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Drs.
Lois Evans and Neville Strumpf |
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Dr.
Neville Strumpf''s current focus
is on doctoral students in developing their
dissertation, pre- and post doctoral fellows
in aging, senior and independent studies
in aging (all levels) and development of a
Palliative Care minor. Dr. Strumpf, an award-winning
researcher and dedicated, caring educator,
is not only available for her students, but
also
fights to remind a money-conscious national health
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Dr.
Lois Evans teaches a required mental
health and aging course and mentors doctoral
and postdoctoral students in their research related
to behaviors in dementia. As a faculty director,
Dr. Evans played a major role in launching clinical
practices of the School of Nursing, offering
primary care to both frail elders and low-income
families who otherwise might go without health
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Dr.
Sarah Kagan is an internationally renowned
scholar, MacArthur
Genius Award winner, and also a very popular
teacher and mentor who knows how to make gerontology
relevant to students with varied clinical interests
and different backgrounds. She motivates her students
by providing exciting learning opportunities,
such as last year's trip to the International
Society of Nurses in Cancer Care (ISNCC) in London
or by facilitating regular meetings, such as the GeroOncology
Student Group or
organizing seminars on current
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Dr.
Norma Lang, another distinguishedPenn Nursing
faculty mentor, is the first woman and nurse who won
the 2001 Ernest
A. Codman Award for her leadership role in promoting
the use of performance measurements to improve the quality
of health care services. Dr. Lang also received the
Jessie
M. Scott Award for demonstrating interdependent
relationships among nursing education, practice and
research. |
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Dr.
Mary Naylor's
distinguished record of scholarship has long served
as a model for junior faculty members. She has garnered
a national and international reputation as a geriatric
scholar reflecting her humanistic concern for treating
the elderly with knowledge and respect. She personifies
the very best leadership characteristics as an intellectual,
scholar, and educator. |
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Dr.
Terry Richmond is directing a popular
master’s program, the Adult Acute Care Nurse
Practitioner Program with the option for Clinical
Nurse Specialist preparation. Dr. Richmond focuses
on preparing advanced practice nurses to assume
innovative roles in an interdisciplinary health
care team. “The goals are to assist students
in achieving critical decision making skills to
assess, diagnose, and manage vulnerable patients
with acute and critical illness and injury in a
technologically complex environment.” |
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Dr.
Barbara Riegel provides national and
international leadership in clinical research
in chronic heart failure, an extremely common and
debilitating syndrome. Heart failure remains the
most common cardiac diagnosis in elders and one of
the major reasons for hospital admission.
She is widely known for her studies of heart failure self-care and disease management.
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Dr.
Eileen Sullivan-Marx has been recognized
with the Undergraduate Advisor Award for
her teaching
and mentoring excellence. (See, Mary
Nguyen, BSN). She brings her national leadership
reputation and skills to the forefront for Penn
nursing students as she directs two of the top–ranked
Master’s Programs in the School of Nursing
- the Adult Health and Gerontology Nurse Practitioner
Programs. She is a dedicated teacher, an outstanding,
internationally renowned scholar and active campus
citizen. |
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Dr.
Terri Weaver
is recognized nationally and internationally for her
research on the effect of daytime sleepiness on daily
behaviors and assessment of treatment outcomes. Dr.
Weaver has produced two notable disease specific functional
status measures, one for chronic pulmonary disorders
and the other for sleep disorders. Her program of
research centers on treatment adherence, analysis
of treatment efficacy for obstructive sleep apnea,
and mechanisms and outcomes of daytime sleepiness.
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of Seminars and Events |
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Gero-Oncology
Group.
Dr.
Sarah Kagan's Gero-Oncology students
get together at bi-monthly breakfast meetings to
discuss their latest projects, listen to guest
lecturers, and share each others company and good
food. Listen
to segments of a lecture by Dr. Kagan, -- and/or view
some pictures from the Gero-Oncology
Group. |
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Faculty
Forum on Time and Aging.
Dr.
Neville Strumpf joined a
panel of distinguished Penn faculty in the humanities,
social sciences, medicine, and nursing for a conversation
on how aging informs many more aspects of our lives
than we may realize. Her lecture, Time
and the Experience of Aging was sponsored by the Penn
Humanities Forum. |
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The
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing presented Mary
D. Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, with the first Claire
M. Fagin Distinguished Research Award. In
her acceptance remarks, Dr. Naylor highlighted critical
points in her research and teaching career at Penn.
>>> To
view Dr. Naylor's speech, click
here (1:03:23) |
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Gero
Scholars Seminar Series.
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. |
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Hartford
MBA / Administrative Scholar Mentoring Group meets
regularly with faculty mentors, Cynthia Scalzi,
Linda Carrick and Neville Strumpf. Participants: Elizabeth
Miller, MSN, RN, CRNP (Wharton), Therese
D. Narzikul, MSN, RN, CRNP (Villanova), and Bonnie
B. Benetato, RN, MSN, FNP (American University). |
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Hartford
Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
University of Pennsylvania - School of Nursing
- 420 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4217
TEL: (215)
573-3296 - FAX: (215) 573-6464
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October 24, 2005
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