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BOLETÍN 24 VOLUME DEL WINTER INVERSOR 2011 NÚMERO 3
Who’s Who in Madeira? Keynote Speakers
By Carme Espinosa i Fresnedo & Fintan Sheerin
Linda H. Aiken
She directs the Multi-State Nursing Care and Patient Safety Study in the U.S. and co-directs RN4CAST in 12 countries in Europe, China, South Africa, Botswana. Dr. Aiken has consistently been included in Modern Health Care’s 100 Most Powerful People in Health Care in the U.S.
Abel Avelino de Paiva e Silva
PhD, RN conducts research on health care workforce and outcomes of health care in the United States and around the world. She directs the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and is The Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing and Sociology at University of Pennsylvania. She co-chairs the U.S. Council on Physician and Nurse Supply that monitors trends in physician and nurse workforce and international health workforce migration to the U.S. She has won numerous awards including the AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator and Article of the Year awards, the Baxter International Graham Prize in Health Services Research, and the Individual Codman Award from the Joint Commission for her leadership utilizing performance measures to demonstrate relationships between nursing care and patient outcomes. She was recently inducted into the Inaugural Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and received the Inaugural American Nurses Credentialing Center’s HRH Princess Muna Al-Hussein Award for significant contributions to healthcare across borders.
Doctor in Nursing since 2002, Master in Nursing since 1996. Director of Nursing Program in the Porto College of Nursing. Professor-Coordinator in Porto College of Nursing. Chair of the Scientific Board of the Porto College of Nursing. His present interest in Research is in the domain of Nursing Information Systems and Self Care. He has been supervisor of 15 approved Master dissertations; Supervisor of 2 approved çDoctoral Thesis; Cosupervisor of 1 approved Doctoral Thesis; Supervisor of 5 Master Dissertations; Co-Supervisor of 2 Doctoral Thesis; Supervisor of 8 Doctoral Thesis in the Universities of Porto, Lisbon and Catholic.
Dr. Aiken is a former president of the American Academy of Nursing and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
volume 24 winter 2011
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