Voice News, fall 2023
Research
Doctoral candidate Amy Goh was awarded a National Institutes of Health F31 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research for the project “Respectful Communication and Patient Portal Usage in Pregnant People of Color.”
Associate Professor Tam Nguyen and her team were approved for funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for their study “Measurement Matters,” which will develop a measure to assess patients’ engagement with research and how it might affect health outcomes. Nguyen is the Strakosch Family Faculty Fellow in Community Health.
The International Society of Nurses in Genetics awarded Assistant Professor Melissa Uveges a grant for her research proposal “Family-Level Determinants of Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia Cascade Screening.”
Assistant Professor Brittney van de Water is the first CSON nurse scientist ever to receive a Child Health Research Award from the Charles H. Hood Foundation. The award supports a study aimed at improving outcomes for children diagnosed with tuberculosis in South Africa.
Publications and presentations
CSON faculty and their teams are prolific in their scholarly output, including:
Publications
- A developmental perspective sheds light on reproductive differences between congenital and acquired hypogonadism, by Associate Professor Andrew Dwyer
- Nurses’ ethical obligations toward unvaccinated individuals, by Associate Professor of the Practice Aimee Milliken and Assistant Professor Melissa Uveges
- Predictors of fertility-awareness-based method use among women trying to conceive and women contemplating pregnancy, by Assistant Professor of the Practice Melissa Pérez Capotosto, Barry/Goldman Sachs Professor Christopher Lee, and Associate Professor Corrine Jurgens
Presentations
- Integrating nutrition and health: The role of health care provider education, by Assistant Professor of the Practice Ashley Longacre
- Dyadic appraisals of family decisions and health tasks in middle-aged and older couples, by Professor Karen Lyons
- Follow-up care for high-risk infants with oropharyngeal dysphagia, by Associate Professor Jinhee Park
Alumni and Students
Denise Charron-Prochownik, M.S. ’82, was inducted into the Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. She is a professor and chair of the Department of Health Promotion & Development at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.
Martha A.Q. Curley, Ph.D. ’97, was named an American Academy of Nursing Living Legend during the AAN’s 50th anniversary year.
Ph.D. candidate Nickie Burney and D.N.P. student Cheryl Slater were awarded scholarships from the Nurses Educational Funds (NEF). Burney received the NEF/Johnson & Johnson 2023 Health Equity Scholarship, and Slater received the 2023 Madeline A. Naegle Scholarship.
Faculty
Burgess presents
Professor Ann Burgess was the keynote speaker for the Academy of Forensic Nursing’s National Conference in November.
Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Associate Professor Andrew Dwyer is a 2023–2024 Virtual Visiting Professor in a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine program called Health Humanities and Health Systems Science Distinction Tracks: Generating a Guild of Authentic Citizens in Healthcare.
Gordon named to Diversity Leadership Institute
Leah Gordon, CSON’s associate dean for inclusive excellence, diversity, and belonging, was accepted to the 2024 American Association of Colleges of Nursing Diversity Leadership Institute.
Lyons elected to Board
Professor Karen Lyons was elected to the board of directors of the Gerontological Society of America—the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging.
Milliken on panel to draft Code of Ethics
The American Nurses Association appointed Associate Professor of the Practice Aimee Milliken to the panel that is drafting the 2025 Code of Ethics, a critical initiative revised every 10 years.
Learn more about this process
AAN welcomes O’Reilly-Jacob
Assistant Professor Monica O’Reilly-Jacob was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in October. Link
Events
The fall Pinnacle lecture was presented by Vanessa Kerry, MD, M.Sc., director of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, CEO of Seed Global Health, and special envoy for climate change and health at the World Health Organization. Kerry’s lecture was titled “From Pandemic Preparedness to Climate Change Resiliency, the Solutions Lie with Our Health Care Professionals.”
Boston College hosted the Sixth Annual Sigma Region 15 Nursing Research Symposium in October. The topic was Bold Innovations: Nurses Leading the Changing Health Care Climate.
Visiting Professor Sang Hui Chu, from Yonsei University College of Nursing in Seoul, presented the talk “Complex PTSD in North Korean Defectors: Psychosocial and Biological Markers,” based on her research.
In June, the 2023 NANDA International Conference was hosted at Boston College. The topic—Shaping, Informing, and Communicating Nursing and the Human Experience—celebrated 50 years of the organization’s work in nursing practice, research, educational curricula, and informatics.