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California. From 1988-03, she served as a commander in the Naval Nurse Corps Reserve, retiring in 2003. From 1988-98, she was a professor in the Emergency Medical Technician Program and from 1998- 2003, she served as director of student health services at San Diego Miramar College. From 2003-15, she served in the U.S. Department of State as a foreign service medical provider, retiring in
2015 with duty stations including Abuja, Nigeria; Baghdad, Iraq; Managua, Nicaragua; Maputo, Mozambique; and Libreville, Gabon.
Sally Raphel, MS ’84, BSN ’80, RN, (center) who taught at UMSON from 2000-06, is the recipient of the 2016 International Society of Psychiatric- Mental Health Nurses Living Legends Award
in recognition of
her significant lifetime contributions to the profession of psychiatric- mental health nursing. The award was presented at the awards ceremony on April 16 during the society’s 18th annual conference in Minneapolis.
James Dyson, BSN ’81, RN, is living in North Carolina and working as
a clinical documentation improvement specialist. He previously managed the Emergency Department at Anne Arundel Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland,
for 24 years.
Jennifer Kalapaca, BSN ’84, RN, is a clinical research nurse at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland.
and her team received
the UMMC Chief Nursing Officer Award for Team Excellence in May 2016 for consistently demonstrating excellence in teamwork
to provide extraordinary care to patients, families, and each other. Alumni members of Mueller’s team include: Kimberly Bowers, MS ’07; Chad Copeland, BSN ’13; Rachael Goucher, BSN ’13; Tara Stocksdale, BSN ’14; Christian Gragasin, BSN ’15; Lindsay Jones, BSN ’15; Martin Maier,
BSN ’15; Kristin McAleer, MS ’15; Melanie D. Schutt, BSN ’15; Rebecca Stecher, MS ’15; and Melissa Wagner, MS ’15.
Read more about Mueller and her UMMC unit in “Team Captain,” Page 30.
Robert Church,
MS ’94, MBA, RN, NE-BC, FACHE,
worked as a staff nurse
in UMMC’s Emergency Department and the Trauma Admitting Area
of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. In 2012, he obtained his MBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey and became
a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. In 2016, he was appointed as senior vice president and chief nursing officer at SBH Health System in the Bronx, New York.
Anne K. (Hummer) Massie, MSN, BSN ’94, RN, CIC, works as the infection prevention and control coordinator at Castle Medical Center in Kailua, Hawaii. In 2015, she presented the storyboard “Improving Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination” at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 2015 annual forum. She also presented “Infection Prevention
in the Preoperative
Setting” at the Hawaii Islands Perianesthesia Nurses Conference.
Annie Clavon, PhD,
MS ’83, BSN ’79, RN, was named a 2016 Nurse.com GEM Award finalist in the Excellence in Education and Mentorship category. She is a full-time nursing instructor at Keiser University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1980s
Julie Baylor, MS,
BSN ’80, RN, nurse manager, nursing administration, was featured in the 2015-16 HCGH Nursing Annual Report, “Faces of Caring.”
Marla Oros, MS, BSN ’84, RN, received the 2016 Commitment to Community Award from Paul’s Place,
a community organization in Baltimore, in recognition of her extensive support and longstanding commit- ment to the community. Her leadership as a board member and chair of the last capital campaign has helped transform Paul’s Place into an organization that is helping individuals and families become self-sufficient.
Laura Adrian Taylor, PhD, MS ’90, BSN ’86, RN, FAAN, is an associate professor and director
of clinical education at
the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She earned
her PhD at The Catholic University of America School of Nursing in 2006.
1990s
Kerry Sue Mueller, MBA, BSN ’90, RN, CCRN, manager of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC),
Ann Baile Hamric,
PhD ’96, RN, FAAN, associate dean for academic programs and professor in the School
of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, was a keynote speaker at the 9th International Council of Nurses International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network Conference, Sept. 9-11 in Hong Kong, China.
Judy Harris, MSN,
BSN ’80, RN, is the interim director, student health centers, at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. From 1980-88, she was active duty with the Navy Nurse Corps and served at duty stations at the Naval Hospital, Long Beach, California; Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan; and the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego,
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Sarah Szanton, PhD, MS ’98, RN, FAAN, serves as a national advisor on a Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services Technical Expert Panel examining the gap between clinical care and community services.