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FALL 2010 T h e J o u r n A L o F C o L u m b i A u n i v e r s i T y s C h o o L o F n u r s i n g A n d i T s A L u m n i
A New Leader for the School of Nursing:
Dr. Bobbie Berkowitz

CONTENTS
2010
ACADEMiC NuRSE
1 Letter from the Dean
2 A New Dean for the School of Nursing
10 WHO Collaborating Center
15 School of Nursing Award Recipients
18 Nursing Faculty and Students Extend a Helping Hand Around the Globe
20 2009-2010 Year in Review
29 Government and Private Funding
34 Gifts and Pledges for Special Purposes
36 Annual Fund Gift List
39 Annual Fund Gifts by Class Year
44 Gifts Made in Memory or in Honor
45 Corporate Matching Gifts
46 Anna C. Maxwell Legacy Society
47 Combined BS/MS Costs and Financial Overview
48 Board of Visitors
back Administration and Faculty
Columbia university
Lee C. Bollinger
President
William V. Campbell
Chair of the Trustees of the university
Columbia university
sChool of nursing
Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Mary O’Neil Mundinger
Professor of Nursing, and
Senior Vice President,
Columbia university Medical Center
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letter from the Dean
As I write my first letter
as your new dean, I am
in the midst of moving
from Seattle to New
York City. Anyone who
has moved across town
or across the country
knows how stressful
and exhilarating the
process is. I only hope
I can find all of my
“must haves” when I
open the boxes in my
new apartment in Morningside Heights! My husband Rich
is happy to be returning home after 30 years in Seattle
and my golden retriever Simon is looking forward to
playing in Riverside Park. For my part, I am so excited to
begin a partnership with Columbia University School of
Nursing, and the community of students, faculty, alumni,
and friends that have built a legacy of exemplary education,
research and practice. I bring enormous energy,
joy, and determination to my role and my new city and its
many diverse communities. What an adventure!
I have reflected on the timing of this change for me personally
and for the School of Nursing. I believe we are at
the doorstep of a major transformation in the practice of
nursing. Two sentinel events are aligning that will bring
new challenges and opportunities to the way nursing
is practiced, to the way we educate the next generation,
and to the research our scholars pursue. While the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (health reform)
became law on March 23, 2010, many of the provisions
in the law will become effective over the next eight
years. The specifics of implementation are still being
formulated. Nursing as a profession and nurses as practitioners,
educators, leaders and scholars, have a high stake
in how these specifics are crafted. I am particularly determined
that nursing be involved in the Patient Centered
Outcomes Research Institute, the establishment of the
photo by Catherine Gibbons
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National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health
Council, and to the testing of models of care by the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. These
provisions and many others offer nurses an opportunity to
influence policy that assures the full utilization of nurses at
the top of their scope of practice and to the formulation
of research that will lead to high quality, cost effective,
and progressive care for individuals, families, communities
and entire populations. I plan to make our involvement in
the enactment of each of the many provisions in this law a
high priority.
The other sentinel event is the release of the Institute
of Medicine’s report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading
Change, Advancing Health.” Early in October the recommendations
will be released to the public and I anticipate
a report that will challenge us to transform our practice,
research, care environments, education and leadership.
The School of Nursing will host an event on November 8
in partnership with Columbia University Medical Center
and NewYork Presbyterian Hospital to jointly learn about
the report’s findings and recommendations and to begin
the dialogue about transformation. Our leadership will be
essential and I know I can count on each of you to think
collectively and creatively about our future.
One other thought before I close: taking the reins of the
treasure that is Columbia University School of Nursing is
without a doubt an extraordinary opportunity. I am following
in the footsteps of a visionary leader who saw nurses
as exquisite practitioners and scholars and established a
school that would develop this potential. Dr. Mundinger, I
promise you my best.
Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, FAAN
Dean and Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing

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from Washington State to
Washington Heights:

How do you land one of the most important
jobs in nursing without even trying? Ask Bobbie
Berkowitz. She started 2010 ensconced at a
top-ranked nursing school, holding an endowed
chair, with a curriculum vitae cataloging 25
years of leadership in the profession.
“As the year started, i wasn’t looking for a job,”
berkowitz said. “yes, i was at a point in my career when
i was thinking about doing something different. but i
never imagined moving across the country to become a
dean.”
Then a search committee tasked with finding a replacement
for Columbia’s dean called. Was she interested
in moving to new york City? At first she said no. They
called again and even visited her in seattle. The committee
wouldn’t take no for an answer. Then she started
thinking.
Four months later, she was in new york City, standing
on stage with Columbia’s President, Lee bollinger, as he
announced the successor to mary mundinger, the school
of nursing’s dean for the past 24 years.
“To leave mount rainier, the Cascades and Puget sound
for the upper West side of manhattan just shows that
Columbia’s a really great place,” bollinger said to chuckles
of the faculty, students, and staff who had gathered to
greet their incoming dean.
As she took the microphone from President bollinger,
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berkowitz, wearing a simple black dress, the bangs of
her ruddy hair bouncing on her forehead, immediately
connected with her audience. “Four months ago i could
never have imagined leaving the northwest,” she said,
shooting a glance at bollinger. “so, Columbia’s either
really a great place or i am crazy.”
The Perfect New Leader
At a time when the nation’s health care system begins to
respond to President obama’s reforms and nursing meets
the challenge of shifting landscape, bobbie berkowitz
takes the helm of a school with a storied record as a
pacesetter for the profession.
The school of nursing’s new dean has the unequivocal
endorsement of her predecessor. “her record is quite
awesome,” dr. mundinger said, pointing to berkowitz’s
record of research, regulatory engagement, community
service and leadership of a prominent foundation-funded
project. “At this point of promise and achievement in the
school of nursing’s history, she is our perfect new leader.”
Lee goldman, md, dean of the Faculties of health
sciences and of medicine, lauded the search committee
for choosing berkowitz. “When they got started, the
committee members said they found their favorite candi-
a New Dean for the
School of Nursing
date,” goldman said. Cracking a smile, he said, “i told
them it’s too early to have your favorite candidate. you’re
supposed to be objective, unbiased, and wait for all the
data to come in. They went back and looked at all the
candidates, came back to me and said they had had the
favorite candidate from the beginning.”

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A Turning Point
dr. berkowitz comes to Columbia after
14 years at the university of Washington
in seattle. The start of her career at
Washington already marked a significant
milestone. she had just finished a
stint as deputy secretary of Washington
state’s health department, where she
headed up efforts to reform the state’s
health system. her stretch of public
service led to the implementation of a
plan aimed at increasing the number
of healthier people through enhanced
access to health care that was efficient
and effective—an early peek at what
national health reform might look like.
“The robert Wood Johnson
Foundation heard me speaking
about our efforts at a conference,”
berkowitz said. “The foundation told
me they wanted to form an initiative
around the work we had done in my
state and take it nationwide.”
“The great thing about Columbia nursing, and what
attracted me, is that it has developed a legacy for
advanced practice nursing.”
Dr. Berkowitz
and her golden
retriever Simon

Local residents at the Shingiro Health Center in Rwanda
meet with Dr. Berkowitz
After discussing the broad outlines of adapting her
work on a national level, berkowitz accepted the post
of deputy director of the foundation’s project that
came to be known as the Turning Point initiative, which
brought with it a faculty appointment to the university
of Washington. Within a year, she assumed the role of
director.
This initiative garnered national attention within health
policy circles for its work in modernizing states’ public
health statutes, enhancing utilization of information technology,
crafting performance management systems, and
nurturing public health leadership.
“The initiative was a very powerful piece of work. it was
about what i am most committed to — local and state
public health. Turning Point sought to better position and
improve public health systems,” she said looking back on
what she regards as a capstone of her career. “i think it’s
some of the best work i’ve ever done. you might call it a
career peak experience.”
From her work with the Turning Point initiative,
dr. berkowitz arrives at Columbia with an impressive
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Dr. Berkowitz in Rwanda with a local farmer and his family
record in health policy. “bobbie is nationally recognized
in health system reform and at this point in the
national debate on reform, she is the ideal person to
lead the school,” said Kristine m. gebbie, rn, drPh.
gebbie, who is currently acting dean of hunter College’s
nursing school, and a former professor of health policy
at Columbia, worked with berkowitz in the 1990s on
Washington state’s reform efforts and has followed her
career since then.
“Coming from the northwest, bobbie has worked in a different
milieu, one that is more community-based, where
nurses play a larger role. but she will have no problem
adapting to new york’s more hospital-intensive environment
that tends to restrict nurses’ autonomy,” says
gebbie.
A New Direction for Columbia Nursing
does a new dean steeped in the workings of health policy
portend a shift in direction for Columbia’s 118 year old
nursing school? What’s in store for the school’s leadership
position in advanced practice nursing? Listening to
berkowitz lay out her vision; alumni, faculty and students
can cast aside any anxiety.

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“The great thing about Columbia
nursing, and what attracted me, is
that it has developed a legacy for
advanced practice nursing, especially
as a pioneer of the dnP degree.
That’s mary mundinger’s work and
that legacy is very important to me,”
berkowitz said during one of her visits
to the campus as she prepared for the
transition to new york.
dr. berkowitz said she views her
predecessor as having played an
instrumental role in moving advanced
practice nursing forward, not just
within nursing itself, but in enhancing
its visibility within medicine and in the
other health professions. “The ideas
that drove the development of the
dnP curriculum, the very roots of the
dnP, are right here. i am invested in
fulfilling doctorally-prepared nurses’
ability to practice at the top of their
scope, leading teams and leading
changes in health reform. The foundation
here makes that job easier.”
she sees dr. mundinger as a pioneer
for her work in spearheading efforts
to reshape advanced practice nursing
and the public’s perception the APrn.
“one of my interests is to continue
mary’s work in promoting the role
of APrns. Frankly, there is a huge
policy component to that. it has to do
with integration of advanced practice
nursing into the new health reform
legislation,” she said. “in fact, a good
deal of policy work lies ahead so that
APrns will be able to work at the
highest level and licensure. i think i
can contribute to that.”
still, the school’s new dean has her
eyes set on future opportunities. “my
background and research is in policy,
public health systems and health disparities.
i am hopeful that the school
will develop new capacities in these
areas. i think we can contribute more
to policy development, both in terms
Dr. Berkowitz and
her husband Rich at
China’s Stone Forest

of academics and research pursuits by our students. i
want the school involved in policy circles.”
From One Small island to Another,
but with a lot More People
bobbie berkowitz was raised in a world she describes
as far removed from manhattan. “i am a product of
the rural northwest,” she said. “i was born and raised
in Anacortes, which is a small town on an island in
the northwestern corner of Washington.” she earned
her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from
the university of Washington, and her Phd from Case
Western reserve university.
What prompted dr. berkowitz to take up nursing? “When
i was a teenager in the 60s, growing up in a rural area,
opportunities for women were pretty limited. i grew up in
a working class family and neither of my parents were college-educated.
nursing was the most compelling avenue
that was open to me.” Although nursing was one of the
few opportunities open to her, she knew “it was the right
thing for me.”
her professional track led her to public health nursing.
After moving through the ranks of public health nursing
during ten years with the health department in Whatcom
County, berkowitz was appointed Chief of nursing
services of the seattle-King County department of Public
health. This work in seattle raised her profile and led
to her appointment as deputy secretary with the state’s
health department.
“she is a brilliant women who works really well across teams
and is very collaborative with her peers,” said dr. betty
bekemeier, who worked with berkowitz at the Turning Point
initiative and did her doctoral work under berkowitz at the
university of Washington.
“What’s remarkable to me is the way she moves so
gracefully through larger national organizations and
academic circles while at the same time she remains so
well connected and respected by people in the practice
community,” said bekemeier, who is currently an
assistant professor at the university of Washington’s
school of nursing.
Dr. Berkowitz on the
beach in Tel Aviv
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First Steps for a New Dean
getting acquainted with her new school tops berkowitz’s
list of “things to do.” she leaves a school that dwarfs
Columbia. Washington has a research faculty nearly
three times larger than what she will take over. “my
single department at Washington may have been the
size of all of Columbia nursing. but i think the smaller

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setting will be good for me,” she
said, believing that it will give her a
chance to immerse herself in the curriculum
and develop ties with the
faculty. “i look forward to getting to
know everyone.”
While she sees Columbia’s smaller
setting as an opportunity to collaborate
with the faculty, she also sees
prospects for development. “i’d love
to grow the school, especially its
research capacity,” she said. “We are
going to grow.”
Also on her list: the alumni and
friends of the school. “my calendar
is already full with scheduled meet-
ings with alumni and the supporters
of Columbia nursing,” she noted.
“i see the alumni community as one
of our most important assets. They
and the students, who are our future
alumni, are a high priority for me.”
The Tenth Dean of the
School of Nursing
dr. berkowitz is using the lull of the
summer to get acclimated to her new
home, although she is no stranger
to the metro area. her husband,
rich, grew up in new york and,
since moving out West, they have
visited frequently to keep up with
family members who live in new
Jersey. “even though i am not new
to the City, i still have a lot to learn.
The medical Center is situated in
Washington heights, where there are
opportunities to contribute to the
health of the community, so i want to
learn more about the area.”
“With all the school’s strengths, we
should find a way to reduce disparities
and increase equity in the
neighborhood in which the school
resides. We should find ways to contribute
to this community.”
dr. berkowitz will live not far from
the school. she, her husband, two
cats, and their golden retriever,
simon, will take up residence on
116th street, across from riverside
Park. one of her first adjustments
will be learning to live without a car,
which, given the City’s traffic, she
looks forward to.
As the last days of summer closed in,
dr. berkowitz found herself working
out the final details of her move to
new york. Looking back at all that
has happened since the day the
search committee contacted her, she
said she is convinced she made the
right decision.
“i am particularly honored by the
trust the university has shown in my
ability to lead this treasure that is the
school of nursing,” she said. “i think
i’ve found a home.”
“The ideas that drove the development of the DNP curriculum,
the very roots of the DNP, are right here. I am invested in fulfilling
doctorally-prepared nurses’ ability to practice at the top of their
scope, leading teams and leading changes in health reform.”

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Dr. Berkowitz on the back nine
at Alta Lake Golf Course in
Washington State
“Even though I am no stranger to
the City, I still have a lot to learn.”
Dr. Berkowitz fishing on Snake
River, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

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The School of Nursing’s
WHO Collaborating Center
Background
The School of Nursing was designated as a World
Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for the
International Nursing Development of Advanced Practice
in 1996. Its mission is to develop, evaluate, promulgate and
sustain innovative models of advanced practice nursing that
will improve the health of individuals and societies around
the world. This mission continues the School’s long history
of coming to the aid of those in need on a global scale.
Just as the founder of the School, Anna Maxwell, recruited
Columbia nurses in 1898 to assist in field hospitals during
the Spanish-American War, and as generations of Columbia
nurses have served in World War I, World War II, Korea,
Vietnam and Desert Storm, the WHO Center is upholding
this international focus.
Current WHO Center Initiatives
Haiti
The WHO Center became involved in the relief efforts
in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in January
2010. The School teamed with the International
Medical Corps, a non-government organization (NGO)
with multiple active international initiatives, that helped
the School coordinate its efforts to supply nurses and
nurse practitioners from its faculty and alumni. To
date, 22 of the School’s alumni and faculty have gone
to Haiti. Over the critical three-month period from
February to May, at least one Columbia nurse representative
was present in Port au Prince, working in the
main hospital compound and in the countryside for
8-14 day commitments.
Even as the immediate emergency response to send
clinicians to Haiti has wound down, the need for continued
assistance remains overwhelming. The National
University of Haiti School of Nursing in Port au Prince
was destroyed and the entire second-year class was
killed. Columbia is now committed to helping rebuild
this school—not with bricks and mortar, but with its
expertise in clinical education. The WHO Center hopes
to:
• Stimulate the re-establishment of formal nursing education
at the National University of Haiti School of Nursing
both in didactic and in-service clinical site levels
• Strengthen nursing instruction and mentorship through
programs that will train Haitian nursing educators in
the U.S., facilitate student exchanges and develop joint
student/faculty projects
• Assist in curricular and clinical role development in
accordance with the Haitian Ministry of Health’s (MSPP)
stated priorities for primary care providers in both hospital
and community settings
• Assist in the modernization of Haitian nursing education
through development of web/internet-based distance
Thalia Brent, DNP student,
with twins in Haiti

instruction and improved integration of classroom and
clinical rotations
• Create mechanisms for the exchange of educators and
students to develop cooperative projects in academic
programming, assessment and evaluation
Both national (Haitian) and international staff, working
via NGOs in Haiti, will form the basis of these preceptor
corps. The School continues to meet with many health
provider organizations, including Partners in Health, the
Merlin Foundation, and the International Medical Corps
in an effort to secure financial support for its proposed
endeavors. To date, the development and coordination
of preceptor education of the project has been partially
funded by the Merlin Foundation.
ICAP Nurse CAPACIty INItIAtIve
As a partner with the International Center for AIDS
Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) Nurse Capacity
Initiative (INCI), Columbia’s WHO Collaborating Center
is supporting and furthering the mission of strengthening
the collaborative network of the INCI’s Centers of
Excellence (COE). The School of Nursing is working with
the Mailman School of Public Health, the International
Council of Nurses, and the University of Fort Hare,
A snapshot taken in Haiti of faculty members (center), Dr. Kara
Ventura, Dr. Rachel Lyons and Dr. Richard Garfield and CUSON
students Thalia Brent (left) and Fabienne Ulysse (right)
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and is funded by the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA).
INCI is seeking to promote innovative ways to support
nursing education institutions at selected sites through
development of nursing curriculum, growth and retention
of nursing faculty, dialogue in support of basic
and advanced nursing degrees and faculty-student
exchanges. Using identified country specific needs, INCI
will help to advance the nursing profession at the educational
level and provide resources for sharing best
practices information.
Integration of classroom and clinical instruction is competency-based
and built on the clinical practice of the School’s
faculty and trained clinical preceptors. With the advent of
modern technology much of didactic classroom teaching
can be achieved on-line, thus conserving scarce resources.
Utilizing best practice methods, modular curricula and
improved integration of expanded clinical rotations and clinical
precepting, identified schools in the COEs will become
strong academic units in their own countries. This supportive
exchange will heighten skill levels in pre-service education
and concurrently provide essential services to patients.
Important goals to be achieved are:
• Identification of appropriate schools in each country
that will become the core of the COE’s initiative as well
as become models for other schools in their countries
in advancing nursing education
• Initiation of case-based curriculum in identified COE
schools in order to incorporate state of the practice
information (new knowledge) and methods of continuing
education for providers and increased scope
of practice. This will be accomplished through adaptations
in teaching methods to ensure development
of critical thinking in a problem-based approach to
learning. Faculty will consist of a combination of both
volunteer (in kind) and paid consultants from Columbia
• Development of mechanisms for faculty and student
exchanges amongst identified COE schools and
Columbia. This will be accomplished through faculty
exchanges, participation in clinical education and

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research in each other’s schools.
Students will also be given the
opportunity to receive credit for
courses taken in member schools
• Development of leadership skill
training for faculty in identified
COE schools. This will assist in
attracting new nurses to the profession
and retaining people through
leadership development courses
and targeted programs
• Development and initiation of evaluation/assessment
tools created
to measure the knowledge of COE
member faculty and students as
well as assess agreed-upon work
with the School’s WHO Center to
promote best practice models for
adaptation to other nursing schools
and in other countries
The first INCI workshop was held
in Swaziland in December 2009.
Dr. Jennifer Dohrn was the keynote
speaker for participating countries
which included Swaziland,
Cote d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Ethiopia and
South Africa. To date, the School
of Nursing has signed Memoranda
of Understandings (MOUs) with
Nazarene College in Swaziland and
the University of Swaziland.
Members of the faculty at Semmelweis University with
Dr. Judit Meszaros and Dr. Jennifer Smith (center)
SemmelweiS UniverSity
BUdapeSt, HUngary
In December 2009, an MOU was
signed with Semmelweis University
in order to explore potential curriculum
meeting points and develop
methods by which faculty and students
can exchange and share
learning experiences from an intercultural
perspective. It is hoped that
through this collaboration, innovative
joint programs will be developed that
will educate nurses in a globalized
world. Technological information
will be exchanged and joint research
publications will be written that are of
common interest to both institutions.
On April 8 and 9, 2010, Dr. Jennifer
Smith, WHO Collaborating Center
Director, met with Dean Judit
Meszaros and other faculty and
administration of Semmelweis
University Faculty of Health Sciences
in Budapest to discuss Columbia
University School of Nursing and
Semmelweis collaborations per their
Objectives of the
WHO Center:
i Provide leadership and leverage
existing strengths within the
School of Nursing to facilitate
knowledge sharing among students
and faculty of international
partners
i Foster future generations of
nurse clinicians who understand
the needs and challenges of providing
culturally competent care
to diverse populations in other
countries and who are experienced
in world health issues and
challenges
i Provide educational opportunities
to faculty and students in the
developing world to ensure they
have experiential learning opportunities
in global health sites
i Build international field site
capacity for training experiences
that will provide an opportunity
for students and faculty to adapt
sophisticated care to meet local
cultural and resource needs and
create access to these sites
i Facilitate international partnerships
for education, practice and
research with peer institutions
and study-abroad consortiums
that facilitate enrollment at universities
and that are sustainable
and replicable. Establish joint
programming in order to emphasize
all partner schools’ strengths
and create a joint vision of
nursing in all educational venues

memorandum of understanding.
Further discussions ensued in June
with dr. meszaros, dr. sarah Cook
and dr. smith in new york City.
While finding shared areas of study
within two unique schools is challenging,
the endeavor to collaborate is
ongoing.
oslo university
College of nursing
oslo, norway (hio:su)
in order to determine how degrees
at advanced/master/doctoral levels
have evolved in different countries,
an mou was signed in december
2009 with oslo university College
of nursing. Through this alliance,
the school and hio:su will explore
new ways to value and understand
various degrees by identifying what
degree holders in different countries
are sanctioned/qualified to perform.
They also hope to find potential curriculum
meeting points and ways that
faculty and students might exchange
and share learning experiences.
in April 2010, dr. sarah Cook
attended a workshop/planning
meeting at the oslo university
College of nursing in norway.
Present were faculty from Fairfield
university school of nursing in
Connecticut, Jesnice College
of nursing in slovenia, instituto
Politecnico de Leiria school of
health in Portugal, riga stradins
university in Lativia and representatives
from england, ireland,
sweden and denmark. The purpose
of the meeting was to discuss curricular
meeting points between
the european master’s degree and
the American doctor of nursing
Practice degree that would enable
student and faculty collaboration and
exchange and possibly the creation
of joint courses.
As part of this mou, a master’s
student from hio:su will attend the
school’s 2010 fall semester.
CuSON’s Other WHO
Center Activities
on April 13 and 14, 2010, the Who
Center coordinated a visit to Cuson
for representatives of the university
of são Paulo College of nursing at
ribeirão Preto brazil. drs. Juliana
stefanello and Juliana monteiro
attended master’s program lectures
in midwifery and women’s health and
observed faculty clinicians in their
community practices sites. Their
primary interests were with factors
related to nursing education and
community resources.
dr. richard garfield is leading
a project for the World health
organization to analyze changes
in the age, location, and economic
correlates of non-communicable
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i increase numbers of students
embarking on global
health professions and resultant
opportunities for translation of
classroom knowledge to the field
through mentored clinical experiences
i support creation of new and
innovative global health courses
at Cuson
i support development of web/
internet based teaching tools
and methods for sharing of information
i Collaborate with international
partners to obtain funding from
private foundations and government
agencies for Who Center
initiatives
Agnes Iraguha, Rwanda,
Jennifer Dohrn, SON, and
David Schulman, Swaziland

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WHO Center Director:
i Jennifer smith, dnP, mPh, mbA,
senior Associate dean, Assistant
Professor of Clinical nursing
Director of Policy:
i richard garfield, drPh, henrik
h. bendixen Professor of Clinical
international nursing
National Advisory Board:
i sarah Cook, dnP, rn-Cs,
dorothy m. rogers Professor of
Clinical nursing, vice dean
i Jennifer dohrn, dnP, Cnm,
Assistant Professor of Clinical nursing
and director, inCi, mailman school of
Public health
i Judy honig, dnP, edd, CPnP-
PC, Professor of Clinical nursing
international
Advisory Board:
i dr. Judit mészáros, dean,
Faculty of health sciences,
semmelweis university, budapest,
hungary
i suzanne bancel, international
Advisor, Faculty of nursing, oslo
university College, oslo, norway
i david schulman, rn, iCAPswaziland
Project Coordinator,
nazarene university, manzini,
swaziland
diseases in lower middle and low
income countries through the developing
world. since the millennium
development goals were established
in 2000, there has been a rapid rise in
deaths and disabilities related to cardiovascular
diseases, obstructive lung
disease, and cancers. These trends
are not yet well understood but have
a great influence on the burden of
disease and the work of nurses and
others in health systems in these
countries.
The global burden of disease
Program, run by the health metrics
institute and Who is now engaged
in its third round of creating global
estimates of all causes of morbidity
and mortality in the world. These
have become the most widely used
estimates for the majority of countries
in the world who lack comprehensive
disease and death registries.
dr. garfield is coordinating the
section of this program focusing on
conflict-related injuries and deaths.
Faculty member Dr. Kara Ventura
examines a Haitian child in the aftermath
of the 2010 earthquake
dr. dohrn and dr. smith attended
and presented at the first meeting
of the Who/PePFAr Technical
reference group on nursing
education held at Who headquarters
in geneva, switzerland in July,
2010. The goal of these meetings
is to produce formal Who global
policy and technical guidance to
assist countries, development partners
and other stakeholders in efforts
to expand their professional workforce
and improve the alignment of
medical and nursing education with
evolving population health needs.
Future
Columbia’s Who Collaborating
Center looks forward to expanding its
international scope with its own students
and faculty and by encouraging
partnerships with other Who Centers
and populations. it will continue to
build the legacy that Anna maxwell
began so long ago.

School of Nursing
Award Recipients
Rebecca Greene, bs
Irrepressible. That’s one way to
describe Columbia alumna Rebecca
Greene. Ms. Greene, who earned her
bachelor’s degree in anthropology
from Cornell University, completed
the first phase of Columbia’s
Combined BS/MS Program in
2009. She is a continuing student
and is working toward her Doctor
of Nursing Practice degree. She
was also recognized this year as an
Alumni Association Scholar.
The summer found Ms. Greene in
Mexico under the auspices of Child
Family Health International, an international
aid organization that places
health science students in overseas
health programs.
“I went with a local nurse from a rural
clinic to make house calls, or rather
hut calls,” she said describing her field
work. “We saw a newborn girl who
wasn’t even named yet. Her mother
had traveled nearly four hours in labor
to the hospital for a Caesarean section
because the local midwife had noticed
that the baby’s hand was sticking out
of the birth canal.”
“We finished our rounds by checking
on a nine year-old boy with chicken
pox. He wasn’t itching so much,
eight days in, but his grandmother
was worried, and rightly so, because
he had many pox on his lips and
tonsils,” Ms. Greene said. “Just two
days before, his tonsils had swollen
and almost closed off his throat completely.
Luckily with time his throat
opened up again.”
Being bilingual, Ms. Greene is no
stranger to Spanish-speaking communities.
After college, she worked
in Los Angeles as a health educator
leading HIV prevention classes in
Spanish. She spent a semester studying
anthropology in Seville, Spain
and worked at the Caribbean Primate
Research Center, in Cayo Santiago,
Puerto Rico.
Rebecca Greene
caring for a toddler
in South Africa
Fall 2010 • 15
After completing her time
in Mexico, Ms. Greene went
abroad again, this time with Child
Family Health International’s HIV/AIDS
Healthcare program in South Africa.
For Ms. Greene, experiences abroad
offer an opportunity to observe and
perform patient care in unique settings.
“Some of the children are afraid
of healthcare workers,” she said. “Not
to mention tall foreigners.”
Ms. Greene is grateful to the Alumni
Association for furnishing her 2010
Annual Fund Scholarship, and is
honored to be counted among such an
elite group of nursing professionals.

16 • Academic Nurse
Shannon
Harper, MS
shannon harper didn’t have any idea
that he’d been chosen to receive
a graduation award. There was no
nomination to tip him off. nobody
gave him the proverbial “heads
up.” he arrived at this year’s graduation
ceremony believing that the
only award he would receive was his
degree.
but before diplomas were handed
out, the faculty announced the
annual student awards. “did they
just call my name,” mr. harper said,
recalling how he turned to his friend
seated next to him. “my friend
looked at me and said ‘yeah, get up
guy!’ and that’s when it sank in that
it was me.” The anesthesia student
from bridgewater, virginia, had just
been named the recipient of the
Alumni Association Award. each year
a graduate is honored who demonstrates
a commitment to developing
alumni support for the school.
The surprise announcement itself
had an effect on mr. harper. “i see
the award as a tremendous honor
and i am proud to be part of a distinguished
group of alumni.”
mr. harper’s initial professional interests
lay far afield from patient care.
he earned two degrees in chemical
engineering: a bachelor of science
from virginia Tech and a master
of science from the university of
virginia. With his engineering background,
he secured a position with
An ecstatic Shannon
Harper celebrates with
his parents James and
Janice Harper
a pharmaceutical company in new
Jersey.
When a sports injury landed him in
the hospital, he had an opportunity
to see nurses at work. he started
thinking about a career change and
decided to volunteer as patient
advocate at newyork Presbyterian
hospital’s emergency room to get a
feel for patient care.
“i served as a liaison between the
staff and the patient. sometimes it
involved getting an extra pillow or
just talking to the patient. my time
there gave me good exposure to
the hospital and convinced me that
i could feel comfortable in that environment.”
The volunteer experience at the
manhattan hospital had an effect—a
year and half later mr. harper
enrolled at the school of nursing.
volunteering seems to be a steady
way of life with mr. harper. Last fall,
he helped to man the telephones
for an alumni phonathon seeking
support for the school’s annual
fund. he also lent a hand with the
Anesthesia Program’s recruitment
drive and served on the welcoming
committee for new students.
“shannon is a thoughtful through
and through,” said Laura Ardizzone,
dnP, Assistant Professor of Clinical
nursing in the Anesthesia Program.
“i had the opportunity to mentor him
through the program and i know he is
going to be a fine CrnA.”
This summer mr. harper is completing
his clinical education at memorial
sloan Kettering Cancer Center. he
will take time to study for his board
examination scheduled for later this
fall. he plans to stay in the new york
metro area and remain involved with
the Alumni Association.
“The support of alumni has helped
me complete this program and i
definitely plan to stay active in the
Association,” he said. “i really want
to pass it along.”

Grace
Manglet, MS
some journeys span time. others
stretch over many miles. grace
manglet’s journey started eight years
ago in a town 8,500 miles away. her
voyage finally came to an end at the
school of nursing.
This may, ms. manglet walked across
the stage and picked up her master’s
degree. not only did she claim
her long-sought degree, but she also
walked away with the mary bleecker
simmons ’60 Award, an honor presented
at graduation to a student
who shows compassion and devotion
to the mental health needs of
patients.
“i felt so honored to receive the
mary bleecker simmons Award,”
ms. manglet added this summer
while visiting the alumni office.
“When they called my name, i could
hear my son cheering from the family
seating area,” she said, reflecting on
the cool, soggy day in may when she
joined her fellow students for graduation.
“i give my patients 100 percent
of my effort,” said ms. manglet,
describing her approach to care at
Zucer hillside hospital in Queens,
where she works with inpatients
receiving psychiatric treatment. “i
care for them as if they were my own
family.”
ms. manglet hails from Trivandrum,
the capital city of Kerala, a state in
southern india. her parents were
teachers in the state’s rural areas.
After completing her bachelor’s
degree in nursing at Calicut College
in Kerala, she moved to new york
City for advanced nursing studies.
Asked why she chose Columbia:
“nursing is my profession, so i
decided to get my education at the
best place,” she said.
There was a time, though, when ms.
manglet appeared unlikely to complete
her studies. she started her
degree program in 2002. one year
into her coursework, she developed
severe food allergies. The adverse
reactions were so severe — with
some episodes turning life-threatening
— that she had to put her
studies on hold and returned to india
for treatment. she wasn’t able to
resume her studies at Columbia until
2007. “because my absence was so
long, i reentered the program as if i
had never been a student,” she said.
“but i always remembered a course
project on resilience that my professor,
Penny buschman, had assigned
to me, and that lesson remained in
the back of mind.”
ms. manglet’s concern and dedication
for her patients impressed
Professor buschman, who serves
as the program director of the
Psychiatric nurse Practitioner
Program.
When not caring for patients,
ms. manglet divides her time
between studying for her certification
examination and spending time with
her husband, sanji, and their tenyear-old
son, simeon.
Fall 2010 • 17
Grace
Manglet
Taking time to think of others is a trait
ms. manglet possesses not only for
her patients but also for those who
help the school of nursing’s efforts.
With her graduation award in hand,
ms. manglet wrote a thank you note
to the widower of mary bleecker
simmons, richard simmons.
“mr. simmons responded with the
most gracious thank you card,” she
said. he wrote in his note that he
was so happy to see the independence
nurses have today—something
that the late mrs. simmons wasn’t fortunate
enough to be a part of when
she practiced as a nurse.
“mr. simmons’ note to me was
touching,” she said. “i will keep
his beautiful card alongside my
diploma.”

18 • Academic Nurse
Nursing Faculty and
Students Extend a
Helping Hand
Around the Globe
in march 2009, mary moran, an instructor in the Combined bs/ms Program,
took a break from teaching to visit ethiopia with her husband. during her
visit, moran, a former overseas aid worker, couldn’t pass up the chance to ask
regional health director and friend, gebre Ab barnabas, what was his most
pressing healthcare need.
The response from her ethiopian colleague puzzled moran.
“he told me that he had trouble keeping girls in school and i asked him what
the problem was,” moran said, with her distinct hint of an irish brogue as she
sat in her office at the school. “he told me that girls often miss three to six
days of school each month because they don’t have enough supplies to cope
with their menses and therefore cannot leave their homes to go to school. i
told him we have to do something
about that.”
And with that exchange, moran
set to thinking of a way to solve
mr. Ab barnabas’s problem. more precisely,
she started thinking of a way
to help ethiopian schoolgirls manage
their monthly cycles.
For school age girls in the developed
world, the menstrual cycle rarely
invokes real dread. but for millions of
their counterparts in underdeveloped
countries, this monthly occurrence
may result in up to a week’s absence
from school.
moran returned to campus with a
challenge, one she thought her students
could help her solve. “i told the
students that we had a project: to find
an efficient, comfortable and easy
to maintain sanitary napkin for these
girls.” First, moran wanted to answer
Ethiopian
children pose for
the camera

one question, what did women do before the advent
of commercially available sanitary products? “i learned
that women have been making their own sanitary pads
for millennia. From her research, moran discovered that
commonly available cloth/fabric had been the solution for
women in the past. she had the foundation.
moran and her students teamed up with Columbia’s
Center for new media Teaching and Learning in order to
develop a Wiki site where they could post video, reflections
and questions as they worked through their project.
They dubbed their enterprise “girls to Women.”
They eventually devised a pad which is comprised of twolayers
of colored cotton cloth. The 9 inch by 9 inch cloth
is folded in threes and worn in the young women’s underwear.
When washed and hung to dry, the cloth resembles
a handkerchief. “There is nothing embarrassing about
hanging a handkerchief out to dry,” moran said. “We
want these pads to dry out in the sunshine because the
sun is itself a sanitizer and it makes them smell fresh.”
With help from Columbia’s millennium Cities Project,
moran returned to ethiopia this past march to introduce
the design to schoolgirls in mek’ele, a populous city in
the country’s far northern reaches.
“There was incredible interest,” said
moran. “We were set up to visit ten
students at six schools. instead, we
demonstrated the design to 25 to 30
students at each school.”
moran also traveled to Addis Ababa
where she taught nursing students
how to replicate the design. she said
the only drawback to wider implementation
is the lack of suitable cloth.
not only did the project help schoolgirls
stay in school during their
menses, it enabled school of nursing
students to engage and connect with
young women a continent away. “one
of the main barriers to girls’ advance-
Instructor in Clinical
Nursing Mary Moran
demonstrates how to
sew the reusable pads
Fall 2010 • 19
ment is their absence from school,” said erin olson, a
master’s student who worked on the project. “There just
aren’t the facilities available to help them cope with their
monthly cycles.”
olson should know. As a former Peace Corps volunteer,
she has already completed a stint as an aid worker
in Africa. “We have to be careful not to infuse our own
values into the design,” she said. “We wanted to ensure
that it was culturally sensitive. Fortunately mary moran
knows the culture well.”
moran holds high hopes for girls to Women’s future.
With greater availability of cloth to make the pads, more
girls could adopt the design. she plans to meld her field
work with research by collecting data that will demonstrate
that schoolgirls’ attendance improves as result of
the wider adoption of the design.
sitting in her office and looking back on her efforts,
moran couldn’t help still to appear flummoxed by the
question from her ethiopian friend that spurred her
efforts.
“There is nothing new about women and their menses,”
she said. “it’s a very old thing.”
Midwifery student
Chiara Losh
carefully sews
one of the pads

20 • Academic Nurse
2009-2010 in review
Faculty member Will Enlow, DNP (center) with students
Pauline Maietta (left) and Julie Lim (right) in CUSON’s
anesthesia simulator lab

July
The School of Nursing was awarded
$101,703 from the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA),
Bureau of Health Professions for
loans for full-time doctoral students
in the Phd and dnP programs. The
nurse Faculty Loan Program (nFLP) is
designed to increase the number of
nursing students who pursue careers
as full-time faculty teaching in schools
of nursing and allows doctoral students
the opportunity to borrow a
maximum of $30,000 per year to cover
tuition and the costs of fees, books
and other reasonable educational
expenses. Following graduation and
upon full-time employment in a school
of nursing, the borrower may cancel up
to 20% per year for a maximum of 85%
of the total nFLP loan.
Nancy Reame, PhD
under the direction of Nancy Reame,
PhD, Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor
of Nursing, the school of nursing
was awarded $735,350 over three
years from the health resources and
services Administration (hrsA) for
TrAnsiT (Training nurse scientists in
interdisciplinary, Translational research).
This program will increase the number
of nursing faculty in schools of nursing
and health care settings who are prepared
to conduct interdisciplinary,
practice-relevant research that benefits
underserved urban communities. The
program goal is to reduce health disparities
in underserved urban populations
of the northern manhattan area of new
york, a designated health Professional
shortage Area, and nationally through
expanding the nursing faculty work
force skilled in collaborative, translational
research that accelerates the pace
of evidence-based urban health care.
Suzanne Bakken, DNSc
The school of nursing received its
first economic stimulus grant. Led
by Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, Alumni
Professor of Nursing and Professor of
Biomedical Informatics, the $250,000
supplement to the Center for evidencebased
Practice in the underserved
funds a two year summer education
program for a science educator and 12
Fall 2010 • 21
students from gregorio Luperon high
school, a science and mathematics high
school for Latino immigrants. The program’s
focus is to disseminate research
findings into the community. Targets
include improving glycemic control
among those with diabetes and increasing
physical activity among adolescents.
Dr. Bakken was also awarded a
competitive renewal from hrsA
for “Wireless informatics for safe
and evidence-based APn Care” of
$642,798. The grant will continue to
provide education in new technologies.
The program’s goal is to reduce health
disparities in underserved populations
through training advanced practice
nursing students, faculty, and preceptors
to use informatics approaches
for improving patient safety and
enhancing evidence-based practice in
a culturally competent manner.
Sarah Collins, PhD
PhD program graduate, Sarah
Collins, after successfully defending
her dissertation on the topic of
“informatics methods to understand
interdisciplinary Communication

22 • Academic Nurse
related to Common goals in the
iCu,” will be a national Library
of medicine post-doctoral fellow
in the department of biomedical
informatics at CumC. This depart-
ment is recognized as one of the top
international programs in biomedical
informatics.
August
A new five-year grant from the
national institute of Allergy and
infectious diseases, “risk Factors for
spread of staphylococcus Aureus in
Prisons,” has been awarded to two
principal investigators, drs. Frank
Lowy and Elaine Larson, for a total of
$3,722,761.
Elaine Larson, PhD
Dr. Larson also received indus-
try funding of $146,000 from
Clorox, inc., to study the h1n1 virus.
her project, “The role of hands and
environmental surfaces in spread
of h1n1 virus,” aims to enhance
understanding of the potential role
of direct contact in viral transmission
by determining the duration of viability
of the influenza virus on naturally
contaminated hands and common
environmental surfaces in the home
setting. it will assess the efficacy of
three hand hygiene products (traditional
soap and water, alcohol-based
hand sanitizer, and alcohol-impregnated
hand wipes) on reducing the
viral load on hands and evaluating
the efficacy of three environmental
cleaning products on reducing the
viral load on environmental surfaces.
September
every year, The American Journal of
Maternal/Child Nursing (mCn) gives
awards in two categories, research
and practice, for the best articles
published that year. Annie Rohan,
PhD student at the school of nursing,
wrote a three-part series entitled,
“hypoxia in the Term newborn,” that
won this year’s mCn Practice award.
her submissions were chosen from
all the articles in the journal for 2009,
and voted on by all the editorial
board members. They were selected
for their important content, their clear
writing and their applicability for all
of mCn’s readers.
The Center for evidence-based
Practice in the underserved received
its second ArrA supplement. This
$385,314 award provides support for
a feasibility study focused on video
Podcasting for hiv/Aids symptom
management led by post-doctoral
trainee Dean Wantland, RN, PhD. The
award also provides for the addition
of a Latino arm to dr. Leanne Currie’s
currently funded feasibility study on
creating a personal health record for
community-based falls prevention
which will be led by post-doctoral
trainee Robert Lucero, RN, PhD.
Alumna Shin-Shang Chou, DNSc, was
appointed deputy director of Taipei
veteran’s general hospital (Tvgh) in
Taiwan. This trend-setting 2,000 bed
hospital is one of Taiwan’s most prestigious.
Patricia Stone, PhD, director
of the School of Nursing’s Center for
Health Policy, was asked to deliver
the plenary address celebrating
Tvgh’s 50th anniversary and reconnected
with dr. Chou while there.
dr. stone also was an invited guest
and speaker at the Taiwanese nurses’
Association where she discussed
nurse work environments with the
nation’s top nurse leaders.
Kathleen Hickey, EdD, C-ANP, C-FPN,
Assistant Professor of Nursing, has
won a competitive grant from the
robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(rWJF) to conduct innovative
research on genetic mutations that
may predispose individuals to a
higher possibility of sudden cardiac
death. hickey is one of just 15 nurse
educators from around the country
to receive the three-year $350,000
nurse Faculty scholar award this
year. it is given to junior faculty who
show outstanding promise as future
leaders in academic nursing. For her
research, hickey will examine patients
with previously implanted internal
cardioverter defibrillators (iCds) and a
history of long QT syndrome and cardiomyopathy
to determine whether
they possess an underlying cardiac
genetic mutation. her research will
determine whether having a specific
cardiac mutation increases the prev-

alence of arrhythmias detected by
the iCd and possibly identify other
family members who may be at risk
well before a life threatening arrhythmia
occurs. Armed with the proper
information, medical professionals
could intervene with medication and/
or a defibrillator to prevent sudden
cardiac death. Elaine Larson, PhD,
Associate dean for research and
Professor at the school of nursing,
and Wendy Chung, md, Phd, a
Professor of Pediatrics in medicine at
Columbia university, will serve as her
mentors.
October
Pamela de Cordova, one of the
Center for health Policy’s affiliated
Phd candidates, has been
awarded an AhrQ dissertation
award (r36hs018216) entitled offshift
nursing and Quality Patient
outcomes. guided by the theory
of human capital, this dissertation
research project examines the effect
of off-shifts (i.e., nights, weekends,
and holidays) on nursing-sensitive
patient outcomes. because hospital
care is a 24 hour/seven day a week
service, it is important to understand
the impact of the delivery of care on
off-shifts and patient safety in acute
care hospitals. The study builds on
concurrent interdisciplinary research
that examines nursing sensitive
patient outcomes with the goal of
promoting patient safety.
Sharron Close, MS
Sharron Close, PhD student, received a
$10,000 national research award from
the Pediatric endocrine nursing society
for the dissertation study, “Phenotype,
Cardiometabolic biomarkers and
Psychosocial Parameters in Klinefelter’s
syndrome boys.” ms. Close’s dissertation
is a jointly sponsored effort of the
division of Pediatric endocrinology and
the school of nursing.
Kristine Kulage, director of the school’s
office of research resources, has
been chosen to serve as the biomed
Fall 2010 • 23
Corner Contributing editor for the
national Council of university research
Administrators (nCurA) magazine
effective January 2010. in this role, she
will be responsible for one article for
each of the six issues of the magazine,
which is read by nearly 8,000 research
administrators around the globe. in
addition to serving as a contributing
editor, ms. Kulage also presented for
the second year in a row at the NCURA
Magazine annual meeting.
November
Anita Nirenberg, DNSc, Assistant
Professor of Clinical Nursing, received
funding through the national institute
on Aging for a pilot project under a
larger multi-institutional grant that
will create the Cornell-Columbia
Translational research institute on Pain
in Later Life. dr. nirenberg’s pilot grant
is entitled, “Problem solving skills
Training Program for Family Caregivers
to Address Pain management.”
on monday, november 9, 2009, the
school of nursing and Columbia
university came together to celebrate
the career of Dean Mary O’Neil
Mundinger. After an introduction
(left to right) Philip Farley, Phyllis Farley, Donald Jonas,
Barbara Jonas, and Mary Mundinger at the November gala

24 • Academic Nurse
and welcome by Columbia President
Lee bollinger, remarks were given
by: herbert Pardes, md, President
and Ceo, new york Presbyterian
hospital; ellen Futter, President,
American museum of natural history;
the honorable Thomas Kean,
former governor of new Jersey;
Lee goldman, md, evP of Columbia
university medical Center; and
michael sovern, President emeritus,
Columbia university. These friends
and colleagues of the dean spoke of
her tenacity, intelligence and devotion
to nursing and the school.
December
Richard Garfield, DrPH
Richard Garfield, DrPH, Henrik H.
Bendixen Professor of Clinical
International Nursing, has been
appointed advisor to the Centers
for disease Control and Prevention
(CdC) to assist in its reorganization
of international programs and
the development of the Center for
global health. The CdC, in addition
to domestic activities, has staff on
the ground in more than 60 countries
around the world. As a lead agency
of the us government, the CdC
already has a major role in efforts to
reduce malaria, hiv, and to provide
immunizations for preventable diseases.
dr. garfield has led efforts to
organize public health activities in
underdeveloped countries and is now
analyzing the impact of non-communicable
diseases for the World health
organization. he is also coordinating
research to estimate direct and
indirect deaths due to conflict for the
fourth round of the global burden
of disease project. his work with the
CdC includes the design of what will
be a major new set of us government
global health initiatives as well
as efforts to extend existing programs
aimed at strengthening health services
infrastructure, planning capacity
and global health.
January
The school hosted the Fourteenth
Invitational Conference on Assuring
Quality and Access in Advanced
Practice Nursing in Cape Town,
south Africa. deans from schools of
nursing, nursing organization officials
and health policy experts attended.
discussions centered on the national
certification exam for dnP graduates
and the continued need for standardization
of degree competencies.
Faculty members
Janice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD,
and Karen Desjardins, DNP, were
elected to the national Academies
of Practice, nursing. The national
Academies of Practice (nAP) is
a nonprofit professional organization
composed of elected and
distinguished representatives
from ten different health professions.
The central purpose of nAP
is to advise public policy makers
on health care issues, using nAP’s
unique perspective — that of expert
practitioners and scholars joined
in interdisciplinary dialogue. it is
the only interdisciplinary group
of health care practitioners dedicated
to these issues. dr. smolowitz
and dr. desjardins were inducted in
march 2010.
February
Kathleen Hickey, EdD, Assistant
Professor of Nursing, and DNP
student Tracy Andrews were
selected to attend the national
human genome research institute’s
summer Workshop in genomics at
the national institute of health in
summer 2010. This was a competitive
application for both faculty and
students.
Elaine Larson, PhD, has been
appointed to serve a three-year
term on the national Advisory
Council for nursing research, nih,
February 1, 2010 – January 30, 2014.
The Council advises on matters relating
to the conduct and support of
nursing research, training, health
information dissemination, and other
programs.
March
The American Association of Colleges
of nursing (AACn) began its inaugural
nursing student Policy summit in
Washington, dC for the next generation
of health policy leaders.
sponsored by the Jonas Center for
nursing excellence, the Johnson
& Johnson Campaign for nursing’s
Future, and Columbia University
School of Nursing’s Center for

Health Policy, the summit featured
a variety of presentations by policy
experts, interactive discussions with
Washington insiders, lobbying visits to
u.s. members of Congress, and strategic
networking opportunities. While
the summit was originally planned
for 100 students, generous support
from the Jonas Center for nursing
excellence, the Johnson & Johnson
Campaign, and the Center for health
Policy at Columbia university school
of nursing enabled AACn to accommodate
135 students.
The eastern nursing research
society (enrs) held its 22nd annual
scientific session on march 24 – 26,
2010 in Providence, rhode island.
school of nursing professor, Patricia
Stone, PhD, delivered the plenary
address, “incorporating economic
Analyses into nursing research:
An extension of Comparative
effectiveness research.” Arlene
Smaldone, DNSc, Assistant Professor
of Nursing was a member of the conference
planning committee and is
the treasurer of enrs. doctoral students
Ann-Margaret Dunn-Navarra,
Rebecca Schnall and Sharron Close
all presented posters. ms. Close
won second place for a doctoral
student poster and doctoral student
Lorie Goshin was awarded second
prize for her doctoral oral presentation.
Faculty members Elizabeth
Cohn, DNSc, Haomiao Jia, PhD, and
Elaine Larson, PhD, presented their
findings on “The development and
Testing of an observational Tool to
measure the Process and Quality
of informed Consent for Clinical
research.”
Lorie Goshin, MS
Haomiao Jia, PhD
April
Patricia Stone, PhD
Fall 2010 • 25
Patricia Stone, PhD, and her research
team have been awarded a threeyear
competitive renewal, entitled
“Prevention of nosocomial infections
and Cost effectiveness refined”
(P-niCer). This $2.1 million award
extends their work to qualitatively
and quantitatively examine infection
prevention in hospitals across the
nation. They will also study variations
in state policies regulating mandatory
reporting of infection control
processes and health care associated
infection rates.
May
Robert Lucero, PhD
Robert Lucero, PhD, Postdoctoral
Research Fellow at the school of
nursing, was admitted into the new
Academy health minority scholars
Program. This highly competitive
program supports the cost of travel
and registration for scholars to attend
Academy health’s Annual research
meeting (Arm), pre-Arm methods
Workshops, and the disparities
interest group Annual meeting. The
goal of the program is to support the
professional development of under-

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represented minorities in the field of
health services research.
Patricia Dykes, DNSc, the first
nursing informatics doctoral graduate
from Columbia university school
of nursing, was elected into the
American Academy of nursing.
dr. dykes was awarded the school’s
distinguished young Alumna award
shortly after graduation and was
the first nurse to receive the health
information management system
society Phd scholarship and had her
own individual nrsA. she is currently
the corporate manager of nursing
informatics & research at Partners
healthcare and on the faculty at
harvard university.
June
The School of Nursing received
funding approval for four $20,000
scholarships from the Jonas Nurse
Leaders Scholar Program, an initiative
of the Jonas Center for nursing
excellence. designed to improve
nurse recruitment and retention,
increase ethnic and racial diversity
among the nursing workforce,
advance innovative practice models,
and improve nursing practice settings,
this program will support 50
scholars by 2012 with a goal of reaching
100 nationwide. The following
incoming and current students will
receive $20,000 each over two years:
• Manuel Co Jr. III is director
of nursing informatics at nyu
hospitals. he holds a masters
degree from hunter College
and a second master’s in Clinical
epidemiology & health services
research from Weill Cornell
graduate school. he will work
with Suzanne Bakken, DNSc,
for his dissertation in nursing
informatics with a focus on underserved
populations.
• May Uchida is a msn graduate
from the nurse practitioner
program of yale university with a
specialty in geriatric nursing. her
research interest is in gerontology
nursing workforce shortage issues,
specifically related to factors for
recruiting, education, and retention
of advanced practice nurses.
her advisor is Patricia Stone, PhD,
an expert in nursing workforce
issues.
• Olivia Velez holds bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in computer
science (mount holyoke), and
a master’s in public health from
Columbia. she is now completing
her second year in the nursing
Phd program with an interest
in informatics related to mobile
health messaging as a health
promotion intervention for underserved
communities in the united
states and Africa. Dr. Bakken is
her advisor.
June 2010 CACC program
Nowai Keleekai
Nowai Keleekai is the student
recruiter for TrAnsiT, Cuson’s
hrsA-funded program to recruit
and retain underserved minority students
into health disparities research
careers. she has been accepted into
Cuson’s highly competitive predoctoral
fellowship program and
her dissertation will focus on mental
health needs of hiv-infected prisoners,
part of a larger project funded by
the nih grant of principle investigator
Elaine Larson, PhD.
The school hosted the Fifteenth
Invitational Conference on Assuring
Quality and Access in Advanced
Practice Nursing in yosemite national
Park, California. deans from schools
of nursing, nursing organization
officials and health policy experts
attended. discussions centered on
the national certification exam for
dnP graduates and the need for
increasing numbers of faculty
prepared to teach at the dnP
level.

Students obtain a patient’s medical history with
Clinical Instructor Deveka Montano
Fall 2010 • 27

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2009-2010 gifts & grants
Mary O’Neil Mundinger
in front of banners celebrating the
school’s centennial in 1992
Students in the Technology Learning Center with instructor Heidi Hahn Schroeder

Government and Private Funding
for Research and Training
July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010
PrinciPal investigator: Joyce Anastasi, rn, Phd, dnP
Project title: Acupuncture for Chronic nausea in Patients with hiv: A rCT
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $573,272 total Budget, 2005-2009: $2,478,445
PrinciPal investigator: suzanne bakken, rn, dnsc
Project title: reducing health disparities Through informatics
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $196,302 total Budget, 2007-2012: $885,261
PrinciPal investigator: suzanne bakken, rn, dnsc
Fall 2010 • 29
Project title: Center for evidence-based Practice in the underserved (summer supplement)
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national Cancer institute
total Budget, 2009-2010: $125,634
PrinciPal investigator: suzanne bakken, rn, dnsc
Project title: Center for evidence-based Practice in the underserved (Competitive revision)
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national Library of medicine
total Budget, 2009-2011: $385,314
center For evidence-Based Practice in the underserved Projects:
PrinciPal investigator: dean Wantland, Phd
Project title: video Podcasting (viP) for symptom self management for PLWh
PrinciPal investigator: robert J. Lucero, rn, Phd, mPh
Project title: self Assessment via a Personal health record (sAPher) for
spanish speaking Clients
PrinciPal investigator: suzanne bakken, rn, dnsc
Project title: Wireless informatics support for evidence-based APn Care
Program Funding source: health resources and services Administration
current Budget: $239,333 total Budget, 2006-2009: $662,798
PrinciPal investigator: suzanne bakken, rn, dnsc
Project title: Center for evidence-based Practice in the underserved (P30)
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $362,005 total Budget, 2007-2012: $2,326,211

30 • Academic Nurse
center For evidence-Based Practice in the underserved Projects:
PrinciPal investigator: sally Aboelela, Phd
Project title: self management of hypertension through device guided breathing
PrinciPal investigator: robert J. Lucero, rn, Phd, mPh
Project title: self Assessment via a Personal health record (sAPher)
PrinciPal investigator: Arlene smaldone, dnsc, CPnP, Cde
Project title: Adolescents with diabetes engage in Problem solving
through Tailored intervention
PrinciPal investigator: mary Woods byrne, Phd, PnP, FAAn
Project title: maternal and Child outcomes of a Prison nursery Program
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $801,500 total Budget, 2008-2012: $1,606,500
PrinciPal investigator: Leanne m. Currie, rn, dnsc
Project title: electronic Communication for Antimicrobial management (eCAm)
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $236,912 total Budget, 2007-2010: $434,442
PrinciPal investigator: Pamela b. de Cordova, ms
Project title: off-shift nursing and Quality Patient outcomes
Program Funding source: Agency for healthcare research and Quality
current Budget: $30,858 total Budget, 2009-2011: $37,800
PrinciPal investigator: eileen evanina, ms, CrnA
Project title: nurse Anesthetist Traineeship grant
Program Funding source: health resources and services Administration
total Budget 2009-2010: $22,620
PrinciPal investigator: richard garfield, rn, drPh, FAAn
Project title: global strategy for the Prevention of behavioral health
Program Funding source: World health organization
total Budget 2009-2010: $96,300
PrinciPal investigator: Kelli s. hall, Phd
Project title: Psychological symptoms and oral Contraceptive discontinuation
in young minorities
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
total Budget 2009-2011: $41,176

PrinciPal investigator: Kathleen T. hickey, edd, C-AnP, C-FnP
Project title: ChAnge: Changing healthcare and nursing through genetics
Program Funding source: robert Wood Johnson Foundation
current Budget: $114,872 total Budget, 2009-2012: $ 349,972
PrinciPal investigator: Judy honig, dnP, edd, CPnP
Project title: Advanced education Training Traineeships
Program Funding source: health resources and services Administration
total Budget, 2009-2010: $168,694
PrinciPal investigator: Judy honig, dnP, edd, CPnP
Project title: nurse Faculty Loan Program
Program Funding source: health resources and services Administration
total Budget, 2009-2010: $101,703
PrinciPal investigator: Judy honig, dnP, edd, CPnP
Project title: nurse Faculty Loan Program (ArrA)
Program Funding source: health resources and services Administration
total Budget, 2009-2010: $105,993
PrinciPal investigator: haomiao Jia, Phd
Fall 2010 • 31
Project title: Automated Fall and injury risk Assessment for behavioral health (AFiP-bh)
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of mental health
current Budget: $80,500 total Budget, 2008-2011: $161,000
PrinciPal investigator: rita marie John, dnP, CPnP
Project title: improving the understanding and use of Laboratory values by
graduate students in the health Care sciences
Program Funding source: glenda garvey Teaching Academy of Columbia university
total Budget, 2008-2010: $17,600
PrinciPal investigator: elaine Larson, rn, Phd
Project title: Training in interdisciplinary research to reduce
Antimicrobial resistance (TirAr)
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $254,481 total Budget, 2007-2012: $1,042,957
PrinciPal investigator: elaine Larson, rn, Phd
Project title: interdisciplinary research on Antimicrobial resistance
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national Center for research resources
current Budget: $632,198 total Budget, 2004-2009: $1,740,011
PrinciPal investigator: elaine Larson, rn, Phd
Project title: stopping uris and Flu in the Family: The stuffy Trial
Program Funding source: Centers for disease Control and Prevention, national Center for infectious diseases
current Budget: $921,437 total Budget, 2006-2009: $2,003,491

32 • Academic Nurse
PrinciPal investigator: elaine Larson, rn, Phd
Project title: stopping uris and Flu in the Family: The stuffy Trial (supplement)
Program Funding source: Centers for disease Control and Prevention, national Center for infectious diseases
total Budget, 2009-2010: $92,736
PrinciPal investigator: elaine Larson, rn, Phd
Project title: distribution of the Costs of Antimicrobial resistant infections
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $234,543 total Budget, 2007-2012: $1,653,645
PrinciPal investigator: elaine Larson, rn, Phd
Project title: impact of Automated surveillance on mrsA isolation
Program Funding source: Association for Prevention Teaching and research,
through the Centers for disease Control and Prevention
current Budget: $357,666 total Budget, 2008-2010: $595,990
PrinciPal investigator: elaine Larson, rn, Phd
Project title: role of hands and environmental surfaces in spread of h1n1 virus
Program Funding source: The Clorox Company
total Budget, 2009-2011: $146,133
PrinciPal investigators: elaine Larson, rn, Phd and Franklin Lowy, md
(Professor of medicine and Pathology, division of infectious diseases, CumC)
Project title: risk Factors for spread of staphylococcus aureus in Prisons
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of Allergy and infectious diseases
current Budget: $307,825 total Budget, 2009-2014: $3,721,808
PrinciPal investigator: susan W. Ledlie, Phd, CPnP
Project title: self-care in youth with Perinatally-acquired hiv
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $235,825 total Budget, 2005-2009: $437,075
suBcontract PrinciPal investigator: Anita nirenberg, rn, dnsc
Project title: Problem solving skills Training for Family Caregivers to Address Pain management
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of Aging
total Budget 2009-2010: $24,045
PrinciPal investigator: nancy reame, rn, Phd
Project title: Training nurse scientists in interdisciplinary & Translational research
in the underserved ( TrAnsiT)
Program Funding source: health resources and services Administration
current Budget: $252,451 total Budget, 2009-2012: $735,350

PrinciPal investigator: nancy reame, rn, Phd
Project title: Jonas nursing scholars Program in interdisciplinary research
Program Funding source: Jonas Center for nursing excellence
current Budget: $140,000 total Budget, 2008-2012: $607,500
PrinciPal investigator: Lisa saiman, md, mPh (Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, department of
Pediatrics, College of Physicians & surgeons)
Fall 2010 • 33
Project title: improving Antimicrobial Prescribing Practices in the neonatal intensive Care unit
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $962,831 total Budget, 2008-2013: $4,710,303
PrinciPal investigator: Patricia stone, rn, Phd, mPh
Project title: Prevention of nosocomial infections and Cost-effectiveness Analysis (P-niCe)
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $478,030 total Budget, 2007-2010: $1,381,470
PrinciPal investigator: Patricia stone, rn, Phd, mPh
Project title: Prevention of nosocomial infections and Cost-effectiveness Analysis refined (P-niCer)
Program Funding source: national institutes of health, national institute of nursing research
current Budget: $703,883 total Budget, 2010-2013: $2,133,396
PrinciPal investigator: Patricia stone, rn, Phd, mPh
Project title: exploratory study using Queueing Theory to improve nurse staffing effectiveness
Program Funding source: Agency for healthcare research and Quality
current Budget: $271,809 total Budget, 2007-2009: $471,174
suBcontract PrinciPal investigator: Patricia stone, rn, Phd, mPh
Project title: The impacts of nurse staffing, skill mix, and experience on Quality and
Costs in Long-Term Care (Columbia university subcontract)
Program Funding source: robert Wood Johnson Foundation
current Budget: $ 66,154 total Budget, 2008-2010: $130,793
PrinciPal investigator: Patricia stone, rn, Phd, mPh and elaine Larson, rn, Phd
Project title: understanding the Changing iCP role
Program Funding source: blue shield of California Foundation
current Budget: $187,577 total Budget, 2008-2010: $362,331
PrinciPal investigator: Patricia stone, rn, Phd, mPh
Project title: Cms Changes in reimbursement for hAis: setting a research Agenda
Program Funding source: Agency for healthcare research and Quality
total Budget 2009-2010: $39,450

34 • Academic Nurse
Gifts & Pledges for Special Purposes
July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010
$100,000 and up
Mary Dickey LinDsay schoLarship
enDowMent FunD For Doctor
oF nursing practice
Guilford Fund
Mary o’neiL MunDinger
proFessorship
Anonymous
Guilford Fund
Hilda Hodges Jones ’79
and Christopher Jones
Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45
Elena and Michael Patterson
Sally Shipley Stone ’69
and Charles L. Stone, Jr., MD
Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
nursing exceLLence through
eviDence-baseD practice
prograM
Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence through
the Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund
schoLarships in MeMory oF
Dean heLen pettit For
unDergraDuate nursing
stuDents
schoLarships in MeMory oF May
ruDin For unDergraDuate
nursing stuDents
schoLarships For oncoLogy
stuDents
The Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation
unDerstanDing the changing
roLe oF the inFection
controL proFession through
the chaipi project
Blue Shield of California
$50,000 to $99,999
Mary o’neiL MunDinger
proFessorship
Karen Katen Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. George D. O’Neill
United Health Foundation
* 3-year consecutive donor ^ Faculty/Staff
$25,000 to $49,999
brenDa barrowcLough broDie ’65
schoLarship FunD
The Devonwood Foundation
Dr. schoLL FounDation
schoLarship
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Dxr cLinician
The Hugoton Foundation
housing assistance For woMen
stuDents
LCU Foundation
LincoLn FunD schoLarships For
Minority nursing stuDents
The Lincoln Fund
Mary o’neiL MunDinger
proFessorship
Frannie Kelly Burns ’77
and Gordon M. Burns
Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57
and George H. Dorion
NewYork Presbyterian
Joan Tompkins Wheeler ’46
schoLarship in MeMory oF
eDwarD F. keLLy
Frannie Kelly Burns ’77
$10,000 to $24,999
Dorothy rogers proFessorship
enDowMent FunD
The Dorothy A. Metcalf Foundation
Mary o’neiL MunDinger
proFessorship
Estate of Susan M. Aldor
Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65
Nancy Sloane Coates ’44
Phyllis and Philip Farley
Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69
and Richard Fleming, MD
The Honorable Thomas Kean
Karen A. Kennedy ’86^
and Kevin W. Kennedy
Gerry Lenfest
Elizabeth McCormack
Marc Haas Foundation
Joan Seaburgh Puydak ’56
Ella Foshay and Michael Rothfeld
William G. Spears
Speyer Family Foundation
$5,000 to $9,999
bakken Discretionary FunD
Anonymous
Mary o’neiL MunDinger
proFessorship
Kareitha Forde and Kenneth A. Forde, MD
Doris Macdonald Hansmann ’43
and Ralph E. Hansmann
Karen M. Ignagni
Paul C. Mundinger
$1,000 to $4,999
ines Debaun bernDt ’51
schoLarship enDowMent FunD
Vincent C. DeBaun
Mary o’neiL MunDinger
proFessorship
Sarah H. Patterson ’86
and David Bickers, MD
Louis U. Bigliani, MD
Jeremiah A. Barondess, MD
Stephen H. Case
Kathy Hirata Chin
and The Honorable Denny Chin
Sarah Sheets Cook ’05^
and Floyd Cook
Sharron Close ‘01,’03,’09^
and Lanny Close, MD
Colleen Conway-Welch
Peggy and Dick Danziger
Department of Ophthalmology, CUMC
Angela Clarke Duff ’70
and David Duff
Anthony B. Evnin
The Frances Alexander Foundation
Jane and Stephen Frank
Jill S. and Lee Goldman
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., MD
Karen Hein, MD
Mary Turner Henderson ’64
and Craig Henderson, MD
Florence and Herb Irving
Barbara and Donald Jonas
Robert Kane, MD

Robin Roy Katz
Henry L. King
Dorothea A. Kissam ’46
Wendy MacKenzie
Paul J. Maddon
Michael Graves & Associates
G.G. Michelson
Philip Milstein
Barbara Mosbacher
Duncan V. Neuhauser
Tom and Peggy O’Neil
Peggy Lorey Peoples ’57
and Brian Peoples
Marnie S. Pillsbury
Howard J. Rubenstein
Roxana I. Sasse ’92
In Memory of
Muriel Alpers Schuyler ’43
Anna Draper Shaw ’66
Anne and Constantine
Sidamon-Eristoff
Richard D. Simmons
The Stetcher Family Fund
Christine Stiassni-Gerli
Harriet Walters Sullivan ’53
and Dick Sullivan
Phebe Thorne ’64
and Cornelius Ryan
Diana Vagelos and Roy Vagelos, MD
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Sally-Ann McCarthy Whelan ’61
Gail R. Wilensky
Lisa and Richard Witten
Margaret Wood, MD
Elize Poestkoke Wright ’53
and Benjamin Wright, MD
Clyde Wu, MD
Stephen e. SomerS
ScholarShip Fund
Estate of Stephen E. Somers
Up to $999
advancing the Quality oF
healthcare Fund
Estate of Regina Driscoll ’40
mary o’neil mundinger
proFeSSorShip
Marcia and Franz Allina
Laura Ardizzone ’04, ’10^
Suzanne Bakken ’08^
Carol Cooke Beal ’44
Susan L. Bender ’84 and Samuel Bender
Esther Rosengren Bartlett ’55
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah M. Bogert
Mary and Rionda Braga
Geraldine Meyer Brodnitzki ’67
Dawn Bucher ’07^
Anne-Marie Bach Burkhardt ’76
Jane Richardson Carmichael ’63
Mary Cooke
Caroline and Patrick Corcoran
Maria R. Corsaro^
The de Frondeville Family
Karen Krueger Desjardins ’98, ’05^
Betsey Ball Eberle ’57
and John S. Eberle
William Enlow ’04, ’10^
Susan K. Feagin
Reva Feinstein^
Marian Fiske ’58
Loretta C. Forde
Susan Furland ’09
and Richard Furland
Richard Garfied^
Joyce Fingado Gibson ’57
Barbara and Henry Ginsberg
Anne and Charles Goodwin
Dianne Brittain Goodrich ’65
Monika A. Heimbold
Carolyn A. Hewlett-Knight ’70
Nancy Gilbride Hill ’52
Ada Sue Hinshaw
Jane Helwig Hoffman ’45
Dr. and Mrs. George L. Hogben
Judy Cohen Honig ’05^
Elizabeth Houghton ’53
Virginia Shultz Humphrey ’60
and James Humphrey
Elizabeth Gorowski Imburgio ’89, ’91
Rita Marie John ’05^
Kyongsook Kim ’98
Mary Steel Kogut ’39
Ira B. Lamster
Ellen Rogowski Landowne ’59
Patricia Smith Langley ’61
Elaine Larson^
Burton Lee
Nicholas B. Lemann
Barbara Ball Leutzinger ’57
Anges Feng Chiao Liem ’08, ’10
George N. Lindsay, Jr.
and Nancy Metz
Margaret A. Lindsey ’75
Vera and Richard Love
Rachel Lyons ’07^
Marjory MacQueen-Crawford ’69
Lucy Marion
Jill Markowitz and Barry Ensminger
Joan and Paul Marks
Marlene McHugh ’89, ’91,’08^
Winifred Wadbrook Megear ’37
Tanya Melich
Phyllis J. Mills
Fall 2010 • 35
Barbara Britton Novick ’74
Mary O’Pray ’69
Ita O’Sullivan ’95
Dolly Clarke Peress ’59
Paula Maria Pillone ’98^
Jennifer Lee Ramsey ’03
Kathleen Keane Reed ’83
Rebekah L. Ruppe ’00, ’01, ’09^
Marla E. Salmon
Roberta Schneiderman
The Sherwin Family
Florence Mueller Schumacher ’53
Emily DiYulio Scinto ’51 and Lawrence Scinto
June J. Siegfried ’39
Gilbert Charles Simpkins ’10
Jack W. Singer
Jennifer Smith ’05^
and Daniel Smith, MD
Jay Springer
Patricia L. Starck
Patricia Stone^
Marion Howald Swarthout ’42
Kristine Nori Takamiya ’01, ’07^
Elizabeth L. Van Laan ’47
Jean Acomb Van Landingham ’43
and John H. Van Landingham
Bruce C. Vladeck
William Robert Wagner ’03, ’05
Lois and Gale Warden
Candee Ives Weed ’59
Elaine Godtfring Kennedy ’46
Laura Zeidenstein ’05^
pSychiatric mental health
ScholarShip
Penny Buschman Gemma ’64^
Shira A. Gordon ’86
Belinda Kotin ’03
ScholarShip in memory oF lore
mendelSohn For palliative
care and end-oF-liFe care Sub-
Specialty StudentS
Paul R. Mendelsohn and Family

36 • Academic Nurse
Annual Fund Gift List
July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010
NightiNgale Society
$5,000 aNd above
Donors to the Nightingale Society will have a
scholarship awarded in their name, or in the
name of a designee, at the annual School of
Nursing Scholarship Reception in October.
$25,000 aNd above
Anonymous*
Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc.
Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45*
Joan Tompkins Wheeler ’46*
$10,000-$24,999
Anonymous
Ellen Gottesman Garber ’76*
Joan Seaburgh Puydak ’56*
Richard D. Simmons*
$5,000-$9,999
Laura Pearson Armstrong ’85*
Lenore Frank Hardy ’56*
Kathleen McCooe Nilles ’89*
Maxwell Society
$2,500-$4,999
Sarah Sheets Cook ’05^
Hannah and Isidore Komanoff Foundation
Phyllis Schefer
Pettit Society
$1,000-$2,499
Jean Lagakis Benner ’42*
Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65*
Frannie Kelly Burns ’77
Robert Coulehan
Karen Krueger Desjardins ’98, ’05*^
Angela Clarke Duff ’70*
Anthony B. Evnin
Ruth Nussbaumer Fenton ‘45
Clare Warren Gordon ’63
Elizabeth Miller Greene ’43*
Marilyn Johnsen Hamel ’51*
Doris MacDonald Hansmann ’43
Nancy Gilbride Hill ’52
Laura Mae Schwartz Hirshman ’59*
Janice Jones Izlar ’06*
Beverly Cody Johnson ’85
Margaret A. Lindsey ’75
All gifts received after June 30 will be listed in the 2011 Academic Nurse.
* 3-year consecutive donor ^ Faculty/Staff
Deborah Keeler Lott ’68
Lillian Schuttger Price ’43*
Martha Cohn Romney ’81*
Anna Draper Shaw ’66*
Jennifer A. Smith ’05*^
Barbara Robison Sporck-Stegmaier ’46*
Marilyn Miller Stiefvater ’54*
Catherine Hirsch Sugarman ’41
Thea Vink
William Robert Wagner ’03, ’05*
Alyce Faye Wattleton ’67
Megan Christian Wright ’82*
gill Society
$500-$999
Ellen Soley Adkins ’81*
Elizabeth Gross Cohn ’09^
Joseph Patrick Colagreco ’91*
Mary Ann Kelly Collini ’64*
Beatrice M. Dorbacker ’50*
Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57*
Margaret Ross Hastings ’54*
Kathryn Hannam Hayes ’59
Margaret Moore Hazlett ’68*
Joan Richardson Fay ’50
Midge Harrison Fleming ’69*
Mary Baldwin Foster ’45
Patricia Smith Langley ’61*
Sally Ruffner Leiter ’66
Gail Geiger Miller ’65
Doris Gay Moldow ’65*
Leo Morrissey
Marian Higginbotham Niles ’69
Constance Kilcullen O’Connor ’49
Elayne Soley Orr ’50*
Alma E. Rangel
Alfred M. Schuyler
Carol Widmaier Scott ’63
Sally Shipley Stone ’69*
Jean Fisher Stonesifer ’50*
Marjorie Hutchins Taylor ’45*
Alice Daley Thomas ’51*
Judith Slocum Van Derburgh ’53*
Shirley E. Van Zandt ’79, ’85
Holly Grim White ’73*
Elize Poestkoke Wright ’53*
Beth Zedeck ’04, ’06*
RogeRS Society
$250-$499
Amy Cohen Ansehl ’94, ’96*
Esther Rosengren Bartlett ’55*
Nancy B. Barton ’83*
Diane Rankin Behrens ’64*
Diane Skowronski Bellafronto ’70
Esther Tilburg Berliner ’43
Donald Richard Boyd ’06
Debra Jean Brittain ’04
Anna Marie Butrie ’84*
Mary Woods Byrne ’94*^
Jane Richardson Carmichael ’63*
Katharine Owen Carpenter ’88*
Dorothy Davies Colfer ’69
Maria R. Corsaro ’83^
Judith Gregorie D’Afflitti ’65
Una Broe Doddy ’82*
Patricia C. Dykes ’04*
Elizabeth Marker Granicher ’48*
Sharon Keim Grelsamer ’83
Frances Barrows Harvan ’46
Sheila Horwitz Hollander ’59*
La Berta Ahfled Hollar ’50
Elizabeth Mary Jewett ’47*
Karen Michelle Johnson ’95*
Joan Tinker Keller ’54
Lisa J. Kleist ’73
Katherine Burke Liptak ’72*
Dorothy Webb Loescher ’45
Maria Magliacano ’06*
Marlene E. McHugh ’89, ’91, ’08*^
Diana Vietor Mundy ’62
Ora Obhas ’06*
Ellen A. O’Neal ’64*
Linda Harnsberger Rose ’86*
Emily DiYulio Scinto ’51*
Mary Patricia Stenson ’85*
Allan Christopher Thomas ’89
Phebe Thorne ’64*
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Kathleen Higgins Cahill ’68
Alice Brath Camp ’59*
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Karen Geer Donovan ’04
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Ann Rehfeld Fagan ’55
Patricia Fleming Fakharzadeh ’82
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Eunice Hering Feininger ’47
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Elizabeth Lloyd Graham ’52
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Barbara Ann Dragotta Gruenburg ’86
Stella Brewster Hall ’63*
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Susan Starr Hayes ’62*
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Nancy Fixler Houseworth ’56*
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Dorothy G. Jacobsen ’48
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Marilyn Cowles King ’67
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Dolly Clarke Peress ’59
Carol Rourke Petersen ’53
Nancy Higginson Pitney ’85*
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Elizabeth Brandes Plum-Doggett ’59
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Norma F. Simmons ’70
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Carol Tracy Smithwyck ’64
Molly Fairbanks Stainton ’46*
Harriet Walters Sullivan ’53
Audrey R. Sustmann ’54
Elizabeth Owen Swaim ’58
Stacy Shannon Tammi ’91, ’93*
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Jo Ann Thomas ’80
Alice Fleming Trundle ’51
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Patricia A. Urbanus ’69
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Jean Acomb Van Landingham ’43*
Elizabeth Aiken Van Siclen ’57*
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Ann Marie Wagner ’51
Gweneth H. Wagnon ’82*
Mary Rambo Walker ’46*
Doris Diehl Wang ’61
Sally-Ann McCarthy Whelan ’61
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Patricia Cutter Whitman ’53
Katherine Roulston Williams ’54*
Susan Altman Winickoff ’65
Elizabeth Hahn Winslow ’65
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Jennie Downer Austin ’70
Janet Peterson Backmann ’55
Genevieve A. Bahrt ’73*
Sandie Altman Baker ’77
Sarah Barrett-Wren ’85
Carol Cooke Beal ’44
Sarah Graham Bean ’44*
Sarah Swick Becker ’56
Mary and Edward Bickowski
Hollis Bierman ’67
Linda Ude Bisbee ’66*
Marjorie J. Black ’45
Sally Nelson Black ’55*
Susan Blizzard-Halleran ’76
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Susan Everett Brewster ’65
Marsha Gottlieb Bronsther ’74
Mary Lou Browning ’65
Helen Hutchinson Burnside ’46
Maureen M. Byrnes ’77
Alice Wielich Caldwell ’44
Shirley Matichak Carroll ’48
Julie Juhee Chiu ’05*
Sara Eleanor Church ’07, ’08
Marsha Pressman Cohen ’90
Kathleen DiGangi Condon ’06,’09*
Gretchen Mueller Coughlin ’65
Mary Cullen-Drill ’94, ’08
Joanne Mayer Danforth ’61
Deborah J. Dasch
Helen T. Davies ’43
Alice K. Delventhal ’77
Patricia P. Dienst ’59
Elizabeth Dockery Disbrow ’59
Joan McIntyre Distel ’55
Carolyn Stueck Donnet ’49
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Nellie Van Wie Eden ’60
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Christine DeBon Fastenberg ’72
Josephine Hallinan Finan ’42
Edna Wolfarth Fishbaugh ’33
Marcia Fishman ’66
Marian Fiske ’58*
Janice Michael Germain ’81
Carol Ginsberg ’84
Francine Bilello Ginther ’52
Constance Gleichman ’60
Nancy Dinan Granger ’80
Bernice Boice Krehbiel Gsell ’52
Ruth Gunsel ’51
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Margaret Twomney Hannibal ’87
Norma Stephens Hannigan ’07*^
Anita Harris ’40*
Margaret Ferri Hayn ’72
Florence P. Holl ’45
Carol Wagner Horst ’52
Jean Carleton Housepian ’86, ’90
Anna Deyo Howerton ’54
Zelpha Card Hoyer ’51*
Mathilde Demisay Huckins ’62*
Virginia Shultz Humphrey ’60*
Marguerite Griffin Irving ’50*
Barbara Love Jenkins ’46
Victoria Anne Josof ’91, ’94
Mary Rood Kaduthodil ’65
Ruth Reifsnyder Kahoun ’55
Melanie Kasek ’70
Mary C. Keane ’97
Betty Lee Kerr ’55
Jill Nadolny Kilanowski ’77, ’82
Allison Kimberg-Kern ’60
Robin L. Kleinman ’77
Amber Jasmine Knoche ’06, ’07
Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger ’59, ’80*
Jared Kutzin ’05
Barbara Ketchum Lahey ’45*
Edith Flanders Lambert ’63
Ellen Rogowski Landowne ’59*
Barbara Ross Landzberg ’82
Laurie Ann Leabhart ’90
Ruth Linder Leistensnider ’56
Lois Ryman Lewis ’63
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Katheryn Geiger Lohr ’57
Mary Goodwin Lopez ’83
Dorothy Gould Losee ’40
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Suzanne Eaton MacKenzie ’72
Marjory MacQueen-Crawford ’69
Alexandra Alley Manning
Mary Anne Flood Marsico ’53
Irene E. Mazaleski ’46
Pamela Wright McGauley ’70
Sarah C. McGowan ’06*
Barbara McGowan-Price ’71
Eileen Harrington McMahon ’63
Jodi L. Meadows ’07, ’09
Gail Ganter Meier ’55
Ruth Walker Millar ’52*
Nancy Cox Mills ’74*
Alexandra O’Shea Milmoe ’73*
Susan Hochwald Mulkern ’69*
Marie Graziano Nielsen ’61*
Caroline Holly Nyerges ’65
Lloyd A. Oestreicher
Elizabeth Duff O’Loughlin ’81
Janet Lunger Osgood ’51
Patricia Renner Owsley ’61
Gertrude Snively Parker ’47*
Katherine Perera Patterson ’98, ’10*
Martha Carlota Pereira ’04, ’06
Mary A. Peterkin ’79*
Susan Kuettner Pignataror ’75
Patricia Riker Pimbley ’47*
Clarissa Walsh Powley ’39
Patricia A. Price
Michelle Prosser-Fineman ’98
Susan Kaufman Purcell ’72
Katherine Isham Quade-Schoen ’06
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Beverly Waldman Rich ’84*
Amelia Setteducati Richman ’65
Joan Sanok Rick ’60
Lynn Davies Robertson ’97*
Annie J. Rohan ’91
Mary Maternowski Romano ’79, ’82*
Barbara Arnsten Rosenzweig ’80
Elizabeth Bridget Rothlauf ’92*
Anne Marie Ruszkowski ’80
Margaret Koch Schall ’52
Molly Marsden Schneider ’67*
Florence Mueller Schumacher ’53
Caroline Marie Scribner ’03
Susan McCreary Seaman ’68
Alice Bigger Serbein ’43
Cathy Bagnal Shimmel ’71*
June Siegfried ’39*
Ruth Hirsch Silverman ’45
Mary Campbell Smeaton ’43
Alicia B. Smilowitz ’80
Barbara Fessenden Smith ’84, ’86
Marilyn Mackson Stein ’57
Janet L. Swanson ’67*
Marion Howald Swarthout ’42*
E. Michael Tarazi
Phyllis Russell Taylor ’47
Dawn Newnham Teator ’51
Alalia Kempner Thaler ’75
Frances Salter Thompson ’50
Miriam Tostlebe Thompson ’58
Cecilia Kim-Fong Tsang ’98
Cynthia R. Tuck ’70
Barbara Taylor Uhlig
Nancy Weems Valsamis ’54
Judith Marie Van Cleef ’96
Marilyn Larson Vestigo ’52
Irene P. Vetto ’85
Carol Poehlmann Wagner ’72
Gale Warton Wallace ’81
Ruth Gifford Webb ’45
Joann P. Wessman ’65
Susan Rockwell West ’64*
Mary Newton Western ’52
Ann Lounsbury Wheeler ’60
Carolyn Mieding Whittenburg ’53
Marilyn Lenzner Williams ’68
Virginia Dana Windmuller ’64*
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1933
Edna Wolfarth Fishbaugh
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1937
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1939
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1940
Anita Harris
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Dorothy Gould Losee
1941
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1942
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1943
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1944
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1945
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Ruth Gifford Webb
1946
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Anita Siegel Epstein
Frances Barrows Harvan
Barbara Love Jenkins
Elaine Godtfring Kennedy
Patricia Hayes Keough
Irene E. Mazaleski
Eleanor W.E. McConnell
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Molly Fairbanks Stainton
Mary Rambo Walker
Joan Tompkins Wheeler
1947
Eunice Hering Feininger
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Grace O’Brien McIver
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Mary Ann Lilster Pomeroy
Phyllis Russell Taylor
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1948
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1949
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1950
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Joan Richardson Fay
La Berta Ahlfeld Hollar
Marguerite Griffin Irving
Elayne Soley Orr
Jean Fisher Stonesifer
Frances Salter Thompson
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40 • Academic Nurse
1951
Ruth Gunsel
Marilyn Johnsen Hamel
Zelpha Card Hoyer
Evelyn Reantillo Laureta
Janet Lunger Osgood
Emily DiYulio Scinto
Dawn Newnham Teator
Alice Daley Thomas
Alice Fleming Trundle
Ann Marie Wagner
Elizabeth Writer Kleinfeld Zern
1952
Elizabeth Leggett Black
Francine Bilello Ginther
Elizabeth Lloyd Graham
Bernice Boice Krehbiel Gsell
Nancy Gilbride Hill
Carol Wagner Horst
Sally Smith Kauzlarich
Ruth Walker Millar
Margaret Koch Schall
Jean Willis Vernon
Marilyn Larson Vestigo
Mary Newton Western
1953
Jeanne Fischer Cherry
Gertrude Lois Gebhardt
Edna Fishburn Halstead
Mary Anne Flood Marsico
Alta Woodworth Miller
Janet Mills Nankervis
Carol Rourke Petersen
Florence Mueller Schumacher
Rose Crane Smith
Harriet Walters Sullivan
Barbara Taylor Uhlig
Judith Slocum Van Derburgh
Elize Poestkoke Wright
Patricia Cutter Whitman
Carolyn Mieding Whittenburg
1954
Margaret Ross Hastings
Anna Deyo Howerton
Joan Tinker Keller
Jo Ann Scranton Main
Marilyn Miller Stiefvater
Audrey R. Sustmann
Nancy Weems Valsamis
Helen Hutz Von Der Lieth
Katherine Roulston Williams
1955
Janet Peterson Backmann
Esther Rosengren Bartlett
Sally Nelson Black
Joan McIntyre Distel
Ann Rehfeld Fagan
Ruth Reifsnyder Kahoun
Betty Lee Kerr
Susannah Lee Lunt
Gail Ganter Meier
Beverly Roberts Mulder
Rita Perrine Trayner
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1956
Sarah Swick Becker
Lenore Frank Hardy
Nancy Fixler Houseworth
Ruth Linder Leistensnider
Ramona Peterson Leslie
Joan Seaburgh Puydak
Phoebe Curtis Reynolds
Vera Venturino
1957
Barbara Shaw Abbott
Dorothy Simpson Dorion
Ruth Mickelsen Gould
Lois Jackman Howland
Barabra Ball Leutzinger
Katheryn Geiger Lohr
Alida Ishman Millham
Marguerite Lorey Peoples
Marilyn Mackson Stein
Elizabeth Aiken Van Siclen
Maryalice Dryden York
Edith Royce Zaager
1958
Edith Baldwin Cleaves
Marian Fiske
Shirley Imig Montgomery
Elizabeth Owen Swaim
Miriam Tostlebe Thompson
1959
Janice Paul Arcidiacono
Carol Heeks Brice
Alice Brath Camp
Patricia P. Dienst
Elizabeth Dockery Disbrow
Joan Penney Frohling
Kathryn Hannam Hayes
Laura Mae Schwartz Hirshman
Sheila Horwitz Hollander
Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger
Ellen Rogowski Landowne
Dolly Clarke Peress
Elizabeth Brandes Plum-Doggett
Marjorie Watters Pray
Nell Kincaid Semel
Candee Ives Weed
1960
Nellie Van Wie Eden
Constance R. Gleichmann
Carol Hammell Grosse
Virginia Shultz Humphrey
Allison Kimberg-Kern
Joan Sanok Rick
Susan Maines Saydah
Nancy Kiener Schullinger
Ann Lounsbury Wheeler
1961
Joanne Mayer Danforth
Patricia Smith Langley
Karolyn Cole LeStage
Marie Graziano Nielsen
Patricia Renner Owsley
Doris Diehl Wang
Sally-Ann McCarthy Whelan
1962
Susan Starr Hayes
Mathilde Demisay Huckins
Judith Schneider Ronald
1963
Jane Richardson Carmichael
Clare Warren Gordon
Stella Brewster Hall
Edith Flanders Lambert
Lois Ryman Lewis
Kristin Van Derverr Liddle
Eileen Harrington McMahon
Carol Widmaier Scott
1964
Diane Rankin Behrens
Doris Taylor Bowles
Penny Buschman
Mary Ann Kelly Collini
Linda Lovell Demarest
Deena Penchansky Lisak
Ellen A. O’Neal
Cynthia Hoffman Priest
Carol Tracy Smithwyck
Phebe Thorne
Susan Rockwell West
Virginia Dana Windmuller
1965
Evelyn Basralian Ambrose
Lynne Sheetz Bolig
Ruth Walker Brackbill
Susan Everett Brewster
Brenda Barrowclough Brodie
Mary Lou Browning
Barbara Williams Bunger
Gretchen Mueller Coughlin
Judith Gregorie D’Afflitti
Nancy Goerner DeVries
Janet Duncan Dolan
Barbara Shaw Eschbach
Dianne Brittain Goodrich
Mary Rood Kaduthodil
Anne MacNaughton Keyser
Jane E. Martin
Gail Geiger Miller
Doris Gay Moldow
Caroline Holly Nyerges
Amelia Setteducati Richman
Sara Mackelvey Smith
Joann P. Wessman
Susan Altman Winickoff
Elizabeth Hahn Winslow
1966
Linda Ude Bisbee
Marcia Fishman
Sally Ruffner Leiter
Anna Draper Shaw
1967
Hollis Bierman
Jill Redyke Crawford
Aimee Blumenthal Doctoroff
Marilyn Cowles King
Molly Marsden Schneider
Janet L. Swanson
Alyce Faye Wattleton
1968
Kathleen Higgins Cahill
Susan Green Cooksey
Patricia Healy De Sear
Clare Dietrich Fisher
Margaret Moore Hazlett
Karen Troutman LaMonica
Deborah Keeler Lott
Betsy Cook Morgan
Linda G. Parkins
Susan Ross
Susan McCreary Seaman
Marilyn Lenzner Williams
1969
Dorothy Davies Colfer
Midge Harrison Fleming
Marjory MacQueen-Crawford
Susan Hochwald Mulkern
Marian Higginbotham Niles
Mary O’Pray
Mary Reynolds Powell
Sally Shipley Stone
Patricia A. Urbanus
1970
Jennie Downer Austin
Diane Skowronski Bellafronto
Angela Clarke Duff
Toni Sailer Eisenhauer
Carolyn Hewlett-Knight
Mary Sue Marburger Hunia
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42 • Academic Nurse
Melanie Kasek
Pamela Wright McGauley
Ruth Dodt Palmer
Suzanne Savoy
Norma F. Simmons
Cynthia R. Tuck
1971
Karen Ebersbach Hellrich
Barbara McGowan-Price
Nanci Sue McLeskey
Judith Rosenfield Rosenthal
Cathy Bagnal Shimmel
Lenora Porreca Whildin
Susan J. Zator
1972
Barbara H. Boyington
Christine DeBon Fastenberg
Margaret Ferri Hayn
Katherine Burke Liptak
Suzanne Eaton MacKenzie
Joanne Messore-Shotwell
Susan Kaufman Purcell
Mary Barber Tanis
Carol Poehlmann Wagner
1973
Genevieve A. Bahrt
Lisa J. Kleist
Alexandra O’Shea Milmoe
Holly Grim White
1974
Marsha Gottlieb Bronsther
Nancy Cox Mills
1975
David Ekstrom
Margaret A. Lindsey
Susan Kuettner Pignataror
Marilyn Westfall Raffinot
Gay Ann Garehan Redcay
Alalia Kempner Thaler
Gail Portnoy Zwiebel
1976
Susan Blizzard-Halleran
Joy A. Boscove
Josie Debevoise Davies
Ellen Gottesman Garber
Christa Simpson Heinsler
Phyllis Kleinman Simpson
1977
Sandie Altman-Baker
Frannie Kelly Burns
Maureen M. Byrnes
Alice K. Delventhal
Jill Nadolny Kilanowski
Robin L. Kleinman
1978
Grania Beauregard Allport
Marianne Durgavich
John Fallon
Marie G. Ludwig
Gina C. Romeo
Marilyn Kraft Yaremchuk
1979
Mary A. Peterkin
Mary Maternowski Romano
Shirley E. Van Zandt
1980
Jeanne V. Allen
Joy A. Boscove
Felda A. Dean
Nancy Dinan Granger
Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger
Barbara Arnsten Rosenzweig
Anne Marie Ruszkowski
Alicia B. Smilowitz
Jo Ann Thomas
1981
Ellen Soley Adkins
Ann Guinivan Cover
Janice Michael Germain
Bridget Lane
Diana Bassil Nilsen
Elizabeth Duff O’Loughlin
Martha Cohn Romney
Gale Warton Wallace
1982
Una Broe Doddy
Patricia Fleming Fakharzadeh
Jill Nadolny Kilanowski
Barbara Ross Landzberg
Gwyneth Johnson Lymberis
Mary Maternowski Romano
Linda A. Shannon
Gweneth H. Wagnon
Megan Christian Wright
1983
Nancy B. Barton
Maureen Casey
Maria R. Corsaro
Sharon Keim Grelsamer
Mary Goodwin Lopez
Robin McKeon Michalak
Kathleen Frances O’Reilly
1984
Donna Chrysilda Barreiro
Susan L. Bender
Anna Marie Butrie
Carol Ginsberg
Valerie Kolbert
Deborah S. Little
Catherine White Sconzo
Barbara Fessenden Smith
Beverly Waldman Rich
1985
Laura Pearson Armstrong
Sarah Barrett-Wren
Beverly Cody Johnson
Judith K. Krones
Brenda Hartley Landes
Patricia A. McMaster
Nancy Higginson Pitney
Mary Patricia Stenson
Shirley E. Van Zandt
Irene P. Vetto
1986
Shira A. Gordon
Barbara Ann Dragotta Gruenburg
Jean Carleton Housepian
Linda Harnsberger Rose
Barbara Fessenden Smith
Faith-Ann Gian Zimmerman
1987
Margaret Twomney Hannibal
Cipora Operman
1988
Deborah Albright
Katharine Owen Carpenter
Margaret Kiss Magyar
1989
Marlene E. McHugh
Kathleen McCooe Nilles
Allan Christopher Thomas
1990
Marsha Pressman Cohen
Sharon N. Garber
Jean Carleton Housepian
Laurie Ann Leabhart
1991
Joseph Patrick Colagreco
Victoria Anne Josof
Marlene E. McHugh
Darlene Carol Pliml
Annie J. Rohan
Stacy Shannon Tammi

1992
Barbara Hutton Borghardt
Myra E. Franklin
Kathryn Lee Howard
Elizabeth Bridget Rothlauf
Roxana I. Sasse
1993
Margaret A. Flannery
Stacy Shannon Tammi
1994
Amy Cohen Ansehl
Barbara Hutton Borghardt
Mary Woods Byrne
Mary Cullen-Drill
Victoria Anne Josof
Wailin Lau
1995
Karen Michelle Johnson
Ita O’Sullivan
Jinah K. Shin
1996
Amy Cohen Ansehl
Margaret A. Flannery
Ellen Levine
Ann K. Murtaugh
Anita Nirenberg
Judith Marie Van Cleef
1997
Mary Patricia Donovan
Sarah C. James
Mary C. Keane
Lynn Davies Robertson
1998
Karen Krueger Desjardins
Reinhard George Kopping
Laura Jane McKenna
Ann K. Murtaugh
Katherine Perera Patterson
Michelle Prosser-Fineman
Cecilia Kim-Fong Tsang
1999
Jinah K. Shin
2000
Rebekah Ruppe
Lisbeth Jacobsen Votruba
2001
Margaret Patricia McSweeney
Rebekah Ruppe
2003
Belinda Kotin
Jennifer Ramsey-El-Bayoumi
Caroline Marie Scribner
Arlene Merne Smaldone
William Robert Wagner
2004
Laura Ardizzone
Debra Jean Brittain
Jeannie P. Cimiotti
Karen Geer Donovan
Patricia C. Dykes
William Enlow
Ariana Rose Komaroff
Martha Carlota Pereira
Beth Zedeck
2005
Adele Anne Bradford
Julie Juhee Chiu
Sarah Sheets Cook
Karen Krueger Desjardins
Mary Patricia Donovan
Judy Cohen Honig
Jared Kutzin
Jennifer A. Smith
William Robert Wagner
Laura Zeidenstein
2006
Donald Richard Boyd
Kathleen DiGangi Condon
Janice Jones Izlar
Amber Jasmine Knoche
Tip Rose Lu
Maria Magliacano
Sarah McGowan
Ora Obhas
Martha Carlota Pereira
Katherine Isham Quade-Schoen
Beth Zedeck
2007
Dawn Bucher
Sara Eleanor Church
Norma Stephens Hannigan
Amber Jasmine Knoche
Jodi L. Meadows
2008
Sara Eleanor Church
Mary Cullen-Drill
Carolyn Diane Czyz
Robin Christie DeGeorge
Agnes Feng Chiao Liem
Marlene E. McHugh
Brian Amherst Pongracz
2009
Antoinette Brigitte Baleba-Lekane
Elizabeth Gross Cohn
Kathleen DiGangi Condon
Alfred Eusini
Jodi L. Meadows
Anita Nirenberg
Brian Amherst Pongracz
Rebekah Ruppe
2010
Laura Ardizzone
Jeanne N. Churchill
William Enlow
Agnes Feng Chiao Liem
Katherine Perera Patterson
Gilbert Charles Simpkins
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Honor someone
who has influenced
your life. Say “thank you”
with a gift that keeps on giving.
Pay tribute to a living or deceased
loved one or mentor by giving
a gift in honor or in memory
of someone who has impacted
your life. Your investment helps
the School of Nursing to provide
financial aid to the
future generations
of nursing while
honoring someone
special.

44 • Academic Nurse
In Memory of
Janet a. alley ’52
Alexandra Alley manning
Jean Willis vernon ’52
marilyn Larson vestigo ’52
william and Kathryn bahrt
genevieve A. bahrt ’73
brooKs barnes ’46
molly Fairbanks stainton ’46
mary rambo Walker ’46
dorothy roth
bartholomew ’50
elizabeth Lloyd graham ’52
margaret mary rasCh
bennett
dana Little
riChard Casale
Anne marie ruszkowski ’80
gloria Cohen
sharon n. garber ’90
rosina mantello Coulehan ’47
vincent r. Coulehan
grace o’brien mciver ’47
terry william dagrosa
sally ruffner Leiter ’66
robert denaro ’02, ’08
John Fallon ’78
anna and milton felson
Anonymous
harold a. gottesman
ellen gottesman garber ’76
margaret PasChall
greenwald ’47
Charles m. greenwald, md
henry tuCKer grim, Jr.
holly grim White ’73
beatriCe gross
elizabeth gross Cohn ’09
harriet Calvelli heffernan ’42
Josephine hallinan Finan ’42
edith m. hering
eunice hering Feininger ’47
laura mae sChwartz
hirshman ’59
Janice Paul Arcidiacono ’59
Joan Foote
hydropath usA, inc.
Patricia A. Price
anne hassett hogan ’47
Phyllis russell Taylor ’47
shirley d. holman ’56
sarah swick becker ’56
mr. and mrs. stePhen J. Kiss
margaret Kiss magyar ’88
marie J. KrahuliK ’50
Jean Fisher stonesifer ’50
Charles and aliCe maC
sarah mackelvey smith ’65
teresa marsiCo, Cnm
maureen m. byrnes ’77
robert n. millar
ruth Walker millar ’52
PatriCia reid morrissey ’64
Leo J. morrissey
mildred r. netzKe
Carol rourke Petersen ’53
alex and ida nirenberg
Anita nirenberg ’96 ’09
dolores samlin oestreiCher ’61
Lloyd A. oestreicher
rosemary farley Petrie ’63
eileen harrington mcmahon ’63
Professor elsa Poslusny
norma F. simmons ’70
sheldon riChman, md
Amelia setteducati richman ’75
rose sChefer
hannah and isidore Komanoff Foundation
Phyllis schefer
muriel alPers sChuyler ’43
irene holtan schmidgall ’42
Alfred m. schuyler
helen Chihotas sChumaCK ’48
mary bickowski
debra J. dasch
viCtor b. sChwartz
Adeline devoto schwartz ’46
harris and Pauline sheetz
Lynne sheetz bolig ’65
sally C. shine ’71
norma F. simmons ’70
bill shotwell
Joanne messore-shotwell ’72
mary bleeCKer simmons ’60
stuart T. greene
Anne s. Paul
William g. sayers
richard d. simmons
edwin m. trayner, md
rita Perrine Trayner ’55
Jane h. white
Catherine White sconzo ’84
JaCob and JosePhine zator
susan J. Zator ’71
walter ChanCellor
van sCiver
debra Jean brittain ’04
the deParted
Classmates of 1945
ruth nussbaumer Fenton ’45

In Honor of
Suzanne Bakken
Patricia C. Dykes ’04
RoBeRt C. BaRRett and
elizaBeth WallaCe BaRRett
Sarah Barrett-Wren ’85
BaRBaRa BRoWn
Mary Pat Stenson ’85
annette StauBeR Cohn
Martha Cohn Romney ’81
Jane CoRSon duStin ’64
Patricia P. Dienst ’59
Penny BuSChman Gemma ’64
Ita A. O’Sullivan ’95
Susan Rockwell West ’64
elaine m. GiBBonS ’98
Margaret Patricia McSweeney ’01
ConStanCe RiSinG
GleiChmann ’60
Theodore F. Gleichmann, Jr.
Suzanne laW haWeS ’59
Elizabeth Brandes Pulm-Doggett ’59
Corporate
Matching Gifts
nanCy ellen JoneS ’69
Alicia B. Smilowitz ’80
mR. and mRS. JameS maRSden
Molly Florence Schneider ’67
ChaRleS maRShall
Mary Patricia Stenson ’85
maRy o’neil mundinGeR
Sarah Sheets Cook ’05
Frances Barrows Harvan ’46
June Travers Werner ’45
Paul mundinGeR
Karen Hein, MD
helen Pettit ’36
Frances Barrows Harvan ’46
JennifeR a. Smith ’05
Anne G. Peirce
niCholaS J. Soley
Ellen Soley Orr ’81
lotte SteRn ’54
Audrey R. Sustmann ’54
CatheRine hiRSCh SuGaRman ’51
Harry Sugarman
The School of Nursing is pleased to recognize the generous support of
many companies who match donors’ gifts. To find out if you or your spouse’s
company has such a program, go to:
http://giving.columbia.edu/waystogive/matching_gifts.html
Ernst & Young Foundation
ExxonMobile Foundation
GE Foundation
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc.
PSE&G Company
Union Pacific Corporation
JeSSiCa tRimBle ’09
Gail Portnoy Zwiebel ’75
helen WaldneR
Marion Waldner Deas ’43
ameRiCa’S Wounded
SoldieRS
Dorothy Davies Colfer ’69
Fall 2010 • 45
the infoRmatiCS PRoGRam
and itS PRofeSSoRS
Julie Juhee Chiu ’05
the midWifeRy PRoGRam
Maureen C. Casey ’83
Patricia A. Urbanus ’69
“neiGhBoRS”
Sarah Swick Becker ’56
nuRSe PRaCtitioneRS Who
Went to haiti
Susan Green Cooksey ’68
Your ongoing support to the Annual Fund
ensures that the School is able to recruit the
best possible students in nursing. 100% of
your gift will support student financial aid.
To make your tax-deductible contribution
today, send a check payable to Columbia
University School of Nursing or give a gift
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Thank you in advance for your commitment.
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630 West 168th Street, Mail Code 6
New York, NY 10032

46 • Academic Nurse
Anna C.
Maxwell
legacy society
Named in memory of the founder of the School of Nursing, the
Anna C. Maxwell Legacy Society recognizes those who have
established a planned gift to Columbia University School of Nursing
through a bequest or charitable trust. These thoughtful commitments
help ensure that future generations of nursing students will be able to
experience the finest in clinical nursing education. To learn more, go
to: http://www.columbia.planyourlegacy.org.
Pamela Amerige-Pulaski ’05
Carol baxter ’86
Jean Lagakis benner ’42
bonnie barker bogdasarian ’74
estate of Florence m. burnett ’35
Jane richardson Carmichael ’63
estate of mary Louise sanchez davis ’33
beatrice m. dorbacker ’50
dorothy simpson dorion ’57
estate of regina driscoll ’40
Celeste dye
eunice hering Feininger
Ann becker Finein ’54
midge harrison Fleming ’69
Joan gorrell ’61
Living Trust of ethyl rathbun grady
Frances bevier hiller ’49
Lois Jackman howland ‘57
virginia shultz humphrey ’60
Carol ince ’75 ’82
dorothea A. Kissam ’46
Chaweevan Koetsawasdi ’00
ellen rogowski Landowne ’59
mary dickey Lindsay ’45
Judith J. Loach ’81 ’84
Jane Atkinson mackenzie ’52
estate of nancy hart markgraf ’55
barbara meyers mcnagny ’63
ellen A. bakanowsky o’neal ’64
Lillian schuttger Price ’43
ruth Klawunn randa ’52
Jane Crowell rieffel ’46
Joan Chamberlain roe ’62
nancy e. russell ’48
ida mitrani schnipper ’77
helen schweinsberg
estate of Carmen sharp
Anna draper shaw ’66
genevieve harrison speicher ’47
Jean Fisher stonesifer ’50
harriet Walters sullivan ’53
marion howald swarthout ’42
Alice daley Thomas ’51
Phebe Thorne ’64
rosie higuera Toner & Paul Toner
elizabeth mulford vavra ’77
Phyllis harrington Wagner ’63
estate of Jacqueline m. Webb ’83
Frances s. Williams ’66

Average cost for a student in the first year
of the Combined BS/MS Program for 2010-2011
Living exPenses: $28,278
ToTAL: $104,291
Columbia university School of Nursing
financial overview
inCome July 2008 - June 2009 July 2009 - June 2010
(IN THOUSANDS) (IN THOUSANDS)
Tuition and Fees $15,516 $17,814
sponsored Projects $5,460 $5,063
gifts $326 $352
endowment income $4,112 $4,406
Faculty Practice $865 $835
other $1,301 $206
ToTAL $27,580 $28,676
exPenses
oTher: $7,533
TuiTion: $68,480
Personnel 51% 48%
Financial Aid 17% 22%
overhead 19% 20%
other 12% 10%
Fall 2010 • 47

48 • Academic Nurse
Board
of visitors
Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ‘65
Durham, North Carolina
roBert Brook, Md, Scd
RAND Health
Santa Monica, California
arthur caplan, phd
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
eliSaBeth c. dudley
Redding, Connecticut
phylliS r. Farley
New York, New York
Marjorie harriSon FleMing ’69
Princeton, New Jersey
karen hein, Md
Jacksonville, Vermont
karen ignagni
America’s Health Insurance Plans
Washington, DC
roBert l. kane, Md
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
kenneth w. kizer, Md
Medsphere Systems Corp.
Aliso Viejo, California
Mary dickey lindSay ‘45
New York, New York
elizaBeth j. MccorMack
Rockefeller Family and Associates
New York, New York
duncan V. neuhauSer, phd
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
phil M. nudelMan, phd
The Hope Heart Institute
Seattle, Washington
Sara Shipley Stone ‘69
Darien, Connecticut
pheBe thorne ‘64
Ketchum, Idaho

Administration Faculty
Dean
Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN
Vice Dean
Sarah Sheets Cook, DNP, RN-CS
Senior Associate Dean
Jennifer A. Smith, DNP, MPH, MBA, NP-C
Senior Associate Dean, Practice
Janice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, ANP-BC
Associate Dean, Student Services
Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PC
Associate Dean, Research
Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
Associate Dean, Development
Reva Feinstein, MPA
Assistant Dean, Administration
Eileen Kearney, MS
Assistant Dean, Clinical Affairs
Wilhemina Manzano, MA, RN
Named Professors
Alumni Professor of Nursing and
Professor of Medical Informatics
Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor
Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN
Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor in
Clinical Health Care for the Underserved
Mary Woods Byrne, PhD, CPNP, FAAN
Dorothy M. Rogers Professor of Clinical Nursing
Sarah Sheets Cook, DNP, RN-CS
Henrik H. Bendixen Clinical Professor of
International Nursing
Richard Garfield, DrPH, RN, FAAN
Professor of Pharmacological
and Therapeutic Research
Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
Centennial Professor in Health Policy
Mary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPH
Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor of Nursing
Nancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor of NursiNg
Patricia Stone, PhD, RN
Professors of
CliNiCal NursiNg
Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PC
Janice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, ANP-BC
assistaNt Professor of
NursiNg
Elizabeth Cohn, DNSc, MS, RN
Kathleen Hickey, EdD, ANP-BC, FNP
Robert J. Lucero, PhD, RN
Arlene M. Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP-PC, CDE
assistaNt Professor of
CliNiCal BiostatistiCs (iN
NursiNg)
Haomiao Jia, PhD
assistaNt Professor of
CliNiCal NursiNg
Sally W. Aboelela, PhD
Christina Araujo, CPNP, MS
Laura Ardizzone, DNP, MS, CRNA
Penelope Buschman, P/MH, CNS, FAAN
Jeanne N. Churchill, MS, CPNP-PC
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Maria Corsaro, MSN, MPH
Karen S. Desjardins, DNP, MPH, ANP, GNP
Jennifer Dohrn, DNP, CNM
William Enlow, DNP, MS, CRNA
Mary Johnson, DNP, ACNP, ANP
Eileen Evanina, MS, CRNA
Elizabeth K. Hall, DNP, FNP, GNP
Norma Hannigan, DNP, APRN-BC, FNP
Ritamarie John, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PC
Joan Kearney, PhD, CS, APRN
Melissa Kramps, MS, ANP, GNP
Mary-Jane McEneaney, MS, WHNP
Marlene E. McHugh, DNP, FNP
Anita Nirenberg, DNSc, PNP-C, AOCNP
Paula Pillone, CS, C-P/MH
Courtney Reinisch, DNP, FNP-BC, ACNP
Rebekah L Ruppe, DNP, CNM
Josephine G. Sapp, DNP, CS
Jennifer Smith, DNP, MBA, MPH, NP-C
Caroline Sullivan, MS, ANP
Kristine N. Takamiya, DNP, APRN-BC, ANP
Teresa Turnbull, DNP, MS, FNP-C
Laura Zeidenstein, DNP, CNM
assistaNt CliNiCal
Professors of NursiNg
Tracy Andrews, MSN, SCNP, ANP
Rozelle Corda, MS, FNP-BC
Giovanni Dugay, MS, ANP-C
Margie Fernandez Sloves, DNP, ANP-BC
Dorothy Roedel Ferraro, MS, ANP-BC
Margaret Flannery, MS, ANP-BC
Nicole Goetz, DNP, MS, FNP
Patricia Ann Harren, DNP, ANP
Mary Huang, DNP, C-PNP
Rachel Lyons, DNP, CPNP-AC, CPNP-PC
Maureen McSwiggen-Hardin, MS,P/MHNP-BC
Christine M. Merle, CPNP-BC, MS
Debra Miller-Saultz, MS, FNP-BC
Hilary Nierenberg, MS, ANP-BC
Lori Rosenthal, DNP, ACNP, ANP
Jean Marie Rubsam-Kane, RN, BSN, MS, CPNP
Lynn R. Silverberg, MSN, ANP-BC
Phyllis Tarallo, MS, FNP-C
Mary Ellen Tresgallo, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC
Kara Ventura, DNP, CPNP
Elisabeth Visser, MS, ANP-BC
Marissa Wallace, MS, FNP, APRN-BC
Elsa Wuhrman, MS, ANP, CCRN
iNstruCtor of CliNiCal
NursiNg
Maureen Devlin, MS, ACNP
Oliver Diaz, MS, ACNP
Maria Carmela Evangelista, MS, ANP-BC
Elizabeth Holcomb, MS, ACNP
Margaret Kern, MS, ACNP
Michelle Magorno, MS, PNP-BC
Evangeline Veloria, MS, ACNP, APRN-BC

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