Faculty News
Nursing
Dr. Mona Counts, Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing, was elected president of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners for 2006-2007.
Dr. Donna Fick, associate professor of nursing, was an invited member of an expert advisory panel for IPRO, the Centers for Medicare-Medicaid Services Quality Improvement Organization for the state of New York, for her work on potentially inappropriate anticholinergics in the elderly.
Dr. Kim Haidet, assistant professor of nursing, has received research funding from the Children’s Miracle Network and Johnson & Johnson for her studies on stress response and recovery from neonatal care.
Dr. Linda Hatfield, assistant professor of nursing, received the 2006 Young Investigator Award from the American Pain Society.
Dr. Ann Kolanowski, professor of nursing, received the 2006 John A. Hartford Geriatric Nursing Research Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society.
Dr. Susan Loeb, assistant professor of nursing, received the Judith V. Braun Award for Advancing the Practice of Gerontological Nursing through Research from the National Gerontological Nursing Association (NGNA). Loeb received her award at the NGNA Annual Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in October 2006.
Dr. Dee McGonigle, associate professor of nursing and information sciences and technology, was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing on November 11, 2006. Dr. McGonigle was formally inducted as a Fellow with fifty-four other nurse leaders during the Academy’s Annual Awards Ceremony and Induction Banquet in Miami, Florida.
Dr. Paula Milone-Nuzzo, director of the School of Nursing and associate dean for international partnerships, received the Beverly Koerner Outstanding Alumni Award for Education in Nursing from the University of Connecticut. She was also inducted as a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academy of Practice.
