news Research COVID-19’s Effect on Arab Americans Assistant Professor Nadia Abuelezam, an epidemiologist who studies health disparities for vulnerable populations, spoke to CNN.com and CBS Chicago about her 2020 study on COVID-19’s tragic—and often overlooked—impact on Arab American communities. Two CSON faculty members are on teams that received Exploratory Collaborative Scholarship Grants from BC’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society: Professor Andrew Dwyer’s team will develop interventions to enable more effective health screenings for at-risk Latinx and Black populations.
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Professor Monica O’Reilly Jacob’s team will explore telehealth’s impact on patient-clinician trust and the overuse of health care services.
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As part of Boston College’s McNair PostBaccalaureate Achievement Program, which prepares underrepresented and firstgeneration students for graduate school, Karen Aldana ’23 presented her research on racial disparities in prenatal care. Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Clinical Professor Colleen Simonelli was Aldana’s McNair mentor.
EVENTS At the November Pinnacle lecture, Dean Katherine Gregory presented “Babies, Biomes, and Boston: A Journey in Leadership,” where she discussed her background as a clinician, scientist, and leader; her research on preterm infants’ gut health; and her vision for nursing’s future. View video at bc.edu/pinnacle. At a virtual event on June 1, Terry Fulmer, M.S. ’77, Ph.D. ’83, an international leader in the field of geriatrics, received the 2021 Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award and discussed “Age-Friendly Health Systems: The Role of Nursing Leadership.”
Faculty At the 2021 NANDA International Conference, held in collaboration with the Connell School in June: Susan Gennaro received a Founder’s Award in recognition of her lasting contribution to the field.
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Dean for Finance and Administration Christopher Grillo received a Unique Contribution Award.
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Jones, who directs CSON’s Marjory Gordon Program, received the Editor’s Award for her contribution to NANDA-I’s International Journal of Nursing Knowledge.
CSON Department Chair and Associate Professor Allyssa Harris ’94, M.S. ’99, Ph.D. ’08, was named dean of Prairie View A&M University’s College of Nursing after nearly 15 years at the Connell School.
Honored for mentorship Associate Dean for Research Christopher Lee received the American Heart Association’s 2021 Kathleen A. Dracup Distinguished Lecture and Exemplary Career in Mentoring Award after being nominated by several nurse scientists he has mentored. He accepted the award, which was sponsored by the AHA’s Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, at the association’s annual Scientific Sessions in November, where he also delivered the lecture “Coach, Colleague, Counsel, Friend: A New Era of Scientific Mentoring.”
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Assistant Professor Monica O’Reilly-Jacob received the New Investigator Award at Academy Health’s Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues Conference, where she presented the paper she co-authored in Medical Care, “The Effect of Supervision Waivers on Practice: A Survey of Massachusetts Nurse Practitioners During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Karen Aldana
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Professor Susan Gennaro spoke to the Washington Post about how COVID-19 has revealed areas where care is currently insufficient, including mental health.
