Fiscal Year 2017 Report
By the Numbers: Penn Nursing in Fiscal Year 2017 For the second year in a row, Penn Nursing was ranked the number 1 nursing school in the world according to a recent survey by QS World University. The rankings highlight the world’s top universities in 42 different subject areas based on academic reputation, employer reputation, and research impact.
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This past fall, Penn Nursing celebrated 130 years of continuing nursing education at Penn – honoring our long legacy of excellence in the field, beginning with the establishment of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Training School for Nurses in 1886.
70 students studied abroad in locales around the world – from Hong Kong to Guatemala to Thailand and more.
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individuals attended Penn Nursing alumni relations events throughout the year.
3 Penn Nursing students won President’s Engagement Prizes this year. Marcus Henderson, Ian McCurry, and Yaneli Arizmendi are among the eight winners of the 2017 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes. The award provides $100,000 in funding for Penn seniors to design and undertake post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference in the world.
50 Penn Nursing students participated in the School’s Community Champions Program, which offers dynamic service learning opportunities and the chance to make a significant impact on the health and lives of community members throughout Philadelphia.
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Together We Can Improve Health Around the Globe Last year, I shared with you Penn Nursing’s commitment to four priorities as we look ahead to the future – advancing science and delivering solutions, transforming policy and practice, developing experts and leaders, and engaging diverse communities to promote health for all. I’m both incredibly proud and grateful that our School community has taken these pillars as a call to action, and responded with investments of their time, resources, and support to move our efforts forward. It is because of the strength of our Penn Nursing community that we were once again ranked the best nursing school in the world and the school with the most #1 programs in the country. And thanks to the generosity of our many alumni, parents, students, and friends, we have been able to prioritize some exciting new programs and ideas that will continue our tradition of innovation and impact. In the following pages, you will read stories of investments that are making an immediate impact on Penn Nursing and ensuring that the School remains top rated in research, leadership, and education. As you will read, these commitments change the lives of not only our faculty and students, but those of individuals and their families around the world. Each gift to the School makes a significant difference, and we are so fortunate to have the ongoing partnership of so many. As today’s health and health care landscapes continue to evolve, Penn Nursing’s role in advancing education, practice, and policy remains more vital than ever. There is much more we can accomplish together to improve health around the globe. Thank you again for continuing to invest in Penn Nursing, through both your time and generosity. Your engagement is deeply meaningful to me and to all of us here at the School, and will remain especially critical as we look ahead to the future.
3 Nurse-led Solutions Inspire Advances in Health and Health Care 4 Recruiting Top Faculty 5 Turning Loss Into Hope 7 Developing Strong Academic Practice Partnerships 9 Needed: Transformative Nurse Leaders 10 Innovating PhD Education 11 Honoring a Lifetime of Impact 13 Increasing Community Health Leaders 14 Championing Student Impact 15 Announcing the Penn Futures Fellows 16 Penn Nursing Profile Fiscal Year 2017
Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing
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Penn Nursing faculty continue to develop innovations that directly improve health and health care. Here, a researcher demonstrates the use of the Virtual Reality Sudden Cardiac Arrest Training System – a virtual reality platform to train people in CPR. The platform was developed by ImmERge Labs, a startup founded by Marion Leary, Course Director and Innovation Specialist at Penn Nursing and the Director of Innovation Research with the Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania. ImmERge Labs was awarded the top prize at the 2017 Penn AppitUP challenge and received $50,000 to further virtual and augmented reality platforms. The company is looking to develop additional training programs to prepare people for a variety of issues and situations such as fires or natural disasters. These platforms will help better prepare trainees to save lives during emergency situations. 2
Nurse-led Solutions Inspire Advances in Health and Health Care In the face of today’s ongoing health care challenges, innovation is more important than ever. Increased data has collided with escalating health care costs and rising chronic conditions to create both urgency and opportunity. Penn Nursing is a community where innovative solutions thrive to enhance health, well-being and health care. To advance these efforts, the School has created the Nursing Innovation Fund. Krista Pinola, Nu’86, and Rich Pinola – both committed leaders at Penn Nursing and the greater nursing community – made an inaugural investment in this fund, allowing Penn Nursing to explore many pathways toward building a culture of innovation at the School. In addition to teaching at Penn Nursing, Krista is an alum of the School and serves on its Board of Overseers. Rich is a member of the School’s Innovation Committee and the Advisory Committee for the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. He is also involved with the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia. Together, they have supported two scholarships at Penn Nursing. Krista has been involved with health care innovation through championing quality improvement and patient safety for over 15 years. “In addition to aligning well with my own career and interests, supporting innovation at Penn Nursing provides a formal environment in which nursing leaders and students can collaborate across disciplines to develop creative solutions to health care challenges,” she said. Joining the Pinolas in making an early commitment to the Innovation Fund is fellow Penn Nursing Overseer, Jan A. Sigmon, C’82, and her husband, Andrew L. Dworkin. Like their colleagues, they have been longtime,
Richard J. Pinola and Krista M. Pinola, Nu’86
dedicated volunteers and have established scholarships at the School and across the University. “During my time as an Overseer at Penn Nursing, I have learned so much about nursing’s tremendous impact,” said Jan. “Nurses are at the root of major innovations in health care, and too often they don’t get due credit. We hope that our gift to the Innovation Fund will help others see the extraordinary impact Penn Nursing is making, and will inspire them to support this effort as well.” Rich Pinola believes the School’s impact is growing exponentially through the innovative spirit it fosters in students: “Formal support for innovation at Penn Nursing allows students to be exposed to and participate directly in innovation efforts throughout their education, which further distinguishes Penn Nursing graduates as leaders within the field.”
“I have learned so much about nursing’s tremendous impact. Nurses are at the root of major innovations in health care… We hope that our gift to the Innovation Fund will help others see the extraordinary impact Penn Nursing is making.”
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Recruiting Top Faculty Penn Nursing remains committed to generating solutions to the pressing health and health care issues of today and tomorrow. Crucial to this effort is the School’s ability to support the work of its renowned multidisciplinary faculty. One powerful tool to that end is endowed professorships. In 2014, Penn established the President’s Distinguished Professorship Fund, which provides matching funds to leverage donor support. With a recent gift to Penn Nursing, Overseer Ralph Reynolds, W’84, and his wife Gail have established the first President’s Distinguished Professorship at Nursing. “Given the state of health care and the need for innovation, Penn Nursing has a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of bettering service and care for all, not only locally, but nationally and globally,” said Ralph. ”By endowing this professorship, we hope to give Penn Nursing and Dean Villarruel one more tool to push this agenda forward.” The Gail and Ralph Reynolds President’s Distinguished Professorship is not the Reynolds’ first commitment in support of Penn Nursing. In 2009, they established the Dr. Hildagarde Reynolds Term Endowed Professorship Fund, in honor of Ralph’s mother. Dr. Reynolds was an active nursing leader in Alabama for years, impacting education and policy at both the local and national levels. Her career help inspired the Reynolds’ commitment to investing in nursing.
“Penn Nursing has a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of bettering service and care for all, not only locally, but nationally and globally.”
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The Dr. Hildagarde Reynolds chair is currently held by Dr. Ann L. O’Sullivan. With two daughters having graduated from Penn in addition to Ralph, the couple consider the University an important part of their lives, and a deeply meaningful choice for investment. For Ralph and Gail, supporting Penn Nursing continues to be an immediate way to help make a large-scale impact. “As an Overseer, I have been privileged to witness incredibly moving presentations from Penn Nursing faculty and students who are making a lasting difference in the health and lives of individuals and their families around the world,” shared Ralph. “I continue to be enlightened by the work being done at the School and by my fellow Overseers, and am inspired to want to do more to help Penn Nursing advance science and deliver solutions that will better care for all.”
Ralph Reynolds, W’84, and Gail Reynolds
Turning Loss Into Hope It takes incredible strength to turn one’s own great loss into a powerful force for change. For Marla Weinstein Wasserman, C’90, L’93, this loss was the death of her husband Craig, who passed away from a malignant brain tumor in 2010. Inspired by her husband’s perseverance throughout his battle with cancer, Marla has since dedicated efforts to building awareness, discussion, and innovation around the complex, multidisciplinary issue that is palliative care. A form of specialized care for patients with serious illnesses, palliative care focuses on providing individuals with relief from the stress, symptoms, and pain associated with their illness, in order to improve their quality of life and the lives of their families. In 2012, Marla established the Craig M. Wasserman Memorial Lectureship in Palliative Care at Penn Nursing. This lectureship helped bring some of the country’s leading experts in the field to the School. “I felt that I would be furthering his legacy,” said Marla Wasserman. “And in some small way, I would be giving back to the nursing community who helped us achieve our goal for Craig to die peacefully at home, rather than in a hospital, while still continuing chemotherapy.” But Marla still felt she could do more. With a generous gift this past year, Marla established a term chair in palliative care at Penn Nursing. Term chairs are instrumental in providing faculty with support to advance their science. Salimah Meghani, PhD, MBE, RN, FAAN, has been selected to fill this chair position. Nationally recognized for her expertise in palliative care, Dr. Meghani teaches core courses in Penn Nursing’s palliative care minor. She was a member of the 2014 Institute of Medicine Report, Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life. For Dr. Meghani, this term chair is a crucial vehicle to help her advance her ideas and scholarship in palliative care. Specifically, she plans to use the
Dr. Salimah Meghani with students
Wasserman funds towards developing an innovative educational intervention to improve timely clinicianpatient communication and uptake of palliative care principles by clinicians. “I am most grateful to Marla,” Dr. Meghani shared. “For both her valuable gift and her demonstrably consistent and deep commitment to the field of palliative care.” “For three years, the Wasserman Memorial Lectureship brought speakers to Penn Nursing and as I witnessed students and faculty giving up their time to learn more about helping others at the end of their life, I felt a piece of Craig with me,” said Wasserman. “Penn Nursing has given me as much of a gift as I have given them.”
“…as I witnessed students and faculty giving up their time to learn more about helping others at the end of their life, I felt a piece of Craig with me.”
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Dean Villarruel was proud to speak alongside Pennsylvania legislators and the Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) at an April 2017 rally in support of Senate Bill 25 and House Bill 100, which call for full practice authority for NPs. At Penn Nursing, nearly 200 NPs graduate each year. With a projected shortage of 20,000 primary care providers by 2020, every one of those NPs is critical, and they need to be able to practice to the full extent of their education. Because of Pennsylvania’s state regulations unnecessarily restricting NP practice, many of the NPs educated in Pennsylvania leave the state to practice elsewhere, to the detriment of the residents of Pennsylvania. Granting full practice authority would increase health care quality, expand access and lower costs for all. Penn Nursing continues to work with lawmakers to improve our health care system to create a better future for all.
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Developing Strong Academic Practice Partnerships Now more than ever, there is an urgency in developing strong academic practice partnerships to advance nursing education and improve health and health care. Penn Nursing remains committed to this goal through enhancing our leadership in practice and community engagement, maximizing the impact of faculty practice, and creating models to support collaborative clinical practice and translational research. Penn Nursing continues to develop innovative interdisciplinary practice models to improve education and research opportunities for our nursing faculty and students. The School is fortunate to benefit from the continued collaboration of its local partners, which include some of the nation’s top hospitals, clinics, and research facilities. Among them is the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Dr. Regina Cunningham, Gr’03, Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). Dean Villarruel, in coordination with Dr. Cunningham, remains focused on facilitating even greater collaboration and alignment between Penn Nursing and the Health System – from developing strategies to maximize Clinician Educator positions to advancing innovation. The UPHS System will soon include 6 hospitals, pending final state and federal approval of the acquisition of University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. Penn Nursing’s growing collaboration with UPHS will help the School better prepare future nursing leaders, thereby improving the delivery of care and the health and lives of individuals and their families. One example of the expanding partnership between Penn Nursing and UPHS is their participation in the Penn
Philadelphia Nursing Scholars Program. The School, with the support of the Philadelphia Health Care Trust, developed this program to promote advanced nursing studies with a focus on leadership development and to partner with local health care institutions in supporting financial aid. Under the Program, funds are used to leverage matching support from health care institutions in the Greater Philadelphia area to provide financial aid to master’s students. Upon their graduation, students will then honor a two-year work commitment with each sponsoring health care institution. The School’s first partner in this effort is HUP and the first student was awarded this past spring. Penn Nursing also continues to have strong ties with Mercy LIFE – West Philadelphia, a nationally recognized Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a part of Trinity Health. Penn Nursing’s Neville Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN and Christine K. Bradway, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN serve as Board Members, and Dean Villarruel is an active member on the Trinity Health Continuing Care Board. Through these leadership roles and more, the School continues to engage Trinity Senior Services in research and education. Together with these practice partners and more, like the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Penn Nursing is expanding academic partnerships. This includes creating opportunities to pursue new research agendas, publish scholarship, build mentorship of nurses at all levels, increase partnerships between Faculty-Clinicians and Faculty-Nurse Leaders, and translate research into practice.
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At Penn Nursing, we aim to inspire the next generation of nursing leaders, before they even enter the classroom. The School is proud to participate in the SPARK program, which offers middle school students the chance to experience various educational and career opportunities in the hopes of expanding their future possibilities. The more individuals who are exposed to nursing, the better the pipeline of incoming nursing students. As the need for more nurses to assume leadership roles in health care continues to grow, so too does Penn Nursing’s role in developing future experts and leaders. 8
Needed: Transformative Nurse Leaders The impact of a nurse at the bedside is immediate and long-lasting. The potential impact of nurse leaders on the health care system and health policies is just as transformative. To redesign health care in the United States to meet today’s needs, nurses must be full partners with other health professionals. As the need for this leadership grows, so too does the need for financial aid for students. With a recent gift, Penn Nursing Overseer William (Bill) R. Floyd, Jr., C’67, WG’69, and his wife Susan (Sue) Floyd, CW’67, have established the William R. Floyd, Jr. Fellowship Fund. This Fund will provide vital support to students enrolled in the Nursing and Healthcare Administration program. For 2018, the Nursing and Healthcare Administration program was ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report. Combining courses across the School of Nursing, the Wharton School, and the Organizational Dynamics Program at the School of Arts and Sciences, the program encompasses the strengths of all three schools. It prepares graduates for leadership opportunities in a variety of health care settings, including roles in consulting, nursing management, quality improvement, and more. One reason the Floyds have chosen to support a fellowship for the Nursing and Healthcare Administration program is because it represents a perfect combination of Bill’s own education and experience. He served as the CEO of a leading provider of eldercare services in the US, as well as the CEO of the largest provider of outpatient rehab services in the country. “An education from Wharton uniquely complements the clinical education provided by Penn Nursing,” said Bill.
“The need for nurse leaders is great, as is the need for nurses to take on increased leadership roles. An added business understanding prepares nurses even more to lead advancements in health and health care.” By enabling Penn Nursing to attract the best and brightest, regardless of financial ability, fellowships help Penn Nursing build a diverse community representative of today’s population, while fostering new and groundbreaking research. The Floyds hope their fellowship will inspire students to pursue new areas of science and nurse leadership. “We feel this fellowship is one more avenue to promote innovation at Penn Nursing,” said Bill.
“By investing in these students, we hope to create leaders who are looking to the future of health care, and who leave ready to transform patient care.”
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Innovating PhD Education For more than 25 years, Penn Nursing and the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation have partnered to foster nurse leaders. The latest iteration of that partnership is the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation, an integrated BSN to PhD program. This unique PhD education enables nurse innovators to develop skill sets, leading edge knowledge, and research experience in order to create scalable interventions that have the potential for large impact. Penn Nursing is just one of three schools in the country offering the Hillman program. Since the program’s inception, Penn Nursing’s Linda Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, RN, Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, has served as National Program Director. With the support of a recent grant from the Hillman Foundation, Penn Nursing has now been named the National Program Office. In addition to Dr. Aiken’s leadership of the National Program, Penn Nursing has its own Director for the School, Nancy A. Hodgson, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Anthony Buividas Term Chair in Gerontology and Associate Professor of Nursing. Dr. Hodgson follows the successful tenures of former School Directors Terry Richmond, PhD, FAAN, CRNP, Andrea B. Laporte Professor of Nursing, and Connie M. Ulrich, PhD, RN, FAAN, Lillian S. Brunner Chair in Medical and Surgical Nursing, whose leadership played a major role in the development of the program.
Focusing on innovation, integration, and impact, the Hillman Scholars Program incorporates interdisciplinary education with research, career development, and close mentoring. The program’s structure allows for students to more easily complete their PhD degree in three years. Over the course of the national program’s six years of operation, nine scholars have graduated with their PhDs, and there are another 48 active scholars. One of the more unique aspects of the Hillman Program is the addition of an optional clinical fellowship after scholars receive their nursing license. BSN to PhD programs that bypass the clinical Master’s in Nursing are growing in number, adding to the need for clinical content in nursing PhD programs. In response to this issue and scholars’ desire for more clinical experience, the Hillman program has developed academic partnerships with university health systems to create immersion opportunities that are considered a component of their PhD education. As Dr. Aiken explains, “This affords Hillman Scholars the opportunity to experience being an employed nurse with clinical responsibilities, with the added value of simultaneous mentoring by expert nurse clinicians, as well as seminars to integrate their clinical learning into the formulation of important research questions.”
Focusing on innovation, integration, and impact, the Hillman Scholars Program incorporates interdisciplinary education with research, career development, and close mentoring.
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Hillman Scholars at the 2017 annual meeting with Rebekah Gee, Secretary of Health, State of Louisiana (center) and Linda Aiken, National Program Director for the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation (right)
Honoring a Lifetime of Impact
Dean Antonia Villarruel, Vivian W. Piasecki, Claire M. Fagin, HON’77, HON’94 and Sam Fagin
It’s impossible to think about Penn Nursing without also thinking of Claire Fagin. Dean of the School from 1977-1991 and interim president of the University of Pennsylvania for a year following, Claire’s influence on Penn Nursing and the fields of nursing and health care is remarkable. Last fall, Claire marked several major milestones in her life, including the 40th anniversary of when she came to Penn, the 10th anniversary of Claire M. Fagin Hall, and her own 90th birthday. For a woman who has accomplished so much and whose name and impact is tied to so many areas, the Penn Nursing community knew it wanted to find a way to pay a special tribute to Claire. Realizing she did not yet have a scholarship in her name, the Penn Nursing community felt the best way to honor her legacy was to create a scholarship
recognizing both her and her husband Sam, which would support the next generation of nursing leaders. With support from across the Penn community and beyond, the Claire and Sam Fagin Scholarship was officially established and will be awarded for the first time in the fall of 2017. The effort to establish the Claire and Sam Fagin Scholarship was bolstered through the support of the annual Friends of Penn Nursing campaign, which provides critical scholarships for undergraduate and graduate nursing students at Penn Nursing. In keeping with Claire’s passion for equitable access for students from diverse backgrounds, this scholarship will help ensure the most talented individuals have access to a Penn Nursing education, regardless of their financial ability.
With support from across the Penn community and beyond, the Claire and Sam Fagin Scholarship was officially established this past year and will be awarded for the first time in the fall of 2017. 11
Penn Nursing offers several unique opportunities to explore the complexities of global health delivery firsthand. Through the course Maternal and Infant Nursing in the Americas, students travel to Guatemala to immerse themselves in the practice of community health. In addition to preparing presentations or charlas on topics like nutrition, birthing, pre- and postnatal care and more, students also participate in and observe a variety of health care providers and organizations. Here, Elisa Dolowich, Nu’17, GNu’19, conducts an assessment in Santiago Atitlån, Guatemala. 12
Increasing Community Health Leaders As more people live longer with chronic conditions, and more people gain access to expanded care options in their communities, the shortage of primary care providers continues to rise. Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are uniquely positioned to help fill this gap, but too often lack the opportunity for supervised clinical experience during their education to help prepare them for the challenges they will face. To help address this issue, the University of Pennsylvania partnered with Puentes de Salud, a community health center in South Philadelphia, and the Independence Blue Cross Foundation to launch the nation’s third Nurse Practitioner Residency Program in 2016. The program was designed and proposed by Dr. Steve Larson, co-founder and executive director of Puentes. With a focus on advancing the health and wellness of South Philadelphia’s rapidly growing Latino immigrant population, Puentes has long promoted the value of nurse practitioners, and their partnership with Penn Nursing has only continued to grow. Penn Nursing alumna Dacey Stratton, Nu’11, GNu’13, serves as Medical Co-Director of Puentes and leads women’s health efforts and the Puentes Nurse Practitioner Residency Program. Fellow alumna Sharon Katzenbach, C’02, Nu’04, GNu’06, a Penn Nursing preceptor, is serving as the director of the Residency Program. The grant from the Independence Foundation provides support for a new-to-practice Family Nurse Practitioner to become a resident at Puentes de Salud. During this residency they will engage with varied practitioners in different settings to create an expansive learning experience. “Collaborative practice is a hallmark of Puentes,” said Sharon Katzenbach. “There is a true collaboration here that I haven’t experienced before. When you have students and NP residents working in that type of environment, it helps make it the new norm. They are exposed to an exchange of communication and sharing of expertise that they are able to carry though to their future careers.”
Prior to its official launch, the Nurse Practitioner Residency Program went through a pilot year. Penn Nursing alumna Adriane Tuttle, Nu’10, GNu’11, served as the inaugural NP resident. She had the opportunity to engage with health care professionals at Puentes de Salud, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, among others. The first official NP resident will be selected this year for a one-year rotation. The creation of this program aligns with Dean Villarruel’s vision to expand the number of Penn Nursing faculty members embedded in community-based organizations to model, study, and teach the impact of nurse-driven best practice and models of care in community-based settings. Opportunities like the Puentes Residency Program will help the School broaden its base of preceptors, therefore enabling more students to learn and practice in community-based settings. This goal reflects the School’s commitment to addressing social determinants of health in settings with diverse populations.
The grant from the Independence Foundation provides support for a new-to-practice Family Nurse Practitioner to become a resident at Puentes de Salud. 13
Championing Student Impact Penn Nursing has long realized the power of partnership to improve health and health care locally, nationally and globally. One partnership that has increased the School’s ability to engage with communities here and abroad has been the support of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women (TCPW), an international network of Penn Alumnae. TCPW has supported Penn Nursing’s women’s health research and programs for many years. Most recently, they have invested in the growth of Penn Nursing’s Community Champions program. Directed by a faculty advisor and student leaders, the Community Champions program currently has 12 diverse initiatives where students can engage with various programs throughout the Philadelphia community. Now, for the second year in a row, TCPW has provided a grant for Penn Nursing to expand community engagement projects under the Community Champions’ programs. A new project launching soon is housed at Puentes de Salud, a nonprofit organization that promotes the health and wellness of South Philadelphia’s rapidly growing Latino immigration through high-quality health care, innovative educational programs, and community building. Funding from TCPW will help Penn Nursing
students expand prenatal care at Puentes de Salud as well as create informational and educational guides and host classes to educate pregnant women and their families. Additionally, TCPW grant funding will support a “Safe Transitions” program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Community Champions will assist in teaching a parenting course that will cover topics such as car seat safety and sleep safety. The support will help them develop educational materials for the course and conduct in-depth interviews with families to determine discharge readiness. For Dr. Terri Lipman, Penn Nursing’s Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and the creator of the Community Champions program, the support of TCPW allows Penn Nursing students to improve the health and lives of residents, local and beyond. “Being able to add new community sites has been extremely valuable in helping us achieve the goals of our Community Champions program,” said Dr. Lipman. “These sites have offered tremendous insights into addressing the social determinants of health and meaningful opportunities for our students to engage with and impact high risk, underserved communities throughout Philadelphia.”
The Community Champions program currently has 12 diverse initiatives where students can engage with various programs within the Philadelphia community.
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Announcing the Penn Futures Fellows
Lisa Lewis and Calvin Bland, W’72
Launched in 2015, the Penn Futures Project is an initiative spearheaded by Penn Graduate School of Education Dean Pam Grossman, School of Social Policy & Practice Dean John Jackson, and School of Nursing Dean Antonia Villarruel. It was founded to address the challenges facing urban youth and families by uniting the strengths of the three schools. In support of the Penn Futures Project, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has recently granted a $2 million endowment to the University to establish the Calvin Bland Faculty Fellowships. The endowment from RWJF has created a separate fellowship at each of the three schools. The Calvin Bland Fellows are: Ed Brockenbrough, PhD (Graduate School of Education); Toorjo Chose, PhD (Social Policy and Practice); and Lisa Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN (Nursing). Named for Calvin Bland, W’72, former RWJF chief of staff and research professor at Rutgers University, the fellowships will incentivize faculty to improve the lives of young men and their families and pay tribute to Bland’s work in advancing health and health care for all, with an emphasis on at-risk young men and boys
of color. By funding this trio of fellows across Penn, the fellowships will promote collaboration and foster multifaceted methods of addressing issues faced by at-risk young men of color. In establishing these fellowships, Bland was drawn to Penn Futures’ integrated view of delivering interventions to serve children and communities. The challenges of marginalized youth and families today are complex and are not confined to home, school, or the hospital. For Dean Villarruel, this is precisely why the Penn Futures Project and this commitment from RWJF is so important. “Today’s issues – poverty, diminished access to quality care and education, violence and safety, and more, require interdisciplinary approaches to develop solutions that will improve the health and lives of individuals and communities,” said Dean Villarruel. “This investment in our faculty will help ensure that we are leading efforts to promote this kind of collaborative work, and that we are developing future experts who are prepared to build new partnerships to address the ever-changing challenges of our diverse population.”
“Today’s issues require interdisciplinary approaches to develop solutions that will improve the health and lives of individuals and communities.”
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Penn Nursing Profile Fiscal Year 2017 Fiscal Facts
Research and Projects Education and General Operations Total Annual Budget
Educating Nurses
Faculty and Staff
$16 million
Endowment (Market Value)
$47 million $63 million
Philanthropy: Total Giving for FY17 $6,220,049 Donors 1,415
Number of Students Enrolled In:
Alumni Statistics:
594 Undergraduate Degree Programs 634 Graduate Professional or Other Degree Programs 17 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program 65 PhD Degree Program 1,310 Total Students
15,049
Faculty Chairs:
53 57 33 256
14 Full Endowed 1 Penn Integrates Knowledge 1 Presidential 12 Term Endowed 5 Term
Research Centers
Local/Global Partnerships
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing Center for Global Women’s Health Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health CDC Supported Center for Autism and Development Disabilities Research and Epidemiology
Andrea Berry Laporte, Chair Dean Kehler, Immediate Past Chair Rosemarie Morrissey Greco, Past Chair Carolyn E. Bennett Carol Lefkowitz Boas Cornelius C. Bond Jr. Anthony Buividas Gilbert F. Casellas Alberto J. Chamorro Eleanor L. Davis Kim Reisman Dickstein Susan Drossman Sokoloff William R. Floyd John Gamba Jr. Seth M. Ginns
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Total Alumni
Standing Faculty Associated Faculty Full-time Lecturers Part-time Lecturers
112 Administrative Staff – Fagin Hall
Supporting Research and Education 90 Total Sponsored Project Awards 41 NIH Awards
Global Partnerships: 11 Study Abroad Programs 19 Collaborative International Projects in 16 Countries
Board of Overseers
$125.8 million
198 Nursing Alumni Live/Work Abroad 43 Countries Home to Alumni
Penn Nursing Leadership Stephen J. Heyman Wendy Hurst Levine Patricia Martin Barbara L. Nichols Melanie Franco Nussdorf Vivian Weyerhaeuser Piasecki Krista Malovany Pinola Marjorie O. Rendell Jean Renfield-Miller Ralph F. Reynolds Ashley Zampini Ritter Randi B. Roy Sandra Beeber Samberg Marie A. Savard Martin Sepulveda Jan A. Sigmon Martin J. Silverstein Patricia Bleznak Silverstein
Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing Patricia D’Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN Carol E. Ware Professor in Mental Health Nursing; Chair, Department of Family and Community Health; Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
Julie Sochalski, PhD, FAAN, RN Associate Professor of Nursing; Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Class of 1965 25th Reunion Term Chair Nancy Biller Assistant Dean for Global Health Affairs Christina M. Costanzo Clark Assistant Dean for Admissions & Academic Affairs
Julie A. Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN Chair, Department of Biobehavioral Health and Sciences; Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans
Terri H. Lipman, PhD, CRNP, FAAN Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Professor of Nutrition; Professor of Nursing of Children; Assistant Dean for Community Engagement
Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN Associate Dean for Practice; Professor of Pain Practice
Lisa M. Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN Associate Professor of Nursing; Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusivity
Therese Richmond, PhD, FAAN, CRNP Andrea B. Laporte Endowed Professor of Nursing; Associate Dean for Research and Innovation
Amy M. Burns Vice Dean of Institutional Advancement Jacqueline L. Lowry Golding Vice Dean for Administration and Finance
Impact. Fiscal Year 2017 Report It means advancing our School, our discipline, our profession, our communities, and our world. As this report showcases, your investment in impact allows Penn Nursing to provide the very best in nursing education, research, and practice. We hope you will join us as we continue to lead to a healthier future for all. To find out more about investing in impact, please contact: Amy Burns, Vice Dean, Institutional Advancement Office of Institutional Advancement University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Claire M. Fagin Hall, Suite 445 418 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4217 amburns@nursing.upenn.edu 215.898.4841
Photography: George Bilyk, Dan Burke, Elisa Dolowich, Julianna Grange, Marion Leary, Eddy Marenco, Jeff Tesney
Julianne Grainge, Nu’18 (front row center) and Nali Asamoah, Nu’18 (back row center) traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico for a 6-week immersion program during summer 2017. Along with other Penn Nursing students, they took intensive Spanish classes and volunteered with Fundacion En Via, which provides interest free loans to women in the surrounding communities. Together they helped deliver health workshops in Spanish for the women who participate in the loan program.