Selected Faculty Honors and Presentations 2013 - 2014 AMIA- American Medical Informatics Association November 16-20, Washington D.C. Adriana Arcia, PhD, RN, postdoctoral research fellow won the Harriet H. Werley Award exploring methods for designing and evaluating the effectiveness of visual tools to convey medical information. It was completed as part of the Washington Heights-Inwood Informatics Infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research (WICER), a multidisciplinary project that aims to understand and improve the health of a largely Hispanic community in New York City. Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, Alumni professor of Nursing and professor of Biomedical Informatics, is the principal investigator for WICER, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. “Method for the Development of Data Visualizations for Community Members With Varying Levels of Health Literacy,” Arcia A., Bales M., Brown W., Co M., Gilmore M., Lee Y., Park C., Prey J., Velez M., Woollen J., Yoon S., Kukafka R., Merrill J., Bakken S. “Patients’ Self-Reported Desire to Participate in Shared Decision Making,” Cato K., Bakken S. 34
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“Analysis of Motivational Concepts in Tweets Related to Jogging,” Yoon S., Shaffer J., Momberg J., Bakken S. “Use of the Health-ITUEM for Evaluating Mobile Health Technology,” Schnall R., Yen P., Rojas M., Brown W. “Impact on Immunization Registry Reporting Following Adoption of an Electronic Health Record,” Merrill J., Keeling J., Phillips A., Kaushal R., Senathirajah Y. “Change in Health Department Organizational Networks After an Evidence-Based Performance Improvement Intervention,” Park C., Byon H., Keeling J., Beitsch L., Merrill J. “Predisposing, Enabling and Reinforcing Factors for Health Information Exchange Opt-In Consent for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS,” Ramos S.R., Bakken, S. “Interest in Using an Electronic Personal Health Record Among a Largely Hispanic Immigrant Population,” Lucero R.J., Shang, J., Liu J., Bakken S.
Laura Ardizzone, DNP ’10 ANES ’04 was appointed as a member of the National Quality Forum’s Patient Safety Steering Committee. Penelope R. Buschman, MS, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, director, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program, presented “Predictors of Retention for Behavioral Health
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Performance,” at the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Assembly of School Faculty in San Diego, CA.
Mary Byrne, PhD, Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish professor of Health Care for the Underserved in Nursing was invited as an international expert on co-residence programs for criminal justice involved mothers and their babies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She also presented an administrator/staff workshop at the National Offender Management Services, in London, UK.
Rita Marie John, DNP, EdD, director, Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program, presented the “What’s New in Pediatrics” plenary and “ENT Assessment for School Nurses,” breakout session at the 30th Anniversary North Carolina School Nurse Conference. In addition, she presented “Pediatric Mental Health Specialist Certification Review,” and “Pedialabs for the New PNP,” at The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) annual conference in Boston, MA.
Rozelle Corda, FNP, assistant professor, presented “Evidence Based Management Strategies to Reduce Surgical Site Infections in Neonates Undergoing Cardiac Surgery,” at the Congenital Heart Disease-Clinical Care and Translational Research meeting in Shanghai, China. Karen Desjardins, DNP, MPH, assistant dean of academic affairs, presented “Incivility in Nursing Education,” a Columbia Nursing Anna C. Maxwell teaching seminar and “Interprofessional Education for the Practice-Focused Doctorate” at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Doctoral Education Conference, in Naples, FL. Will Enlow, DNP, ACNP, director, Continuing Nursing Education, assistant director Nurse Anesthesia Program, presented a workshop on careers in nursing to high school and college students at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. He also presented “Evaluating Clinical
Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, ANP-BC, program director, AdultGerontology Nurse Practitioner Program, presented “HIV & Anal Cancer,” at the New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Center; “HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: An Update for Clinicians,” at Sydenham Health Center, New York, NY; “Managing Adverse Effects in the HIV/HCV Co-Infected Patient,” at the International Conference on Viral Hepatitis, New York, NY; “Working with Young MSM: Strategies for Success,” at the Renaissance Health Care Network, New York, NY; “HIV and Anal Cancer: An Update for Providers,” at St. John’s Riverside HIV Program, New York, NY; “Medical Marijuana: HIV Clinicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices,” poster presentation at the 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Atlanta,
GA; “HIV Prevention: What Every Nurse Practitioner Needs to Know,” poster presentation at American Academy of Nurse Practitioner Annual Conference, Las Vegas; “Developing an Interprofessional Model of Care in a Nurse Managed Health Center,” poster presentation at the 31st Interprofessional Technology Conference in Atlantic City, NJ.
presented “Musculoskeletal Pain in Perimenopause: a Qualitative Study,” at the 24th Annual Meeting of the North American Menopause Society.
Kathleen Hickey, EdD, FNP, FAAN, assistant professor, presented on translating genomic-based research for health at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable in Washington, D.C. at a meeting entitled “Assessing Genomic Sequencing Information for Health Care Decision Making: A Workshop.”
Rebecca Schnall, PhD, assistant professor, was selected as an Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) Emerging Leader and presented a Webinar, “Adolescents’ Use and Perceived Usefulness of Mobile Technology for Meeting their Health Information Needs and Improving Adherence to Improved Health Behaviors,” for the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Judy Honig, DNP, EdD, PNP, associate dean of student affairs, was installed as the Dorothy M. Rogers Chair. Marlene McHugh, DNP, DCC, FNP-BC, ACHPN, presented “ER and Outpatient Management of Patients with Chronic and Advanced Illness in an Underserved Community, NP/MD Model of Care,” at Innovative Models of Transitional Care: Bridging the Gap from Theory to Practice, a joint conference sponsored by Columbia Nursing and Visiting Nurse Service of New York; and “Preparation and Care for the Time of Death,” at NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital for Palliative Care Physician Fellows. Nancy Reame, PhD, RN, FAAN, Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Faculty of Nursing
Jeanne Rubsam Kane, APRN, PNP-C, assistant professor, was elected as Vice President of the New York State American Trauma Society for the 2014-2016 term.
Jan Smolowitz, DNP, EdD, senior associate dean, clinical practice, presented “ABCC Certification: What It Is and What It Isn’t” at the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Assembly of School Faculty in San Diego, CA. Mary Tresgallo, DNP, MPH, presented “The Ethical Considerations of Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) as Destination Therapy in a Child Diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) and Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)” at the Society of Pediatric Anesthesiology Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. She also participated as one of 11 faculty members in a Bioethics mediation training sponsored by Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
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