News
2009
- Richard Garfield, DrPH Appointed CDC Advisor
- Dr. Anita Nirenberg Awarded NIA grant
- New Contributing Editor at NCURA Magazine
- Kathleen Hickey Named Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ‘Nurse Faculty Scholar’. Genetics Researcher Working with Cardiac Patients is Selected for Prestigious Program to Advance Careers of the Nation’s Most Promising Junior Nurse Faculty
- PhD Student awarded AHRQ Dissertation Honor
- Faculty and Alumna Meet in Taiwan
- PhD Student Annie Rohan Wins Writing Award
- Two New Grants
- Interdisciplinary Research Course Offered
- Strengthening Nurse Training in South Africa
- New Research Grants and News
- Dr. Elaine Larson secures new multi-million dollar grant.
- Dr. Sarah Collins to be National Library of Medicine post-doc.
- The School of Nursing received its first economic stimulus grant
- Sarah Inez Garza is a recipient of the 2008-2009 National Hispanic Health Professional Student Scholarship
- Mary Byrne, Jennifer Dohrn, and Anne Peirce among the 1st fellows of the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy
- Elaine Larson receives funding for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Antimicrobial Resistence (CIRAR)
- Drs. Pat Stone, Elaine Larson, Sherry Glied and Lisa Saiman have received an AHRQ conference grant entitled, "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Changes in Reimbursement for Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs): Setting a Research Agenda"
- Patricia Stone, PhD and Monika Pogorzelska, project coordinator, selected for major awards at the June meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
- Patricia Stone, PhD named 2009 the Distinguished Nurse Researcher by the New York State Nurses Association
- Patricia Stone, PhD appointed Director of the Center for Health Policy at the School of Nursing
- PhD students Kelli Hall, Sharron Close, Sarah Collins, Pam de Cordova, and Roberta Salveson named recipients of Sigma Theta Tau awards
- PhD student Kelli Hall received a Research Fellowship Award (F31) from the NIH National Institute of Nursing Research
- Nurse Anesthesia Team Travels to Ecuador
- The Nurse Midwifery Program students won the 2009 annual American Council of Nurse Midwives student video contest.
2008
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance under the extraordinary direction of Elaine Larson, PhD, has achieved an amazing record of funding success.
- Patricia Stone, PhD awarded $362,331 funding from the Blue Shield of California Foundation to conduct a research project entitled, "Understanding the Changing Infection Control Practitioner (ICP) Role"
- Patricia Stone, PhD and her research team have received official notice of the 2-year $299,990 funding from RWJF Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
- Joyce Anastasi awarded $400,000 to develop and offer a subspecialty master's degree program in Herbs, Nutraceuticals and Supplements
- Graduation - Read Dean Mary Mundinger's remarks about this year's Second Century recipients, Barbara and Donald Jonas and Karen Ignagni
- 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
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The Informed Patient, by Laura Landro Making Room for "Dr. Nurse" April 2, 2008; Page D1
- Columbia University School of Nursing is Silver Grantor for the 20th Annual Eastern Nursing Research Society Scientific Sessions, March 27-29, 2008.
- Elaine Larson received the 2008 ENRS' Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award
- Kristine Gebbie was selected to receive the United Hospital Fund's 2008 Distinguished Trustee Award
- 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
2007
- Honor Society of Nursing bestows prestigious Audrey Hepburn Award to prison nursery advocate Dr. Mary Byrne
- Kristine Gebbie won 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 5 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.
- Rebekah Ruppe, CNMW to receive the 2007 Excellence in teaching Award from The American College of Nurse Midwive's Foundation
- Kathleen Hickey, FNP, EdD to receive the Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy educational grant for her project "REAL: Remote Electronic Arrythmia Learning."
- 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)
- 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.
- DNSc student Rebecca Schnall, RN, MPH, MBA has won the American College of Legal Medicine's 2007 Hirsch Award for Outstanding Writing
- Rebecca Schnall appointed to the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Student Editorial Board. This journal is the most prestigious in the field.
2003 - 2006
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School of Nursing awarded a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for $500,000
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Jennifer Dohrn, in collaboration with the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa strengthen the education and ongoing evaluation of advanced midwifery training.
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Kristine Gebbie, RN, DrPH, has been named to the Health Policy Advisory Committee for Eliott Spitzer's transition office
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Rose Nadler Schefer Memorial Endowment Scholarship Fund transferred to Columbia University School of Nursing
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American Medical Informatics Association Announces Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc as 2006 Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award Recipient
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Suzanne Bakken, DNSc received a National Library of Medicine grant
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING WINS COMPUTERWORLD HONORS AWARD FOR SYBASE MOBILE SOLUTION
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Recent DNSc Graduate, Jacqueline Merrill Awarded 2-Year Pfizer Fellowship
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DNSc student, Carolynn A. Bitzer, MSN, FNP, was selected as the ENRS 2006 student presentation winner
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Richard Garfield, DrPH, led a team from Canada and Switzerland, to Sudan to perform preliminary survey work
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Laura Zeidenstein, CNM, DrNP receives the 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award
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Columbia sets the standard
DrNP: Clinical Doctorate in Nursing
Columbia University Receives New York State Regents Approval for First-Ever Clinical Doctorate in Nursing
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Elaine Larson elected to Society of Scholars at Johns Hopkins University
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School of Nursing students, Ursula Baldoceda and Maryelena Vargas, win scholarships in medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health and public policy
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Columbia University School of Nursing Receives Macy Grant
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Dr. Mary Byrne Awarded $1.5M by NINR
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Joyce Anastasi Appointed to the Helen Pettit Endowed Associate Clinical Professorship
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Suzanne Bakken DNSc, RN, FAAN has been appointed to The Alumni Chair
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Kristine Gebbie Receives Ruth B. Freeman Award
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Bequests Totaling $5.4 Million Received by School of Nursing
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Patty Dykes Wins Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Doctoral Scholarship
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DrNP Approved (see the news clip from Eyewitness News)
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Dr. Joyce Anastasi awarded $2.5 million from NINR
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Jennifer Dohrn, Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing to present the keynote address on International AIDS Day in Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Columbia DrNP student wins one of five AACN/Monster.com scholarships
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"Is There a Doctor in the House" Wall Street Journal, Monday, October 11, 2004
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C250 Celebrates Your Columbians: Kristine Gebbie, DrP
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Melissa DeCardi: Overcoming Poverty May Conquer AIDS in South Africa
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Video: Richard Garfield: Intervention Can Reduce Disruption of Life, Economy Caused by International Conflicts
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New JAMA Article: Dean Mundinger Repsonds to Challenges Facing Family Practice and Primary Care
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Video: Mary O'Neil Mundinger, DrPH: Primary Care a Promising Field for Advanced Practice
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Video: Richard Garfield: Iraqi Sanctions
