both wanted for the
Morde and Ross families. “Psychiatric-mental health is so
underrepresented in nursing,” says Carol. “North Carolina
desperately needs more mental health providers. I hope that
this professorship will lead to more nurses pursuing a career
in this field.” She was delighted to learn that this professor-ship
is also eligible for matching funds from the state.
The SON has the only Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse
Practitioner program in the state. It is rich in faculty
members devoted to practicing in underserved areas,
leading the profession in advanced practice, eliminating
health disparities, and conducting research that seeks to
enhance access to the highest quality care for all people.
The Professorship will be awarded to a faculty member
who is a psychiatric-mental health nursing leader and prac-tices
in North Carolina. The Professorship will be com-mitted
to improving access to mental health care; ensuring
the education of psychiatric-mental health advance practice
nursing; and furthering health policy that supports psychi-atric-
mental health nursing practice.
Dean Kristen M. Swanson, PhD, RN, FAAN, stated,
“Through the generosity of Carol and Coleman Ross, the
School of Nursing is well positioned to recruit or retain a
faculty member whose teaching, practice, and scholarship
focuses on psychiatric-mental health nursing care. Their
gift is a vote of confidence in the School and testimony
to their desire to assure that our graduate curriculum in
psychiatric-mental health nursing will remain excellent.”
With a deep desire to enhance practice and education in
the field of psychiatric-mental health nursing, Carol and
Coleman have given a gift that will sustain excellence in
the School for years to come. 
Carol Ross ’64 and Coleman Ross ’65
with two recipients of the Eunice
Morde Doty scholarship.
New Endowed Scholarship Honors
Frances Emily Gilreath
A new merit-based scholarship was
established to honor the life
and work of Frances “Fran” Emily
Gilreath, a 1970 graduate of the
BSN program at the SON. The
scholarship will support tuition, fees,
books, and other education-related
expenses for an undergraduate nursing
student under conditions in which
circumstances might jeopardize the
student’s ability to achieve his or her
dream of becoming a nurse.
Fran grew up in Charlotte, North
Carolina with her parents J. Frank
Gilreath, Jr. and Betty Collins Gil-reath,
and her brother John (’73 BSBA).
Religion being very important to Fran,
much of her childhood and life was
centered around her church, St. John’s
Baptist. Her favorite activities were
the choir and missionary organizations.
Fran was also interested in nursing
from an early age, and volunteered at
Presbyterian Hospital during her high
school years.
Fran began her studies as a
baccalaureate student in nursing
at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1966 after
graduating from South Mecklenburg
High School. She worked as a nurse
at Henrietta Egleston Hospital for
Children, at Mundo Vista camp, and at
Duke University Hospital. She lost her
life through a tragic accident on her
way to work in April of 1973.
In 1974, her parents established
an expendable scholarship in Fran’s
name at the SON. They contributed
annually to this scholarship for thirty-seven
years, and helped an enormous
number of students achieve their
dreams of becoming a nurse.
Recently, her father decided to
create an endowment fund for the
Frances Emily Gilreath Nursing
Scholarship. Through their generosity,
future generations of Carolina nurses
will receive support in Fran’s name.
Frances Emily Gilreath and her mother Betty
Gilreath in 1968
Last year, 165 nursing students received over $460,000 in
much needed scholarship support. Alumni and friends can
continue to support students by creating an endowment
like the Frances Emily Gilreath Nursing Scholarship, or by
making annual contributions to established scholarship and
emergency funds. Such funds help students continue their
programs of study when challenging personal situations arise.
For more information, please contact Anne Webb in the Office
of Advancement at (919) 966-4619 or Anne_Webb@unc.edu.
SON Foundation News
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New Advancement Team Leads Development,
Alumni Affairs and Public Relations Efforts
Katisha Paige ’98 joined
the SON as associate
director of advancement
and alumni affairs and
executive director of the
School of Nursing Alumni
Assoc­­iation.
She began her
career in development as
an intern at UNC-Chapel Hill. Since then, she has worked
in annual giving at UNC’s Carolina Annual Fund, North
Carolina Central University, and the UNC Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center before coming to the SON.
Ms. Paige directs outreach to alumni and students as well as
fundraising efforts.
When Assistant Dean Anne Webb was promoted to lead the Office of Advancement, she began envisioning
what the SON would need to communicate the many new faculty and student initiatives, support the work
of the foundation, and carry the organization into a new campus-wide fundraising campaign. Two talented
new staff members were welcomed to the office LAST fall.
Meagen Voss ’10 serves
as associate director of
communications and
public relations for
the SON. She came to
UNC-Chapel Hill after
completing an AAAS
Mass Media Fellowship at
NPR News and serving as Editor of the Observer magazine
at the Association for Psychological science. In her new role
at the School of Nursing, Meagen serves as Editor-in-Chief
of Carolina Nursing and leads public relations for the SON.
Three New Directors Join the SON Foundation
Francine Davis
received a BSN
from the UNC-Chapel
Hill SON
in 1972 and a
master’s in public
health in maternal-child/
public health
nursing from UNC. During her time on
campus, she was active in civil rights
efforts, both locally and nationally. She is
retired from Vance-Granville Community
College, where she served as an instruc-tor
and headed the program for several
years. Former President of the School of
Nursing Alumni Association, Davis is ac-tive
in the UNC General Alumni Associa-tion
Black Alumni Reunion program.
Susan O’Dell,
BSN ‘77, MSN, ‘95,
is director of the
Women’s Center at
Rex Hospital in Ra-leigh.
Susan serves
as the District IV
Regional Chair of
the North Carolina Organization of Nurse
Leaders, and is a Board Certified Nurse
Executive. O’Dell served as a member of
the School of Nursing Alumni Association
and led a class gift campaign for the new
building. She and her husband Dr. Russ
O’Dell named a conference room in the
new building and have hosted Alumni
events in their home.
Dr. P. Kay
Wagoner is a
double alumna,
BSN ‘70, MSN ‘78,
from the School
of Nursing who
also received her
PhD in Physiology
from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 1986. She has worked in the
fields of cardiovascular nursing, research,
education, and pharmaceutical discovery
and development. She founded and later
sold Icagen, a company focused on drug
discovery and development. In 2001, UNC-Chapel
Hill recognized her professional
accomplishments with a Distinguished
Alumna Award. Recently, she began a
scholarship in honor of her parents.
26 Fall 2013
Dr. Pamela Rowsey and MSN student,
Tamryn Fowler, BSN ’09.
Bill and Mary Lou Booth, BSN ’57 created the Cronenwett Global
Health award in honor of former Dean Linda Cronenwett.
Pictured with the Booths is recipient Merle Tai who was funded
to visit Peking Union Medical College in China.
Carolyn London, BSN ’56, was
honored with the Carrington Award
for Community Service from the
SON Alumni Association. She was
also thanked by Mary Weiner, the
first recipient of the scholarship
she and her husband Dr. William
“Will” London established for
undergraduate students.
When she graduated from the PhD pro-gram,
Ashley Leak, PhD ’11, surprised
her parents with a named fund. The
James and Patricia Leak Fund provides
an annual award to doctoral students
who have the interest and potential
to make an outstanding contribution
through nursing research. The Leak
family met Yin Li, the first recipient.
Funding the Future: Donors Meet Their Scholars At
Annual Alumni Award and Donor Recognition Reception
SON Foundation News
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New SON Foundation
directors Francine
Davis BSN ’72, and
Kay Wagoner, BSN
’70, MSN ’78, greeted
scholars at the annual
alumni award and do-nor
recognition event.
Faculty Emerita, Diane Kjervik, donated a
scholarship to honor the memory of her mother,
Mona Lucille Kjervik. At the award ceremony,
she met the first Kjervik scholar, Taylor Ambrose.
This fund supports a meritorious undergraduate
student from a rural background.
Bill and Barbara Hedberg
Self, BSN ’57 visited with
Elizabeth Danchi and
Adrienne Himmelberg,
the 2012–2013 Barbara
Hedberg Self nursing
scholars. Barbara shared
remarks as part of the
evening’s program.
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FACULTY NEWS
RUMAY ALEXANDER was named an
honorary member of the National
Student Nurses Association. She was
also re-elected to Board of Governors
for the National League of Nursing
and was highlighted in a feature article
for Insight into Diversity Magazine.
DEBRA BARKSDALE received the
Laurel Archer Copp Award for
Literary Achievement, was inducted as
a Fellow in the American Academy of
Nursing, and reappointed for six years
to the Patient-Centered Outcomes
Research Institute (PCORI) Board of
Governors. Barksdale was inducted
into the American Association of
Nurse Practitioners as well.
LINDA BEEBER received a grant from
the NC TraCS Institute for her study
“A UNC-Community Partnership to
Enhance Outcomes for Infants and
Toddlers with Suspected Disability
who are Enrolled in Early Intervention
Services.” She also received the 2012
Best Research Methods Award from
RINAH for an article she co-authored
with George Knafl.
BETH BLACK received the Laurel
Archer Copp Award for Literary
Achievement. She is the lead
investigator for a new study
“Reproductive Loss in Lesbian
Couples” funded by the Gay and
Lesbian Medical Association.
Former Dean LINDA CRONENWETT
and her co-authors were selected
for the Nursing Outlook/American
Academy of Nursing 2012 Writing
Award for Excellence in Policy. Cron­enwett
also received the Jessie M.
Scott Award and was named one of
twelve Sustained Influential Leaders by
the Eastern Nursing Research Society.
CAROL DURHAM was elected
President-Elect for the International
Nursing Association for Clinical
Simulation and Learning.
DONNA HAVENS was awarded the
Nightingale Excellence in Research
Award, appointed to the American
Organization of Nurse Executives
(AONE) Foundation Board, selected
to chair the AONE Foundation’s
research committee, and elected
Vice-Chair of the American Nurses
Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Commission on Magnet Recognition
Executive Committee.
ERIC HODGES received a research
grant from the NC TracCS Institute
for “Enhancing Caregiver-Infant
Communication to Prevent Obesity.”
SARA HUBBELL was selected by UNC
Healthcare for the 2013 Nurse Faculty
of the Year award.
CORETTA JENERETTE achieved
certification as a nurse educator from
the National League for Nursing.
GEORGe KNAFL was funded though an
NIH-funded sub­contract
“A longitu-dinal
study of adherence to medication
in black men with hypertension.” Knafl
also received the 2012 Best Research
Methods Award from RINAH for an
article he co-authored with Linda
Beeber.
SHAWN KNEIPP became certified
in Advanced Public Health Nursing
through ANCC.
BETH LAMANNA was selected to
participate in the University of
Michigan Visiting Partners Program
in Occupational and Environmental
Health and Safety.
RHONDA LANNING was awarded an
Ueltschi Service-Learning Course
Development Grant to create a course
to prepare health science students as
professional doulas.
ASHLEY LEAK received an Alvin R.
Tarlov and John E. Ware Jr. Post-doctoral
Research Award in Patient
Reported Outcomes.
CHRISTINA LEONARD received AACN
certification as a clinical nurse leader.
MARY LYNN was awarded a grant from
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
to study how academic institutions
are preparing for and incorporating
both DNP- and PhD-prepared faculty
members as well as the projected effects
2012–2013 Faculty Awards
and Accomplishments
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of hiring DNP-prepared graduates
on expanding teaching capacity and
decreasing the nurse faculty shortage.
DEBORAH MAYER was appointed as
a member of the Cancer Survivorship
Committee of the American Society
of Clinical Oncology, received an NC
TraCS grant to study the palliative
and supportive care needs of parents
with metastatic cancer, and received
a University Cancer Research Fund
Innovation Award.
CAROLYN MCKENZIE received her
AACN certification as a clinical nurse
leader.
MARGARET MILLER received an
AENT nurse training grant from
HRSA to support nurse practitioner
students who come from underserved
communities, served in the military,
or were from historically under-represented
ethnic minority groups.
MARY SCHULER was awarded Emeritus
status at Norwalk Community College
in Norwalk, CT.
GWEN SHERWOOD was selected to
be a mentor for the Nurse Faculty
Leadership Academy. Her book Quality
and Safety in Nursing: A Competency
Approach to Improving Outcomes was
awarded the American Journal of
Nursing Book of the Year Award.
SUZANNE THOYRE received a SPARK
grant from the SON Research Support
Center for “Preparation for the
Psychometric Test of the Pediatric
Eating Assessment Tool (Pedi-EAT).
Her co-investigators include Mary
Lynn and Cara McComish.
2012–2013 Promotions and Ap p ointments
Jennifer Alderman: Clinical Assistant Professor
Debra Barksdale: Director of the Doctor of Nursing Program
Jill Hamilton: Associate Professor
Sara Hubbell: Clinical Assistant Professor
Rhonda Lanning: Clinical Assistant Professor
Kathy Moore: Assistant Dean of the Office of Student Affairs
Mary Sutphin: Clinical Assistant Professor
Retirements
Edward Halloran
Sandra funk
K athy Moore N amed
Assistant Dean of
the Office of Student
Af f airs
Katherine Moore, MSN, RN has been
promoted to Assistant Dean of the Office
of Student Affairs, where she has served as
Director for 13 years.
Ms. Moore graduated from the SON in 1978 with a BSN, and returned
later to earn her MSN degree in 1990. Her dedication has been recognized
by the SON community as well as the university. SON students selected
her to receive the Faculty Appreciation award numerous times. She was also
nominated for the Chancellor’s award, and received the Nurse Manager of
the Year award from the North Carolina Nurses’ Association.
“Kathy Moore is an incredibly valuable asset to the School of
Nursing,” says Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor Kristen M.
Swanson. “Between her experience, institutional knowledge, and passion
for helping students achieve their very best, I have no doubt she will
serve us well as our newest Assistant Dean.”
libba WELLS
Maggie miller
30 Summer 2013
On June 15, 2013, the School of Nursing lost a beloved
faculty member. Dr. Margaret (Maggie) Miller passed away
from complications of cancer while on a planned trip to
Yosemite National Park.
Maggie began her career in nursing at East Tennessee
State University, where she earned her BSN and graduated
magna cum laude. After working as an oncology nurse at
Watts Hospital in Durham, NC, Maggie returned to school
and earned her MSN from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1977. She
earned a PhD in Adult and Higher Education from UNC-Chapel
Hill in 1990 as well.
Highly valued for her leadership skills, Maggie held
administrative positions at Duke University Medical Center.
After serving as Corporate Director of Nursing Education
for eight years in Wisconsin, Maggie was recruited by the
SON to be Director of Continuing Education. By the time
Maggie retired from the SON in January 2013, she had
served as Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for
13 years.
Maggie held nearly every executive position in the SON,
except Dean, in a permanent or acting capacity. Her wealth
of institutional knowledge, resourceful problem solving, and
wisdom sustained a sense of continuity through the tenure
of three Deans.
Always one of the first to volunteer, Maggie was
pivotal in innumerable projects at the SON, including the
expansion of Carrington Hall. Maggie was also active in
organizing outreach activities and frequently participated
in alumni functions.
For her service to alumni, Maggie was awarded the
Alumni Association President’s Award in 2012. She was also
recognized by the University for her outstanding contribu-tions
with an Excellence in Management Award in 2011.
Beyond her academic and administrative accomp-lishments,
Maggie will be remembered for her thoughtful
and compassionate treatment of everyone around her. She
led by example with a keen sense of fairness and respect,
supporting others and making sure that they had the
resources needed to achieve their goals.
The faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the SON
will dearly miss Maggie’s steadfast presence. A fund in her
memory is currently being developed.
Dr. Margaret Miller—
Beloved Leader
FACULTY NEWS
Fall Tanya Rutherford (left) and Lori Dettmer (right) with Maggie Miller
during a gathering celebrating Dr. Miller’s retirement from the SON.
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Dr. Barbara Jo Foley, BSN ’67, and
Dr. Meg Zomorodi, BSN ’01, PhD
’08, have established a student resource
room to recognize the significant con-tributions
of the former Assistant Dean
for Operations and Strategic Initiatives
Maggie Miller, PhD, RN, and Assis-tant
Dean for Student Affairs Kathy
Moore, MSN, RN.
Dr. Miller, who recently passed away,
worked tirelessly for 14 years at the
SON to give students access to every
resource needed for success. In 2011,
Dr. Miller received a University-level
Excellence in Management Award and
in 2012, she was honored with the SON
Alumni Association President’s Award.
Assistant Dean Moore has led the
Office of Student Affairs for more
than a decade of her 16 years at the
SON. Over the years, students chose
Moore for multiple Faculty Apprecia-tion
Awards because of her passion and
dedication to making sure they have a
seamless educational experience.
“I think very highly of Maggie and
Kathy,” says Dr. Foley. “They have
dedicated their careers to helping stu-dents,
which is why I chose to support
a project that is such a fitting tribute to
them both.”
Free Study Materials
For Students
The Maggie Miller and Kathy Moore
Student Resource Room will give
students access to study materials that
they might not be able to afford on
their own. It will house a lending library
of study guides for the NCLEX exam,
preparatory materials for certification
exams, textbooks, and other useful
items. “A student who is struggling fi-nancially
may hesitate to spend $80 on a
book they’ll use only for a few months,”
says Dr. Meg Zomorodi. “This project
is a great way for alumni, especially
recent graduates, to give back to the
school because they can provide study
materials they no longer need.”
Alumni Establish Resource
Room for SON STUDENTS
Top: Assistant Dean Kathy Moore, BSN ‘78, MSN ‘90, and Dr. Meg Zomorodi. BSN ’01, PhD, ’08,
outside the new student resource room. Bottom: Dr. Barbara Jo Foley, BSN ’67, pictured here with
Benjamin Zomorodi.
Contributions to the student
materials fund are greatly
appreciated. Donations to
purchase books, and other
needed items can be mailed to:
SON Foundation,
Student Resource Room
CB #7460, Carrington Hall
UNC
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
Contributions can also be made
online at:
giving.unc.edu/gift/son
Contact Anne Webb or Katisha
Paige for more information.
“Drs. Foley and Zomorodi are
incredibly special friends to this
School,” she says. “The new resource
room is the latest demonstration of
their love for the School and their
commitment to students. We cannot
thank them enough.”
32 Fall 2013
Alumni News
Alumni Association Board member
Cheryl Conway, BSN ’92, addresses
the Association of Nursing Students
(ANS). She, along with Tamryn Fowler
BSN ’09, MSN ’12, and Frieda Bruton
BSN ’57, presented information about
the association.
Bringing a bit of Chapel Hill to San Diego, SON staff Katisha Paige
and Anne Webb, met alumni Terri Kyle ’84, Stephanie Duffy ’03,
Rebecca Pate ’94, Susanne Winslow ’99.
Alumni Gwen Waddell-Schultz, BSN ’70, MSN ’76, Betty Woodard,
MSN ’87, Sue Sherman, PhD ’99, and Jayne Byrd, BSN ’95, MSN ’99,
joined a class of doctoral students to discuss health care and
health policy. Panelists shared their experiences of having been
educated at the SON and their contributions to health policy.
From Chapel Hill to San Diego, SON
Alumni Are Having Fun and Giving Back
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Gloria Peele ’55, Mary Oates ’78, and Faye White ’59
(not pictured) shared information about the SON
with prospective students at the Central Carolina
Community College Career Fair.
Michael Joyner ’00 came back with his daughter
Kayley to enjoy SON activities and catch the action
of the Homecoming game against Georgia Tech. The
Tar Heels weren’t victorious, but that didn’t stop
SON alums from enjoying a day filled with friends.
The Class of 1967 celebrated their 45th reunion during
homecoming weekend. They enjoyed a clear Carolina
blue sky and reminisced about their student days.
ANS volunteers Wendy Dixon, Ricot Lormejuste,
Lindsey Gilbert, and Laura McKenna made the
2012 Homecoming celebration one to remember.
34 Fall 2013
Distinguished
Alumnus Award
Dr. Donald Bailey PhD, RN, FAAN,
received the Distinguished Alumnus of the
Year Award for his dedication as a stellar
scientist, a great mentor, and educator.
Dr. Bailey is an associate professor in the
Duke School of Nursing, a science fellow
in the Duke Center for the Study of Aging
and Human Development, and a Claire
M. Fagin Fellow. He has established a
program of research focused on patient
self-management and enhancing the
quality of life of patients with chronic
illnesses, specifically prostate cancer and
hepatitis C. His research has led to greater
emphasis on the care of patients during
stressful waiting periods. Dr. Bailey’s
work using interdisciplinary science to
enhance the care of patients has had
a national impact. In 2004, his geriatric
course at Duke University School of
Nursing was named The Best Stand-Alone
Geriatric Nursing Course in Baccalaureate
Education by ACN and the John A.
Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric
Nursing. In October 2012, he became
a Fellow of the American Academy of
Nursing (FAAN). Dr. Bailey received his
PhD from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of
Nursing in 2002.
Grad uate of the Last
Decade (G.O.L.D.) Award
Lieutenant Colonel Angelo Moore,
PhD, RN, received the Graduate of the
Last Decade award for his outstanding
contributions to the School, the
profession, and the nation. Lt. Col
Moore is Deputy Chief of the Center for
Alumni News
Nursing Science and Clinical Inquiry for
the Pacific Regional Medical Command
in Hawaii. He earned his PhD from the
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing in
2010. He is also a 2011 graduate of Army
Medical Department Advanced Nurse
Leadership Course. Moore has numerous
publications in peer-reviewed journals.
He has presented at local, regional,
national, and international conferences
and serves as the senior advisor to Tripler
Army Medical Center Junior Officer
Council. He mentors and teaches nurses
about research and other topics related
to conducting evidence-based practice
projects. In recognition for his many
accomplishments and contributions to
the profession, Lt. Col Moore has been
awarded numerous military awards
and decorations and was selected as
2012 Nurse Researcher of the Year by
Accomplished Alums Honored at
2012 Alumni Awards
Each year the School of Nursing Alumni Board of Directors recognizes alumni and honorary
alumni who contribute to nursing, the community, the School, and healthcare.
From left to right:
Ms. Carolyn London,
Dr. Maggie Miller,
Dr. Donald Bailey,
Ms. Norma Hawthorne,
Lt. Col Angelo Moore,
and Ms. Anne Webb.
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the National Black Nurses Association.
He has recently been assigned to Fort
Bragg, NC.
Carington Award for
Comunity Service
Carolyn London, BSN, RN, received the
Carrington Award for Community Service
for her exemplary service to the University,
the School of Nursing, and the commu-nity.
Ms. London describes her four years
and two summers studying at the SON as
some of the most challenging and best
in her life. She forged lifetime friend-ships
and met Will, now her husband
of 55 years. She graduated in 1956 as a
member of the SON’s second class and
began her career at Children’s Hospital
in Boston. She has since worked tirelessly
to ensure future graduates enjoy the
same distinction that comes with being
a Carolina Nurse. In 1983, she organized
the School of Nursing Foundation, Inc.,
an independent fiscal entity that manages
the investments of the School’s endow-ments.
She served as the first president
of its Board of Directors and remains
connected to the foundation as an active,
honorary lifetime member. Ms. London
and her husband included the SON in
their estate planning by designating fund-ing
to create an undergraduate scholar-ship.
They recently decided to fully fund
the scholarship. The Londons hope this
scholarship, and others, will help students
achieve their goals while making the
world a better place.
Honorary Alumna
Norma Hawthorne, MS, received the
Honorary Alumna Award. In 2001, the
School of Nursing had raised close to
$2 million toward a $15 million capital
campaign goal that was part of the
Carolina First campaign. It was the
beginning of a long recession, and the
SON faced the daunting task of adding
a building addition to Carrington Hall.
Over the next 10 years, with the help and
support of alumni, friends, faculty, and
students, the School achieved these goals
and much more, raising over $23 million
in private support. With the help of Anne
Webb and Talat Qazi, Ms. Hawthorne
doubled the School’s endowment
funds, created a sensitive and successful
planned giving program, and worked
with corporations and foundations to
fund needed programs, student, and
faculty support. Her interest in web-based
communications also led to broader SON
outreach via Facebook, Twitter, a blog,
and an electronic newsletter. Over the last
several years, Ms. Hawthorne developed
summer volunteer opportunities for
students in the public health clinic of the
indigenous Oaxaca village of Teotitlan del
Valle. She always said that her greatest
wish was to be a Carolina Nurse. The
friendships she made while at the SON
have had a lasting impact on her.
Alumni Asocia ti on’s
President’s Award
Margaret Miller, PhD, RN, received
the President’s Award. She served the
SON in many different areas since 1997.
Dean Swanson says that Dr. Miller, “was
the behind-the-scenes powerful grace
that made the School run.” While Dr.
Miller’s dedication to students and
faculty was evident, what sometimes
went unrecognized was her support of
the School’s alumni and other external
constituents. As a 1977 alum of the
SON master’s program, Miller was a
consistent advocate for alumni outreach.
While overseeing construction of the
new addition, she also volunteered her
time to travel across the state to explain
the logistics of this new building and to
keep alumni informed on construction
progress. She took on the volunteer
role of Master of Ceremonies for the
SON Alumni Association’s Alumni
Appreciation Day celebrations, led
building tours for alumni and other
guests, and consistently participated
in SON alumni functions. She not only
provided wisdom for planning events,
but also the sweat equity to see them
through. The personal integrity and
vision she displayed as a leader within
the School was also a guiding force
within the SON alumni association. Seven
months after she was honored with the
award, Dr. Miller passed away (see p.
34). Her lasting legacy of grace-filled
leadership has made the SON a better
place to work, learn, and discover.
Anne Aldridge Webb, MPA, also
received the President’s Award for her
leadership and service to the Alumni
Association Board of Directors during
her ten years as executive director. Her
accomplishments included new outreach
in regional alumni programming,
continuing education for alumni, and a
revamped Homecoming celebration.
She earned grants to support Alumni
Appreciation Day events, and she
emphasized student outreach by
placing alumni in the classroom so that
current students could learn from their
experiences. Ms. Webb continues her
involvement with the association through
her recent promotion to Assistant Dean
for advancement at the School of Nursing.
She joined the SON Advancement Office
in 2001 as the associate director for
alumni affairs and annual giving, working
with Norma Hawthorne on the School’s
successful Carolina First Campaign as well
as the “Pave the Way” brick campaign for
the new building. Ms. Webb began her
UNC career in 1998 as a program manager
in the Office of Human Resources.
She received a Bachelor’s in Industrial
Relations from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1994
and a Masters of Public Administration
(MPA) from UNC-Greensboro in 2004.
36 Fall 2013
Alumni News
The alumni association introduced
its new leadership during the annual
board meeting. Pictured from left to
right, Katisha Paige serves as their new
executive director, Donna Laney ’81
is now President emeritus, Roulhac
Johnson ’00 serves as President, and
Susan Andrews ’87 took office as
President-Elect.
After working with midwives in the
western part of the state for 10 years,
I made the decision to become a
Certified Nurse-Midwife. I began my
college career at Durham Technical
Community College and completed
their college transfer curriculum
in 2010. I began nursing classes at
Carolina in May 2010 and earned my
BSN in 2012.
I currently work as an RN at UNC
Hospitals on a surgical oncology unit. I
was very fortunate to have this position
secured before graduation. I believe
it is because of the networking and
prestige of being a Carolina Nurse that
I have enjoyed such a fruitful career.
I am very excited to share that
I have recently been accepted to
graduate school at East Carolina
University to pursue an MSN with a
Nurse-Midwifery concentration!
I know that there is no way I would
be where I am today if it weren’t for
the caring hearts and actions of two
very special UNC School of Nursing
faculty: Kathy Moore and Kathy
Alden. These two women, more than
anyone, supported and facilitated my
achievement. I just want to say to them
that I know I wouldn’t have made it
through if it weren’t for your kindness
and encouragement. I go forward
because I have a solid foundation.
You built that. And I will forever be
grateful to you.
Thank You UNC for being a
place of growth and transformation
in my life.
My Alumni Story—Belinda Kay Maynard, BSN ’12
If so, email it to Katisha_Paige@email.unc.edu and it might appear
on the SON website or in the next issue of Carolina Nursing. Do you have an Alumni story to share?
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Association
Elects New
Leadership
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2012 Joseph Biddix, BSN ’12, graduated from Naval Officer
Development School and is assigned to Naval Medical
Center Portsmouth, Virginia as a Nurse Corps Officer.
He recently published his Honors paper in the journal
Military Medicine.
1998, 2010 Julie Harrington, BSN ’98, MSN ’10, was invited to be
an item writer for the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certification
exam with the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB).
She also has become a member of the Primary Care Certified
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Updates Com­mittee.
2002 Clinical assistant professor Laura Calamos Nasir, MSN ’02,
gave a presentation, and Sarah Stucke presented a poster
at the 7th International Nurse Practitioner/Advance Practice
Nursing Network Conference. Both learned a lot about how
advance practice is developing around the world.
1999 Lindsay Spainhour Baker
is living Nairobi, Kenya and
has two sons now. She is
working as a consultant
with the Kenyan Army to
train journalists, diplomats,
and United Nations staff on
how to keep themselves
safe in Somalia. She is
currently volunteering with
the nonprofit organization
Heshima Kenya to teach
free breastfeeding classes
for young refugee women
as well.
1977 Linda Sherman Kimel, BSN ’77, was named National
School Nurse of the Year for Special Needs Students
by the National Association of School Nurses. She is
a certified school nurse with the Rockford, Illinois
Public Schools.
1967 Susan Spalt, BSN ’67 and SON Foundation Board member,
has contributed to a book of poetry with fellow Carrboro
poets. The book is called Carrboro Poetica and is published
by Old Mountain Press.
1956 Continuing the tradition of an annual spring reunion,
the BSN Class of 1956 enjoyed a guided tour of t he SAS
Institute art collection and the adjacent Umstead Hotel
in Cary, NC. The group is pictured below at a luncheon at
the Umstead, where they spent time catching up after
the tour.
clas Notes
In Memoriam
Beverly Neal Barnette, BSN ’69
Dr. Ruby Gilbert Barnes, MSN ’60,
Emeritus Faculty
Anna Watson Blair, BSN ’81
Helena Willis Eiden, PHN ’42
Jane Fraley Kodack, BSN ’76
Judith Johnson Little, BSN ’61
Dr. Margaret Miller, MSN ’77
Janice C. Payne,