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TWO SCHOOL OF NURSING GOVERNOR’S WELLMOBILES HAVE GOTTEN A FACELIFT. In July, two Wellmobiles were “wrapped” with colorful imagery that depicts the joint educational and community-service missions of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the Wellmobile program in an effort to garner interest from potential funders and community partners that will foster the program’s development and sustainability. The Wellmobiles, which the University of Maryland School of Nursing has managed since the program’s inception in 1994, provide primary and preventive health care to geographically underserved communities in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and to the uninsured. They also serve as clinical education sites for School of Nursing students to participate in interprofessional practice with students from the University of Maryland schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Social Work. These dual educational and service missions are funded by grants from the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration and the Maryland Higher Education Commission and by University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation donations.
—K.N.
NEWS
Kudos: Recent Awards and Inductions
Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, associate professor, was awarded the Patrick D. Wall Young Investigator Award at the International Association for the Study of Pain’s 16th World Congress on Pain in September.
The award honors those at the beginning of their careers who have achieved a level of independence as scholars in the field of pain.
Erika Friedmann, PhD, professor and associate dean of research, was the first person ever to be awarded the International Association of Human Animal Interaction Organizations’ Johannes Odendaal Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Distinguished Researcher Award
at its triennial conference in July. The honor recognizes distinguished HAI descriptive or hypothesis-driven research involving data collection that has been published or accepted for publication in
a peer-reviewed journal or as a chapter in a book.
Elizabeth Galik, PhD ’07, RN, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN, associate professor, and Joseph E. Pellegrini, PhD, CRNA, FAAN, associate professor and director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse Anesthesia specialty, were inducted into the American Academy
of Nursing as fellows in October. The academy and its members create and execute knowledge-driving and policy-related initiatives to facilitate reform of America’s health system.
Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD ’03, RN, FAAN, professor and director, Nursing Informatics master’s specialty, has been selected as a 2016 fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Barbara Resnick, PhD ’96, RN, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN, professor and Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, has begun her one-year term as the organization’s president. The GSA fosters collaboration among biologists, health professionals, policymakers, and behavioral and social scientists and is the driving force behind the advancement of gerontology, both domestically and internationally.
Judy G. Ozbolt, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been appointed professor emerita by University of Maryland, Baltimore President Jay A. Perman, MD. Ozbolt served as professor and director of the Nursing Informatics master’s specialty beginning in 2006, and she retired in 2010. While at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Ozbolt tripled student enrollment in the specialty while maintaining the diversity of the student body. She also chaired the program committee for the School’s renowned Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI) Conference and has continued to serve in leadership roles with the SINI program committee since her retirement.
—Kevin Nash
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MIKE RUDDOCK