Penn Nursing's GeroScholars Seminar

Thanks to the generous support from the John A. Hartford Foundation our Center was able to establish the GERO SCHOLARS SEMINAR series to provide opportunities for Penn Nursing pre- and postdoctoral scholars to exchange ideas, to give formal presentations, and to get feedback on their research from mentors and peers. Penn Nursing Gero scholars meet regularly on a bi-monthly basis to present abstracts, public presentations, papers, journal articles, and research findings to each other and to their faculty mentors. The group is led by Penn Nursing faculty, including Drs. Neville Strumpf, Lois Evans, Eileen Sullivan-Marx and Sarah Kagan.

Meg Bourbonniere prepares for her upcoming
presentation while Lois Evans keeps her smiling.
 
Salimah Meghani is presenting a lecture on
barriers to pain relief in developing countries

Penn Nursing's Gero Scholars Seminar
(The list below features all current and previous seminar participants; including alumni, who have received postdocs at other institutions and scholars who completed their fellowships and are no longer at Penn.)

NAME

PROGRAM STATUS

RESEARCH CONCENTRATION

FACULTY MENTOR(s)

JAH
SCHOLAR

Pre-Doctoral Scholars, Postdoctoral Fellows and Hartford Alumni

Balas, Michele
Email: balasm@nursing.upenn.edu

Post-Doc

Improving Physical and Functional Outcomes of Critically Ill Older Adults

S. Richmond/
S. Kagan/ E. Sullivan-Marx

X
(2005 JAH)

Balas, Michele
Email: balasm@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Improving Physical and Functional Outcomes of Critically Ill Older Adults

S. Richmond/
S. Kagan/ E. Sullivan-Marx

Completed
(2003-05 JAH)

Beeber, Anna
Email: beebera@nursing.upenn.edu
(Pursuing Post-doc at UNC/Chapel Hill-2005 JAH funded)

Penn/
Hartford
Alumna

Elder Enrollment in Community Based-LTC

N. Strumpf/
S. Kagan/L. Evans

Completed
(2001-03 JAH)

Bellot, Jennifer Seamon
Email:  jseamon@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Organizational Culture and Quality of Care Delivery in NH

N. Strumpf

X
(2005 JAH)

Bourbonniere, Meg
(Yale)
Email: meg.bourbonniere@yale.edu

Penn/
Hartford
Alumna

Health  Outcomes Research -LTC

N. Strumpf

Completed
(2001 JAH)

Bradway, Christine
Email:  cwb@nursing.upenn.edu

Hartford
Fellow

Cultural Model for Long-term Female Urinary Incontinence

N. Strumpf

X
(2005 JAH)

Bunting-Perry, Lisette
Email: lisette.bunting-perry@med.va.gov

Pre-Doc

Parkinson's Disease Research Education and Clinical Center

M. Naylor/N. Strumpf

 

Busara, O.
Email: busara.o@psu.ac.th
(Mahidol Univ., Bangkok, Thailand)

Pre-Doc

Utilization of Restraints
 in the Elderly

N. Strumpf

International Student

Post-Doc
(Sleep)
Sleep Apnea Research
T. Weaver
completed

Cho, Eunhee
Email:  eunhecho@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Health Outcomes Research in Home Care

J. Sochalski

Completed

Crighton, Margaret
Email: Crighton@nursing.upenn.edu
(Pursuing Post-doc at U Pittsburgh - 2005 JAH)

Penn/
Hartford
Alumna

Neutropenia in Aging and Cancer

S. Kagan

Completed
(2003-05 JAH)

Draper, Judith
Email: mjld27@exchange1.drexel.edu
mjdraper@drexel.edu

Pre-Doc

Urinary Incontinence/Pain in Acute Care

C. Bradway

 
Michael Dreher
hmd@nursing.upenn.edu
Post-Doc
(Sleep)
Sleep Apnea
T. Weaver
Completed

Foust, Janice
Email: Janice.foust@unh.edu

Post-Doc

Post-hospital Discharge Medication Safety

M. Naylor

X
(JAH 2003)

Gray-Miceli, Deanna
Email: deannagm@nursing.upenn.edu

Post-Doc
(Hartford)

Development of a Post-Fall Assessment Protocol

N. Strumpf

X
(JAH 2002)

Jennifer Hagerty
Pre-Doc
UPitt-JAH
Dementia
L. Evans
Completed

Hanrahan, Nancy
Email:  nancyp@nursing.upenn.edu

Post-Doc
T-32

Health Outcomes Policy

L. Aikens

Completed

Hostvedt, Katherine
Email:  hostvedt@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

LTC Culture Change

L. Evans

 

Houweling, Lynn
Email: 

Pre-Doc

History of Red Cross Nursing

J. Fairman

 

Jurgens, Corrine
Email:  jurgens@nursing.upenn.edu

Post-Doc
(Hartford)

Readmission Factors in Community Dwelling Elderly with Heart Failure

B. Riegel

X
(JAH 2004)

Keating, Stacen
Email: skeating@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc
(Hartford)

Interdisciplinary Research Teams

M. Naylor

X
(JAH 2004)

Kong, Eun-Hi
Email:  ehkong@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Behaviors in Dementia

L. Evans

 

Lang, Xiaotao
Email:  xiataol@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Cancer Pain

N. Lang

 

Lin, Yu-Ru
Email:  linr@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Impacts of the PPS on Psychiatric HC in a VNA

A. Keane/
Sullivan-Marx

 

Meghani, Salimah
Email: meghanis@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Pain Experiences in Cancer Patients

A. Keane/ A. Houldin

Completed
MBA
Hartford
Wharton/Health Care -
LTC Administration
C. Scalzi/N. Strumpf
Completed

Mitchell, Sadie
Email:  sadiem@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc
(Hartford)

Older Black women's stories of hypertension treatment

E. Sullivan-Marx

X
(JAH 2005)

Monturo, Cheryl
Email: Monturo@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc
(Hartford)

End-of-Life Experiences in Older Veterans

N. Strumpf

Completed
(JAH 2002)

Pisano, Rebecca
Email: pisanorl@yahoo.com

Pre-Doc

 

N. Strumpf

 

Puentes, William
Email: puentes@nursing.upenn.edu

Post-Doc
(Hartford)

Anxiety, Coping and Simple Reminiscence in Ill Elders

L. Evans

X
(JAH 2004)

Reishtein, Judith
Email:  reishtei@nursing.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Sleep neurobehavior in COPD patients

T. Weaver

 

Shellman, Juliette
Email:  juliette.shellman@uconn.com

Pre-Doc

The effects of structured  reminiscence in community dwelling African American elders

E. Capezuti (NYU) & L. Evans

X
(JAH 2005)

Slaughter, Ann
Assistant Professor in the School of Dentistry - Brookdale Scholar
Email: yas@pobox.upenn.edu

Post-Doc

Oral Health in the Elderly

L. Evans

School of Dental Medicine

Stricker, Carrie
Email: carrie.sticker@uphs.upenn.edu

Pre-Doc

Fatigue in Older Women with Breast Cancer

N. Strumpf

 

Thomas Hawkins, Charlotte
Email: thomashaw@aol.com

Post-Doc
(K-Award)

Illness Representations in Elders with ESRD

N. Strumpf

 

Uryu, Kunihiro
Email: kuryu@mail.med.upenn.edu

Pre-doc
(School of Medicine)

Traumatic head injury, pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease in the human subject and mouse models &
Role of Heat shock proteins in pathogenesis of alpha-synucleinopathies.

S. Kagan

 

Van Cleave, Janet
Email:  janethvc@earthlink.

Hartford Applicant (Doc. Student at Yale)

Symptoms of the older adult with cancer undergoing treatment

R. McCorkle & M. Bourbonniere (at Yale)

 

Yu, Fang
Email:  fangyu@nursing.upenn.edu

Post-Doc
(Hartford)

Outpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes for Elders with Demetia

A. Kolanowski
(Penn State) & N.Strumpf (UPenn)

 
Seminar Pictures
Click here for pictures from the GeroScholars Seminar on Networking

A Conversation on Networking to Build a Career with

Dr. Neville Strumpf, Dr. Lois Evans and Dr. Norma Lang
   
Click here for more pictures from the GeroScholars Seminar
Presenters:
Meg Bourbonniere, "Public Health and Aging" and Salimah Meghani, "Global Disparities and Regulatory Barriers to Pain Relief in Developing Countries"


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