Voice, Summer 2017

Summer 2017

BECOMING GLOBAL CITIZENS

Connell School alumni and a student make their mark—and a difference— in far-flung locales

FROM THE DEAN susan gennaro

Dear Friends,

voice dean Susan Gennaro

In recent issues of Voice, we’ve

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highlighted the Connell School’s

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rich and robust presence on the Boston College campus and in our

managing editor Tracy Bienen

local communities. art director

Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways in which the extraordinary work of our students, faculty, and

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graphic designer Christine Hunt

alumni extends far beyond the campus and Greater Boston’s world-renowned health care hub.

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Several of our recent graduates are emerging as nurse leaders in

clinical settings far beyond Boston College, and as scholars at other major universities. Young alumni and some of our current students are confronting critical health care problems around the world. This

contributors Zachary Jason Judy Rakowsky John Shakespear

photographers Caitlin Cunningham Gary Wayne Gilbert Lee Pellegrini

edition of Voice profiles trailblazers and global citizens—members of the Connell School family who are extending our influence as they make a difference.

I am inspired by these stories and am excited to share them with you.

Yours,

Susan Gennaro Dean

Voice is published by the William F. Connell School of Nursing and the Boston College Office of University Communications.

Letters and comments are welcome: csonalum@bc.edu Communications Specialist William F. Connell School of Nursing Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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CONTENTS

4 6 Clockwise from far left: Former University President and Chancellor J. Donald Monan, S.J. (1924–2017), in his Botolph House office in June 1989.

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John Welch, M.S. ’12 (right), in a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) training program for Ebola health care response workers, two days before he left to begin opening Ebola treatment units in Liberia and Sierra Leone, West Africa.

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Faculty receive federal funds for research, honors for career achievements. Students and alumnae honored. Boston College pays tribute to leaders who have passed.

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Becoming global citizens Connell School alumni and a student make their mark—and a difference— in far-flung locales.

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Faculty publications

Applying what they learn At CSON, say young alumni, leadership is part of the curriculum.

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NEWS by john shakespear • A one-year project, “Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Peer Navigator for Young MSM,” that Fontenot and a team of researchers at the Fenway Institute are pursuing with support from the NIH/Centers for AIDS Research Dean Susan Gennaro moderated a workshop, “Publish for Success but Beware of Predators,” at the Eastern Nursing Research Society’s annual Scientific Sessions conference in Philadelphia in April.

Holly Fontenot Photograph: Caitlin Cunningham

Faculty The Cambia Health Foundation named Susan DeSanto-Madeya, a clinical associate professor, a member of its Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program.

Assistant Professor Holly Fontenot received the Award of Excellence in Scholarly Education from the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses at the association’s national meeting in June. Fontenot also received federal funding for three research projects: • A team she is leading in a study, “Using Mobile Application Strategies to Increase HPV Vaccination Rates among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM),” a two-year project with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases • “Developing Tools to Engage Adolescent Men,” a three-year project she is pursuing with a team of researchers from the Fenway Institute, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is funded by the CDC division of Adolescent and School Health

Faculty member Allyssa Harris, who holds three degrees from Boston College, was promoted to associate professor with tenure.

The American Nurses Association Massachusetts named Professor Dorothy Jones a Living Legend in Massachusetts Nursing.

Jones has been a Connell School faculty member for nearly 40 years.

Ellen Mahoney, interim associate dean for research and an associate professor, is working with the Providence VA Medical Center on “Evaluation of Veteran-Directed Home and Community Based Services” to provide training and assistance in order that veterans can live more independently.

Assistant Professor Tam Nguyen received a grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for the first tier of her project “Patient Engaged Efforts to Reduce (PEER) Diabetes among Asian Americans.”

Lelia Holden Carroll Endowed Professor Judith Vessey and Lauren Pfeifer, a student in the Ph.D. program, presented a session on bullying in the nursing workplace at the Eastern Nursing Research Society’s annual Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia in April.

Earlier this year, Vessey also received an I CARE Award from Michael Mayo-Smith, network director of the VA New England Healthcare System Network, for her integral role in establishing NERVANA (Northeast Region VA Nursing Alliance).

Alumni Elizabeth Jean Donahue ’05, M.S. ’10, received the 2017 Distinguished Nurse Practitioner Award from the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners at its annual conference in May.

Events National Library of Medicine Director Patricia Flatley Brennan spoke about the power of data-driven discovery to improve nursing research and practice at the Connell School’s spring Pinnacle Lecture in March.

At Boston College’s May 22 Commencement, 102 Connell School students graduated from the bachelor of science program, 104 received master’s degrees, and five were awarded Ph.D.s.

Former American Nurses Association President Karen A. Daley, M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’10, received the 2017 Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award for alumni achievement at the Connell School’s annual reunion in June.

Karen Daley, M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’10 (center), the 2017 recipient of the Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award, with previous Award recipients (from left) Genevieve Foley ’66; Mimi Pomerleau, M.S. ’95; Martha Jurchak, Ph.D. ’96; and Mairead Hickey ’72.

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Community Boston College’s new campus recreation center will be named in honor of the Connell family in recognition of a $50 million “Light the World” campaign gift from Boston College Trustee Associate Margot C. Connell, widow of the late William F. Connell ’59, the School of Nursing’s benefactor and namesake. The center is slated to open in 2019.

At the 2017 Commencement exercises in Alumni Stadium, Emma Ellen Adcock ’17 accepted a degree on behalf of nursing students in the bachelor’s program.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

Students Three Connell School undergraduates received Ever to Excel Awards from Boston College’s Office of Student Involvement: • Helen Au ’18 was given the Paul Chebator and Mer Zovko Award, which honors a junior who is instrumental in creating community in his or her environment • Joselyn Giron Noriega ’18 received the St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Award, which recognizes a student employee who models leadership in the workplace • In a year marked by the illness and death of her father, Stephanie Makowski ’17 was awarded the Jeffrey S. Keith Award, given to a student who faces a significant challenge while continuing to excel On the last Monday in April, members of the CSON Senate set up a table outside Gasson Hall and offered CPR training to passing students, faculty, and staff.

Seven CSON students travelled to Dallas in April for the National Student Nurses’ Association’s 65th Annual Convention.

Brittney Bentivegna ’17, Dana Cavanaugh ’18, Charlotte Chang ’18, Sydney Conti ’19, Abiola Lawal ’17, Kesla Silaj ’17, and Sarah Woods ’17 attended.

Doctoral degree candidate Debra Lundquist co-authored two posters at the 42nd Annual Oncology Nursing Society’s Congress in May. She presented “Living and Functioning with Advanced Cancer: An Integrative Review,” which she co-authored with Donna Berry, director of the Cantor Center at DanaFarber Cancer Institute. She co-authored “Results of the Implementation of a Nurse-led Program to Promote Genetic Testing in an Underserved Population” with colleagues from the Cancer Resource Foundation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Northeastern University, and University of Massachusetts Worcester.

In memory J. Donald Monan, S.J., Boston College’s longest-serving president and first chancellor, died on March 18, 2017, at the age of 92. His life and legacy were honored at a Mass of Christian Burial in March in St. Ignatius Church. Fr. Monan was president of Boston College from 1972 to 1996.

Mary A. Dineen, who guided the School of Nursing’s rise to national prominence as dean from 1972–86, died on March 4, 2017, at the age of 94.

Dianne Chapell Hagen, an instructor at the School of Nursing from 1998 to 2014, died on February 10, 2017, at age 70.

Mary A. Dineen with J. Donald Monan, S.J., upon her retirement in 1986.

Image: Courtesy University Archives.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

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BECOMING GLOBAL CITIZENS by zachary jason

From anesthetizing Ebola patients during the epidemic’s peak in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, to investigating universal health care standards in Seoul, South Korea, alumni and students live the Connell School’s mission to foster creative, compassionate, informed nurses who can address the health care needs of the world. Students can choose from among any of seven international study abroad programs, which vary in length from a week to a semester. Or they can apply for Advanced Study Grants that fund nursing research across the globe. Below, two Connell School alumni and a current student talk about experiences that have turned them into global citizens.

JOHN W ELCH On his f light to Boston to begin his nurse anesthesia master’s program in January 2010, John Welch, M.S. ’12, read Mountains Beyond Mountains, the inf luential biography of Partners in Health (PIH) founder Paul Farmer. A week later, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti.

It killed more than 100,000, crippling the nation and overwhelming its hospitals. Welch called PIH to ask how he could help.

The answer: first finish your 70-credit degree program (with a structured practicum and residency).

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It teaches the planning, evaluating, safety, and surgical considerations involved in anesthesia care.

The Ohio native, who has since led health care teams in Haiti, then Liberia, and then Sierra Leone, was prepared to take on those missions at the Connell School. “I wasn’t just educated to be a nurse for problems right here in Boston,” he says. “I was pushed to be a global leader in caring for the marginalized.”

Welch credits Associate Professor Pamela Grace and her Nursing Ethics course for “giving me the

language of social justice.” Grace taught him that “global health isn’t just traveling to a faraway poor country,” it’s “understanding historical long views and philosophical constructs, and knowing that specific human actions and inactions are the root causes of health care inequality.” Moreover, Welch says Professor Sue Emery’s rigorous nursing anesthesia program cultivated the strategic problem solving he needed in order to be able to build anesthesia programs in foreign countries amid acute crises.

After graduating, Welch found a job through the Anesthesia Foundation (AF) as a nurse anesthetist at Boston Children’s Hospital. In the fall of 2013, PIH opened a 300-bed teaching hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, and asked AF for anesthesia accompaniment. Welch volunteered immediately. When he arrived, he barely spoke Creole. Soon he was coordinating the daily operating room schedule, building a recovery room program, and delivering twice weekly lectures on nurse anesthesia to local hospital staff, in Creole. For the next year and a half, through a special arrangement with AF, Welch spent six weeks in Haiti, then two weeks as a nurse anesthetist at Boston Children’s, where more than half of his patients were cardiac anesthesia cases.

Then the Ebola epidemic erupted in West Africa. In September 2014, Welch was back in New England for two weeks, driving to a concert in Vermont on a day off, when PIH’s chief nursing officer, Sheila Davis, called. What started as a brief discussion of PIH’s Ebola strategy quickly led to a question: could Welch move to Africa?

Social justice, says Welch, is about having the mindset that “if you can do something to help someone, you absolutely should.” A week later, he was at the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta for Ebola training. Three weeks after that, he boarded a series of planes to Monrovia, Liberia, where he served as the chief clinical officer for PIH’s Ebola response.

Much of his work was devoted to building Ebola treatment units to prepare for and respond to f lareups of the disease in rural areas. But he saw abandoned hospitals throughout the country. “There was no essential health care happening,” he says. Welch helped PIH reinstate screening and diagnosis for several infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. He also helped develop maternal child health programs and secured a lab on-site at a maternity hospital that reduced pregnant mothers’ waiting times for results of Ebola testing from days to minutes.

In December 2014, Davis called Welch once again. “Can you f ly to Sierra Leone tomorrow?” she asked.

Ebola rates had skyrocketed in Sierra

Leone, killing hundreds of citizens as well as many health care workers.

He f lew on a United Nations plane to Port Loko, where he witnessed what was “well and truly an absolute nightmare.” He worked out of a concrete vocational school that had been repurposed into a 110-bed treatment unit that was so overwhelmed that staff burned 100 Ebola hazmat suits an hour. (Each suit could only be worn once, and each health care provider was allowed inside the contaminated unit for no longer than an hour at a time.)

Clothing, blankets, cellphones, and any other materials that entered the hospital were incinerated at all hours of the day.

Welch worked 20-hour days, six to seven days a week, for five months in Port Loko. He helped develop a center for pregnant women with Ebola and a survivor clinic, and helped PIH partner with 20 Ebola treatment facilities throughout the country, he recalls. Welch and his team saw nearly 2,000 patients, about 400 of whom were Ebola positive, and screened more than 2,700 Ebola survivors.

Above: Liberians walk by a wall with paintings on how to prevent Ebola.

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After fulfilling a seven-month commitment with PIH in Africa in April 2015, Welch returned to Boston Children’s Hospital, where he remains a senior nurse anesthetist. He’s also an associate in anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. But he hopes his international work is far from over. “At the end of my career,” says Welch, “I’d like to be able to say my patient population was everyone who was sick and marginalized. That feels like the mission of the Connell School too.”

L A NA H H A N South Korea native Lanah Han ’18 was on a clinical rotation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center when she wondered, What can America learn from my home country’s health care system, and vice versa? Her question evolved into a research proposal, which then became an investigation into hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in Seoul, paid for with an Advanced Study Grant.

Each year, Boston College awards some 40 of these grants to rising juniors and seniors across all four schools. The funds—between $500 and $2,500, provided by the University Fellowships Committee—support local and international projects and are designed “to encourage undergraduates to acquire skills that will make more sophisticated research and study possible.” (Other recent ASG recipients at the Connell School include Madeline Mouton-Johnston ’18, who studied “Cultural Competency in Argentine Healthcare,” and Dana Cavanaugh ’18, who examined the “Social Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Rural Ghana.”)

Han received more than $2,000 to travel to Seoul, where she stayed with extended family. She explored the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), the universal health care provider to all South Koreans.

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native Korean Kyung Hee Lee connected Han with former health service nurses to interview. She also visited NHIS’s headquarters and library, and went for a checkup at a Korean clinic. She learned that the majority of Koreans frequently visit local clinics, where wait times are negligible and visits cost roughly the equivalent of $2.50.

“South Korea is obviously much smaller, but I was amazed by how cheap and accessible it is to get treated,” Han says.

But the checkups themselves are too brief—five to 10 minutes on average—and often done “without sincerity,” she said.

(Physicians, she explained, ask few questions, and are quick to prescribe.)

Han’s findings were among those featured at the Connell School’s annual research symposium in April. Her experience, she says, solidified her interest in a career in global health policy. “I hope to contribute to improving health care not only in the US but around the world.”

JA MIE KRZM A RZICK As an undergraduate, Jamie Krzmarzick ’09, M.S. ’15, filled much of her free time helping with social justice programs at Boston College: in Campus Ministry, in Appalachia Volunteers, and in the PULSE Program for Service Learning. But it was during a weeklong Connell School service trip to one of Nicaragua’s poorest communities in her senior year that she witnessed health care inequities firsthand—and decided she wanted to contribute a year of service after graduating. Though she felt pressure to gain hospital experience in the States, Krzmarzick says her faculty mentors—including Clinical Instructor Rosemary Byrne and Clinical Assistant Professor Donna Cullinan—“encouraged me to follow my vocation.”

Two months after graduating, she arrived in impoverished Durán, Ecuador, as a member of the Catholic volunteer program

Rostro de Cristo (Face of Christ). Every morning she worked at a community clinic alongside an OB-GYN doctor. Following Rostro’s mission to not only aid but foster relationships with the Ecuadorian people, she “accompanied” her female patients— counseling them, listening to them, and educating them in STDs, pregnancy prevention, and healthy prenatal care.

She often worked in a soup kitchen during her lunch break, and in the afternoons co-led an after-school program for up to 100 undereducated children at a time. A year later, Krzmarzick was reluctant to leave. “I felt guilty, like I was abandoning these people I had come to love. And how could I assimilate this experience back in the States?”

The answer came in a Brigham and Women’s Hospital job posting seeking a Spanish-speaking nurse at a gynecology clinic. Krzmarzick ended up working with a patient population very similar to the one she had in Ecuador—single women, often

poverty-stricken, often victims of violence.

Her Rostro experience, she said, brought out the imagination and compassion she developed at the Connell School. She worked nights for nearly five years as she earned her master’s in family nursing, and then became a nurse practitioner in primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital. “You can’t just say, ‘to treat your diabetes, you have to do A, B, and C,’” she says. “You have to be more creative and imaginative. You have to meet the person where they are. You have to ask, ‘What do you want to do to treat this?’”

stability and security, “You only have to answer to yourself at the end of the day….

There’s a path for every nurse and it doesn’t have to look identical to your nursing peer.”

Left: Pedestrians walk the crowded streets of Seoul, South Korea.

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Above: Rostro de Cristo's Arbolito House, Durán, Ecuador Photograph: Sandi/Rios, www.rostrodecristo.org Artwork: istock/proksima, Christine Hunt

Krzmarzick has been a clinical instructor at the Connell School since 2015. Her career came full circle last fall, when she prepared five undergraduates for a three-week nursing immersion program in Chile. (She would have joined the trip had she not given birth to her first child in October, she said.) Krzmarzick tells current students who feel called to social justice but also feel pressured to have

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At CSON, leadership is part of the curriculum by judy rakowsky Photographs: Courtesy Morine Cebert, Katie Davis, Sabianca Delva, Andrea Lopez, and Jean Reidy

The Connell School of Nursing has earned a reputation for developing leaders.

The five high-achieving alumni profiled here credit opportunities at CSON— getting to know faculty leaders and their research, developing their networking skills in a variety of settings, and taking advantage of top-notch tutoring and mentoring—for their success.

The Keys to Inclusive Leadership in Nursing (KILN) program helps students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in nursing tap their own leadership potential, providing services and support including intense academic help, stipends, and grants for expenses such as exam review and conference fees. CSON’s undergraduate School of Nursing Senate and Graduate Nurses’ Association and the statewide Massachusetts Student Nurses’ Association help participants develop essential leadership skills and confidence.

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Morine Cebert Nine years ago, Morine Cebert ’12 landed in a Boston College dormitory after years of sharing a one-bedroom apartment in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with six others, including relatives who had recently arrived from Haiti.

She came to Boston College from a high school that graduated only half its student body. And while she had ranked at the top of her class in secondary school, she failed her first freshman quiz in anatomy.

“It was an ego blow. I didn’t know what to do,” she says.

The quiz score did not ref lect the experience of a young woman who, as a child, had accompanied aunts and uncles to doctor’s appointments, acting as a translator, or a daughter who helped her mother pay her bills.

Leaders of the KILN program recognized Cebert’s potential.

They lined up tutoring help so she could learn how to study better. And they arranged for a small monthly stipend that would cover the costs of her stethoscope and scrubs, and allow her to eat lunch with her peers.

“That’s what equity is,’’ she said. “You bring people onto the same playing field.”

Cebert became a very busy student leader: she was president of the Black Student Forum, an orientation leader, and an outreach coordinator for AHANA (individuals of African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American descent).

KILN grants covered the costs of attending nursing conferences, where she soon discovered the vastness of the field and her passion for research. “People are doing research to change nursing every day and changing it by adding to the literature every day.”

Her ties to CSON faculty and other professionals she met through networking led to her discovery of the Nursing Bridge to the Doctorate program at Winston-Salem State and Duke Universities. She is now set to complete her master’s degree at WSSU and apply those credits to the Ph.D. program at Duke, beginning in the fall.

Among her goals: answering the “question of why AfricanAmerican women are least likely to seek treatment regardless of income.”

She still has a lot of work ahead. “My parents taught me education is everything, and they are cheering me on.

That’s what will get me through this Ph.D.”

Katie Davis Katie Davis ’10, M.S. ’12, was ready to start her dream nurse practitioner job when she got a call from a doctor she had worked with in an emergency department. How would she like to join a cutting-edge startup that could save lives and spare elders exhausting emergency room trips? The job would pay half as much money as the nurse practitioner job, and require double the number of hours.

“Of course I said yes,” Davis recalled. She credited faculty leaders for pushing and encouraging her in ways that enabled her to leap at the chance to join the telemedicine startup Call9. She added: “Connell prepares folks well.”

But according to Associate Professor Catherine Read, who was the undergraduate program associate dean at the time, “It’s all her—she’s a natural leader who took advantage of the opportunities.”

As a student, Davis was always in a hurry. “I always wanted to do whatever would get me closest to taking care of patients the fastest,” she said.

Her father, a physician, and mother, a nurse manager, didn’t push her toward health care. Nevertheless, she was working on an ambulance at 15 and was certified as an emergency technician before college. She began work on her master’s degree while still an undergraduate and finished it while she was working full time at Beth Israel Deaconess HospitalNeedham as an emergency department nurse.

As an undergraduate, Davis and another student revived the Eagle EMS, a then-depleted student-run emergency medical service, building it up to 150 volunteers.

Davis has swiftly risen to the number two person in her fast-growing company—another extension of the leadership skills and savvy nurtured at Connell, she says.

“There’s just something in me; a constant drive to learn to grow, to do something new, and have a positive effect on individuals or an entire system,” she said.

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Sabianca Delva

Andrea Lopez

Unlike many of her fellow Boston College undergraduates, Sabianca Delva ’12 held down a job, working 32 hours a week as a telemetry technician while juggling academic demands. She needed the income so she could send money to her mother back in Haiti, said Delva, who was eight years old when she came to the US with her father.

It might surprise coworkers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Floating Hospital for Children to learn that Andrea Lopez ’14 used to be quite shy.

Growing up she moved a lot, and was bullied in school. She struggled during her first year at Boston College until the KILN program provided some financial support to help her focus on her studies, easing her onto a path to success.

KILN covered the cost of travel to the National Student Nurses’ Association conference in Orlando, for instance. And, she says, the program offered networking opportunities that eventually led to a great job at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Read remembers how she blossomed. “Sabianca wasn’t someone who saw herself as a leader. But she was willing to take advice, and take a chance on herself.”

One success led to another: she was elected president of the Massachusetts Student Nurses’ Association (MASNA) and served on the board of the American Nurses Association Massachusetts. “Once I had support I was able to do things beyond my experience,” Delva recalled.

The first member of her family to go to college, Delva now is finishing her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, researching how apps can be used to reduce health disparities and improve cardiovascular health among immigrant populations.

And she is paying it forward, mentoring young high school students from underprivileged backgrounds interested in science and health careers.

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That was true back when she arrived at CSON as a freshman, the quiet daughter of Guatemalan immigrants from tiny Rhode Island. Then she became a KILN scholar and her evolution began.

It started with mentoring from Associate Professor Judith Shindul-Rothschild, who also was the MASNA faculty advisor.

“As a student, having a mentor who is a professor is a really big deal,” said Lopez, “especially because most of the professors at BC are researchers—they are published, they have so much behind their names.”

Shindul-Rothschild also introduced her to the Student Nurses’ Association, and she got involved in leading the group’s “breakthrough to nursing” efforts.

Soon she was organizing programs with speakers on leadership and professional etiquette, résumé writing, and interviewing tips. By her senior year, Lopez was president of MASNA as well as president of the Boston chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses.

“I was trained to become a networking junkie,” Lopez said.

“Now I can become friends with a rock on the f loor.”

Jean Reidy Jean Reidy ’07 was a “natural born leader” who stepped up again and again, starting from her freshman year, when she was elected president of her class in the School of Nursing Senate, said Read.

While Reidy took advantage of organized service and leadership opportunities at CSON, she also forged ahead on her own when she saw a need. As a freshman, for example, she launched a fundraiser to buy scrubs so classmates could start feeling like professionals before their clinical training.

The summer between her first and second years, she worked in orientation for admitted students, helping to smooth their transition. She did it again the following summer, meeting every incoming nursing student.

“I remember coming to orientation and feeling that this is so painfully awkward, and I remember thinking I could probably help students,” she explained.

She helped start a nursing day of service, and volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank. Spring breaks found her on service trips to Appalachia. Senior year, she took part in a CSON trip to Nicaragua, and served as a student leader on an Arrupe immersion program trip to El Salvador.

Reidy went on to earn master’s degrees in nursing and public health at Johns Hopkins. She now holds a newly created job at Erie Family Health Center in Chicago. There, she divides her time between providing direct care as a nurse practitioner and working as an administrator with a mostly bilingual staff serving many undocumented and poor patients, she said.

Throughout her undergraduate years, she spent four hours a week volunteering at a transitional housing facility helping people affected by HIV/AIDS.

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Sabianca wasn’t someone who saw herself as a leader.

But she was willing to take advice, and take a chance on herself.

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