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Information
Technology
and Nursing

Fall 2011
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5 Center of
Evidence-Based
Practice in the Underserved
Pioneers Tools
for Self-Management
contents
3 Letter from the Dean
5 Center for Evidence-Based
Practice in the Underserved
Pioneers Tools for Self-Management
9 Wireless Informatics for Safe and
Evidence-based (WISE) APN Care
11 National Center for Research Resources Awards
12 Gregorio Luperon High School
for Science and Mathematics
14 Bringing Mobile Technology to Ghanaian Midwives:
A Millennium Villages Project
16 Reducing Unnecessary
CAT scans for Children:
an Informatics-based Approach
19 2010-2011 Year in Review
12 Gregorio Luperon
High School for Science
and Mathematics
28 Welcoming New Faces
30 Center for Children and Families
33 Government and Private Funding
36 Gifts and Pledges for Special Purposes
37 Annual Fund Gift List
40 Annual Fund Gifts by Class Year
44 Gifts Made in Memory
45 Gifts Made in Honor
45 Corporate Matching Gifts
46 Anna C. Maxwell Legacy Society
47 Financial Overview
48 Board of Visitors
back Administration and Faculty
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14 Bringing Mobile
Technology to
Ghanaian Midwives

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Graduates at Commencement 2011

letter from the Dean
photo by Catherine Gibbons
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We have been fine tuning the strategic initiatives developed shortly after I arrived
last September. This plan serves as a road map as we focus on what we do best
and how to do it even better. Five teams are now implementing action items
designed to further realize our aspirations for the School as:
A recognized leader in the development of workforce and educational diversity;
Providing education of the highest quality and developing clinicians, scholars, and
educators who lead innovation within health systems and society;
Functioning at the highest level of organizational accountability, efficiency, and
effectiveness;
An exemplary partner in education, research and practice and ranked within the
top ten nursing schools in the nation; and
Internationally renowned for excellent scholarship, particularly in collaborative
research between clinicians and researchers within nursing and across disciplines.
The theme of this issue reflects the strategic initiative related to scholarship, particularly
research in informatics which will have a profound impact on health in the US
and globally. Through our Center for Evidence-Based Practice in the Underserved,
students and faculty are seeking ways to improve symptom management for
individuals living with HIV, patient safety, clinical decision making and the accuracy
of clinical data, promoting physical activity through social media, electronic
health information exchange, mobile information applications to assist midwives in
Ghana, the evaluation of data collection in emergency rooms and much more.
Although our profession has always sought to improve patient care, it wasn’t until
1952 that the journal Nursing Research was launched and provided an outlet for
the dissemination of our research and the transformation of practice. This milestone
is important because a hallmark of our profession is to seek and apply new knowledge
through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data and information.
In an eloquent article published in Nursing Research in 1984, Dr. Elaine Larson,
Associate Dean for Research, argued for the support and funding of nursing
research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). That became a reality in
1993 when the NIH established the National Institute of Nursing Research.
I take great pride in my association with a team of faculty and staff who have
committed to a highly ambitious set of strategic initiatives and particular satisfaction
in our contributions to improving lives through research. It is one of the things
we do best!
Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, FAAN
Dean and Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing

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information technology
DNP students in class at the Hammer
Health Sciences Building

Housed within the School of Nursing, the Center for
Evidence-Based Practice in the Underserved (CEBP)
began ten years ago as an interdisciplinary research
initiative committed to improving the lives of underserved
populations through its unique strengths in
informatics and economic analysis. Funded by the
National Institute for Nursing Research and led by
founding director Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN, FAAN,
its three current research initiatives focus on: providing
greater self-management options via web-based, interactive
tools for HIV-positive patients; adolescents with
type one diabetes; and community-dwelling senior citizens
at risk for injury by falls.
Video Information Provider (VIP)
Rebecca Schnall, PhD, MPH, MBA, RN, Associate
Research Scientist, directs one of the CEBP’s projects
called Video Information Provider (VIP). This program
tool provides HIV-positive patients with tailored
symptom management strategies. Based on a symptom
management manual validated by researchers at the
University of California-San Francisco, the VIP tool helps
people living with HIV better manage their symptoms
and improve their overall quality of life.
“Managing multiple symptoms and maintaining optimal
quality of life can become a major daily task for people
living with HIV,” Dr. Schnall says. “Many symptoms such
as depression, anxiety, fatigue and shortness of breath
are often unrecognized or underappreciated by health
care providers, and as a result are undertreated.” The
VIP tool specifically addresses six symptoms common to
patients with HIV: fatigue, anxiety, depression, nausea,
neuropathy and diarrhea.
Once the VIP user logs in, he or she is guided by an
avatar (graphic representation of the user) through
a series of questions which ascertain the nature and
severity of their symptoms. When the evaluation is
complete, the program recommends strategies for
managing the patient’s symptoms. Suggestions may
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Center for Evidence-Based
Practice in the Underserved
pioneers tools for self-management
range from taking a nap, modifying diet or contacting
the patient’s health care provider.
The VIP project team has completed an evaluation
in which four experts in human-computer interaction
critiqued the program in order to refine it. Following
the evaluation, the team conducted usability testing in
which seven HIV-positive patients gave their feedback
on the system, which included both highly technical
and general suggestions, such as changing the color
scheme to make it more aesthetically pleasing.
Based on the recommendations from the usability study,
the VIP project team made changes, and the revised
system is up and running. The directors will begin a
feasibility pilot study with forty patients this fall.
A screenshot of the VIP tool
with a user’s avatar

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Screenshots from the ADEPT program
1. The user logs on and selects a location
(e.g., pizza parlor, school, movies).
3. The user receives feedback based upon the
answer provided to the scenario questions.
2. Based on the location, a scenario is
presented with questions.
4. Some scenarios require calculations.
“The great thing about Columbia nursing, and what
attracted me, is that it has developed a legacy for
advanced practice nursing.”

Adolescents with Diabetes Engage in Problem-Solving
through Tailored Intervention (ADEPT)
Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing Arlene Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP, CDE, is
dedicated to promoting diabetes self-management among children and teenagers
through informatics. Her CEBP pilot study, “Adolescents with Diabetes
Engage in Problem-Solving through Tailored Intervention,” will allow adolescents
with diabetes to problem solve online on their own computers.
In recent years, insulin pumps have become a more popular option than
injections in the management of blood glucose levels for people with type
one diabetes, due in part to the fact that pumps allow users more flexibility
with their diets. A pump user can customize both the dosing and the timing
of the release of insulin boluses, enabling them to regulate their blood sugar
more easily than with standard injections. However, the pumps also require
a great deal more self-management in order for a diabetic to use it successfully.
Dr. Smaldone hopes to find a solution that will provide adolescents
with a higher rate of success with pump usage. She is utilizing informatics
to educate these teens and help them learn the problem-solving skills they
need to effectively use the pumps.
Dr. Smaldone first hosted focus groups with healthcare professionals, parents
and older and younger adolescents. “By figuring out firsthand what the
problems were,” she says, “we were then able to go about addressing those
needs.” Dr. Smaldone used the results of the focus groups to design an
interactive program for both adolescents and their parents. She also developed
a program to help the adolescents determine their personal blood
sugar correction factor as well as their carbohydrate/insulin ratio, (which
varies from child to child) because pump success requires being successful
at counting carbohydrates. The ADEPT study will compare use of a tailored
intervention to meet the needs of children with a targeted approach.
The interactive ADEPT program guides the adolescent through a series
of vignettes featuring common real-life situations such as, “You’re at the
movies with some friends and you start feeling shaky. What do you do?”
The user is offered four possible options followed by a tailored response
that is designed to both encourage and educate the teen through positive
reinforcement.
The prototype is still in the design phase and, when it is finished, an evaluation
will be conducted. Once programmers fine-tune the prototype, a
feasibility study to test the module will be done.
Self-Assessment via a Personal Health Record (SAPHeR)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, falls are the
leading cause of injury-related deaths in individuals 65 years and older.
Assistant Professor of Nursing Robert Lucero, PhD, MPH, RN, principal investigator
of the Self-Assessment via a Personal Health Record (SAPHeR) study,
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RHeaDI
Over the last decade, the Reducing
Health Disparities through Informatics
(RHeaDI) research training program
at CUSON has prepared a diverse
cadre of seventeen nurse scientists
at the predoctoral and postdoctoral
levels to take on the major science,
health and technology challenges and
opportunities that will face our nation
in the future. RHeaDI trainees have
exhibited award-winning scholarship
at numerous scientific conferences;
written about their findings in clinical,
public health and policy journals; and
advanced the science of informatics
application in underserved populations.
RHeaDI graduates are now
nursing and biomedical informatics
faculty in leading research-intensive
universities including Harvard, Ohio
State and Columbia University.
Patricia Dykes
When Patricia Dykes,
DNSc, RN, FAAN, came
to CUSON in 1999, she
had never heard of
informatics. She began
studying health policy
and during her first
semester, submitted an individual
National Research Service Award (NRSA)
application to the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) to study the impact of an
electronic clinical pathway on clinician
adherence with national practice guidelines
for heart failure. The feedback she
received from NIH informed her that she
needed to study informatics, and
suggested she reach out to faculty
members in that field to guide her
project. With CUSON Alumni Professor
Dr. Suzanne Bakken’s support, the
application was funded and she’s been
studying informatics ever since.
A key role of informatics in healthcare,
Dr. Dykes says, is to design and implement
systems that enable patient care
that is safe, effective, patient-centered,
timely, efficient and equitable.
As identified in the Institute of
Medicine’s report, the future of nursing
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and his research team are developing a web-based falls
prevention self-management system to assist community-dwelling
elders in reducing their chances of falling.
“We are excited to engage with local seniors,”
Dr. Lucero says, ”and collaborate with the Washington
Heights community, Columbia University Medical
Center, and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)
on this study.” Partnering with the ARC XVI Fort
Washington Senior Center, at 174th Street and
Broadway, has allowed the research team to learn and
understand what is important to English and Spanish
speaking community seniors when they interact with
web-based programs. Once completed, the SAPHeR
computer-based program will be tested using a functional
personal health record.
During the design sessions, eight English speaking
and eight Spanish speaking senior citizens provided
feedback. The research team discovered that these
senior citizens have a high level of comfort performing
web-based activities. They were also comfortable
communicating to the research team what they wanted
and didn’t want from an internet experience—for
instance, they suggested having a slideshow presentation
on the homepage, an idea that is now being
incorporated into the SAPHeR program. “They appreciate
easy access to the information they’re looking for
“Seniors appreciate
easy access to
information they’re
looking for without
having to conduct an
exhaustive search to
find it.”
without having to conduct an exhaustive search to find
it,” Dr. Lucero says. The seniors also recommended
facilitating easy access to information by combining
images with text. According to the elders, these images
can provide a cue about the message in the text.
The research team plans to begin a six-month feasibility
study in November 2011, which will include 20
Spanish speaking and 20 English speaking senior
citizens who have reported a fall to the Emergency
Department at NYPH and have been released home.
According to Dr. Lucero, a prior fall and the fear
of falling are strong indicators for falling again. He
believes that the SAPHeR Program, by offering senior
citizens in Washington Heights access to evidencebased
strategies for fall prevention, will arm this
population with increased confidence and the ability
to once again perform daily activities independently
both at home and within the community.
An early prototype of the SAPHeR
tool under development

Wireless Informatics
for Safe and Evidence-based
(WISE) APN Care
For the last decade, a Columbia University School of Nursing team led by
Suzanne Bakken, DNSc has integrated informatics concepts and information
technologies into the curricula of the BS/MS (Entry-to-Practice, or ETP), MS and
DNP programs in order to promote patient safety and advance evidence-based
practice. Current members of the WISE-APN team are: Sarah Sheets Cook, DNP;
Karen Desjardins, DNP; Nicole Geller, MS; Rita Marie John, DNP; Elaine Larson, PhD;
Sunni Levine, MS; Rebecca Schnall, PhD; Patricia Stone, PHD; and Olivia Velez, PHD.
The overarching premise of WISE-APN is that informatics competencies are
vital because of the increase in information technologies in the healthcare
environment, and these competencies are best achieved when integrated into
clinical education. Information technology has been integrated into the curriculum
in the areas of patient safety reporting, diagnostic decision support and
mobile health (mHealth) applications for clinical documentation and guidelinebased
care.
WISE-APN patient safety reporting efforts aim to increase patient safety mindfulness
for ETP and MS students. Using a web-based hazard and near miss
reporting system developed by the WISE-APN team, ETP students enter a
report for each shift during twenty-five weeks of clinical rotations in which
they document hazards and near misses. At the master’s level, Dr. Rebecca
Schnall led the development of an ambulatory care patient safety survey that
students completed as part of a patient safety module for one of their courses.
Handheld computers have also been integrated into the master’s curriculum as
a result of the program.
In collaboration with Isabel Healthcare, Dr. Rita Marie John, Director of the
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) Program, currently leads a project to integrate
Isabel, a diagnostic decision support system, into the PNP and Family
Nurse Practitioner Programs and examine its influence on decision making.
Students record patient findings and preliminary differential diagnosis lists and
then query Isabel for its list of potential diagnoses for the findings. Isabel uses
approaches somewhat similar to IBM’s Watson (made famous by its Jeopardy
appearance) to associate patient findings with diagnoses. The positive effect
of Isabel on physician and medical student decision-making has been documented
in the peer-reviewed literature, but this is the first educational
evaluation with master’s students.
With funding from the Health Services and Resources Administration and
the vision of Vice Dean Sarah Cook, the School was a pioneer in mHealth for
nursing education. As early as 2002, students accessed information resources
and documented their clinical encounters using an application designed and
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informatics holds great potential to
close gaps in the quality of care in the
US healthcare system. She worries,
however, that the economic downturn
may cause traditional sources of
funding (i.e., academic-corporate partnerships,
foundations, internal awards,
government) to cut back, putting informatics
research and researchers at risk.
After graduating from Columbia,
Dr. Dykes’ research has focused on two
areas—basic terminology and patient
safety. Her terminology research
is about interoperability between
existing terminologies and expanding
terminology and information models
to represent the contribution of nurses
in the electronic health record. Her
team has also conducted patient
safety research with the goal of establishing
linkages between nursing care,
inter-professional communication and
improved patient outcomes. They have
developed an electronic fall prevention
toolkit which was tested on more
than 10,000 patients in four acute care
hospitals in the Boston area. They
found that patient care units with the
toolkit had significantly fewer falls than
older patients. Currently Dr. Dykes’
team is working on refining the fall
prevention software to improve its
effectiveness in younger patients.
These studies are important because
falls are a very common yet preventable
injury in hospitals. Her study was
the first fall prevention clinical trial that
provides evidence for using an informatics
intervention to reduce falls in
short-stay hospitals.
Roxana Maffei
Roxana Maffei is a first year
post-doctoral informatics researcher
at CUSON. She was introduced to the
field of informatics as a master’s student
at the University of Pennsylvania,
where she became intrigued by the
concept of incorporating qualitative
and quantitative analysis and datadriven
solutions toward improving
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implemented for mobile devices (personal digital assistants
and cellular telephones) by the project team. With
additional funding from the National Institute of Nursing
Research and National Cancer Institute, decision support
features were added to the documentation application
and students voluntarily participated in a randomized
controlled trial that tested the effect of the system on
adherence to practice guidelines for the assessment and
CEBP Funding Sources:
Health Services and Resources
Administration, National Institute of
Nursing Research, National Cancer
Institute
Selected Publications:
Desjardins K., Cook S.S., Jenkins
M.L., Bakken S. Effect of an informatics
for evidence-based practice
curriculum on nursing informatics
competencies. International Journal
of Medical Informatics; 2005;
74(11-12):1012-20.
Bakken S., John R., Currie L.
Advancing evidence-based practice
and patient safety through
integration of personal digital assistants
into clinical nursing education.
Nursing Outlook 2008; 56, 38-40.
Schnall R., Stone P., Currie L.,
Desjardins K., John R., Bakken S.
Development and initial validation of
a self-report instrument to measure
Patient Safety Attitudes, Skills, and
Knowledge (PS-ASK). Journal of Nursing
Scholarship 2008; 40(4):391-394.
Lee N.J., Chen E.S., Currie L.,
Donovan M., Hall E.K., Jia H., John R.,
Bakken S. The effect of a mobile
Clinical Instructor of Nursing Mary Moran speaks with children about glucose levels at
the Heights Health and Cultural Festival in August.
management of tobacco use, obesity and depression in
adults and children.
As information and communication technologies evolve,
faculty members continue to generate ways to integrate
them into the curriculum so that CUSON graduates are
well-prepared to use such technologies in their careers.
clinical decision support system for
the diagnosis of obesity and overweight
in acute and primary care
encounters. Advances in Nursing
Science 2009; 32(3):211-21.
Geller N., Bakken S., Currie L.,
Schnall R., Larson E.L. Infection
control hazards and near misses
reported by nursing students.
American Journal of Infection
Control 2010; 38(10):811-6.
Schnall R., Cook S.S., John R.,
Larson E.L., Stone P., Sullivan C.,
Bakken S. Patient safety issues in
nurse practitioner settings. Journal of
Nursing Care Quality (in press) 2011.

National Center for
Research Resources Awards
Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, Alumni
Professor of Nursing and Professor of
Biomedical Informatics, is an active
participant in Columbia University
Medical Center informatics initiatives
that focus on supporting clinical
and translational research. In 2006,
Columbia University received one
of the first Clinical and Translational
Science Awards (CTSA) from the
National Center for Research
Resources to fund the establishment
of the Irving Institute for Clinical
and Translational Research. School
of Nursing members include: Elaine
Larson, PhD; Nancy Reame, PhD;
and Dr. Bakken. Dr. Bakken leads
the Biomedical Informatics Core
Resource in the CTSA along with
Chunhua Weng, PhD, Department
of Biomedical Informatics. She
provides oversight for the WorkWeb
Investigator Profiles Directory and is
expanding the directory to include
community based organizations
and add other features to enhance
communication and collaboration
between CUMC and the Washington
Heights/Inwood community.
Dr. Bakken is also a senior investigator
on the Washington Heights/Inwood
Informatics Infrastructure for Comparative
Effectiveness Research (WICER)
project. Led by Adam Wilcox, PhD,
in the Department of Biomedical
Informatics, the WICER team is
creating an infrastructure that
integrates clinical data from
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital with
selected data from the Visiting Nurse
Service of New York (VNSNY) and
the Isabella skilled nursing facility.
These data sets will be linked with
comprehensive survey data that is
being collected from 12,000 community
residents by community health
workers under the leadership of
Bernadette Boden-Albala, PhD, at
Mailman School of Public Health.
Initially focused on hypertension
comparative effective research studies
conducted by J. Thomas Bigger, MD
(College of Physicians and Surgeons)
and Penny Feldman, PhD, Senior Vice
President for Research and Evaluation
at VNSNY, the WICER infrastructure
will be available to other researchers.
“To accelerate knowledge discovery
and application of research findings
in practice and policy,” Dr. Bakken
says, “it is critical to create tools that
support communication and collaboration
among researchers. Platforms
such as WorkWeb and other informatics
infrastructures that support
data integration from various types
of data resources will help us do just
that.”
For more information on the Irving
Institute of Medicine and WorkWeb
visit: http://irvinginstitute.columbia.
edu/workweb/welcome.htm.
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health outcomes. Upon graduation,
she returned to her family’s home in
Panama where she identified potential
areas of improvement within various
healthcare systems. In attempting to
diagnose the root cause of these inefficiencies,
she realized that a stronger
background in informatics would be
necessary.
“Healthcare is a business in which
life depends on accuracy,” Maffei
says. “Accuracy is improved by the
availability of meaningful data and
information-based knowledge.
Because informatics is centered
around collecting, organizing,
analyzing and managing information,
I believe that informatics is uniquely
positioned to facilitate increased
patient health outcomes.” By generating
demand for quality data and
providing structure and mechanisms
to interpret that data, she believes that
informatics plays a key role in defining
the future of the healthcare industry.
Her current research explores how
humans store, retrieve, discover, and
process information by filtering out
meaningless data. In her dissertation
research on shared decision-making
(SDM), she is working to identify and
assess SDM element combinations and
understand individual behavioral intent
by studying the raw data, its contextual
meaning and its usage and effects on
defined concepts. She expects that her
work will have practical clinical applications
down the road, including the
potential to influence change in both
patient and physician behaviors.
Sunmoo Yoon
Sunmoo Yoon, PhD, is a
RHeaDI post-doctoral
fellow who began
working as a nurse in
1999, the same year her
hospital employer
began using electronic
health records. “No more films, no
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Gregorio Luperon High School
for Science and Mathematics
Through a two-year supplement to the Center for
Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved (CEBP)
funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009, nineteen students and two science educators
at Gregorio Luperon High School for Science
and Mathematics participated in a Summer Research
Experience Education Program in 2009 and 2010.
Located across the street from Columbia University
Medical Center, Gregorio Luperon is one of five New York
City public high schools dedicated to educating newly
arrived immigrants. With approximately 600 students
enrolled, 100% of the student body is Latino and 86.2%
live below the poverty line. CEBP Director Suzanne
Bakken, DNSc, has been working with Principal Juan Villar
2010 participants learned a variety of clinical assessment skills;
Belaine Trinidad takes blood pressure of classmate, Gregorio Gonzales.
“I know for sure this
experience left a mark
in my life; it helped
me clarify what I
expect from myself in
the future. I know
now that I want to be
involved with helping
others as much as I
possibly can.”
for more than two years, and more recently with Assistant
Principal for Science and Mathematics Sarah Shams, on
this program.
The Summer Research Experience Education Program,
which was offered for four weeks in 2009 and eight
weeks in 2010, was in operation for four days each week.
Student time was divided between classroom instruction,
field experience and trips to New York’s Queens Science
Museum, the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium.
Program themes included health, science and research,
communication and cultural competence. Students
learned through lectures, discussion, interactive computer
programs and conducting interviews and recording
videographies in their community.

In order to incentivize students to enroll in the summer program rather than
seek summer employment, students were paid a “salary” and were expected
to treat the program as their summer job. One of the 2010 program graduates,
Juan Nolasco, said, “As the days went by, I realized that besides
wanting to become a computer software engineer, I was also interested in
psychology. The topics regarding human behavior and the impact it has
on health are simply astonishing.” A graduate of both summers, Belaine
Trinidad, writes, “I know for sure this experience left a mark in my life; it
helped me clarify what I expect from myself in the future. I know now that I
want to be involved with helping others as much as I possibly can.”
In 2010, the program was able to expand its programmatic activities in several ways.
In collaboration with the Center for Clinical Practice, Janice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD,
designed a set of clinically-related activities for the students, including having
them shadow a variety of clinicians in multiple inpatient and outpatient settings.
Students received standard patient education for diabetes mellitus at the Naomi
Berrie Diabetes Center and completed a certification course in cardiopulmonary
resuscitation. Second year students, under the supervision of the science
educators and program faculty, also created community health posters that
were presented in a poster session at the Columbia Community Partnership for
Health. Topics selected by the students to research included biobanking, physical
activity interventions, HIV/AIDS prevention and obesity prevention. The
posters will be on display for the remainder of 2011 at the Columbia Community
Partnership for Health, the School’s Clinical and Translational Science awardfunded
community engagement core resource site.
Students who participated in the program in 2009 and 2010 wore
pedometers to promote an increase in their physical activity level.
John Valdez displays his impressive step count.
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more handwriting.” She says. “[The
electronic health record] gave me a
more and more concrete picture of
what I would like to be and contribute
to health care in the future.”
Before using the electronic health record
system, Dr. Yoon was involved in several
research projects in which she found
reviewing paper charts unnecessarily
time consuming. “I believe that research
is the only way to improve health care,”
she says, “and informatics will help the
process of research.” She found paper
charts incredibly inefficient, citing how
just one project could easily involve charts
located in five or more different places.
Dr. Yoon is interested in promoting
physical activity using social media web
technology such as Twitter and wrote
her dissertation on the web mining of
tweets to assess Twitter in relation
to physical activity in order to discover
both who is tweeting and what they
are tweeting using social network analysis
and n-gram based text mining
technique.
Andrew Phillips
Before attending
CUSON, pre-doctoral
fellow Andrew Phillips
had a lengthy career as
an actuarial consultant
in the health and
pension markets and
as a self-employed software developer.
This experience gave him a strong
background in information technology
when he returned to school to become
a nurse. During his undergraduate
education, he was introduced to the
field of biomedical informatics by
Dr. Suzanne Bakken. Biomedical
informatics provided the perfect
combination of his new healthcare
background and experience as a PICU
nurse, with his prior technology and
consulting work in healthcare benefits.
“The increasing complexity of delivering
care combined with the need
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Bringing Mobile Technology
to Ghanaian Midwives:
A Millennium Villages Project
Olivia Vélez, PhD, MPH, is studying methods to enhance
point-of-care services for Ghanaian midwives using
mHealth, an informatics application that deals specifically
with mobile applications for health care. Her research
builds upon a decade of federally-funded mHealth work
for advanced practice nursing conducted by CUSON. In
developing countries, such as Ghana, where computers
are scarcer than mobile phones, mHealth applications
are used by healthcare workers to track patients and save
lives by having the ability to dispatch an ambulance to a
remote area, for example.
Ghana, a small West African country of 24 million, has
few physicians or nurses and is mainly rural. “The importance
of this work is really about supporting midwives,”
Dr. Vélez says. “Midwives provide most of the rural health
care in Ghana but are largely unsupported and they
often have low job satisfaction.” mHealth will enable
midwives to improve how patient data is captured and
shared throughout Ghana’s healthcare system. It will
provide midwives improved access to aggregate patient
Dr. Olivia Vélez uses the mHealth application on a tablet.
data, enabling them to translate their knowledge about
their patients and the population they are serving into
improved practice.
Dr. Vélez’s project began at FailFaire, a unique mobile
application exposition that highlights failed projects for the
purpose of analysis. Here she met Patricia Mechael, PhD,
Director of Strategic Application of Mobile Technologies
for Public Health and Development at the Earth
Institute at Columbia University. Drs. Vélez and Mechael
consulted with Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, and Dr. Andrew
Kanter (Department of Biomedical Informatics) and
developed this research project.
“Initially, my idea was to go to Ghana and figure out what
needed to be done,” Dr. Vélez explained. Her background
in computer science as a programmer/analyst and her PhD
coursework in research methods and informatics, were
important to her ability to develop the assessment. During
her first two-week stint, she shadowed midwives and nurses
in order to determine their needs and initiated a “mClinic”

mobile tool that captured patient
data such as radiology test results
and referral reports at the point of
care and allowed healthcare workers
to retrieve it later. She believed that
this mClinic application would also be
helpful for healthcare workers’ interactions
with patients remotely. “When it
rains in Ghana,” she says, “the roads are
too muddy to get
to the hospital.”
After returning to
the United States,
Dr. Vélez
continued to
develop the
project, communicating
online
via e-mail and
Skype with her
contacts at each
of the seven sites in Ghana as well
as the mobile application program
developers in Kenya. The research
team then hired a regional software
development company through
a grant from the OpenROSA
“When it rains
in Ghana, the
roads are too
muddy to get
to the hospital.”
consortium, whose goal is to keep
high tech jobs for African aid projects
within Africa.
To date, only five out of the seven
sites have cell reception. The other
two sites are still in the process
of having cell towers installed by
Sony Ericsson in partnership with
the Millennium Village Project at
the Earth Institute.
Until that happens,
Dr. Vélez will use
those two sites as
her control group
to analyze early
results.
The software
developers have
finished the
prototype, and
Dr. Vélez has completed initial
usability testing with the midwives.
She plans to implement the prototype
within the next year. Once
that is accomplished, she will
expand to other types of mobile
applications at twelve additional
Millennium Village sites, where
mHealth could be used to reorder
supplies, reduce paperwork and
promote quality improvements
in patient care. There are already
plans to develop a mobile application
to record morbidity and
mortality data in Tanzania.
“If we can show that it works and is
effective, we will continue to roll out
new projects,” Dr. Vélez says, “I think
this is going to be my life’s work.”
Fall 2011 • 15
to coordinate care among the many
specialists who provide treatment has
contributed to both high healthcare
costs and increased medical errors.
Informatics research will provide solutions
to reducing this complexity through
improved access to relevant information
and ultimately improving efficiencies and
reducing errors,” he says.
Mr. Phillips’ dissertation research
centers around developing policy
guidance on health information
exchange and electronic health
records. Much can be learned from
other complex industries such as
banking, finance and manufacturing
that have gone through their own
significant technical transformations.
Applying these lessons learned from
other markets to healthcare policy,
Mr. Phillips says, will result in better
decisions on federal and local healthcare
investments.
Manuel Co, Jr.
Manuel Co, Jr., a secondyear
doctoral student at
CUSON, sees informatics
as the integration of
computing and information
technology that can
be applied to real world
settings. “As clinicians,” he says, “we are
faced with the burden of chronic and
non-communicable diseases, the threat of
epidemics and pandemics, the rising costs
of health care, and the quality chasm that
still exists between the ideal care and the
actual care that is provided.” He believes
that informatics will play a crucial role in
health care by providing the critical information
infrastructure to support
population-based care outcomes.
A barrier exists, however, in what he
calls “the data conundrum.” He
maintains that data is at the heart of
any research activity and therefore
incomplete or inaccurate data can
both be costly and negatively impact
a study’s findings. “Ideally, data needs
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16 • Academic Nurse
Reducing Unnecessary
CAT scans for Children:
an Informatics-based Approach
Performing CAT scans for suspected traumatic brain
injury (TBI) in children contributes to a lifetime risk of
developing brain cancer of less than 2%, a small but
alarming percentage. Finding a way to screen children
with possible TMI in order to prevent unnecessary
CAT scans would contribute to reducing this risk. At
Columbia University School of Nursing, Associate
Research Scientist Barbara Sheehan, PhD, PNP, is
working on such a solution.
Dr. Sheehan’s study is a response to the findings of the
Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network
(PECARN), which studied 44,000 cases at 20 hospitals
nationwide. They developed nine screening questions to
create new guidelines to screen for TBI in admitted children
both over two-years-old and under two years of age.
Dr. Sheehan estimates that these guidelines could render
30-40% of the CAT scans ordered in these cases unnecessary,
and once applied could significantly reduce both
increased cancer risk and hospital costs. The problem, she
says, is implementing these guidelines into each hospital’s
work flow to make the screenings viable within the often
chaotic world of emergency rooms.
Peter Dayan, MD, who led the PECARN study,
approached the Department of Biomedical Informatics
at Columbia with this research question. He met with
Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, and asked her to collaborate in
developing a screening system. Partnered with Kaiser
Permanente, they embarked on a study of five academic
and six community hospitals that already use the electronic
health records system, EPIC, to develop a program,
analyze workflow and make recommendations.
Dr. Sheehan, a member of Dr. Bakken’s and Dr. Dylan’s team,
and her colleagues spent four months performing on-site
evaluations of the eleven hospitals. The biggest hurdle they
have faced is the mixed reviews that computer decision
These guidelines could
render 30-40% of the
CAT scans ordered in
these cases unnecessary,
and once applied could
significantly reduce both
increased cancer risk and
hospital costs.
support has received. Still a relatively new idea for many
practitioners, this system has primarily been used in orderentry
systems (e.g. point-of-sale pharmacy screening for
potential drug interactions) and much of the early literature
suggests it has been incorporated either poorly or not at all.
At each of the eleven sites, Dr. Sheehan’s team analyzed workflow
and utilized qualitative research methods to determine
ways to incorporate collection of necessary data elements
and risk recommendations within the existing culture of each
ER. They conducted focus groups with all levels of healthcare
workers, from doctors and nurses to managers and information
technology leadership, and worked with EPIC experts to
incorporate their screening tests and recommendations into a
user-friendly interface. “Our research is about understanding
the process of care and how we can best utilize tools available
to fit into that process in order to bring evidence to the
bedside,” Dr. Sheehan says.

The team has now submitted their recommendations to all participating sites.
Once they receive feedback, they will proceed with usability testing. This will
involve developing one or more prototypes to fit the culture of each hospital
and then conducting trials in which they will observe nurses as they react
to the computer screens, receive the information and process and act upon
the system’s recommendations. Once the new system has gone ‘live’ in each
hospital, they will conduct a time series study to examine the real impact
that the new program has on reducing unnecessary CAT scans for children
admitted to each ER with blunt head trauma.
“It has been challenging,” Dr. Sheehan says, “but it’s been really, really
interesting.”
Fall 2011 • 17
to be captured as part of the patient
care process, integrated with other
relevant data sources to enable data
sharing and exchange, be structured in
a meaningful and appropriate context
to support decision making and allow
the provider/researcher access to the
structured data for in-depth analysis.”
Kenrick Cato
RHeaDI pre-doctoral
fellow Kenrick Cato has
always been interested
in technology and
health care, but it wasn’t
until Dr. Bakken spoke
to one of his nursing
classes as an undergraduate that he first
became aware of the possibility of
combining the two. He believes that
informatics is integral to improving
universal health care and sees Dr.
Bakken at the forefront of the knowledge
creation supporting that cause.
Mr. Cato’s future research will be related
to his program of study in clinical decision
support. His work examines ways
to help clinicians, especially nurses,
provide safe and effective care to their
patients and their patients’ families. “In
the clinical space, your research always
involves people,” he says, “either
on the clinician side or the patient
side. Humans are difficult to research
because you can’t control them in the
same way you can a chemical reaction
or cells in a petri dish.”

18 • Academic Nurse

Laura Ardizzone
Phyllis Tarallo
July
The School of Nursing has
appointed the following postdoctoral
fellows for the upcoming year:
Laura ardizzone, dnP, Crna, dCC,
received a BSN from the University
of Pennsylvania and a MS and DNP
from Columbia University School
of Nursing. Laura is an Assistant
Professor of Clinical Nursing and
the Director of Clinical Education
for the Nurse Anesthesia Program.
She maintains a clinical practice at
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center where she provides anesthesia
services for a wide variety of
surgical procedures. Dr. Ardizzone
serves as a member of the board
of directors of the New York State
Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
Her research interests include
patient safety and patient outcomes.
For her post-doctoral project she
will spend 20% of her time for the
next year leading a project with a
team from the School of Nursing
and Memorial Sloan Kettering to
examine surgical patients’ knowledge
of hand-hygiene practices.
PhyLLis TaraLLo, dnP, has worked
as a family nurse practitioner in
gynecologic oncology and as a
co-investigator on women’s health
clinical trials for the past ten years.
In 2007, Dr. Tarallo joined the
faculty of the School of Nursing as
an Assistant Clinical Professor of
Nursing and as the director of the
Hepatobiliary Oncology Program
in the Center for Liver Disease and
Transplantation at NYPH. In this role
she began to develop her research
in detecting the impact of liver
Argerie Tsimicalis
Patricia Stone
Fall 2011 • 19
transplantation on cervical dysplasia
and human papilloma virus. As a
member of the Center for Clinical
Practice and a recipient of the
Dean’s Distinguished Post-Doctoral
DNP fellowship, she will spend 20%
of her time examining the impact of
immunosuppression on women at
high risk for HPV and the need for
closer monitoring for early detection
of cervical dysplasia. She plans
to initiate a women’s health program
in the Center for Liver Disease and
Transplantation.
argerie TsimiCaLis, Phd, completed
her doctoral education at the
Lawrence Bloomberg School of
Nursing, University of Toronto. For
her dissertation, she conducted a
mixed methods study to determine
the costs incurred by families with
children diagnosed with cancer.
This research was highlighted in the
Canadian National Post and was
supported by the Canadian Cancer
Society, the Canadian Institutes of
Health Research (CIHR), the Pediatric
Oncology Group of Ontario
(POGO), the University of Toronto,
and the Hospital for Sick Children.
Under the mentorship of
PaTriCia sTone, Phd, director of the
School’s Center for Health Policy,
and as a member of the Center,
Dr. Tsimicalis will spend one year investigating
the societal costs incurred by
other families with children diagnosed
with complex chronic conditions.
The Center for Interdisciplinary
Research to Reduce Antimicrobial
Resistance (CIRAR) appointed
Benjamin miko, md, as a postdoctoral
trainee to its training
grant, T90 NR010824. Dr. Miko is a
second-year fellow in the division

20 • Academic Nurse
Robert Lucero
of Infectious Diseases, NewYork-
Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia
University College of Physicians
and Surgeons. After graduating
from Boston University Medical
School in 2006, Dr. Miko completed
his internship and residency in
the Department of Medicine at
Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Miko’s research interests include
transmission of community-acquired
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA) through sexual activity.
August
RobeRt LuceRo, PhD, is the newest
faculty member on the federallyfunded
CUSON Training Nurse
Scientists in Interdisciplinary and
Translational Research in the
Underserved (TRANSIT) grant. He
received his PhD from the University
of Pennsylvania and is a trained
health services researcher. He
recently completed a post-doctoral
fellowship in informatics supported
by funding from the National
Institute of Nursing Research Center
for Evidence-based Practice (CEPB)
in the Underserved, Reducing Health
Disparities through Informatics
Program. Dr. Lucero began his
appointment as Assistant Professor
of Nursing at Columbia University
School of Nursing on July 1, 2010.
Dr. Lucero’s research focuses on the
quality of nursing care and patient
outcomes in hospitals and communities.
Currently, he is the Principal
Investigator of the Self-Assessment
via Personal Health Record (SAPHer)
feasibility CEBP study. The goal of
TRANSIT is to increase the number
of nurse scientists from underrepresented
backgrounds to conduct
Olivia Vélez
Suzanne Bakken
interdisciplinary and practicerelevant
research that will benefit
underserved urban communities.
As a recipient of a NIH loan repayment
grant, Dr. Lucero will dedicate
50% of his time for a year to conduct
research focused on clinical decision
support systems for healthcare
quality improvement.
oLivia vÉLez, PhD, was accepted to
the prestigious American Medical
Informatics Association Doctoral
Consortium on Sociotechnical
Issues in Medical Informatics.
During the consortium, Dr. Vélez
presented her preliminary dissertation
concept related to her
informatics work in Ghana and
received feedback from a group of
experts (see p.14). The consortium,
made possible by the National
Science Foundation, supported her
registration and travel expenses
for the larger American Medical
Informatics Association meeting.
September
Suzanne bakken, DnSc, and
PatRicia Stone, PhD, received a
$104,150 ARRA-funded supplement
to the “Reducing Health Disparities
through Informatics Pre-and Postdoctoral
Training Program” aimed at
expanding the comparative effectiveness
workforce. These special funds
will support May uchiDa, a predoctoral
trainee and SunMoo yoon, as
a postdoctoral trainee.
DR. Suzanne bakken won the Friends
of the National Institute of Nursing
Research’s (FNINR) highest honor,
the Pathfinder Award. This award
is given to acknowledge a nurse

Cheryl Murray-Francis
Kristine Kulage
Ruth Torres
researcher whose work has focused
on advancing deep understanding
of human health and health care,
and has been sustained by multiple
grants from NINR/NCNR. The
award was presented at the FNINR
Nightingala on September 29, 2010.
Cheryl Murray-FranCis, administrative
manager in the Dean’s office,
is president of the West Bronx
Neighborhood Association. The
Mount Hope Monitor interviewed
her in the September 2010 edition
about her role as a volunteer leader.
Cheryl has been instrumental in
creating an improved neighborhood
association in hopes of building a
stronger and more cohesive community
in her West Bronx district.
Kristine Kulage, Director, Office
of Scholarship and Research, and
ruth torres, Director of Finance,
co-wrote an article for the National
Council of University Research
Administrators NCURA Magazine
about their work and their relationships
with pre-award and post-award
offices and researchers.
robert luCero, PhD, was named
co-investigator on a two-year
$1.4 million grant to establish
the Northern Manhattan Center
of Excellence for Comparative
Effectiveness Research to Eliminate
Disparities (NOMA-CERED)
adjunct to the Columbia Center
for the Health of Urban Minorities
(CHUM). Jose Luchsinger MD, MPH,
Associate Professor of Medicine
and Epidemiology, is the principle
investigator.
Elaine Larson
Rita Marie John
Arlene Smaldone
Kara Ventura
October
Fall 2011 • 21
suzanne baKKen, DnsC; elaine
larson, PhD; and PatriCia stone,
PhD’s article “A nursing informatics
research agenda for 2008-2018:
Contextual influences and key
components” received the “Most
Outstanding Article in the Research
Category” award from Nursing
Outlook, the publication of the
American Academy of Nursing. They
were honored at a reception at the
American Academy of Nursing’s
annual meeting in November.
Four School of Nursing faculty members
were promoted to associate professor:
rita Marie John, eDD, DnP;
lori rosenthal, DnP;
arlene sMalDone, DnsC; and
Kara Ventura, DnP.

22 • Academic Nurse
right:
Dr. John W. Rowe
with Dr. Bobbie
Berkowitz
at the Future of
Nursing Panel
presentation in
November
Jennifer Smith
November
The School of Nursing’s Center
for Health Policy and NewYork-
Presbyterian Hospital co-hosted
a presentation and reception to
discuss the Future of Nursing:
Leading Change, Advancing Health:
A Report from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation on the Future
of Nursing Initiative at the IOM.
Dean BoBBie Berkowitz introduced
and moderated the event,
which more than 500 attended. The
keynote speaker, John w. rowe, MD,
served as a member of the IOM
committee that compiled the report.
The panel members were leaders in
healthcare delivery and health policy.
December
arlene SMalDone, DnSc,
Associate Professor of Clinical
Nursing, and Jennifer SMith, DnP,
Senior Associate Dean at the School
of Nursing, were inducted as Fellows
into the New York Academy of
Nursing on November 16, 2010.
Fellows are an elite group of physicians,
academicians and other
health professionals of the utmost
distinction who, taken together,
comprise a body of knowledge,
expertise and commitment that
is the foundation of the New York
Academy of Medicine’s strength.
They are leaders in thought, action
and vision who have dedicated
their lives and careers to working
to improve the health of the public.
PhD StuDent anD JonaS Scholar,
annie rohan, was also inducted as
an associate member.
For the past four years, an interdisciplinary
team including
Patricia Stone, PhD, Ann Bartel, PhD,
from Columbia University Business
School, and Ciaran Phibbs, PhD, a
health economist from Stanford
University, have been examining the
human capital of the Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA) nursing
workforce and cost and quality
outcomes. Their previous work
was funded by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation. The team
received a $580,200 VA Health
Services Research and Development
Service award to extend their work.
This two-year award will permit the
team to conduct a study entitled,
“Regular and Off-Shift Nursing:
Impacts on Patient Outcomes and
Costs of Care.”
kriStine kulage, director of
the Office of Scholarship and
Research, presented a discussion
on “Sharing Facilities and
Administrative Cost Recovery

to Facilitate Interdisciplinary
Research” at the 2010 Annual
Meeting of the National Council of
University ResearchAdministrators
(NCURA) in Washington, DC. Her
presentation was based on an
article of the same name by Ms.
Kulage, ElainE larson, PhD, and
MElissa BEgg, scD that was published
in the March 2011 issue of
Academic Medicine. Ms. Kulage was
also invited to serve a second year
as the Biomed Corner’s contributing
editor for NCURA Magazine.
January
arlEnE sMalDonE, Dnsc, was
elected treasurer of the Eastern
Nursing Research Society (ENRS)
board of directors.
ThE Pan aMErican hEalTh
organizaTion/WorlD hEalTh
organizaTion (Paho/Who) re-designated
the School of Nursing as a
PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center
for Advanced Practice Nursing for a
period of four years (2011-2015). This
re-designation is the cornerstone of
the School’s global initiatives, which
are to strengthen the human resources
research with a primary focus on
nursing; assist in developing research
capacity among leading nursing institutions
in several countries; to strengthen
the systems to train, precept, and
supervise nursing personnel who are
HIV primary care providers in several
heavily affected countries; and to assist
in strengthening the training of nurses
in the leading schools in the countries
affected by conflict or disasters by integrating
emergency preparedness into
curricula and national plans.
Richard Garfield
Fall 2011 • 23
The Anesthesia Program Class of 2011
with the 2011 SRNA Spirit Award.
richarD garfiElD, DrPh, Henrik
H. Bendixen Professor of International
Nursing, was quoted
extensively in the January issue of
Scientific American in the article,
“Health Lags in Haiti One Year
After the Earthquake.”
February
JuDy honig, DnP, EDD, Associate
Dean and Professor, and
roBErT lucEro, PhD, Assistant
Professor of Nursing, were named
Fellows of the New York Academy
of Medicine and join many other
School of Nursing faculty who are
also members of this elite group.
Dr. Honig also received funding for
the study, “DNP/APRN Capacity
in Comprehensive Care (DAC3)
Survey” from the School of Nursing’s
Center for Health Policy and Center
for Clinical Practice.
The New England Assembly of
Student Registered Nurse
Anesthetists Outstanding Clinical
and/or Academic Achievement
Award was awarded to two of the
School’s students; lEah grangE and
holly BoycE. The Class of 2011 and
Class of 2012 were also awarded the

24 • Academic Nurse
Left to right: Jessica Lemen, Kristina Kordesch and Laura
Villegas at the 23rd Annual ERNS Session.
2011 SRNA Spirit Award by the New
York Association of Nurse Anesthetists
for their efforts during National Nurse
Anesthesia Week, January 2011.
March
Merika Goldstein, rn, current
student in the School of Nursing’s
Family Nurse Practitioner Program
and graduate of phase one of
the Combined BS/MS Program,
has been named the New York
Presbyterian Hospital Rookie of the
Year and Nurse of Excellence. The
award was presented at the annual
NYPH gala on April 7 at the Waldorf
Astoria.
Combined BS/MS students
laura VilleGas, kristina kordesch,
and Jessica leMen were awarded
1st place in the BS/MS Poster and
Exposition Category at the Eastern
Nursing Research Society (ENRS)
23rd Annual Scientific Session. Their
presentation entitled, “Implementing
Evidence-based Practice: Shared
Strategies and Insights from the
Perspective of Nursing Students”
generated great interest and
discussion at the conference.
Kathleen Hickey
Barbara Blanchard-Lewis
kathleen hickey, edd, anP-Bc, FnP,
Assistant Professor of Nursing, is
subcontract Principal Investigator
on “Home ECG Monitoring to
Detect Allograft Rejection Following
Heart Transplantation,” a five-year
multi-site R01 newly funded by
the National Institute of Nursing
Research and the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute of
the NIH. The overall goal of the
project is to determine whether
daily monitoring of the heart transplant
recipient’s electrocardiogram
(ECG) using a simple home device
with transmission to an ECG Core
Laboratory would provide an early
biomarker for acute transplant
rejection. This $1.1 million subcontract
award supports activities at
the Columbia University project
site. sally aBoelela, Phd, Assistant
Professor of Clinical Nursing, serves as
the co- investigator for this study.
cheryl Murray-Francis,
Administrative Manager in the
Office of the Dean at the School of
Nursing, was honored by Senator
Ruth Hassell-Thompson and
Assemblywoman Vanessa L. Gibson
as part of Her Story, a Celebration of
Women’s History Month at the Bronx
Museum of the Arts. Ms. Murray-Francis
is an active leader in her West Bronx
community.
BarBara Blanchard-lewis, Jd, staff
associate in the Center for Children
and Families, was selected to receive
the 2011 Emily Fenichel Award
bestowed by New York Zero to Three
organization to acknowledge “unsung
heroes” whose work meets the needs
of infants, toddlers and their families.
Ms. Blanchard-Lewis was chosen for
her current work with the Center

including consultation to a novel
co-parenting support program
offering triadic mental health
support to incarcerated mothers,
their children in the community,
and their alternate community caregivers.
This experience follows Ms.
Blanchard-Lewis’ many previous
years dedicated to program development
for incarcerated mothers.
The Center also provided consultation
to an independent videographer,
Jennifer McShane, to support development
of her film, “Mothers of
Bedford.” The film was accepted by
the Toronto Film Festival and shown
in April 2011.
The Faculty of Medicine of the
Columbia University Medical Center
approved the appointment of
Mary Woods Byrne, Phd, retroactive
to September 1, 2010 with the title:
Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish
Professor of Clinical Health Care for
the Underserved and Professor of
Clinical Anesthesiological Sciences.
April
elaine larson, Phd, was selected
for the Sigma Theta Tau International
Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. The
induction was held at the International
Nursing Research Congress in July in
Cancun, Mexico.
Patricia stone, Phd, has accepted
the position of PhD Program director,
which began on July 1, 2011. She
will assume this position from Nancy
Reame, PhD. Dr. Stone is also the
director of the School’s Center for
Health Policy.
Dean Bobbie Berkowitz
Fall 2011 • 25
dean BoBBie BerkoWitz, Phd,
was elected as a fellow in the New
York Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Berkowitz was also elected as a
member of the Board of Directors
of the Visiting Nurse Service of
New York and its subsidiary, Visiting
Nurse Service of New York Home
Care, and as a member of Health
Care Executive Forum of New York
Community Trust, founded in 1982
to give women in senior health care
executive positions in the New York
metropolitan region an opportunity to
network and share ideas.
In addition, Dr. Berkowitz was
appointed to the National Quality
Forum’s Measure Applications
Partnership (MAP) Coordinating
Committee. Her charge is to provide
input to Health and Human Services
on the selection of performance
measure for use in public reporting,
performance-based payment and
other programs. MAP is a collaboration
of organizations representing
major stakeholder groups, individual
experts and federal agencies
with the goal of supporting better,
more affordable care. She was also
appointed to IOM Living Well with
Chronic Disease Committee.
May
School of Nursing alumnus,
hussein tahan, dnsc, rn, was
appointed to the position of
Director, Nursing Education and
Research at NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital. Dr. Hussein obtained his
Doctor of Nursing Science degree
from Columbia in 2003 and is a
nurse leader with 24 years experience
in nursing and hospital

26 • Academic Nurse
Six of the 102 Sigma Theta Tau 2011 inductees.
operations, Joint Commission
accreditation, quality performance
and management, project management
and domestic and international
healthcare consulting.
On Monday, May 16, 2011,
AlphA ZetA chapter of Sigma Theta
Tau International Honor Society
of Nursing inducted 102 new
members. Membership is by invitation
to baccalaureate and graduate
nursing students who demonstrate
excellence in scholarship and to
nurse leaders exhibiting exceptional
achievements in nursing.
More than 340,000 members have
been inducted worldwide, and
with more than 120,000 active
members, Sigma Theta Tau is the
second largest nursing organization
in the world. Members reside
in more than 90 countries and sixtyone
percent of active members hold
master’s and/or doctoral degrees.
Established in 1964, Alpha Zeta
chapter of Sigma Theta Tau celebrates
its 47th anniversary this
year. The chapter has over 2,000
members and sponsors an annual
CUSON alumni reunion breakfast as
well as funds competitive research
proposals and sends students to
scholarly conferences.
Alpha Zeta chapter is composed
of members from Columbia
University Teacher’s College and
Columbia University School of
Nursing. This year, the keynote
speaker at the induction ceremony
was DeAn BoBBie BerkowitZ. The
research award was presented
to Argerie tsimicAlis, phD, for
her study, “Testing the usability
of SiSom, an interactive assessment
tool to enhance the symptom
management of children with cancer
in Northern Manhattan.”
cuson alumna patricia Atkins murphy, Drph,
was awarded the 2011 Dorothea M.
Lang Pioneer Award from the ACNM
Foundation during the American
College of Nurse-Midwives 56th
Annual Meeting & Exposition in San
Antonio, TX, on May 25. Dr. Murphy
received the award for her exceptional
leadership and contributions to
the midwifery profession. Dr. Murphy
is a graduate of the Nurse Midwifery
program at CUSON where she also
taught for several years. She has
served as the manager of the clinical
research program in the Division
of Family Planning at Columbia
University’s department of obstetrics
and gynecology, and was a
consulting clinician/epidemiologist
at the Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine Research in
Women’s Health at Columbia. She is
currently a tenured professor at the
University of Utah College of Nursing
where she holds the Annette Poulson
Cumming Presidential Endowed
Chair in Women’s and Reproductive
Health and is the executive director of
graduate programs. Dr. Murphy has
authored numerous publications and
is a peer reviewer for several health
journals. She has been a principal or

co-investigator on numerous studies
of contraception, and has served
ACNM as a section chair for the
Division of Research and has been a
member of the Editorial Board of the
Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health
for over 20 years. She also serves
on the Board of Directors for the
Association of Reproductive Health
Professionals.
May Uchida, MSN, GNP-Bc, received
the 2011-2012 TIRAR predoctoral
fellowship. Ms. Uchida will work to
build interdisciplinary research skills
that will help strengthen her dissertation
that examines policy changes
in infection prevention for long term
care settings.
Janice Izlar
June
Fall 2011 • 27
KathleeN hicKey, edd, aNP-Bc, FNP,
Assistant Professor of Nursing, was
elected to the American Academy
of Nursing. The Academy serves
the public and the nursing profession
by advancing health policy
and practice through the generation,
synthesis, and dissemination
of nursing knowledge. AAN’s 1,500
members – known as fellows – are
nursing’s most accomplished leaders
in education, management, practice
and research. They have been
recognized for their extraordinary
nursing careers.
JaNice izlar, crNa ’06, was named
President-Elect of the American
Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
CUSON students celebrate the completion of
the first phase of the Combined BS/MS Program.

28 • Academic Nurse
welcoming New Faces
Associate Dean of Finance and Administration
Jason Wright, MPa, joined CUSON in March after previously
serving as Chief Financial Officer for the New York
City Economic Development Corporation. In his new
role, he oversees finances and all administrative and
operational issues within the School. In his spare time,
Mr. Wright enjoys extreme sports and just competed
in New York City’s Muddy Buddy Bike & Run obstacle
course alongside his nephew.
Assistant Professor of Nursing Jing Jing shang, PhD
joined the faculty of the School in June. Originally from
China, she graduated with a PhD from Johns Hopkins
University in 2009 and then completed a two-year postdoctoral
fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing. Dr. Shang is married with two young
children. This fall she will co-teach a new master’s-level
class with Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, “Application and
Evaluation of Research.”

Assistant Professor of Nursing Lusine Poghosyan, Phd,
joined the faculty of the School in June. Originally
from Armenia, Dr. Poghosyan earned her PhD and also
completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Nursing before serving for three
years as Assistant Professor of Nursing and Public Health
at Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern
University in Boston. When she’s not teaching, she loves
reading and exploring New York City. This fall, she will
co-teach the master’s-level nursing class, “Application
and Evaluation of Research” with Dr. Shang.
Fall 2011 • 29
Christie Jeon, sCd, was appointed Associate
Research Scientist in July. Dr. Jeon received her ScD in
Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health
in 2010 and has since held a research fellowship in
Epidemiology at Mailman School of Public Health. Her
research interests lie in the interaction between metabolic
disorders and infectious diseases as well as social determinants
of infectious diseases. In her new position, she
will investigate risk factors for hospital infections and assist
faculty, fellows and graduate students in conjunction with
the Office of Scholarship and Research.

30 • Academic Nurse
Center for Children and Families
On June 24, the Center for Children
and Families held its first advisory
board convocation and University
symposium in the rotunda of Low
Memorial Library. Center director and
Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish
Professor of Clinical Health Care for
the Underserved, Mary Woods Byrne,
began the day with an overview of
the Center and why its mission is so
crucial. “Children are one-third of our
world and all of our future,” Dr. Byrne
began. The Center’s stated mission is:
“to improve the health of children and
families at risk through the generation
and sharing of clinical and research
knowledge, consultation, education,
advocacy, and promotion of innovative
clinical practice.”
Following Dr. Byrne’s remarks,
members of the advisory board
presented their work with the Center
and the community. CUSON alumna
Sarah Shipley Stone, member of the
School’s Board of Visitors, remarked
that the greatest financial need for
mothers continues to be affordable
housing. Carmen Rodriguez, PhD,
director of Columbia University Head
Start and Early Head Start, who works
with parents of Mexican, Ecuadorian
and Dominican infants and toddlers,
believes that facilitating stronger physical
and emotional bonds between
parents and children is another key
concern. Other members of the advisory
board: John M. Driscoll, Jr. MD,
R.S. Carpentier Professor Emeritus and
Chairman Pediatrics (retired), Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital NYPH;
“Children are one-third of our
world and all of our future.”
Chandra King Villaneuva, MPA,
Policy Analyst Center for Public
Policy Priorities; Beth Quill, Children’s
Defense Fund; Barbara Margolies,
Founder and Executive Director
International Organization for Women
and Development; and Daniel

Schecter, MD, Chef de l’Unité de
Liaison de Pedophychiatrie et de
Recherche Parents-Enfant, Hôpitaux
Universitaires de Genève et la Faculté
de Médecine, Université de Genère
also spoke about their work.
Following a poster presentation and
lunch, guest speaker Karen Hein, MD
delivered the keynote address entitled,
“Evolution, Revolution, Devolution:
What in the World is Happening with
Young People?” Dr. Hein, a clinical
professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in New York and
immediate past executive director of
the William T. Grant Foundation, has
spent forty years practicing and advocating
for and researching children’s
health care and health policy, both in
the United States and abroad.
For additional information about the
Center for Children and Families,
please visit:
www.nursing.columbia.edu/ctrChFam
opposite:
left to right, front row:
Judy Honig, Carmen Rodriguez,
Mary Byrne, Beth Quill,
Sally Stone, Barbara Margolies.
second row: Njoki Ng’ang’a,
Daniel Schecter, Joan Kearney,
Penny Buschman, Chandra Villanueva,
Karen Hein, Lori Goshin
top: The CFCF Advisory Board
at the first Symposium
middle: left to right:
Penny Buschman, Mary Byrne,
Karen Hein
bottom: Students enjoying
breakfast at the CFCF event
at Low Library
Fall 2011 • 31

32 • Academic Nurse
2010-2011 gifts & grants
Rachel Lyons teaches a class of DNP students.

Government and Private Funding
for Research and Training
July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN
Project Title: Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $451,419 Total Budget: $2,317,298
Center for Evidenced-Based Practice
in the Underserved Projects:
Principal Investigator: Robert J. Lucero, PhD, MPH, RN
Project Title: Self Assessment via a Personal Health Record
(SAPHeR)
Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP, CDE
Project Title: Adolescents with Diabetes Engage in Problem
Solving through Tailored Intervention (ADEPT)
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN
Project Title: Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved
(ARRA-Funded Competitive Revision)
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $218,478 Total Budget: $218,478
Center for Evidenced-Based Practice in the Underserved
(ARRA-Funded Competitive Revision) Projects:
Principal Investigator: Robert J. Lucero, PhD, MPH, RN
Project Title: Self Assessment via a Personal Health Record
(SAPHeR) (Supplement)
Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD, MBA, MPH, RN
Project Title: Video Podcasting (ViP) for Symptom Self-
Management for PLWH
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN
Project Title: Reducing Health Disparities through Informatics
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $196,302 Total Budget: $965,155
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN
Project Title: Reducing Health Disparities through Informatics
(ARRA-Funded Supplement)
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $104,150 Total Budget: $104,150
Fall 2011 • 33
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN
Project Title: Wireless Informatics Support
for Evidence-based APN Care
Program Funding Source: DHHS-HRSA
Current Budget: $205,631 Total Budget: $662,798
Principal Investigator: Mary Woods Byrne, PhD, PNP
Project Title: Maternal and Child Outcomes of a Prison Nursery Program
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $398,475 Total Budget: $1,598,450
Principal Investigator: Pamela de Cordova, MS
Project Title: Off-Shift Nursing and Quality Patient Outcomes
Program Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Current Budget: $37,800 Total Budget: $37,800
Principal Investigator: Eileen Evanina, CRNA
Project Title: Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Grant
Program Funding Source: Health Resources and Service
Administration
Current Budget: $22,259 Total Budget: $22,259
Principal Investigator: Kathleen Hickey, EdD, ANP, FNP
Project Title: CHANGE: Changing Healthcare and Nursing
through Genetics
Program Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Current Budget: $116,080 Total Budget: $350,052
Subcontract Principal Investigator: Kathleen Hickey, EdD, ANP, FNP
Project Title: Home ECG Monitoring to Detect Allograft Rejection
Following Heart Transplantation
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $216,384 Total Budget: $1,123,104
Principal Investigator: Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP
Project Title: Advanced Education Training Traineeships
Program Funding Source: Health Resources and Service Administration
Current Budget: $109,285 Total Budget: $109,285
Principal Investigator: Judy Honig, DNP, EdD
Project Title: DNP/APRN Capacity in Comprehensive Care
Program Funding Source: Columbia University School of Nursing
Current Budget: $10,000 Total Budget: $10,000

34 • Academic Nurse
Principal Investigator: Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP
Project Title: Nurse Faculty Loan Program
Program Funding Source: Health Resources and Service
Administration
Current Budget: $50,815 Total Budget: $50,815
Principal Investigator: Haomiao, Jia, PhD
Project Title: Automated Fall and Injury Risk Assessment for
Behavioral Health
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Mental Health
Current Budget: $80,500 Total Budget: $161,000
Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN
Project Title: Children in Chronic Care Facilities:
How Often Are They Touched?
Program Funding Source: Deb Worldwide Healthcare, Inc.
Current Budget: $18,736 Total Budget: $18,736
Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN
Project Title: Distribution of the Costs of
Antimicrobial Resistant Infections
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $234,543 Total Budget: $1,659,767
Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN
Project Title: Impact of Automated Surveillance on MRSA Isolation
(Cost-Extension)
Program Funding Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research
Current Budget: $120,000 Total Budget: $120,000
Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN,
Franklin Lowy, MD (Multiple PIs)
Project Title: Risk Factors for Spread of
Staphylococcus aureus in Prisons
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Current Budget: $311,485 Total Budget: $1,502,853
Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN
Project Title: Role of Hands and Environmental Surfaces in Spread
of H1N1 Virus Program
Funding Source: The Clorox Company
Current Budget: $146,134 Total Budget: $146,134
Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN
Project Title: Student Utilization of Hygiene Deterrents to Sickness
Program Funding Source: The Clorox Company
Current Budget: $116,181 Total Budget: $116,181
Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD, RN
Project Title: Training in Interdisciplinary Research
to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $215,506 Total Budget: $1,056,914
Principal Investigator: Nancy Reame, PhD, RN
Project Title: Jonas Nurse Leaders Program
Program Funding Source: Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence
Current Budget: $44,000 Total Budget: $88,000
Principal Investigator: Nancy Reame, PhD, RN
Project Title: Jonas Nursing Scholars Program
in Interdisciplinary Research
Program Funding Source: Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence
Current Budget: $140,000 Total Budget: $607,500
Principal Investigator: Nancy Reame, PhD, RN
Project Title: Training Nurse Scientists in Interdisciplinary &
Translational Research in the Underserved (TRANSIT)
Program Funding Source: Health Resources and Services Administration
Current Budget: $235,068 Total Budget: $735,350
Principal Investigator: Jennifer A. Smith, DNP, MPH, MBA, NP-C
Project Title: Hyde and Watson Foundation Lab Equipment Grant
Program Funding Source: Hyde and Watson Foundation
Current Budget: $15,000 Total Budget: $15,000
Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD, MPH, RN
Project Title: Prevention of Nosocomial Infections and Cost-
Effectiveness Refined (P-NICER)
Program Funding Source: National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Nursing Research
Current Budget: $703,883 Total Budget: $1,906,665
Subcontract Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD, MPH, RN
Project Title: Regular and Off-Shift Nursing: Impacts on Patient
Outcomes and Cost of Care
Program Funding Source: VA
Current Budget: $77,900 Total Budget: $159,800
Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD, MPH, RN
Project Title: Understanding the Changing ICP Role Grant
Program Funding Source: Blue Shield of California Foundation
Current Budget: $187,577 Total Budget: $362,332
Principal Investigator: Argerie Tsimicalis, PhD, RN
Project Title: Testing the Usability of SiSom
Program Funding Source: Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society
Current Budget: $2,500 Total Budget: $2,500

WHO Collaborating Center
for Advanced Practice Nursing
Students Go Global
This August, with the support of the
School’s WHO Collaborating Center
for Advanced Practice Nursing,
eight nurse practitioner students
and two faculty members traveled
to La Romana, Dominican Republic
to care for patients at La Clinica, an
HIV/AIDS and primary care clinic.
La Clinica was originally developed
by Dr. Stephen Nicholas, Professor
of Pediatrics and Associate Dean of
Admissions at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The clinic has hosted medical and
public health students from Columbia
for many years, but the School of
Nursing was the ‘missing piece.’
This two-week clinical experience is
the first of, hopefully, many School
of Nursing student opportunities to
learn first-hand the health and life of
another culture, as well as to share
health information with staff, patients
and families.
While students will receive clinical
course credit for the time in La
Romana, transportation and housing
costs were covered by financial
support from the WHO Center. The
School believes that this and other
cross-cultural exchanges are vital for
student learning and for the involved
institutions.
Fall 2011 • 35
Your generous support to the WHO
Center at the School of Nursing will
help to ensure that future students
will be able to be true global citizens
and healthcare providers. Please
consider making a gift to help build a
student travel fund for future generations
of Columbia nurses.
For more information on how you can
support the WHO Center, contact
Jennifer Smith, DNP, at
jas255@columbia.edu.

36 • Academic Nurse
Gifts & Pledges for Special Purposes
July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011
$100,000 and up
Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professorship
Guilford Fund
Nursing Excellence Through Evidence-Based
Practice Program
Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence through the
Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund
Scholarships in Memory of Dean Helen Pettit for
Undergraduate Nursing Students
Scholarships in Memory of May Rudin for
Undergraduate Nursing Students
Scholarships for Oncology Students
The Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation
$50,000 to $99,999
SimMan 3G Simulator
The Hugoton Foundation
Laura Schwartz Hirshman ’59 Scholarship Fund
Karl Hirshman
Lincoln Fund Scholars For Minority Students
The Lincoln Fund
Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professorship
Anonymous
Hilda Hodges Jones ’79 and Christopher Jones
Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45
Elena and Michael Patterson
$25,000 to $49,999
Dr. Scholl Foundation Scholarship
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Housing Assistance for Women Students
LCU Foundation
$10,000 to $24,999
Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65
Scholarship Fund
The Devonwood Foundation
Charles A. Frueauff Scholarship
Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc.
Key Lab Equipment and Accessories
The Hyde and Watson Foundation
Dorothy Rogers Professorship Endowment Fund
Dorothy Metcalf Charitable Foundation
Joan S. Puydak Nursing Scholarship Endowment
Fund in Honor of Emma Regina Dahlstrom, RN
Joan Seaburgh Puydak ’56
Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professorship
Sally Shipley Stone ’69 and Charles L. Stone, Jr.
$5,000 to $9,999
Jasper Kane Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund
Eileen Kane ’64
Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professorship
Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69 and Dick Fleming
$1,000 to $4,999
Psychiatric Mental Health Scholarship
Jeannemarie Baker ’90
up to $999
Anesthesia Alumni Conference
Laura Ardizzone ’04,’10
William M. Enlow ’04, ’10
Ines DeBaun Berndt Nursing
Scholarship Endowment Fund
Vincent C. DeBaun
Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professorship
Lucy J. Wierum ’51
Nancy Hart Markgraf ’55 Scholarship Fund
Richard R. Jeffrey
Psychiatric Mental Health Scholarship
Barbara Williams Bunger ’65
Joan Margaret Dietrich ’92
Ann Rehfeld Fagan ’55
Nancy Dinan Granger ’80
Helene Demontreux Houston ’68
Mary C. Keane ’97
Valerie F. Kolbert ’84
Michelle Ann Latimer ’02, ’04
Gwendolyn Elaine Mercer ’00
Robin Lee Oden ’98
Ita B. O’Sullivan ’95
Nancy Higginson Pitney ’85
Stacy Shannon Tammi ’91, ’93
Scholarships in Memory of Lore Mendelsohn
For Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care
Sub-Specialty Students
Paul R. Mendelsohn and Family
Who Collaborating Center For Advanced
Practice Nursing Gift
Phyllis Farley

Annual Fund Gift List
July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011
NightiNgale Society
$5,000 and Above
Donors to the Nightingale Society
will have a scholarship awarded
in their name or the name of a
designee at the annual School of
Nursing Scholarship Reception in
October.
$25,000 and Above
Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45*
Joan Tompkins Wheeler ’46*
$10,000 – $24,999
Anonymous*
Anonymous*
Anonymous
Ellen Gottesman Garber ‘76*
Estate of Anita M. Harris ’40
Joan Seaburgh Puydak ’56*
Richard D. Simmons*
$5,000 – $9,999
Anonymous
Laura Pearson Armstrong ’85*
Karen Krueger Desjardins ’98,’05^*
Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57*
Marilyn Johnsen Hamel ’51*
Lenore Frank Hardy ’56*
Kathleen McCooe Nilles ’89*
Meredith Rapp ’61
Maxwell Society
$2,500 – $4,999
Catherine Hirsch Sugarman ’41
Sally-Ann McCarthy Whelan ’61*
Pettit Society
$1,000 – $2,499
Jean Lagakis Benner ’42*
Bobbie Berkowitz^
Frannie Kelly Burns ’77*
Mary Ann Kelly Collini ’64*
Anthony B. Evnin
Phyllis Farley
Ruth Nussbaumer Fenton ’45*
Stephen Giacona
Jean Herz
Janice Jones Izlar ’06 *
Karen A. Kennedy ’86
Edna Higgins Khouri ’41
Sally Ruffner Leiter ’66
Deborah Keeler Lott
Margaret E. Mahoney
Liliane E. Morin ’79
Lillian Schuttger Price ’43*
Anna Draper Shaw ’66*
Barbara Robison Sporck-Stegmaier ’46*
Marilyn Miller Stiefvater ’54*
Alice Daley Thomas ’51*
Thea Vink*
Megan Christian Wright ’82*
gill Society
$500 – $999
Ellen Soley Adkins ’81*
Donald Richard Boyd ’06
Joseph Patrick Colagreco ’91*
Dorothy Davies Colfer ’69*
Angela Clarke Duff ’70*
Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69*
Mary Baldwin Foster ’45
Susan Patel Furlaud ’09
Elizabeth Miller Garrettson ’61
Edna Fishburn Halstead ’53
Margaret Moore Hazlett ’68*
Nancy Gilbride Hill ’52*
Margot K. Hoercher
Linda Lyon Holton ’61
Denise DeMarzo Houghton ’78
Mary Sue Marburger Hunia ’70
Elaine Godtfring Kennedy ’46
Patricia Smith Langley ’61*
Maria Coutretsis Magliacano ’06*
Margaret E. Mahoney
Linda Norton Moulton ’76
Marian Higginbotham Niles ’69*
Sara H. Patterson ’86
Martha Cohn Romney ’81*
Kathleen Craven Saslow ’76
Emily DiYulio Scinto ’51*
Carol Widmaier Scott ’63*
Christina Alvarado Shanahan ’81
Jennifer A. Smith ’05^*
Sally Shipley Stone ’69*
Marjorie Hutchins Taylor ’45*
Judith Slocum Van Derburgh ’53*
Holly Grim White ’73*
Elize Poestkoke Wright ’53*
Beth Ellen Zedeck ’04,’06*
RogeRS Society
$250 – $499
Amy Cohen Ansehl ’94,’96*
Nancy B. Barton ’83*
Shelly V. Bazes ’96
Diane Rankin Behrens ’64*
Adele Anne Bradford ’05
Debra Jean Brittain ’04
Mary Duncan Brust ’81
Jane Richardson Carmichael ’63*
Katharine Owen Carpenter ’88*
Jeanne Fischer Cherry ’53
James Francis Clancy ’05 ’08
Elizabeth Gross Cohn ’09^
Maria R. Corsaro ’83^*
Carole Robertson Coviello ’67
Patricia Healy De Sear ’68*
Una Broe Doddy ’82*
Barbara McManamy Fildes ’83
Jessica Elizabeth Finck ’98 ’01
Shira A. Gordon ’86*
Elizabeth Marker Granicher ’48*
The Heimbold Foundation
Sheila Horwitz Hollander ’59*
Kathryn Hannam Hayes ‘59
Karolyn Linda Cole LeStage ’61
Eleanor Lipman Luhrs ’56
Jo Ann Scranton Main ’54*
Elizabeth J. McCormack
Marlene E. McHugh ’89, ’91, ’08^*
Diana Vietor Mundy ’62
Patricia Stainton Neer ‘47
Diana Bassil Nilsen ’81*
Ora Obhas ’06*
Elayne Soley Orr ’50*
Phoebe Curtis Reynolds ’56*
Jane Crowell Rieffel ’46
Linda Harnsberger Rose ’86*
Roxana I. Sasse ’92, ’11*
Carol Windmaier Scott ’63
Jean Fisher Stonesifer ’50*
Sandra M. Sweetnam ’76
Phebe Thorne ’64*
Rita Perrine Trayner ’55*
Shirley E. Van Zandt ’79 ’85
Joyce Ragonese Volterra ’88
Mary-Jo Diaz Weber ’76
Jane Herbert Williams ’44
NeighboRS Society
$100 – $249
Barbara Shaw Abbott ‘57*
Sally Aboelela^
Mary Jane Adams ’47*
Mary Jane Reynolds Adams ’56
Deborah Albright ’88
Grania Beauregard Allport ’78
Janice Paul Arcidiacono ’59*
Mila Swyers Aroskar ’61
Jeanne Auerbach ’84
Suzanne Bakken^
Antoinette Baleba-Lekane ’09
Susan L. Bender ’84
Fall 2011 • 37
Susan Scully Bernet ’66
Susan Miller Birley ’89
Elizabeth Leggett Black ’52*
Susan Brown Boothby ’63
Joy A. Boscove ’76, ’80
Felesia R. Bowen ’10
Barbara H. Boyington ’72*
Nancy Brooks ’75
Dawn Bucher ’07^
Anne-Marie Bach Burkhardt ’76
Penelope R. Buschman ‘64
Patricia Fleming Butler ’66
Beverly Crum Butor ’61
Anna Marie Butrie ’84*
Mary Woods Byrne ’94*
Alice Brath Camp ’59*
Nancy Brown Chasse ’77
Julie Juhee Chiu ’05*
Judy L. Chock ’74
Barbara Kernan Ciavarella ’76
Jeannie P. Cimiotti ’04
Edith Baldwin Cleaves ’58*
Ann Guinivan Cover ’81*
Jill Redyke Crawford ’67*
Roberta Cricco-Lizza ’81
Joanne Mayer Danforth ’61
Josie Debevoise Davies ’76*
Marion Waldner Deas ’43
Linda Lovell Demarest ’64
Joanne Macmillan DeNicola ’70,’71
Diane Ness Dent ’65
Aimee Blumenthal Doctoroff ’67*
Louise Dodd ’76
Christine Dombrowski ’81
Yvonne Anderson Douglas ’99, ’03
Sylvia McConnell Drennan ’76
Joanne Brinton DuWick ’48*
Wendy Lewis Dwyer ’67
Eleanor Ehl-McConnell ’46
Toni S. Eisenhauer ’70
David N. Ekstrom ’75*
Edith Livingston Escala ’65
Judy Poeschel Estok ’63
Patricia Fleming Fakharzadeh ’82*
Joy Favuzza-Taylor ’94
Reva G. Feinstein^*
Diane Elaine Filter ’03
Josephine Hallinan Finan ’42*
Carolyn Trossbach Fisher ’41
Marcia G. Fishman ’66
Joan Penney Frohling ’59*
Loretta Boyan Furey ’45
Gertrude Lois Gebhardt ’53*
Barry Gilman
Theodore Gleichmann
Patricia Flanagan Goddard ’56

38 • Academic Nurse
Anna Huston Golden ’47
Nicole Angelique Gonzaga ’04
Elinor Robinson Goodwin ’47*
Lorie Smith Goshin ’10^
Mary Mickelsen Gould ’46
Barbara Ann Dragotta Gruenburg ’86*
Stuart T. Greene
Charles M. Greenwald
Phyllis Kilmer Gresham ’56
Carol Hammell Grosse ’60*
Shirley Clarke Hall ’61
Gladys Sandness Handeland ’61
Norma Stephens Hannigan ’07^*
Marjorie Harding ’46
Martha Burghardt Hartman ’71
Frances Barrows Harvan ’46*
Margaret Ross Hastings ’54*
Suzanne Havelick-Fedrigotti ’76
Edith Clark Hawksworth ’61
Susan Star Hayes ’62*
Karen K. Hein
Christa Simpson Heinsler ’76*
Joyce Rich Henderson ’68
Joan Herndon Hinz ’53
La Berta Ahlfeld Hollar ’50*
Judy Cohen Honig ’05^
Holly Nyerges Hooker ’65
Nancy Fixler Houseworth ’56*
Kathryn Lee Howard ’92*
Lois Jackman Howland ’57
Zelpha Card Hoyer ’51*
Laura M. Hunter ’05
Angela Hurdle
Joan L. Jack ’57
Jeanne Jacobwitz ’76, ’81
Sarah C. James ’97
Elizabeth Dunlop Jewett ’47*
Rita Marie John ’05^
Karen Michelle Johnson ’95*
Mary Patricia Johnson ’97,’05^*
Mary Rood Kaduthodil ’65
Miriam Claire Kaplan ’84
Melanie Kasek ’70
Barbara Nogas Keating ’46
Kathleen Walsh Kelly ’68
Patricia Hayes Keough ’46*
Robin L. Kleinman ’77*
Lisa J. Kleist ’73
Carolyn Hewlett Knight ’70*
Mary Steel Kogut ’39*
Valerie F. Kolbert ’84*
Eileen Smith Kopfler ’40*
Reinhard George Kopping ’98
Judith Krones ’85
Alice Marie Kundel ’57
Christine King Kuoni ’76
Karen Troutman LaMonica ’68*
Brenda Hartley Landes ’85*
Barbara Ross Landzberg ’82
Bridget Lane ’81*
Judith Asher Lane’78
Elaine L. Larson^*
Ana Coppelli Lautersztain ’81
Randy Lara Sargent Lee ’82
Alice Rinehart Leddy ’55
Ruth Linder Leistensnider ’56
Ramona Peterson Leslie ’56*
Ellen Joyce Levine ’96^*
Kristin Van Derverr Liddle ’63
George N. Lindsay
Margaret A. Lindsey ’75
Katherine Burke Liptak ’72*
Ellen M. Liston ’70
Katheryn Geiger Lohr ’57*
Rosalie M. Lombard ’51
Margaret L. Lucey ’80
Marie G. Ludwig ’78
Susannah Lee Lunt ’55*
Gwyneth Johnson Lymberis ’82*
Margaret Kiss Magyar ’88*
Suzanne V. Maier ’76
Dorothy Lakeman Marshall ’49
Jane E. Martin ’65*
Marguerite Temple Martin ’55
Evelyn Dries Mathews ’52
Grace O’Brien McIver ’47*
Laura Lorraine McKenna ’95
Nanci Sue McLeskey ’71
Patricia A. McMaster ’85*
Gail Ganter Meier ’55
Joanne Messore-Shotwell ’72*
Robin McKeon Michalak ’83*
Alta Woodworth Miller ’53*
Janice Bistritz Mirsky ’84
Winifred Miller Mitchell ’44
Phyllis Molino-Mahon ’89
Shirley Imig Montgomery ’58*
Elizabeth Cook Morgan ’68*
Ann K. Murtaugh ’96, ’98*
Mary Lee Nangeroni ’46
Janet Mills Nankervis ’53*
Melva Brown Neff ’62
Edna Pasmik Nelson ’55
Margery Matthews Nettleton ’57
Duncan B. Neuhauser*
Lori Ann Neushotz ’95
Barbara Nevins-Soong ’76
Anita Nirenberg ’96, ’09*
Joy Meding Norton ’57
Susan A. Norwell ’64
Barbara Britton Novick ’74*
Deborah Weinstock Nulman ’76, ’81
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Ellen Bakanowsky O’Neal ‘64*
Phyllis Armstrong Odell ’48
Wendy Halsey Otto ’69
Ruth Dodt Palmer ’70
Linda Goldstein Parkins ’68
Katherine Perera Patterson ’98, ’10*
Anne G. Peirce*
Marguerite Lorey Peoples ’57*
Dolly Clarke Peress ’59*
Mary A. Peterkin ’79*
Joanne White Peugh ’77
Marianna Pape Pieck ’57
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Elizabeth Brandes Plum-Doggett ’59*
Brian Amherst Pongracz ’08, ’09
Elizabeth Morgan Porter ’47
Mary Reynolds Powell ’69*
Marjorie Watters Pray ’59*
Nancy E. Reame^
Gay Garehan Redcay ’75
Diane Reynolds
Beverly Waldman Rich ’84*
Patricia Steward Riley ’76
Lorraine Caradelli Risher ‘51
Linda Franks Rogers ’65
Gina C. Romeo ’78
Judith Schneider Ronald ’62
Judith Rosenfield Rosenthal ’71*
Susan Ross ’68*
Edith Royse ’51
Anthony J. Santangelo ’78
Susan Maines Saydah ’60
Irene Holtan Schmidgall ’42
Florence Muller Schumacher ‘60*
Diana Fairbanks Schuman ’67
Helen Meyer Schweinsberg ’48
Emily Lanier Selleck ’69
Nell Kincaid Semel ’59*
Alice Bigger Serbein ’43
Sally Barone Sheridan ’56
Jinah K. Shin ’95, ’99*
Gilbert Charles Simpkins ’10
Lori Wetzler Sitzman ’77
Arlene Merne Smaldone ’03^*
Rose Crane Smith ’53*
Carol Tracy Smithwyck ’64
Alice Fahey Starker ’77
Carole Marsh Stathis ’68
Mary Pat Stenson ’85*
Dorothy Schneider Stier ’62
Patricia Williams Stone^
Harriet Walters Sullivan ’53
Janet L. Swanson ’67*
Christine L. Sykes ’75
Allan Christopher Thomas ’89
Wilklin Evan Thomas
Christine Fuller Tinstman ’69
Alice Fleming Trundle ’51*
Sue Slevin Tuxill ’65, ’70
Anne-Marie McGovern Uebbing ’91
Fabienne Gaillard Ulysse ’11
Veronica Dobies Vaillancourt ’51
Jean Acomb Van Landingham ’43*
Elizabeth Van Siclen ’57*
Vera Venturino ’56*
Michele T. Visconti ’79
Helen Hutz Von Der Lieth ’54*
Robin Melcher Wagner ’76
Gweneth H. Wagnon ’82*
Mary Rambo Walker ’46*
Jennifer Rose Walsh ’08, ’09
Kristin Warbasse
Mary Jane Warsinski ’51
Candee Ives Weed ’59*
Joan Pugh Weeks ’51
Angela Welk ’39
Leonora Porreca Whildin ’71*
Patricia Cutter Whitman ’53
Katherine Roulston Williams ’54*
Rebekah Mull Wilmes ’79
Virginia Dana Windmuller ’64*
Susan Altman Winickoff ’65
Nancy Marie Witterholt-Colter ’83
Glenn David Wurtzel ’00, ’02
Marilynn Kraft Yaremchuk ’78*
Vicki Yau
Jaquey Yocum ’64
Maryalice York ’57
Carolyn Kahn Zackin ’60
Susan J. Zator ’71*
Elizabeth Writer Kleinfeld Zern ’51*
Faith-Ann Gian Zimmermann ’86
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Up to $99
Jeanne V. Allen ’80
Sandie Altman-Baker ’77
Jane L. Anderson ’41
Thomas Y. Anderson
Nan Rogers Andrews ’43
Janet Peterson Backmann ’55
Norma Karlen Bagwell ’46
Genevieve A. Bahrt ’73*
Mary Eldredge Baker ’55
Laura A. Balassone ’80
Jeremiah A. Barondess
Sarah Barrett-Wren ‘85
Judith Kronsnick Bass ’61
Sarah Graham Bean ’44*
Rosemary Heeren Beaumont ’43*
Sarah E. Becker ’56
Jean Miller Benze ’51
Linda Ude Bisbee ‘66*
Patricia Larson Bishop ’58
Barbara Sailor Bitter ’56
Sally Nelson Black ’55*
Elizabeth C. Bliven ’42
Lois Bonneau-Gumbs ’74
Susan Bookchin ’76
Linda Rodgers Bove ’81
Doris Taylor Bowles ’64*
Eileen M. Braun ’95
Faina Brenkler ’88
Geraldine Meyer Brodnitzki ’67
Margaret Holden Brown ’51
Barbara Williams Bunger ’65*
Helen Hutchinson Burnside ’46*
Kathleen Higgins Cahill ’68
Karen Killinger Campbell ’63
Carol Isaksson Carson ’56
Katherine Horton Chalmers ’52
Nancy Sloane Coates ’44
Joan M. Concannon ’89
Kathleen DiGangi Condon ’06,’09*
Mary Jane Lynch Corn ’67
Gretchene Mueller Couglin ’65
Margaret Mueller Craig ’64
Mary Cullen-Drill ’94, ’08
Judith Gregorie D’Afflitti ’65

Ruth S. Dahl ’48
Louise Case Danek ’52
Margaret Darrow Darrow ’48
Nicole E. D’Auteuil ’97
Helen T. Davies ’43
Fleda A. Dean ’80*
Deborah Mitchell Devine ’74
Patricia P. Dienst ’59
Carolyn Stueck Donnet ’49*
Karen Holborow Doorley ’72
Margaret E. Downey ’76
Mary Dummer ’59
Ruth Elise Dykstra*
Joann May Eaccarino ’71
Megan Kathleen Eagle ’10
Vaughn Dickson Early ’43*
Nellie Van Wie Eden ’60
William M. Enlow ’04,’10^
Anita Siegel Epstein ’46*
Elizabeth A. Ercolano ’76
Sara Elizabeth Fall ’05
John Fallon ’78*
Sandra Poole Farr ’63
Christine DeBon Fastenberg ’72
Robert B. Fearman ’81
Debra Yanoff Fields ’78
Clare Chapman Fisher ’68
Marian Fiske ’58*
Ethel M. Fleischmann ’38
James J. Foehrenbach
Jane P. Foster ’68
Elizabeth Day Freeland ’ 73
Barbara Friedrich
Lynn Elise Friend ’75
Linda Gaglioti-Venezia ’94
Faith Gunderson Gaines ’66
Sharon N. Garber ’90
Janice Michael Germain ’81
Carol Ginsberg ’84*
Penelope Goodkind ’51
Lisa Waleryszak Gotschall ’83
Nancy Dinan Granger ’80*
Bernice Boice Krehbiel Gsell ’52*
Ruth Gunsel ’51*
Janet Steele Hall ’61
Janine Handfus^
Margaret Twomey Hannibal ’87
Linda Sayo Hayashi ’05
Rosaria Yodice Heide ’65
Karen Hellrich ’71*
Melvin Hershkowitz
Melissa deCardi Hladek ’02, ’04
Jane Helwig Hoffman ’45*
Jean Carleton Housepian ’86,’90
Mathilde Huckins ’62*
Virginia Shultz Humphrey ’60*
Nancy C. Ingersoll ’87
Barbara N. Ingraldi ’90
Marguerite Griffin Irving ’50*
Elaine Burfield Jordan ’80
Ruth Reifsnyder Kahoun ’55*
Liza Kelly-Rossini ’99
Betty Lee Kerr ’55*
Jill Naldony Kilanowski ’77, ’82*
Allison Kimberg-Kern ’60
Rosemary Meisner Klenk ’72
Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger ’59, ’80*
Deborah Koniak-Griffin ’70
Melissa Ann Kramps ’04^
Lisa Ellen Kugler ’83
Micheline Murphy Kuipers ’61
Jared Kutzin ’05
Barbara Ketchum Lahey ’45*
Edith Flanders Lambert ’63
Frances Strode Lamberti ’48
Jasmine Netos Lampadarios ’71
Ellen Rogowski Landowne ’59*
Sheree Chin Ledwell ’81
Laura Flowers LeFevre ’73
Paula Leme-Meza ’76
Francesca Monica Lepore ’10
Barbara Ball Leutzinger ’57
Lois Ryman Lewis ’63 *
Barbara Cohn Liepman ’81
Deena Penchansky Lisak ’64
Dorothy Webb Loescher ’45
Mary Sharon Lopez ’83
Dorothy Goold Losee ’40
Robert Lucero^
Rachel Cintolo Lyons ’07^
Hester Stalker MacGregor ’44
Suzanne E. MacKenzie ’72
Marjory Macqueen-Crawford ’69
Janet Mackenzie Mangual ’67
Mary Anne Joyce Marsico ’53
Mary Hope Mason ’46
Emily Matera-Callanan ’99
Sarah C. McGowan ’06*
Eileen Harrington McMahon ’63
Winifred Wadbrook Megear ’37
Elizabeth Gunthorpe Mercker ’75
Elizabeth Merriam ‘55
Ruth Walker Millar ’52*
Jean Piersol Miller ’66
Nancy Cox Mills ’74*
Alexandra O’Shea Milmoe ’73*
Nancy Gaughran Molder ’81
Sarah Gunning Monrraga^
Mary A. Mottola ’61
Beverly R. Mulder ’55
Susan H. Mulkern ’69*
Margaret A. Nally ’85
Susan Cake Nelson ’66
Elizabeth Duff O’Loughlin ’81*
Kathleen Frances O’Reilly ’83*
Sesle Ketelsen Olsen ’76, ’82
Janet Lunger Osgood ’51
Therese Annette Palmer ’84
Gertrude Snively Parker ’47*
Martha Carlota Pereira ’04, ’06*
Ruth Weis Perraud ’51
Mary Santelli Perry ’81
Ruth Wooliscroft Phelan ’58
Patricia Riker Pimbley ’47*
Elizabeth Popoff ’59
Clarissa Walsh Powley ’39*
Cynthia Hoffman Priest ’64*
Michelle Prosser-Fineman ’98
Marilyn Westfall Raffinot ’75*
Jennifer Lee Ramsey ’03
Jennifer Lynn Rezendes ’00, ’05
Amelia Serreducati Richman ’65*
Joan Sanok Rick ’60*
Gail Kubicki Roberts ’83
Lynn Davies Robertson ’97*
Mary Anne Romano ’79, ’82*
Elizabeth Bridget Rothlauf ’92*
Julie Marie Rousseau ’00, ’01
Helaine Berkowitz Rudolph ’75
Rebekah Leigh Ruppe ’00, ’01,’09^*
Lou-Ellen Saidel ’76
William G. Sayres
Denise C. Schain ’75
Margaret Koch Schall ’52*
Molly Marsden Schneider ’67*
Michael H. Schnipper
Nancy Kiener Schullinger ’60*
Adeline Devoto Schwartz ’46*
Barbara Patton Sciarra ’55
Margaret Girton Seals ’40
Susan McCreary Seaman ’68
Mary L. Self ‘77
Cathy Bagnal Shimmel ’71*
Patricia C. Sica ’76
Ruth Hirsch Silverman ’45
Barbara Fessenden Smith ’84, ’86*
Nancy J. Smith ’79
Karen Magruder Souza ’82, ’88
Marjorie Ann Worman Spiro ’56
Molly Fairbanks Stainton ’46*
Marilyn Mackson Stein ’57*
Eileen McLaughlin Stiles ’58
Nancy Samuel Stoer ’62
Judith Strickland Stutz ’68
Mary Murray Sutton ’50
Marion Howald Swarthout ’42*
Stacy Shannon Tammi ’91, ’93*
Phyllis Russell Taylor ’47
Jean Tease ’60
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Jo Ann Thomas ’80*
Frances Salter Thompson ’50
Janet Q. Thompson ’55
Miriam Thompson ’58
Eleanor Rasmussen Tibbitts ’41
Diane M. Tomain ’86
Cynthia R. Tuck ’70*
Barbara Taylor Uhlig ’53*
Melissa Lewis Uram ’86
Patricia A. Urbanus ’69
Olivia Veléz ’06, ’08, ’11^
Jean Willis Vernon ’52*
Irene P. Vetto ’85
Marcia Harriman Von Drasek ’81
Jeanne Brennan Von Oesen ’66
Kathleen Mary Waisgerber ’93
Gale Warton Wallace ’81*
Jane Donlon Waters ’79
Joann P. Wessman ’65
Mary Newton Western ’52
Ann Lounsbury Wheeler ’60
Carolyn Whittenburg ’53
Armantine Keller Williams ’83
Susanne Cameron Williamson ’82
Diane A. Worthington ’56
Denise Yankou^*
Laura Zeidenstein ’05^*
Carole Zimmerman ’72
Students in the Technology
Learning Center

40 • Academic Nurse
Gift Listing
by class year
1937
Winifred Wadbrook Megear
1938
Ethel M. Fleischmann
1939
Mary Steel Kogut
Clarissa Walsh Powley
Angela Welk
1940
Eileen Smith Kopfler
Dorothy Goold Losee
Margaret Girton Seals
1941
Jane Lawson Anderson
Carolyn Trossbach Fisher
Edna Higgins Khouri
Catherine Hirsch Sugarman
Eleanor Rasmussen Tibbitts
1942
Jean Lagakis Benner
Josephine Hallinan Finan
Irene Holtan Schmidgall
Marion Howald Swarthout
1943
Nan Rogers Andrews
Rosemary Heeren Beaumont
Helen T. Davies
Marion Waldner Deas
Vaughn Dickson Early
Lillian Schuttger Price
Alice Bigger Serbein
Jean Acomb Van Landingham
1944
Sarah Graham Bean
Elizabeth C. Bliven
Nancy Sloane Coates
Hester Stalker MacGregor
Winifred Miller Mitchell
Jane Herbert Williams
1945
Ruth Nussnaumer Fenton
Mary Baldwin Foster
Loretta Boyan Furey
Jane Helwig Hoffman
Barbara Ketchum Lahey
Mary Dickey Lindsay
Dorothy Webb Loescher
Ruth Hirsch Silverman
Marjorie Hutchins Taylor
1946
Norma Karlen Bagwell
Helen Hutchinson Burnside
Eleanor Ehl-McConnell
Anita Siegel Epstein
Mary Sowter Gould
Marjorie Brook Harding
Frances Barrows Harvan
Barbara Nogas Keating
Elaine Godtfring Kennedy
Patricia Hayes Keough
Mary Hope Mason
Mary Payne Nangeroni
Jane Crowell Rieffel
Adeline Devoto Schwartz
Barbara Robison Sporck-Stegmaier
Molly Fairbanks Stainton
Mary Rambo Walker
Joan Tompkins Wheeler
1947
Mary Jane Schermerhorn Adams
Anna Huston Golden
Elinor Robinson Goodwin
Elizabeth Dunlop Jewett
Grace O’Brien McIver
Patricia Stainton Neer
Gertrude Snively Parker
Patricia Riker Pimbley
Elizabeth Morgan Porter
Phyllis Russell Taylor
1948
Ruth S. Dahl
Margaret Douglass Darrow
Joanne Brinton DuWick
Elizabeth Marker Granicher
Frances Strode Lamberti
Phyllis Armstrong Odell
Helen Meyer Schweinsberg
1949
Carolyn Stueck Donnet
Dorothy Lakeman Marshall
1950
La Berta Ahlfeld Hollar
Marguerite Griffin Irving
Elayne Soley Orr
Jean Fisher Stonesifer
Mary Murray Sutton
Frances Salter Thompson
1951
Jean Miller Benze
Margaret Holden Brown
Penelope Manning Goodkind
Ruth Gunsel
Marilyn Johnsen Hamel
Zelpha Card Hoyer
Rosalie M. Lombard
Janet Lunger Osgood
Ruth Weis Perraud
Lorraine Caradelli Risher
Edith McAlister Royse
Emily DiYulio Scinto
Alice Daley Thomas
Alice Fleming Trundle
Veronica Dobies Vaillancourt
Mary Jane Grady Warsinski
Joan Pugh Weeks
Elizabeth Writer Kleinfeld Zern
1952
Elizabeth Leggett Black
Katherine Horton Chalmers
Louise Case Danek
Bernice Boice Krehbiel Gsell
Nancy Gilbride Hill
Evelyn Dries Mathews
Ruth Walker Millar
Margaret Koch Schall
Jean Willis Vernon
Mary Newton Western
1953
Jeanne Fischer Cherry
Gertrude Lois Gebhardt
Edna Halstead
Joan Herndon Hinz
Mary Anne Joyce Marsico
Alta Woodworth Miller
Janet Mills Nankervis
Florence Mueller Schumacher
Rose Crane Smith
Harriet Walters Sullivan
Barbara Taylor Uhlig
Judith Slocum Van Derburgh
Patricia Cutter Whitman
Carolyn Mieding Whittenburg
Elize Poestkoke Wright
Members of the class of 1946 at Reunion 2011 Members of the class of 1951 at Reunion 2011

1954
Margaret Ross Hastings
Jo Ann S. Main
Marilyn Miller Stiefvater
Helen Hutz Von Der Lieth
Katherine Roulston Williams
1955
Janet Peterson Backmann
Mary Eldredge Baker
Sally Nelson Black
Ruth Reifsnyder Kahoun
Betty Lee Kerr
Alice Rinehart Leddy
Susannah Lee Lunt
Marguerite Temple Martin
Gail Ganter Meier
Elizabeth Smart Merriam
Beverly Roberts Mulder
Edna Pasmik Nelson
Barbara Patton Sciarra
Janet Quaintance Thompson
Rita Perrine Trayner
1956
Mary Jane Reynolds Adams
Sarah Swick Becker
Barbara Sailor Bitter
Carol Isaksson Carson
Patricia Flanagan Goddard
Phyllis Kilmer Gresham
Lenore Frank Hardy
Nancy Fixler Houseworth
Ruth Lindner Leistensnider
Ramona Peterson Leslie
Eleanor Lipman Luhrs
Joan Seaburgh Puydak
Phoebe Curtis Reynolds
Sally Barone Sheridan
Marjorie Ann Worman Spiro
Vera G. Venturino
Diane A. Worthington
1957
Barbara Shaw Abbott
Dorothy Simpson Dorion
Lois Jackman Howland
Joan Wheaton Jack
Alice Marie Kundel
Barbara Ball Leutzinger
Katheryn Geiger Lohr
Margery Matthews Nettleton
Joy Meding Norton
Marguerite Lorey Peoples
Marianna Pieck
Marilyn Mackson Stein
Elizabeth Aiken Van Siclen
Maryalice Dryden York
1958
Patricia Larson Bishop
Edith Baldwin Cleaves
Marian Fiske
Shirley Imig Montgomery
Ruth Wolliscroft Phelan
Eileen McLoughlin Stiles
Miriam Tostlebe Thompson
1959
Janice Paul Arcidiacono
Alice Brath Camp
Patricia P. Dienst
Mary Goodwin Dummer
Joan Penney Frohling
Kathryn Hannam Hayes
Sheila Horwitz Hollander
Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger
Ellen Rogowski Landowne
Dolly Clarke Peress
Elizabeth Brandes Plum-Doggett
Elizabeth Popoff
Marjorie Watters Pray
Nell Kincaid Semel
Candee Ives Weed
Members of the classes of 1956 and 1961 at Reunion 2011
1960
Nellie Van Wie Eden
Carol Hammell Grosse
Virginia Shultz Humphrey
Allison Kimberg-Kern
Joan Sanok Rick
Susan Maines Saydah
Nancy Kiener Schullinger
Jean Tease
Ann Lounsbury Wheeler
Carolyn Kahn Zackin
1961
Mila Swyers Aroskar
Judith Kronsnick Bass
Beverly Crum Butor
Joanne Mayer Danforth
Elizabeth Miller Garrettson
Janet Steele Hall
Shirley Clarke Hall
Gladys Sandness Handeland
Edith Clark Hawksworth
Linda Lyon Holton
Micheline Murphy Kuipers
Patricia Smith Langley
Karolyn Cole LeStage
Mary A. Mottola
Meredith Rapp
Sally-Ann McCarthy Whelan
1962
Susan Starr Hayes
Mathilde Demisay Huckins
Diana Vietor Mundy
Melva Brown Neff
Judith Schneider Ronald
Dorothy Schneider Stier
Nancy Samuel Stoer
1963
Susan Boothby
Karen Killinger Campbell
Jane Richardson Carmichael
Judy Poeschel Estok
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Sandra Poole Farr
Edith Flanders Lambert
Lois Ryman Lewis
Kristin Van Derverr Liddle
Eileen Harrington McMahon
Carol Windmaier Scott
1964
Diane Rankin Behrens
Doris Taylor Bowles
Mary Ann Kelly Collini
Margaret Mabrey Craig
Linda Lovell Demarest
Ruth Westervelt Dykstra
Penelope Buschman Gemma
Deena Penchansky Lisak
Susan A. Norwell
Ellen Bakanowsky O’Neal
Cynthia Hoffman Priest
Carol Tracy Smithwyck
Phebe Thorne
Virginia Dana Windmuller
Jaquey Brown Yocum
1965
Barbara Williams Bunger
Gretchen Mueller Coughlin
Judith Gregorie D’Afflitti
Diane Ness Dent
Edith Livingston Escala
Rosaria Yodice Heide
Holly Nyerges Hooker
Mary Rood Kaduthodil
Jane E. Martin
Amelia Serreducati Richman
Linda Franks Rogers
Sue Slevin Tuxill
Joann P. Wessman
Susan Altman Winickoff
1966
Susan Scully Bernet
Linda Ude Bisbee
Patricia Fleming Butler

42 • Academic Nurse
Marcia G. Fishman
Faith Gunderson Gaines
Sally Ruffner Leiter
Jean Piersol Miller
Susan Cake Nelson
Anna Draper Shaw
Jeanne Brennan Von Oesen
1967
Geraldine Meyer Brodnitzki
Mary Jane Lynch Corn
Carole Robertson Coviello
Jill Redyke Crawford
Aimee Blumenthal Doctoroff
Wendy Lewis Dwyer
Marilyn Cowles King
Janet Mackenzie Mangual
Molly Marsden Schneider
Diana Fairbanks Schuman
Janet L. Swanson
1968
Kathleen Higgins Cahill
Patricia Healy De Sear
Clare Chapman Fisher
Jane P. Foster
Margaret Moore Hazlett
Joyce Rich Henderson
Kathleen Walsh Kelly
Karen Troutman LaMonica
Betsy Cook Morgan
Linda Goldstein Parkins
Susan Ross
Susan McCreary Seaman
Carole Marsh Stathis
Judith Strickland Stutz
1969
Dorothy Davies Colfer
Marjorie Harrison Fleming
Marjory Macqueen-Crawford
Susan Hochwald Mulkern
Marian Higginbotham Niles
Wendy Halsey Otto
Mary Reynolds Powell
Emily Lanier Selleck
Sally Shipley Stone
Christine Fuller Tinstman
Patricia A. Urbanus
1970
Joanne Macmillan DeNicola
Angela Clarke Duff
Toni S. Eisenhauer
Mary Sue Marburger Hunia
Melanie Kasek
Carolyn Hewlett Knight
Deborah Koniak-Griffin
Ellen M. Liston
Ruth Dodt Palmer
Cynthia R. Tuck
1971
Joanne Macmillan DeNicola
Joann May Eaccarino
Martha Burghardt Hartman
Karen Hellrich
Jasmine Netos Lampadarios
Nanci Sue Simmons McLeskey
Judith Rosenfield Rosenthal
Cathy Bagnal Shimmel
Leonora Porreca Whildin
Susan J. Zator
1972
Barbara H. Boyington
Karen Holborow Doorley
Christine DeBon Fastenberg
Rosemary Meisner Klenk
Katherine Burke Liptak
Suzanne Eaton MacKenzie
Joanne Messore-Shotwell
Carole Zimmerman
1973
Genevieve A. Bahrt
Elizabeth Day Freeland
Lisa J. Kleist
Laura Flowers LeFevre
Members of the class of 1976 at Reunion 2011
Alexandra O’Shea Milmoe
Holly Grim White
1974
Lois Bonneau-Gumbs
Judy L. Chock
Deborah Mitchell Devine
Nancy Cox Mills
Barbara Britton Novick
1975
Nancy Brooks
David N. Ekstrom
Lynn Elise Friend
Margaret A. Lindsey
Elizabeth Gunthorpe Mercker
Marilyn Westfall Raffinot
Gay Garehan Redcay
Helaine Berkowitz Rudolph
Denise C. Schain
Christine L. Sykes
1976
Susan Bookchin
Joy A. Boscove
Anne-Marie Bach Burkhardt
Barbara Kernan Ciavarella
Josie Debevoise Davies
Louise Dodd
Margaret E. Downey
Sylvia McConnell Drennan
Elizabeth A. Ercolano
Ellen Gottesman Garber
Suzanne Havelick-Fedrigotti
Christa Simpson Heinsler
Jeanne Toussie Jacobwitz
Christine King Kuoni
Paula Leme-Meza
Suzanne V. Maier
Linda Norton Moulton
Barbara Nevins-Soong
Deborah Weinstock Nulman
Sesle Ketelsen Olsen
Patricia Steward Riley
Lou-Ellen Saidel
Kathleen Craven Saslow
Patricia Cooke Sica
Sandra M. Sweetnam
Robin Melcher Wagner
Mary-Jo Diaz Weber
1977
Sandie Altman-Baker
Frannie Kelly Burns
Nancy Brown Chasse
Jill Nadolny Kilanowski
Robin L. Kleinman
Joanne White Peugh
Mary L. Self
Lori M. Wetzler Sitzman
Alice Fahey Starker
1978
Grania Beauregard Allport
John Fallon
Debra Yanoff Fields
Denise DeMarzo Houghton
Judith Asher Lane
Marie G. Ludwig
Gina C. Romeo
Anthony J. Santangelo
Marilynn Kraft Yaremchuk
1979
Liliane E. Morin
Mary A. Peterkin
Mary Anne Maternowski Romano
Nancy J. Smith
Shirley E. Van Zandt
Michele T. Visconti
Jane Donlon Waters
Rebekah Mull Wilmes
1980
Jeanne V. Allen
Laura Schneider Balassone
Joy A. Boscove
Fleda A. Dean
Nancy Dinan Granger
Jeanne Toussie Jacobwitz
Elaine Burfield Jordan
Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger
Margaret L. Lucey
Deborah Weinstock Nulman
Jo Ann Thomas
1981
Ellen Soley Adkins
Linda Rodgers Bove
Mary Duncan Brust
Ann Guinivan Cover
Roberta Cricco-Lizza
Christine Dombrowski
Robert B. Fearman
Barbara McManamy Fildes
Janice Michael Germain
Bridget Lane
Ana Coppelli Lautersztain
Sheree Chin Ledwell
Barbara Cohn Liepman
Nancy Gaughran Molder
Diana Bassil Nilsen
Elizabeth Duff O’Loughlin
Mary Santelli Perry
Martha Cohn Romney
Christina Alvarado Shanahan
Marcia Harriman Von Drasek
Gale Warton Wallace
1982
Una Broe Doddy
Patricia Fleming Fakharzadeh
Jill Nadolny Kilanowski
Barbara Ross Landzberg
Randy Lara Sargent Lee

Gwyneth Johnson Lymberis
Sesle Ketelsen Olsen
Mary Anne Maternowski Romano
Karen Magurder Souza
Gweneth H. Wagnon
Susanne Cameron Williamson
Megan Christian Wright
1983
Nancy B. Barton
Maria R. Corsaro
Lisa A. Waleryszak Gotschall
Lisa Ellen Kugler
Mary Sharon Lopez
Robin McKeon Michalak
Kathleen Frances O’Reilly
Gail Kubicki Roberts
Armantine Keller Williams
Nancy Witterholt-Colter
1984
Jeanne Auerbach
Susan L. Bender
Anna Marie Butrie
Carol Ginsberg
Miriam Claire Kaplan
Valerie F. Kolbert
Janice Bistritz Mirsky
Therese Annette Palmer
Barbara Fessenden Smith
Beverly Waldman Rich
1985
Laura Pearson Armstrong
Sarah Barrett-Wren
Judith K. Krones
Brenda Hartley Landes
Patricia A. McMaster
Margaret A. Nally
Mary Pat Stenson
Shirley E. Van Zandt
Irene P. Vetto
1986
Shira A. Gordon
Barbara Ann Dragotta Gruenburg
Jean Carleton Housepian
Karen Andresen Kennedy
Sara H. Patterson
Linda Harnsberger Rose
Barbara Fessenden Smith
Diane M. Tomain
Melissa Lewis Uram
Faith-Ann Gian Zimmermann
1987
Margaret Twomey Hannibal
Nancy C. Ingersoll
1988
Deborah Albright
Faina Brenkler
Katharine Owen Carpenter
Margaret Kiss Magyar
Karen Magurder Souza
Joyce Ragonese Volterra
1989
Susan Miller Birley
Joan M. Concannon
Marlene E. McHugh
Phyllis Molino-Mahon
Kathleen McCooe Nilles
Allan Christopher Thomas
1990
Sharon N. Garber
Barbara N. Ingraldi
1991
Joseph Patrick Colagreco
Marlene E. McHugh
Stacy Shannon Tammi
Anne-Marie McGovern Uebbing
1992
Kathryn Lee Howard
Elizabeth Bridget Rothlauf
Roxana I. Sasse
1993
Stacy Shannon Tammi
Kathleen Mary Waisgerber
1994
Amy Cohen Ansehl
Mary Woods Byrne
Mary Cullen-Drill
Joy Favuzza-Taylor
Linda Gaglioti-Venezia
1995
Eileen M. Braun
Karen Michelle Johnson
Laura Lorraine McKenna
Lori Ann Neushotz
Jinah K. Shin
1996
Amy Cohen Ansehl
Shelly V. Bazes
Ellen Joyce Levine
Ann K. Murtaugh
Anita Nirenberg
1997
Nicole E. D’Auteuil
Sarah C. James
Mary Patricia Johnson
Lynn Davies Robertson
1998
Karen Krueger Desjardins
Jessica Elizabeth Finck
Reinhard George Kopping
Ann K. Murtaugh
Katherine Perera Patterson
Michelle Prosser-Fineman
1999
Yvonne Marie Douglas
Liza Kelly-Rossini
Emily Matera-Callanan
Jinah K. Shin
2000
Jennifer Lynn Rezendes
Julie Marie Rousseau
Rebekah Leigh Ruppe
Glenn David Wurtzel
2001
Jessica Elizabeth Finck
Julie Marie Rousseau
Rebekah Leigh Ruppe
2002
Melissa deCardi Hladek
Glenn David Wurtzel
2003
Yvonne Anderson Douglas
Diane Elaine Filter
Jennifer Lee Ramsey
Arlene Merne Smaldone
2004
Debra Jean Brittain
Jeannie P. Cimiotti
William M. Enlow
Nicole Angelique Gonzaga
Melissa deCardi Hladek
Melissa Ann Kramps
Martha Carlota Pereira
Beth Ellen Zedeck
2005
Adele Anne Bradford
Julie Juhee Chiu
James Francis Clancy
Karen Krueger Desjardins
Sara Elizabeth Fall
Linda Sayo Hayashi
Judy Cohen Honig
Laura M. Hunter
Rita Marie John
Mary Patricia Johnson
Jared Kutzin
Jennifer Lynn Rezendes
Jennifer A. Smith
Laura Zeidenstein
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2006
Donald Richard Boyd
Kathleen DiGangi Condon
Janice Jones Izlar
Maria Coutretsis Magliacano
Sarah C. McGowan
Ora Obhas
Martha Carlota Pereira
Olivia Velez
Beth Ellen Zedeck
2007
Dawn R. Bucher
Norma Stephens Hannigan
Rachel Cintolo Lyons
2008
James Francis Clancy
Mary Cullen-Drill
Marlene E. McHugh
Brian Amherst Pongracz
Jennifer Rose Walsh
2009
Antoinette Brigitte Baleba-Lekane
Elizabeth Gross Cohn
Kathleen Anne DiGangi Condon
Susan Patel Furlaud
Anita Nirenberg
Brian Amherst Pongracz
Rebekah Leigh Ruppe
Jennifer Rose Walsh
2010
Felesia R. Bowen
Megan Kathleen Eagle
William M. Enlow
Lorie Smith Goshin
Francesca Monica Lepore
Katherine Perera Patterson
Gilbert Charles Simpkins
2011
Roxana I. Sasse
Fabienne Gaillard Ulysse
Olivia Velez

44 • Academic Nurse
In Memory of
JoAnn Pauley Anderson ’52
Thomas Y. Anderson
Anne Auerbach
Jeanne Cohen Auerbach ’84
William F. Bagwell Jr.
Norma Karlen Bagwell ’46
Elizabeth Wallace Barrett
Sarah Elizabeth Barrett-Wren ’85
Ann Stemmerman Borman’40
Eileen Smith Kopfler ’40
Harriet Heffernan Calvelli ’42
Mary Baldwin Foster ’45
Patricia Kennedy Casparian
Mary Lee Nangeroni ’46
Jo Cassavant ’59
Janice Paul Arcidiacono ’59
Jean French Clemens ’45
Winifred Miller Mitchell ’44
Margaret E. Conrad
Rosalie M. Lombard ’51
Alicia Coppelli
Ana Coppelli Lautersztain ’81
Terry William Dagrosa
Sally Ruffner Leiter ’66
Edna L. Danielsen
Angela Welk ’39
Anne Pyle Dennis ’38
Barbara Friedrich
Toby Friedlander
Aimee Blumenthal Doctoroff ’67
Martha E. Graham
Sarah Graham Bean ’44
Margaret Paschall Greenwald ‘47
Charles M. Greenwald
Henry Tucker Grim, Jr.
Holly Grim White ’73
James A. Gunning, Sr.
Sarah Gunning Monrraga
Delores Hassett
Evelyn Dries Mathews ’52
Laura Schwartz Hirshman ’59
Karl Hirshman
Ms. Vicki Yau
Anne Hassett Hogan ’47
Phyllis Russell Taylor ’47
Shirley Doris Holman ’56
Nancy Fixler Houseworth ’56
Sally Barone Sheridan ’56
Barbara Maguire Howe
Ruth Weis Perraud ’51
Barbara Kiss Keeler
Margaret Kiss Magyar ’88
Caroline Luther Keil ’33
Margot K. Hoercher
Gertrude Kober
Ellen Gottesman Garber ’76
Erika Kopping
Reinhard George Kopping ’98
Conrad P. Kottak
Jean Herz
Marie J. Krahulik ’50
Jean Fisher Stonesifer ’50
Christina Kunkel
Ruth Villez Phelan ’58
Mollie Lightfoot
Angela Hurdle
Barbara MacGuire
Zelpha Card Hoyer ’51
Mary Reutter Magruder ’49
Karen M. Souza ’82
Marian Gensheimer Marburger
Mary Sue Hunia ’70
Nancy Hart Markgraf ’55
Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57
Justine Dennehy Meehan ’42
Margaret E. Downey ’76
Walter B. Middleton
Debra Jean Brittain ’04
June Moore
Frannie Kelly Burns ’77
Shirley Clarke Hall ’61
Stan Munslaw
Sharon N. Garber ’90
Madeleine Maurer Mutch ’54
Melvin Hershkowitz
Rose Ann Naughton ’59
Elizabeth Popoff ’59
Alan Nelson
Edna Pasmik Nelson ’55
Alex and Ida Nirenberg
Anita Nirenberg ’96
My loving parents
Molly Marsden Schneider ’67
Paula Goldblatt Pearson ’71
Jasmine Netos Lampadarios ’71
Rosemary Farley Petrie ’63
Eileen Harrington McMahon ’63
Louise Lindsay Read ’74
George N. Lindsay, Jr.
Jeanne Clayton Rebholz
Mary Eldredge Baker ’55
Beverly Roberts Mulder ’55
Daniel Joseph Richman
Amelia Setteducati Richman ’65
Katherine Saliari ’40
Patricia Cooke Sica ’76
Muriel Alpers Schuyler ’43
Irene Holtan Schmidgall ’42
Bill Shotwell
Joanne Messore-Shotwell ’72
Mary Bleeker Simmons ‘60
William G. Sayres
Richard D. Simmons
Cathleen Stephens
Norma Stephens Hannigan ’07
Janet D. Taylor ’59
Dorcas Younger Koenigsberger ’59
Burwell Hillsman Thomas ’60
Susan Maines Saydah ’60
Wilklin Evan Thomas, Jr.
Edwin M. Trayner
Rita Perrine Trayner ’55
Bob Walker
Shirley E. Van Zandt ’79
Florence Drake Williams ‘54
Katherine Roulston Williams ’54
Ronald E. Young
Eileen M. Braun ’95
Jacob and Josephine Zator
Susan J. Zator ’71

In Honor of
All Nurses
Leonora Porreca Whildin ’71
America’s Wounded Soldiers
Dorothy D. Colfer ’69
The Anesthesia Program
Janice Jones Izlar ’06
William and Kathryn Bahrt
Genevieve A. Bahrt ’73
Dean Bobbie Berkowitz
Anita Siegel Epstein ’46
Penny Buschman ’64
Jeannemarie Baker ‘90, ‘00, ‘05
Shira A. Gordon ’86
Tim Connelly
Roxana I. Sasse ’92,’11
Your ongoing support to the Annual Fund
ensures that the School is able to recruit the
best possible students in nursing. 100% of
your gift supports student financial aid. To
make your tax-deductible contribution today,
send a check payable to Columbia University
School of Nursing or give a gift online at:
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Office of Development & Alumni Affairs
Columbia University School of Nursing
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Deborah Mull Dortzbach ’71
Rebekah Mull Wilmes ’79
The DNP Program
Roxana I. Sasse ’92,’11
Fabienne Gaillard Ulysse ’11
Shannon F. Dunlop ’06
Kathleen Anne DiGangi Condon ’06
Future CUSON Alumni
Robert B. Fearman ’81
Constance Rising Gleichmann ‘60
Theodore Gleichmann
The Informatics Programs
and its Professors
Julie Juhee Chiu ’05
Hilda Hodges Jones ‘79
Stephen Giacona
Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45
Anne G. Peirce
Midwifery Program Faculty
Suzanne Bakken
My Midwifery Program Instructors
Patricia A. Urbanus ’69
Michelle Harvan Montgomery ’80
Frances Barrows Harvan ’46
Mary O’Neil Mundinger
Phyllis R. Farley
Eileen Neushotz
Lori Ann Neushotz ’95
Corporate Matching Gifts
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The Peace Corps (Africa)
Anne-Marie McGovern Uebbing ’91
Margarete Sandelowski
Deborah Weinstock Nulman ’76
Sharon Danek Sellers ’52
Louise Case Danek ’52
The School of Nursing is pleased to recognize the generous
support of many companies who match our donors’ gifts.
To find out if you or your spouse’s company has a matching
gifts program, visit:
www.giving.columbia.edu/waystogive/matching_gifts.html
Chevron
Edison International
Eli Lily and Company Foundation
ExxonMobile Foundation
GE Foundation
JC Lewis Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
MacArthur Foundation
Merck, Co.
Nichols Foundation
PSE&G Company
Union Pacific Corporation
Xerox Foundation

46 • Academic Nurse
Anna C.
Maxwell
legacy society
Named in memory of the founder of the School of Nursing, the
Anna C. Maxwell Legacy Society recognizes those who have
established a planned gift to Columbia University School of Nursing
through a bequest or charitable trust. These thoughtful commitments
help ensure that future generations of nursing students will become
expert nurse clinicians and researches. To learn more, go to:
http://www.columbia.planyourlegacy.org.
Pamela Amerige-Pulaski ’05
Carol Ann Baxter ’86
Jean Lagakis Benner ’42
Bonnie Barker Bogdasarian ’74
Estate of Florence M. Burnett ’35
Jane Richardson Carmichael ’63
Estate of Mary Louise Sanchez Davis ’33
Joan Dietrich ’92
Beatrice M. Dorbacker ’50
Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57
Estate of Regina Driscoll ’40
Celeste Dye
Eunice Hering Feininger ’47
Ann Becker Finein ’54
Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69
Joan Gorrell ’61
Living Trust of Ethyl Rathbun Grady
Estate of Anita M. Harris ’40
Frances Bevier Hiller ’49
Lois Jackman Howland ’57
Virginia Shultz Humphrey ’60
Carol Ince ’75 ’82
Estate of Dorothea A. Kissam ’46
Chaweevan Koetsawasdi ’00
Ellen Rogowski Landowne ’59
Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45
Judith J. Loach ’81 ’84
Jane Atkinson Mackenzie ’52
Estate of Nancy Hart Markgraf ’55
Barbara Meyers McNagny ’63
Ellen A. Bakanowsky O’Neal ’64
Lillian Schuttger Price ’43
Ruth Klawunn Randa ’52
Meredith Rapp ’61
Jane Crowell Rieffel ’46
Joan Chamberlain Roe ’62
Nancy E. Russell ’48
Ida Mitrani Schnipper ’77
Estate of Carmen Sharp
Anna Draper Shaw ’66
Genevieve Harrison Speicher ’47
Jean Fisher Stonesifer ’50
Harriet Walters Sullivan ’53
Marion Howald Swarthout ’42
Alice Daley Thomas ’51
Phebe Thorne ’64
Rosie Higuera Toner & Paul Toner
Elizabeth Mulford Vavra ’77
Phyllis Harrington Wagner ’63
Estate of Jacqueline M. Webb ’83
Frances S. Williams ’66

Average cost for a student in the first year
of the Combined BS/MS Program for 2011-2012
LIvInG ExPEnSES: $30,098
TOTAL: $106,491
OThEr: $5,879
TuITIOn: $70,514
Columbia University School of Nursing
financial overview
INCOME July 2008 - JuNE 2009 July 2009 - JuNE 2010 July 2010 - JuNE 2011
(in thousands) (in thousands) (in thousands)
Tuition and Fees $15,516 $17,814 $ 16,971
Sponsored Projects $5,460 $5,063 $ 4,553
Gifts $326 $352 $ 405
Endowment Income $4,112 $4,406 $ 3,828
Faculty Practice $865 $835 $ 741
Other $1,301 $206 $839
TOTAL $27,580 $28,676 $ 27,337
EXPENSES
Personnel 57% 48% 46%
Financial Aid 19% 22% 20%
Overhead 21% 20% 24%
Other 2% 10% 10%
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48 • Academic Nurse
Board
of visitors
Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65
Durham, North Carolina
roBert Brook, Md, Scd
RAND Health
Santa Monica, California
Frannie kelly BurnS ’77
Greenwich, Connecticut
arthur caplan, phd
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
eliSaBeth c. dudley
Redding, Connecticut
angela clarke duFF ’70
Forest Hills, New York
phylliS r. Farley
New York, New York
Marjorie harriSon FleMing ’69
Chair
Princeton, New Jersey
karen hein, Md
Green Mountain Care
Jacksonville, Vermont
Mary turner henderSon ’64
San Francisco, California
karen ignagni
America’s Health Insurance Plans
Washington, DC
roBert l. kane, Md
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
kenneth w. kizer, Md
Medsphere Systems Corp.
Aliso Viejo, California
Mary dickey lindSay ’45
New York, New York
elizaBeth j. MccorMack
Rockefeller Family and Associates
New York, New York
duncan V. neuhauSer, phd
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
nicholaS a. Silao, jr. ’90
New York, New York
Sara Shipley Stone ’69
Darien, Connecticut
pheBe thorne ’64
Ketchum, Idaho

Administration
Dean
Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN FAAN
Vice Dean
Sarah Sheets Cook, DNP, RN-CS
Senior Associate Dean
Jennifer A. Smith, DNP, MPH, MBA, NP-C
Senior Associate Dean
Janice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, ANP-BC
Associate Dean, Research
Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
Associate Dean, Student Services
Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PC
Associate Dean, Finance and Administration
Jason Wright, MPA
Associate Dean, Development
Reva Feinstein, MPA
Assistant Dean, Clinical Affairs
Wilhemina Manzano, MA, RN
Faculty
Named Professors
Alumni Professor of Nursing and
Professor of Medical Informatics
Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor
Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN FAAN
Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor in
Clinical Health Care for the Underserved
Mary Woods Byrne, PhD, CPNP, FAAN
Dorothy M. Rogers Professor of Clinical Nursing
Dorothy Sarah Sheets M. Rogers Cook, Professor DNP, RN-CS of Clinical Nursing
Sarah Sheets Cook, DNP, RN-CS
Henrik H. Bendixen Clinical Professor of
Henrik International H. Bendixen NursingClinical
Professor of
International Richard Garfield, Nursing DrPH, RN, FAAN
Richard Garfield, DrPH, RN, FAAN
Professor of Pharmacological
Professor and Therapeutic of Pharmacological
Research
and Elaine Therapeutic Larson, PhD, Research RN, FAAN, CIC
Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
Edward M. Kennedy Professor of Health Policy
Edward Mary O’Neil M. Kennedy Mundinger, Professor DrPH, of Dean Health Emerita Policy
Mary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPH, Dean Emerita
Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor of Nursing
Mary Nancy Dickey Reame, Lindsay PhD, RN, Professor FAANof
Nursing
Nancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAAN
Centennial Professor of Professor Nursing in Health Policy
Patricia Stone, PhD, FAAN
Professors of Clinical Nursing
Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PC
Janice Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, ANP-BC
Associate Professors of Clinical Nursing
Ritamarie John, DNP, EdD, CPNP-PC
Jacqueline Merrill, DNSc, RN, MPH
Arlene M. Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP-PC, CDE
Associate Clinical Professors of Nursing
Lori Rosenthal, DNP, ACNP, ANP
Kara Ventura, DNP, CPNP
Assistant Professors of Nursing
Elizabeth Cohn, DNSc, MS, RN
Kathleen Hickey, EdD, ANP-BC, FNP
Robert J. Lucero, PhD, RN
Lusine Poghosyan, PhD
Jingjing Shang, PhD
Associate Professor of
Clinical Biostatistics (in Nursing)
Haomiao Jia, PhD
Assistant Professor Professors of of
Clinical Nursing
Sally W. Aboelela, PhD
Christina Araujo, CPNP, MS
Laura Ardizzone, DNP, CRNA
Penny R. Buschman, MS, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Jeanne N. Churchill, DNP, CPNP-PC
Maria Corsaro, MSN, MPH
Karen S. Desjardins, DNP, MPH, ANP, GNP
Jennifer Dohrn, DNP, CNM
Susan Doyle-Lindrud, DNP, ANP, DCC
William M. Enlow, DNP, CRNA
Mary Johnson, DNP, ACNP, ANP
Eileen Evanina, MS, CRNA
Elizabeth K. Hall, DNP, FNP, GNP
Norma Hannigan, DNP, APRN-BC, FNP
Joan Kearney, PhD, CS, APRN
Melissa Kramps, MS, ANP, GNP
Mary-Jane McEneaney, MS, WHNP
Marlene E. McHugh, DNP, FNP
Paula Pillone, CS, C-P/MH
Courtney Reinisch, DNP, FNP-BC, ACNP
Rebekah L Ruppe, DNP, CNM
Josephine G. Sapp, DNP, CS
Jennifer Smith, DNP, MBA, MPH, NP-C
Caroline Sullivan, MS, ANP
Kristine N. Takamiya, DNP, APRN-BC, ANP
Teresa Turnbull, DNP, MS, FNP-C
Laura Zeidenstein, DNP, CNM
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Assistant Clinical
Professors of Nursing
Tracy Andrews, DNP, ACNP, ANP
Rozelle Corda, MS, FNP-BC
Giovanni Dugay, MSN, C-ANP
Margie Fernandez Sloves, DNP, ANP-BC
Margaret Flannery, MS, ANP-BC
Nicole Goetz, DNP, FNP
Patricia Ann Harren, DNP, ANP
Mary Huang, DNP, C-PNP
Rachel Lyons, DNP, CPNP-AC, CPNP-PC
Maureen McSwiggen-Hardin, MS,P/MHNP-BC
Christine M. Merle, CPNP-BC, MS
Debra Miller-Saultz, DNP, FNP-BC
Hilary Nierenberg, MS, ANP-BC
Jean Marie Rubsam-Kane, RN, BSN, MS, CPNP
Inna Selik, MS, ACNP-BC
Lynn R. Silverberg, MSN, ANP-BC
Phyllis Tarallo, DNP, FNP-C
Mary Ellen Tresgallo, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC
Elisabeth Visser, MS, ANP-BC
Elsa Wuhrman, MS, ANP, CCRN
Instructor Instructors of of Clinical Nursing
Nadia G. Brown MSN, NNP-BC
Oliver Diaz, MS, ACNP
Maria Carmela Evangelista, MS, ANP-BC
Suk Ming Fung, MSN, ACNP-BC
Evangeline Veloria, MS, ACNP, APRN-BC
Clinical Directors
First Year BS/MS Program:
Ellen Levine, MS, PNP
PNP Program:
Lucille Corva, MS, CPNP
Nurse Anesthesia Program:
Laura Ardizzone, DNP, CRNA
Associate Research Scientists
Rebecca Schnall, PhD, RN
Lorie Smith Goshin, PhD, MSN, RN
Barbara Sheehan, PhD, PNP
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Fellows
Christie Jeon, ScD
Argerie Tsimicalis, PhD, RN
Sunmoo Yoon, PhD, RN

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