The following is a list of special awards and announcements featuring FPB faculty, staff, and students. FPB heartily congratulates all our award winners and grant recipients!
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 Laura Nosek, PhD, RN, has been appointed to the 2010 Education Committee by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE).
November 19, 2009 |
 Irena L. Kenneley, PhD, APRN-BC, CIC, was selected as the 2010 Co-Chair of the National Home Care Section of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC).
November 17, 2009 |
 Uraiwan Chaichanawirote successfully defended her candidacy exam.
November 16, 2009 |
 Jack Kless, PhD, MA, CRNA successfully defended his final dissertation exam.
November 13, 2009 |
 Lori Kidd, PhD successfully defended her final dissertation exam. |
  Andy Reimer and Tsay-Yi (Amy) Au defended their final dissertations, and Amy Bieda passed her proposal defense.
November 13, 2009 |
  Polly Mazanec, PhD, ACNP, AOCN and Maryjo Prince-Paul, PhD, APRN, ACHPN have both been approved as Fellows of Palliative Care Nursing (FPCN) by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Board of Directors.
November 2, 2009 |
 Dean May L. Wykle receives the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University.
November 2, 2009 |
 Teona Griggs has been promoted to Director of Student Services, Diversity, and Inclusion.
November 2, 2009 |
 PhD student Osama Samarkandi received funding for his dissertation entitled "Students' Attitudes toward Computers at the College of Nursing at King Saud University" from the Alpha Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.
October 28, 2009 |
 PhD student Jutarat Mesukko received funding for her dissertation entitled "Quality of Dying and Death, Barriers, and Facilitators to Providing Pediatric End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units in Thailand: Critical Care Nurses’ Perceptions" from the Alpha Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International.
October 28, 2009 |
 Marjorie M. (Peg) Heinzer, PhD, PNP-BC, CRNP has been invited to participate in the program committee of the American Bone Health Organization, formerly the Osteoporosis Foundation. This is a preliminary step to being appointed to the Advisory Board for the organization.
October 20, 2009 |
 John Clochesy, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM, Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education, will oversee the Office of Faculty Diversity and be responsible for faculty diversity matters related to recruitment, employment and equal opportunity, including reviewing allegations of sexual harassment or discrimination against or about faculty and facilitating Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for faculty members. The FDO also reports faculty diversity data to the Faculty Senate and serves on university committees concerned with faculty diversity issues. Clochesy will work closely with Vice President Marilyn Sanders Mobley in serving as a resource for all faculty. Read more.
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 Faye A. Gary, EdD, RN, FAAN was invited to present at two preconference institutes on October 7-8 at the 21st Annual International Conference on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, put on by CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder). The first is “AD/HD and Its Links to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice," and the second is “Providing Good AD/HD Care for Culturally Diverse Families." Both were given at the Cleveland Convention Center.
Dr. Gary will also have a principle role on the Case Western Reserve University Faculty Senate Committee on Women. |
Irena L. Kenneley, PhD, APRN-BC, CIC has been selected to participate in the session "Opportunities for Infection Prevention Program Design and Strategies for the Diverse, Unstructured Environment of Care Known as Home Health Care." This session will be presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC) 37th Annual Educational Conference and International Meeting, on behalf of APIC and the 2010 Annual Conference Committee.
October 1, 2009 |
 Barbara Daly, PhD, RN, FAAN and Maryjo Prince-Paul, PhD, APRN, ACHPN are the principal investigator and co-investigator, respectively, for their research project entitled "Building the End-of-Life Science through Positive Human Strengths and Traits (BEST) Center." This project received P30 grant funding from NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research. The BEST Center is now FPB's sixth Center of Excellence.
October 1, 2009 |
 John Clochesy, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM received funding for his research project entitled "Electronic Self-Management Resource Training to Reduce Health Disparities (eSMART-HD)." This RC2 GO grant was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
October 1, 2009 |
  Amel Abouelfettoh, PhD, RN and Susan Ludington, PhD, CNM, FAAN received the First Place Award for their abstract entitled "Immune Response of Preterm Infants to Skin-to-Skin Contact" at the 25th Annual Pediatric Nursing Conference.
September 30, 2009 |
 Jill Kilanowski, PhD, RN, CPNP was the recipient of the 2009 Child Advocate Award by the Executive Board of the Ohio Chapter of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP).
September 30, 2009 |
  Principal Investigator Shirley Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Co-Investigator Ann Williams, PhD, RN received funding for their research project entitled "Full Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Self-Management Research: The FIND Lab." This grant is a supplement to the P30 Smart Center, issued under the American Recovery and ReInvestment Act of 2009 from NIH and the National Institute of Nursing Research.
September 30, 2009 |
 Brandon N. Respress, PhD(c), RN, MSN, MPH, CPNP submitted her abstract entitled, “Social Determinants of Adolescent Risk Behaviors: An Examination of Depressive Symptoms, Substance Use, Sexual, and Suicide Risk Behaviors,” which has been approved for oral presentation at the Caribbean Exploratory Research Center’s 2nd Annual Health Disparities Institute, October 15 – 16, 2009 in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.
September 28, 2009 |
 Evelyn G. Duffy, DNP, ANP/GNP-BC, FAANP has been made President-Elect of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association.
September 15, 2009 |
