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May 18, 2010
RWJF NFS 2008 Scholar, Angela Amar, Ph.D., R.N., will receive the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) Distinguished Fellow Award. This honor will be award by the Association on October 27, 2010 at the Association's Annual Scientific Assembly. Dr. Amar is recognized for her dedication to advancements in forensic nursing. To see a list of other IAFN awardees, please visit the link below.
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May 18, 2010
RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar, Jacquelyn Taylor, Ph.D., R.N from the 2008 NFS cohort was recently highlighted for her research in Yale Nursing Matters. Taylor, a bench scientist and assistant professor at the Yale University School of Nursing, is investigating the interaction between genetics and behavior on high blood pressure among African American women, who are at greatest risk for developing cardiovascular disease.
Read the entire feature by clicking on the link below.
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May 18, 2010
Nurse Faculty Scholar, Angela Amar, PhD, RN, was recently awarded the New England Regional Black Nurses Association's (NERBNA) Excellence in Nursing Award for her dedication to improving emergency nurses trained in forensic nursing. Dr. Amar is an Associate Professor at Boston College's William F. Connell School of Nursing. NERBNA is a regional nursing association whose mission is to unify, educate and increase the number of African American Nurses in this country.
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Jan 26, 2010
RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholars National Advisory Committee member, Dean Divina Grossman has been appointed Florida International University's founding vice-president for engagement. In her new role, Grossman will provide leadership for the development and coordination of partnerships with key local, state, national and global stakeholders and will spearhead a university-wide effort to coordinate and expand internship opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
Dean Grossman has served on the RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholars program since its inception in 2007. Please click more on the link below to learn more about her new role as vice president for engagement and her accomplishments as Dean of the College of Nursing at FIU.
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Dec 16, 2009
RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar , Kynna Wright-Volel, Ph.D., RN, MSN, MPH, CPNP was awarded 2009 Minority Health Community Trailblazer Award.
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Sep 30, 2009
Through his research in pain detection, Martin Schiavenato of the University of Rochester’s School of Nursing is developing a tool to help health care providers more accurately assess pain in infants, young children and people with dementia who cannot articulate their pain. His Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar research will support this work.
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Sep 23, 2009
Sandra Kuntz, an Assistant Professor at the Montana State University College of Nursing, is using her Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar grant to conduct a community-based participatory research project with public health and tribal environmental protection partners on the Fort Peck reservation. She will investigate the potential and actual exposure to methylmercury in women of childbearing age.
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Sep 23, 2009
The prestigious Nurse Faculty Scholar award includes a grant of $350,000, which Maren Coffman will use to study the correlation between health literacy—an understanding of health care and the health care system—and diabetes among Latinas. Coffman is an assistant professor at the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Sep 23, 2009
Randy Jones, of the University of Virginia will use the three-year, $350,000 Nurse Faculty Scholars award to study strategies to help patients feel more at ease in the final stages of life. Jones will test a decision aid for patients with advanced-stage prostate cancer to see if it facilitates informed, shared decisions about treatments that affect patients’ quality of life.
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Sep 23, 2009
Having explored cardiology and genetics for more than 18 years, Columbia University’s Kathleen Hickey will use her three-year Nurse Faculty Scholar grant to further her research on genetic mutations that may predispose individuals to a higher possibility of sudden cardiac death. “Knowing ahead of time that a genetic predisposition exists could allow us to step up our preventative efforts,” she says.
