School of Nursing In The News

• Kristine M. Gebbie, RN, DrPH, has received the 2008 Balderson Lifetime Public Health Leadership Award from the National Public Health Leadership Development Network.
• Rita John, DNP, named as a Fellow in the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy
• Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence awarded Columbia University School of Nursing one of the first four grants in its groundbreaking $2.5 million Jonas Nursing Scholars program
• Kristine Gebbie, DrPH was selected to receive the United Hospital Fund’s 2008 Distinguished Trustee Award
• Elaine Larson received the 2008 ENRS’ Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award
• Columbia University School of Nursing is Silver Grantor for the 20th Annual Eastern Nursing Research Society Scientific Sessions, March 27-29, 2008.
• Elaine Larson will receive a 2008 GE Healthcare-AACN Pioneering Spirit Award
• Unanimous approval by Columbia University Senate for the School of Nursing’s proposal to establish a PhD program
• Elaine Larson, PhD, awarded a one-year, $45,000 grant by the 3M Corporation
• Honor Society of Nursing bestows prestigious Audrey Hepburn Award to prison nursery advocate Dr. Mary Byrne
• Kristine Gebbie receives a $390,000 award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Carrie Lyn Sammarco, DrNP ‘07, is the recipient of the John Dystel Nursing Fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis
• The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded Columbia University School of Nursing $2,362,211 to continue the Center for Evidence-based Practice (CEBP) in the Underserved, led by Suzanne Bakken, Principal Investigator, for an additional five years
• Suzanne Bakken, DNSc and Kathleen Hickey, EdD received awards for their proposals in the planning phase of the Irving Institute’s Interdisciplinary Pilot Award for studies in Clinical and Translational Research
• Patricia Stone, PhD, MPH, funded by AHRQ, to conduct a study entitled, “Exploratory Study Using Queueing Theory to Improve Nurse Staffing Effectiveness”
• Patricia Stone, PhD, MPH has been awarded $1.5 million for “Prevention of Nosocomial Infections and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.”
• Dr. Richard M. Garfield has been appointed by the World Health Organization as the director of the first international office for assessing and responding to humanitarian needs in crisis countries.
• CUSON is the recipient of three generous Gifts & Endowments
• TRANSFORM traineeships awarded to School of Nursing DNSc students
• Mary Byrne named to the Stone Foundation and Elise D Fish Professorship in Clinical Health Care for the Underserved
• Mary Byrne is the first recipient ever of the annual Emily Fenichel Award for Leadership in the Zero-to-Three Field in New York
• Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, has received a $895,425 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research for pre and post-doctoral training
• Penelope Buschman, Marlene McHugh, and Anita Nirenberg selected to receive a Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy grant
• Dr. Joyce K. Anastasi, the Helen F. Pettit Professor of Clinical Nursing received the 2007 Presidential Teaching Award for teaching excellence.
• Kathleen Hickey, FNP, EdD to receive the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy educational grant for her project “REAL: Remote Electronic Arrythmia Learning.”
• Rebekah Ruppe, CNMW to receive the 2007 Excellence in teaching Award from The American College of Nurse Midwive’s Foundation
• Leanne Currie, R.N., DNSc, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, and Arlene Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP, CDE, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, join Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy at CUMC.
• BS/MS students Mindy Banker, Jocelyn Harris, Dorothy Hopton, Julia McBee, and Jessica Skelton won the best student poster award at the Eastern Nursing Research Symposium (ENRS)
• 1st year DNSc student Rebecca Schnall, RN, MPH, MBA has won the American College of Legal Medicine's 2007 Hirsch Award for Outstanding Writing
• Jennifer Dohrn and the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa work to strengthen education and evaluation of advanced midwifery training
• School of Nursing awarded a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for $500,000
• Rose Nadler Schefer Memorial Endowment Scholarship Fund transferred to Columbia University School of Nursing
• DNSc student Sookyung Hyun wins the Harriet H. Werley Award
• Kristine Gebbie, RN, DrPH, has been named to the Health Policy Advisory Committee for Eliott Spitzer’s transition office
• American Medical Informatics Association Announces Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc as 2006 Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award Recipient
• Suzanne Bakken, DNSc received a National Library of Medicine grant
• Columbia University School of Nursing has been named a 2006 Computerworld Laureate in the categories of medicine and education
• Laura Zeidenstein, CNM, DrNP receives the 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award
• DNSc student, Carolynn A. Bitzer, MSN, FNP, was selected as the ENRS 2006 student presentation winner
• Richard Garfield, DrPH, led a team from Canada and Switzerland, to Sudan
• Jacqueline Merrill, Recent DNSc Graduate, Awarded 2-Year Pfizer Fellowship
• SON receives highest accreditation from ANCC for continuing education
• "Do Babies Belong in Prison?" Mary Byrne's research featured in InVivo."
• Mary Byrne, Jennifer Dohrn, and Anne Peirce among the 1st fellows of the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy
• Elaine Larson elected to Society of Scholars at Johns Hopkins University
• Columbia DrNP student wins one of five AACN/Monster.com scholarships
• Jennifer Dohrn, Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing to present the keynote address on International AIDS Day in Mpumalanga, South Africa
• School of Nursing students, Ursula Baldoceda and Maryelena Vargas, win scholarships in medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health and public policy
• Columbia University School of Nursing Receives Macy Grant
• Dr. Joyce Anastasi awarded $2.5 million from NINR
• DrNP Approved (see the news clip from Eyewitness News)
• "Is There a Doctor in the House"  Wall Street Journal, Monday, October 11, 2004
• Elaine Larson receives funding for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Antimicrobial Resistence (CIRAR)
• C250 Celebrates Your Columbians: Kristine Gebbie, DrP
• Joyce Anastasi Works With Acupuncture and Infertility
• The APHA Awards Luncheon
• Patty Dykes Wins Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Doctoral Scholarship
• Bequests Totaling $5.4 Million Received by School of Nursing
• Kristine Gebbie Selected as the Ruth B. Freeman Award Winner
• Second Century Award for Excellence in Healthcare
• Alumni Weekend 2003
• Suzanne Bakken DNSc, RN, FAAN has been appointed to The Alumni Chair
• Joyce Anastasi Appointed to the Helen Pettit Endowed Associate Clinical Professorship
• Video: Mary O'Neil Mundinger, DrPH: Primary Care a Promising Field for Advanced Practice
• Video: Richard Garfield: Iraqi Sanctions
• Video: Richard Garfield: Intervention Can Reduce Disruption of Life, Economy Caused by International Conflicts
• Dr. Mary Byrne Awarded  $1.5M by NINR
• Melissa DeCardi: Overcoming Poverty May Conquer AIDS in South Africa
• New JAMA Article: Dean Mundinger Repsonds to Challenges Facing Family Practice and Primary Care