NEWS & EVENTS
Five FPB Faculty Honored at 2010 MNRS Conference
FPB faculty illuminated this year's Annual Research Conference of the Midwest Nursing Research Society on April 8-11, 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri with five award wins, including two major honors for Drs. Joyce Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth Madigan. They are as follows:
- Cathy Baker, PhD, RN, CNS: Seed Grant
- Mary Dolansky, PhD, RN: Evidence Based Practice/Research Utilization Award, Gerontological Nursing Research Section
- Joyce Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN: Lifetime Achievement Award
- Jill Kilanowski, PhD, RN, CPNP: Ethnicity and Health Research New Investigator Award
- Elizabeth Madigan, PhD, RN, FAAN: Senior Scientist Recognition Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award, given to Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing and former dean of FPB, recognizes an MNRS member "who has significantly advanced the profession of nursing either through an extensive program of research or creation of environments where research can flourish, and whose distinguished career yielded outstanding and noteworthy accomplishments."
As dean of FPB from 1982 through 1997 (longer than any dean in FPB's history), Dr. Fitzpatrick is a pioneer in nursing education, leadership, and research whose work is well-known across five continents. During her tenure as dean, she established a highly respected culture of research among faculty, students, and staff as well as continued the pursuit of her own scholarship. She has provided consultation on nursing education and research throughout the world. In collaboration with the Case School of Medicine, she continues her early work in Uganda, where she has designed a series of educational interventions focused on HIV/AIDS prevention. Her prolific program of research includes health care delivery systems, public policy of health care, and geriatric mental health issues, especially depression and suicide. She is currently the editor of the journals Applied Nursing Research, Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, and Nursing Education Perspectives, among others. Her latest book, Giving Through Teaching: How Nurse Educators Are Changing the World, will be available later this year.
Professor of Nursing and WHO Collaborating Center Administrative Head Elizabeth A. Madigan is the 2010 recipient of the Senior Scientist Recognition Award, which is given to nursing scientists "who have advanced nursing science through a sustained program of research" and "recognizes scholarly achievements, mentorship, and service."
One of the highlights of Dr. Madigan's long and distinguished record of contributions to nursing science, the award indicates, is "her utilization of health services research methods to better understand the relationships between processes of care and patient outcomes for home health care patients. Notably with her successful sustained program of research and research dissemination, her scientific findings have contributed to practice changes nationally and internationally. Her reputation reflects both on the methodological rigor of her work along with her substantive expertise. In 2003, Dr. Madigan was honored by MNRS as the recipient of the New Investigator Award due to her public health, community health, and nursing management research."
Dr. Madigan was also appointed Vice President of MNRS.
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Cathy Baker |
Mary Dolansky |
Jill Kilanowski |
The three remaining awards consisted of a Seed Grant for Post-doctoral Fellow Cathy Baker for her research project entitled “Culture and Smoking Cessation in African Americans," an Evidence Based Practice/Research Utilization Award from the Gerontological Nursing Research Section to Assistant Professor Mary A. Dolansky, and the Ethnicity and Health Research New Investigator Award to Assistant Professor Jill F. Kilanowski.
Posted 4/22/10