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REUNION 2017
Saturday, April 29
Join us for a reunion celebration in Baltimore.
If you earned a DIN or BSN degree in a year ending in a 2 or 7, come reconnect with classmates and learn about the latest developments at the School.
If you would like to volunteer on the planning committee for your class, contact Cynthia Sikorski, senior associate director of alumni relations, at 410-706-0674 or alumni@son. umaryland.edu.
RSVP at nursing.umaryland.edu/alumni/events.
2000s
Jeanne Geiger-Brown, PhD ’01, RN, FAAN, was appointed as founding dean of Stevenson University’s new School of Health Professions, the University’s seventh academic school, and began her new role as dean and chief administrator of nursing on April 18.
Desireé Mullis Clement, MS ’03, BSN ’01, APRN, CNM, FNP-BC, (left) recently accepted a full-time academic appointment as faculty teaching in the Midwifery and Family Nurse Practitioner graduate programs at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. Clement earned a post-master’s certification as a family nurse practitioner from Vanderbilt University. She serves on the nominating committee of Midwives of Georgia, the Georgia affiliate of the American College of Nurse Midwives. pictured: Clement with Sen. Renee Unterman (R-Georgia), chair of the Georgia State Health and Human Services
Committee, a registered nurse, and an advocate in Georgia for advanced practice nurses and nursing
Heather Gable, DNP ’14, MS ’04, BSN ’02, chair of Frostburg State University’s Department of Nursing and an associate professor, has been awarded the Regents’ Faculty Award in Teaching, the highest honor that
the University System
of Maryland Board of Regents bestows to recognize exemplary faculty achievement. She was honored at the April 15 meeting of the board.
Paige Schwartz, MSN, BSN ’02, RN, manager, 3 Pavilion/Telemetry Unit, was featured in the 2015- 16 HCGH Nursing Annual Report, “Faces of Caring.”
Leslie Slifer Jackson, DNP, BSN ’03, RN, is a certified registered nurse anesthetist at the Nemours A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware. She earned
a Master of Science in Nursing in 2006 from the Georgetown University Nurse Anesthesia Program and a Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2015 from Villanova University.
Nickie O’Rourke,
BSN ’03, RNC, C-EFM, manager, labor and delivery, was featured in the 2015-16 HCGH Nursing Annual Report, “Faces
of Caring.”
Melissa Pasko, BSN ’05,
is a clinical manager responsible for clinical training and education
for Bard Medical (Critical Care), a company that
has been developing innovative medical devices that meet the needs of health care professionals and patients for more
than 100 years.
Treza James, MS ’06, NNP-BC, CPES, RN, clinical practice and education specialist at UMMC, is part of the Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit that received the Intelligent Health Association’s 2016 Improving Patient Care and Health Delivery Award and the 2016 IHA GRAND Award in March.
Kimberley Murray,
MS ’07, has been working in internal medicine
at the Naval Health Clinic in Hospital Point at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,
since November 2015.
She also volunteers as
a medic at athletic
events. She worked on
the medical team for two Crossfit Regionals events this year and served on the medical team for the Crossfit Games in Carson, California, broadcast on ESPN in July.
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The following class years will be celebrated:
Class of 2012
5th
Class of 2007
10th
Class of 2002
15th
Class of 1997
20th
Class of 1992
25th
Class of 1987
30th
Class of 1982
35th
Class of 1977
40th
Class of 1972
45th
Class of 1967
50th
Class of 1962
55th
Class of 1957
60th
Class of 1952
65th
and all alumni who earned a master’s degree through the Clinical Nurse Leader option in 2007 or 2012
LARRY CANNER