The Academic Nurse Winter 2013

A New Home for Columbia Nursing Shaping the Future of the Field Healing and Hope in the Dominican Republic

Contents Cover Image: The school’s future home will anchor the east end of Columbia University Medical Center at 168th Street and Audubon Avenue.

Winter 2013 The Academic Nurse Vol 30. No 2 The Academic Nurse is the magazine of Columbia University School of Nursing and is published twice a year

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Columbia University School of Nursing Dean Bobbie Berkowitz PhD, RN, FAAN Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing and Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center Produced by the Office of Strategic Communications & Marketing Marc Kaplan Associate Dean Rachel Zuckerman Senior Digital Strategist Managing Editor Lisa Rapaport Senior Communications Specialist

Contributing Writers Robert Brown Stacey Harris

Alumni News Editors Reva Feinstein, MPA Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Relations Janice Rafferty Director of Development Janine Handfus Associate Director, Annual Fund and Foundation Relations Larin Smith Assistant Director, Alumni Relations

Cover Art Nicholas Jolly

Photography Monika Graff Design and Art Direction Matthias Blonski

Please address all correspondence to: Marc Kaplan Info.nursing @Columbia.edu Alumni are invited to update their addresses by emailing: nursingalumni@columbia.edu or calling 800-899-6728

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Letter from the Dean Research Briefs A New Home for Columbia Nursing Shaping the Future of the Field Somos Familia: Healing and Hope in the Dominican Republic School News Selected Faculty Publications Selected Honors & Presentations Grant Listing Reunion 2013 Gifts and Pledges Board of Visitors Then and Now

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from the dean “Change is inevitable. Growth is intentional.” Not only does this adage serve as the theme for the winter issue of The Academic Nurse, it describes my world view of my role as dean and the imperative for nurses in our changing health care environment. This issue features three articles that describe recent activities at Columbia Nursing that ensure its growth will strengthen the school’s leadership in nursing education, research and service.

An essential tool helping shape the school’s rapid growth has been its strategic plan. Early in my tenure, I established five working groups in various programmatic and administrative areas to identify specific goals, tactics, and outcomes to be achieved in a five-year period. This last year we added a sixth featuring the development of our Office of Global Initiatives. This road map is helping the school move forward in a number of key areas that are critical to maintaining our preeminence as a school of nursing and nursing science.

There has been an enormous amount of productive activity and forward momentum in implementing the strategic plan.

I thought it was a good time to provide a progress report to

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readers of The Academic Nurse and give them an overview of where we’ve been and where we’re headed.

Space constraints allow for only a select number of highlights, but you’ll read about the progress we’re making in our research program where we continue our track record of securing a disproportionately large number of highlycompetitive NIH grants. An important thread throughout much of our work is addressing health care disparities in vulnerable and high risk populations such as recent immigrants, and ethnic and racial minorities. In the past year, we’ve established an Office of Diversity and Cultural Affairs which has made an enormous impact in a short period of time to create greater awareness and understanding of the many different populations we serve as nurses. Our curriculum committee laid the groundwork for important changes in our degree-awarding educational program, so that all advanced practice programs will transition to the DNP educational level beginning in 2016. Our alumni outreach program is stronger and better integrated with our student body than ever before, and we have recently launched a

number of new communication vehicles to keep our alumni and friends better informed about the achievements of our faculty and students.

One of the goal areas identified in the strategic plan is to “contribute to the improvement of the world’s health through service, practice, education and research.” What emerged has been a revitalized Office of Global Initiatives which is creating new alliances and collaborations with health care organizations and institutions around the world, as well as solidifying existing relationships and opportunities for our students to have an international learning experience. One of these activities is our partnership with Clinica de Familia La Romana, located in the Dominican Republic. This issue contains an article highlighting how students from Columbia Nursing have traveled to the clinic to learn about global health and also to help provide health care services to children and adults, many with HIV. Students returning from the clinic tell us it was a transformational experience that also contributed to their understanding and ability to work with immigrant populations in this country, especially in the Dominican community in the Washington Heights neighborhood where our school is located.

renderings giving you a “sneak peek” of the seven-story building which will be located at 168th Street and Audubon Avenue, anchoring the north end of the Columbia University Medical Center campus. Our architects, CO|FXFOWLE, met extensively with teams comprised of faculty, staff, and students to create a facility that truly represents an environment of learning and embodies the principles and values of nursing and nurse education. The building’s many small and large seminar rooms and conversation nooks encourage partnerships and collaboration, while quiet spots provide ample space for individual study. One exciting feature is a state-of-the art simulation laboratory located on two floors of the new building. Here, students will learn complex clinical techniques aided by high-tech mannequins in a variety of model health care settings. Topping the building is a rooftop terrace providing the perfect space for faculty, students, staff and alumni to informally exchange ideas while overlooking views of upper Manhattan.

Looking across the landscape of America’s health care system, I see enormous opportunities for nurses as they move into positions of leadership in community, home, and hospital settings. The importance of nurses in the delivery of care goes hand-in-hand with the contribution of nursing science to help direct that care so that it combines both cost-effectiveness and clinical efficacy. I believe that the growth we’ve experienced at Columbia Nursing, and the progress which is yet to come, is in step with nursing being at the center of the health care system; but it also anticipates many of the contributions nurses of the future will be called upon to make. It’s an exciting time to be in nursing education, and to focus our education and research mission at a time when advanced practice nurses are playing an ever-greater role in the health care delivery system.

Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center

And finally, as you may know, we recently announced plans to build a new home for our school. In this issue, you’ll find architectural

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Research Roundup

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Great Expectations: Use of Midwife Care Depends on Women’s Perceptions about Their Role in Childbirth Pg. 7 Implantable Defibrillators: Lifesaver and Anxiety-Maker for Individuals at High Risk for Sudden Cardiac Death Pg. 8 Cause and Effect: Systemic and Sustainable Improvements in CLABSI Rates Save Lives, Lower NICU Costs Pg. 8 Electronic Health Records Key to Tracking Immunization Levels and Trends Pg. 9 Infection Prevention— Don’t Overlook Gender - Pg. 9

Hand Hygiene: Automation Improves Motivation - Pg. 10

Nurses Use New Mobile Health Tools to Help Patients Quit Smoking - Pg. 11

Dedicated Palliative Care Units: Good for Patients, Good for Hospitals - Pg. 12

To the Community and Back: Prisoners are Key to Containing Infections - Pg. 12

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1. Great Expectations: Use of Midwife Care Depends on Women’s Perceptions about Their Role in Childbirth Women who see themselves as active participants in the delivery of their first child and prefer a collaborative role with their health care provider are more likely to prefer planned home birth and the care of a midwife, according to a study by Columbia University School of Nursing’s Adriana Arcia, PhD, RN, published in the journal Midwifery.

Conversely, when women perceive their role in the birthing process more passively and are more fearful of the delivery experience, they prefer a hospital setting and the care of a physician.

Arcia looked at 344 pregnant women between the ages of 18 and 40 who had not yet given birth (nulliparas) and were no more than 20 weeks pregnant. The women were given a web-based survey about childbirth perceptions that covered three areas: the mother’s role, the provider’s role, and the delivery experience. Their answers indicated whether they perceived the mother’s role as active or passive, the provider’s role as dominant or collaborative, and the delivery as frightening and painful or positive.

“We found that women who perceived their role in the birth of their first child as active, the provider’s role as collaborative, and the delivery as a positive experience, were more likely to prefer midwifery care, birth at home, a vaginal delivery, and the avoidance of pain medication,” says Arcia.

The majority of survey respondents, however, fell in the “passive” category and preferred to have a physician attend their delivery and to give birth in a hospital setting. Contrary to popular belief, however, high cesarean rates

are not driven by maternal request: Less than 5 percent of respondents said that they preferred a cesarean.

“The more fearful women were and the more painful they expected the delivery to be, the more likely they were to prefer cesarean to vaginal birth,” says Arcia. “As women become more aware of their options and the benefits of having greater control over the delivery experience, more will regard midwifery care and planned home birth as an attractive option.”

The rates of cesarean sections in the United States jumped to a record 33 percent of births in 2011; it is the most common type of surgery performed in women in the U.S. A recent study found that rates of cesareans performed in the nation’s hospitals varied widely—from 7 percent to 70 percent. Cesareans are associated with longer recovery times and greater risk of complications, including increased maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. They also have a significant economic impact. On average, cesareans cost at least 50 percent more than vaginal deliveries.

The use of midwives has been receiving greater attention as a way to reduce the number of cesareans. Midwifery care has been found to be as safe and effective as traditional obstetric care and is associated with lower rates of obstetric interventions.

highest number of deliveries by midwives and the lowest rate of cesareans.

The survey, “U.S. Nulliparas’ Perceptions of Roles and of the Birth Experience as Predictors of Their Delivery Preferences,” also reported that 99.4 percent of respondents used the Internet to seek information related to pregnancy and delivery. “Because many women are turning to the Internet for information, midwives and other birth-care providers have a responsibility to familiarize themselves with what is available online on pregnancy and delivery,” says Arcia. “A more proactive approach would be for providers to involve themselves in developing online resources to ensure that what women are reading is factual and evidence-based.”

Deliveries by midwives accounted for 8 percent of babies born in the U.S.in 2009, according to birth certificate data. Studies have found a correlation between the use of midwives and lower rates of cesarean deliveries. In fact, New Mexico has the

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Lifesaver and AnxietyMaker for Individuals at High Risk for Sudden Cardiac Death Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have long been used to prevent sudden cardiac death in patients with irregular heartbeats, particularly in people with inherited conditions such as dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathies and Long QT syndrome. Now, research suggests that patients who receive the life-saving electrical stimulation tend to become more anxious about their condition than those who do not.

In a study presented at the International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG), Kathleen T. Hickey, EdD, FNP, ANP, FAAN, an assistant professor at Columbia University School of Nursing, looked at the relationship between cardiac arrhythmias recorded by ICDs in individuals with a cardiogenetic diagnosis and its effects on their perceptions about their risks of illness and their overall quality of life. Fifty-eight people with a mean age of 41 were studied; 62 percent were male and 38 percent female, representing various races and cardiogenetic diagnoses.

The study found a direct relationship between the number of ICD treatments and negative perceptions about experiencing additional cardiac symptoms, events, and worsening illness. Those with more ICD firings and thus more arrhythmias reported higher rates of psychological distress and negative perceptions about their cardiac health, compared with those whose devices did not activate.

A positive cardiac genetic diagnosis in and of itself did not affect overall quality of life.

It was the actual delivery of ICD treatment that correlated with a self-reported lower quality of life.

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“ICDs unquestionably save lives but the research also underscores how the treatment can raise concerns,’’ says Hickey.

“We know that diagnosis of an inherited heart condition can make people anxious, depressed, or worried that their quality of life will deteriorate. And while the device is actually preserving their lives, we’re also seeing that these feelings can worsen every time a patient’s heart is stimulated by the defibrillator.’’

Patient education is critical to alleviating the anxiety of cardiac patients with ICDs. Many patients with new ICDs worry about increasing their heart rate or engaging in activities that could stress their device.

Nurses play a key role in helping patients understand and adjust to their treatments, particularly the pyschological impact of receiving defibrillator shocks.

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is an unexpected death in a person with no known history of heart disease. Death occurs quickly and usually without warning. It kills more than 300,000 Americans each year.

Although many SCDs occur during an acute myocardial infarction or heart attack, in people under the age of 40, sudden cardiac death is almost always due to inherited genetic mutations.

As cardiogenetic testing becomes more widely available, greater numbers of young patients will receive genetic diagnoses and wear ICDs for longer durations. The need for patient education and support will grow as the population of ICD patients increases.

3. Cause and Effect: Systemic and Sustainable Improvements in CLABSI Rates Save Lives, Lower NICU Costs Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) cause serious illness and death and cost the U.S. health care system billions of dollars annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Patients in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are particularly at risk.

At a recent meeting of IDWeek, researchers at Columbia University School of Nursing presented the results of two studies showing the direct impact of compliance with prevention practices on infection rates and costs in the NICU. In the first study, researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Nursing, and the Rand Corporation, surveyed 1,064 hospital NICUs that were part of the National Healthcare Safety Network CLABSI Surveillance about compliance with specific central-line bundle prevention practices such as written policies for the use of checklists at insertion sites and maintenance of bundle components.

The survey found that most participating NICUs had written policies for at least one bundle component, though that did not affect overall CLABSI rates. However, NICUs that had a better than 95 percent rate of compliance for daily assessment of central-line necessity had lower CLABSI rates in all but one of the five infant weight categories studied.

Previous studies have shown that the use of preventive practices (checklists, hand-hygiene monitoring, daily checking of necessity of central lines, etc.) for insertion and maintenance is responsible for the reduction of CLABSI rates in NICUs. Prior to the Columbia study, however, there had been limited national data on compliance and CLABSI rates in a larger sample of NICUs. “Vigilance in following preventive protocols is critical to keeping the incidence of CLABSIs in the NICU low,” says Columbia Nursing’s Patricia Stone, RN, PhD, Centennial Professor of Health Policy in Nursing, and one of the study authors. “Neonatal ICU patients are highly vulnerable. Their central lines are often in place for longer periods of time, and their immune systems are not developed enough to fight infections.”

In the second study, Columbia Nursing’s Meghan Murray, MPH, surveillance officer, and colleagues looked at hospital charges related to health care-associated infections (HAIs) in NICUs. Over a three-year period, the researchers evaluated four level-3 NICUs, looking at infants younger than seven days who were hospitalized for four days or longer. The infants were grouped by the presence or absence of HAIs, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacilli.

The costs for infants with CLABSIs were significantly higher than for those with non-CLABSI HAIs or other HAIs, regardless of the study site, sex, race, and birth weight of the infants. The mean charges for the 88 infants with antimicrobial-resistant organism bloodstream infections and the 95 infants without were comparable, at a little over $550,000.

4. Electronic Health Records Key to Tracking Immunization Levels and Trends The use of electronic health records (EHRs) to automate immunization reporting is an effective way for health-care providers to share information with public health agencies and ensure that the population is properly immunized, according to a study led by Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, MPH, RN, associate professor in Biomedical Informatics and published in Applied Clinical Informatics. It reduces reporting lag times by easing the administrative burden, reducing paperwork, and providing clinicians with access to reliable and up-to-date immunization histories. For at-risk populations, EHRs are a critical way for public health agencies to track immunizations throughout the city and see any gaps or overlaps in specific populations.

State and local immunization registries have helped control vaccine-preventable diseases but there are limitations. Registries frequently report slow and incomplete data submission by health care providers, who in many areas submit information via paper files.

In 2005, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene created the Primary Care Information Project (PCIP). Its goal is to improve the health of New Yorkers by supporting the adoption and use of EHRs among the city’s primary care providers. The project focuses on medically underserved populations in east and central Harlem, the South Bronx, and central Brooklyn.

Merrill and colleagues looked at 1.7 million unidentified records that were submitted to the New York City-Wide Immunization Registry by 217 primary care practices enrolled in PCIP. The records represented 220,000 individuals and covered a three-year period. The data allowed the researchers to evaluate pre- and postlaunch automated reporting via EHRs. Pre-launch records measured reporting via the online registry or through electronic file transfer.

The researchers found that EHRs made reporting much more efficient and that the health care practices used the automated technology 60 percent more often than they did the online registry. While the numbers of daily reports remained stable over the three-year period, the automated submissions of new records increased18 percent and of past records 98 percent. Lag times in reporting were also significantly reduced.

Currently, U.S. health officials recommend that the public be immunized against 17 vaccine-preventable diseases. However, tracking vaccinations is difficult, especially among underserved populations, whose care is often managed by multiple providers. Various state and local health agencies set up immunization registries to consolidate scattered patient records, reduce unnecessary vaccinations, and improve overall vaccination rates.

“Automated reporting via EHRs is making it much easier for health care providers to submit accurate and timely information to public health officials, who will be better able to determine where immunizations are incomplete or duplicated,” says Merrill. “In NYC this will go a long way toward helping the public health system fulfill its role in ensuring that residents are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases.

5. Infection Prevention— Don’t Overlook Gender Add another item to the list of differences between men and women: the incidence of bacterial infections.

In a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Bevin Cohen, MPH, program director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Prevent Infections, found that men had much higher rates of community- and health care-associated bloodstream infections (BSIs) and surgical-site infections (SSIs) than women.

Cohen and her team examined the discharge records of nearly 134,000 adults and more than 66,000 children who were patients at a tertiary care, community, or pediatric care hospital over a three-year period. All were associated with a large academic medical center in New York City, and the data were collected retrospectively.

The study found marked differences between men and women in every category of infection, even after controlling for factors such as body mass index (which was higher in women). Men were 30 percent more likely to contract community-associated BSIs and 60 percent more likely to contract health care-associated BSIs and SSIs. BSIs were considered community associated if they occurred less than 48 hours before admission and health care-associated if they occurred 48 hours after.

Gender differences were most pronounced in adolescents aged 12 to 17 and adults aged 18 to 49. No significant distinctions were seen in adults over age 60 or children under 12. The adolescent group’s differences were related solely to community-associated BSIs. One reason for the gender disparity may be the way bacteria colonize on the skin of men, who also tend to have more bacteria at the sites where central venous catheters are inserted.

Another is that men are less likely to be assessed for urinary tract infections (UTIs), which cause an estimated 25–43 percent of BSIs. UTIs are more common in women, who are much more likely than men to have urinary catheters and thus infections that can be seen in urine cultures. The result is that health care professionals may have an unintended bias against detecting UTIs in men. This study, however, excluded patients with UTIs, and the rates of urinary catheterization were the same in both genders. So the researchers were surprised to find that the BSI rates of men significantly surpassed those of women.

Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are widespread and far-reaching. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year approximately two million patients suffer from an HAI. An estimated 90,000 of these patients will die, making HAIs the fifth-leading cause of death in U.S. acute care hospitals.

Many are preventable.

Another factor is the alarming incidence of antibiotic resistance. Infections once treatable by commonly used antibiotics are becoming more resistant to even the most powerful classes of these drugs. In addition to the serious health consequences, this imposes an enormous economic burden on hospitals and the U.S. health care system.

Resistant infections can extend hospital stays, strain health care resources, and result in frequent readmissions (an added financial hardship for hospitals, now that Medicare is reducing reimbursements for readmissions within 30 days of discharge).

In a 2008 study, infections in 188 patients cost one Chicago hospital an estimated $13.35 million. And that’s the low-end estimate. HAIs are estimated to cost $33 billion per year, according to the CDC. Says Cohen, “By understanding the factors that put specific patients at risk for infections, clinicians may be able to design targeted prevention and surveillance strategies to improve infection rates and outcomes. For example, if we know that there are biological differences in bacteria on the skin, we can institute preoperative decontaminating procedures and postoperative wound care for men, to further reduce their risk of infection.”

“These findings confirm that bloodstream infections during hospitalizations, whether antibiotic resistant or not, result in higher hospital costs,” says Murray.

“Reducing the incidence of HAIs in the NICU could substantially reduce these costs.”

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Practicing good hand hygiene is the single most important thing health care workers can do to prevent the spread of infections in hospitals. Yet in some institutions, less than half of health care workers regularly wash their hands. According to a recent study led by Laurie J. Conway, RN, at Columbia University School of Nursing’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Prevent Infections, an automated tracking and reporting system could boost hand hygiene compliance rates in hospitals.

In the study, an electronic monitoring system was installed throughout a 140-bed community hospital and evaluated over a six-month period. Compliance rates for hand hygiene were calculated hourly for each inpatient unit and per patient visit for outpatient units and the emergency room.

Hospital managers, executives, and department heads were kept informed via monthly reports, with the expectation that they would share information in the reports with their staff.

It was effective. Inpatient units experienced a 3–5 percent increase in hand hygiene compliance rates, though outpatient and emergency room rates did not change significantly.

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“We know that hand hygiene saves lives, and we want to determine the easiest way to improve adherence,” said Conway, who presented the study results at a recent meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). “Dispensers that can electronically monitor when staff wash their hands offer immediate and effective feedback and have the potential to improve hand hygiene. They could go a long way toward ensuring patient safety,” said Conway.

Each year in the U.S., nearly two million patients contract infections while in the hospital, and approximately 90,000 die. Most of these infections could be prevented.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hand hygiene can reduce health care- associated infections by more than 66 percent.

The CDC’s comprehensive guidelines for hand hygiene include recommendations to wash hands before performing invasive procedures (e.g., inserting catheters), taking care of patients with weakened immune systems, and touching wounds. Hands should also be washed after contact with patients, after contact with blood or

body fluids, before donning and after removing surgical gloves, and after touching inanimate objects, such as medical equipment, doorknobs, and bathroom faucets.

Even with the institution of the CDC Hand Hygiene Guidelines, compliance rates have not significantly improved, according to a 2007 study by Elaine Larson, PhD, associate dean for research, published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

The automated monitoring system is a promising tool that warrants further investigation.

7. Nurses Use New Mobile Health Tools to Help Patients Quit Smoking

“Nurses truly are on the frontlines of this major public health issue, and they can effect tremendous change,” says Bakken.

“Making the most up-to-date information readily accessible through the integration of technology into the workflow can assist nurses in managing and supporting patients’ smoking-cessation efforts.”

As a primary point of contact for patients in many clinical settings, nurses play a key role in providing resources to help them quit smoking. Now, more nurses are using mobile technologies to access the best and most up-to-date smoking-cessation resources for their patients.

CIS has a wealth of information for the public about smoking prevention and cessation programs. But even though there are effective tobacco-cessation interventions available that could double or triple quit rates, according to a 2006 National Institutes of Health Stateof-the-Science Conference on tobacco, not enough smokers request or are being offered these interventions. This is particularly true for populations at high risk for health disparities because of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.

In a study published in the July 2013 issue of Oncology Nursing Forum, Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, Alumni Professor of the School of Nursing, and professor of biomedical informatics, and colleagues looked at how smoking prevention and cessation resources on a mobile health platform were integrated into the workflow of 156 registered nurses in advanced practice nurse training. The study also looked at how the nurses used the information and whether they found it helpful. The resources were from the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service (CIS).

The nurses used the mHealth decision support system to screen for tobacco use in 7,696 clinical encounters in which 23 percent of patients were African American and 38 percent Latino. Most were insured by Medicare or Medicaid. Of the nearly 1,100 smokers identified, 38 percent were willing to quit.

Smoking remains one of the nation’s leading public health challenges. It is the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 443,000 deaths are caused by tobacco use each year. While the number of Americans who smoke has decreased 20 percent from the 1960s, there are still approximately 43 million adult smokers.

In addition, researchers are finally able to put a number on the years of life a smoker can expect to lose. A study published earlier this year in The New England Journal of Medicine found that smokers lose 10 years of life on average, but the earlier they quit, the more years they can gain back—yet another compelling reason for smokers to quit.

In this setting, 86 percent of nurses said that they used the mHealth decision support system to access the CIS information through a context-specific link called an “infobutton,” and 60 percent considered the information useful. The researchers also found that overall use of CIS resources by smokers and health care providers in the New York metropolitan area increased during the period of time covered by the study.

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The researchers found that while the average length of stay in the APCU was comparable to that in other medical-surgical units (MSUs), the median charges were significantly lower in the APCU. They also found that a high proportion of patients were admitted to the APCU from ICUs—indicating a pronounced need for such units to serve patients when hospital-based end-of-life care is needed. It’s noteworthy that the use of ICUs during the last month of life for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer was dramatically lower (12.1 percent) at the Montefiore APCU than at 137 other U.S. academic medical centers. The creation of the APCU resulted in statistically significant reductions in both the ICU mortality rate and length of stay, as terminally ill patients were transitioned out of the ICU. “In our study, more than 70 percent of patients were discharged from the hospital to the community,” says McHugh. “This is not only a more compassionate and efficient way to manage their needs, but it alleviates the strain on limited resources in ICUs and MSUs.”

Once available only to patients in hospice, palliative care services are now offered at most hospitals to anyone facing serious and life-threatening illnesses. Unlike hospice, palliative care is provided along with curative treatment.

Studies show that palliative care consultations can shorten stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), reduce costs, and enhance quality of care by improving pain and other symptoms.

Now some hospitals are taking the practice of palliative care further, through the creation of dedicated acute palliative care units (APCUs). According to a recent study published in the American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, these units are an efficient and cost-effective way to care for patients with advanced chronic illnesses.

Marlene McHugh, DNP, FNP, DCC, assistant professor and colleagues from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, and Montefiore Medical Center, evaluated the economic impact of Montefiore’s APCU. They looked at the demographic, diagnosis, length of stay, discharge status, and hospital charges data for 1,837 patients who were admitted to the APCU over a three-year period. Most had sepsis and heart failure with concomitant illnesses.

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The study suggests that potential cost benefits can be achieved by managing terminally ill patients in APCUs rather than in ICUs or MSUs and that these benefits are more likely to occur when patients are directly managed by palliative care specialists, trained in chronic disease management as well as family and end-of-life counseling.

The report notes that this combination of advanced-disease management and personal counseling can assist patients and families in the transition from aggressive treatment to more palliative care.

This is significant. Americans are living longer, long enough to develop chronic conditions that require greater use of the nation’s health care resources. According to the Administration on Aging, there will be 72 million Americans aged 65 and older by the year 2030—that’s 19 percent of the population.

In the U.S., the majority of patients with advanced illness die in acute or long-term care facilities, with around 20 percent dying in ICUs. In the absence of specialized units, patients in an ICU either are sent to a general medical unit or step-down respiratory unit or must continue receiving care in the ICU. The establishment of APCUs allows patients to leave the ICU while continuing to receive a high level of medical care that focuses on their values and treatment preferences, as well as support for their family members.

To the Community and Back: Prisoners are Key to Containing Infections Prisons, with their highly transient population, are a breeding ground for infectious diseases, including one that is of particular concern to public health officials—methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). While MRSA has been primarily a hospital-acquired infection, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MRSA rates are escalating in community settings at an alarming rate.

With grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of the National Institutes of Health, a collaborative research team from Columbia University School of Nursing, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Mailman School of Public Health are studying prison populations to identify factors and patterns associated with the development and transmission of S. aureus infections.

At a recent meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the School of Nursing’s Carolyn Herzig, MS, MPhil, and Montina Befus, MPH, and the Department of Medicine’s Dhritiman Mukherjee, PhD, MPH, discussed the phases and preliminary findings of an ongoing five-year study, “Risk Factors for Spread of Staphylococcus aureus in Prisons.”

Their findings are of concern. Among inmates of two maximum-security prisons in New York State, Sing Sing (for men) and Bedford Hills (for women), the rates of S. aureus and MRSA among prisoners entering and leaving prison were much higher than among the general population.

Upon entering, 50 percent of women and 58 percent of men were colonized with S. aureus.

Women were almost twice as likely to enter prison with MRSA—10.6 percent compared with 5.9 percent for men. Upon leaving the prison system, the numbers were also high: 38 percent of women and 44 percent of men had S. aureus, and 10 percent of women and 9 peprcent of men had MRSA. Inmates are at high risk for contracting MRSA infections, and it is difficult for public health specialists to identify the source of outbreaks and develop effective infection-control strategies.

Among the contributing factors are overcrowding, insufficient hygiene, and inmates at high risk for infections. Many inmates have used intravenous drugs, have tattoos and piercings, are infected with HIV, and commonly share personal items.

Individually and collectively, these factors fuel the spread of MRSA and other infectious diseases among prisoners. Another concern is the transient nature of the prison system. Since 2005, more than 700,000 prisoners have cycled in and out of U.S. state and federal prisons each year, exposing both the general population and other prisoners to S. aureus infection.

Yet this high-risk group has received limited attention. “It’s important that we communicate with our colleagues about this lesser-known but very important public-health issue and encourage further study,” said Herzig. “Understanding the prevalence, risk factors, and ramifications of MRSA both within and outside the prison system can facilitate the development of earlier interventions and containment protocols that could greatly reduce community-acquired infections.”

The study continues through 2014.

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8. Dedicated Palliative Care Units: Good for Patients, Good for Hospitals

A New Home for Columbia Nursing

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In the early part of the last century, when nursing students from Presbyterian Hospital moved into stately Maxwell Hall, they encountered a building that perfectly suited the educational needs of those preparing to enter the profession.

When nursing students from Columbia Nursing — their academic descendants — move into their new home, they’ll discover a school of nursing befitting one of the

nation’s eminent educational and research institutions, a place that will play a vital role in preparing advanced practice nurses and scientists for the challenges of 21st century health care just as Maxwell Hall did for its era.

Instead of a hushed assembly hall, students will find Internet-enabled conference and seminar rooms where they can share ideas and learn directly from one another.

Replacing the decorous parlor, a sun-filled atrium will allow faculty, students, staff and

visitors to gather for impromptu meetings and conversation. In lieu of the formal dining room, a café will provide nourishing snacks and a comfortable place to unwind or study quietly. And a rooftop terrace will allow members of the school’s community to mingle or attend scholarly presentations while absorbing spectacular views of upper Manhattan and beyond.

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“The future of nursing and nursing education will have a new address,” said Dean Bobbie Berkowitz, RN, PhD, FAAN, in October when she announced plans for the school’s new seven-story main building that will be located on the corner of 168th Street and Audubon Avenue — anchoring the east end of the Columbia University Medical Center campus.

The new structure’s most distinguishing feature is its very design. A succession of

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small and large seminar rooms, conversation nooks, quiet spots for individual study, and a simulation laboratory outfitted with highfidelity mock health care settings were all designed in active consultation with the school’s faculty, students, and staff. For more than four months, Columbia Nursing teams met with CO|FXFOWLE architects to offer their vision of how a building intended to prepare future nurse leaders, educators, clinicians, and scientists should look and

function. What emerged was an environment that promotes teamwork, collaboration, and the free exchange of ideas, all reflecting the overarching principles and values of nursing and nurse education.

“Arriving at a blueprint for our new home has been a dynamic, interactive process,” said Dean Berkowitz. “The result is a modern building that reflects the many perspectives of the faculty members, students, and staff that

will use it. The facility will give full expression to our pursuit of excellence in nurse education, research, and practice.”

The building’s 68,000 square foot interior is 65 percent larger than the school’s current facilities in the Georgian Building.

Customizable study areas can be modified to satisfy different styles of teaching and learning, while faculty offices will accommodate students for one-on-one

meetings and mentoring.

Three clinical skills labs will contain a total of six beds and 14 exam tables to help students sharpen their clinical skills and critical thinking. A state-of-the art simulation laboratory will enable students, aided by hightech mannequins, to master complex clinical techniques in a protective environment. The sim lab will occupy nearly two floors and be equipped with a variety of model health-care

settings, including an in-patient exam area, critical care unit, and operating room.

The building is also designed to create synergies between the school’s clinical and research faculty. Working in close proximity, and in a variety of spaces that encourage interaction, clinicians and nurse researchers will benefit from mutual enrichment and a broadening of their perspectives.

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“Columbia Nursing is entering a new era in its long and celebrated history,” commented Marjorie “Midge” Harrison Fleming ‘69, chair of Columbia University School of Nursing’s Board of Visitors. “Nurses are quickly moving to the center of the health care system, and our students are being educated to make important contributions that advance the profession in education, research, and service. This building provides an opportunity for friends and alumni to join as partners in

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establishing the next chapters of both the school and the future of nursing.”

“Our new home will foster a community where generations of nurses will be superbly prepared for one of the most exciting, rewarding, and challenging professions an individual could hope for,” said Dean Berkowitz. “Nursing and nurse education must regularly anticipate and respond to fresh developments, as well as the changing needs

of the patients, families, and communities we serve. This building will be especially suited to help us do so, thereby meeting the test of preparing nurse leaders and advancing the science of nursing in the decades to come.”

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Shortly after arriving as dean of Columbia University School of Nursing in 2010, Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN, convened a representative group of faculty and staff members and began a planning process for shaping the school’s future.

Columbia Nursing: Shaping the Future of the Field

Programmatic and administrative growth areas and goals were identified for enhancing the school’s status as a leader in nursing education, research, and service.

At the same time, the Institute of Medicine published a landmark report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” whose goal was to ensure that nurses fully participated in advancing the health of the nation, particularly in a time of health care reform. The work of the school’s planning process took on special importance in the context of this changing health care landscape.

There has been significant progress and much to celebrate since the school formalized its strategic framework and began work on its implementation. What follows are highlights of what has been accomplished through the energy, vision, and commitment of our talented faculty and dedicated staff.

This report also serves as indication of what lies ahead for Columbia Nursing as it solidifies its position as one of the world’s foremost schools of nursing.

Educational Programs to Prepare Nurse Leaders A pillar of the school’s core mission is to provide our graduates with a strong foundation of knowledge and experience for delivering the highest quality care and service to our patients, their families, and the community. The challenge of ensuring a well-educated, wellprepared nursing workforce has never been more urgent as nurses have assumed a new, more active role at the forefront of patient care in

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both traditional and non-traditional settings. In addition, the rapid pace of medical technology and pharmacology requires nurses to master new and complex knowledge and skills.

In light of this dynamic environment, Columbia Nursing regularly modernizes our curriculum to ensure that students receive instruction in the most up-to-date, evidence-based practices for providing comprehensive, integrated care that spans the life of the patient. We also work to cultivate critical thinking skills that serve our students throughout their professional careers and as lifelong learners.

Changes are being planned to our curriculum so that our master of sciences (MS) degree will serve as the entry to professional nursing practice beginning in 2015 and all advanced practice programs will transition to the DNP educational level beginning in 2016. Four years of full time study will be required to achieve the MS and DNP degree.

The MS degree will be conferred after four semesters at which time the graduate will be eligible to sit for the nurse licensing examination, to be followed by eight semesters of graduate education which will terminate with DNP degree and eligibility for APRN certification and licensure.

These changes will ensure that Columbia Nursing continues to produce skillful, compassionate clinicians for leading the delivery of care within health systems and society.

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Advancing Patient Care through Nursing Science Just as nurses bring a special perspective to the care of patients, they also add an important dimension of understanding and patient benefit through nursing science.

Columbia Nursing’s research enterprise is among the most productive and respected in the field. In an intensely competitive environment for government-funded grants, the school experienced a 26 percent increase in active sponsored projects between FY 2012 and FY 2013, an 80 percent increase in newly sponsored projects for the same period.

A common theme of our research is addressing health care disparities in recent immigrants and ethnic and racial minorities. For example, is the Washington Heights/Inwood Informatics Infrastructure for Community-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research (WICER).

Together with an interdisciplinary research team from Columbia University Medical Center and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Columbia Nursing collected and integrated data from a variety of sources into a virtual health databank. They have also developed a set of tools and processes for accessing the data, and conducting research studies that take advantage of the infrastructure. A key aspect of WICER was visiting households within the targeted community and interviewing more than 6,000 residents to gather information about health behaviors and other factors influencing health. The information has been linked with clinical data from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to create a more complete picture of the health status of community members.

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The school’s work in infection control continues to advance the field by extending its focus beyond traditional acute care settings to non-hospital sites, such as nursing homes and pediatric long-term care facilities. Columbia research is also evaluating and comparing treatments, medical tests, procedures, and health care services in such areas as pediatric asthma therapy, vitamin supplements, hypertension screening, the organization of public health departments, and staffing ratios in the nursing workforce.

Additionally, we are active is the use of Internet-based tools and mobile devices to improve the care of patients and prevent illness and injury. One effort is a web-based intervention to improve the health and health care management of Latino patients with dementia.

Another is investigating how texting can be used to reinforce healthy behaviors among teens.

Columbia Nursing has also established several projects to help ensure that the field of nursing research is regularly replenished with new nurse scientists. These include providing mentoring support to younger faculty members and students through workshops, seminars, and reviews; technical assistance to help strengthen grant and publication submissions; and coaching to enhance presentation skills for effective communication to professional and peer audiences.

Advancing Nursing throughout the World Just as nurses are on the frontlines of health care in the United States, they also play a key role globally, where in many countries they represent the only provider a family will see during its lifetime.

Recognizing the centrality of nurses

for global health, Columbia Nursing has strengthened our Office of Global Initiatives with the goal of fostering international partnerships that advance nursing service, education, and research.

Through our collaboration with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery Services, we are developing guidelines and curricula to strengthen nursing and midwifery education worldwide for delivering comprehensive HIV care. In partnership with health care institutions in Swaziland and South Africa, Columbia Nursing is strengthening nurse capacity in those countries in the areas of education, clinical care, and research. A partnership is currently underway with Columbia Global Center in Kenya and future partnerships are being considered in Jordan, Brazil, and Chile. The focus of these efforts is to identify gaps in health disparities that are best met by nursing research and building an infrastructure to carry out the findings.

Columbia is the only school of nursing designated a Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing by the WHO. Our students and faculty provide care at the Clinica de la Familia in La Romana in the Dominican Republic to adults and children with HIV/AIDS. Our faculty-exchange program reinforces our students’ international perspective by hosting nurse leaders from other countries to give special lectures and presentations.

And we are helping increase the capacity of nurses and midwives in ten African nations in collaboration with Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Columbia Nursing’s commitment to global health supports our belief that

quality health care is a fundamental right for all members of society, both in the United States and worldwide.

Caring for Patients of All Backgrounds and Cultures Our curriculum, including a new course on health disparities, enables students to acquire a broad perspective for providing care that meets the needs of a diverse, multicultural population.

Our Office of Diversity and Cultural Affairs fosters an environment that respects individual differences and emphasizes social justice and quality health care for all people. It sponsors educational and mentoring workshops with local high schools and colleges to encourage careers in nursing. Columbia Nursing continues to host seminars, open to the entire Columbia health community, on health disparities and sensitivity in working with minority communities. The school has also taken a leadership role in addressing LGBT health.

Creating a student body that reflects the diversity of our patients is another of our goals. The Office of Admissions has conducted

outreach at historically black colleges and participated in college fairs and conferences aimed at underrepresented populations. While more remains to be done in this area, from 2012 to 2013 there was a 24 percent increase in the number of underrepresented groups enrolled in our post-baccalaureate Entry to Practice program. From 2011 to 2013, the number of Columbia Nursing tenure-track faculty members from under-represented groups doubled. And there has been an increase in the amount of diversity-focused endowed funds and funds earmarked to help recruit underrepresented minority students.

A Bright and Bold Future As this summary of progress shows, Columbia Nursing is on track for an era of exceptional growth. The school is thriving in its mission of preparing the next generation of nurse clinicians. The research being produced by our faculty and students is advancing patient care and having sustained impact both in the United States and globally.

The activities addressing health care disparities and broader participation of underrepresented minorities

in nursing are helping to create a culture of tolerance and promote sensitivity and competence in caring for diverse individuals, families, and communities.

There has been progress in other areas as well, including enhancing the school’s financial management capabilities, establishing a communications office, and expanding development and alumni relations. And a new state-of-the-art building – now in development – will ensure that we remain at the forefront of nursing education and research for years to come.

All across the school, there is momentum and excitement for what the future holds for Columbia Nursing. Nurses are now at the center of the health care system, and our students are being trained to make real contributions that advance the profession in education, research, and service. Columbia Nursing is proud to be a major force in the lives of the patients we serve and the nurse-leaders we prepare.

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Somos Familia Columbia Nursing Students Share Healing and Hope in the Dominican Republic

by Robert Brown

In 2014, Clinica de Familia La Romana (CFLR), located in La Romana, Dominican Republic, will celebrate its 15th year providing health care to the “poorest of the poor” on the eastern end of the island of Hispaniola. The clinic is the first service site of the International Family AIDS Program (IFAP), a collaborative project of Columbia University that supports health interventions in several countries and provides opportunities for global health training to students, faculty, and others.

CFLR’s original focus was on countering the vertical transmission of HIV from mothers to babies; today it is the secondlargest HIV clinic in the country, annually treating 1,600 children and adults with HIV. Through the years the clinic has also significantly expanded its public health services, treating more than 40,000 non-HIV patients last year alone— an incredible achievement in a resource-poor area.

”Empathy is the heart of this place,” says Derrick Luis Lewis, the clinic’s student and volunteer coordinator. “It’s empathy that underlies our motto: Somos Familia—We are Family. And that includes the students who come to work with us.”

“Three years ago, we had no formal student clinical experience in international venues,” says Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNPPC, associate dean of student affairs at Columbia University School of Nursing.

“So we went to CFLR to determine whether the program there could provide suitable educational opportunities for our students.

As it turns out, it has proven very useful, partly because our own neighborhood, Washington Heights, is largely Dominican.

Consequently, the clinic offers students insight into working with our local population; it makes them more insightful about Dominican culture—the family support systems and approach to disease.”

CFLR began when Stephen Nicholas, MD, professor of pediatrics and associate dean for admissions, College of Physicians and Surgeons, received a request for

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help from a Catholic order of nuns. The Adoratrices Sisters, who work among the poor in La Romana, saw a pressing need for practitioners of Western medicine to provide health care to pregnant women with HIV. In 1999, when the clinic was established, no one was willing to touch HIV patients, much less deliver their babies. Then Nicholas, Columbia University, and others responded to the nuns’ call with resources and funding.

Consequently, that same year, the first baby supported by the program was born HIV-free and is still alive today. In the years that followed, the clinic expanded its patient services, as well as its educational offerings with Columbia University, and in 2007, it became an independent nongovernmental organization, or NGO. “We’ve come a long way in 15 years,” Nicholas says. “We started with patient care, and today research and education are also part of our program.”

AN EDUCATION IN GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH As a major initiative of Columbia University’s outreach into global public health, CFLR annually hosts more than 60 medical residents, postgraduate fellows, and faculty, as well as students from Columbia’s schools of dentistry, public health, and nursing. “Collaborating with the school of nursing is one of the best things we ever did,” says Nicholas. “We needed nursing students because the Dominican Republic has a weak system of nursing education.

But equally important are the enthusiasm and empathy these young people bring to the clinic—they strengthen our program through their interactions with both the staff and patients.”

“The clinic is providing amazing care to people who need it and who wouldn’t receive it otherwise,” says Mina Halpern, executive director of the clinic for the past two years. “Most of our 78 employees come from the populations we serve: Some are former sex workers; some are HIV positive; some come from extreme poverty.

All of them have a deep feeling for this community, so when the nursing students come and share their passion for the work,

they are received as family also.

These students become a part of us.”

Melanie Swan, ’14, who is in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program, visited the clinic this summer. “I wanted to put myself outside my comfort zone,” she says. “This was my first exposure to global health, and at first it was quite a surprise—the weather, the language, the culture, the health care issues. But the time I spent in La Romana turned into a wonderful, truly unforgettable experience.”

Swan, who plans on pursuing a clinical doctorate at Columbia Nursing, is not alone in her praise of the program. Zoe Andrada, ’14, says, “CFLR offers a tremendous service to that community. The experience gave me a new point of view regarding how to work with immigrant populations in this country, especially the Dominican community here in Washington Heights.”

Lewis has seen such changes in perspective repeatedly since joining the staff in 2011.

“When students first get here, some see the place through the eyes of a tourist— beautiful sky and sun and sand,” he says.

“We’re on the coast, some 80 miles east of the capital. But behind the world-class beach resorts is a large, impoverished community based on agriculture and manual labor. Many of our clients live in the batays, which are small, poor villages of sugarcane cutters, who suffer from significant rates of HIV. And many local women work in the sex trade, which is legal in Dominican Republic.

Some students who come here have never seen anything like this before.”

One student who had had experience with Dominican culture before attending the program this summer is Genesis Grullon, ’15, a longtime resident of Washington Heights whose mother immigrated from the Dominican Republic before she was born.

Her decision to become a family nurse practitioner is based partly on a desire to serve the Dominicans of her neighborhood.

“I have been to DR several times, and I have been the interpreter for my mom in the U.S. since I was 8 years old, often helping her with visits to the doctor,” Grullon says.

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“So this is my culture. However, I still learned a lot from the program— especially from the clinic work and the visits to the brothels. At one point, I was talking to a sex worker, a young woman maybe my age, about her life and work and HIV. And I kept thinking, had my mom not left there, who knows, this could’ve been me.”

In a world where immigration is on the rise, “it’s important to remember that global health is also local health,” says Ana Jimenez-Bautista, who was born in the Dominican Republic and is former director of programs at IFAP. “This is especially true in urban areas like New York, where there are so many immigrants. That’s one reason why it’s important for students to participate in international programs. Ultimately, education and global health go hand in hand.”

Maya Scherer, IFAP’s current director of programs, agrees: “Global health education goes far beyond simply working in an international setting— it’s about helping students gain cultural competency that will help them overseas as well as at home. It’s about being able to build relationships.

IFAP has a strong collaboration with the school of nursing because the school is so committed to this idea.”

STOPPING THE EPIDEMIC, ONE PERSON AT A TIME The philosophy of the education program at CFLR is that everyone involved benefits: patients, staff, students, and faculty. “The moral imperative is that you are both learning and giving; there’s always a service component,” says Honig. “We feel strongly that nursing students should have the opportunity for a credit-earning experience outside their community.

It exposes them to other cultures; it allows them to learn about and contribute to various programs; and it gives them the opportunity for interdisciplinary education alongside other Columbia students.”

Students usually hear about the program when they enroll in the school of nursing or, later, through campus announcements or student clubs.

Students who apply are interviewed by the program’s administrators to determine what they want out of the program and their level of Spanish competency, among other things. Every summer, a Spanish immersion class is available for students who need to improve their skills, since the clinic is “Spanish-only.”

“Ultimately, an opportunity like this is about letting students explore their desire to participate in global health,” says Scherer. “This is special work—and our commitment to collaborating and supporting the La Romana clinic sets an important example for the students.”

Students join the program in La Romana for a 4-week period through the Center for Global Health, a collaborative program between the clinic and Columbia University that has sponsored some 300 international and Dominican health science students at CFLR. The center’s mission is to improve the health of underserved populations by involving global health students and professionals in research, education, and service, essentially helping program participants understand the health care challenges of a developing country. The center also strives to increase participants’ understanding of Dominican and Latino populations in the United States

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satisfaction surveys, and marketing efforts.

Many students also get involved with MAMI, the Maternal-Infant Health Annex, which is a public/private collaboration between the clinic and a provincial hospital located across the street. Last year, MAMI provided adolescents with some 3,000 family planning sessions, 119 sex education sessions in schools, and 1,800 HIV tests. MAMI also provided support to 893 pregnant adolescents.

through exposure to both Dominican and Haitian cultures, as well as through immersion in the Spanish language. Toward this end, while in La Romana, nursing students have opportunities to interact with Dominican students and to tour regional clinics and Dominican universities, familiarizing themselves with the Dominican systems of public health and education.

Upon arrival in La Romana, nursing students receive an orientation and introductions to the staff before settling into clinical and project work.

Students are quickly integrated into the team and work a full workweek, usually rotating through the clinic and hospital. They are also encouraged to engage in Spanish language classes and local cultural activities.

“The first thing I remember about the program is that when we arrived, the whole clinic came out to meet us,” says Grullon. “They made us feel like family—it was a good feeling. Every morning the patients lined up ready to be treated, eager as can be. And I saw every kind of patient.”

Swan agrees. “My favorite part was that we were welcomed so warmly and allowed to focus on the areas we are most interested in,” she says. “For example, I was able to observe both the medical and social care of HIV patients. I hadn’t seen a lot of work on vertical transmission of HIV and how to disclose health status to the families. Many parents don’t even want their kids to know they have HIV until they are older. Seeing how the staff handled these situations gave me new insight into communicating with patients and families.”

The program is structured to allow students to split their time equally between training/education and working on their own projects. Students collaborate with an advisor to select a project based on their interests, the clinic’s needs, and other factors. There are numerous projects to choose from, but all focus on increasing the clinic’s quality of patient care.

Many students join projects already underway at the clinic. Not surprisingly, since sex workers are a large portion of the clinic’s clients, one ongoing, long-term project involves active outreach to the 60 or so sex-related establishments, or negocios, in the area. The clinic’s Women’s Program, or Programa de la Mujer, provides services for sex workers, including government-mandated exams, education, and counseling. Last year the outreach team made more than 1,100 visits to area negocios.

“Working with sex workers is something I had never done before, so I joined that project,” Andrada says. “I visited brothels with a clinic worker who teaches them about disease, birth control, and other issues. This was my first trip abroad as a clinician, and the experience helped me better assess what steps to take to help people in these situations.”

Andrada was surprised to find that many sex workers live, as well as work, in the brothels. “I chose to visit the negocios in part because I was curious about the working conditions and about why women go into sex work,” she says. “As nurse practitioner students, we often ask patients about their experience with depression, anxiety, and violence. I talked to one sex worker who said she had tried to commit suicide three times. She was 21 years old, the mother of a two-year-old and a five-year-old. She was

Melanie Swan ‘14, leaves her mark on La Clinica de familia

also a student, still trying to finish high school.

Like most of the women we talked to, she saw sex work as just a short-term thing. All of the women we interviewed wanted out. But they also felt that they have no other options. Prior to this experience, I always felt that no one had to be a sex worker. This was the first time I realized that there aren’t many choices for some young women because of their socio-economic situation, family support, and level of education.”

“The nursing students learn so much, but they also give so much, not just to the patients, but to our staff,” says Mireya Cruz, who heads CFLR’s social services department. “The students see things we don’t always see, and they share that information with us through their projects and presentations. The exchange sensitizes them to another culture, but it also helps us put the people first; so they are helping us stop the epidemic, one person at a time.”

In addition to participating in patient care, nursing students contribute to the clinic’s research projects in such areas as the management of HIV/tuberculosis co-infection, disclosure of status to children with HIV, and male circumcision as an HIV-prevention tool.

Students also have tackled projects designed to improve care provided at the clinic; examples include the creation of educational modules on nutrition and hygiene, staff training, client

Another opportunity for Columbia Nursing students is community service to the batays, whose residents live in inadequate housing, receive little or no education, and have limited access to transportation and thus to health care. Clinic teams made some 9,000 visits last year to the batays, where the prevalence of HIV is three times higher than in the general population. The clinic is one of very few organizations reaching out to these people, and students are an important part of this outreach.

Finally, each summer the clinic operates “Camp Hope and Joy” for HIV-infected children. “This program started in 2005 as an opportunity for children from disadvantaged backgrounds to have fun, forget their problems, and just be kids for a few days,” says Lewis.

The camp provides a safe environment where they can receive support, affection, and respect, while spending time with other kids who are HIV positive.

“Our nursing students approach this opportunity in a hands-on way,” says Honig.

“What can they do to help? What resources can they leave behind? How can they make improvements? That’s one reason the students do a special project. It’s another way of giving back.”

A COMMUNITY-BASED GLOBAL HEALTH EXPERIENCE “Global health goes beyond working in an international setting,” says Scherer. “It’s about gaining cultural competency to enable health care professionals to work in any setting, including among immigrant populations in their own country. We would like to increase our ability to provide international learning experiences to nursing students and nurse practitioners. We also hope to support more research in those settings in the coming years.”

“The students who come to La Romana get to experience global health firsthand,” says Halpern. “Our clients don’t just receive care in our clinic—we also reach out to them in their homes, their families, their neighborhoods.

Community outreach is a key component of our model, as our clients’ needs go far beyond treatment for their physical health. We put the disease in context, which includes clients’ psycho-social reality: their mental health, as well as their family and socio-economic situation. Students need to understand these complexities to become better practitioners wherever they are, be it in the Dominican Republic, Washington Heights, or rural America.”

“This work is extremely important to the future of nursing,” Honig says. “In fact, we are constantly looking for clinical opportunities in other countries, if we can make them work without costs becoming too prohibitive. We also need opportunities in countries where language is not an issue. For example, we hope to expand to some of the other Caribbean islands and to English-speaking parts of Africa.”

Fifteen years of teamwork and hard work have made CFLR a recognized model for providing comprehensive health services in a developing country. Thousands of lives have been touched by the clinic, which is built upon a common vision for creating a greater good.

“This place has a mission ethos to it,” Lewis says. “Everyone here shares the vision. We see lives changed. We see people come in sick and distraught and then leave uplifted, with a new sense of hope. We each contribute our own little granito de arena—‘grain of sand’—to help everyone else. The social challenges we face are enormous, but we feel called to do this.

This is not just a vocation; it is a calling.”

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New Faces New Roles Spring / Fall 2013 Adena Bargad PhD, CNM, joins as Program Director, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program, and Assistant Professor. Bargad has worked as a certified nurse midwife for more than a decade and is an expert in adolescent reproductive health, postpartum depression, menopause, and community health. She practices at Planned Parenthood of New York City. She previously served as clinical preceptor for Women’s Health NP students and as a guest lecturer on adolescent reproductive health at Columbia Nursing. She received a PhD in developmental psychology from Yale University.

Albert Bayona joins as Operations Administrator. He has worked at Columbia University Medical Center since 1998 in various positions. He holds a BA in English Language Arts.

Laura Cabrera joins as Financial Aid Coordinator. She received an MBA from the University of Bridgeport.

Jennifer Dohrn DNP, CNM, joins as Director, Office of Global Initiatives and Assistant Professor.

She is responsible for building and implementing strategy to grow the office of global initiatives. She oversees

collaboration with Columbia Global Centers and leads the Columbia Nursing WHO Collaborative Health Center for Advanced Practice Nursing.

Dohrn has worked as a nurse educator for more than two decades. She previously served as Project Director for the Mailman School of Public Health’s ICAP’s Nurse Capacity Building Program/Nursing Education Partnership Initiative Coordinating Center working to improve the infrastructure for nurses and nurse midwives in 12 Sub Saharan African countries. She continues to contribute to the ICAP program and works at a community health center in New York City. She received her DNP and MS degrees from Columbia Nursing.

Dawn Dowding joins as Professor of Nursing, and serves a joint appointment between Columbia Nursing and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.

Prior to her position at Columbia Nursing, Dowding served as Professor of Applied Health Research at the University of Leeds in her native United

Kingdom. Her research focuses on the development of decision support tools and the evaluation of the effectiveness of such tools in clinical decision making. Dowding previously served as a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California and as a member of the clinical editorial board of the Nursing Times, the UK-based weekly nursing magazine. At Columbia Nursing, she will teach evidence based practice to combined BS/MS students and is currently at work developing a research program across both organizations to improve patient outcomes at the VNSNY. She received her PhD at the University Of Surrey.

Ellen Fahey, DNP, FNP, joins as Assistant Professor of Nursing. She will teach Advanced Clinical Assessment.

She previously served as clinical director of the Concussion Center of Fairfield County, which she also co-founded.

The Center cares for children and adults who have suffered a mild traumatic brain injury. She practices at the Center for Advanced Pediatrics in Norwalk, Connecticut, where she focuses on adolescents. She received her DNP at Columbia Nursing.

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Yaritza Gonzalez joins as Development Associate. She previously worked at the Association of National Advertisers, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and as a radio news reporter.

She has a BA in Public Relations & Journalism from Seton Hall University.

Heidi Hahn-Schroeder, MSN, RN joins as Clinical Placement Director for the combined BS/MS program, a new role at Columbia Nursing. She joined Columbia Nursing in 2005, as an instructor in clinical nursing in pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital (CHONY). Prior to joining Columbia Nursing, she worked as a nurse on the inpatient pediatric units as well as the pediatric and adult emergency departments at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She received her Masters of Science in Nursing from Norwich University and her BS in nursing from SUNY Delhi.

Akil Johnson joins as Operations Coordinator. He previously served as a Store Manager for Starbucks Coffee Company and worked in the retail industry since 1999. He has a BA in Management and Administration.

Holly Jones joins as Director of Human Resources and Faculty Affairs.

She has a BSBA in Human Resources & Business Environment, as well as a JD. She is a Certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and is wellversed in all aspects of human resources and employment law.

Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, ANP-BC, joins as Director of the Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program and as an Assistant Professor.

He has more than 16 years of clinical experience in HIV care and has worked with diverse populations including people with addictions, the homeless, and the LGBT community. Kwong has practiced in a variety of settings including university medical centers, community centers, and outpatient clinics. He is a certified HIV specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine and is also certified by the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

He currently serves as secretary for the Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

Marlene Mauri joins as Human Resources Coordinator. She previously worked at Columbia University Medical Center’s Department of Neurology, the Irving Institute of Clinical and Translational Research and ICAP, a global health center based at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Marlene holds a BBA.

Michelle Odlum, BSN, MPH, EdD, joins as Postdoctoral Research Scientist. She previously served an adjunct Assistant Professor in Health 30 • The Academic Nurse

Information Management (HIM) and the Director of a Health Information Technology (HIT) training program through the City University of New York and as an Informatics Evaluator and co-Investigator in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University Medical Center. Odlum was recently awarded The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Junior Investigator grant to study the impact of societal factors and the influence of health information technology on students’ career choices in health care. She has more than ten years of experience working on a variety of research, evaluation, and health promotion activities in special needs populations. Her research has covered childhood asthma, tobacco cessation, environmental health, HIT, HIV/AIDS, and immunizations.

Lisa Rapaport joins as Senior Communications Specialist in the department of Marketing and Strategic Communications. She has more than 15 years of experience writing about medicine, public health, policy and research. She previously worked as Deputy Team Leader for health and technology news at Bloomberg. Before that, she was a Knight Wallace Medical Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. She also served as a health reporter at The Sacramento Bee and her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and BusinessWeek.

Service Award as well as the American Nurses Foundation Research Award.

Her research areas include HIV/AIDS prevention in the African American community, women’s health, sexual health among older adults, and health disparities.

Laura Zeidenstein, DNP, CNM, is Associate Professor.

Rachel Zuckerman is Senior Digital Strategist.

Jessica Virtuoso joins as Administrative Assistant in the Office of Curricular and Academic Support.

She has a BA in Political Science from Hofstra University.

Alana Zbaren, MA, joins as Academic Affairs Coordinator. She is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received a BS in Interior Design from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She earned an MA in education from the University of St. Thomas.

NEW ROLES Samantha DaLuz is Grants Manager.

Lovette Esliker is Academic Program Coordinator.

Alsacia Pasci, DNS, FNP, RN, joins as Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She is certified in emergency room and critical care. Her research focus is on the experiences of second-generation Dominican women with breast cancer.

She is the first graduate of the CUNY Graduate Center doctoral program in nursing. She earned a BS in Nursing at Long Island University, and an MS from the College of Mount St. Vincent.

Tanyka Smith, PhD, FNP-BC, MS, joins as Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

She previously worked as an adjunct Professor at NYU College of Nursing and as an associate nurse manager in the Emergency Department at Beth Israel Hospital. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner and previously worked in an underserved community at the Brownsville Multi-Service Health Center and currently works at Brooklyn College Health Center. Smith received a MS from Columbia University School of Nursing and her PhD from NYU College of Nursing. She is a past recipient of the NIH/NINR: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research

Dian Holder, MS, is Director, Curricular and Academic Support.

Judy Honig, EdD, DNP, CPNP, was named Dorothy M. Rogers Professor of Nursing.

Marc Kaplan is Associate Dean of Marketing and Strategic Communications.

Mary Tresgallo, DNP, MPH is Assistant Professor.

Tasha White is Academic Program Coordinator.

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Selected Faculty Publications Spring / Fall 2013 Adriana Arcia, PhD, RN, postdoctoral research fellow, authored “Facebook Advertisements for Inexpensive Participant Recruitment among Women in Early Pregnancy,” published in Health Education & Behavior and “US nulliparas’ perceptions of roles and of the birth experience as predictors of their delivery preferences” in Midwifery.

Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, was an author of “Mobile Health-Based Approaches for Smoking Cessation Resources,” published in Oncology Nursing Forum, “Validation of the SelfAssessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies Scale (SANICS) in Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Students,” published in the Journal of Nursing Education, “A Centralized Research Data Repository Enhances Retrospective Outcomes Research Capacity: A Case Report,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, “Content Analysis of Tweets Mentioning Selected Physical Activities,” published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, “An Integrated Model for Patient Care and Clinical Trials (IMPACT) to Support Clinical Research Visit Scheduling Workflow for Future 32 • The Academic Nurse

Learning Health Systems,” published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, “Relationship Between Nursing Documentation and Mortality,” published in the American Journal of Critical Care, “Informing the Design of Clinical Decision Support Services for Evaluation of Children with Minor Blunt Head Trauma in the Emergency Department: A Sociotechnical Analysis,” published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, “Essential Questions: Accuracy, Errors and User Perceptions in a Drag/Drop User-Composable Electronic Health Record,” published in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, “A Usability Study of a Mobile Health Application for Rural Ghanaian Midwives,”Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health (in press) and “Predictors of Nurse Actions in Response to a Mobile Health (mHealth) Decision Support System for GuidelineBased Screening and Management of Tobacco Use, Oncology Nursing Forum (in press).

Mary Byrne, PhD, CPNP, FAAN, Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor of Health Care for the Underserved in Nursing, was the lead author of “The Drew House Story: Collaborating on Alternatives for Incarcerated Women and their Children,” published in Criminal Justice. She also was an author of “Recidivism after Release from a Prison Nursery Program,” published in Public Health Nursing and “Pre-school Outcomes of Children who Lived as Infants in a Prison Nursery” published in The Prison Journal.

Bevin Cohen, MPH, Program Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Prevent Infections (CIRI) was the lead author of “Gender Differences in Risk of Bloodstream

and Surgical Site Infections,” which was co-authored by Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for research published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Laurie Conway, MS, PhD student, was a lead author of “Tensions Inherent in The Evolving Role of the Infection Preventionist,” authored by Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, PhD, MPH, associate research scientist; May Uchida, PhD student; Pat Stone, PhD, FAAN, director of the Center for Health Policy and Centennial Professor of Health Policy in Nursing; and Elaine Larson, Phd, FAAN, RN, associate dean for research, published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Kathleen Hickey, EdD, FNP, FAAN, assistant professor, was the lead author of “Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Clinical and Genetic Update” published in The Nurse Practitioner. She also authored “Cardiovascular Genomics,” published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, “Parental Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Survey (PHPVS): Nurses Led Instrument Development and Psychometric Testing for use in Research and Primary Care Screening,” published in The Journal of Nursing Measurement and “Electrocardiographic Abnormalities in the First Year after Heart Transplantation,” in press for Journal of Electrocardiology.

Haomiao Jia, PhD, associate professor in biostatistics, was an author of “Surgical Site Infections and Bloodstream Infections in Infants after Cardiac Surgery, published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, “Using Health-Related Quality of Life and Quality-Adjusted Life

Expectancy for Effective Public Health Surveillance and Prevention,” published in Expert Review of Pharmoeconomics and Outcomes Research, “Medication Reconciliation: Comparing a Customized Medication History Form to a Standard Medication Form in a Specialty Clinic, published in the Journal of Patient Safety, “Impact of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic on Healthcare Workers at a Tertiary Care Center in New York City,” published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and “Impact of Electronic Surveillance on Isolation Practices,” published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Rita Marie John, DNP, EdD, director, Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program was the lead author of “Clubfoot: What every NP should know,” published by American Journal of Nurse Practitioners and co-authored “Does Celiac Disease Ever Travel Alone?” with Masters student Jamie Swanson, published in Infant, Child and Adolescent Nutrition.

She also co-authored “Girl, 13, With a Bump on her Leg” with Julie Schnurr, DNP, ‘03, ‘05, published in Clinician Reviews and “Everything the Nurse Practitioner Should Know about Pediatric Feeding Tubes,” published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, “Early Identification of Tethered Cord Syndrome: A Clinical Challenge,” published in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care, “Does Celiac Disease Ever Travel Alone?” published in ICAN: Infant, Child, and Adolescent Nutrition.

Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, director, Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program, authored “HIV Testing in 2013 in the United States: An

Update for Nurses,” published in the Journal of Nursing Practice Applications and Reviews of Research, and “Keeping Pace with HIV: A Clinical Overview for Nurse Practitioners,” published in The Nurse Practitioner.

in American Journal of Infection Control, and “Infection Prevention in Longterm care: a Systematic Review of Randomized and Nonrandomized Trials,” published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society.

Kristine Kulage, MPH, director of the Office of Scholarship and Research Development was the lead author of “Refocusing Research Priorities in Schools of Nursing,” published in Journal of Professional Nursing. Other authors included Laura Ardizzone, ‘04 MS ‘10 DNP; Will Enlow, DNP, assistant professor; Kathleen Hickey, EdD, FNP, FAAN, assistant professor; Joan Kearney, PhD, assistant professor; Rebecca Schnall, PhD, assistant professor, and Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for research.

Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, RN, MPH, associate professor of Biomedical Informatics, was the lead author of “Effects of Automated Immunization Registry Reporting Via an Electronic Health Record Deployed in Community Practice Settings,” published in Applied Clinical Informatics. She was also an author of “The Influence of Management and Environment on Local Health Department Organizational Structure and Adaptation: A Longitudinal Network Analysis,” published in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, “Preliminary Findings from an Interventional Study Using Network Analysis to Support Management in Local Health Departments in Florida,” published in Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research, “Implementing Health Information Exchange for Public Health Reporting: A Comparative Evaluation of Three Regional Health Information Organizations in New York State,” published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, “Diffusion of Innovation Across a National Local Health Department Network: A Simulation Approach to Policy Development Using AgentBased Modeling,” published in Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research and “An Information Systems Model of the Determinants of Electronic Health Record Use,” published in Applied Clinical Informatics.

Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for research, authored “Monitoring Hand Hygiene: Meaningless, Harmful, or Helpful?” published in The American Journal of Infection Control. She co-authored “Prevalence and Risk Factors for Staphylococcus Aureus Colonization in Individuals Entering MaximumSecurity Prisons” published in Epidemiology and Infection, “Impact of Electronic Surveillance on Isolation Practices,” published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology which was co-authored by Bevin Cohen, MPH, program director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Prevent Infections, and Haomiao Jia, PhD, associate professor; “Health Literacy and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Among IV-Infected Youth” published in Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, “AJIC’s peer-reviewed Process: Striving for Ever Improving Quality,” published

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Marlene McHugh, DNP, FNP, assistant professor, co-authored “Outcomes of the Acute Care Unit in an Academic Medical Center,” published in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care.

Mary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPH, Dean Emerita, Edward M. Kennedy Professor of Health Policy authored “Why are Standards for DNPs who Practice Comprehensive Care so Crucial?,” published in Clinical Scholars Review.

Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, RN, assistant professor, was the lead author of “Development and Psychometric Testing of the Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Organizational Climate Questionnaire,” published in Nursing Research and co-authored “Organizational Climate in primary care settings: Implications for nurse practitioner practice” published in Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, PhD, MPH, associate research scientist, was the lead author of “Risk Factors for Bloodstream Infections with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Nested Case-Control Study” published in Epidemiology & Infection.

Lori Rosenthal Cogan. DNP, DCC, associate professor, was an author of “Prevention of de novo Hepatitis B in Recipients of Core Antibody Positive Livers with Lamivudine and other oral Nucleos(t)ides: a 12-Year Experience,” published in Transplantation.

Rebecca Schnall, PhD, RN, assistant professor, was the lead 34 • The Academic Nurse

author of “The Effect of an Electronic “Hard-stop” Alert on HIV Testing Rates in the Emergency Department,” published in Studies in Health Technology, “Nurse Practitioners and Israeli Health Care,” published in Health Affairs, and “Advanced Practice Nursing Students’ Identification of Patient Safety Issues in Ambulatory Care,” co-authored with Elaine Larson, Phd, RN, FAAN, associate dean of research, Pat Stone, PhD, FAAN, director of the Center for Health Policy, and Centennial Professor of Health Policy in Nursing, Rita Marie John, DNP, EdD, director, Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program and Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics and published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. She was also an author of “Using Text Messaging to Assess Adolescents’ Health Information Needs: An Ecological Momentary Assessment in Journal of Medical Internet Research and was an author of “Assessment of the Health IT Usability, “Primary Care Professional’s Perspectives on Treatment Decision Making for Depression with African Americans and Latinos in Primary Care Practice,” published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, “Assessment of the Health IT Usability Evaluation Model (HealthITUEM) for Evaluating Mobile Health (mHealth) Technology,” published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

Arlene Smaldone, PhD, CPNPPC, assistant dean for scholarship and research, was an author of “The Use of Vitamin K Supplementation to Achieve INR Stability: A Systematic

Review and Meta-Analysis,” published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and “Using Information Technology and Social Networking Strategies for Difficult-toRecruit Pediatric Research Populations,” which was co-authored by Nancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAAN, Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Faculty of Nursing, in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Pat Stone, PhD, FAAN, director of the Center for Health Policy, and Centennial Professor of Health Policy in Nursing, was an author of “Frequency, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Early Unplanned Readmissions to PICUs,” published in Critical Care Medicine, “Future for Medicare Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States,” published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Caroline Sullivan, DNP, MBA, MS, C-ANP, assistant professor, authored “Patient Notification of Test Results in a Primary Care Setting,” published in Clinical Scholars Review.

Phyllis Tarallo, DNP, assistant professor, was the lead author of “Prevalence of High-Risk Human Papilloma Virus among Women with Hepatitis C Virus before Liver Transplantation” in Transplant Infectious Disease published with co-authors Jan Smolowitz, DNP, senior associate dean, and Haomiao Jia, PhD, associate professor and “Preparing for Your Patient’s Liver Resection,” published in O.R. Nurse.

Selected Honors and Presentations Spring / Fall 2013 Academy Health 2013 Annual Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD, June 23rd Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions and 30-Day Hospital Readmission for Adults with Diabetes. – A. Smaldone, C. Jeon.

Individual and Contextual Correlates of Intent to Use Electronic Personal Health Records among a Largely Hispanic Immigrant Population. – R. Lucero, J. Shang, J. Liu, S. Bakken.

Development of a Data Collection Tool Characterizing State Focus on the Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infection (HAI) in Nursing Homes (NH). – C. Cohen, C. Herzig, E. Carter, M. Pogorzelska-Maziarz, P. Stone.

Anna Maxwell Seminar Series Sally Aboelela, PhD, assistant professor, Mary Byrne, PhD, professor, Arlene Smaldone, DNSc, assistant dean, scholarship and research, and Rita John, DNP, associate professor, presented “Taking a Positive Spin on Student Evaluations. Dr. John also presented with Kathleen Hickey, EdD, assistant professor, on “The Multiple Ways to Use Case Presentation.”

APIC (Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology) Annual Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 8-10 Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC, Associate Dean for Research, received the Distinguished Scientist Award.

A Revolving Door? Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus Between Correctional Facilities and the Community; Befus M, Herzig C, Larson E, Mukherjee D. Implementing an Electronic Hand Hygiene Monitoring System: Meeting the Challenges; Conway L, Riley L, Cohen B, Saiman L, Alper P, Larson E.

Nurse Practitioners as Primary Care Providers: Practice Environments and Outcomes in Two States with Varying Scope of Practice Regulations.

– L. Poghosyan, C. Sun, S. Brown-Stonbraker.

Infection Control Practices and Concerns in Pediatric Long Term Care Facilities; Murray M, Larson E, Brozovich A, Neu N, Hutcheon G, Simpser, Saiman L.

Participatory Design and Formal Representation of Data Elements for a Nursing Care Transfer Summary. – S. Yoon, A. Wilcox, S. Bakken.

Infection Prevention in Emergency Departments: A Workshop to Identify Barriers and Successful Strategies; Carter EJ, Savor Price C, Schuur J.

Infection Prevention in LongTerm Care for Older Adults: A Systematic Review of Randomized and Non-Randomized Trials; Uchida, M. Surveillance Definitions for Healthcareassociated Infections in Pediatric Long Term Care Facilities; Murray M, Keenan M, Mosiello L, Neu N, Larson E, Saiman L. Unique Challenges of Infection Prevention and Surveillance in Pediatric Long-Term Care; Cohn, B. Eastern Nursing Research Society 2013 Conference, Boston, MA April 17-19 Pat Stone, PhD, RN, FAAN, Centennial Professor of Health Policy in Nursing, accepted the 2013 Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award.

A Retrospective Exploration of Sibling Grief; J Arnold, P. Buschman Building Bridges to the Future with Interdisciplinary Teams keynote delivered by Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for research.

Joint Pain in Urban Perimenopause Hispanic Women; N. Reame, Y.Cortes, M. Altemus Measuring Media Use in College Students with and without Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Dunn-Navarra AM, Toussi SS, Cohn E, Neu N, Larson E. Using the “Simply Put” Method to Adapt Study Materials for Research in Underserved Populations;

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J. Osborne, Y. Cortes, N. Green, D. Meyer, A. Smaldone

M., Zachariah P., Furuya E.Y., Dick A., Stone P., Saiman L.

Underserved in Nursing, was elected to the Columbia University Senate.

ID Week 2013 (annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America , the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society) San Francisco, CA October 2-6

Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Primary Bloodstream Infection (pBSI) in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients; Pouch S., Liu J., Larson E.

Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, RN, assistant professor, was named a judge for The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s annual PCORI Challenge Initiative.

Assessing an Automated Group Monitoring and Feedback System for Hand Hygiene; Conway L., Riley L., Cohen B., Saiman L., Alper P., Larson E. Burden of Multidrug Resistant Infections in Long-Term Care Settings: A Systematic Review of the Literature; Pogorzelska-Maziarz M., Alvarez K., Larson E. Comparison of Hospital Charges Associated With Healthcare-Associated Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Units; Murray M., Ferng Y., Patel S., Alba L., Mis F., Zaoutis T., Coffin S.E., Leckerman K., Prasad P., Paul D., Gray K., DeLaMora P., Perlman J., Jia H., Glied S., Larson E., Saiman L. Compliance With Prevention Practices and Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the United States; Zachariah P., Furuya E.Y., Edwards J., Dick A., Liu H.,Herzig C., Pogorzelska-Maziarz M., Stone P., Saiman L. The Association of Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates and Compliance With Bundle Strategies in Pediatric ICUs; Edwards J., Liu H., Herzig C., Pogorzelska-Maziarz M., 36 • The Academic Nurse

Infection Prevention Resources and Policies in Acute Care Hospitals: Results from a National Study; Stone P.., Pogorzelska-Maziarz M., Herzig C.., Furuya E.Y., Dick A.W., Larson E. Respiratory Illness Among Residents of Pediatric Long-Term Care Facilities During Influenza Season; Murray M., Cohen B., Buet A., Keenan M., Pavia M., Hutcheon G., Simpser E., Mosiello L., Larson E., Saiman L., Neu N. The Association of Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates and Compliance With Bundle Strategies in Pediatric ICUs; Edwards J., Liu H., Herzig C., Pogorzelska-Maziarz M., Zachariah P., Furuya E.Y., Dick A., Stone P., Saiman L.

Adriana Arcia, PhD, RN, postdoctoral research fellow, presented a poster, “Blood Pressure Data Visualizations Developed Collaboratively with Community Focus Groups” at the Duke University Translational Medicine Institute’s 6th annual Clinical and Translational Science Award Conference. She is a recipient of the NIH Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program for $23,000 over two years.

Mary Byrne, PhD, CPNP, FAAN, Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor of Health Care for the

Maria Corsaro, DNP, MPH, assistant professor, received the 2013 American College of Nurse Midwives award for excellence in teaching.

Will Enlow, DNP, CRNA, director, Continuing Nursing Education and assistant director, Program in Nurse Anesthesia, was appointed to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Education Committee for a second term and presented on the One & Only Campaign at the New York State Association of Nurse Anesthetists (NYSANA) Spring Conference in Saratoga Springs, NY. Rita Marie John, DNP, EdD, director, Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program, presented “Ordering Diagnostic Lab: Connecting the Dots” at the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practioners annual meeting and “What’s New in Pediatric Healthcare” at the Greater New York National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners annual conference.

Mary Johnson, DNP, ACNPBC, director, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, was credentialed as a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She was also an invited speaker at The American Thoracic Society International Meeting

in Philadelphia, PA. She presented “Advanced Practice Providers in the Hospital Setting” as part of the “Nursing Year in Review” session.

Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, ANP-BC, director, AdultGerontology Nurse Practitioner Program, presented “Implementing an Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Model in an Urban Nurse Managed Health Center: Challenges and Successes” at the National DNP Conference in Phoenix.

Kristine M. Kulage, MA, Director, Office of Scholarship & Research, gave a poster presentation, “New Research Faculty Orientation Checklist: Introduction to the Departmental Pre-Award Office” at the 2013 NCURA Region II Conference in Buffalo, NY. Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for research, served as a panelist on “Women and Leadership Identity,” at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons.

Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, RN, MPH, associate professor of Nursing in Biomedical Informatics, served on the planning committee for the 2013 Medical Informatics Update meeting sponsored by IBM Research and Columbia University’s Center for Advanced Information Management. She presented “Impact on Immunization Registry Reporting Following Adoption of an Electronic Health Record,” “Change in Health Department Organizational Networks After an Evidence-based Performance Improvement Intervention,” and “Method for the Development of Data

Visualizations for Community Members with Varying Levels of Health Literacy” at the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium in Washington, DC. Nancy Reame, PhD, Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Nursing Faculty was invited to serve on the advisory council of The American Nurses Association (ANA) Nurse Fatigue Professional Issues Panel.

She also chaired “Menstrual Resistance: Toward a New Politics of Reproductive Health,” a session at The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research conference.

Cliff Roberson, DNP, CRNA, assistant professor, presented “Student Assessment during Crisis Management Simulation - Video Case Study” at the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 2013 annual meeting in Las Vegas. He was also appointed Vice-Chair of the Education and Training Committee for World Health Organization’s Global Initiative on Essential and Emergency Surgery (GIEES).

Rebecca Schnall, PhD, RN, assistant professor, presented “The Effect of an Electronic “Hard-Stop” Alert on HIV Testing Rates in the Emergency Department” at Medinfo, the International Medical Informatics Association meeting in Copenhagen.

Janice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, ANP-BC, senior associate dean for clinical practice, presented “Theoretical Discussion and Methodological Approaches for Studying Nursing Caring,” at the University of Verona.

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Government and Private Funding for Research and Training July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013

Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI Project Title: Center for Evidence-Based Practice in the Underserved (P30) Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $48,229 Total Budget: $2,326,211 Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI Project Title: Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $266,559 Total Budget: $1,332,795 Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI Project Title: Developing and Evaluation Plan for NLM AIDS Community Information Outreach Program Program Funding Source: National Library of Medicine Current Budget: $91,366 Total Budget: $141,366 Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI Project Title: “Washington Heights Initiative Community-based Comparative Effectiveness Research” Program Funding Source: DHHS-AHRQ Current Budget: $869,892 Total Budget: $8,855,607 Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI Project Title: “Washington Heights Initiative Community-based Comparative Effectiveness Research” Program Funding Source: DHHS-AHRQ Current Budget: $869,892 Total Budget: $8,855,607 Principal Investigator: Mary Woods Byrne , PhD, NP, MPH, FAAN Project Title: “Maternal and Child Outcomes of a Prison Nursery Program” Program Funding Source: NIH/NINR Current Budget: $119,328 Total Budget: $1,600,361 Principal Investigator: Mary Woods Byrne , PhD, NP, MPH, FAAN Project Title: “Center for Children and Families Award” Program Funding Source: The Viola W. Bernard Foundation Current Budget: $10,000 Total Budget: $10,000 Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, RN Project Title: Examining Minority Representation in Genomic Research Program Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Current Budget: $118,485 Total Budget: $349,934 Principal Investigator: Laurie Conway, MS, MPhil Project Title: Secondary Bacteremia in Patients with Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $42,232 Total Budget: $84,464 Principal Investigator: Eileen Evanina, DNP, CRNA Project Title: Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Grant Program Funding Source: Health Resources and Service Administration Current Budget: $27,482 Total Budget: $27,482 Principal Investigator: Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP Project Title: Closing the Gap: New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program (PIP) Program Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Current Budget: $5,200 Total Budget: $5,200

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Project Title: Training in Interdisciplinary Research to Prevent Infections (TIRI) Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National

Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $218,660 Total Budget: $1,093,300 Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC Project Title: Health Information Technology to Reduce

Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health,

National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $372,846 Total Budget: $1,098,141 Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC Project Title: Keep It Clean for the Kids: The KICK Project Program Funding Source: DHHS-AHRQ Current Budget: $400,666 Total Budget: $1,656,379 Principal Investigator: Robert Lucero, PhD, MPH, RN Project Title: New York City Hispanic Dementia Caregiver Research Program (NHiRP) Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health,

National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $533,205 Total Budget: $2,678,507 Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, MPH, RN Project Title: Organizational Network Analysis for the Florida State

Department of Health - Phase II Program Funding Source: Florida Department of Health Current Budget: $17,538 Total Budget: $44,000 Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, MPH, RN Project Title: Systems-Level Mass Fatality Preparedness UCSF Program Funding Source: National Science Foundation Current Budget: $37,010 Total Budget: $150,461 Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, RN Project Title: Validation of Nurse Practitioner Primary Care

Organizational Climate Questionnaire Program Funding Source: DHHS/AHRQ Current Budget: $50,000 Total Budget: $10,000 Principal Investigator: Nancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAAN Project Title: Training Nurse Scientists in Interdisciplinary & Translational

Research in the Underserved (TRANSIT) Program Funding Source: DHHS/HRSA Current Budget: $48,395 Total Budget: $711,316 Principal Investigator: Nancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAAN Project Title: Effect of Menopause on Musculoskeletal Pain Program Funding Source: NIH-NIA Current Budget: $5,000 Total Budget: $5,000

Principal Investigator: Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP Project Title: New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Current Budget: $50,000 Total Budget: $50,000

Principal Investigator: Nancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAAN Project Title: A Placebo-Controlled, Randomized, Double-Blind,

Parallel-Group, Dose-Finding Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy

and Safety of TBS-2 Program Funding Source: Medpace Inc. Current Budget: $35,716 Total Budget: $35,716

Principal Investigator: Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP Project Title: Nurse Faculty Loan Program Program Funding Source: Health Resources and Service Administration Current Budget: $132,478 Total Budget: $132,478 Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC

Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD, RN

Project Title: Using Queuing Theory to Inform the Implementation

of HIV Testing in the Emergency Department

Program Funding Source: NIH-NCRR Current Budget: $140,836 Total Budget: $269,264 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD, RN Project Title: Informing the Development of Mobile Apps for

HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care

Program Funding Source: CDC Current Budget: $303,778 Total Budget: $303,778 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD, RN Project Title: HEAL NY 6 Grant

Program Funding Source: PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK Current Budget: $18,214 Total Budget: $100,000 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang PhD, RN, OCN Project Title: Healthcare Associated Infections in Home Health Care Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health,

National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $80,000 Total Budget: $160,000 Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone PhD, CPNP, CDE Project Title: Hydroxyurea Adherence for Personal Best in

Sickle Cell Treatment: HABIT Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health,

National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $70,637 Total Budget: $413,592 Principal Investigator: Janice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, DCC, ANP Project Title: RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows Program Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $35,000 Total Budget: $35,000 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD, MPH, RN Project Title: Prevention of Nosocomial Infections and Cost Effectiveness in Nursing Homes Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health,

National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $567,387 Total Budget: $2,474,332 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD, MPH, RN Project Title: Prevention of Nosocomial Infectious and Cost-Effectiveness Refined (P-NICER) Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health,

National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $179,119 Total Budget: $1,947,384 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD, MPH, RN Project Title: Quantitative Study of the Implementation of Legal Interventions to Reduce Healthcare Program Funding Source: Temple University (ASTHO) Current Budget: $20,000 Total Budget: $20,000 Principal Investigator: Mayuko Uchida, MSN, GNP-BC Project Title: Comparative and Cost Effectiveness Analyses of

HAI Reduction in Nursing Homes Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health,

National Institute of Nursing Research Current Budget: $41,020 Total Budget: $75,491

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2013 Scholarship Reception

The School of Nursing celebrated the generosity of more than 90 named scholarship donors and the accomplishments of more than 100 student scholars at the 18th annual scholarship reception on October 29 at the Columbia Club of New York

Lauren Watson, Edward F. Kelley Nursing Scholar; Frannie Burns ’77; Jessie Morrin, Jennifer A. Smith ’05 Nursing Scholar

Lincoln Fund Nursing Scholars (top row left–right) Maria GarciaBall, Fabiola Murcia, Sara Almasian, Kent Michael Haina, Jesus Villa, Jenna Passarini and Stephanie Maceiras (bottom row left-right) Nabetse Oseguera Tapia, Martha McLanahan, President, Lincoln Fund, Kelly Ortega and Lara Trevino

Amelia Salce, William Randolph Hearst Nursing Scholar, Mason Granger, Director of Grants for the Hearst Foundations; William Randolph Hearst Nursing Scholars Avrohom Schwinder and Kathleen Hipp

Paul Mendelsohn with Rachel Moscicki, Lore Mendelsohn Nursing Scholar

Nora Barrett Tulchin ’70; Lincoln Fund Nursing Scholars Sara Almasian, Stephanie Maceiras, Nabetse Oseguera Tapia, Kelly Ortega and Fabiola Murcia

Kamilah Dowling, Mary Dickey Lindsey ’45 DNP Scholar; Adena Bargad, PhD, CNM, Director, Women’s Health NP Program; and Mary Dickey Lindsey ’45 DNP Scholars Min Na Park and Monica Velasco

Charlie Stone, Samantha Gilligan, Harold and Wilhelmina Shipley Nursing Scholar; Sally Shipley Stone ’69

Dean Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN; Elizabeth Gary, Sidney and Loretta Teich Foundation Nursing Scholar; Vivian Taylor, EdD, Associate Dean, Diversity and Cultural Affairs

Olaf Stasiun, Helene Fuld Health Trust Nursing Scholar; Angela Clarke Duff ‘70 ,Board of Visitor member, Helene Fuld Health Trust Nursing Scholars Scott Michener and Emily Owen

Danielline Martinez, Sidney and Loretta Teich Foundation Nursing Scholar; Sebanti Sarkar, Gladys Brooks Foundation Merit Nursing Scholar; Amy Seplin, Jane F. McConville ’51 Nursing Scholar; Kimberly Ciaccia, Anna and Milton Felson Nursing Scholar

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Your Gift to The Annual Fund helps Columbia nurses change lives that change the world

Reunion 2013

On April 26, some 200 alumni, faculty and students gathered for the 2013 reunion at Bard Hall.

Committee co-chairs Martha Cohn Romney ’81 and Suzanne Law Hawes ‘59 gave a warm welcome to participants who travelled from points near and far to connect with friends. Highlights included a state-of-the-school report from Dean Berkowitz and a keynote address by Guy Geier, managing partner of CO|FXFOWLE Architects, the designers of our planned new building. The day concluded with a reception in the Georgian Building, where alumni mingled with faculty and students, toured simulation labs and admired Columbia Nursing memorabilia.

Jennifer Wilen ‘11 ’12 worked in Bangladesh to reduce maternal death during childbirth

There are now three ways you can direct your gift: Student Scholarship Fund Student Travel Fund Dean’s Discretionary Fund

To make your tax-deductible contribution today, send a check payable to Columbia University School of Nursing or donate online at https://giving.columbia.edu/giveonline/.

For more information, please contact Janine Handfus, Associate Director, Annual Fund and Foundation Relations at 212-305-0079

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Save the Date: Alumni Reunion 2014 Friday, May 2, 2014 Columbia University School of Nursing Nominations for distinguished Alumni Awards are welcome. For more information, please contact Larin Smith at 1-800-899-6728 or Denise Ewing at 914-481-5787. All nomination materials are due by February 3, 2014.

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Gifts and Pledges for Special Purposes July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013

Plan Your Legacy Support the next generation of Columbia Nursing students

$100,000 TO $499,999 Scholarships for Accelerated Second Degree Baccalaureate Nursing Students Helene Fuld Health Trust Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45 DNP Scholarship The Guilford Fund Scholarships in Memory of Dean Helen Pettit for Undergraduate Nursing Students Scholarships in Memory of May Rudin for Undergraduate Nursing Students Scholarships for Oncology Students The Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation

$50,000 TO $99,999 Columbia University School of Nursing Building Fund Devonwood Foundation Estate of Alfred G. and Alice Ann Fleming Trundle ’51 Anna and Milton Felson Scholarship Fund Anonymous Hugoton Foundation Excellence in Simulation Fund Hugoton Foundation Lincoln Fund Scholarship for Minority Students The Lincoln Fund Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professorship Elena and Michael Patterson

$25,000 TO $49,999

For more information on planned giving, please contact Janice Rafferty, Director of Development at 212-305-1088 or jar2272@columbia.edu.

Center for Children and Families for Therapeutic Parenting Programs at the Children’s Center at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Sills Family Foundation Charles A. Frueauff Scholarship Charles A . Frueauff Foundation, Inc. Housing Assistance for Women Students LCU Fund for Women’s Education Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholars Program Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence through the Jewish Communal Fund

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Psychiatric Mental Health Scholarship Estate of June P. Fiedler ’58

Saving Mothers in Bangladesh Asia Initiatives NY

Dr. Scholl Foundation Scholarship Dr. Scholl Foundation

UP TO $999

$10,000 TO $24,999 Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65 Scholarship Fund Devonwood Foundation Jonas Veterans Healthcare Program Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professorship Mary Turner Henderson ’64 and Isaac Henderson Dorothy Rogers Professorship Endowment Fund The Dorothy Metcalf Charitable Foundation Rose Nadler Schefer Memorial Scholarship Fund The Fay J. Lindner Foundation Scholarships for Diverse Nursing Students Sidney and Loretta Teich Foundation

$5,000 TO $9,999 Laura ‘Poppy’ Schwartz Hirshman ’59 Scholarship Fund Karl Hirshman Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professorship Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69 and Dick Fleming Nurse Anesthesia Alumni Scholarship Gift Fund Janice Jones Izlar ’06 Roxana I. Sasse ’92 ’11 Specialized Equipment The Hyde and Watson Foundation

$1,000 TO $4,999

Ines DeBaun Berndt ’51 Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund Vincent C. DeBaun Jane Helwig Hoffman ’59 Nursing Scholarship John W. Gerster Scholarships in Memory of Lore Mendelsohn for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care Sub-Specialty Students Paul R. Mendelsohn and Family Nurse Anesthesia Alumni Scholarship Gift Fund Laura Louise Ardizzone ’04 ’10 Hans Norman Larsen IV ’02 In honor of former nurse anesthesia program director Tim Lehey ’85 Rebecca Christina Mastrianno ’03 Psychiatric Mental Health Scholarship Vanessa Battista ’06 ’08 Penelope Buschman Gemma ’64 In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Shira A. Gordon ’86 Rachel H. Maki ’06 ’08 In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Ita B. O’Sullivan ’95 Judith Marie Van Cleef ’96 Rose Nadler Schefer Memorial Scholarship Fund Lawrence and Amy Andelsman Brian and Lori Bass Arthur K. Feldman Dorothy M. Greene Ronald and Lucille Greene Norman A. Gross Jonathan N. Helfat Gabrielle L. Palitz Albert and Marilyn Rubin Student Travel Fund Angela Clarke Duff ’70 and David Duff

Nurse Anesthesia Alumni Scholarship Gift Fund Donald Richard Boyd ’06 Glendale Ventures, LLC

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Annual Fund Gift List July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013

NIGHTINGALE SOCIETY

PETTIT SOCIETY

$5,000 and Above Named after Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who laid the foundation for professional nursing, the Florence Nightingale Giving Society entitles its members to award a nursing student with a named scholarship.

Helen F. Pettit served as director of the School of Nursing from 19761981. She has been described as “dreaming dreams but always there, generous with her time, offering encouragement and opportunities for advancement.”

$10,000 and Above Anonymous* Sarah Sheets Cook ’05^ CUPHSONAA, Inc. Estate of June P. Fiedler ’58 Ellen Gottesman Garber ’76* Joan Gorrell ’61 Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45* Deborah Keeler Lott ’68* Joan Seaburgh Puydak ’56* Richard D. Simmons* $5,000 - $9,999 Jeannemarie Gelin Baker ’90* Frannie Kelly Burns ’77* In honor of Dr. Jennifer A. Smith ’05 Karen Krueger Desjardins ’98 ’05^* In memory of Robert and Joan Krueger Anthony B. Evnin Ruth Nussbaumer Fenton ’45* In memory of the deceased members of the Class of 1945 Marilyn Johnsen Hamel ’51* In memory of Jane F. McConville ’51 Lenore Frank Hardy ’56* Kathleen McCooe Nilles ’89* Estate of Alfred G. and Alice Ann Fleming Trundle ’51

MAXWELL SOCIETY Anna C. Maxwell (1851-1929) was the first director of the School of Nursing. She is known for pioneering professional nursing and establishing one of the first schools in the nation. $2,500- $4,999 Jean Lagakis Benner ’42* Barbara Rolling ’54

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$1,000- $2,499 Ellen Soley Adkins ’81* Bobbie Berkowitz^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65* Gene Budig Arthur L. Caplan Jeanne Fischer Cherry ’53* Mary Ann Kelly Collini ’64* Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57* Angela Clarke Duff ’70* Clare Warren Gordon ’63 Mary Sue Marburger Hunia ’70* Elaine Godtfring Kennedy ’46* The Charles A. Mastronardi Foundation* Betsy Cook Morgan ’68* Lillian Schuttger Price ’43* Estate of Nancy E. Russell ’48 Anna Draper Shaw ’66* Barbara Robison Sporck-Stegmaier ’46* Marilyn Miller Stiefvater ’54* Harry Sugarman* In honor of Mrs. Catherine Hirsch Sugarman ’41 Marjorie Hutchins Taylor ’45* Alice Daley Thomas ’51* Elize Poestkoke Wright ’53* Beth Ellen Zedeck ’04 ’06*

GILL SOCIETY Elizabeth S. Gill was the director of the School of Nursing from 19611968, while also serving as director of nursing service at Presbyterian Hospital. A graduate of the School and of Teachers College, her love for nursing was expressed in her comment: “I have received more than I have ever given.” $500-$999 Donna Chrysilda Barreiro ’84 Jane Richardson Carmichael ’63* James Francis Clancy ’05 ’08*

Joseph Patrick Colagreco ’91 Vincent C. DeBaun * In memory of Mrs. Ines DeBaun Berndt ’51 Patricia C. Dykes ’04 In honor of Dr. Suzanne Bakken Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Susan Patel Furlaud ’09 ’12* Edna Fishburn Halstead ’53* Margaret Ross Hastings ’54* Margaret Moore Hazlett ’68* Karen K. Hein* Nancy Gilbride Hill ’52* La Berta Ahlfeld Hollar ’50* Denise DeMarzo Houghton ’78* Janice Jones Izlar ’06* Patricia Smith Langley ’61* Sally Ruffner Leiter ’66* In memory of Mrs. Terry William Dagrosa ’66 Eleanor Lipman Luhrs ’56* Maria Coutretsis Magliacano ’06* Elizabeth J. McCormack* Marlene E. McHugh ’89 ’91 ‘08^* In honor of Dr. Jennifer A. Smith ’05 and In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Liliane E. Morin ’79 Duncan B. Neuhauser* Marian Higginbotham Niles ’69* Katherine Perera Patterson ’98 ’10* Jane Crowell Rieffel ’46* Martha Cohn Romney ’81* Emily DiYulio Scinto ’51* Sally Shipley Stone ’69* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Judith Slocum Van Derburgh ’53* Phyllis Harrington Wagner ’63 Holly Grim White ’73* May Yong ’12

ROGERS SOCIETY Dorothy M. Rogers, director of residence at Maxwell Hall from 1928-1943, was counselor and friend to hundreds of students. $250-$499 Barbara Shaw Abbott* ’57 Barbara Scrivens Amatruda ’57 Amy Cohen Ansehl ’94 ’96* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Laura Pearson Armstrong ’85* Suzanne Bakken^ In honor of the

Midwifery faculty Esther Rosengren Bartlett ’55 Nancy B. Barton ’83* Diane Rankin Behrens ’64* Tracy Lynn Rinaldi Hardy ’04 Donald Richard Boyd ’06* Debra Jean Brittain ’04* In memory of Richard Stanley Van Sciver Mary Woods Byrne ’94 ’11^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook’05 Alice Wielich Caldwell ’44 In memory of Miss Helen Young Edith Baldwin Cleaves ’58* Elizabeth Gross Cohn ’09* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Maria Robertson Corsaro ’83 ’13* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Carole Robertson Coviello ’67* Fleda A. Dean ’80 Louise Dodd ’76 Una Broe Doddy ’82* Beatrice M. Dorbacker ’50 Reva G. Feinstein^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Shira A. Gordon ’86* Margot K. Hoercher In memory of Mrs. Ruth Keil Egenhofer ’33 and Mrs. Caroline Lutner Keil ’33 Kevin Gene Hook ’98 Rita Marie John ’05^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Karen Michelle Johnson ’95* Patricia Hayes Keough ’46 Lisa J. Kleist ’73* Elaine L. Larson^ In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05* Kristin Van Derverr Liddle ’63* Katheryn Geiger Lohr ’57* In memory of Mrs. Joyce Fingado Gibson ’57 Hester Stalker MacGregor ’44 Jo Ann Scranton Main ’54* Marianne Taft Marcus ’55 Jane E. Martin ’65* Gene Geiger McCullough ’78 Grace O’Brien McIver ’47* Robin McKeon Michalak ’83* Gail Geiger Miller ’65 Barbara Britton Novick ’74* Diane Murray Nydick ’74 Elayne Soley Orr ’50* In memory of Mrs. Marjorie Heckman Pinto ’50 Elizabeth Brandes Plum-Doggett ’59*

All gifts received after June 30 will be listed in the Fall 2014 Academic Nurse *3-year consecutive donors ^ Faculty/Staff

Linda Harnsberger Rose ’86* Josephine Guide Sapp ’76 ’06 In honor of Dr. Jennifer A. Smith ’05 Alice Powell Savage ’73 Jennifer A. Smith ’05* Rose Crane Smith ’53* Patricia Williams Stone^* Jean Fisher Stonesifer ’50* Marion Howald Swarthout ’42* Mary Barber Tanis ’72 Rita Perrine Trayner ’55* In memory of Edwin M. Trayner Shirley E. Van Zandt ’79 ’85* Leonora Porreca Whildin ’71* Jane Herbert Williams ’44*

NEIGHBORS SOCIETY “Neighbors” was inscribed on the back of the School of Nursing pin awarded to students at graduation. It describes the bond between Columbia nurses through the generations. $100-$249 Mary Jane Reynolds Adams ’56* Deborah Albright ’88* Grania Beauregard Allport ’78* Sandie A. Altman-Baker ’77 Rita Maria Anderson ’12 Christina M. Araujo^ In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Janice Paul Arcidiacono ’59* Laura Louise Ardizzone ’04 ’10 Antoinette Brigitte Baleba-Lekane ’09* Rosemary Heeren Beaumont ’43* Eudoxie Atlee Bender ’90 ’93 Linda Ude Bisbee ’66 Joanne Martena Black ’72 Joan Courter Blisnuk ’57 Joy A. Boscove ’76 ’80* Felesia R. Bowen ’10* Doris Taylor Bowles ’64* Barbara H. Boyington ’72* Adele Anne Bradford ’05 Marilyn Feldman Brady ’78 Andrea Belanus Brassard ’02 Carol Heeks Brice ’59 Lois Schmoll Stevens-Brown’48 In honor of the Class of 1948 Anne-Marie Bach Burkhardt ’76 Anna Marie Butrie ’84* Charlotte C. Cabello ’78 ’06 Alice Brath Camp ’59* William D. Carr Martha Ann Cassidy ’11 Gratia Chase Nancy Brown Chasse ’77* Judy Cherowitzo Chock ’74*

Jeanne N. Churchill ’10^ Jeannie P. Cimiotti ’04 Carrie Jane Holleran Cleveland ’86 Margaret Grace Coligan ’64 Rozelle Corda^ Ann Guinivan Cover ’81* In honor of Dolores Jackson Jill Redyke Crawford ’67 Roberta Cricco-Lizza ’81* Judith Gregorie D’Afflitti ’65* Catherine Buck Damon ’65 Josie Debevoise Davies ’76* Patricia Healy De Sear ’68* Suzanne P. DeWindt ’80 Margaret J. DiClemente ’77 Aimee Blumenthal Doctoroff ’67* In memory of Toby Friedlander ’67 Margaret LeGros Doody In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Barbara Ann Dragotta Gruenburg ’86 Patricia Tucker Dubin ’60 Marianne Durgavich ’78 Joanne Brinton DuWick ’48* Eleanor W. Ehl-McConnell ’46* Toni S. Eisenhauer ’70* David N. Ekstrom ’75* Edith Livingston Escala ’65 Barbara Shaw Eschbach ’65 Anne Abrahams Fair ’56 Patricia Fleming Fakharzadeh ’82* John Fallon ’78* Sandra P. Farr ’63* Mary E. Farrant ’79 Dorothy Louise Faustino ’85 Joy Favuzza-Taylor ’94 Nina Caulo Feirman ’76 Patricia A. Ferguson ’67 Diane Elaine Filter ’03* Clare Fisher ’68* Marcia G. Fishman ’66* Elizabeth Grove Fitt ’67 Carol S. Fitzgerald ’60 Margaret A. Flannery ’93 ’96 Anne Coolidge Ford ’51 Mary D. Baldwin Foster ’45 Martha Louise Freeman ’42 Nancy Fitzpatrick Friedman ’90 Joan Penney Frohling ’59* Edna Lawson Furreboe ’60 Louise Mary Gallahue ’86 Susan Garruto ’64 G. Lois Gebhardt ’53* Nicole F. Geller ’11 In honor of Dr. Karen Krueger Desjardins ’98 ’05 and Professor Sarah Sheets Cook’05 Betty Foster Gentsch ’52 Maureen Gallagher Gibbons ’61 Cheryl Buck Ginsberg ’74 Henry Ginsberg Theodore F. Gleichmann, Jr.* In

honor of Mrs. Constance Rising Gleichmann ’60 Anna Huston Golden ’47* Elinor Robinson Goodwin ’47* Ruth Mickelsen Gould ’57 In honor of Nurse Midwives Stuart T. Greene* In memory of Mary Bleecker Simmons ’60 Sue Greenfield In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Charles M. Greenwald * In memory of Margaret Paschall Greenwald ’47 Sharon Keim Grelsamer ’83 Phyllis Kilmer Gresham ’56 Carol Hammell Grosse ’60* Bernice Boice Krehbiel Gsell ’52* Roxanne Guiness ’78 Linda Johnston Habif ’68 Doris Macdonald Hansmann ’43 Frances Barrows Harvan ’46* Rodameir Duncan Hatala ’55 In memory of Mrs. Nancy Hart Markgraf ’55 Susan Starr Hayes ’62* Christa Simpson Heinsler ’76* Karen Hellrich ’71* Joyce Rich Henderson ’68* Mary Turner Henderson ’64 Susan R. Herman ’70 Sharon K. Hernly ’89 Melvin Hershkowitz* In memory of Mrs. Madeline Maurer Mutch ’54 Joan Herndon Hinz ’53* Sheila Horwitz Hollander ’59* Christine Holle ’80 Linda Lyon Holton ’61* Judy C. Honig ’05^* Marilyn Hughes Horton ’58 Julie Bouchet Horwitz ’06 Edgar and Marion Housepian In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Nancy Fixler Houseworth ’56* Kathryn Lee Howard ’92* Lois Jackman Howland ’57* Nancy Catherine Ingersoll ’87 Marguerite Griffin Irving ’50 Elizabeth Dunlop Jewett ’47* Brenda Crispell Johanson ’71 Mary Patricia Johnson ’97 ’05^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Phoebe Jones ’79 Miriam Claire Kaplan ’84* Melanie Kasek ’70* Mary C. Keane ’97* Liza Kelly-Rossini ’99* Anne MacNaughton Keyser ’65 Jill Nadolny Kilanowski ’77 ’82* Allison Kimberg-Kern ’60* Marilyn Cowles King ’67

All gifts received after June 30 will be listed in the Fall 2014 Academic Nurse *3-year consecutive donors ^ Faculty/Staff

Robin L. Kleinman ’77* Marion Young Knowles ’53 In honor of the Class of 1953 Mary Steel Kogut ’39* Valerie F. Kolbert ’84 Doreen A. Kolditz ’57 Miron Kolodziejczak In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Marilyn Liptscher Kram ’77 Alice Marie Kundel ’57* Alice Chamberlain Lamar ’43 In memory of Margaret E. Conrad ’20 Karen Troutman LaMonica ’68* Brenda Hartley Landes ’85* Kimberly Marie Lanfranca ’06 Alice Rinehart Leddy ’55* Laura Flowers LeFevre ’73* Phyllis C. Leppert ’61 Ramona Peterson Leslie ’56 Karolyn Linda Cole LeStage ’61 Ellen Joyce Levine ’96^ In memory of Jan Corkery - Avedis Beverly Weiter Linaberry ’53 George N. Lindsay* In memory of Louise Lindsay Read ’74 Margaret A. Lindsey ’75* Katherine Burke Liptak ’72* Deena Penchansky Lisak ’64* Ellen M. Liston ’70* Pao-Lin Cathy Liu ’87 Rosalie M. Lombard ’51 In memory of Margaret E. Conrad ’20 Elizabeth Muehleck Love ’58 Marie G. Ludwig ’78* Susannah Lee Lunt ’55* Gwyneth J. Lymberis ’82* Margaret Kiss Magyar ’88 In memory of Emma and Stephen Kiss Alexandra Alley Manning In memory of Janet Ann Alley ’52 Dorothy Lakeman Marshall ’49* Marguerite Temple Martin ’55* Palmer Wright Matarese ’69 Mary M. McCarron ’63 In memory of Marie L. Sheppard McCarron Paige Saddlier McIntyre ’90 ’96 Laura Lorraine McKenna ’95* Patricia A. McMaster ’85* Carl F. Meier In honor of Mrs. Gail Ganter Meier ’55 Gwendolyn Elaine Mercer ’00 In memory of Mrs. Lilla Gordon Joanne C. Messore-Shotwell ’72* In memory of Bill Shotwell Alida Isham Millham ’57 Marcia Calkins Minder ’48 In celebration of the Class of 1948 Nancy Gaughran Molder ’81* Phyllis M. Molino-Mahon ’89* Nancy Scannell Moncton ’72

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Wanda Montalvo Shirley Imig Montgomery ’58* Mary B. Moran ’08 In honor of Dr. Karen Krueger Desjardins ’98 ’05 Letty Moss-Salentijn In honor of Dr. Karen Krueger Desjardins ’98 ’05 Linda Norton Moulton ’76 Beverly Roberts Mulder ’55* Diana Vietor Mundy ’62* Ann K. Murtaugh ’96 ’98* Janet Mills Nankervis ’53* Patricia Stainton Neer ’47* Susan Cake Nelson ’66* Margery Matthews Nettleton ’57* Lori Ann Neushotz ’95* Barbara Nevins-Soong ’76 Diana Bassil Nilsen ’81* Susan A. Norwell ’64* Patricia B. Obermuller In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Ora Obhas ’06* Francis P. O’Connell ’84 Ellen Bakanowsky O’Neal ’64* Janet Lunger Osgood ’51* Wendy Halsey Otto ’69* Ann Dunning Painter ’59 Ruth Dodt Palmer ’70* Gertrude Snively Parker ’47* Barbara McElroy Patterson ’65 Anne S. Paul Anne G. Peirce* John B. Penney In honor of Julie Rousseau ’00 ’01 Marguerite Lorey Peoples ’57* Martha Carlota Pereira ’04 ’06 Dolly Clarke Peress ’59* Mary A. Peterkin ’79* Carol Rourke Petersen ’53 Joanne White Peugh ’77* Janet Cohen Phoon ’88 Nancy J. Pitney ’85* Elizabeth Morgan Porter ’47* Mary Reynolds Powell ’69* Tamar Anne Prager ’10 ’12 In honor of Max Prager Marjorie Watters Pray ’59* Cynthia Hoffman Priest ’64* Lee E. Quinlan ’66 Ruth Klawunn Randa ’52 Nancy E. Reame^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Gay Garehan Redcay ’75* In memory of Aleida Garehan Phoebe Curtis Reynolds ’56* Beverly J. Waldman Rich ’84* Marita Conroy Ritterhoff ’45 Linda D. Robinson ’58 Susan M. Rockwood ’78 Gina C. Romeo ’78* Karen Fadem Rose ’84 Bernice Rosenberger ’48

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Judith Rosenfield Rosenthal ’71* Susan Ross ’68* Helaine Berkowitz Rudolph ’75 Joyce Miller Sammis ’53 Alexandra M. Sanchez ’98 Roxana I. Sasse ’92 ’11* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Suzanne M. Savoy ’70 Susan Maines Saydah ’60* Elizabeth Marie Scamperle ’94 Annette Ely Schaumann ’57 Carol S. Scheiner ’83 Ida Mitrani Schipper ’77 In memory of Dale R. Samelson ’77 Marian Turner Schreiber ’47 Lynne Pfarrer Seidel ’64 Nell Kincaid Semel ’59* Jingjing Shang^ Linda A. Shannon ’82 Paula Cogan Simon ’83 Gilbert Charles Simpkins ’10 ’13* Arlene Merne Smaldone ’03^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Nancy J. Smith ’79* Carol Tracy Smithwyck ’64* Carole Marsh Stathis ’68* Mary Pat Stenson ’85* Harriet Walters Sullivan ’53 Janet L. Swanson ’67* Kristine Nori Takamiya ’01 ’07^ Irmina Dela Cruz Tanion ’05 Irene Crossley Tarnowski ’56 Jo Ann Thomas ’80* Wilklin Evan Thomas* In memory of Mrs. Burwell Hillsman Thomas ’60 Frances Salter Thompson ’50* Janet Quaintance Thompson ’55 Phebe Thorne ’64* Tip Rose Tilton ’06 Christine Fuller Tinstman ’69* Cynthia R. Tuck ’70* Sue Slevin Tuxill ’65 ’70* Melissa Lewis Uram ’86 Elizabeth Aiken Van Siclen ’57* Vera Venturino ’56* Irene P. Vetto ’85* Joyce Ragonese Volterra ’88 Helen Hutz Von Der Lieth ’54* Jeanne Brennan Von Oesen ’66 Lois Foran Voorhees ’54 Ann Marie Wagner ’51 Robin M. Wagner ’76 Gweneth H. Wagnon ’82* Mary Rambo Walker ’46* Maryann K. Walsh-Musial ’86 Kristin Warbasse ^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Candee Ives Weed ’59* Sally-Ann McCarthy Whelan ’61* Virginia Schwering White ’56

Patricia Cutter Whitman ’53* Carolyn Mieding Whittenburg ’53* Katherine Roulston Williams ’54* Susanne Cameron Williamson ’82* Nancy Marie Witterholt-Colter ’83* Jason A. Wright^ In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Mary Ellen Wyllie ’81 Jaquey Brown Yocum ’64* Carolyn Kahn Zackin ’60* Susan J. Zator ’71* In memory of Sallie Province Mink ’71 Laura Zeidenstein ’05^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05

DONOR

Up to $99 Jeanne V. Allen ’80* Sandra Woodward Ambrosi ’62 Thomas Y. Anderson In memory of Mrs. JoAnn Pauley Anderson ’52 Nan E. Andrews ’43 Nancy Cochran Andrews ’63 Anne M. Anselmo-Murphy ’88 Marilyn Reid Arrix ’52 Jennie Downer Austin ’70 Nancy Nichols Bagin ’71 Genevieve A. Bahrt ’73* In memory of Kathryn and Bill Bahrt Mary Eldredge Baker ’55* In memory of Mrs. Jeanne Clayton Rebholz ’55 Marcia Johnson Baranyi ’66 Judith Kronsnick Bass ’61* Colette Brando Basta ’54 Sonya Baum ’62 Carol Cooke Beal ’44 Jacquelyn A. Beatty ’81 Sarah Swick Becker ’56* Kristen Ann Beiers ’83 Mary C. Bergin ’83 Rachael Celia Bertuzzi ’13 Pamela Bierce ’74 Hollis Bierman ’67 In memory of Cynthia Hill Lepore ’39 Patricia Larson Bishop ’58 Barbara Sailor Bitter ’56* Sally Nelson Black ’55* Dorothy Brewster Blakney ’56 Lynne Sheetz Bolig ’65 Lois Beverly Bonneau-Gumbs ’74 Susan Bookchin ’76 Mary Morriss Bradley ’81 Pennie Sessler Branden ’85 Faina Brenkler ’88 Anne Saunders Brown ’61 Kathleen Higgins Cahill ’68* Karen Killinger Campbell ’63* Sheila M. Campbell ’61 Judy McKenna Carlsson ’74 Patricia Sachs Catapano In honor

of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Susan Krienke Chase ’72 May Wah Cheng ’05 ’08 Pamela R. Cohen Martha Suzanne Cooley ’89 Kathleen Anne DiGangi Condon ’06 ’09 Mary Jane Lynch Corn ’67* Lucille Corva^ In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Gretchen Mueller Coughlin ’65* Mary Felsing Crawford ’54 Nancy R. Cuddihy ’73 ’75 Ellen Cramer Culver ’62 Joanne Mayer Danforth ’61* Margaret Douglass Darrow ’48 Alice L. Bence Davidson ’68 Helen T. Davies ’43* Patricia Peabody Davies ’62 Elizabeth Jones Davis ’61 Martha Haber DeLano ’49 Claudine Marie-Claire Derrien ’99 Deborah Mitchell Devine ’74 Patricia P. Dienst ’59* Annemarie Sipkes Donato ’93 Carolyn Stueck Donnet ’49* Judy M. Donofrio ’03 Nancy Horlacher Downey ’73 Ruth Griffiths Doyle ’63 Susan Marie Doyle-Lindrud ’94 ’08^ Ruth Westervelt Dykstra ’64* Megan Kathleen Eagle ’10 Nellie Van Wie Eden ’60* Elizabeth Edwards-Lindley ’69 Mary Beach Ellis ’64 Anita Siegel Epstein ’46 Robert B. Fearman ’81 In honor of the first year Columbia Nursing student who contacted me Lyn Finelli ’81 ’83 Rosalea S. Fisher In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Marian Fiske ’58 Ethel M. Fleischmann ’38* Carolyn Swift Fleming ’60 Jane P. Foster ’68* Elizabeth Day Freeland ’73* Carol Merrit Freeswick ’67 Lynn Elise Friend ’75* Faith Gundersen Gaines ’66* Maria A. Geiselhart ’83 Carole Sleght German ’62 Tarquin L. Gill-Kehoe ’10 ’12 Carol Ginsberg ’84* Francine Bilello Ginther ’52 Louise Karabekian Glover ’64 Carol Weissman Goldstein ’64 Adela Gondek Madeleine Amelia Gondek-Brown ’11

All gifts received after June 30 will be listed in the Fall 2014 Academic Nurse *3-year consecutive donors ^ Faculty/Staff

Penelope Manning Goodkind ’51* Lisa Waleryszak Gotschall ’83* Stella Brewster Hall ’63 Janine Handfus^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Norma Stephens Hannigan ’07^* In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Ruth Schlageter Hargous ’81 Patricia Selzer Harrity ’53 Linda Sayo Hayashi ’05* R. Jo Ann Yodice Heide ’65* Kathleen Kamps Henderson ’90 Laura H. Hepburn ’77 Marilyn Ballard Hiler ’63 Gail Von Borstel Hinchen ’55 Elizabeth Wilson Hissing ’60 Judith Nixon Hook ’74 ’90 Patricia Marron Horner ’55 Carol Wagner Horst ’52 Jean Carleton Housepian ’86 ’90* Helene Demontreux Houston ’68 Mathilde Demisay Huckins ’62* Virginia Shultz Humphrey ’60 Angela Hurdle* In memory of Mollie Lightfoot Ruth Lambert Iezzoni ’48 Dorothy Jacobsen ’48 Richard R. Jeffrey In memory of Nancy Hart Markgraf ’55 Barbara Love Jenkins ’46 Kulmindar Kaur Johal ’72 Mary Louise Johnson ’62 Susan Stoner Jones ’66 Miriam J. Jordan ’43 Ruth Reifsnyder Kahoun ’55* Rosalie Kaleda ’79 Marie Diaczynsky Kalson ’62 Marc Kaplan^ In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Sharon Lont Kelly ’71 Betty Lerr Kerr ’55* Dorothy Ricardi Kleinert ’80 Carol Herron Knapp ’68 Carolyn Hewlett Knight ’70* Michelle Serena Kolb ’05 ’09 In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Deborah W. Koniak-Griffin ’70* Reinhard George Kopping ’98* Judith Krones ’85* Micheline Murphy Kuipers ’61 Ellen Rogowski Landowne ’59* Albita Sandra Lasanta ’98 Grace E. Laubach ’53 Lynn A. Lawlor ’85 Eileen LeStrange ’50 Barbara Cohn Liepman ’81 Dorothy Goold Losee ’40* Jane Lowell ’57 Suzanne Eaton MacKenzie ’72*

Margaret Scott MacLean ’48 Janet Mackenzie Mangual ’67* Anna B. Mannino ’79 Michele Finan Manolis ’05 Emily Marie Matera-Callanan ’99* Jean C. McCarthy In memory of Ruth Blair ’48 Louise Anne Cortese McCarthy ’83 Pamela Wright McGauley ’70 Sarah C. McGowan ’06 Elizabeth Brown Medaris ’52 Winifred Wadbrook Megear ’37 Lisa A. Mellman In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Alta Woodworth Miller ’53* In memory of Mrs. Janet Graham De Araujo ’53 Nancy Cox Mills ’74* Michele Harvan Montgomery ’80 LaVon Ryan Mooring ’60 Mary A. Mottola ’61 Harriet Coltman Muir ’59 Christine Cooper Murray ’68 Catherine Tyburski Nagy ’64 Margaret A. Nally ’85* In memory of Doris Barker ’69 Melva Brown Neff ’62 Anne Shedden Neviaser ’65 Phyllis Armstrong Odell ’48 Elizabeth Duff O’Loughlin ’81* Barbara Maccready Olson ’57 Kathleen Frances O’Reilly ’83* Therese Annette Palmer ’84 In memory of Mrs. Mary Seals Palmer ’32 Francine Cannizzaro Pennucci ’77 Ruth Weis Perraud ’51 Mary Santelli Perry ’81 Linda K. Peters ’90 Marie Ryan Petro ’50 Sarina Petrolino-Roche ’82 ’86 ’04 Diane Lynn Jones Petrouskie ’84 Ruth Wooliscroft Phelan ’58 Mary Platt Pike ’66 Patricia Riker Pimbley ’47* Lusine Poghosyan ^ In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Linda C. Buckles Porter ’58 Netra Lakshmi Prasad ’08 ’11 Marian Ruschmeyer Pritchard ’54 Sallie I. Prugh ’64 In honor of Professor Penny Buschman ’64 Marilyn Westfall Raffinot ’75* Susan Maffey Rakfal ’73 Laurie Leigh Ray ’10 ’11 Lorna Corpuz Ricafrente ’02 Amelia Setteducati Richman ’65 In memory of Daniel Joseph Richman Joan Sanok Rick ’60* Joan Barbour Rieder ’63 Lynn McIntyre Riley ’69

Barbara Simpson Riske ’54 Judith Bertsch Ritter ’63 Lynn Davies Robertson ’97* Linda Nicholson Roe ’61 Mary Anne Maternowski Romano ’79 ’82* In memory of Mary Beth Hassan Barbara Beucler Rooney ’62 Elizabeth Bridget Rothlauf ’92* Stacey A. Sass In honor of Professor Sarah Sheets Cook ’05 Susan J. Sawyer ’65 William G. Sayres* In Memory of Mary Bleecker Simmons ’60 Denise C. Schain ’75* Margaret Koch Schall ’52* Abigail M. Scheuer ’95 Helen Kehn Schneider ’59 Molly Marsden Schneider ’67* In memory of my parents Linda Hall Schuch ’67 Florence Mueller Schumacher ’53 Leonard G. Schumack In memory of Mrs. Helen Chihotas Schumack ’48 Barbara Patton Sciarra ’55* Jeanne Alice Scott ’47 Susan McCreary Seaman ’68* Christine Seidler In memory of Joan C. Gass ’88 Sharon Steffy Seidman-Singer ’89 In memory of Cindy Turtletaub Barbara Hang Selleck ’60 Marjorie Eila Shea ’67 Cathy Bagnal Shimmel ’71 Karla Noelle Silverman ’98 ’01 Phyllis M. Simpson ’76 Theresa E. Sinopoli ’89 Lori Wetzler Sitzman ’77* Alicia B. Smilowitz ’80 Barbara Fessenden Smith ’84 ’86* Jo Ann Ayers Somers ’62 Karen Magruder Souza ’82 ’88 In memory of Mary Reuter Magruder ’49 Jared Srole Martha Bach St. Amand ’55 Joan Congdon Stackhouse ’73 Molly Fairbanks Stainton ’46* Janice L. Stanwood In memory of Jeannette Snare Stanwood ’11 Marilyn Mackson Stein ’57* Eileen McLoughlin Stiles ’58* Carol Single Stilley ’63 Lynn Seaborne Swift ’78 Stacy Shannon Tammi ’91 ’93* Dianne Variano Thomas ’76 Miriam Tostlebe Thompson ’58* Eleanor Rasmussen Tibbitts ’41 Kristin Cobb Troost ’58 Teresa S. Turnbull ’08 Barbara Taylor Uhlig ’53*

All gifts received after June 30 will be listed in the Fall 2014 Academic Nurse *3-year consecutive donors ^ Faculty/Staff

Patricia A. Urbanus ’69* In honor of the midwifery program Nancy Weems Valsamis ’54 Olivia Velez ’06 ’11 ’11* Jean Willis Vernon ’52* In memory of Janet Alley ’52 Lisbeth Jacobsen Votruba ’00 Carol Poehlmann Wagner ’72 Kathleen Mary Waisgerber ’93* Theresa O’Connell Wallenstein ’69 Beverly Beckwith Walsh ’66 Veronica Lawrence Warrener ’63 Kathleen H. Watters-Julsing ’64 Lucinda R. Webb ’80 Joann P. Wessman ’65* Ann Lounsbury Wheeler ’60* Barbara Boice Whitton ’50 Janet Hine Widell ’67 Virginia Dana Windmuller ’64* Mary Jean Rasmussen Wright ’52 Glenn David Wurtzel ’00 ’02* Denise Yankou Elizabeth Writer Kleinfeld Zern ’51* Diane Zgaljic ’94

Errata: The fall 2012 Annual Fund Gift list did not properly note that Marilyn Miller Stiefvater’s gift was made in memory of Arla Mellen Middleton ’53

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Corporate Matching Gifts

Columbia University School of Nursing is pleased to recognize the generous support of many companies who match our donors’ gifts. To find out if you or your spouse’s company has a matching gifts program, visit: http:// giving.columbia.edu/waystogive/ matching_gifts.html

Chevron Consolidated Edison Company of New York Energizer Ernst & Young Foundation ExxonMobil Foundation IBM International Foundation Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Mutual of America Foundation Procter & Gamble Fund PSE&G Company Union Pacific Corporation

The Anna C. Maxwell Legacy Society was established to recognize and thank those alumni and friends who provide for Columbia University School of Nursing in their wills and estate plans. Columbia Nursing is extremely grateful and appreciates the impact these gifts can make and the legacy that they leave behind. These generous commitments help to ensure that future generations will be able to experience the finest in nursing education.

Your ongoing support to the Annual Fund ensures that Columbia Nursing is able to recruit the best possible students in nursing.

100% of your gift supports students and their experience at the School. To make your tax-deductible contribution today, send a check payable to Columbia University School of Nursing or donate online at: https://giving. columbia.edu/online/. Thank you in advance for your commitment.

Anonymous (3) Pamela Amerige-Pulaski ’05 Carol Ann Baxter ’86 Jean Lagakis Benner ’42 Bonnie Barker Bogdasarian ’74 Estate of Florence M. Burnett ’35 Jane Richardson Carmichael ’63 Estate of Mary Louise Sanchez Davis ’33 Joan Margaret Dietrich ’92 Alberta J. Domalakes ’41 Beatrice M. Dorbacker ’50 Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57 Estate of Regina Driscoll ’40 Celeste A. Dye Estate of June P. Fiedler ’58 Eunice Hering Feininger ’47 Ann Becker Finein ’54 Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69 Living Trust of Ethyl Rathbun Grady Estate of Anita M. Harris ’40 Frances Bevier Hiller ’49 Lois Jackman Howland ’57 Carol Ince ’75 ’82 Estate of Dorothea A. Kissam ’46 Chaweevan Koetsawasdi ’00 Ellen Rogowski Landowne ’59 Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45

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Judith J. Loach ’81 ’84 Jane Atkinson Mackenzie ’52 Estate of Nancy Hart Markgraf ’55 Barbara Meyers McNagny ’63 Ellen A. Bakanowsky O’Neal ’64 Lillian Schuttger Price ’43 Ruth Klawunn Randa ’52 Janet Meredith Rapp ’61 Jane Crowell Rieffel ’46 Joan Chamberlain Roe ’62 Estate of Nancy E. Russell ’48 Ida Mitrani Schnipper ’77 Estate of Carmen Sharp Anna Draper Shaw ’66 Genevieve Harrison Speicher ’47 Jean Fisher Stonesifer ’50 Catherine Hirsch Sugarman ’41 Harriet Walters Sullivan ’53 Marion Howald Swarthout ’42 Alice Daley Thomas ’51 Phebe Thorne ’64 Rosie Higuera Toner and Paul Toner Estate of Alfred G. and Alice Ann Fleming Trundle ’51 Elizabeth Mulford Vavra ’77 Estate of Phyllis Harrington Wagner ’63 Estate of Jacqueline M. Webb ’63 Frances S. Williams ’66

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Keep up with Columbia Nursing News and Events!

Board of Visitors Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65 Durham, North Carolina

Mary Turner Henderson ’64 San Francisco, California

Robert Brook, MD, ScD RAND Corporation Santa Monica, California

Karen Ignagni America’s Health Insurance Plans Washington, DC

Gene Budig Distinguished Professor, The College Board New York, New York

Robert L. Kane, MD University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota

Frannie Kelly Burns ’77 Greenwich, Connecticut Delphine Mendez de Leon ’78 Huron Consulting New York, New York Angela Clarke Duff ’70 Forest Hills, New York Phyllis R. Farley New York, New York Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69 Chair Princeton, New Jersey Karen Hein, MD Jacksonville, Vermont

Nicholas A. Silao ’90 Anesthesia Providers New York, New York Sara Shipley Stone ’69 Brooksville, Maine

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Then & Now:

Twin Columbia Nursing students Barbara and Betsey Ball injecting a grapefruit for practice in 1957.

Image courtesy Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library

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Practice makes perfect

Nurse Anesthesia Program student Phylicia Stephenson learning radial artery catheterization on a simulation mannequin.

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