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Article of the Year for Brawner
Bridgette Brawner, PhD, MDiv, APRN, Associate Professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health, has won the 2018 Richard L. Sowell Article of the Year Award from the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC).
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New Scholars Named to Promote Research into the Influence of Gender on Health
Traditionally, many health-related research projects focused only on males, assuming that females’ bodies would respond the same way to a given intervention or drug. But more often, scientists are uncovering important distinctions between men’s and women’s health, pointing to the need for dedicated attention to understand the intricacies of the differences.
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American Academy of Nursing Announces New Fellows
Ten nursing professionals with ties to Penn Nursing will be inducted as 2018 Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). One is a current doctoral student and a Robert Wood Johnson Future of Nursing Scholar. The other nine are Penn Nursing alumni. All of the inductees will be honored at a ceremony during the AAN’s annual policy conference, Transforming Health, Driving Policy, taking place November 1-3, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
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An Interview with “Leader to Watch” Adriana Perez
Adriana Perez, PhD, CRNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, interviewed by the scientific journal Nurse Leader about her career path and her vision for the nursing profession.
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Three Penn Nursing Faculty Members Named LDI Senior Fellows
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics recently held its sixth annual “Fall Kickoff” to welcome eighteen new Senior Fellows to its ranks, including three Penn Nursing faculty members.
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Kimberly Trout, PhD, Named a Fellow in the American College of Nurse-Midwives
Fellowship in the ACNM is an honor bestowed upon those midwives whose demonstrated leadership, clinical excellence, outstanding scholarship, and professional achievement, and have merited special recognition both within and outside of the midwifery profession.