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Deans’ Roundtable:
Crafting Education to Meet the Demands of Healthcare Reform
Jefferson Today The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), passed in 2010, produced much polarizing debate in the political arena. At the same time, it helped to focus healthcare education on collaboration and team building among members of the healthcare professions. In 2012, opponents took their challenge of the law to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Act narrowly avoided being overturned. The results of the national election in November 2012, however, effectively affixed healthcare reform as a key component of this nation’s agenda. Unlike their political counterparts, leaders in healthcare education and delivery are working together to enact innovative curricular reforms and clinical partnerships designed to break down traditional silos, while finding ways to do more with less, one of the direct outcomes of the Act. Not surprisingly, Jefferson is ahead of the curve in this paradigm-shifting environment. Throughout its history, TJU has been a vanguard institution in addressing the ever-changing needs of the healthcare system. A key component of the University’s mission is to educate future healthcare professionals to lead the delivery of efficient patient-centered care that is evidencebased and cost-effective. The Jefferson InterProfessional Education Center (JCIPE) has become recognized as one of the premier interdisciplinary healthcare education centers in the United States. In May 2012, JCIPE hosted its third successful national conference, “Interprofessional Care for the 21st Century: Redefining Education and Practice.” The six TJU deans joined me in a roundtable discussion of the challenges related
to the Act. The lead article in this issue, “Collaborative Solutions: Jefferson Deans Analyze Healthcare Reform’s Effects on Education,” highlights some of their thoughts and the “Healthcare Reform Snapshots” elaborate on particular initiatives that Jefferson is undertaking to address the impact of healthcare reform. Jefferson’s emphasis on the fundamentals of quality improvement and safety, leadership and advocacy demonstrates an ongoing commitment to patient-centered care and team based learning. For example, some of our students attend weekly acute inpatient rehab rounds at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital conducted by physicians and an array of clinicians, which may include PTs, OTs, nurses, speech therapists, case managers, pharmacists and psychologists. With the PPACA’s emphasis on positive health outcomes and significant penalties for institutions that do not achieve them, performance improvement initiatives implemented in the School of Population Health bring quality assurance and safety measures into sharp focus. Jefferson prepares its students for active engagement in leadership roles in the rapidly changing healthcare environment, which is illustrated in the profile of Jefferson School of Nursing alumna Barbara Todd, DNP. Todd is leading the implementation team of the national Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration Project, funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This collaborative project between nine schools of nursing and 20 clinical partners to increase the number of advance practice registered nurses will expand the number of primary care providers in the nation at a time when millions of previously uninsured
Michael J. Vergare, MD
patients are being added to the healthcare delivery system. The On Campus section of this issue contains many examples of the accomplishments of Jefferson’s programs, faculty and students. One of the most notable of these is the milestone achieved by the Jefferson School of Pharmacy (JSP), which was accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education following the graduation of its first class of students in May 2012. In light of Jefferson’s strong commitment to interprofessional education, it is particularly fitting that the accreditation review process highlighted JSP’s collaboration across professions to build education and research partnerships with the other schools on campus. As the nation’s leaders ponder how to improve access while containing costs, we at Jefferson remain committed to educating the next generation of leaders and innovators across the health professions. By modeling high-performing team collaboration, we are doing our part to promote the highest level of care. Sincerely,
Michael J. Vergare, MD Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs The Daniel Lieberman Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Thomas Jefferson University
Contents Features
2 Collaborative Solutions: Jefferson Deans Analyze Healthcare Reform’s Effects on Education 10 Beyond the Circulation Desk 22 Barbara Todd, DNP ’10, Leads Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration Project at HUP
ON CAMPUS 12 University 13 School of Health Professions 15 School of Nursing 18 School of Pharmacy 19 School of Population Health 24 Class Notes Inside back cover: Top 10 Things to Do In Your Online Community
Jefferson Review Spring 2013 Senior Vice President, Jefferson Foundation: Frederick Ruccius Editor: Gail Luciani Managing Editor: Jane A. Clinton Design: JeffGraphics Editorial Board Suzanne Berg Karen Brooks Sienna Choi E. Adel Herge, MS ’93, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA Anne M. Markham, BSN ’93, DNP ’11 Cory Miller Patrick Monaghan Michael J. Paquet
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COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS:
Jefferson Deans Analyze Healthcare Reform’s Effects on Education By Matt Skoufalos
Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA, in 2010, the United States has experienced sweeping legislative reform across regulatory models that will both limit physician reimbursements and tie them to health outcomes.
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What remains clear is that the Jefferson campus is dedicated to producing a new kind of practitioner; a clinical leader who understands the systems nature of health care, who appreciates that health is more than the absence of disease, who will work as a member of a team to coordinate care and to more fully engage directly with patients. Thomas Jefferson University is truly a part of the solution for the complex problems of our evolving healthcare system. David Nash, MD, MBA dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health
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system that had been absorbing the cost of 30 million uninsured patients through charity care or forcing them to pay out of pocket — the leading cause of personal bankruptcy — will now have to find the most timely and cost effective way to treat them with everdwindling resources. Health care is becoming personalized and commoditized, and changing national, across-the-board standards will impact all healthcare providers. Jefferson is committed to cultivating the skills and teamwork needed among all the professionals we are training to meet the nation’s future healthcare needs. Soon after the November 2012 election, with healthcare reform firmly in place, the deans of the six Jefferson schools discussed the impact of the PPACA on educating Jefferson students. Here are some of their thoughts.
Retooling for the Future “The core of the PPACA is about figuring out how to do two things: better coordinate care and practice based on the evidence where available, and use everybody’s talents to the top of their game,” said David Nash, MD, MBA, dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health. “That to me is what this is all about. There is no turning back from a political perspective; this is done and moving.” Nash leads the only dedicated school of population health in the country — currently, the only other in the world is in Australia — which gives him an uncluttered view of the field. That’s fitting, he said, because it’s going to take some dual-hemispheric thinking to unify the various elements of reform culture into a cohesive practice.
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Historically, Jefferson has always educated clinical leaders. Now we need to explore how we support the team-based approach while keeping the patient and family in the center. We need to continue exploring opportunities for experiential leadership activities and make sure they revolve around patients and their families. Beth Ann Swan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN dean of the Jefferson School of NURSING
“Leadership, resource allocation, advocacy, improving systems: this is all new material that students and faculty [in the United States] have had very little exposure to,” he said. Nash calls care coordination “the secret sauce” of healthcare reform. Clinical pathways will always be set by the best research, he said; the trick is finding ways to help physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists and other professionals maximize their professional capacities in light of what that research uncovers. Beth Ann Swan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, dean of the Jefferson School of Nursing, noted that Jefferson must include a patientcentered focus in its team-building efforts. “One of the strategies of the PPACA is looking at individualized plans of care for patients and their families and also following the plans up,” she said. “It sounds basic, but it’s so critical.”
Susan Wainwright, PT, PhD
Healthcare Reform Snapshot: Improving Collaboration Collaboration is an essential component of healthcare reform and something that JSHP makes a central focus. “We hang our hat on our very strong emphasis on interprofessional education,” says Susan Wainwright, PT, PhD, associate professor and chair of the Department of Physical Therapy. “From day one, [students are] learning to work together to understand what their roles are on a medical team and exploring how to work toward an optimal outcome for patients.” One way students are practicing teamwork is through observing weekly acute inpatient rehab rounds at Jefferson Hospital. “The rounds are conducted by attending rehab physicians and all the clinicians, which may include PTs, OTs, nurses, speech therapists, case managers, pharmacists and psychologists,” Wainwright says. “It’s great for the students to see the roles that everyone plays on the team.” Another opportunity for students to learn about collaboration is participating in the Dispo Dilemma, where Jefferson clinicians present cases about difficult dispositions to their peers, including PTs, OTs and physical medicine and rehabilitation residents, as well as students. “Cases may be from trauma, neurology, surgery or other services, but they talk about it from the rehab point of view,” explains Wainwright. “It is a chance for the clinicians to demonstrate to students how they improve their practice through communication and collaboration.”
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Valerie Pracilio, MPH
Healthcare Reform Snapshot: Performance Improvement If health outcomes govern the basis of every metric by which the field will be measured under the PPACA, then quality assurance is something to which the 600 or so Jefferson University Physicians should be paying close attention. Valerie Pracilio is the project manager for quality improvement at the School of Population Health, which oversees performance improvement initiatives at each of the Jefferson University Physicians, or JUP, ambulatory practices. Representatives from each of the JUP practices gather monthly to implement practice improvements that Pracilio said will be both useful and necessary under the PPACA. “As those programs are being built, they are shedding some light on ways that providers can be incentivized to manage populations of patients more effectively,” Pracilio said. Fear and anxiety can abound in such a rapidly changing system, Pracilio said, especially knowing that the future is reinforced by penalties instead of incentives. But that can be a strong motivator for performance improvement. “There are so many components of the bill that are already affecting our institutions and are bringing together multidisciplinary teams for discussions about pathways to care,” she said, noting that apprehension has inspired better coordination among colleagues. It’s also driven results. Pracilio’s group recently finished drafting a manuscript on participation in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services physician performance program. One of the interesting points they gleaned is that 94 percent of its eligible providers at Jefferson reported into that program versus a 26 percent national average. “That translates into an incentive that we get back into the institution,” she said.
Building collaborative teams will get to the heart of care coordination. We have such a good basis of interprofessional education here; that’s very fundamental. We’ve got a few years’ experience and now we need to take the teamwork to the next level. Students need to work on more performance-based outcomes. They need to be put in a situation of critical decision making and understanding that they can make a difference in practice. Rebecca Finley, PharmD, MS dean of the Jefferson School of Pharmacy
Mark Tykocinski, MD, dean of Jefferson Medical College, agreed that learning to function in coordinated, crossdisciplinary care teams is a vital skill for the next generation of healthcare professionals, but also posits that until more of the regulatory climate stabilizes, it’s almost a chicken-andegg question. “We have to envision what the caregivers are going to be in the next decades before we can figure out how we’re training them.” Tykocinski noted that the PPACA has the potential to take healthcare delivery models into a tiered-care environment; that the act that was intended to democratize care could inadvertently end up leading to its cost-based rationing. In such a world, he said, students will be required to confront more ethical conundrums more often.
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The Flexner Report, which molded 20th-century medical education, brought science into medicine. Post-21st century, we need to bring the art back into medicine, such as cultivating higher-order analysis and thinking. The simple stuff will be all clinicalpathwayed for us. The health professionals we need are going to function in gray zones, where simple, linear algorithms aren’t going to solve those issues. That’s where the health team comes into play. Mark Tykocinski, MD Anthony F. and Gertrude M. DePalma Dean Jefferson Medical College
Redefining the Fundamentals If change is the watchword of healthcare reform, said Swan, then there’s no more mutable discipline than nursing. “We’re looking at redefining the fundamentals of nursing,” Swan said. “It used to be making a bed and giving shots; now it needs to be critically thinking, taking in all the information. You really have to be a mini-processor of information. The bed will get made, but that shouldn’t be the fundamental of our profession.” She said JSN is exploring revising its curriculum, adding that “at the core is reaffirming professionalism, leadership, innovation.” Innovation and teamwork are the hallmarks of the profession, she said. What nurses need to do more of in a reform-driven world — what Swan wants them to learn at Jefferson — is to explore opportunities to lead.
“Hopefully we’re training leaders that understand that they can make a difference. We include leadership development in our programs,” said Rebecca Finley, PharmD, MS, dean of the Jefferson School of Pharmacy. “Advocacy is a huge issue that we at JSP have been trying to tackle at multiple levels in our curriculum. Teaching our students and helping them learn that they can be advocates for the profession, their patients, their community. I think that will help them to keep their edge as they enter the profession.” Jefferson can take a role in educating working professionals, suggested Janice Burke, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, dean of the Jefferson School of Health Professions. “I think some of our educational commitment has to be how we help the existing healthcare labor force retool and reenergize for a different way of thinking. Many of our graduates will need to be taught evidence-based strategies and interprofessional skills,” Burke
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Health science is in a very dynamic time. For example, entrance exams, even the MCAT itself, are in a very great state of flux. That heightens the difficulty for educators as well as students until it’s resolved firmly from a credentialing standpoint. We’re recruiting students, telling them, ‘Here’s what you’re going to do in a post-baccalaureate program,’ while we’re waiting to hear the Association of American Medical Colleges’ expectations of us. Gerald Grunwald, PhD dean of the Jefferson Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
said. JSHP is already doing some of that, with several degrees designed partly to develop these skills in working clinicians, including advanced practice certificates and a doctorate in occupational therapy, master of science in radiologic sciences, multiple graduate certificates and degrees in bioscience technologies and a graduate certificate in healthcare education.
Flexible in the Face of Uncertainty Flexibility is always key as education programs include new research and adjust to changing regulations. Sometimes, however, curricular flexibility doesn’t address all the needs of the emergent healthcare world — just ask Finley. The pharmacy curriculum was developed from scratch within the past six years, so JSP faculty were able to look at the PPACA at every step. The law has influenced everything at the School of Pharmacy, Finley said, from hiring to faculty
research to almost-monthly discussions with classes. And in the absence of clearly defined standards, a ready plan has been to adhere to outcomes-based curricula. “Many of the regulations are still being drafted, so we don’t know the specifics,” Finley said. “We teach most of our therapeutics and applications courses based on outcomes. We know that our students are going to be much more involved with patient adherence.”
Jefferson is Part of the Solution
While the PPACA may represent a new reality for some, Jefferson has long been considering the challenges that the act brings to the forefront. “Thomas Jefferson University is truly a part of the solution for the complex problems of our evolving healthcare system,” said Nash.
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We need to provide an education where students can think. They will need to be innovative and nimble with an ability to be ready – ready to understand the emerging needs of an aging population and a population living with chronic medical conditions. They will need to focus on prevention and wellness in order to keep these groups of people stable. In addition, our students need to be effective communicators, able to interact in a wide arena of healthcare environments and with many different people within both the professional and patient/family groups. The guiding principles of collaboration will be critical for those who provide health care. janice burke, PhD, OTR/L dean of THE Jefferson SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Brian Glynn
Healthcare Reform Snapshot: Quality and Safety Brian Glynn, a respiratory therapist and clinical supervisor for pulmonary care at Jefferson Hospital, always had an interest in process improvement and quality assurance. Now a student in the Jefferson School of Population Health’s master’s program for healthcare quality and safety, Glynn is learning to interweave that interest with his decade of clinical experience. “Changing the culture, improving teamwork and creating a system of care are key,” he said. “You know the culture’s starting to change when the head trauma surgeon is asking the respiratory therapist, ‘Hey, what would you change?’” Glynn said that the biggest changes implied by the PPACA from a hospital standpoint involve shifting from a volume-driven perspective to one that places a priority on health outcomes. “A lot of things have always been determined by volumes,” Glynn said. “Admissions, billing procedures. I think the change toward increased quality, better patient care and increased safety has led to a valuedriven model” that streamlines inpatient and private-setting care. Under the PPACA, those changes are of particular interest in his specialty, Glynn said, because high readmission rates bring with them significant institutional penalties. The top three diseases for which patients are often readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge — chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure and pneumonia — are all related to respiratory therapy. Now, when a patient is discharged for a respiratory ailment, Glynn said, his team schedules follow-up physician appointments within seven days, and calls on days 2, 7, 14, and 21 after discharge. Those care coordination activities are “a direct effect of the Affordable Care Act,” Glynn said. “For the first 10 years of my career here, we would do different projects and implement things, and then we’d say, ‘How is it going?’ Well, you don’t really know unless you have numbers and metrics,” Glynn said. “This program has helped identify what those metrics should be, and helped measure outcome and process,” he said. “It’s so essential because that feedback is what drives people to try to improve, where in the past you would implement things and you never really knew how you were doing.”
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Beyond the Circulation Desk:
Nurse’s Role Provides Evidenced-based Medicine Information “During the course of a half-day primary care session, 2.5 questions, on average, go unanswered,” says Patricia Wynne, BSN, MS, associate university librarian for Information and Clinical Support Services. “I came across that statistic while I was doing research on information and healthcare professionals.” While many think of a library as a building with four walls, staff at Jefferson’s Scott Memorial Library are proving that there is more than what meets the reader. There is a new kind of librarian today, one who not only uses tools to help people find the information they seek, but who also has expertise in conducting research, summarizing information and then sharing it. Called informationists or information specialists, their primary goal is to break down barriers to access as the breadth of today’s Internet poses a challenge in finding truly useful information. The Library and Academic & Instructional Support & Resources launched a new pilot program in June 2012 called Clinical Resources Support. This part-time program brings librarians with a medical background into a clinical environment where they work with clinicians to answer queries. The librarian answers questions that aid in diagnosing a patient, such as using iPads to access online journals, databases and other resources to provide information right at the point of care. Going beyond the usual search in UpToDate (a drug database and popular query tool where one can enter a disease or symptom to view all relevant matches) allows for a comprehensive and evidence-based diagnosis. The librarians’ medical knowledge allows them to keep up with the pace and dialogue of the Hospital team. Wynne worked to implement this pilot because she saw the need for an embedded librarian sharing information beyond the library’s circulation desk. “I saw an opportunity to provide assistance to busy clinicians helping them find the right evidence-based information at the time they need it,” she says. In the first few months of the pilot, librarians have made more than 20 visits to the Hospital and answered 34 queries from clinicians. Information has been shared with an iPad, in conference rooms and on screens for an entire medical team.
These embedded librarians have received queries about a variety of symptoms and diagnoses such as: • Should treatment of scabies be given to individuals in close contact to the infected person? • Is there evidence for the use of IVC filters for free-floating clots? • What are possible non-surgical treatments for severe aortic stenosis? • What evidence exists around the selection of broad spectrum antibiotics for acute exacerbation of COPD? “At all levels of training, the team members who have participated in ‘librarian rounds’ have given positive feedback as far as its impact on their ability not only to care for their patients, but to do it in a way that is supported by the most up-to-date evidence possible,” says Lakshmi Ravindran, MD. “Learning where and how to find the answer to a clinical question is as important as the answer itself; it is the basis for lifelong learning and a key skill for students and their future careers.” Clinical Resources Support is strengthening the partnership between the Library and the Hospital as well as highlighting one of Jefferson’s key focuses, interprofessional education, which emphasizes people from multiple disciplines working together in an effort to provide comprehensive and effective patient care. — Cory Miller
Jefferson alumni are welcome to use the Scott Memorial Library. 1. Go to connect.jefferson.edu and click into your community (listed across the top of the page). Click into the Alumni Resources tab on the left to print your alumni card. 2. Go to Scott Memorial Library and present your card to access online journals and databases as well as other library resources. 3. A lumni who live outside Philadelphia can access public database resources or have documents from the library delivered to them for a $5 fee. 4. Visit jeffline.jefferson.edu/Alumni or call 215-503-2477 for more information about library services.
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Patricia Wynne, BSN, MS, is associate university librarian for Information and Clinical Support Services. Photo by Ed Cunicelli.
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University DHSA Grant Establishes Grad Health Informatics Programs
An interprofessional team led by Jefferson School of Nursing Associate Professor Rosemary Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, has received a grant from the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance to develop a postmaster’s certificate and Master of Science degree program in health informatics. Expected to start in fall 2014, the program is being developed in response to a national demand to increase trained professionals to facilitate meaningful use of electronic health records. Kennedy’s co-investigators
include Dennis Gross, MS, PhD, of the Jefferson Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Cathy Wu, PhD, of the University of Delaware; Katie Lakofsky and Anastasia Christianson, PhD, of AstraZeneca; Andy Kolb, MD, of Nemours; and William Weintraub, MD, of Christiana Care.
Jefferson Participates in Health Professions Field Experience
In July 2012, the Jefferson Schools participated in the Health Professions Field Experience, a six-week interdisciplinary program in which high-school students
explore various health professions career options. Sponsored by a grant from the Brook J. Lenfest Foundation, the program offers an overview of careers in nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, radiologic sciences, bioscience technologies and pharmacy. Lee Bryant, MS (JSHP Department of General Studies), Shirley Greening, MS, JD (chair, JSHP Department of Bioscience Technologies), Nicholas Leon, PharmD (Jefferson School of Pharmacy) and Rimmon Greenidge, MS, RT(R)(MR)(JSHP Department of Radiologic Sciences), Rajvi Teli, DOT, MEd, OTR/L (Occupational Therapy), Carl Pitts, PT, DPT (Physical Therapy), Mary Antonucci, MSN, RNC, CNE (Nursing) mentored students from Mastery Charter High School in Philadelphia.
Astle Named Advisory Committee Chair
Alpha Eta Welcomes Record Number of Inductees – Again! At the Alpha Eta Society Induction Ceremony on May 15, 2012, Jefferson welcomed 47 new members — the largest number of inductees since the chapter was founded in 1982. Michael J. Vergare, MD, senior vice president of academic affairs, spoke on the topic, “Seize the Future: Leading Tomorrow’s Health Care.” Six inductees received Book Awards in recognition of exemplary achievement: Stephanie Affet, BS in bioscience technologies; Rebecca Ann Snyder, BS in radiologic sciences; James Alfano, DPT; Colleen Dempsey, MS in radiologic and imaging sciences; Heather Jackson-Pena, OTD; and Kimberly Krapels, MS in radiologic and imaging sciences.
Karen Jacobs Astle, assistant vice president of admissions, has been named chair of the Advisory Committee for the Allied Health Centralized Application Service, or AlliedHealthCAS. Astle also serves on the advisory committee for Occupational Therapist Centralized Application Service (OTCAS). Liaison International, the organization that manages AlliedHealthCAS, OTCAS and several other centralized application services, invited Astle to present at the CAS Summit in May 2012. Her presentation, “CAS from the School’s Perspective,” overviewed the benefits of the centralized application and offered suggestions for improvement.
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School of Health Professions OT Department Launches New Certificates
The Department of Occupational Therapy has announced two new advanced practice certificates. The Certificate in Interprofessional Geriatric Practice, presented by the Geriatric Education Center, provides clinical educators or supervisors and current healthcare faculty with knowledge and practice in interprofessional education principles, current geriatric theor y and practice and andragogy. The Neurocognitive Disorders: Innovative Practice in Dementia Care Certificate, designed for members of interprofessional teams working with individuals with dementia, provides advanced knowledge in applying evidencebased neurologic/psychiatric and cognitive/ functional capacity assessment and intervention for individuals with dementia and their caregiver.
OT Chair and Faculty Featured in AJOT
Several faculty members from the Department of Occupational Therapy are featured in the September/October 2012 issue of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy’s “Special Issue on Autism.” Roseann Schaaf, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Department of Occupational Therapy vice chair, served as a guest editor and co-author on two articles. Janice Burke, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, JSHP dean and Department of Occupational Therapy chair, co-authored the section “The Issue
Is…” with the topic “How Do We Change Practice When We Have the Evidence?” Teal Benevides, MS, OTR/L, assistant professor and sensory integration lab coordinator, co-authored two articles. Kristina Caron, MS ’08, OTR/L, is also a co-author.
Benevides Receives OT Educator Award
Teal Benevides received the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association (POTA) Academic Educator Award at the POTA Annual Conference in September 2012 in Lancaster, Pa. This award recognizes exemplary OT educators who have consistently provided superior education for OT students.
Howard Accepted into Fellowship Program
Paul D. Howard, PT, PhD, OCS, Cert MDT, COMT, associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, has been accepted into the manual therapy fellowship program at Regis University in Denver. The program consists of four orthopaedic management courses, virtual round coursework and one-on-one clinical time with an American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT) Fellow. Upon successful completion of the course, Howard will be eligible to apply for AAOMPT Fellowship status.
Merschen and Robbins Published
Richard Merschen, MS, RT(R)(CV), a clinical instructor in the Department of
Radiologic Sciences, and Amanda Robbins, a student in the Invasive Cardiovascular Technology Program, had an article, “An Overview of Chronic Kidney Disease and Useful Strategies for Clinical Management,” published in the March 2012 issue of CathLab Digest. The piece included background on kidney disease and methods to optimize patient outcomes.
Weening and Team Receive ASRT Grant
Richard Weening, PhD, RT(R)(CT) (MR), FAEIRS, associate professor in the Department of Radiologic Sciences at JSHP; Rimmon Greenidge, MS, RT(R) (MR), clinical coordinator of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging program in the department, and Peter Natale, MS, RT(R) (MR) ’86, have received a $10,000 grant from the American Society of Radiologic Technologists Foundation to investigate MRI safety practices in hospitals throughout the United States and determine risk factors for MRI patient safety incidents. Weening also published “Degree Requirement & Employment Opportunity in Radiologic Science,” in the July/August 2012 issue of Radiologic Technology, the journal of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists. The piece discusses the short-term effects of upcoming increased minimum education requirements for certification in relation to future employment opportunities in radiologic sciences.
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Muhlenhaupt Takes POTA Reins
Pictured left to right are Joseph J. Darby, Jr.; Lauren Darby (daughter), Frances Darby (wife) and Patrick Darby (son).
Scholarship Fund Established in Memory of Sonography Mentor Joseph J. Darby, Jr., a founder of the ultrasound program in the Department of Radiologic Sciences in the Jefferson School of Health Professions, died Sept. 10, 2012. After establishing the ultrasound program with Barry B. Goldberg, MD, in the early 1980s, Darby was the chief technologist in the Division of Diagnostic Ultrasound in Jefferson’s Department of Radiology until he retired in 2011. “He was a very good organizer,” says colleague and friend Nandkumar Rawool, MD, RDMS, associate professor and program director of diagnostic medical sonography and cardiovascular sonography. “He was a liaison between doctors, technologists and researchers and always got people what they needed. He could take care of the needs of everyone, making sure machines were available when needed and that everything was in order.” Beyond his ability to organize the sonography department’s numerous scanning rooms, Darby was known as a father figure by many students and new techs. “People would go to him for emotional support as well as professional needs,” Rawool says. “He cared so much about the department and everyone thought he was there for them. I’ve never seen so many people cry [as at his funeral].” Before his passing, Darby asked his family to set up a scholarship fund to benefit Jefferson ultrasound students. Donations in his honor may be made to the Joseph J. Darby Memorial Scholarship Fund. Please make checks payable to “Jefferson/ Joseph J. Darby Memorial Scholarship Fund” c/o The Jefferson Foundation, 925 Chestnut St., Suite 110, Philadelphia, PA 19107, or donate online by visiting connect.jefferson.edu and clicking “Give Now.” In the comments section, indicate “Joseph J. Darby Memorial Scholarship Fund.”
Mary Muhlenhaupt, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, has begun a two-year term as president of the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association. She says that her work will center on POTA’s new vision statement: “We envision a growing, dynamic membership that continuously promotes the recognition, preservation, and advancement of occupational therapy in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”
Zorina Publishes Findings That May Impact Type 1 Diabetes
Tatiana D. Zorina, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Bioscience Technologies, published an article, “Treg Cells in Pancreatic Lymph Nodes: the Possible Role in Diabetogenesis and β Cell Regeneration in T1D Model,” in the Oct. 8, 2012, issue of Cellular & Molecular Immunology. The article suggests that the key to restoring production of insulin in type I diabetic patients may be in recovering the population of protective cells known as T regulatory cells in the lymph nodes at the “gates” of the pancreas.
Toth-Cohen and Synnestvedt Present at Conference in Japan
Susan Toth-Cohen, PhD, OTR/L, occupational therapy professor; Annalisa Synnestvedt, occupationa l t herapy student; Noriyoshi Asia, OT, PhD, occupational therapy professor from Kitasato University; and Miki Sakamoto, PhD, RPT, physical therapy professor from Kitasato, co-presented at the All Together Better
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School of Nursing Health VI Conference in Japan in October 2012. The presentation, “Engaging Students in Interprofessional Collaboration: A U.S.Japan Exchange,” discussed JSHP and Kitasato University’s exchange program, specifically the International Internet Conference held in March 2012. Other co-authors of the presentation were Frances Gilman, DHSc, RT(R)(CT)(MR) (CV), associate professor and chair, Department of Radiologic Sciences; Susan Wainwright, PT, PhD, professor and chair, Department of Physical Therapy; and Ken net h C ovel ma n, Ph D, c ha i r, Department of Couple and Family Therapy.
JSN Awarded HRSA Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration awarded JSN almost $700,000 for an Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship. The funds will support students training to become primary care nurse practitioners.
Interprofessional Education, has been named one of 20 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows from across the country for 2012. Speakman joins a select group of nurse leaders chosen to participate in this three-year, world-class leadership development program that is enhancing nurse leaders’ effectiveness in improving the nation’s health care system.
Speakman Named RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow
JSN Team Publishes Overview of FACT Tablet Computing Initiative
Elizabeth Speakman, EdD, RN, CDE, ANEF, associate professor at JSN and co-director of the Jefferson Center for
FACT students who entered JSN in May 2011 piloted the use of iPads as a tool for teaching and learning. The faculty team
in the Department of Radiologic Sciences, trained six museum employees to demonstrate the equipment using a “phantom” model with an artificial baby in it.
Radiologic Sciences Master’s Program Alumni Reunite On Aug. 11, 2012, JSHP hosted a radiologic sciences Master’s Program reunion. Fran Gilman, DHSc, RT(R)(CT)(MR)(CV), department chair, and Gary Lunger, MSRIS ’08, RT(R)(N)ARRT, member of the JSHP Alumni Board, coordinated the event.
Rawool Trains Franklin Institute Employees After Barry B. Goldberg, MD, and the Division of Ultrasound in the Department of Radiology donated an ultrasound machine to the Franklin Institute — a Philadelphia landmark that engages visitors in the fields of science, human anatomy and medical development — the museum wanted to find a way for visitors to see the equipment in use. In April 2012, Nandkumar Rawool, MD, RDMS, associate professor and program director of diagnostic medical sonography and cardiovascular sonography
In addition to reuniting alumni, Gilman and Lunger provided a casual forum where current students could connect with graduates for advice, professional contacts and mentorship. At the same time, incoming students received guidance about expectations and challenges to prepare them for the program. “I hope we will continue to have alumni reunions like this,” said one attendee. “This is a fantastic opportunity for Jefferson MSRIS graduates to network and meet other professionals with a passion for medical imaging and radiation therapy.” More than 40 people attended, including alumni from every graduating cohort, current students and faculty.
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HEALTH PROFESSIONS Student News Students Mentor Youth in Biotech Pipeline Graduate students in the Department of Bioscience Technologies are participating as mentors in Quest: The Biotechnology Industry Pipeline Initiative. Twenty-five students from Roxborough and Lincoln High Schools in Philadelphia were selected for the program, which exposes them to the biotech field, builds 21st-century skills and provides work experience. The program is organized by Philadelphia Academies Inc. and funded by the Philadelphia Foundation and GlaxoSmithKline. Other partners include the University City Science Center and District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund.
CFT Student Published in International Journal Couple and family therapy student Elizabeth Palmer was a co-author in a report recently published in the international peer-reviewed Journal of Writing Research. The second-year student contributed to a study that investigated situational and writer characteristics that influence the writing process. Results indicated that students with high exposure to printed material wrote higher-quality essays in roughly the same amount of time as those with low print exposure.
Jefferson Has Huge Showing at Annual Student Conference An unprecedented 74 Jefferson physical therapy students attended the 2012 National Student Conclave in Arlington, Va. This high turnout indicates the commitment Jefferson students have to advocacy and lifelong learning, as well as the overall energy in the physical therapy program.
Physical Therapy Students Work in the Netherlands Second-year physical therapy students Claire Peasley and Sarah Busenitz enjoyed a research opportunity at the Universitair Medisch Centrum St Radboud in the Netherlands, where they spent four weeks working with clinicians conducting research on Bell’s Palsy.
PT Students Earn Scholarships Third-year physical therapy students Megan Chronister and Andrea Hassink each received the Fox Scholarship for the Advancement of Geriatric Physical Therapy, which is awarded to students demonstrating a commitment to working with older adults. The scholarship was created by Tim Fox, PT, DPT, GCS ’05 and ’08, CEO of Fox Rehabilitation. Third-year student Brittany Baxter received the 2012 Otho Davis Scholarship, which includes evaluation of student service to the community.
Vascular Sonography Students Win Best Poster Kenneth Neuhauser and Muna Alzahrani, MS, vascular sonography bachelor’s degree students in the Department of Radiologic Sciences, won Best Student Poster at the 2012 Society for Vascular Ultrasound Annual Conference in June. The poster, “Congenital Portal Venous Aneurysm: A Case Study,” featured a two-month-old patient diagnosed with a prenatal gallbladder dilatation. An ultrasound of the liver revealed that a rare portal vein aneurysm.
OT Student Receives Burstein Scholarship Kelly Davis, a second-year entry-level Master of Science in Occupational Therapy student, has received the Ethel Beard Burstein Scholarship for this academic year. Created by Ethel Beard Burstein, an occupational therapist with strong ties to Philadelphia, the scholarship was first awarded last academic year.
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that developed the pilot project published an article, “A Teaching-Learning Initiative with Tablet Computing,” in the September 2012 issue of CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. The te am memb ers and publication authors are JSN Dean Swan; JSN faculty members Kellie Smith, EdD, RN; Kathryn Shaffer, MSN, RN, CNE and Mary Hanson-Zalot, MSN, RN; and Anthony J. Frisby, PhD, of Academic & Instructional Support & Resources.
Swan Attends Program for Academic Leaders, Publishes Narrative
Beth Ann Swan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, JSN dean, was selected to attend the inaugural American Association of Colleges of Nursing –Wharton Executive Leadership Program in August 2012. The AACN formed this enrichment program with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to enhance healthcare leadership and address the challenges academic healthcare leaders face today. Only 37 nurse educators from 25 states participated in the highly selective program. Swan had a personal narrative published in the “Narrative Matters” section of the November 2012 issue of Health Affairs and in the Washington Post on Nov. 26. Her piece examined the need for patient-centered care coordination and improvements in transitional care. She was a guest on WHYY’s Radio Times
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with Marty Moss-Coane on Dec. 3 with the topic, “Navigating the cracks in the healthcare system.” In her narrative, Swan writes of her experience after her husband suffered a brain stem stroke while he was in another city. She describes challenges that could have been minimized if accountable care organizations focused on patientcentered care were more prevalent. “The bottom line: We need patient care and transition systems inside and outside
Schaal Portrait Presentation A portrait of Mary G. Schaal, RN, EdD, professor and founding dean of JSN, was unveiled Oct. 18, 2012. Schaal was honored with speeches given by longtime friends, colleagues and mentors who highlighted her history at Jefferson, starting with earning her nursing diploma in 1963 and her BSN in 1981. She returned to Jefferson in 1997 after completing her MSN and EdD and took on increasing responsibility until 2006 when she was named founding dean of the School.
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JSN Makes a Splash at 2012 NANN Conference
JSN had a strong presence at the National Ass o c i at i on of Ne on at a l Nu rs e s Conference in Palm Springs, Calif., Oct. 17 to 20, 2012. Jefferson alumni, faculty and
preceptors made presentations and created the largest representation JSN has had at this event. Ksenia Zukowsky, PhD, CRNP, APRN-BC-NNP, associate dean of graduate programs, collaborated with preceptor Karen McDonald, DNP, NNP-BC, on the poster presentation, “So I’ve Finished My Graduate Degree, Now What?” Ann Phalen, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, associate dean of undergraduate programs, also presented.
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NURSING Student News JSN Students Selected for IBC Internship
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Two JSN faculty members have been selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Leadership for Academic Nursing Program. Ann Phalen and Ksenia Zukowsky, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, associate dean of graduate programs, were both selected for the executive leadership fellowship program in June. AACN Leadership Fellows participate in professional development focused on leadership skills, are mentored by an experienced dean and establish and work to achieve specific personal goals during the 12-month fellowship over the past five years.
JSN Awarded Scholarships through RWJF New Careers in Nursing Program
JSN has once again been selected as a grant recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program (NCIN). During the 2012-2013 academic year, JSN is receiving $50,000 to support students in the school’s Facilitated Academic Coursework Track nursing program. The grant funds will assist students who are traditionally underrepresented in the field of nursing and are pursuing a second career in nursing. The NCIN Scholarship Program was launched in 2008 to expand enrollment in accelerated degree programs in schools of nursing while increasing diversity in the nursing
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workforce. At JSN, five students will be awarded NCIN scholarships. Jefferson has received $430,000 from the NCIN program.
School of Pharmacy Meyer Elected ASHP President
Gerald Meyer, MBA, PharmD, FASHP, director of experiential education at JSP, was elected president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the largest national organization of hospital and health-system pharmacists. Meyer recently completed his third term as chair of the ASHP House of Delegates and the ASHP Board of Directors.
Hess Elected ASHP Chair
Mary Hess, PharmD, FASHP, FCCM, associate dean for student affairs and associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at JSP, was elected chair of the ASHP Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists. In this role, Hess will identify additional educational and practice opportunities for the section membership and further ASHP’s overall organizational agenda. This continues Hess’s activity in the section; she twice previously served as facilitator for her practice specialty, critical care. Hess has also served as a member of ASHP’s Commission on Credentialing.
Six undergraduate JSN students were selected to participate in the Independence Blue Cross Nursing Internship Program this past summer. The 10-week program offered interns paid, temporary positions in a community clinic or a healthcare or insurance administration setting. The students and their internship locations were: Christine Black, CMC Pediatric Case Management at IBC; Carmen Low, Team 2 Utilization Management at IBC; Michelle Martin, Clinical Precertification at IBC; Marleina Pluguez, Clinical Precertification at IBC; Barbara Saba, Delaware Valley Community Health Inc., a clinic in North Philadelphia; Stephanie Okeke, Rising Sun Health Center, a clinic in Northeast Philadelphia.
PHARMACY Student News JSP Students Win Awards at National Conference At the 2012 American College of Clinical Pharmacy meeting in Hollywood, Fla., JSP fourth-year student Laura Williams received the award for Best Student Poster. Williams’ original research described the delivery of innovative clinical pharmacy services. In addition, a team of fourth-year students — QC Pham, Lauren Isaacs and Jennifer Naples — placed in the top eight of 90 schools competing in the conference’s Clinical Pharmacy Challenge. Finally, second-year student Kyle Strand was appointed to a national committee for ACCP; he will serve as a student member of the 2013 Task Force on Practice Innovation.
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Members of the JSP Class of 2016 receive their white coats at the School’s fifth annual White Coat Ceremony.
Doctor of Pharmacy Program Receives Accreditation Jefferson School of Pharmacy graduated its first class in May 2012. The School’s latest milestone: The Doctor of Pharmacy program has been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. “With accreditation achieved, JSP joins the University’s five other schools in the Jefferson tradition of offering the highest level of training in the health sciences,” says Michael J. Vergare, MD, senior vice president for academic affairs. “The review process highlighted JSP’s focus on collaboration across professions to build education and research partnerships with the other schools on campus.” JSP Dean Rebecca S. Finley, PharmD, MS, adds, “I am extremely grateful to the faculty and students who have worked tirelessly to build a strong program and ultimately achieve this goal. We are all looking forward to building on our current success.”
School of Population Health Nash Receives Wharton Award
In what he described as the “culmination of my Wharton journey,” David B. Nash, MD, MBA, dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health, received the 2012 Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award during a ceremony at the Essex House Hotel in New York on Oct. 4, 2012. The award was presented by Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, last year’s honoree and a Wharton classmate. In nominating Nash, the Wharton School said, “As one of the leading Wharton alumni in the world, you have demonstrated leadership not only as founding dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health, but your dedication to medical education and healthcare have helped shape an industry. Your experiences represent the founding spirit of the Wharton School and set a standard for future leaders.”
JSPH wins PBJ Award
The Philadelphia Business Journal named the School of Population Health its Medical Education Innovator of the Year as part of the publication’s annual Health Care Innovation Awards. The announcement was made during a Nov. 8, 2012, ceremony at the Sheraton Downtown Philadelphia Hotel. JSPH was specifically lauded for its master’s programs in healthcare quality and safety as well as healthcare quality and safety management. According to the Business Journal, Dean Nash “has helped craft a series of new patient safety educational offerings available to students from all sides of the health profession — ranging from clinical practice to administration, to policy — and at all career stages, including doctors and executives.”
JSPH Teams with Bryn Mawr
The fall 2012 term marked the beginning of a new academic offering from the School of Population Health. Bryn Mawr College’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and JSPH have partnered to offer a dual degree in social work (Master of Social Services, or MSS) and public health (Master of Public Health, or MPH). The Bryn Mawr-Jefferson collaboration acknowledges the longstanding synergy between social work and public health and also recognizes the growing interest among professionals to further their preparation by earning multiple graduate degrees. The dual-degree offering reflects the mission of both institutions to enhance the wellness and quality of life of individuals, families and their communities through the shared commitment to social justice and human rights.
JSPH Publications and Presentations
Joseph D. Jackson, PhD, MS, director of graduate programming in applied health economics and outcomes research, recently published “Perceived or actual barriers to warfarin use in atrial fibrillation based on electronic medical records” in the American Journal of Therapeutics. Alexandria Skoufalos, EdD, and Amanda Solis, MS, published “A targeted approach to reducing overutilization: use of percutaneous coronary intervention in stable coronary artery disease” in Population Health Management. Skoufalos is associate dean for continuing professional education, and Solis works as a project director in JSPH.
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NEWS FROM JEFFERSON ELDER CARE Bettina Berman, RN, BS, CNOR, CPHQ, presented “Quality Indicators — Why You Should Care” on Sept. 7, 2012, at the Association of Otolaryngology Administrators Annual Education Conference in Washington, D.C. Berman, project director for quality improvement for JSPH, also presented “Patient Safety in Ambulatory Care, A REAL Challenge” at the University HealthSystem Consortium 2012 Annual Conference, Sept. 12, 2012, in Orlando, Fla. Joseph D. Jackson, MS, PhD, presented “The design of pivotal trials for PRO claims” at the Generating Valid Patient-Reported Outcome Data for Medical Product Claims Conference, Nov. 15, 2012, in Philadelphia. Robert D. Lieberthal, PhD, presented “Workplace wellness initiatives: return on investment?” at the First International Conference on Occupational Health and Safety Summit, Sept. 5, 2012, in Philadelphia. Jessica Lopatto, PharmD, presented a poster, “Comparing Italian and American radiation oncologist use of androgen deprivation therapy in the treatment of prostate cancer post-prostatectomy,” at the 2012 ASHP Midyear Meeting and Exhibition, Dec. 4, 2012, in Las Vegas. Rob Simmons, DrPH, MPH, CHES, presented “Enhancing global health in a graduate public health program” at the Society for Public Health Education Annual Meeting, Oct. 29, 2012, in San Francisco.
JEC Presents at Alzheimer’s Conference Since 2008, Jefferson Elder Care (JEC) has focused on training professionals in dementia care, and the Jefferson Elder Care Dementia Service has been providing home-based occupational therapy for more than two years. So it made sense that when the 2012 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference added a new educational track on social behavioral and care research and practice at its July 2012 event in Vancouver, British Columbia, representatives from JEC were eager to present. JEC’s leadership presented “A Model for Social Behavioral Care: Community-based Dementia Treatment” to an international audience of researchers and clinicians at the conference. JSHP Dean Janice P. Burke, PhD, OTR/L, and JEC Director Cathy V. Piersol, MS, OTR/L, presented outcomes on 50 patients with dementia and their family caregivers who completed the evidence-based occupational therapy program. Tracey Vause Earland, MS, OTR/L, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, was an additional author on the paper. The Jefferson program includes Skills2Care™, which teaches families about dementia and helps them modify environment and activities to enhance a patient’s life and reduce caregiver upset Director Trains International OTs In addition, Piersol remains active as a consultant involved in the testing of the Tailored Activity Program, a non-pharmacological approach to dementia care that was developed and tested at Jefferson and is now being piloted in additional arenas. In this program, an occupational therapist assesses the capacities and interests of the individual with dementia and works with his or her caregiver to develop activities that will promote activity engagement and improve the quality of life for both the individual with dementia and the caregiver. Piersol was an interventionist in the NIH-funded study conducted at Jefferson, and in her capacity as a consultant, she most recently participated in two international projects. In August 2012, she assisted a team from the University of Sydney that traveled to Philadelphia to receive training in the Tailored Activity Program in order to pilot it in Australia. This past summer, she traveled to Edinburgh to train 24 occupational therapists who will pilot the program in six areas of Scotland with funding from Alzheimer’s Scotland.
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JSHP and JSN Alumni Boards
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Alumni from all Jefferson schools and colleges can keep in touch with friends and colleagues at the University by taking advantage of the services of the alumni relations office.The Jefferson Foundation is home to the alumni office and also supports the missions of the University and Hospital by cultivating charitable gifts from friends, patients and alumni. Cory Miller, assistant director alumni relations, joined the Foundation in September 2012. In her new role, Cory serves as the liaison for alumni from the Schools of Health Professions, Nursing, Pharmacy and Population Health. She comes to the Foundation having earned her master of science in arts administration at Drexel University, where she studied marketing and communications, special events, fundraising and board and volunteer management. She then served as network and communications director at a coalition of seven nonprofit agencies managing partnerships and shared use of resources for neighborhood programming and social services. In this role, she managed a Community Council and Executive Council, which included representatives from more than 23 agencies across Philadelphia.
Cory is currently working with the alumni boards for the Schools of Nursing and Health Professions. These volunteer boards meet quarterly and convene working committees with the goal of lifelong alumni engagement. The boards host alumni networking events and provide opportunities for current students to meet graduates. They are also helping to promote the new online alumni communities. Separate from the School of Nursing Alumni Association, the Diploma Nurses Alumni Association Board works with these alumni, whose last class graduated in 1982. See below for a full list of board members who are dedicating their time to serve as School ambassadors and setting an example of how alumni can stay engaged.
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President: Anthony Angelow, BSN ’05, MSN ’09 Secretary: Anne Malin Markham, BSN ’93, DNP ’11, CRNP, AOCN Parliamentarian: Lisa Wus, MSN ’02, RN, CRNP ’08, Post-MSN ’08 Frances Amorim, BSN ’76 Jude Andrews, BSN ’05 Melissa Cartolano, BSN ’11 Denise Faraone Diaz, BA, MSN, RN, CPAN ’99 Giuliana Labella, BSN ’10 Peter Leporati, BSN ’83 Aileen “Ish” MacMillan, Diploma Nurse ’76 Lisa Mansor, BSN ’03 Heather Rozencwaig, BSN ’05, MSN ’07 Neva White, DNP ’11
President: Scott Segan, BS ’09, RVT, RDMS (Radiologic Sciences) President-Elect: Jill Weinberg, MS ’05, OTR/L (Occupational Therapy) Secretary: Renee Chaiken, BS ’10 (Health Services Management) Parliamentarian: Steven Merkel, MS ’09 (Cytotechnology) Danielle Adinolfi, MFT ’12 (Couple and Family Therapy) Lee A. Bradley, MSRT(R)(CT)(QM)(ARRT), ’07 (Radiologic Sciences) Mary DeGeorge, MSRS, RDMS, RT(R) ARRT, ’07 (Radiologic Sciences) Helen D’Imperio, BS ’07 (Health Services Management) Angie Dion, MFT ’10 (Couple and Family Therapy) Donna M. Giulian, BS ’09 (Health Services Management) Paul Heim, BS ’87 (Physical Therapy) Kimberly Henchinski, MFT ’08 (Couple and Family Therapy) Gary Lunger, MSRIS, RT(R)(N)ARRT, ’08 (Radiologic Sciences) Megan E. Gibbons Maciborski, MSPT ’04 (Physical Therapy) Charles Nelson, ’87 (Occupational Therapy) Katie O’Shea, PT, DPT, MBA, ’06, ’08 (Physical Therapy) Tristan Procopio, MSRIS ’12 (Radiologic Sciences) Shannon W. Saldaña, MS, OTR/L, ’06 (Occupational Therapy) Brenda Schuette, MS, RT(R)(M)(QM) ’07 (Radiologic Sciences) Brie Sheppard, PT, DPT, ’10 (Physical Therapy) Natalie Sibley, PT, DPT, NCS, ’02 (Physical Therapy)
Diploma Nurses President: Aileen “Ish” MacMillan ’76 Vice President, Alumni Office Coordinator, Social Chair, Satellite Chair: Jane Ryan Dietrich ’59 Treasurer: Rae Matz Fierro ’77 Recording Secretary: Patricia Maro DeHart ’77 Joan Caruso ’76 (Constitution and Bylaws Chair) Susan Albrecht Curcio ’80 (Bulletin Chair) Dolores Heckenberger ’55 (Scholarship Chair) Emily Lee Nash Hollenbach ’50 M. Joan LeVan Keller ’58 (Coordinator, Central PA Satellite) Tamara Tammy Tichian Magenta ’81 (Relief Fund Chair) Maria Gratzik Marinelli ’70 Theresa Terry O’Brien ’75 (Nominating Chair) Mary Greenwood Schaal ’63
We need you! For more information on how you can be involved or other alumni-related questions, please contact Cory: cory.miller@jefferson.edu or 215-955-6929
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Barbara Todd, DNP ’10, CRNP:
Leading Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration Project at HUP Whether they are nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists or nurse midwives, advanced practice registered nurses, or APRNs, will play a pivotal role in tomorrow’s health care. That’s why Jefferson is committed to increasing the number of APRNs across the United States. The Jefferson School of Nursing and Jefferson Hospital are part of a national project that aims to carry out this mission. The Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration, funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, supports five hospitals across the United States. Jefferson is a sub-contractor within the project, awarded to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). But Jefferson’s involvement doesn’t end there; one of our own is overseeing the project. “The Jefferson School of Nursing is proud to have one of its stellar DNP alumni, Dr. Barbara Todd, leading the implementation team for the CMS Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration Project,” says JSN Dean Beth Ann Swan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN. The project is a collaboration among nine schools of nursing and 20 clinical partners to increase the number of APRNs and ultimately, the number of primary care providers in the United States. Todd, DNP ’10, CRNP, says leading the project “is absolutely the path I wanted. I want to create more nurse practitioners so we can meet the needs of people who will be getting insured and are in need of care.” She completed her doctoral work on the topic of transitioning nurse practitioners (NPs) into practice with the research question, “What is the relationship of transition experiences on role satisfaction and transition in nurse practitioners?” Her project resulted in a proposed model for NP transition and a blueprint for a toolkit for NP transition.
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When Todd entered the nursing profession, her goal was to help patients maintain health. “I enjoyed meeting and seeing people and helping restore health, whether salvaging health, focusing on preventive care, acute care, whatever it was. I felt that I could make a difference on the micro level, with individual patients,” she says.
“I want to create more nurse practitioners so we can meet the needs of people who will be getting insured and are in need of care.” In 1984, she became a nurse practitioner and noticed her role change. “I saw how I could expand the locus of control with more patients at a broader level,” she explains. While working with acute care patients in need of cardiovascular surgery, she became interested in combining clinical care and daily management with administrative aspects of patient care. As the clinical director of cardiac surgery, she worked with a team to create models of care. “In 2008, I started in the DNP program to build on my administrative role. I was looking at advanced practice models to improve patient outcomes and I realized that I could make a difference if I could affect policy,” she says. “Now with this project, I am at the policy level.”
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ClassNotes BIOSCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES Dianne York, MS ’02, BSMT ’87, lives in Newark, Del., and teaches at Cecil College. She recently published a case study on plasma membrane transport titled, “Newsflash! Transport Proteins on Strike!” with the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY. David Youk, MS ’11 (cytotechnology), received the American
Society of Cytopathology Foundation Travel Scholarship for the 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting in Orlando, Fla. in recognition of his achievements during cytotechnology training and as a professional cytotechnologist. He works at Penn Medicine/Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Occupational Therapy Cate Dorr, MS, OTR/L ’11, works at Magee Rehabilitation in Philadelphia with her dog, Ford.
Graduate Nursing Capstones Several graduate students received capstone awards at JSN’s August 2012 Class Night. The awardees were: MSN Capstone Awards • Acute Care: Denise Shields, Calcium Channel Blockers as
Initial Therapeutic Agents in Hypertension: Relationship to Incident Heart Failure • Adult Health: Matthew Sundquist, What is the Evidence that
Depression Causes and/or Negatively Influences Pain? •C ommunity Services Administration: Mary Condron, Traffic Patterns
in the Operating Rooms: Issues and Solutions • Family: Wanda Nocella, Helping Prevent Sexually Transmitted
Infections in the Female Adolescent Population • Nursing Informatics: Mary Torrieri, Electronic Health Records and
Health Information Technologies Benefits to Public Health • Neonatal: Jamie Carey, Impact of Bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Very Low Birth Weight Infants • Adult Oncology: Ellen Napier, Ceftazidime for Neutropenic Fevers:
Is It Still an Appropriate Choice? • Pediatrics: Brooke Jaquith, Childhood and Adolescent Obesity:
Disparities and School-Based Intervention • Women’s Health: Krista Dankiw, Pregnancy Complications among
Obese Women Doctor of Nursing Practice Janice Miller, CRNP, MS, CDE, received recognition for her practice inquiry project, A Text Messaging System to Improve Glucose Control and Retinopathy Screening in Patients with Type II Diabetes: A Pilot Study.
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Ford serves as a physical therapy and occupational therapy facility dog full time to help patients master tasks that will help them through everyday life.
Nancy Stevenson, OTD ’11, OTR/L, had an article, “In Early Education, Why Teach Handwriting before Keyboarding?” accepted for publication in the Early Childhood Education Journal. The article was completed in partial fulfillment of the occupational therapy doctorate she earned at Jefferson. Physical Therapy Amy (Snukis) Stankavage, DPT ’02, and her husband, Brian, welcomed a daughter, Ava Brielle, on April 12, 2011. Paul Heim, MSPT ’87, member of the JSHP Alumni Board, is on staff at Achieve Physical Therapy and Fitness, an innovative practice and fitness center founded by physical therapists aiming to improve the health and well-being of others. Radiologic Sciences Lee A. Bradley, MS ’07, RT(R) (CT)(QM), had an article, “Radiation Safety for Radiologic Technologists,” published in the May/June 2012 issue of Radiologic Technology – the Journal of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists. Brian D. Love, MS ’10, RT(R), has been named radiologic technology program director for Presentation College in Aberdeen, S.D. Nursing Tracey Hepner, ASN ’12, received the Nightingale Scholarship Award and was recognized with six other recipients at the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania’s 23rd Annual Gala on Oct. 26, 2012. The Nightingale Awards recognize extraordinary nursing professionals in the areas of clinical care, nursing education, nursing research and nursing administration.
Margaret Ortlip, BSN ’87, and Paul Ortlip, BSN ’87, have been married for 25 years and have three children. Paul works at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Margaret works at Pottstown Memorial Hospital. Judy Edwards Hamblen, diploma ’66, has retired and spent the past year traveling to Punta Cana, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Australia. Thalia Cordaro, MSN ’11, NNP-BC, published her capstone research in the June 2012 issue of Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews. Cordaro and Lisa Jasin, MSN ’06, NNP-BC, presented at the 28th Annual National Association of Neonatal Nurses Conference in Palm Springs, Calif., in October 2012. Cordaro’s poster presentation, “Hypothermia and Occlusive Skin Wrap in the Low Birth Weight Premature Infant: An Evidentiary Review,” and Jasin’s poster presentation, “In Utero Substance Exposure: What’s a Neonatal Nurse to Do?” were two of many Jefferson presentations. Diana Hill Eisenstein, MSN ’12, published an article, “Anticoagulation Management in the Ambulatory Surgical Setting,” in the April 2012 issue of the AORN Journal of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Peggy Lyons, DNP ’12, received a Sigma Theta Tau International, Alpha Nu Chapter Research Award. Yvette Winstead, DNP ’12, had an article, “Evaluating and Managing Uncomplicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Associated With CommunityAssociated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus for Outpatients: A Review of the Literature,” published in Clinical Scholars Review, The Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice in October 2012.
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