news CSON’s vaccination team at Cristo Rey: (seated) Sara Bowen, Vy Hoang, Emily Bower, Katlyn Noonan, Megan Fickes. (Standing) Jennifer Schmitz, Caitlin Martin, Shannon Croly, Natalie Dalla Riva, Catherine Conahan, Donna Cullinan, Celia Jotte, Nora Markey, and Brandon Onyechefule.
The Connell School launched Innovation Grants, a resource program designed to fund small research projects that are essential to supporting large external research grant applications. The first two funded projects are: ▪
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“Associations among Cannabis Policies, Cannabis Use, and Patient-Provider Communication among Cancer Survivors,” a project by principal investigator and Assistant Professor Lindsey Camp and her team: Summer Hawkins, from BC’s School of Social Work, and CSON Clinical Assistant Professor Catherine Conahan. “Strangulation and Asphyxiation: A Data-Driven Exploration of Offender Characteristics and Predictor Factors,” a project led by Clinical Assistant Professor Victor Petreca. His team includes CSON Professor Ann Wolbert Burgess and Clinical Instructor Melissa Pérez Capotosto; Michelle Patch, from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; and BC Visiting Scholar Gary Brucato.
Victor Petreca
Petreca and his research team also received funding from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health’s Jail/Arrest Diversion Grant Program for their project “Exploring the Biopsychosocial Factors in Diversion to Other Treatment-Based Alternatives.”
The American College of Nurse-Midwives awarded Ph.D. student Erin George its 2022 Dianne S. Moore Midwifery Research Scholarship. Danielle Walker, a student in the Ph.D. program, received the Gennaro Acampora Junior Investigator Pilot Award from the Boston Medical Center Department of Psychiatry. Danielle Walker
Photographs by Caitlin Cunningham except Victor Petreca by Peter Julian; Danielle Walker by Christine Demura; Rear Admiral Aisha K. Mix by Flavio DeBarros; Ann Wolbert Burgess and Steven Matthew Constantine by Lee Pellegrini
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Community CSON joined the Nurses Climate Challenge: School of Nursing Commitment, a global initiative to educate 50,000 health professionals about the health impacts of climate change. Clinical Assistant Professors Catherine Conahan and Donna Cullinan and CSON students conducted outreach and organized a mobile vaccination clinic at Cristo Rey Boston High School, helping Cristo Rey increase the COVID-19 vaccination rate among its student population from 50 percent to 82 percent.
Students
Cameron Howe
Last fall, Cameron Howe ’18, D.N.P. ’23, helped save the life of an elite runner who suffered a cardiac arrest at the Boston Marathon’s eighth mile. Howe and a friend administered CPR on 33-year-old Meghan Roth before the ambulance arrived. “I’m so lucky they were there,” Roth said. “They saved my life.” The story was in the Washington Post, People, and on WCVB-TV Channel 5 News.
Ph.D. student Katie Fitzgerald Jones is one of 30 clinicians named a 2022 Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation Emerging Leader. The International Association for Human Caring honored Ph.D. student Katherine Ladetto with its 2022 Jean Watson Student Award.
IN MEMORY
Research
Retired Professor Mary E. Duffy, who served as director of nursing research, died on March 30 at age 79. Sandra R. Mott, a retired associate professor and department chair at the Connell School of Nursing who taught at BC from 1979–2011, died on January 21 at age 79.
