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Awards
Posted October 2011 Studying the Relationship Between Where People Live and Good HealthMatthew D. McHugh, PhD, CRNP, MPH, JD, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, has won a competitive grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to study the relationships among where people live, where they receive hospital care, and the outcomes of that care. Dr. McHugh is one of just 12 nurse educators from around the country to receive the three-year $350,000 Nurse Faculty Scholar award this year. It is given to junior faculty who show outstanding promise as future leaders in academic nursing.
“The RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar program will provide a great opportunity for me to grow as a nurse scientist and become a leading nursing outcomes and policy researcher,” Dr. McHug... Awards
Posted August 2010 Dr. Deborah Watkins Bruner Accomplishes A First
Dr. Deborah Watkins Bruner has been awarded a U10 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as Principal Investigator (PI) of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP).
Dr. Bruner, the Independence Professor of Nursing Education at the University of Pennsylvania and co-program leader of the Cancer Control Program at the Abramson Cancer Center, is the first woman and first nurse to be awarded PI of a NCI sponsored cancer clinical trials cooperative group.
The RTOG CCOP is the only CCOP research base focused solely on providing radiation (RT) and combination therapy-related symptom amelioration trials, and state-of-the-art RT treatment trials to the CCOP community, accruing close to 2000 patients over the last five years.
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