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Assistant Professor Nadia Abuelezam, an epidemiologist whose research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, mathematical modeling, and HIV/ AIDS, co-authored an article in Public Health Post suggesting that allowing respondents to identify as Middle Eastern and North African in federal statistics, including the US Census, could help improve understanding of disease risk and prevention.
Katie Huffling ’01 received Health Care Without Harm’s 2018 Charlotte Brody Award in May. The award recognizes nurses who promote and protect environmental health. Huff ling is a certified nurse-midwife and the executive director of Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments.
The National Institute on Aging awarded Clinical Associate Professor Susan DeSanto-Madeya and her team at University of Massachusetts Medical School an exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) for their project, “Pilot Study of Standardized PatientCentered Medication Review in Home Hospice.” DeSanto-Madeya will be responsible for engagement with New England hospice sites. Associate Professor Joyce Edmonds and her team at Harvard and Ariadne Labs were awarded an Rx Foundation grant for their research project, “Defining the Role of Nurses in Inf luencing the Likelihood of Getting a C-section.” Edmonds will provide scientific direction and oversight for all aspects of the project. Associate Professor Allyssa Harris received the Inspiration in Women’s Health Award for policy at the Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health conference in San Antonio last fall. The award recognizes a nurse practitioner for singular contributions to policy, leadership, and advocacy that affects care of women. Assistant Professor Carina Katigbak was inducted as a fellow of the American Heart Association in Chicago in November.
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Christopher Lee and Tina Hansen, president of the European Society of Cardiology’s Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions Photograph courtesy: Christopher Lee
The European Society of Cardiology presented Associate Dean for Research Christopher Lee and his team the Best Research Award at EuroHeartCare in Dublin, Ireland, in June. The team was honored for their study of international comparisons of physical symptom burden among adults with heart failure. Lee was also honored by the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich, Germany, for his 2017 top-cited paper, “Trajectories of Heart Failure Self-Care Management and Changes in Quality of Life.” In Time magazine, Clinical Instructor Alison Marshall discussed new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shows why rates of sexually transmitted diseases are at an all-time high in the US. Responding to the defeat of Massachusetts Ballot Question 1, which would have imposed mandatory nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, Carroll Professor Judith Vessey wrote in the Journal of Advanced Nursing that hospital nurses themselves need to inf luence the future direction of patient care.
Molly Tobin Photograph courtesy: Cape Cod Times/Merrily Cassidy
Recent CSON graduates Kerstin Peterleitner ’18 and Molly Tobin ’18 came to the aid of a 61-year-old man who was lying in shock on a beach after he was bitten by a shark while swimming near Longnook Beach in Truro, Mass. Peterleitner works at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Tobin works at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, Rosemary Phalen ’78 highlighted CSON’s end-of-life simulation program, recently featured in Boston College Magazine. The program has prepared students to face the needs of dying patients and their families since 2013. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named Courtney Pladsen ’07 a Culture of Health Leader, who will support efforts to develop health equity in Portland, Maine. Pladsen’s work has focused on providing care to underserved populations, most of them experiencing homelessness.
