2008-2009 - Columbia University School of Nursing

Columbia UniversitySchool of NursingAnnual Report 2009

CONTENTS1 Letter from the Dean2 Pioneering Dean Steps Aside after 24 Years of Innovation12 Roughing It: Columbia Nurses Take Their Training to Rural Ecuador14 Delivering Lessons Learned:Renowned Author & Teacher Inspires Midwifery Students16 2008-2009 Year in Review24 Federal Funds Connect Washington Heights Youth with Columbia26 Government and Private Funding31 Gifts and Pledges for Special Purposes32 Annual Fund Gift List35 Annual Fund Gifts by Class Year40 Gifts Made in Memory and in Honor41 Corporate Matching Gifts42 Anna C. Maxwell Legacy Society43 Combined BS/MS Program Costs and Financial Overview44 Board of Visitorsback Administration and Faculty2009 ANNUAL REPORTCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITYLee C. BollingerPresidentWilliam V. CampbellChair of the Trustees of the UniversityCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF NURSINGMary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPHDean and Centennial Professorin Health PolicyProduced by the Office ofDevelopment and Alumni AffairsColumbia University School of NursingJennifer Smith, MBA, MPH, DNPSenior Associate DeanReva FeinsteinAssistant Dean for DevelopmentJanine HandfusDevelopment OfficerSarah C. MonrragaDevelopment Coordinatorcover photo by Katherine GibbonsPermission to reprint articles may be obtainedfrom the Columbia University School of NursingOffice of Development and Alumni Affairs,630 West 168 Street, Box 6, New York, NY10032, tel (212) 305-3742, fax (212) 342-1909ART & EDITORIALDavid Goodwin, Graphyte DesignDesignNancy AdlerCatherine GibbonsPhotographyManuel CortazalSenior Writer

Annual Report 2008-09 • 1letter from theDEANWith this letter I bid you adieu. In the spring, Columbia Nursing will have a new Dean.I look forward to introducing you to that lucky person, and becoming one of you – aloyal and active alumna. Of course, my status is honorary and yours is real, but I amone of you. I send my deepest thanks and gratitude to each of you who has joinedme on this extraordinary journey.The past 24 years have been enormously exciting and renewing for me. The Schoolhas thrived with brilliant and talented faculty, who have led the profession in theiraccomplishments and attracted the finest students. John Kennedy, when he completedhis cabinet as President 35 years ago, noted that what it took to succeed wasto surround yourself with excellence, and he was right.The University is in the midst of a major renewal. The Manhattanville addition willadd space for a science center and new homes for the Business School, the Schoolof International and Public Affairs and the School of the Arts, and will help sustainColumbia’s golden eminence in academia. The distance between the four healthscience center schools and the 12 further south will be half what it is today – a majorstep toward unifying the 16 schools in the University. This alone will increase the independentvalue and distinction of each health sciences school and lessen the isolationof our campus. As nursing, public health and dentistry become more visible in providingfor the nation’s healthcare needs, the balance with medicine’s conventionalstanding will be achieved. And the narrowing of public space between downtownand uptown will be measurably helpful in this evolution.The only limiting factor for nursing’s equity in the University and the profession arespace constraints, which can be easily remedied. Building the intellectual infrastructure,and attracting students who define the future, take years and effort. Additionalspace is achievable quickly, as the School has the financial resources; it is simply aquestion of University priorities. I pledge my support for you and our faculty to helpour new Dean achieve this last measure to sustain the School’s future and all that hasbeen accomplished since Anna Maxwell opened the door for those first promisingstudents 117 years ago.Mary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPHDean and Centennial Professor in Health Policyphoto by Katherine Gibbons

2 • School of NursingAfter 24 YearsMary O’Neil Mundinger at theunveiling of her portrait, withthe artist Paul Newton. Theportrait was the gift of ananonymous donor

Annual Report 2008-09 • 3of Innovation,A Pioneering Dean Steps DownThe Dean’s office occupies a small corner of the Georgian Building’s ground floor.The softly lit suite of rooms sits at eye-level across from the medical center’s emergencyroom. On a temperate, sun-splashed July day, Mary O’Neil Mundinger sits atthe head of a conference table looking back on 24 years at the helm as dean.Anna Maxwell, who founded the School in 1892, keeps watch over the moment. Herunfinished, and once discarded portrait hangs on the conference room wall. Lore hasit that Maxwell soured on the artist’s portrayal of her double chin and commissionedanother, more flattering, painting. Along the floorboard lies another artist’s work: aset of architectural renderings depicting the School of Nursing’s new home, a multistorystructure that Mundinger hopes will rise above the footprint of the GeorgianBuilding, where the school’s growing faculty and 600-plus students vie for eachsquare foot of available space.“Right now space is our only constraint,” Mundinger said. The school’s enrollmentand faculty stand at an all time high. “We don’t have any space but the environmentis such that we can still recruit the best.”Today, to believe she once worried that accepting her appointment as dean mightderail her career as an aspiring health policy researcher seems quite odd. But now,three months after announcing her decision to step down as the school’s ninth andsecond longest serving dean, she can wax nostalgic about a career that blazed a trailinto territory where once nurses had not trod.“I had the unbelievable good luck to walk into this school, in this environment, in thismedical center with people who helped me make it happen. It might not have happenedanywhere else.”Resuscitating a Dying PatientWhat happened was the most remarkable reversal of fortune for a school thatnearly saw itself shuttered 24 years ago. In 1985, Dean Mundinger had returned toColumbia University after a one-year stint as a Robert Wood Johnson fellow, servingwith the Senate committee staff overseeing health care legislation led by SenatorSCHOOL OF NURSINGACCOMPLISHMENTS DURINGMARY O’NEIL MUNDINGER’S TENURE 11 endowed chairs established Endowment increased from$3 million to more than $100million by 2008 Two doctoral degree programscreated, the Doctor of NursingPractice (DNP) and the DNSc/PhD More than $28 million inexternal research funding – thehighest per capita level in a nursingschool in the nation Enrollment rose from 100 to arecord level of 600 students The first independent facultynurse practitioner practice (CAPNA)to secure commercial insurancereimbursement

4 • School of NursingTed Kennedy. She was settling into herrole as the College of Physician andSurgeon’s new assistant dean for healthpolicy and was planning to tap into themany contacts she had forged in thenation’s capital.“In the fall of 1985, Columbia’s nursingschool, like many other schools, hadfallen on hard times. Nursing was not apreferred career for women, who weregoing into law, medicine, and journalism,”Mundinger said. The School’ssagging enrollment could no longersupport the faculty and the ColumbiaProvost, Robert Goldberger, was intenton sweeping away the legacy Maxwelland her successors had left to a new generationof academic nurses.The urgency of the moment was keenlyfelt by many, including the legion ofColumbia nursing alumni. “We hadalready seen a major hospital-affiliatedschool go under when St. Luke’s closedits nursing school in New York City,” saidMary Dickey Lindsay ’45. She worried thatthe rich tradition of Columbia nursing,stretching back to Anna Maxwell’s pioneeringdays in the last century, mightcome to an end.Dean Mundinger, Mary DickeyLindsay ’45, Alumna of theCentury, and Nancy Reame, PhD,the Mary Dickey LindsayProfessor of NursingAlso worried were William Hubbard, physicianand chairman of the University’sboard of trustees, and Henrik Bendixen,vice president for the Health Sciencescampus. Both had won a reprieve from Dr.Goldberger. They had two years to turnthe School around, which meant placingit on sound financial footing. “They cameto me and wanted me to resuscitate theSchool,” Mundinger said.“I really didn’t want to do it. I was full ofmyself with this great fellowship I had

Annual Report 2008-09 • 5just completed. I thought I would havea great opportunity to focus on nationalhealth policy. Saving a failing school ofnursing? I thought it could be a potentialmajor failure for me at the beginningof my post-doctoral career. We had noendowment. No research. Nobody wasin practice. We had no tenured faculty.We had none of the anchors that anacademic school of nursing needs tosurvive,” she said.Association. “She has changed the faceof nursing by transforming the way nursescare for patients.”Changing the Face of NursingBy 1986, the School’s faculty practicehad spread throughout what was thenPresbyterian Hospital. “All of a sudden,physicians started seeing our faculty asmore than just teachers in the nursingschool,” said Mundinger.Accolades forMary O’Neil Mundinger FOR HER DEDICATION AND DRIVE“I always had the feeling I was runningas fast as I could to keep her in sightbecause she was so far ahead of everybodyelse.”Sarah Sheets Cook, DNP, RN-CSVice Dean & Dorothy M. RogersProfessor of Clinical NursingHubbard and Bendixen convincedMundinger to accept the post as interimhead of the School, with only a two-yearcommitment that would allow her toreturn to her position at Physician andSurgeons. “If I didn’t accept, they weregoing to close the school. I didn’t wantthat on my shoulders.”Today, Dean Mundinger presides over aschool that sets the standard for contemporaryacademic nursing: the nation’shighest per capita NIH funding; the firstand longest running faculty practice thatserves as a model for advanced nursepractitioners; and the leader in educatingdoctorally prepared nurse clinicians.Her success didn’t end at reviving andgrowing a failing school; she alteredthe very profession. “Dr. Mundinger hascome up with ideas that nobody elsewould even consider,” said Roxana Sasse’92, President of the School’s AlumniThe new face of nursing was born ofnecessity. When Dean Mundinger tookthe reins in December 1985, the facultycount stood at 40, with enrollment at alow of 120 students. Mounting the rescueof a failing nursing school would entailstaunching the loss of money. To maintainthe faculty, Dean Mundinger wouldhave to find a way to reduce the schoolfundedportion of their salary.“I went to the faculty with a proposal:You can all keep your jobs but you areall going to have to take on a practicecomponent that is externally funded,”“I had the unbelievable good luckto walk into this school, in thisenvironment, in this medical centerwith people who helped me make ithappen.”Mundinger said of her first meeting withthe faculty. “I told them it wasn’t justfinancial, but it was time that nursingpractice be viewed at a medical center asan important component of the provisionof care, not just hospital nursing care atan employee level, but faculty who arehighly educated and trained.” FOR HER SERVICE TO THE SCHOOLAND THE PROFESSION“Dr. Mundinger has created a lastinglegacy not only at Columbia but alsonationally by championing advancedpractice nursing, pioneering anexpanded role for nurses that emphasizestheir professional autonomy andcritical importance in providing comprehensivecare, and creating a new clinicaldoctoral degree, which has been widelyemulated at universities around thecountry.”Lee Goldman, MDExecutive Vice President for Healthand Biomedical Sciences and Dean ofthe Faculties of Health Sciences andMedicine FOR HER VISION FOR NURSING“She is forward thinking and very muchthe visionary. She has developed ideasand concepts that so few even dared toconsider. What’s more, she implementedthem. In doing so, she has changed theface of nursing.”Roxana Sasse ’92President, Alumni Association

6 • School of NursingThe proposal was put to a secret ballot.A majority of the faculty agreed to find apractice position. Still, the new dean hadher detractors among the faculty. SarahSheets Cook, Dorothy M. Rogers Professorthe dignified demeanor, though, looms asteely determination and drive.Hubbard and Bendixen asked DeanMundinger to stay on as permanentdean but noted that they would need to“It is not unusual for colleagues inacademic settings to have convictions inthe expression of their ideas. Mary putspassion into her convictions.”Dr. Mundinger withmembers of the class of 1946at their 60th Reunionof Clinical Nursing and Vice Dean, now inher 26th year on the faculty, sat, listenedand voted that day. “They were incredulous,”she said of the naysayers. “Theythought Mary wouldn’t last a year.”A Nurse with ConvictionMary O’Neil Mundinger cuts a commandingfigure, methodical in her gestures,reserved in her choice of words, andalways resplendently dressed. Behindmount a formal search nonetheless. “Itold them they knew what I can do. Theyhad watched me for two years. I said theday the ad goes in the paper is the dayI resign.” In a testament to Mundinger’sachievements, the University appointedher dean in 1988, without a search andgranted her tenure simultaneously.“She is strong; she is assertive,” saysNancy Woods, former Dean of the

Annual Report 2008-09 • 7University of Washington School ofNursing, who has worked alongsideMundinger and followed her career foryears. “It is not unusual for colleagues inacademic settings to have convictions inthe expression of their ideas. Mary putspassion into her convictions.”Proof of that conviction can be traced backto 1993. Dr. William Speck, President ofColumbia Presbyterian Hospital, closeda critical deal with New York State. Inreturn for much needed capital funding,the hospital would expand its primarycare services in Washington Heights,an immigrant-heavy neighborhood witha need for primary care. As the nursingfaculty had already established a profilein the hospital, Speck approachedMundinger with a plan to incorporatenursing’s faculty practices into a networkof primary care units for the neighborhood’sunderserved.Mundinger seized the moment. Speck’splan offered an opportunity to measurethe quality of care offered by physiciansagainst advanced practice nurses. “Isuggested we should do a randomizedtrial to compare nurses and physiciansin primary care. This type of large-scale,gold-standard study had never beendone,” she said, modulating her voiceto compensate for the ambulance sirenswailing in the background.Speck jumped on board. Along withMike Weisfeldt, Chair of the Departmentof Medicine, and Eric Rose, Chair of theDepartment of Surgery, Speck helped thenursing faculty marshal the support andtraining from key Physician and Surgeon’sfaculty. If the proposed clinical trial was tomeasure outcomes accurately, then nursepractitioners – eight had been chosen toparticipate in the trial – needed to learnkey skills such as emergency room evaluations,and they also needed hospitaladmitting privileges, which only physicianshad been granted until then.Mundinger recalled with pride how theAccolades forMary O’Neil Mundinger FROM A FELLOW DEAN“I suppose Mary will take a bit of timefor reflection, just as I did. But I can’timagine she will be sitting in a loungechair for very long. Her interest in healthpolicy runs through every fiber of herbeing. If I were in Washington D.C., Iwould be looking at her right now.”Nancy Woods, RN, FAAN, PhD,Professor and immediate past dean,University of Washington School ofNursing FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF NURSING ALUMNA OF THECENTURY“She has been a superb dean and a truevisionary. Mary professionalized nursingin a way that had not been done before.I met her at an alumni reunion morethan 15 years ago and I knew then that Ihad to help her in what she was doing.”Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45Mary Mundinger withBoard of Visitors memberSally Shipley Stone ’69

8 • School of Nursingleft: left to right, Dottie SimpsonDorion ’57, Mary Mundinger,Donna Hanover, and MaryDickey Lindsay ’45 at theopening of CAPNA in 1998right:Dean Mundinger withHarriet Walters Sullivan ’53and husband Richard Sullivanpioneering faculty members in that study- a study not yet duplicated - changednursing. “We raised about $5 millionfrom the state and the Robert WoodJohnson and W.K. Kellogg foundationsto fund the trial. We demonstrated incontrovertiblythat nurse practitioners, whengiven added training, are comparableto primary care physicians in outcomes,access, diagnostic certainty, cost, andpatient satisfaction - all the parametersyou look at in primary care.”Taking on the EstablishmentThe groundbreaking results heralding thestudy’s finding were set to be publishedin the Journal of the American MedicalAssociation (JAMA) in January 2000.Mundinger and her faculty sought tofollow up immediately on their success.“Meanwhile, before it got published butafter we knew the outcomes, we realizedwe could do a pretty good job withuninsured people. Why don’t we openup a practice for commercially-insuredpatients?” Weisfeldt and Mundingerapproached Oxford Health Plans, thehospital’s largest insurer, and securedtheir agreement to directly reimburse thenew faculty practice. “It was the first timea commercial insurer had ever done thaten masse for a nursing practice.”“We opened our practice with Oxford asour insurer at Columbia East Side, andall hell broke loose. Organized medicinedid everything they could do to shut usdown,” Mundinger recalled. “It was onething for conservative medicine to thinkit was okay for nurse practitioners totake care of poor people. But when NPsbecame direct competition, well, thatwas another story.”The reaction from the medical establishmentwas swift and strong. In 1997, Dr.Charles Aswad, executive vice presidentof the New York Medical Society, told TheNew York Times, “We think the publichas to be protected from the representationthat a nurse clinician is equivalentin training to a physician.” Dr. Hal Sox,chair of the department of medicine atDartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center,wrote the lead commentary in the sameissue of JAMA that the study appeared,cautioning readers that Mundinger’s findingsweren’t likely to apply to other studysites and other populations of patients.Nearly ten years after the study’s publication,Dr. Sox remains wary. “I still wouldlike to see more studies,” he said.Columbia Advanced Practice NursesAssociates (CAPNA), now in its twelfthyear, accepts all major insurance companies,is fully self-supporting andgenerates revenue for the school.Private LifeMary O’Neil Mundinger grew up inFredonia, New York, a two-hour drivefrom Bristol, where Anna Maxwell wasborn. She was the eldest child of canningcompany executive Thomas O’Neil and

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10 • School of NursingDean MundingerCareer Milestones2008 Columbia University School ofNursing admits its first class of PhDstudents.2005 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)program received unanimousapproval by Columbia Universityacademic senate and first class graduated2000 Groundbreaking MD/NP study publishedin the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association1998 Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award,The Nurse Practitioner1997 Columbia Advanced Practice NurseAssociates (CAPNA) opens onManhattan’s East Side1996 Awarded Doctor of Humane Letters(Honorary), Hamilton College1996 Member, White House NationalSteering Committee on Health1995 Elected Member, the Institute ofMedicinehis wife, Dorothy, a teacher. She studiednursing at the University of Michiganat the same time Vice Dean Cook wasalso a student, although the two nevermet while in Ann Arbor. After her junioryear, she married Paul Mundinger, whowent on to earn his PhD. He joined thebiology department at Queens Collegeof the City University of New York, wherehis research revolves around avian vocalcommunication. Dr. Mundinger receivedher doctorate in health policy fromColumbia’s Mailman School of PublicHealth. She and her husband still livein the same house in Rye, New York,where they raised their four children:Paul Jr., a lawyer in New York; Ann, anurse in New Canaan, Conn.; Thomas, adiabetes researcher at the University ofWashington; and Elizabeth, a lawyer inWashington, D.C. The Mundingers haveseven grandchildren.Moving the Next Levelof Academic NursingIn the same year the nurse practitionerprimarycare physician studyappeared in JAMA, Mundinger,Cook and several colleaguespublished a prescient articlein the Journal of ProfessionalNursing. In it, they called forthe establishment of a Doctor ofNursing Practice (DNP) degreethat “would signal to the publicthat nurses at theirhighest practice competency are at thesame level as other health professionalsholding doctorates (such as MD, DDS orPharmD).” Fresh off their success withCAPNA, Mundinger and the School’sfaculty were on to their next innovation.“What the faculty learned in order to carryout in the clinical trial - to be equivalentlyready to practice the full scope of clinicalcare - is what the clinical doctorate hasnow formalized,” Mundinger said. Now,more than 200 nursing schools offer theclinical doctoral degree. The AmericanAssociation of Colleges of Nursing recommendsthat by 2015 all nurses seekingto be credentialed as nurse practitionersattain the DNP degree. “There has beena revolution, and the seeds of that revolutionwere sown by those eight pioneersin 1993 who agreed to be measuredagainst physicians and to learn the extraskills that it took to provide full scopeprimary care.”Observing Mundinger walk through thecompact suite that is her home, onemight give pause to wonder how changeof such magnitude could come tonursing from so small an office. “For the24 years that I have worked with her wehave never sat still,” Cook said. “She haskept people moving forward. She recognizedthe direction in which health carewas moving and, in turn, recognized thecontribution that nursing can make.”She recognized thedirection in which healthcare was moving and, in turn,recognized the contributionthat nursing can make.

Annual Report 2008-09 • 11That contribution also included boostingthe School’s research capacity. “WhenI arrived in 1998 we only had one NIHfundedstudy,” said Elaine Larson, RN,PhD, the School’s Associate Dean forResearch. “Improving the education andthe focus on clinical practice had to comefirst. But within the last 15 years, Maryhad devoted much attention to buildinga world-class academic research enterprise.”Today, the school boasts a newPhD program that awards degrees withinthe University’s Graduate School of theArts and Sciences.The School of Nursing TodayBut with the growth in enrollment,expanding research efforts and theneed to expand onsite clinical practice,Mundinger must grapple with the nearabsence of room to accommodate theschool’s successes, which has the potentialto cripple further progress. “We run atight ship here,” Mundinger said. “We’veraised enough money to cover half thecost of a new building, but I can’t moveforward in this environment.” She willneed the university’s trustees’ approvalfor debt to cover the remainder of thecost, a prospect much dimmed by thecollapse in financial markets in 2008.“Amid all of our success, the buildingis the most painful part,” she said. “Allfour schools, P&S, Dental, Public Health,and Nursing, are positioned so that theirshadows overlap each other. We’re all inthe heart of the medical center. The ideathat nursing needs more space is onethat nobody disagrees with.”With the search for her successor underway,Mundinger seems likely to handthe keys to a new dean without havingachieved her goal of leaving a buildingfor the next generation of nurse cliniciansand researchers. But even without thisparticular legacy, Columbia UniversitySchool of Nursing has never been stronger,both academically and financially– all because a reluctant Mary O’NeilMundinger took up a challenge 24 yearsago. Columbia chose well.1995 Elected Fellow, the New YorkAcademy of Medicine1995 University of Michigan School ofNursing Outstanding AchievementAward1995 Appointed Centennial Professor inHealth Policy at Columbia UniversitySchool of Nursing1988 Appointed Dean, Columbia UniversitySchool of Nursing1987 Distinguished Practitioner, NationalAcademy of Practice1985 Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson HealthPolicy Program, Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences1984 Book of the Year Award (AmericanJournal of Nursing publishers) forHome Care Controversy1983 Elected Fellow, American Academy ofNursing1983 Distinguished Alumni Award,University of Michigan Medical Center(first nurse honored)1981 Book of the Year Award (AmericanJournal of Nursing publishers) forAutonomy in Nursing1981 Awarded Doctor of Public Health(DrPH), School of Public Health,Columbia University1974 Awarded Master of Arts, TeachersCollege, Columbia University1959 Graduated cum laude, University ofMichigan School of Nursing

12 • School of NursingRoughing It:Columbia Nurse AnesthetistsTake Their Training to Rural EcuadorMalfunctioning monitors, no electronicidentification system, an improvisedscavenger exhaust system: this scenariomay not seem the best environmentwithin which to provide anesthesia.Yet for Carllyne Moran and SooyengMoore, two Columbia nurse anesthesiastudents, the challenging conditionsproved not only an opportunity to honetheir skills in a unique setting, but anoccasion to bring sorely needed care topatients far from Washington Heights.This May, when many of their classmateswere headed to the beaches to celebratethe long Memorial Day weekend,these two students boarded a flight toGuayaquil, Ecuador. There was then90 minute drive to Babahoyo, a city of250,000 people who are mostly poorand lacking health care. Accompanied byLaura Ardizzone, CRNA, MS, Director ofClinical Education of the School’s NurseAnesthesia Program, they were part of30 member medical mission organizedby Blanca’s House, a Long Island-basednonprofit organization.“I thought joining the medical missionwould be great for Columbia and,more importantly, an educational andeye-opening experience for the students,”Ardizzone said. After arrangingfor medivac insurance, malaria andtyphoid vaccinations, the three set offfor Ecuador.One of Babahoyo’s private clinics,housed in a seven-story building, playedhost to the mission. Even though theclinic was privately operated, it lackedmost of the equipment Columbia’snurse anesthetists had learned with.“We packed all of the equipment wewould need to run an OR,” Ardizzonesaid. “You can imagine how baffled theEcuadorian customs agents were whenwe showed up with suitcases and binsfull of monitors, scalpels and masks.”

Annual Report 2008-09 • 13opposite: Blanca’s housevolunteers and faculty memberLaura Ardizzone with a youngpatient prior to her surgerybelow: Student Sooyeng Moore(bottom right, kneeling ) visitingwith school children in ruralBabahoyo, Ecuadorbelow, right: Faculty memberLaura Ardizzone entertaining a7 month old prior to his surgeryThe team was in Babahoyo for onlythree days and their arrival had beenannounced to those needing care. “Thetown’s residents were lined up aroundthe block and they started clapping aswe entered building. It was a life-changingexperience,” she said. The crush ofpatients meant 12-hour days with littletime to rest between patients.“We learned to do things differently,”Ardizzone said. “One day our anesthesiamachine went down. So instead of givinggeneral anesthesia to patients, we gavethem a spinal so that we could continueto move patients through. That’s the sortexperience the students aren’t going toget anywhere else.”During their stay, Ardizzone estimatesthe anesthesia team assisted in nearly200 procedures, including hernia repairs,endoscopies, laparoscopies and cholecystectomies.Working conditions could be primitive.Lacking electronic identification systems,team members wrote the patients’ medicationsand allergies on their gowns.Several of the monitors were damaged intransit. “We had to be creative and rely onour basic assessment skills, using our eyesand our stethoscopes. We became thenumber one monitor,” Ardizzone said.On their last day in Babahoyo, theColumbia team visited a local school tohand out gifts to the schoolchildren.Back at the Columbia School of Nursing,the two students and Ardizzone delivereda presentation for the other anesthesiastudents, including a slideshow of theimprovisations they had engineered. Asecond trip is planned for next spring.“If you think you have to wait until a yearor two of training before you can do this,well, you don’t,” Carllyne said. “You willdefinitely be challenged, but it’s veryrewarding.”

14 • School of NursingDelivering Lessons Learned:Renowned Author & TeacherInspires Midwifery StudentsA new class of aspiring nurse midwiferystudents enjoyed a rare opportunityto listen and learn from one of the pioneersof their profession. Helen VarneyBurst, MSN, CNM, DHL (Hon.), FACNM,a longtime professor of nursing at YaleUniversity and legendary leader withinnurse midwifery, spoke to the gatheringin March.Varney Burst’s name is synonymouswith midwifery. She wrote the first textbookfor nurse-midwives in the UnitedStates, “Varney’s Midwifery,” now in itsfourth edition. She has served two termsas president of the American College ofNurse Midwives.“It’s an overwhelming honor to haveher visit and speak to our midwifery students,”said Laura Zeidenstein, DNP,assistant professor of clinical nursing andmidwifery program director, who studiedunder Varney Burst when she was atYale.Varney Burst both informed and regaledthe students with an hour-long discursivehistory of midwifery that sought toanswer the question, “Are we ready formore autonomy?” She told the students,“I invite you to take a journey with meback in time 57 years ago. There wereonly four midwifery education programsin the country. We had no national organization,no journal and no nationaleducation programs. The answer isdependent upon knowing our historyand how it influences us now and in thefuture.”“The first words spoken by a midwife inrecorded history were ’fear not,’ found inGenesis 35:17,” she said. “Elsewhere inthe Bible, when the angels come to visitHelen Varney Bursta human being, they always start withthe words ’fear not.’ So, I think we’re ingood company.”She recounted the many obstacles nursemidwives faced throughout the 1940sand 1950s in order to garner autonomyfor their field of practice, includingfactions in nursing that wanted to marginalizethem. Interspersed throughouther talk, she showered the students withwit and insights that left them charmedand inspired.Much has changed in delivery optionsavailable to women. Varney Burst, tothe great surprise of many students,recounted that women in labor wereroutinely subjected to perineal shaving,enemas, and withholding of all fluids,none of which had any basis in science,and certainly not with the patient’scomfort in mind. “All wrapped, the babywas held up for the mother to see on theway out the door of the nursery,” shesaid. “How far we have come.”One student asked Varney Burst how she,the author of THE textbook and a nurseso steeped in the history of midwifery,could maintain such a sense of humility.Touched by her question, the seasonedprofessor grasped for words.“If you read the very first edition, youwill find out why I wrote the book. It wasfor you. I was trying to teach studentswhat midwifery was,” she said. “There isnothing better than doing something forstudents.”

Annual Report 2008-09 • 15Midwifery students whoattended professor Varney Burst’slecture with Varney Burst

16 • School of Nursing2008-2009in reviewThe 2008-2009 AlumniAssociation scholarship recipients

Annual Report 2008-09 • 172008AugustMICHAEL MOSKOWITZ ’08 won the 2008Student Writing Award from the AmericanAssociation of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA).His article was selected in a nationalcompetition and will be published in anupcoming AANA Journal. Michael washonored at the annual meeting held inMinneapolis.PATRICIA STONE, PHD, was awarded$362,331 from the Blue Shield of CaliforniaFoundation to conduct a research projectentitled, “Understanding the ChangingInfection Control Practitioner (ICP) Role.”Co-investigators from the School ofNursing include ELAINE LARSON, PHD,and HAOMIAO JIA, PHD. The researchinvolves healthcare-associated infections(HAI), which are a major sourceof morbidity and mortality despite thefact that they are often preventable. Inresponse to these dynamic changes,the California Healthcare-AssociatedInfection Prevention Initiative (CHAIPI)project has been developed. Thepurpose of the two-year research projectproposed in this application is to understandthe changing role of ICPs andevaluate CHAIPI’s impact on the ICP roleand HAI rates. The survey will build uponone used in a funded NIH study entitled,“Prevention of Nosocomial Infectionsand Cost Effectiveness.”PATRICIA STONE, PHD, and her researchteam received official notice that theRobert Wood Johnson FoundationInterdisciplinary Nursing QualityResearch Initiative (INQRI) will be providing$299,990 in funding over twoyears for the research grant entitled,“The Impacts of Nurse Staffing, Skill Mix,and Experience on Quality and Costs inLong-Term Care.” The School of Nursingwill be awarded a $136,968 subcontractin this award. Additionally, the team hasreceived $75,000 in supplemental fundsfrom the VA HSRD. The study will takeplace in the 368 long-term care units theVA operates across 162 facilities. Usingdata from multiple facilities belongingto the same umbrella organization standardizesdata collection across facilities,which results in definitions and datacodingalgorithms that are similar acrossfacilities. Specifically, the impact of nursestaffing, skill mix, and experience onquality and costs in long term care willbe assessed. The research proposal wasdeveloped as a result of a current interdisciplinaryproject funded by the RobertWood Johnson Foundation examiningsimilar issues in the acute care setting.Michael Moskowitz ’08 Pat Stone, PhD Haomiao Jia, PhD

18 • School of NursingSeptemberThe Center for Interdisciplinary Researchto Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance(CIRAR), under the direction of ELAINELARSON, PHD, has achieved an amazingrecord of funding success. In 2007 and2008, funding for CIRAR grants totaled$7,690,264; including affiliated grantsunder the CIRAR umbrella brings thetotal to $9,971,734. Under Dr. Larson’sleadership, principal investigators/directorsPATRICIA STONE, PHD, and LEANNECURRIE, DNSC, of the School of Nursing;Sherry Glied of the Mailman School ofPublic Health; and Richard Kessin, SameerPatel, and Lisa Saiman of the College ofPhysicians and Surgeons, have receivedCIRAR funding.OctoberThe FDA awarded a $308,000 contractfor a project entitled, “Assessment ofthe Effects of Anesthetic Exposure onNeurocognitive, Emotional, and BehavioralOutcomes in Two Populations,” whichwill be implemented by an interdisciplinaryteam at CUMC. The project’sprinciple investigator is Lena Sun, MD.Co-investigators include MARY BYRNE,PHD, from the School of Nursing;Guohua Li, Charles DiMaggio andVirginia Rauh from the Mailman Schoolof Public Health; Jeanne Brooks-Gunnfrom Teachers College; Annetine Gelijnsfrom INCHOIR; and Alistair Wood, senioradvisor. This project will develop the preliminarywork for a larger study which willexplore the relationship between exposureto anesthetic agents and long-termoutcomes through a multi-site studywith a network of seven major children’shospitals across the country.Co-principal investigators, ELAINELARSON, PHD and Maryam Behta,PharmD, director of Quality Researchand Technology Utilization at theDepartment of Information Servicesin New York Presbyterian MedicalCenter, were awarded a CDC cooperativeagreement for $595,990 over twoyears for a study, “Impact of AutomatedSurveillance on MRSA Isolation.” Thisproject will test the impact of an automatedsurveillance system on themonitoring of, and compliance with, isolationprecautions to prevent the spreadof a major healthcare-associated pathogen,methicillin-resistant staphylococcusaureus. Out of twenty-five applications,Dr. Larson’s was the only one funded.Dr. Larson’s sustained leadership in theSchool of Nursing’s research endeavorsis increasingly important as a new andtightened funding economy develops.Leanne Currie, DNScMary Byrne, PhDopposite page: top left,Rebecca Schnall, PhD studentbottom left, Sarah Inez Garza,School of Nursing graduate studentfar right: Front row, left to right:Roxana I. Sasse ’92, president ofthe Alumni Association; DeanMary O. Mundinger; and NancyKing Reame, director of the DoctoralProgram, with students atthe January 2009 PhD reception

Annual Report 2008-09 • 19NovemberREBECCA SCHNALL, PhD student, hasbeen appointed to the Journal of theAmerican Medical Informatics Association(JAMIA) student editorial board. Thisjournal is one of the most prestigious inthe field.The CIRAR affiliate project, “ImprovingAppropriate Use of Antibiotics for URIin Children of Recently ImmigratedLatinos,” with co-principal investigatorsDrs. Marina Catallozzi, Melissa Stockwell,and ELAINE LARSON, received a PhaseI Planning Grant for Collaborativeand Multidiscilinary for Clinical andTranslational Research. This four-monthpilot project is to develop and test anintervention to decrease inappropriateantibiotic use for upper respiratoryinfections in children among recentlyimmigrated Latino community members,based on the CDC action plan to combatantimicrobial resistance.DecemberSchool of Nursing student SARAHINEZ GARZA received the 2008-2009National Hispanic Health ProfessionalStudent Scholarship. These scholarshipsare awarded by the National HispanicMedical Association, whose mission isto improve the health of Hispanics andthe underserved. Their aim is to providea unique leadership role marshaling thecreative energy of Hispanic researchersfrom around the country and to providethe insights and strategies that can translateinto a healthier Hispanic populationand quality care for the underserved.DEAN MARY O’NEIL MUNDINGER wasquoted in a CNN Money report, “Wherethe Jobs Are” on December 8. She notedthat in the School’s Entry to PracticeProgram, applications are up 50% fromlast year and credited the sharp uptickto the promise of relatively lucrative jobopportunities and flexible schedules inan otherwise dour job market.2009JanuaryThe School hosted the ThirteenthInvitational Conference on AssuringQuality and Access in Advanced PracticeNursing in the Galapagos Islands,Ecuador. Deans fromnursing schools, nursingorganization officials andhealth policy expertsattended. Discussionscentered on theresults of the firstnational certificationexam for DNP graduatesand the continued need forstandardizing the degree.Galapagos Cover.qxd:Prague Cover 2/24/09 11:29 AM Page 1Columbia University School of Nursing Columbia UniversityColumbia University School of Nursing ColumbiColumbia University School of NursingSchool of Nursing School of Nursing Columbia UniversityAdvanced Practice Nursing:Assuring Quality and AccessJanuary 11-14, 2009Galapagos Islands, EquadorThirteenth Invitational ConferenceThe Council for the Advancement of Comprehensive CareThe Alumni Association and the Schoolof Nursing hosted a reception to celebratethe first class of the new PhDprogram. Under the direction of NANCYREAME, PHD, the new program replacesthe School’s DNSc research doctorate.

20 • School of NursingThe School of Nursing received fundingfrom the HUGOTON FOUNDATIONfor purchase of a SimBaby simulationeducational tool, from the FRUEAUFFFOUNDATION for student financialaid, and from the KILLOUGH TRUST forscholarship support for students in theGeriatric Nurse Practitioner program.FebruaryASSISTANT PROFESSORS OF CLINICALNURSING RITA JOHN, DNP, and ARLENESMALDONE, DNSC, presented a seminarabout the process of constructing, writingand evaluating psychometric propertiesof multiple choice questions forthe Glenda Garvey Teaching AcademySeminar Series in conjunction withCUMC’s Committee for EducatorDevelopment.DRS. PATRICIA STONE, ELAINE LARSON,Sherry Glied and Lisa Saiman receivedan AHRQ grant for a conference entitled,“Centers for Medicare and MedicaidServices (CMS) Changes in Reimbursementfor Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs):Setting a Research Agenda.” ColumbiaUniversity’s Center for Health Policy andthe Center for Interdisciplinary Researchon Antimicrobial Resistance co-sponsoredthis invitational conference, whichwill bring together thirty national expertsand researchers who are influential insetting health policy, developing practiceguidelines, and providing directionfor patient safety and infection preventionand control. These leaders willdiscuss the potential responses by hospitalsand how to best assess the impactof this policy change. The product of theconference will be a white paper articulatingthe research agenda.Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, theimmediate past dean of the Universityof Washington School of Nursing, was avisiting professor at Columbia UniversityMedical Center for a week. Dr. Woods presented“Clinical Scholarship and PracticeInquiry: Contributions of DNP and PhDprepared Nurses to Evidence InformedPractice” at CUMC grand rounds.MarchPATRICIA STONE, PHD, and project coordinatorMONIKA POGORZELSKA wereselected for two major awards at theJune meeting of the Association forProfessionals in Infection Control andEpidemiology. Dr. Stone won the BlueRibbon Abstract Award for her abstract,“Staffing and Structure of InfectionPrevention and Control Programs in aNational Sample of NHSN Hospitals;” Ms.Pogorzelska won the New InvestigatorAward for her abstract, “Policies andPractices for Multi-Drug ResistantOrganisms in a National Sample ofNHSN Hospitals.” The Abstract ReviewSimBaby® simulationeducational tool, funded by theHugoton FoundationRita John, DNP, EdD

Annual Report 2008-09 • 21Subcommittee recognizes abstracts thatdemonstrate exemplary scientific meritand are of high interest and relevanceto the infection control community. It isunprecedented for members of the sameresearch team to win both awards.The New York State Nurses Association(NYSNA) named PATRICIA STONE, PHD,the 2009 Distinguished Nurse Researcher.Dr. Stone will receive the award atNYSNA’s annual meeting in Saratoga,New York. Dr. Stone is the third Schoolof Nursing faculty member to receivethis award – MARY BYRNE, PHD, receivedthe honor in 2007 and JOYCE ANASTASI,PHD, in 2003.AprilPATRICIA STONE, PHD, was appointeddirector of the Center for Health Policyat the School of Nursing. As with allcenters, the director’s research is centralto the funding efforts and outcomesof the center. The center will becomeknown for Dr Stone’s nursing workforcecontributions and will take on a broaderrole under her leadership.SHANNON HARPER, nurse anesthesiastudent, was selected as a recipient ofthe 2009 American Assembly for Men inNursing (AAMN) Foundation/Johnson &Johnson Nursing Scholarship. Establishedin 2004, the AAMN Foundation andJohnson & Johnson’s Campaign forNursing’s Future partnered to offer thesescholarships, which support studentswho are seeking a graduate degree innursing.MayMARIA CORSARO, CNM, Nurse Midwiferyfaculty member, is the recipient of theAmerican College of Nurse Midwives’Foundation’s Excellence in TeachingAward for 2009. The award was presentedat the ACNM annual meeting inSeattle.PhD student KELLI HALL is the 2009 recipientof the Sigma Theta Tau InternationalPatricia Smith Christensen ResearchScholarship. This scholarship is awardedbiennially to one doctoral student inmaternity or pediatric nursing througha nationwide competition. This awardwill support her dissertation researchstudy, “The Influence of PsychologicalConditions on Oral Contraceptive-attributedSide Effects and Continuation Ratesin Minority Adolescent and Young AdultWomen.” PhD student SHARRON CLOSEis one of the 2009 recipients of a smallgrant award from the Alpha Zeta chapterShannon Harper, School ofNursing graduate studentMaria Corsaro, CNM

22 • School of Nursingof Sigma Theta Tau to support the workof her dissertation proposal, “Klinefelter’sSyndrome: An Exploratory Study ofPhysical Phenotype, ReproductiveHormones, Cardiometabolic Biomarkersand Psychosocial Health in Boysbetween the Ages of 8 and 17 years.”PhD students SARAH COLLINS, PAM DECORDOVA, and ROBERTA SALVESON alsowon grants; Collins, for her proposal entitled,“Informatics Methods to PromoteInterdisciplinary Communication Relatedto Common goals in the Intensive CareUnit;” de Cordova for “Off-Shift Nursingand Quality Patient Outcomes;” andSalveson for “Expansion of NewbornScreening Panels: A SystematicProgram Evaluation of Krabbe DiseaseScreening.”Under the sponsorship of PROFESSORNANCY REAME, PhD student Kelli Hallreceived the Research Fellowship Award(F31) from the NIH National Institute ofNursing Research to complete her dissertationstudy, “Psychological Symptomsand Oral Contraceptive Continuation inYoung Minority Women.”The NURSE MIDWIFERY PROGRAM studentswon the 2009 annual AmericanCouncil of Nurse Midwives student videocontest. Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwISPwGnyK4 to watch thewinning video.CARLLYNE MORAN and SOOYENGMOORE, two School of Nursing nurseanesthesia students, and their professorLAURA ARDIZZONE went to Babahoyo,Ecuador to deliver anesthesia. Thiswas the first time representatives fromColumbia University joined the team. Thegroup delivered anesthesia for generalsurgery and endoscopy procedures anddelivered post-op care.left column:top to bottom, PhD studentsKelli Hall, Sarah Collins,Roberta Salveson andSharron Closecenter column:Nancy Reame, PhD

Annual Report 2008-09 • 23JuneNurse anesthesia student ANNE QUEwas awarded the Ruth M. Wright CRNAMemorial Scholarship by the AmericanAssociation of Nurse Anesthetists forstudent commitment to the nurse anesthesiaprofession through service to theAANA, state association and studentnurse anesthetist organizations.top right: left to right, CarllyneMoran, instructor LauraArdizzone and Sooyeng Mooreoutside the medical clinic inBabahoyo, Ecuadorbottom right: The Blanca’s Houseteam, Ecuador, 2009below: Nurse Anesthesia student,Anne Que

24 • School of NursingFederal Funds ConnectWashington Heights Youthwith the School of Nursingbottom: Sue Bakken, DNSc,with a group of WashingtonHeights students on the busin New York CityIn February, President Barack Obama signeda $787 billion economic stimulus package,the capstone of an effort to prop up the teeteringeconomy. In July, a small portion ofthat massive package of public investmentfound its way to the struggling neighborhoodsurrounding the School of Nursing.That modest infusion of cash was thebrainchild of Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc,Alumni Professor of Nursing, who holdsa joint appointment in the Department ofBiomedical Informatics. Bakken directs theSchool’s Center for Evidence-based Practicein the Underserved, an exploratory researchcenter funded by the National Institute forNursing Research.Responding to the call to tap into the newstream of funding, Bakken submitted aproposal. She thought her existing centerwould prove an excellent vehicle to funnelstimulus funds to Washington Heights residents,while advancing the center’s agendaof disseminating research findings. At thesame time, her proposal would meet oneof the package’s goals: enhancing scienceeducation among youth.“The kids are designing, shooting andediting the film. This is important becausean essential part of disseminating researchrequires understanding the community onestudies and serves.”The nine students attend Gregorio LuperonHigh School, a mathematics and sciencehigh school for Latino immigrants. Includedin the grant is funding for Dr. Nidia Holguin,the high school’s science educator, who mentoredthe students through the summer.Obesity and diabetes top the list of healthconditions researchers studying Latinosgrapple with, especially in WashingtonHeights. Both are a function of low rates ofphysical activity. “Across racial and ethnicgroups, it’s the Latina females that have verylow rates of physical activity,” she said.Bakken’s summer-long project tackled thisproblem by using Facebook TM , the fastgrowingsocial networking tool. “We arecreating a section on the Facebook TM platformto study physical activity with thestudents as members of the participatorydesign team that is building an informaticsbasedapplication. The students will workwith informatics faculty and students, a childpsychologist and a videographer to createthis application.”Bakken was particularly keen to notethat apart from students earning moneythroughout the summer, they are learningskills, forging relationships with Columbiafaculty, and learning how to network.“These are all key skills that will help themnavigate through college,” Bakken said.“That’s very important for a group ofkids who, though very gifted, often havetrouble making it through to their collegegraduation.”“We recruited Latino high school studentsfor the summer to develop video vignettesthat will help the researchers at Columbiaunderstand Dominican culture,” Bakkensaid. She noted the students will interactwith Columbia faculty and also get paid fortheir work.

Annual Report 2008-09 • 25GIFTS & GRANTS2008-2009Mary O’Neil Mundingerin front of banners celebrating theschool’s centennial in 1992

26 • School of NursingGovernment and Private Fundingfor Research and TrainingJuly 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Joyce Anastasi, RN, PhD, DNPPROJECT TITLE:Acupuncture for Chronic Nausea in Pts with HIV: A RCTPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $573,272 TOTAL BUDGET, 2005-2009: $2,478,445PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Joyce Anastasi, RN, PhD, DNPPROJECT TITLE:Acu/Moxa for Peripheral Neuropathy in Pts with HIVPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative MedicineCURRENT BUDGET: $196,520 TOTAL BUDGET, 2005-2009: $632,595PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Joyce Anastasi, RN, PhD, DNPPROJECT TITLE:Herbs, Nutraceuticals and Supplements Subspecialty for Advanced Practice NursingPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Health Resources and Services AdministrationCURRENT BUDGET: $130,181 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2009: $130,181PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:Mobile Decision Support for Advanced Practice NursingPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $309,131 TOTAL BUDGET, 2005-2008: $953,519PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:Reducing Health Disparities Through InformaticsPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $183,831 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2012: $885,261PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:Improving Use of CIS in the Underserved Through Mobile Access and Decision SupportPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Cancer InstituteCURRENT BUDGET: $158,350 TOTAL BUDGET, 2006-2008: $355,598PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:APN Access to Electronic Resources for Safety and QualityPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine2007-2009 BUDGET: $83,385 TOTAL BUDGET, 2006-2009: $168,385PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:Wireless Informatics Support for Evidence-based APN CarePROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Health Resources and Services AdministrationCURRENT BUDGET: $166,554 TOTAL BUDGET, 2006-2009: $614,160PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:Center for Evidence-Based Practice in the Underserved (P30)PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $469,724 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2012: $2,326,452

Annual Report 2008-09 • 27CENTER FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN THE UNDERSERVED PROJECTS:PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:Sally Aboelela, PhDSelf Management of Hypertension through Device Guided BreathingBernadette Capili, NP-C, APRN, DNScHeart Healthy Living in HIV: A Preliminary StudyLeanne Currie, RN, DNScSelf Assessment via a Personal Health Record (SAPHeR)Arlene Smaldone, CPNP, DNScDeveloping Parenting Competence: Adaptation to Diabetes in Young ChildrenPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Penelope Buschman, CS, MSN; Marlene McHugh, FNP,DNP and Anita Nirenberg, PNP,DNScPROJECT TITLE:Creating an Educational Partnership in Palliative and End of Life CarePROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy of Columbia University Medical CenterCURRENT BUDGET: $17,500 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2009: $17,500PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Mary Woods Byrne, PNP, PhDPROJECT TITLE:Maternal and Child Outcomes of a Prison Nursery ProgramPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $400,750 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2012: $1,606,500PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Bernadette Capili, NP-C, APRN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:HIV, Lipids and Dietary StrategiesPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $78,608 TOTAL BUDGET, 2005-2009: $159,108PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Bernadette Capili, NP-C, APRN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:Herbert and Florence Irving FellowshipPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Columbia University Medical Center’s Clinical and Translational Science Award(Funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources)CURRENT BUDGET: $40,000 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2009: $80,000PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Leanne M. Currie, RN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:Automated Fall and Injury Risk Assessment for Behavioral Health (AFIP-BH)PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental HealthCURRENT BUDGET: $80,500 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2010: $161,000PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Leanne M. Currie, RN, DNScPROJECT TITLE:Electronic Communication for Antimicrobial Management (ECAM)PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $236,912 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2009: $438,162PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Eileen Evanina, CRNA, MSPROJECT TITLE:Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship GrantPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Health Resources and Services AdministrationCURRENT BUDGET: $24,772 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2009: $24,772

28 • School of NursingPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE:Kristine M. Gebbie, RN, DrPHBioterrorism Training and Curriculum Development Program (BTCDP)Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary forPreparedness and ResponseCURRENT BUDGET: $1,056,348 TOTAL BUDGET, 2005-2008: $3,201,404PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Kristine M. Gebbie, RN, DrPHPROJECT TITLE:Building the Base for a Research Agenda on Local Public Health Legal AuthorityPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Robert Wood Johnson FoundationCURRENT BUDGET: $193,700 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2008: $193,700PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Kristine M. Gebbie, RN, DrPHPROJECT TITLE:Clinician Competencies for Emergency Preparedness ProjectPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Association for Prevention Teaching and ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $75,900 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2008: $75,900PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE:Kristine M. Gebbie, RN, DrPHExploration of Relationships between Public Health Law and System PerformanceNational Network of Public Health Institutes (through funding from the Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention)CURRENT BUDGET: $75,003 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2008: $75,003PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Kristine M. Gebbie, RN, DrPHPROJECT TITLE:Collaborations in Public Health Law as it Relates to Oral Health IssuesPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: The Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCURRENT BUDGET: $118,942 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2008: $118,942PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Sherry A. Glied, PhD (Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policyand Management, Mailman School of Public Health)PROJECT TITLE:Distribution of the Costs of Antimicrobial Resistant InfectionsPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $394,853 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2012: $1,664,505PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE:Kelli S. Hall, RN, MSN (PhD Student)Psychological Symptoms and Oral Contraceptive Discontinuation in Young MinoritiesNational Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $41,176 TOTAL BUDGET, 2009-2010: $41,176PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Kathleen T. Hickey, C-ANP, C-FNP, EdDPROJECT TITLE:Utility of Trans Telephonic Monitoring in the Detection of Silent ArrhythmiasPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $78,166 TOTAL BUDGET, 2006-2009: $158,666PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Kathleen T. Hickey, C-ANP, C-FNP, EdDPROJECT TITLE:REAL: Remote Electronic Arrhythmia LearningPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy of Columbia University Medical CenterCURRENT BUDGET: $17,980 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2009: $17,980PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Judy Honig, CPNP, DNP, EdDPROJECT TITLE:Advanced Education Training TraineeshipsPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Health Resources and Services AdministrationCURRENT BUDGET: $124,058 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2009: $124,058

Annual Report 2008-09 • 29PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Haomiao Jia, PhDPROJECT TITLE:Use of the Population Healthy Day Measures as Community Health Status IndicatorsPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Columbia University School of Nursing Translational Developmental AwardCURRENT BUDGET: $5,400 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2009: $5,400PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Rita Marie John, CPNP, DNP, EdDPROJECT TITLE:Improving the Understanding and Use of Laboratory Values by Graduate Studentsin the Health Care SciencesPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy of Columbia University Medical CenterCURRENT BUDGET: $17,600 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2010: $17,600PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Elaine Larson, RN, PhDPROJECT TITLE:Training in Interdisciplinary Research to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance (TIRAR)PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $209,264 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2012: $1,042,957PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Elaine Larson, RN, PhDPROJECT TITLE:Interdisciplinary Research on Antimicrobial ResistancePROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research ResourcesCURRENT BUDGET: $582,984 TOTAL BUDGET, 2004-2009: $1,740,011PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Elaine Larson, RN, PhDPROJECT TITLE:Stopping URIs and Flu in the Family: The Stuffy TrialPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Infectious DiseasesCURRENT BUDGET: $901,560 TOTAL BUDGET, 2006-2009: $2,003,491PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Elaine Larson, RN, PhDPROJECT 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 DiseasesCURRENT BUDGET: $92,736 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2009: $92,736PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Elaine Larson, RN, PhDPROJECT TITLE:Prospective Clinical Study Evaluating 3M Rapid Detection Flu A+B TestPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: 3MCURRENT BUDGET: $45,091 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2008: $45,091PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE:Elaine Larson, RN, PhDImpact of Automated Surveillance on MRSA IsolationAssociation for Prevention Teaching and Research, through the Centers forDisease Control and PreventionCURRENT BUDGET: $296,528 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2010: $595,990PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE:Elaine Larson, RN, PhDImproving Appropriate Use of Antibiotics for URI in Children of Recently Immigrated LatinosColumbia University Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research,National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research ResourcesCURRENT BUDGET: $24,959 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2009: $24,959PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Susan W. Ledlie, CPNP, PhDPROJECT TITLE:Self-care in Youth with Perinatally-acquired HIVPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $235,825 TOTAL BUDGET, 2005-2009: $437,075

30 • School of NursingPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Mary O. Mundinger, DrPHPROJECT TITLE:Establishing Standards for the Clinical Doctorate in NursingPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Josiah Macy, Jr. FoundationCURRENT BUDGET: $480,681 TOTAL BUDGET, 2005-2009: $948,052SUBCONTRACTPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:PROJECT TITLE:PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE:Anita Nirenberg, PNP, DNScLong Island University-Brooklyn MBRS SCORE Program (Columbia University Subcontract)National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical SciencesPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Nancy Reame, RN, PhDPROJECT TITLE:Jonas Nursing Scholars Program in Interdisciplinary ResearchPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Jonas Center for Nursing ExcellenceCURRENT BUDGET: $187,500 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2012: $607,500PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Lisa Saiman, MD, MPH (Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics,College of Physicians and Surgeons)PROJECT TITLE:Improving Antimicrobial Prescribing Practices in the Neonatal Intensive Care UnitPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $801,759 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2013: $4,710,303PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Patricia Stone, RN, PhD, MPHPROJECT TITLE:Prevention of Nosocomial Infections and Cost-Effectiveness AnalysisPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing ResearchCURRENT BUDGET: $408,588 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2010: $1,381,470PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Patricia Stone, RN, PhD, MPHPROJECT TITLE:Exploratory Study Using Queueing Theory to Improve Nurse Staffing EffectivenessPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityCURRENT BUDGET: $245,721 TOTAL BUDGET, 2007-2009: $471,174PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Patricia Stone, RN, PhD, MPHPROJECT TITLE:The Impacts of Nurse Staffing, Skill Mix, and Experience on Quality and Costsin Long-Term Care (Columbia University Subcontract)PROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Robert Wood Johnson FoundationCURRENT BUDGET: $64,639 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2010: $130,793PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Patricia Stone, RN, PhD, MPHPROJECT TITLE:Understanding the Changing ICP RolePROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Blue Shield of California FoundationCURRENT BUDGET: $174,755 TOTAL BUDGET, 2008-2010: $362,331PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Patricia Stone, RN, PhD, MPHPROJECT TITLE:CMS Changes in Reimbursement for HAIs: Setting a Research AgendaPROGRAM FUNDING SOURCE: Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityCURRENT BUDGET: $46,950 TOTAL BUDGET, 2009-2010: $46,950

Annual Report 2008-09 • 31Gifts & Pledges for Special PurposesJuly 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009$100,000 and upADVANCING THE QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE FUNDEstate of Regina Driscoll ’40Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45MARY DICKEY LINDSAY SCHOLARSHIPENDOWMENT FUND FOR THEDOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICEElisabeth DudleyNURSING EXCELLENCE THROUGHEVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICEPROGRAMJonas Center for Nursing Excellencethrough the Barbara and Donald JonasFamily FundSCHOLARSHIPS IN MEMORY OF DEANHELEN PETTIT FOR UNDERGRADUATENURSING STUDENTSSCHOLARSHIPS IN MEMORY OF MAYRUDIN FOR UNDERGRADUATENURSING STUDENTSSCHOLARSHIPS FOR ONCOLOGYSTUDENTSThe Louis and Rachel Rudin FoundationUNDERSTANDING THE CHANGINGROLE OF THE INFECTION CONTROLPROFESSIONAL THROUGH CHAIPIPROJECTBlue Shield of California$50,000 to $99,999ADVANCING THE QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE FUNDUnitedHealthCare Service, Inc.JOAN S. PUYDAK SCHOLARSHIPENDOWMENT FUND IN HONOR OFEMMA REGINA DAHLSTROM, RNJoan Seaburgh Puydak ’56LINCOLN FUND SCHOLARSHIPS FORMINORITY NURSING STUDENTSThe Lincoln FundTHE HAROLD W. SHIPLEY ANDS. WILHELMINA SHIPLEYSCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT FUNDThe Hastings Foundation, Inc.THE KILLOUGH FOUNDATIONENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FORNURSE PRACTITIONER STUDENTS INGERONTOLOGYWalter H.D. Killough Trust$25,000 to $49,999BRENDA BARROWCLOUGH BRODIE ‘65SCHOLARSHIP FUNDDevonwood FoundationFRUEAUFF SCHOLARSHIPENDOWMENT FUNDCharles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc.JOAN TOMPKINS WHEELER SCHOLARSHIPJoan Tompkins Wheeler ’46LAERDAL ‘SIMBABY’ INFANT SIMULATORHugoton Foundation$10,000 to $24,999HOUSING ASSISTANCE FOR WOMENSTUDENTSLCU FoundationVIDEO BRONCHOSCOPEHyde and Watson Foundation$5,000 to $9,999ADVANCING THE QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE FUNDMarjorie Harrison Fleming ’69 andRichard E. Fleming, Jr.JASPER KANE FAMILY MEMORIALSCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT FUNDEileen Kane Montano ’64$1,000 to $4,999ADVANCING THE QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE FUNDJean and Stanley ChangINES DEBAUN BERNDT ’51 SCHOLARSHIPENDOWMENT FUNDVincent C. DeBaun$1 to $999PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTHSCHOLARSHIPPenelope Buschman ’64Shira A. Gordon ’86Belinda Kotin ’03

32 • School of NursingAnnual Fund Gift ListJuly 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009NIGHTINGALE SOCIETY$5,000 AND UPDonors to the Nightingale Society will have ascholarship awarded in their name, or in the nameof a designee, at the annual School of NursingScholarship Reception in October.$25,000 AND UPAnonymous*Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45*Joan Tompkins Wheeler ’46*$10,000-$24,999Joan Seaburgh Puydak ’56*$5,000-$9,999Laura Pearson Armstrong ’85*Sarah Sheets Cook ’05^Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57*Gerral E. Felson ’93Ellen Gottesman Garber ’76*Lenore Frank Hardy ’56Elizabeth Gross Kirkpatrick ’45*Kathleen McCooe Nilles ’89*Richard D. Simmons*Barbara Robison Sporck-Stegmaier ’46*MAXWELL SOCIETY$2,500-$4,999Lea Ormezzano Battiato ’54William H. Bigelow IIIBrenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65Mary Ann Kelly Collini ’64*Karen Krueger Desjardins ’98, ’05^*Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69*Ann Gilbride Hill ’52*Laura Mae Schwartz Hirshman ’59*Deborah Keeler Lott ’68Margaret E. Mahoney*Marian Stuart Pillsbury*Alice Daley Thomas ’51*William Robert Wagner ’03, ’05^*PETTIT SOCIETY$1,000-$2,499Barbara Shaw Abbott ’57*Sally Aboelela^Ellen Soley Adkins ’81*Nancy B. Barton ’83*Jean Lagakis Benner ’42*Marie Kelly Burns ’77Jane Richardson Carmichael ’63*Dorothy Davies Colfer ’69Angela Clarke Duff ’70*Diane Elaine Filter ’03Elizabeth Miller Greene ’43*Sheila Horwitz Hollander ’59*Janice Jones Izlar ’06*Elaine Godtfring Kennedy ’46*Patricia Stainton Neer ’47Marian Higginbotham Niles ’69Barbara Britton Novick ’74*Ellen Bakanowsky O’Neal ’64*Wendy Halsey Otto ’69Lillian Schuttger Price ’43*Martha Cohn Romney ’81*Leonard SchumackAlfred SchuylerEmily DiYulio Scinto ’51*Anna Draper Shaw ’66*Jennifer A. Smith ’05^*Annette Cohen Squire ’48*Marilyn Miller Stiefvater ’54*Jean Fisher Stonesifer ’50*Marjorie Hutchins Taylor ’45*Rita Perrine Trayner ’55*Ruth Kreitler Wakeley ’43*Megan Christian Wright ’82*GILL SOCIETY$500-$999Amy Cohen Ansehl ’94, ’96*Josie Debevoise Davies ’76*Patricia Healy De Sear ’68Una Broe Doddy ’82*Joanne Brinton DuWick ’48*Phyllis Farley*Reva G. Feinstein^*Elinor Robinson Goodwin ’47*Marilyn Johnsen Hamel ’51*Margaret Moore Hazlett ’68Jane Helwig Hoffman ’45*Denise DeMarzo Houghton ’78*Eileen Smith Kopfler ’40*Patricia Smith Langley ’61*Elaine L. Larson^*Katherine Burke Liptak ’72*Eleanor Lipman Luhrs ’56*Jo Ann Scranton Main ’54*Liliane E. Morin ’79*Ora Obhas ’06Marjorie Watters Pray ’59*Barbara A. Rolling ’54*Judith Rosenfield Rosenthal ’71*Roxana I. Sasse ’92*Florence Mueller Schumacher ’53Barbara B. SiepkerPhebe Thorne ’64*Judith Slocum Van Derburgh ’53*Jean Acomb Van Landingham ’43*Shirley E. Van Zandt ’79, ’85Thea Vink*Candee Ives Weed ’59*Sally-Ann Whelan ’61Leonora Porreca Whildin ’71*Holly Grim White ’73*Margo M.L. Wyatt ’79Susan J. Zator ’71Laura Zeidenstein ’05^*ROGERS SOCIETY$250-$499Suzanne Lillicrapp Anderson ’59Janice Paul Arcidiacono ’59*Jeanne Auerbach ’84*Esther Rosengren Bartlett ’55*Diane Rankin Behrens ’64*Sheila Flynn Blank ’59Barbara H. Boyington ’72Carol Heeks Brice ’59Anna Marie Butrie ’84*Mary Woods Byrne ’94^*Alice Brath Camp ’59*Katharine Owen Carpenter ’88*Julie Juhee Chiu ’05*Judy L. Chock ’74*Edith Baldwin Cleaves ’58Joseph Patrick Colagreco ’91*Lorraine Grant Conversano ’49*Maria R. Corsaro ’83Fleda A. Dean ’80LaVerne Werner DeChang ’68Aimee Blumenthal Doctoroff ’67Beatrice M. Dorbacker ’50*Nancy Horlacher Downey ’73Ruth Westervelt Dykstra ’64*Nellie Walter Eaton ’49*Richard Garfield^Elizabeth Marker Granicher ’48*Kathryn Lee Howard ’92*Karen Michelle Johnson ’95*Joan Tinker Keller ’54Valerie Frances Kolbert ’84*

The School is grateful to an anonymous donor who gave $100,000, providing funding for a challengematch last fall to help energize the School of Nursing’s Annual Fund. It provided crucial support forthe School of Nursing’s scholarship program, which receives 100% of all Annual Fund contributions.Gifts made before the successful completion of the match are acknowledged at the giving level thatcorresponds to personal contributions plus the value of the 3:1 match.Thank you to those of you whomade gifts during the matching period and for supporting the next generation of Columbia nurses!Annual Report 2008-09 • 33Brenda Hartley Landes ’85*Ellen “Sunni” Levine ’96^Maria Maglicano ’06Patricia Alice McMaster ’85*Margaret Patricia McSweeney ’01Robin McKeon Michalak ’83*Mary Whitesell Mogavero ’49*Betsy Cook Morgan ’68*Susan Hochwald Mulkern ’69*Diana Vietor Mundy ’62*Diana Bassil Nilsen ’81*Anita Nirenberg ’96, ’09^Francis P. O’Connell ’84Elayne Soley Orr ’50*Mary A. Peterkin ’79*Cynthia Hoffman Priest ’64Marilyn Westfield Raffinot ’75*Ruth A. Rayner ’55Beverly Waldman Rich ’84*Tor RichterJane Crowell Rieffel ’46Susie Post Roberts ’69*Mary Maternowski Romano ’79 ’82*Linda Harnsberger Rose ’86*Sue Ross ’68*Joan and Reade RyanSusan Maines Saydah ’59Marian Turner Schreiber ’47Patricia Tibbals Schnack ’54Nancy Riener Schullinger ’60*June J. Siegfried ’39*Arlene Merne Smaldone ’03^*Lilija Tushinski ’84Jean Willis Vernon ’52*Sally Visher ’79Gweneth H. Wagnon ’82*June Travers Werner ’45*Rebekah Mull Wilmes ’79Beth Ellen Zedeck ’04, ’06*NEIGHBOR’S SOCIETY$100-$249Mary Jane Reynolds Adams ’56Gretchen Herrling Aherne ’59JoAnn Pauley Anderson ’52Donna Chrysilda Barreiro ’84Ruth Hovey Beacom ’49Esther Van Tilberg Berliner ’43Beth Shapiro Berman ’69Susan Scully Bernet ’66Elizabeth Leggett Black ’52*Sally Nelson Black ’55*Lois Bonneau-Gumbs ’74Nancy Brooks ’75Pauline Blair Bryans ’60Barbara Williams Bunger ’65*Maureen C. Casey ’83*Earl D. ChambersJames Frances Clancy ’05, ’08Mary Jane Lynch Corn ’67*Ann Guinivan Cover ’81Jill Redyke Crawford ’67*Mary Knowlton Crookshank ’54Ruth S. Dahl ’48Helen Searls DeGroot ’54Janet Duncan Dolan ’65Carolyn Stueck Donnet ’49*Judy M. Donofrio ’03Patricia C. Dykes ’04David Ekstrom ’75John Fallon ’78Ruth Nussbaumer Fenton ’45Carol S. Fitzgerald ’60Margaret Ann Flannery ’93, ’96^Joan Penney Frohling ’59*Karen Clippinger Fry ’55Elizabeth M. GarrisonGertrude Lois Gebhardt ’53Carol Ginsberg ’84Patricia Flanagan Goddard ’56*Mary Sowter Gould ’46Carol Hammell Grosse ’60*Barbara Ann Dragotta Gruenburg ’86Norma Stephens Hannigan ’07^Mary Knipe Haour ’69Anita M. Harris ’40*Frances Barrows Harvan ’46Margaret Ross Hastings ’54*Susan Starr Hayes ’62*Christa Simpson Heinsler ’76Joan Herndon Hinz ’53Laberta McKittrick Hollar ’50Nancy Fixler Houseworth ’56*Zelpha Card Hoyer ’51Mathilde Demisay Huckins ’62*Virginia Shultz Humphrey ’60*Marguerite Griffin Irving ’50*Elizabeth Mary Jewett ’47*Nancy Ellen Jones ’69Miriam Claire Kaplan ’84Sally Smith Kauzlarich ’52*Barbara Nogas Keating ’46Patricia Hayes Keough ’46*Jill Nadolny Kilanowski ’77, ’82*Robin L. Kleinman ’77*Susan KnappMary Steel Kogut ’39Barbara Ketchum Lahey ’45Karen Troutman LaMonica’68*Bridget Lane ’81*Barbara Desch Lenihan ’74Ramona Peterson Leslie ’56*Deborah S. Little ’84Pao-Lin Cathy Liu ’87Gwyneth Johnson Lymberis ’82*Elizabeth K. MacKenzie ’67Margaret Kiss Magyar ’88*Dorothy Lakeman Marshall ’49*Jane E. Martin ’65*Anne Hubbard Mattson ’86Marlene McHugh ’89, ’91, ’08^*Grace O’Brien McIver ’47*Virginia Abrams Mead ’59Kendaly Ann Meadows ’99Joanne C. Messore ’72*Alexandra O’Shea Milmoe ’73*Shirley Imig Montgomery ’58Barbara Ives Mook ’43Ann K. Murtaugh ’96, ’98*Susan Cake Nelson ’66Margery Matthews Nettleton ’57Duncan NeuhauserJanice Shiuh-Jy Ngo ’05, ’08Susan A. Norwell ’64*Holly NovakDiane Murray Nydick ’74Constance Birney O’Connor ’49Mary O’Pray ’69Inge Bickel Osborne ’72Katherine Perera Patterson ’98*Anne G. Peirce*Marguerite Lorey Peoples ’57Martha Carlota Pereira ’04, ’06Dolly Clarke Peress ’59*Nancy Higginson Pitney ’85Elizabeth Brandes Plum-Doggett ’59Jeanne Appleyard Pontius ’54Mary Reynolds Powell ’69Susan Caulo Purcell ’72Ashley E. Ray ’07, ’09Courtney Elizabeth Reinisch ’07^Phoebe Curtis Reynolds ’56*Lynn Davies Robertson ’97Elizabeth Bridget Rothlauf ’92*Rebekah Leigh Ruppe ’00, ’01, ’09^*Margaret Denoyon Saadeh ’59Valerie Sands-Wrobel ’81Josephine Guide Sapp ’76, ’06^Susan Maines Saydah ’60Margaret Koch Schall ’52Molly Marsden Schneider ’67Emily Lanier Selleck ’69Nell Kincaid Semel ’59*Jinah K. Shin ’95,’99*Janice Mentel Skinner ’69Rose Crane Smith ’53*Molly Fairbanks Stainton ’46Alice Fahey Starker ’77Mary Pat Stenson ’85*Nancy B. StewartPatricia Williams Stone^*All gifts received after June 30 will be listed in the 2010 Annual Report.* 3-year consecutive donor ^ Faculty/Staff

34 • School of NursingSara Shipley Stone ’69*Janet L. Swanson ’67Stacy Shannon Tammi ’91, ’93*Mary Barber Tanis ’72Christine Fuller Tinstman ’69Patricia Dougherty Tracy ’77Alice Fleming Trundle ’51Margaret Hoelzle Van Horn ’99, ’00Elizabeth Aiken Van Siclen ’57*Maryelena Quintero Vargas ’08Vera G. Venturino ’56*Helen Hutz Von Der Lieth ’54Joyce Ragonese Vottera ’88Mary Rambo Walker ’46*Marisa Irene Wallace ’02, ’05Jennifer Rose Walsh ’08Susan Rockwell West ’64Jane Herbert Williams ’44Katherine Roulston Williams ’54*Randi Daitch Wolchok ’84Elizabeth Writer Zern ’51*Gail Portnoy Zwiebel ’75DONORUP TO $99Jennie Downer Austin ’70Genevieve A. Bahrt ’73*Carol Cooke Beal ’44Sarah Graham Bean ’44*Rosemary Heeren Beaumont ’43Jean Miller Benze ’51Hollis Lepore Bierman ’67Linda Ude Bisbee ’66*Dorothy Brewster Blakney ’56Elizabeth C. Bliven ’42Lynne Sheetz Bolig ’65Joan Koll Borneman ’58Doris Taylor Bowles ’64*Patricia Macaulay Bradley ’53Helen Hutchinson Burnside ’46Roberta Stickley Caffrey ’55Karen Killinger Campbell ’63*Deborah Lyn Christensen ’94Nancy and Duane ChristySara Eleanor Church ’07, ’08Kathleen DiGangi Condon ’06, ’09*Diana P. Congdon ’69John & Mary ConnorCarolyn Diane Czyz ’08Margerite Peters Darsie ’46Deborah Mitchell Devine ’74Joan McIntyre Distel ’55Louise Weigel Dodd ’76*Mary Patricia Donovan ’97, ’05^*Amy S. DorrillJeffrey Madison Douglass ’05, ’08Vaughn Dickson Early ’43*Anita Siegel Epstein ’46Patricia Fleming Fakharzadeh ’82Josephine Hallinan Finan ’42Marian Fiske ’58*Ethel M. Fleischmann ’38*Carolyn Swift Fleming ’60Lynn Elise Friend ’75Jean Paulston Geisler ’54Theodore Gleichmann*Sarah Jane Gniadek ’07, ’09Penelope Manning Goodkind ’51*Nancy Dinan Granger ’80*Jacqueline Servies Gray ’56Bernice Boice Krehbiel Gsell ’52*Ruth Gunsel ’51*Stella Brewster Hall ’63*Shirley A. HarperMargaret Ann Ferri Hayn ’72Karen Hellrich ’71Melvin HershkowitzCarolyn Hewlett-Knight ’70*Linda L. Hinkley ’95Suzanne Linger Holm ’45Anna Deyo Howerton ’54Anne Kilburn Ingram ’80, ’83Ruth Reifsnyder Kahoun ’55*Katheryne McNutly Kazemi ’57Liza Kelly-Rossini ’99Alyce Marie Kenney ’90Betty Lee Kerr ’55Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger ’59, ’80Ellen Rogowski Landowne ’59*Laura Flowers LeFevre ’73*Margo Payne Leithead ’74Lois Ryman Lewis ’63Barbara Cohn Liepman ’81June Wysocka Lloyd ’57*Katheryn Geiger Lohr ’57Kathleen LubeckSusannah Lee Lunt ’55*Hester Stalker MacGregor ’44*Jane Atkinson MacKenzie ’52Marguerite Temple Martin ’55Nancy and Rob MatthewsMargaret Kadel McFadden ’64Sarah C. McGowan ’06Winifred Wadbrook Megear ’37Ruth Walker Millar ’52*Alta Woodworth Miller ’53*Nancy Cox Mills ’74*Doris Gay Moldow ’65*Sue Mauer Morningstar ’77June C. Nelson ’73Marie Graziano Nielsen ’61*Elizabeth Duff O’Loughlin ’81Kathleen Frances O’Reilly ’83Gertrude Snively Parker ’47*Linda Peters ’90Kathryn A. Petrillo-Klein ’80Patricia Riker Pimbley ’47*Clarissa Walsh Powley ’39Jeanne Marshall Pritchard ’46Florence Jenson Ramsley ’46*Amelia Setteducati Richman ’65Joan Sanok Rick ’60Lynn McIntyre Riley ’69Lisa Anne Rowe ’00, ’02Mary S. SanchezDenise C. Schain ’75Linda Hall Schuch ’67*Adeline Frederick Schwartz ’46Mary L. Self ’77Cathy Bagnal Shimmel ’71*Paula Cogan Simon ’83Theresa Sinopoli ’89Lori Wetzler Sitzman ’77Mary Campbell Smeaton ’43*Barbara Fessenden Smith ’84, ’86Valerie Wolf Snow ’67Joan Cogdon Stackhouse ’73Marilyn Mackson Stein ’57James M. StewartCatherine Hirsch Sugarman ’41Marion Howald Swarthout ’42E. Michael Tarazi*Jo Ann Thomas ’80Wing Kam Tsang ’07Cynthia R. Tuck ’70Barbara Taylor Uhlig ’53*Nancy Weems Valsamis ’54Judith Marie Van Cleef ’96Michele T. Visconti ’79Gale Warton Wallace ’81Angela Welk ’39Susanne Cameron Williamson ’82Virginia Halsey Windmuller ’64*Dorothy Cummings Woerner ’54Elize Poestkoke Wright ’53*Denise Yankou^Marilynn Kraft Yaremchuk ’78Virginia L. Yund* 3-year consecutive donor ^ Faculty/Staff

Annual Report 2008-09 • 35Gift Listingby class year1937Winifred Wadbrook Megear1938Ethel M. Fleischmann1939Mary Steel KogutClarissa Walsh PowleyJune J. SiegfriedAngela Welk1940Anita M. HarrisEileen Smith Kopfler1941Catherine Hirsch Sugarman1942Jean Lagakis BennerJosephine Hallinan FinanMarion Howald Swarthout1943Rosemary Heeren BeaumontEsther Van Tilburg BerlinerVaughn Dickson EarlyElizabeth Miller GreeneBarbara Ives MookLillian Schuttger PriceMary Campbell SmeatonJean Acomb Van LandinghamRuth Willan Wakeley1944Carol Cooke BealSarah Graham BeanElizabeth C. BlivenHester Stalker MacGregorJane Herbert Williams1945Ruth Nussbaumer FentonJane Helwig HoffmanSuzanne Lingner HolmElizabeth Gross KirkpatrickBarbara Ketchum LaheyMary Dickey LindsayMarjorie Hutchins TaylorJune Travers Werner1946Helen Hutchinson BurnsideMargerite Peters DarsieAnita Siegel EpsteinMary Sowter GouldFrances Barrows HarvanBarbara Nogas KeatingElaine Godtfring KennedyPatricia Hayes KeoughJeanne Marshall PritchardFlorence Jensen RamsleyJane Crowell RieffelAdeline DeVoto SchwartzBarbara Robison Sporck-StegmaierMolly Fairbanks StaintonMary Rambo WalkerJoan Tompkins Wheeler1947Elinor Robinson GoodwinElizabeth Mary JewettGrace O’Brien McIverPatricia Stainton NeerGertrude Snively ParkerPatricia Riker PimbleyMarian Turner Schreiber1948Ruth S. DahlJoanne Brinton DuWickElizabeth Marker GranicherMarcia Calkins MinderAnnette Cohen Squire1949Ruth H. BeacomLorraine Grant ConversanoCarolyn Stueck DonnetNellie Walter EatonDorothy Lakeman MarshallMary Whitesell MogaveroConstance Kilcullen O’Connor1950Beatrice M. DorbackerLa Berta McKittrick HollarMarguerite Griffin IrvingElayne Soley OrrJean Fisher Stonesifer1951Jean Miller BenzePenelope Manning GoodkindRuth GunselMarilyn Johnson HamelZelpha Card HoyerEmily DiYulio ScintoAlice Daley ThomasAlice Fleming TrundleElizabeth Writer Kleinfeld Zern1952Elizabeth Leggett BlackBernice Boice Krehbiel GsellAnn Gilbride HillSally Smith KauzlarichRuth Walker MillarAmos Chen2008-09 AlumniAssociation ScholarAmos received his white coatin May 2009 and is nowpursuing a master’s degree. Heplans to become a family nursepractitioner. Amos volunteers atthe Columbia Student MedicalOutreach Program (COSMO),a student-run organization forlocal low-income families in theWashington Heights Community.* 3-year consecutive donor ^ Faculty/Staff

36 • School of NursingCatherine Anderson2008-09 AlumniAssociation ScholarCatherine earned her bachelor’sdegree from the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara whereshe studied biological sciences.While at UCSB, Catherine volunteeredat the Adventures in CaringFoundation, where she dressed upas Raggedy Ann and visited withterminally ill children and elderlypatients. Catherine is workingtowards her master’s degree specializingin pediatrics.Ruth Klawunn RandaMargaret Koch SchallJean Willis Vernon1953Patricia Macaulay BradleyGertrude Lois GebhardtJoan Herndon HinzAlta Woodworth MillerFlorence Mueller SchumacherRose Crane SmithBarbara Taylor UhligJudith Slocum Van DerburghElize Poestkoke Wright1954Lea Ormezzano BattiatoMary Knowlton CrookshankHelen Searls DeGrootJean Paulson GeislerMargaret Ross HastingsAnna Deyo HowertonJoan Tinker KellerJo Ann Scranton MainJeanne Appleyard PontiusBarbara RollingPatricia Tibbals SchnackMarilyn Miller StiefvaterNancy Weems ValsamisKatherine Roulston WilliamsDorothy Cummings Woerner1955Esther Rosengren BartlettSally Nelson BlackRoberta Stickley CaffreyJoan McIntyre DistelKaren Clippinger FryRuth Reifsnyder KahounBetty Lee KerrSusannah Lee LuntMarguerite Temple MartinRuth A. RaynerRita Perrine Trayner1956Mary Jane Reynolds AdamsDorothy Brewster BlakneyPatricia Flanagan GoddardJacqueline Servies GrayLenore Frank HardyNancy Fixler HouseworthRamona Peterson LeslieEleanor Lipman LuhrsJoan Seaburgh PuydakPhoebe Curtis ReynoldsVera Venturino1957Barbara Shaw AbbottDorothy Simpson DorionKatheryne McNulty KazemiJune Wysocka LloydKatheryn Geiger LohrMargery Matthews NettletonMarguerite Lorey PeoplesMarilyn Mackson SteinElizabeth Aiken Van Siclen1958Joan Koll BornemanEdith Baldwin CleavesMarian FiskeShirley Imig Montgomery1959Gretchen Herrling AherneSuzanne Lillicrapp AndersonJanice Paul ArcidiaconoSheila Flynn BlankCarol Heeks BriceAlice Brath CampJoan Penney FrohlingLaura Mae Schwartz HirshmanSheila Horwitz HollanderDorcas Younger KoenigsbergerEllen Rogowski LandowneVirginia Abrams MeadDolly Clarke PeressElizabeth Brandes Plum-DoggettMarjorie Watters PrayMargaret Denoyon SaadehNell Kincaid SemelCandee Ives Weed1960Pauline Blair BryansCarol S. FitzgeraldCarolyn Swift FlemingCarol Hammell GrosseVirginia Shultz HumphreyJoan Sanok RickSusan Maines SaydahNancy Riener Schullinger1961Patricia Smith LangleyMarie Graziano NielsenSally-Ann McCarthy Whelan1962Susan Starr HayesMathilde Demisay HuckinsDiana Vietor Mundy1963Karen Killinger CampbellJane Richardson CarmichaelStella Brewster HallLois Ryman Lewis1964Diane Rankin BehrensDoris Taylor BowlesMary Ann Kelly ColliniRuth Westervelt Dykstra* 3-year consecutive donor ^ Faculty/Staff

Annual Report 2008-09 • 37Margaret Kadel McFaddenSusan A. NorwellEllen Bakanowsky O’NealCynthia Hoffman PriestPhebe ThorneSusan Rockwell WestVirginia Dana Windmuller1965Lynne Sheetz BoligBrenda Barrowclough BrodieBarbara Williams BungerJanet Duncan DolanJane E. MartinDoris Gay MoldowAmelia Setteducati Richman1966Susan Scully BernetLinda Ude BisbeeSusan Cake NelsonAnna Draper Shaw1967Hollis Lepore BiermanMary Jane Lynch CornJill Redyke CrawfordAimee Blumenthal DoctoroffElizabeth MacKenzieJane Atkinson MackenzieMolly Marsden SchneiderLinda Hall SchuchValerie Wolf SnowJanet L. Swanson1968Patricia Healy De SearLaVerne Werner DeChangMargaret Moore HazlettKaren Troutman LaMonicaDeborah Keeler LottBetsy Cook MorganSue Ross1969Beth Shapiro BermanDorothy Davies ColferDiana P. CongdonMarjorie Harrison FlemingMary Knipe HaourNancy Schrank JonesSusan Hochwald MulkernMarian Higginbotham NilesMary O’PrayWendy Halsey OttoMary Reynolds PowellLynn McIntyre RileySusie Post RobertsEmily Lanier SelleckJanice Mentel SkinnerSara Shipley StoneChristine Fuller Tinstman1970Jennie Downer AustinAngela Clarke DuffCarolyn Hewlett-KnightCynthia R. Tuck1971Karen Ebersbach HellrichJudith Rosenfield RosenthalCathy Bagnal ShimmelLeonora Porreca WhildinSusan J. Zator1972Barbara H. BoyingtonMargaret Ferri HaynKatherine Burke LiptakJoanne C. MessoreInge Bickel OsborneSusan Caulo PurcellMary Barber Tanis1973Genevieve A. BahrtNancy Horlacher DowneyLaura Flowers LeFevreAlexandra O’Shea MilmoeJune C. NelsonJoan Congdon StackhouseHolly Grim White1974Lois Beverly Bonneau-GumbsJudy Cherowitzo ChockDeborah Mitchell DevineMargo Payne LeitheadBarbara Desch LenihanNancy Cox MillsBarbara Britton NovickDiane Murray Nydick1975Nancy BrooksDavid N. EkstromLynn Elise FriendMarilyn Westfall RaffinotDenise C. SchainGail Portnoy Zwiebel1976Josie Debevoise DaviesLouise Weigel DoddEllen Gottesman GarberChrista Simpson HeinslerJosephine Guide Sapp1977Marie Kelly BurnsJill Nadolny KilanowskiRobin L. KleinmanSue Mauer MorningstarMary L. SelfRegina Baptiste2008-09 AlumniAssociation ScholarRegina studied microbiology andcell science at the University ofFlorida, where she was a researchassistant for a health promotionresearch project that aimedto create a healthcare model thatwould consequently reduce healthdisparities among minorities.Regina plans to become a familynurse practitioner.

38 • School of NursingRemarks byRichard D. SimmonsColumbia University School of NursingScholarship ReceptionOctober 16, 2008Mary Simmons’ mother, Ruth HallBleecker, was – please believe me – anoriginal piece of work. Not entranced,apparently, by her daughter’s commitmentto care for others, she did feelobliged to support this school and itsmission.Richard D. Simmons speaks to EmilyNeumann, the 2007-2008 MaryBleecker Simmons Scholarship recipient,at the Thirteenth Annual ScholarshipReceptionA committee was created under herleadership – Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45was on it as was my wife’s best friendElizabeth Richard Sinks ’60 – and theresult produced a series of bridgeparties. In 1959, $4,600 was raisedfor scholarships, producing tuition aidfor 20 students. This was followed by$5,000 in 1960 and $6,000 in 1961.Times have changed, to be sure, butthis nursing school has only grown inimportance under Mary Mundinger’sinspired leadership. The NursePractitioner program has changed,for years to come, the manner bywhich medical care will be provided inAmerica. Together with the other disciplineswhich remain part of the schoolcurriculum, Mrs. Bleecker’s image ofneed has only multiplied.I am, in my wife’s name, so proud tobe part of that effort and urge you allto continue to render help. How infrequentlydo you get the chance literallyto admire the results of your charitywhen they annually stand before you?It is a dream which comes alive in yourvery presence. Thank you.

Annual Report 2008-09 • 39Lori Wetzler SitzmanAlice Fahey StarkerPatricia Dougherty Tracy1978John FallonDenise De Marzo HoughtonMarilynn Kraft Yaremchuk1979Liliane E. MorinMary A. PeterkinMary Maternowski RomanoShirley E. Van ZandtMichele T. ViscontiSally VisherRebekah Mull WilmesMargo M. L. Wyatt1980Fleda A. DeanNancy Dinan GrangerAnn Kilburn IngramDorcas Younger KoenigsbergerKathryn Petrillo-KleinJo Ann Thomas1981Ellen Soley AdkinsAnn Guinivan CoverBridget LaneBarbara Cohn LiepmanDiana Bassil NilsenElizabeth Duff O’LoughlinMartha Cohn RomneyValerie Sands-WrobelGale Warton Wallace1982Una Broe DoddyPatricia Fleming FakharzadehJill Nadolny KilanowskiGwyneth Johnson LymberisMary Matemowski RomanoGweneth H. WagnonSusanne Cameron WilliamsonMegan Christian Wright1983Nancy B. BartonMaureen C. CaseyMaria R. CorsaroAnn Kilburn IngramRobin McKeon MichalakKathleen Frances O’ReillyPaula Cogan Simon1984Jeanne AuerbachDonna Chrysilda BarreiroAnna Marie ButrieCarol GinsbergMiriam Claire KaplanValerie Frances KolbertDeborah S. LittleFrancis P. O’ConnellBarbara Fessenden SmithLilija TushinskiBeverly Waldman RichRandi Daitch Wolchok1985Laura Pearson ArmstrongBrenda Hartley LandesPatricia Alice McMasterNancy Higginson PitneyMary Pat StensonShirley E. Van Zandt1986Barbara Dragotta GruenburgShira A. GordonAnne Hubbard MattsonLinda Harnsberger RoseBarbara Fessenden Smith1987Pao-Lin Cathy1988Katharine Owen CarpenterMargaret Kiss MagyarJoyce Ragonese Vottera1989Marlene E. McHughKathleen McCooe NillesTheresa E. Sinopoli1990Alyce Marie KenneyLinda K. Peters1991Joseph Patrick ColagrecoMarlene E. McHughStacy Shannon Tammi1992Kathryn HowardElizabeth Bridget RothlaufRoxana I. Sasse1993Gerral E. FelsonMargaret A. FlanneryStacy Shannon Tammi1994Amy Cohen AnsehlMary Woods ByrneDeborah Lyn ChristensenHonor someonewho has influencedyour life. Say “thank you”with a gift that keeps on giving.Pay tribute to a living or deceasedloved one or mentor by givinga gift in honor or in memoryof someone who has impactedyour life. Your investment helpsthe School of Nursing to providefinancial aidto the futuregenerations ofnursing whilehonoring someonespecial.

40 • School of Nursing1995Linda L. HinkleyKaren Michelle JohnsonJinah K. Shin1996Amy Cohen AnsehlMargaret A. FlanneryEllen Joyce LevineAnn K. MurtaughAnita NirenbergJudith Marie Van Cleef1997Mary Patricia DonovanLynn Davies Robertson1998Karen Krueger DesjardinsAnn K. MurtaughKatherine Perera Patterson1999Liza Kelly-RossiniKendaly Ann MeadowsJinah K. ShinMargaret Hoelzle Van Horn2000Lisa Anne RoweRebekah Leigh RuppeMargaret Hoelzle Van Horn2001Margaret Patricia McSweeneyRebekah Leigh Ruppe2002Lisa Anne RoweMarisa Irene Wallace2003Judy M. DonofrioDiane Elaine FilterBelinda KotinArlene Merne SmaldoneWilliam Robert Wagner2004Patricia C. DykesMartha Carlota PereiraBeth Ellen Zedeck2005Julie Juhee ChiuJames Francis ClancySarah Sheets CookKaren Krueger DesjardinsMary Patricia DonovanJeffrey Madison DouglassJanice Shiun-Jy KuanJennifer A. SmithWilliam Robert WagnerMarisa Irene WallaceLaura Zeidenstein2006Janice Jones IzlarMaria MagliacanoSarah C. McGowanOra ObhasMartha Carlota PereiraJosephine Guide SappBeth Ellen Zedeck2007Sara Eleanor ChurchSarah Jane GniadekNorma Stephens HanniganAshley E. RayCourtney Elizabeth ReinischWing Kam Tsang2008Sarah Eleanor ChurchJames Francis ClancyCarolyn Diane CzyzJeffrey Madison DouglassJanice Shiuh-Jy KuanMarlene E. McHughMaryelena VargasJennifer Rose Walsh2009Sarah Jane GniadekAnita NirenbergAshley E. RayRebekah Leigh RuppePlease bring any errors or omissions to theattention of our Development Office at(800) 899-6728 so that we may recognizeyour generosity.In Memory ofJANET A. ALLEY ’52Jean Willis Vernon ’52ANNE AUERBACH ’78Jeanne Auerbach ’84BECKY AUSTIN-HALLZelpha Card Hoyer ’51WILLIAM AND MURIEL BAGNALCathy Bagnal Shimmel ’71KATHLEEN BAKKENPatricia C. Dykes ’04ANN STEMMERMAN BORMAN ’40Eileen Smith Kopfler ’40JULIA JOHNSON CHAPIN ’62Barbara B. SiepkerJEAN VANDERLIN CUNNINGHAM ’47Marian Turner Schreiber ’47HARRIET MANTEL DELEUERAN ’33Beatrice M. Dorbacker ’50KATHERINE AND CARL DESCHBarbara Desch Lenihan ’74ANNA AND MILTON FELSONGerral E. Felson ’93CAROLYN LEMKE FERRIGNI ’46Adeline DeVoto Schwartz ’46IRENE FREID, MY GRANDMOTHEREllen Gottesman Garber ’76MERLIN GERMANDorothy Davies Colfer ’69Your ongoing support to the Annual Fund ensuresthat the School is able to recruit the best possiblestudents in nursing. 100% of your gift willsupport student financial aid.To make your tax-deductible contribution today,send a check payable to Columbia UniversitySchool of Nursing or give a gift online at:https://giving.columbia.edu/giveonline/For more information about our monthlydonation credit card program, please call:(800) 899-6728.Thank you in advance for your commitment.Office of Development & Alumni AffairsColumbia University School of Nursing630 West 168th Street, Mail Code 6New York, NY 10032

Annual Report 2008-09 • 41MOLLY COHEN GERSHENAnnette Cohen Squire ’48LAURI HIDEKEKatheryne McNutly Kazemi ’57MR. AND MRS. GEORGE A. HORLACHERNancy Horlacher Downey ’73ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EURA M. LENNONJune C. Nelson ’73ANN MCCOOEKathleen McCooe Nilles ‘89CAROL LORRAINE PARKER MEADOWSKendaly Ann Meadows ’99MADELINE MAURER MUTCH ’54Earl D. ChambersNancy and Duane ChristyJohn & Mary ConnorMary Knowlton Crookshank ’54Elizabeth GarrisonShirley A. HarperMargaret Ross Hastings ’54Melvin HerskowitzSusan KnappKathleen LubeckNancy and Rob MatthewsHolly Novak & TMT ObservatoriesJoan and Reade RyanRoxana I. Sasse ’92James M. StewartNancy B. StewartKatherine Roulston Williams ’54Virginia L. YundCARTHA ROY OHANESSIAN ’55Ruth Reifsnyder Kahoun ’55ELEANOR LEE AND HELEN PETTITVirginia Abrams Mead ’59JAMES WALLACE RAYAshley E. Ray ’07 ’09LOUISE LINDSAY READ ’74Angela Clarke Duff ’70Reva G. FeinsteinHELEN DAAS SAHADI ’47Anita Siegel Epstein ’46HELEN CHIHOTAS SCHUMACK ’48Dolly Clarke Peress ’59Leonard G. SchumackMURIEL ALPERS SCHUYLER ’43Leonard SchuylerWILLIAM SHOTWELLJoanne C. Messore ’72MARY BLEECKER SIMMONS ’60Richard D. SimmonsCATHLEEN M. STEPHENSNorma Stephens Hannigan ’07MELANIE BRIDGMAN STRONG ’68Mary S. SanchezEDITH DAVID SUNDERMAN ’59Sheila Flynn Blank ’59VIRGINIA TATESuzanne Lingner Holm ’45JANET TAYLOR ’59Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger ’59 ’80EDWIN M. TRAYNERRita Perrine Trayner ’55FLORENCE L. VANDERBILT ’27Barbara Taylor Uhlig ’53MARION WHITFIELDAngela Welk ’39FLORENCE DRAKE WILLIAMS ’54Margaret Ross Hastings ’54Katherine Roulston Williams ’54JACOB AND JOSEPHINE ZATORSusan J. Zator ’71THE DEPARTED CLASSMATES OF 1959Janice Paul Arcidiacono ’59THE WOUNDED SOLDIERSDorothy Davies Colfer ’69In Honor ofCONNIE BERRIENJoan McIntyre Distel ’55ANNETTE STAUBER COHNMartha Cohn Romney ’81CONSTANCE RISING GLEICHMANN ’60Theodore GleichmannMARY DICKEY LINDSAY ’45Anne PeirceTHE INFORMATICS PROGRAM AND ITSPROFESSORSJulie Juhee Chiu ’05CorporateMatching GiftsThe School of Nursing is pleased to recognizethe generous support of many companies whomatch donor’s gifts. To find out if you or yourspouse’s company has such a program, go to:http://giving.columbia.edu/waystogive/matching_gifts.htmlAT&T FoundationEli Lilly and Company FoundationExxonMobilGE FoundationIBM International FoundationJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthurFoundationPSE&G Company

42 • School of NursingAnna C.Maxwelllegacy societyNamed in memory of the founder of the School of Nursing, the AnnaC. Maxwell Legacy Society recognizes those who have establisheda planned gift to Columbia University School of Nursing througha bequest or charitable trust. These thoughtful commitments helpensure that future generations of nursing students will be able toexperience the finest in clinical nursing education. To learn more,go to: http://www.columbia.planyourlegacy.org.Pamela Amerige-PulaskiCarol Baxter ’86Jean Lagakis Benner ’42Bonnie Barker Bogdasarian ’74Estate of Florence M. Burnett ’35Jane Richardson Carmichael ’63Estate of Mary Louise Sanchez Davis ’33Beatrice M. Dorbacker ’50Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57Estate of Regina Driscoll ’40Celeste DyeEunice Hering FeiningerAnn Becker Finein ’54Midge Harrison Fleming ’69Joan Gorrell ’61Living Trust of Ethyl Rathbun GradyFrances Bevier Hiller ’49Virginia Schultz Humphrey ’60Carol Ince ’75 ’82Dorothea A. Kissam ’46Chaweevan Koetsawasdi ’00Ellen Rogowski Landowne ’59Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45Judith J. Loach ’81 ’84Jane Atkinson Mackenzie ’52Estate of Nancy Hart Markgraf ’55Clarinda Reier Marshall ’50Barbara Meyers McNagny ’63Ellen A. Bakanowsky O’Neal ’64Lillian Schuttger Price ’43Ruth Klawunn Randa ’52Jane Crowell Rieffel ’46Joan Chamberlain Roe ’62Nancy E. Russell ’48Ida Mitrani Schnipper ’77Helen SchweinsbergEstate of Carmen SharpAnna Draper Shaw ’66Richard D. SimmonsGenevieve Harrison Speicher ’47Jean Fisher Stonesifer ’50Harriet Walters Sullivan ’53Marion Howald Swarthout ’42Alice Daley Thomas ’51Phebe Thorne ’64Elizabeth Mulford Vavra ’77Phyllis Harrington Wagner ’63Estate of Jacqueline M. Webb ’83Frances S. Williams ’66

Annual Report 2008-09 • 43Average cost for a student in the first yearof the Combined BS/MS Program in 2008-09OTHER: $7,263LIVING EXPENSES: $27,454TUITION: $66,352TOTAL: $101,069Columbia University School of NursingFinancial OverviewINCOME JULY 2007 - JUNE 2008 JULY 2008 - JUNE 2009(in thousands)(in thousands)Tuition and Fees $17,043 $15,516Sponsored Projects $6,705 $5,460Gifts $662 $326Endowment Income $3,352 $4,112Faculty Practice $744 $865Other $1,185 $1,301TOTAL $29,691 $27,580EXPENSESPersonnel 45% 51%Financial Aid 19% 17%Overhead 36% 19%Other 2% 12%

44 • School of NursingBoardof visitorsBrenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65Durham, North CarolinaRobert Brook, MD, ScDRAND HealthSanta Monica, CaliforniaKaren KatenNew York, New YorkKenneth W. Kizer, MDMedsphere Systems CorporationAliso Viejo, CAArthur Caplan, PhDUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaKaren Davis, PhDThe Commonwealth FundNew York, New YorkElisabeth C. DudleyRedding, ConnecticutMary Dickey Lindsay ’45New York, New YorkElizabeth J. McCormackRockefeller Family and AssociatesNew York, New YorkDuncan V. Neuhauser, PhDCase Western Reserve UniversityCleveland, OhioPhyllis R. FarleyNew York, New YorkMarjorie Harrison Fleming ’69Princeton, New JerseyWilliam T. Friedewald, MDColumbia University MailmanSchool of Public HealthNew York, New YorkKaren Hein, MDJacksonville, VTKaren IgnagniAmerica’s Health Insurance PlansWashington, DCRobert L. Kane, MDUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MinnesotaPhil M. Nudelman, PhDThe Hope Heart InstituteSeattle, WashingtonElena C. PattersonNew York, New YorkMarnie S. PillsburyNew York, New YorkAlma E. RangelNew York, New YorkRichard D. Simmons, Esq.Alexandria, VirginiaSara Shipley Stone ’69Darien, ConnecticutPhebe Thorne ’64Ketchum, Idaho

Annual Report 2008-09 • 45AdministrationDeanMary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPHVice DeanSarah Sheets Cook, DNP, RN-CSSenior Associate DeanJennifer A. Smith, DNP, MPH, MBA, NP-CSenior Associate Dean, PracticeJanice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, ANP-BCAssociate Dean, Student ServicesJudy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PCAssociate DeanElaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CICAssistant Dean, DevelopmentReva Feinstein, MPAAssistant Dean, Finance & AdministrationEileen Kearney, MSAssistant Dean, Clinical AffairsWilhemina Manzano, MA, RNFacultyNAMED PROFESSORSCentennial Professor in Health PolicyMary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPHAlumni Professor of Nursing and Professorof Medical InformaticsSuzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN, FAANStone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor inClinical Health Care for the UnderservedMary Woods Byrne, PhD, CPNP, FAANDorothy M. Rogers Professor of Clinical NursingSarah Sheets Cook, DNP, RN-CSHenrik H. Bendixen Clinical Professorof International NursingRichard Garfield, DrPH, RN, FAANProfessor of Pharmacologicaland Therapeutic ResearchElaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CICMary Dickey Lindsay Professor of NursingNancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAANASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF NURSINGPatricia Stone, PhD, RNASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OFCLINICAL NURSINGJudy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PCJanice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, ANP-BCASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NURSINGLeanne Currie, DNSc, RNKathleen Hickey, EdD, ANP-BC, FNPArlene M. Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP-PC, CDEASSISTANT PROFESSOR OFCLINICAL BIOSTATISTICS (IN NURSING)Haomiao Jia, PhDASSISTANT PROFESSOR OFCLINICAL NURSINGSally W. Aboelela, PhDChristina Araujo, CPNP, MSPenelope Buschman, P/MH, CNS, FAANJeanne N. Churchill, MS, CPNP-PCMaria Corsaro, MSN, MPHKaren S. Desjardins, DNP, MPH, ANP, GNPJennifer Dohrn, DNP, CNMMary Donovan, DNP, ACNP, ANPEileen Evanina, MS, CRNAElizabeth K. Hall, DNP, FNP, GNPNorma Hannigan, DNP, APRN-BC, FNPRitamarie John, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PCJoan Kearney, PhD, CS, APRNMelissa Kramps, MS, ANP, GNPSusan Ledlie, PhD, CPNP-PCEllen Levine, MS, PNPMary-Jane McEneaney, MS, WHNPMarlene E. McHugh, DNP, FNPAnita Nirenberg, DNSc, PNP-C, AOCNPPaula Pillone, CS, C-P/MHCourtney Reinisch, DNP, FNP-BC, ACNPRebekah L Ruppe, DNP, CNMJosephine G. Sapp, DNP, CSJennifer Smith, DNP, MBA, MPH, NP-CJo Anne Staats, MS, ANP-BCCaroline Sullivan, MS, ANPKristine N. Takamiya, DNP, APRN-BC, ANPLaura Zeidenstein, DNP, CNMASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOROF NURSINGMargaret Carson, MS, CPNPRozelle Corda, MS, FNP-BCMargie Fernandez Sloves, DNP, ANP-BCDorothy Roedel Ferraro, MS, ANP-BCMargaret Flannery, MS, ANP-BCNicole Goetz, MS, FNPPatricia Ann Harren, DNP, ANPDianne Lapointe-Rudow, DNP, ANPRachel Lyons, DNP, CPNP-AC, CPNP-PCMaureen McSwiggen-Hardin, MS,P/MHNP-BCChristine M. Merle, CPNP-BC, MSDebra Miller-Saultz, MS, FNP-BCHilary Nierenberg, MS, ANP-BCLorraine Olivero-Rivera, DNP, FNP-BCLori Rosenthal, DNP, ACNP, ANPJean Marie Rubsam-Kane, RN, BSN, MS, CPNPLynn R. Silverberg, MSN, ANP-BCPhyllis Tarallo, MS, FNP-CMary Ellen Tresgallo, DNP, MPH, FNP-BCKara Ventura, DNP, CPNPElisabeth Visser, MS, ANP-BCElsa Wuhrman, MS, ANP, CCRNINSTRUCTOR OF CLINICAL NURSINGTracy Andrews, MSN, ACNP, ANPLaura Ardizzone, MS, CRNAMaureen Devlin, MS, ACNPOliver Diaz, MS, ACNPWilliam M. Enlow, MS, CRNAMaria Carmela Evangelista, MS, ANP-BCElizabeth Holcomb, MS, ACNPMargaret Kern, MS, ACNPMichelle Magorno, MS, PNP-BCEvangeline Veloria, MS, ACNP, APRN-BCMarisa Wallace, MS, FNP, APRN-BC

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