Four CUSON faculty promoted to Associate Professor.

Ritamarie John, EdD, DNP, Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing

• PNP who serves as program director of our PNP program & Neonatal NP program
• At Columbia for 13 yrs & earned doctoral degrees in teaching & practice
• Diplomate of the American Board of Comprehensive care in 2009
• Research focuses on the practice & teaching of pediatric primary care & includes technology in both student & patient education

Lori Rosenthal, DNP, Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing

• ANP who practices at Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation. She is a Senior Transplant Coordinator & Director of Regulatory Compliance for Liver Transplantation at Columbia & Cornell
• Earned her DNP in 2005; Diplomate of the American Board of Comprehensive care in 2009
• With 4 transplant colleagues, developed an educational organization, Women in 3D (Drinking Does Damage), which educates & targets young women who drink
• Clinical leader on NIH-funded HIV transplant grant at Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation. Publications focus on transplantation.

Arlene Smaldone, DNSc, Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing

• Certified as PNP & diabetes educator
• DNSc in 2003; joined faculty in 2005
• Research focused in the areas of pediatric sleep and diabetes care & management
• Leadership role in the Eastern Nursing Research Society

Kara Ventura, DNP, Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing

• PNP and Senior Transplant Coordinator at the Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation for 7 yrs
• Active role with quality improvement & assurance transplant Dept at NYPH
• Earned her DNP in 2007; Diplomate of American Board of Comprehensive Care in 2009
• Publications focus on care of intestine & liver patients in pediatric setting