Honors, Awards, and Other News March 2014

Honors and Presentations

• William Enlow, DNP, ANCP, CRNA, assistant professor, presented “Evaluating Clinical Performance,” and Jan Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, senior associate dean, clinical practice, presented “ABCC Certification: What it is and What it isn't" at the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Assembly of School Faculty in San Diego.
• Lorie Goshin ’10, Ann-Margaret Navarra ’92 ’11, and Barbara Sheehan ’10 moderated Columbia Nursing’s “Real Talk: PhD,” a candid discussion about career opportunities for PhD nursing grads.
• Kathleen Hickey, EdD, FNP, FAAN, assistant professor of nursing, presented on translating genomic-based research for health at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable in Washington, D.C. at a meeting entitled “Assessing Genomic Sequencing Information for Health Care Decision Making: A Workshop.”
• Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, PNP, associate dean of student affairs, was installed as the Dorothy M. Rogers Chair. Click here for photos from the event.
• Jeanne Rubsam Kane, APRN, PNP-C, assistant professor of nursing, was elected as Vice President of the New York State American Trauma Society for the 2014-2016 term.
• Rebecca Schnall, PhD, MPH, RN, assistant professor, presented a Webinar, “Adolescents’ Use and Perceived Usefulness of Mobile Technology for Meeting their Health Information Needs and Improving Adherence to Improved Health Behaviors,” for the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• The Nurse Midwifery and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner programs held their annual poster presentation, “Hot Topics in Women’s Health,” in the student lounge.

Publications

• William Enlow, DNP, ANCP, CRNA, assistant professor, was the lead author of “Strategic Planning for Curricular Excellence, Anesthesia and Comprehensive Care,” published in AANA Journal. Other authors of the paper include Judy Honig, EdD, DNP, CPNP, associate dean for student affairs, and Sarah Sheets Cook, DNP, RN, professor emerita.
• Kristine Kulage, MA, MPH, director, office of scholarship and research development, was the lead author of “How Will DSM-5 Affect Autism Diagnosis? A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis,” published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Co-authors of the paper include Arlene Smaldone, PhD, RN, associate professor and Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, RN, assistant professor.
• Andrew Phillips ’08 ’12, PHD,was the lead author of “Implementing Health Information Exchange for Public Health Reporting: A Comparison of Decision and Risk Management of Three Regional Health Information Organizations in New York State,” published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
• Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, MPH, RN, associate professor of nursing, was also an author.
• Carole Roye ’86 EdD, RN, published a book “A Woman’s Right to Know” about how women’s health devolved from a medical issue to a political one.
• Rebecca Schnall, PhD, assistant professor, was the lead author of “Feasibility Testing of a Web-based Symptom Self-management System for Persons Living With HIV,” published in the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

Briefs

• Columbia Nursing sponsored a half-day educational workshop for CoSMO (Columbia University Student Medical Outreach, a clinic for uninsured patients in Washington Heights.) Speakers led workshops on diabetes education, nutrition, and motivational interviewing, with an emphasis on the needs of the Washington Heights community.
• The Alumni Association and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations are accepting applications for the Alumni Association Scholarship, funded entirely through gifts by alumni and friends to the Annual Fund.  If you are a Columbia Nursing graduate (including ETP '14) and plan to enroll at Columbia Nursing in fall 2014, click here to apply. Please contact jh2526@columbia.edu with any questions.  Last year, 52 students received an Alumni Association Scholarship award.
• Suhana DeLeon-Sanchez ’06 ’09, a graduate of the Psychiatric Mental Health Program, will give the Alumni Address at Visiting Day for admitted students on Friday, March 7 at 3:30 p.m. Suhana is currently working as a nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and has her own private practice in Brooklyn.
• Representatives of the LCU Fund for Women’s Education met with Dean Bobbie Berkowitz, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Judy Honig and LCU Fund student recipients Elizabeth Gary, Ameeka George, Thania Lee, Danielle Moriates, Tuyet-Vy Nguyen, Emily Owen and Sierra Winings at a site visit where they visited simulation labs and learned about the school’s plans for a new building.