PhD in Nursing
Faculty
Nancy
Reame, MSN, PhD, FAAN, Mary
Dickey Lindsay Professor of Nursing, Director of the PhD in
Nursing program. Her current program of research is focused on the neuroendocrinology
of the menstrual cycle, PMS, and menopause with the aim of clarifying the
factors associated with women's reproductive health. A member of the Institute
of Medicine, Dr. Reame is an active women's health advocate, serving on
the advisory committee to the NIH Women's Health Initiative, and as advisor
to the Boston Women's Health Book Collective. She is currently a member
of the Board of Trustees for the North American Menopause Society and
is certified as a menopause clinician.
Mary O’Neil Mundinger, DrPH, FAAN is Dean and
Centennial Professor in Health Policy at Columbia University
School of Nursing. Dr. Mundinger received a DrPH in health policy from Columbia University School of Public Health.
She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the New York Academy
of Medicine. Dr. Mundinger is actively involved in health policy at national and international levels, having served on
the IOM Council on Health Care Technology, the IOM Committee on Clinical Evaluation, and The Robert Wood Johnson Health
Policy Fellowship Board. In 1993, Dr. Mundinger was one of 40 providers appointed to the Health Professional Review
Group to review the plan for national health care reform. She was the lead author of "Primary Care Outcomes in Patients
Treated by Nurse Practitioners or Physicians," which appeared in the January 5, 2000 issue of JAMA. Dr. Mundinger has
led the School of Nursing since 1986.
Suzanne Bakken,
DNSc, FAAN is Professor of Nursing and of Medical Informatics and an internationally recognized expert in
informatics. Following doctoral studies in nursing 
science, she completed a National Library of Medicine funded
postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics at Stanford University. She is an elected fellow of the American College of
Medical Informatics and serves on the American Nurses Association Committee on Nursing Practice Information Infrastructure
and on the board of the American Medical Informatics Association. She is active in national and international standards
development efforts including SNOMED Clinical Terms, Health Level 7, and Clinical LOINC Committee. Principal Investigator or
Co-PI of studies funded by NIH, the focus of her research is the development of an informatics infrastructure evidence based
practice and self-care symptom management. The studies have primarily been conducted in the clinical population of HIV/AIDS.
Mary Woods Byrne, CPNP, MPH, PhD is Associate
Professor of Nursing. She received a doctorate in nursing from Adelphi University. Her expertise is in the area of
high-risk childbearing families and her federally funded program of research concerns assessment and early intervention
related to risk factors affecting the health of vulnerable infants and young children. She is a former Visiting Professor
at the Gotenborg University in Sweden as part of the School’s designation as a World Health Organization
Collaborating Center. Dr. Byrne is currently testing a model and several innovative interventions designed to enhance
parenting and parent-infant interaction and development of HIV-infected infants.
Leanne Currie,
DNSc is an Assistant Professor in the School
of Nursing. She obtained her Doctorate in Nursing Science from Columbia
University School of Nursing. Her doctoral work in Nursing and Biomedical
Informatics was funded by a National Library of Medicine Traineeship
through the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics.
Dr. Currie is co-appointed as a Nurse Researcher at New York Presbyterian
Hospital, an academic teaching hospital affiliated with Columbia University
and Cornell Medical School. Her current research is related to informatics
and patient safety with a focus on harm prevention and interdisciplinary
communication.
Richard Garfield, DrPH is the Henrik H. Bendixen
Clinical Professor of International Nursing and the Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center in Advanced Practice
Nursing. He received a doctorate from Columbia University School of Public Health. Dr. Garfield is a public
health/community health nurse with expertise in epidemiology and international health. His research interests include
community health promotion among minorities, the effects of wars on civilian populations, and the impact of economic
embargoes on health and well- being. Dr. Garfield chairs the human rights committee of the American Public Health
Association.
Judy Honig, EdD, CPNP is
Associate Dean for Student Services and Assistant Professor of Clinical
Nursing. She received a doctorate from Teachers College and maintains
an academic faculty practice in an active, urban, community-based pediatric
practice where she is the primary care provider for a panel of infants
and children. Dr. Honig is interested in the provision of pediatric
primary care for the urban child. Her research foci are the measurement
of child health status, predictors of risk taking and depression in
children, and self-efficacy in the inner city environment. Her research
is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Elaine Larson, PhD, FAAN, CIC is Professor of
Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Research. She earned master’s degrees in nursing and in microbiology and a doctorate
in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She is known internationally for her outstanding research and
scholarship regarding infection control, particularly the role of hand washing in the spread of nonsocomial infection,
and behavioral and organizational interventions to increase handwashing by health professionals. She has published widely,
having authored over 200 publications addressing infection control, research methodology, and health policy. She has been
an active participant in the health and health sciences policy arena, having served on many committees and the Governing
Board of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Larson is the former M. Adelaide Nutting Chair in Clinical Nursing at Johns Hopkins
University School of Nursing and the former Dean of Georgetown School of Nursing.
Janice Smolowitz, EdD, CS, ANP, CDE is Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing. She specializes in continuous quality improvement and in the care of patients with diabetes, hypertension, and gait disorders. Dr. Smolowitz earned a doctorate in applied physiology from Teachers College. Her research has included a survey of nursing research activities in New York State and several studies related to the management of diabetes and blood pressure in ethnic minority populations.
Arlene Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP, CDE is an Assistant Professor of Nursing and a
graduate of the doctor of nursing science program at the Columbia University School of Nursing. She completed a
post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral research at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Smaldone's
research focus is children with diabetes, specifically identification of risk factors associated with diabetic
ketoacidosis and severe psychiatric comorbidity requiring hospitalization among children with diabetes, innovative
diabetes education approaches to improve adolescent diabetes problem solving behaviors, and access to care for children
with chronic health conditions.
Patricia W. Stone, PhD, RN, ANP is Assistant Professor
of Nursing and Director of the Advanced Clinical Management Program. Dr. Stone is an expert in outcomes research and
health policy. She earned a doctorate in nursing from the University of Rochester, a master’s of public health from
Harvard University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in health policy at Harvard. Her area of specialization is
cost-effectiveness research, particularly the application cost-utility analysis to the study of patient outcomes.