Columbia Nursing Fall 2020

The Magazine of Columbia University School of Nursing

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LEAVING A LEGACY

“Our students are the future of Columbia Nursing.

Funding an endowed scholarship is my way of helping our future nurse clinicians, educators, researchers, and transformational leaders fulfill their dreams.”

— Donald Boyd ’17

CONTACT US TO DISCUSS YOUR LEGACY:

nursing.columbia.edu/giving/planned-giving For more information, please contact Janice Grady, executive director, Development and Alumni Relations, at 212-305-1088 or jar2272@cumc.columbia.edu.

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Marking 2020: A Milestone Year

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or many more reasons than we wish, 2020 has been a landmark year.

We’d originally planned this issue as a celebration of the World Health Organization’s designation of 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife—in recognition of nurses’ essential role in health care and of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Indeed, the issue still celebrates those milestones.

But of course 2020 has turned into a landmark year in other ways. COVID-19 is testing those on the health-care front lines— especially nurses—like never before in living memory. And our nation is also facing a reawakened reckoning with racism.

Early in the pandemic, anticipating the strain it would put on hospitals and nurses, we joined forces with NewYork-Presbyterian to give nursing students opportunities to serve and learn. They did everything from conduct temperature screenings at hospital entrances to delivering direct patient care under supervision. We knew this innovative partnership would have far-reaching benefits.

What we didn’t know at the time was that during the 1918 flu epidemic, our school, then operated by the hospital, suspended classes and put students to work on the wards. Nursing’s—and Columbia Nursing’s—legacy of service in times of crisis is clearly enduring.

In the first feature in this issue, students, faculty, and alumni who have bravely served on the COVID front lines tell their stories in their own words.

The pandemic has also reminded us of the grave reality that it is the underserved who suffer worse health outcomes. In addition, war, poverty, and violence are generating more refugees than the world has ever seen; even in developed countries, health disparities persist. Florence Nightingale viewed health care as a human right.

That credo, now more important than ever, has always underlain Columbia Nursing’s mission to prepare nurses to care equally for patients rich and poor, of all creeds and colors, regardless of what disease afflicts them.

Those guiding principles are the focus of the second feature in this issue. Our Office of Global Initiatives has been leading efforts globally (and locally) to improve health care for those who need it most and to prepare students for their critical role in that work.

A related topic—Columbia’s historic commitment to diversity, in the communities we serve, among the students we enroll, among faculty we hire—is the subject of this issue’s third feature. In 1957, amid nationwide discrimination throughout health care, Columbia Nursing graduated our first African American student. A little over a decade later, we enrolled our first male and first Latino student. Today, we are pleased to report that underrepresented minorities make up 54 percent of our student body, compared to 40 percent of the U.S. population.

And our commitment to diversity in all aspects of our mission is ongoing. We partnered with Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute to support our LGBTQ students and faculty. We established the first clinic in Upper Manhattan to offer a full range of care to LGBTQ patients. And we have renewed our focus on addressing the systemic wrongs that plague people of color. In partnership with colleagues across CUIMC, we are working on all fronts to deepen our long-standing commitment to social justice and health equity.

Finally, the issue’s fourth feature delves into Columbia Nursing’s effort to buttress the nation’s dwindling supply of primary-care physicians by educating nurse practitioners at the highest level of the profession. In 1994, our leadership foresaw the need for nurses with the education and expertise to provide comprehensive, coordinated, evidence- and value-based care and launched the school’s rigorous DNP program.

Now ranked first in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and marking its 15th anniversary, our DNP program has filled this gap and given its graduates ground-breaking career opportunities.

As we join WHO in marking this Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, let us be grateful for the opportunities we have to contribute to the public’s health and well-being. We dedicate this issue of the magazine to the brave health-care providers everywhere battling COVID on all fronts.

LORRAINE FRAZIER, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Columbia Nursing is the magazine of the Columbia University School of Nursing and is published twice a year

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Lorraine Frazier, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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BOARD OF VISITORS:

Tina Alvarado Shanahan ’81, MHA, BS Rear Admiral (Retired), Senior Health Care Executive, U.S. Navy, Nurse Corps Raleigh, NC Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65, RN Durham, NC Paul Coyne ’16, DNP, MBA, MSF, RN, AGPCNP-BC President & Co-Founder, Inspiren; Assistant Vice President, Clinical Practice & Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Hospital for Special Surgery New York, NY

Mary Turner Henderson ’64, RN San Francisco, CA Mary Dickey Lindsay ’45, RN New York, NY Wilhelmina Manzano, MA, RN, NEA-BC Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Executive, & Chief Quality Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Regional Hospital Network New York, NY Duncan V. Neuhauser, PhD Blue Hill, ME

Delphine Mendez de Leon ’78, MBA, MPH, RN Director, Innovaccer, Inc. New York, NY

Janet Ready ’81, MBA, MPH, RN, FACHE Chief Operating Officer, St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center Syracuse, NY

Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57, MS, RN Jacksonville, FL Angela Clarke Duff ’70, RN Forest Hills, NY

Patricia Riley ’76, BS, MPH, RN, CNM, FACNM, FAAN Captain (Retired), U.S. Public Health Service Atlanta, GA

Marjorie Harrison Fleming ’69, RN Chair Seabrook Island, SC

Susan Salka, MBA President & CEO, AMN Healthcare San Diego, CA

Susan Fox ’84, MBA, RN President & CEO, White Plains Hospital White Plains, NY

Sara Shipley Stone ’69, MS, RN Brooksville, ME

Susan Furlaud ’12, MS, RN New York, NY Ellen Gottesman Garber ’76, RN New York, NY Karen Hein, MD Jacksonville, VT

Jasmine L. Travers ’16, PhD, MS, RN Assistant Professor, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing New York, NY

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The Evolution of Inclusion

By Kenneth Miller Columbia Nursing’s commitment to diversity reflects principles set by Florence Nightingale—and the demands of changing times.

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By Andrea Kott, MPH Ranked first in the nation, Columbia’s DNP program celebrates 15 years of boosting graduates’ career trajectories with a clinically focused terminal degree.

ON THE COVER: These and many other students, faculty, and alumni battled COVID-19.

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THE MANY FACES OF BRAVERY COLUMBIA NURSES ON THE COVID-19 FRONT LINES

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“THEY COULD HAVE BEEN AFRAID, BUT THEY STEPPED UP,” says Dean Lorraine Frazier, PhD, of the nearly 200 Columbia Nursing students who volunteered when COVID-19 hit New York City. “Immediately, our students said, ‘We want to be there. We can help.’”

Anticipating the stresses and strains that hospitals and their nursing staffs would face, Frazier, who is also senior vice president of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Judy Honig, DNP ’05, EdD ’77, the Dorothy M. Rogers Professor of Nursing, vice dean of academics, and dean of students, collaborated with the leadership of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) on an innovative service and educational opportunity. The students offered critical support to NYP’s nurses during the crux of the crisis, and at the same time they had an epochal clinical learning experience.

The collaboration entailed assigning 85 Masters Direct Entry (MDE) students and 100 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students to a variety of essential tasks, including conducting temperature screenings at hospital entrances, providing direct patient care, and staffing COVID hotlines. “We were prepared,” Honig says.

Under the direction of registered nurses, MDE students worked as paid nurse technicians, performing a wide range of duties, including communicating with the families of COVID patients via phone or FaceTime to inform them of their loved one’s status; being present for dying patients; helping to turn patients on their stomachs to facilitate better lung expansion (a technique known as “proning”); delivering supplies to RNs working in isolation rooms; participating in codes and other rapid responses; and assisting with postmortem care. “We wanted to give nurse techs a growth experience that would bridge academics and practice,” Honig says. “Students learned what it’s like to be a nurse in a pandemic and to engage with other professionals.”

In addition to supporting nurses throughout NYP, the nurse techs also participated in weekly faculty-run seminars that allowed them to share their experiences. “They were seeing things they’d never

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seen before, and there was a lot of challenge and grief, so we made sure they had the opportunity to debrief, learn, and unload,” says Honig. (See page 15 for more on these “circles of care” gatherings.)

Meanwhile, DNP students, many of whom are working clinicians, mostly volunteered on pandemic hotlines, answering questions about COVID and directing people to appropriate testing and treatment locations, including the ColumbiaDoctors Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Group, which was converted temporarily to a cough and fever clinic to address the specific needs of patients with COVID symptoms. “The best we have to offer was exhibited during this pandemic,” Honig says.

Working on the front lines of the pandemic, Frazier points out, exposed students to a side of nursing they never would have seen in a classroom, fast-forwarding their education by a decade. “It would have taken them years to understand the impact that nursing has,” she explains, such as its central role in patient care; the importance of caregivers’ well-being; and the safe and efficient operation of hospital systems, especially during a crisis. “Students saw the multiplicity of what nurses do. They saw the strength and power of nursing not just at the bedside, but also in organizing, staffing, making bed assignments, and running a hospital,” Frazier continues. “Patients came in with so many different needs, floor designs changed, staffing shifted. The situation taught students that whether they’re a nurse leader or working at the bedside, they have to be able to adapt to the situation at hand.”

At every turn, faculty ensured students’ understanding of the risks they faced. To their surprise, the students remained undaunted. “We learned about their courage, their commitment and calling,” Frazier says. “Kudos to these students, who will be an incredible force in the future.”

With this photo-feature, the magazine honors their bravery— as well as the bravery of all the alumni and faculty who have served, and continue to serve, at COVID front line locations.

MAURA ABBOTT AND CLAIRE BRIEVA FACULTY: Assistant Professor (Maura) STUDENT: Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner Program (Claire)

E ri n S um iy ah SUMIYAH SYED-UDDIN STUDENT: Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner Program LOCATION: Care for the Homeless, New York, NY

“If we want to flatten the curve, we need to ensure our most vulnerable are taken care of, because if they end up on the streets it will only lead to more spread and despair. We need more isolation shelters in place for homeless individuals. We need to demand our state and our government do more for their health care workers and the vulnerable populations. We cannot and should not accept less.”

ERIN PRATT GRADUATE: MS ’19 LOCATION: Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, CT

“Until last week, I was a postpartum nurse for the entirety of my six-month nursing career. However, I knew that our hospital’s COVID-19 units needed help, so one day after our morning huddle,I decided I would volunteer.”

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“In many ways, I feel lucky. Yes, there’s a lot of fear and anxiety in what we’re doing, but there are also real, live patients, and I can help take care of them. To me, that’s the most rewarding thing of all.”

— Maura

KELLIE BRYANT FACULTY: Assistant Professor and Executive Director, Helene Fuld Health Trust Simulation Center

LOCATION: Columbia University Herbert Irving Pavilion (HIP), Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, NY

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“Although this pandemic has caused worldwide devastation, it has also allowed me to see some positive outcomes: that is, in times of need, people come together and discover strengths they may not have known they had.”

“We’ve had to coordinate care with every single provider in this building and we are making sure that patient care is first and foremost.

There is an enormous amount of pressure to make sure HIP remains a COVID-19 secure and safe zone, but at the same time, I have amazing people working with me. It is a collaborative effort, and I feel empowered by this experience.”

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FACULTY AND GRADUATE: Assistant Professor and DNP ’19 LOCATION: ColumbiaDoctors Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Group, New York, NY

“As the evidence began to come out and reflect that people of color are affected by COVID-19 and we continue to be disproportionately affected by it, as a provider and a person of color, there is no way that doesn’t change you.”

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C a t h e ri n BRYN DRAGALIN AND JULIE FRIEDMAN STUDENTS: Masters Direct Entry Program LOCATION: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

“Thankfully, every single person we met while working at NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) became part of our support system, and knowing that we had them backing us made it possible to keep working day after day. Their bravery and courage to fight this disease deeply inspired us to continue on even when we felt exhausted and discouraged.”

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STUDENT: Masters in Nurse Anesthesia Program LOCATION: Mount Sinai Hospital

“Working in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic has been scary and has at times felt hopeless, but being on the front line as a cardiothoracic ICU nurse has proven helpful. The ability to assist in facilitating care is rewarding. I quickly went from being a timid nurse anesthesia student back to being an experienced ICU nurse.”

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“In the evenings over the last few weeks, I made about 125 masks to give away. I left about half in the lobby of my building, took a batch to the employees at my local grocery store, and sent the remainder to MJHS Health System’s Isabella Center in Upper Manhattan, where I had heard they were in need.”

JAKE FORRESTER TRACY HIGGINS GRADUATE: PhD ’16

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“My family is from New York, so I feel like I belong here. I retired from a long military career in counterintelligence, assigned around the globe, before coming to Columbia Nursing for my PhD. When my Tra c y beloved New York City came under siege with COVID-19, I felt that familiar sense of military mission to return to the field as a med/surg nurse, and I am grateful to be learning from my smart young colleagues and brave patients as we work together through this crisis.”

“I would say the hardest thing is going from being proactive in your care to prevent complications to treating a disease that we know so little about. So instead of being proactive, we are being reactive. And due to the complexity of this virus, our typical interventions do not work like we expected them to, making things that much harder.”

NICOLE LESNETT STUDENT: Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner Program LOCATION: New York, NY

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“I’ve been biking around Manhattan to deliver 300 N95 masks that were donated through a friend to anyone who has expressed a need.

I’m relieved and grateful to be able to do one small thing for the incredible nurses, nurse practitioners, and other health-care staff who are working right now.”

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LODZ JOSEPH-LEMON GRADUATE: MS ’17 LOCATION: Albany Area Primary Health Care, Albany, GA

“Pregnant people deserve quality care during a pandemic. Patients are scared. Being a midwife and reassuring patients during a pandemic is humbling, hard, and scary and I’m incredibly proud to be a midwife.”

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WILL SWANSON STUDENT: Doctor of Nursing Practice, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program LOCATION: New York State Department of Health COVID Testing Sites, Jones Beach Island, NY, and New Rochelle, NY

“Purpose is what has been getting me out of Wil l bed before dawn and falling into bed well past dark.

The nurses around me never seem to describe it as a job anymore — times like this underline just how much nursing can be a calling.”

“I am tending to a lot of Latino patients with COVID. For Latinos, it is particularly difficult because with COVID-19 the patient care is more impersonal. We can’t touch the patient, get too close.

That is why talking to the family is very important, to offer them information about their loved ones, in a language they can understand.”

MICHELLE MEISSNER GRADUATE: MS ’19 LOCATION: New York State Department of Health COVID Testing Site, Bergen County Community College, Paramus, NJ, and Mount Sinai Morningside, New York, NY

“During the beginning of COVID-19 I felt an overwhelming need to help where I could. I worked at one of the testing sites that popped up all over the area, and we would test about 500 people a day. I was additionally offered a full-time position at Mount Sinai at the height of the curve to work on a med-surg unit converted entirely to COVID-positive patients.”

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KAEDI FEHLBERG GRADUATE: MS ’05 LOCATION: John Muir Health, Walnut Creek, CA

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“Through the chaos and stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have seen beautiful gestures of service, love, and caring, both in the immediate medical community as well as in the surrounding community at large. People are coming together to share best practices, lend support, and are problem-solving in creative and innovative ways. I feel privileged to witness the best of humanity shining through in what can feel like dark and uncertain times.”

MICHELLE BERNABE GRADUATE: BS ’13 LOCATION: Brooklyn Minds Psychiatry, Brooklyn, NY

“I am working with local New York City psychiatrists and Peabody Award-winner Ben Adair to create the weekly podcast ‘Pandemic Check In.’ Beyond helping address callers’ mental health needs, the podcast is a way of telling the mental health stories we are collectively experiencing during this global pandemic.”

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MINNA SCOTT STUDENT: Doctor of Nursing Practice, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Program LOCATION: NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, New York, NY

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“I choose to be a nurse because to me there is no greater warmth than knowing you were able to provide comfort to someone in a time of distress.

When I wake up every day, I think about other people - my patients, colleagues, and those I may be able to help - and learn about myself through them. In the past weeks of being a nurse technician in NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, I was privileged to be around nurses who devoted themselves to their patients. While their bodies showed fatigue and near-exhaustion battling COVID-19, their eyes and hands showed the kind of love and care parents give to their children.”

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hen Florence Nightingale traveled from England to Turkey in 1854 to care for British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War—an expedition that marked the birth of modern nursing—the trip took two weeks by rail and steamship. The world has gotten a lot smaller since then.

This year, after a deadly coronavirus epidemic emerged in China, the first American to be infected brought the pathogen home on a 14-hour flight. The disease was soon wreaking havoc on every continent but Antarctica.

As humanity has grown more mobile and interconnected, public health crises have gained increasing impact.

The two most striking examples of this trend involve infectious disease outbreaks and forced migration. In Nightingale’s era, epidemics rarely spread beyond a small geographic area. The past two decades, by contrast, have seen half a dozen regional or global pandemics, including HIV, SARS, Ebola, and Zika; though COVID-19 is the most catastrophic plague in a century, a rival could appear any day. Likewise, the number of people displaced annually by wars, famines, or other disasters in the 1800s was in the tens of thousands; in 2019, according to the United Nations, the ranks of forced migrants surpassed 79 million. Whether the uprooted land on America’s doorstep or in distant refugee camps, their plight fills news feeds— and fuels political conflict—around the planet.

Nurses have long served on the front lines of such emergencies. In recognition of that fact, the World Health

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COLUMBIA NURSING’S OFFICE OF GLOBAL INITIATIVES HELPS DEVELOP BETTER RESPONSES TO HEALTH CRISES AROUND THE PLANET. Organization (WHO) has designated 2020—the 200th anniversary of Nightingale’s birth—as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. And Columbia Nursing’s Office of Global Initiatives (OGI) is in the vanguard of the profession’s response. “In crises like the current pandemic, nurses are crucial not only to patient care but to controlling the outbreak,” says Jennifer Dohrn, DNP ’05, the director of the OGI, the assistant dean for global initiatives, and an associate professor of nursing.

“In forced migration crises, we do everything from treating malnutrition to providing family planning services to being the link between the community and government health officials. But to maximize our efficacy, it’s vital to build the framework for a nursing response before the next crisis erupts. That’s the OGI’s mission.”

The office oversees an expansive portfolio of efforts to facilitate education, research, clinical practice, leadership, and strategic partnerships that address global health disparities. “Our goal,” Dohrn explains, “is to make a handprint on the way nursing approaches these issues, in terms of both clinical practice and public policy, and not just in other countries but within the U.S. as well.”

One aspect of this enterprise is to encourage aspiring nurses to think—and act—globally. During their first semester, students in the Master’s Direct Entry (MDE) program take a course called Global Health Equity and the Responsibility of the Nursing Profession. The curriculum presents global health as a social and racial justice issue and

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examines nursing’s moral and ethical obligations to promote it. “From the beginning, our message is ‘This is what we think you need to know while you’re at Columbia,’” Dohrn says. This summer, she presented the course online due to the coronavirus lockdown, tracing the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths each week, globally and in United States.

She led discussions on the protests touched off by the police killing of George Floyd and made connections between the Black Lives Matter movement and health care injustices in the U.S. and elsewhere.

In previous years, MDE and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students have also had the opportunity to spend six weeks at one of Columbia Nursing’s 18 global clinical sites, working in hospitals and community health centers, as well as conducting research. (This program, suspended in March, will resume when safety allows.) Students might join local nurses in caring for HIV patients at the Clínica de Familia in the Dominican Republic, or help administer vaccines in Malawi, or learn how single-payer health care functions at a cancer center in Spain.

“In terms of global clinical experiences, we’re the leading school in the country,” says Dean Lorraine Frazier, PhD, noting that nearly half of the students in each class pursue that option before graduating.

In addition, the OGI coordinates partnerships with other Columbia institutions, as well as with international health officials and aid groups, to find ever more effective ways for nursing to help heal the world.

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TO UNDERSTAND how all these pieces fit together, it helps to know the backstory of OGI’s founding director. As a student at the University of Chicago in the late 1960s, Dohrn became an activist for women’s rights and racial justice. After moving to New York and having her children under the care of a skilled midwife, she had an epiphany: Her calling was to bring such services to women in underserved populations. She earned a BSN at the City University Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, followed by an MS from Columbia Nursing’s nursemidwifery program. In 1988, she was hired to build a birthing center in the South Bronx.

Dohrn spent more than a decade running the facility—the first of its kind in an inner-city community— while juggling other positions. Her clientele was a rich blend of ethniciJENNIFER DOHRN, DNP ties and national origins: AfricanAmericans; Latinas; and immigrants from every corner of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. “It was like a little international center,” she recalls. “And all these women wanted to feel pride and dignity in the transforming experience of having a baby.”

In 1992, Dohrn returned to Columbia Nursing as a faculty member, later becoming director of nurse-midwifery. Then tragedy struck: Her husband, a civil rights lawyer who was helping Nelson Mandela write a new constitution, died in a car crash in South Africa.

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Over the next few years, Dohrn watched with dismay as that country became the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2003, she accompanied two doctor friends on a six-week working vacation and found herself assisting the head midwife in a Durban hospital. “I was just there to learn and see if I could be of use,” she recalls. “The first week, they had me carrying urine samples and stapling charts.”

By the end of her stay, however, she’d helped reorganize the clinic to serve patients more efficiently, shortening wait times for exams and lab tests as HIV knowledge was integrated into prenatal care.

Dohrn made more consulting trips to South Africa and neighboring countries, while continuing her duties back home and earning a DNP at Columbia Nursing. Next came a stint as project director for the ICAP Global Nurse Capacity Building Program (the program, based at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, was originally known as the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment but now goes by its acronym), through which she secured targeted grants to strengthen the development of HIV and primarycare nursing in 10 sub-Saharan countries.

These endeavors deepened Dohrn’s already profound respect for her counterparts in other lands. “I saw nurses providing incredible care to AIDS patients before any medications were available, and often dying of the virus themselves,” she says. “Then, after South Africa gave nurses the legal right to prescribe antiretroviral treatment for HIV, I saw mother-to-child transmission rates drop to less than 10 percent.

Other factors played a role, but giving nurses and midwives the ability to manage HIV care was key to controlling the epidemic.”

In 2013, Columbia Nursing appointed Dohrn director of its new Office of Global Initiatives. Although the school had long been designated a WHO Collaborating Center (first for Nursing and Midwifery, later for Advanced Practice Nursing), its global work had lacked a coordinated strategy. The purpose of the OGI was to provide one.

Dohrn took on that task with her usual energy. She launched collaborations with Columbia’s schools of medicine, public health, and dentistry, as well as with the Columbia Global Centers—eight research and learning hubs operated by the university from Beijing to Rio de Janeiro.

She began expanding the school’s educational offerings in global health.

She developed a plan to enhance the school’s collaborations with WHO in the Pan-American region and recruited faculty to carry it out. And she imbued the school’s global efforts with a philosophy born of her experience in communities from the South Bronx to Swaziland.

“Reciprocity is key,” Dohrn explains. “Our relationship with frontline partners has to be equal, or it’s not really a partnership. We’re there to learn from them and to share our resources in a way that fits their objectives. Instead of telling them what to do, we need to ask them what they want and how we can help.”

ONE EXAMPLE of this approach is a multischool project that aims to document and disseminate the experiences of nurses and midwives who battled the Ebola epidemic of 2014 to 2016. Led by Dohrn and sponsored by the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference, in collaboration with WHO and various African health ministries, the project has multiple goals: to provide these workers

“ Instead of telling them what to do,” says Dohrn, “we need to ask them what they want and how we can help.” with a safe and nonjudgmental space to record their stories; to gain an understanding of the trauma they endured and the lessons they learned; to honor their contributions; and to inform policies and protocols to deter, detect, and control future outbreaks.

In August 2019, the team spent a week collecting oral histories from 39 health-care workers and officials in Liberia and Sierra Leone. “These nurses had a dedication that is almost unimaginable,” Dohrn says. “Some of them slept in the hospital for a year, because their families were afraid of being infected. They all lost loved ones and coworkers. Many of them worked without pay the whole time.”

Fonti Kargbo’s story was typical. He and his wife, Hawa Kamara, were both nurses. When she began showing symptoms of Ebola after washing the body of a deceased patient in the epidemic’s early days, Fonti took her to a local treatment center. The next morning, he found her lying naked and unconscious on the vomit-soaked floor.

She died within two hours, and Fonti himself soon fell ill, as did all three of their children. Although he and one daughter survived, the others perished. He arrived at the interview wearing a T-shirt printed with the faces of Hawa and other nurses who sacrificed their lives.

Dohrn also tracked down the Sierra Leonean nurse whose tearstained face, accompanying a 2014 newspaper article, first drew her

attention to the Ebola crisis. Josephine Finda Sellu worked with the country’s top infectious disease doctor, who died along with half the nurses in her hospital. “She’s one of my heroes,” says Dohrn, who shows that photo in classroom presentations. “Her family kept begging her to quit, but she refused. She said, ‘This is where I need to be to serve my people.’” The two embraced when they met and both wept through much of their interview.

When COVID-19 travel restrictions are lifted, Dohrn and her colleagues plan to help organize an official day of recognition for these unheralded nurses and midwives—a step several interviewees suggested would be crucial to motivating nurses to show up for future epidemics. Later this year, the group will hold virtual public discussions and publish a white paper on their findings.

“Although with good intentions, often foreign experts would like to impose their views, but there is value in listening to local experts,” says Annette Mwansa Nkowane, MA, BSN, a retired WHO technical officer in Zambia who is participating in the project. “Jennifer and her team are focused, but they listen. They want everybody to contribute.

Your voice is important. That’s crucial to solving issues like Ebola.”

The oral histories have already had an impact on one Columbia MDE student, Maureen Saylor, MPH ’19, who listened to the tapes while helping to audio correct and summarize the transcripts.

“The MDE program is so fast-paced that it’s easy to lose yourself in studying for the next test,” says Saylor, who came to Columbia after spending two years in Botswana with the Peace Corps. “Being part of this project grounds everything I’m doing. It reminds me of why I wanted to come into this profession.”

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THE OGI’S WORK on forced migration is another place where Dohrn’s handprint is visible. In 2018, Dohrn received a grant from the Columbia University President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) to develop a project with the Columbia Global Center in Amman, Jordan. After visiting one of the country’s largest refugee camps, she learned that women who’d fled the civil war in Syria were experiencing a baby boom (a typical repercussion of war). “There’s a big emphasis on family planning among aid groups,” Dohrn recalls, “but no one was asking the women what they saw as their own reproductive health needs.

You can make policy, but if the community you want to serve hasn’t bought into it, it’s not going to be implemented.”

Dohrn and her collaborators (including Columbia Nursing Assistant Professor Caroline Sullivan, DNP, MS) worked with faculty at the University of Jordan School of Nursing, who interviewed over 500 refugee women about not only family planning, but also their overall health status and their experience with sexually transmitted diseases, breastfeeding, and domestic violence. When the study was completed, in 2019, the researchers held a dissemination meeting at the Global Center, attended by members of the Jordanian Health Ministry. The next day, they presented the initial results to 50 local nurses and midwives at a health-care center serving refugees.

“One of the gaps in care the Syrian women pointed to was a need for more consistent breastfeeding support,” Dohrn says. “They were being given formula, even though they preferred not to use it. It was

exciting to see that we could help nurses and policymakers on the front lines of this crisis learn what could be done better.” Other findings from the study are expected to be published this year.

The OGI has also convened three summits since 2015—one at the Columbia Global Center in Nairobi, the other two in Amman— bringing together nurses and midwives from across sub-Saharan Africa and the eastern Mediterranean region. At each one, improving care for forced migrant populations was high on the agenda.

MIGRATION CRISES can play out closer to home as well. Through the OGI, Columbia Nursing is collaborating with the schools of medicine and social work on the Interdisciplinary Refugee Health Project (IRHP), designed to help families recently granted asylum in New York City. “This population has specific health challenges related to what they’ve experienced in the countries they come from, such as torture and trauma,” explains Assistant Professor Jeanne Churchill, DNP ’10, the school’s faculty liaison for the pilot project.

“It’s hard enough for people who were born here to navigate the health-care system, but for these families, who may have language and cultural barriers, it can be even more difficult.” The goal of the IRHP, launched last year, is to ensure that they get the care they need.

Five families—from Pakistan, Jamaica, Chad, Ivory Coast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—were chosen to participate by caseworkers with the International Rescue Committee. Each was

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olumbia Nursing’s global programs were reorganized in 2019 under the umbrella of the Division of Global Health, directed by Associate Dean Tonda Hughes, PhD, RN. In addition to the Office of Global Initiatives, the division oversees the school’s Office of Global Research, which coordinates a wide range of studies focusing on people, groups, and communities affected by marginalization, exclusion, and exploitation.

Known for her decades of groundbreaking work on the impact of sexual orientation and gender identity on women’s health, Hughes is leading several studies aimed at advancing that understanding on a global basis. “There are about 70 countries where it’s a criminal offense to engage in samesex relations, and at least nine in which you can be put to death,” she notes. “Even where it’s not criminalized, cultural and

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religious beliefs often stigmatize LGBTQ people. Sexual-minority women are thrown out of their homes and denied employment. In some countries, they’re commonly raped—sometimes at their families’ request—to try to change their orientation.

And they often avoid seeking health care for fear of discrimination and harassment.”

One of Hughes’s current studies, funded by a Columbia University President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) grant, addresses research gaps in sexual minority health in Chile. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Columbia University and from several Chilean universities is working to provide the first nationally representative data on the health of the country’s lesbian, bisexual, and gay people. The first phase of the project involves a sophisticated analysis of data from the latest National Health Survey of

Chile’s population—the first to include a question about sexual identity—to compare health conditions and health risk factors between sexual minority and heterosexual respondents. The second phase will involve in-depth interviews. Together, these findings will provide a basis for a larger future study.

Hughes has conducted interview-based studies of sexual minority women’s health in Australia and Africa. She is also conducting literature reviews of sexual and gender minority women’s health in the Middle East and in Latin America and the Caribbean, and a similar project is planned for Asia. “The idea is to make health disparities for sexual- and gender-minority people visible, so that this knowledge can be used to change clinical practice and health-care policy,” she explains. “Our eventual goal is to cover the world.”

assigned a team of three student aides, one from each participating school, who were selected through a competitive application process judged by faculty and student leaders. After an orientation meeting, the teams began conducting monthly home visits, using a language line for medical interpretation and consulting as needed with faculty members and caseworkers.

“We’ve found that our families’ needs are more basic than we expected,” says MDE graduate and current DNP student Elizabeth Miller, MS ’19, one of the student leaders helping to supervise the project. “It’s not necessarily about seeing a doctor. They’re concerned about ‘How can I make sure I have enough food for next week? How can I make sure I have enough money to ride the subway to my job?’

But those basic needs impact health as well.”

Miller spent six weeks during her MDE studies working at Bel-Air Hospital, the school’s global site in India. “That made me very conscious of who has access to health care,” she says. “New York has the best hospitals in the world, but if you don’t know how to access the system, you might as well be living on the moon.”

Another student leader on the project, DNP student Kelly Eng, MS ’19, worked at a Columbia Nursing global site in Ethiopia. “As I go through my education, I’m increasingly learning that global health is local,” she says. “This project has shown me how much need there is right here, with people from all over the world bogged down in our health-care system.”

THE COVID-19 CRISIS has thrown the connections between global and local health into even sharper relief. In March, as the pandemic reached New York City, the school canceled clinical rotations and

moved all classes online. Meanwhile, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital issued an urgent call for nurses who’d left practice to return to patient care. After assessing her own health vulnerabilities, Dohrn sought an alternative outlet for her skills. “My son Amilcar said, ‘Mom, you’ve got so much experience that no one else has had,’” she recalls. “‘There must be ways you can share that to support this effort.’”

Indeed there were. Dohrn’s work in African countries had taught her that one thing nurses desperately need during an epidemic—and too often don’t receive—is emotional support. She’d also learned, in part from her own spiritual practices, that an effective way to provide such help is through so-called “circles of care”: structured gatherings where anyone can speak, and everyone is expected to listen.

Such circles, Dohrn believed, could help foster resilience and minimize burnout and long-term trauma as members of the Columbia Nursing community grappled with the impact of the coronavirus. To avoid the risk of contagion, she proposed holding the sessions via Zoom.

Dean Frazier, who had herself led healing circles at Commonweal in California and at the University of Texas Health Center at Houston, offered enthusiastic support for Dohrn’s proposal and helped design a program aligned with the school’s needs. Soon, Circles of Care were held every Wednesday and Thursday evening for faculty and students involved in clinical nursing; sessions for Advanced Clinical Management and Leadership students and for MDE students volunteering in the hospital as nursing techs began shortly afterward.

Dohrn and Frazier initially facilitated the hour-long sessions, together or singly, but the circles proved so successful that other faculty members began to lead them as well. Although participants are encouraged to freely share their experiences and feelings, certain guidelines apply. After a moment of silence, those who wish to speak are asked to raise their hands. There’s no cross talk or dialogue— instead, the group simply absorbs what each person has to say. To foster openness within the circle, participants agree to maintain confidentiality outside of it.

At a circle for clinical students and faculty in April, as cases overwhelmed the city’s hospitals, the talk was raw and intense. The 44 attendees spoke of overwork, exhaustion, and isolation; of their concern for coworkers (one had to help intubate a colleague); and of their fears of falling ill or infecting their families. Some confided that the crisis was triggering flashbacks to prior traumas, such as 9/11 or the HIV pandemic. Nurses who couldn’t work on COVID units for health or other reasons described wrestling with guilt and shame. Others assured them there could be courage in staying home. Many participants shared their strategies for coping and self-care and celebrated the spirit of teamwork and solidarity that had emerged during the crisis.

In the months since then, New York has crushed its infection curve, though the situation elsewhere in America—and in some other countries—has grown more dire. Someday, no doubt, this pandemic will pass, but another public health crisis will surely take its place. And as long as such emergencies persist, Dohrn will have a driving purpose that in turn will serve as invaluable preparation for future nurses.

“This work is my passion,” she says. “It’s been the basis of my personal healing, and it’s an honor to bring it out into the world.” 

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lthough Gallup polls have deemed nursing the nation’s most esteemed profession for the past 17 years, that wasn’t always the case. In the mid-19th century, when Florence Nightingale was inventing the field as we now know it, the guardians of the status quo resisted her efforts at every turn. But Nightingale clearly triumphed. Among her enduring legacies has been the embrace by nursing of an evolving culture of inclusion—of increasingly diverse patients, nurses, and teachers of nurses.

This is an apt moment to celebrate that evolution—and to examine how far it still has to go.

The World Health Organization has designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, in honor of the 200th anniversary of Nightingale’s birth. At the same time, this year has seen an unprecedented explosion in public awareness of the impact of racism—and demands for its rectification—sparked by the brutal death of George Floyd, yet another Black life lost to police violence, and by a pandemic that has killed people of color at more than twice the rate of whites.

“Society as a whole has reached a time of reckoning,” says Vivian Taylor, EdD, Columbia Nursing’s associate dean for diversity and cultural affairs. “And because racism and other forms of injustice have an enormous impact on public health, the nursing field has a special duty to grapple with these issues. At Columbia Nursing, we take that responsibility very

seriously. It means acknowledging our shortcomings as well as our strengths and always looking for ways to do better.”

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he school’s social-justice journey has its roots in Nightingale’s own radicalism. However straitlaced her Victorian mannerisms now appear, the “lady with the lamp” was in many ways an iconoclast. Her first heresy was to declare that women could benefit from having a career outside the home—and that society could benefit from their skills and dedication. “Passion, intellect, moral activity,” she wrote, “have never been satisfied in a woman.” Through nursing, she proclaimed, those drives could be fulfilled in service to the wider world.

Even more shockingly for her time, Nightingale also contended that everyone—not just a privileged few—had a right to quality health care.

When she began her work, only the wealthy had access to physicians, and they were treated in the comfort of their own homes. Less affluent patients were tended by family members when they fell ill; if none were available, many landed in filthy almshouses, often staffed by vagrants or ex-convicts with no medical skills. Conditions at the few public hospitals were little better. Only a handful of church-run institutions offered care by trained nurses, typically nuns or deaconesses.

Nightingale began crusading against such inequities. In 1853, when she became superintendent of

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the Institute for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen in London, she threatened to resign unless the hospital committee abolished a rule excluding Catholic patients. She insisted on admitting Jews and Muslims, too.

A year later, when Britain entered the Crimean War, Nightingale led a squad of 38 volunteer nurses to work at a military hospital in Turkey. There, she found that the high command’s contempt for common soldiers contributed to staggering death rates among the wounded. Inadequately fed and clothed on wintry battlefields, then warehoused in crowded, vermin-infested hospitals, soldiers were perishing in vast numbers.

After a successful campaign to improve conditions there, Nightingale championed sanitary reforms—and the creation of a skilled nursing workforce—in medical facilities around the world. She went on to fight for other measures aimed at uplifting the downtrodden, including improved housing, clean water, the repeal of harsh prostitution laws, and famine relief in India.

Nursing thus carries a set of reform-minded principles in its DNA. From the start, the idea that the profession should serve patients at every level of society has been entwined with the notion that nurses from

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marginalized populations—beginning with women, who could neither vote nor hold office in Nightingale’s day—bring special strengths to the field.

Those precepts have also long informed the mission of the Columbia University School of Nursing. Yet, as with all genetic material, their expression has evolved over time.

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resbyterian Hospital in New York City, established in 1868, was among the first hospitals in America founded on a vision as inclusive as Nightingale’s. A tablet by the entrance read, “For the Poor of New York Without Regard to Race, Creed or Color.” The facility was also among the first to adopt Nightingale’s model of nursing, which emphasized cleanliness, order, careful clinical observation, and a sympathetic attentiveness to patients’ needs.

Twenty years later, when Presbyterian launched its Training School for Nurses (as Columbia Nursing was initially known), the trustees recruited one of the era’s foremost nurse educators as the school’s first dean: Anna Maxwell, who had built similar programs at three other major hospitals. A dynamic innovator,

Maxwell was determined to modernize the field, while fostering “that true love of humanity, which makes the helpful and successful nurse.” Indeed, Maxwell has been called “the American Florence Nightingale.” She insisted that students master the latest technologies— stethoscopes, hypodermics, thermometers, anesthetics—as well as studying topics ranging from anatomy and bacteriology to obstetrics and surgery.

Having proven that women could handle such challenges, Maxwell then pushed to expand their sphere of action. When the Spanish-American War erupted in 1898, she helped spearhead a campaign to send units of trained nurses—under their own command, not that of doctors—to field hospitals. Maxwell herself led a contingent of 200 nurses to Camp Thomas in Georgia, where they treated nearly 1,000 sick and wounded troops. Soon afterward, she and her allies persuaded Congress to create the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.

Back at Presbyterian, Maxwell mobilized an army of nurses clad in gingham uniforms to care for ailing New Yorkers in their homes. Established in 1904, the Department of Visiting Nursing and Social Service sent nurses throughout much of the city, providing their services to the neediest New Yorkers free of charge.

Over the following decades, the school continued to offer women a path to professional fulfillment when few other such options existed. At the same time, its students and graduates served patients at every sociocultural level. Yet as America’s population became increasingly diverse, the school’s own makeup didn’t reflect those changes.

Indeed, discrimination remained the norm in U.S. health care generally, even at Columbia-Presbyterian (as the hospital was renamed after affiliating in 1928 with the university). Despite the open-minded plaque at its entrance, the institution long declined to hire Black doctors or nurses and denied private rooms to Black patients. Although those policies ended after World War II, the nursing school didn’t graduate its first Black student until 1958. And four years passed before another one enrolled.

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he political upheavals of the 1960s, however, brought a return of the crusading Nightingalian spirit to Columbia Nursing. Many students marched for the causes of the time—and called for their school to diversify. In 1970, the Black Caucus of ColumbiaPresbyterian wrote to Dean Mary Crawford, decrying the paucity of nonwhite student nurses. Soon afterward, Crawford created the post of Recruiter of Minority Group Students. Gradually, probationers’ faces became less monochromatic.

Another transformation began in 1970, when the school—responding to the era’s changing perception of gender roles—enrolled its first two men. One was Ramón Lavandero, BS ’72, MS, a physician’s grandson from Puerto Rico who’d discovered a passion for patient care while volunteering at a local clinic in high school. After starting college at the University of Miami, Lavandero transferred to Columbia Nursing’s BS program on the advice of a family friend who’d become medical director of New York’s Beth Israel Hospital.

Lavandero was also one of the school’s first Latino students, but his gender is what set him apart—quite literally. He was assigned a room on the second floor of Maxwell Hall, in a wing sealed off by a fire door, where men from other schools would stay while doing rotations at ColumbiaPresbyterian. (Fellow pioneer John Mladinich, BS ’72, lived at home with his parents.) In those days, nonfemale visitors to the dorm were strictly monitored; when a woman brought one upstairs, she had to call out, “Man on the floor!” Even Lavandero was required to announce himself whenever he ventured beyond his corridor. “As a joke,” he recalls, “I posted a sign on my hall door: ‘Reverse Isolation Unit.’”

Nonetheless, he managed to bond with many female classmates and in his senior year was voted student body president. Though some male physicians bristled at his presence (particularly in the delivery room), most nursing faculty members were friendly and supportive. “They treated me like someone who was going to become their colleague,” recalls Lavandero, who did exactly that— eventually becoming a senior nursing administrator, an adjunct faculty member at Yale, and an executive with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

Ramón Lavandero, BS, and John Mladinich, BS.

“Diversity doesn’t just contribute to equity and justice; it helps us function as a more holistic society,” says alumna Robinson.

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The strengths that students from underrepresented populations and varied backgrounds bring to Columbia Nursing are as diverse as the students themselves. Here are some of their stories.

The scientifically-minded daughter of a funeralhome director and a medical biller, Barrett grew up on Long Island, where she became a competitive diver at age 10. She fell in love with nursing that same year, when her sister was born prematurely and spent weeks in intensive care. “I couldn’t go in and see her, but the nurses went out of their way to make me feel included,” she recalls. “They’d bring her incubator closer to the window and give me paper to make her cards.”

In May 2019, after earning a BA in psychology at Barnard College—where she was a star on the swim team—Barrett enrolled in the masters direct-entry (MDE) program at Columbia Nursing. She initially planned to go into psychiatric nursing, but a rotation on the peds unit changed her mind. “I really like working with kids,” she says. “It’s so interesting watching them learn and seeing how resilient they are.”

While acknowledging the challenges of systemic racism, Barrett regards her ethnicity as a professional asset. “When patients of color see a Black skilled nurse or nurse manager,” she explains, “it makes them feel more comfortable—like ‘I’m represented here.’”

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Born in the Dominican Republic, Santana immigrated to the Bronx with her family at age 7. She felt drawn to her future vocation soon afterward, when asthma attacks repeatedly landed her in the ER. “It was the nurses who alleviated my fear and calmed my mom,” Santana recalls. After graduating from City College with a biology degree, she chose Columbia Nursing for its academic rigor, varied rotations, cutting-edge simulation labs— and proximity to home. “I can walk across the bridge in five minutes,” she says with a laugh.

That’s not just a matter of convenience.

Growing up in a mostly Hispanic, low-income community imbued Santana with a drive to give back. Having just completed the MDE program, she is now working to earn a DNP and become a family nurse practitioner. “I want to work uptown,” she says. “NewYorkPresbyterian is my No. 1 choice.”

As a first-year DNP student, Santana is finding that her bilingual fluency comes in handy.

“I’ve been able to act as a bridge between doctors and patients,” she says. In one case, she recognized the folk remedy that was rendering a diabetes patient’s metformin ineffective. In another, she translated for a terrified Dominican woman whose teenage son was experiencing a seizure aura. “She grabbed my hand like ‘Please don’t leave,’” Santana recalls. “That was very rewarding.”

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y the 1980s, Columbia Nursing’s student body was relatively heterogeneous. Yet the faculty remained overwhelmingly white, in part because of the shortage of minority candidates with advanced degrees.

One exception was Betty Watts Carrington, MS ’71, EdD ’86, an alumna of the nurse-midwifery program who became its director in 1986. Nearly three decades earlier, Carrington had been the only Black student in her BSN class at the University of Michigan. “Back then, a lot of doctors didn’t want me touching their white patients,” she recalls. “And that remained the case when I began practice as a certified nurse-midwife in the early ’70s. I was hired to care for clinic patients who were all Black or Latino. The white doctors wouldn’t let me or my nurse-midwife colleagues provide services to their private patients.”

When Carrington started her new position at Columbia, she says, “there had not been a person of color in charge of a graduate nursing program. It was like walking the plank.” One of her primary missions was to increase nurse-midwives’ sensitivity toward African-American and Caribbean patients. To do that, she developed an affiliation between the school and Harlem Hospital, where she supervised students. She brought students to the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Sylvia’s Restaurant—a local temple of soul food. She also taught a course on how to help minority patients eat healthily within their own culinary traditions.

“I really stressed cultural competency,” explains Carrington, who was among the earliest advocates of that concept. “I wanted students to realize that as a nurse-midwife, you are a change agent. You need to open your eyes and try to understand the women you care for. I wanted them to know not everybody eats eggs and bacon.”

By the end of the decade, such lessons were widely seen as central to improving nursing practice. Learning how to tailor health care programs to meet the needs of diverse populations became a key goal of Columbia Nursing’s research programs. Administrators were also coming to realize that recruiting minority students wasn’t enough; they needed to provide support so they could flourish.

In 1990, the school launched its first such effort: the Office of Multicultural Affairs, which offered services ranging from open-agenda group meetings to seminars on study skills, time management, and writing. The students, in turn, brought new energy and purpose to the school, as well as skills and perceptions that strengthened nursing as a whole.

One alumna has a special perspective on those contributions: Sharon Robinson, MS ’76, whose father,

the legendary Jackie Robinson, integrated Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1947. The younger Robinson returned to Columbia Nursing as a faculty member in 1979, three years after graduating from the nurse-midwifery program. She later taught at other universities, practiced at several hospitals, ran an MLB children’s essay program, served as vice chair of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and wrote memoirs and children’s books. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she uses a sports analogy to describe the impact of students of color on her chosen field.

“Besides breaking the color barrier in baseball, my dad changed people’s perceptions of the game,” Robinson explains. “He brought a new style of play that he’d learned in the Negro Leagues and made baseball more interesting as a sport. Diversity doesn’t just contribute to equity and justice; it helps us function as a more holistic society—whether in baseball or midwifery practice.”

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n recent years, as the concept of diversity has come to include sexual orientation and gender identity, Columbia Nursing has remained in the vanguard. PhD candidates who wish to focus on LGBTQ issues receive expert mentoring and institutional support. Those topics are also discussed in a growing range of core and specialty courses, as well as in extracurricular presentations and seminars.

The school co-leads the groundbreaking Program for the Study of LGBT Health (a collaboration with the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute), whose mission is to promote the health and wellness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people through research, clinical practice, education, and training—and to influence public policy in the United States and beyond. The Washington Heights practice of the ColumbiaDoctors Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Group, the school’s faculty practice, was the first in Upper Manhattan to offer a full range of LGBTQ-specific services.

And in November 2019, the school hosted the first National Nursing LGBTQ Health Summit. The conference, which focused on advancing nursing’s progress in addressing LGBTQ health issues, drew deans and other leaders from nursing schools across the country, as well as representatives of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and the National Institutes of Health. Participants brainstormed strategies for raising awareness of LGBTQ health around nursing education, research,

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A first-generation Japanese-American, Yoshimachi grew up in North Carolina, South Carolina, and California, where she attended Soka University. She’d long dreamed of becoming a doctor but was disillusioned by her experience as a post-bac premed and the process of applying to medical school. Then, while working as a research coordinator at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, she got to know some surgical nurse practitioners. “Instead of focusing on the immediate situation, like the surgeons did, they were working on the patient’s long-term plan,” she recalls. “I realized that this was the reason I’d gone into health care—to be the person patients and families can rely on.”

Yoshimachi enrolled in Columbia Nursing’s MDE program and earned her MS in 2017; she went on to gain nurse practitioner certification and has just completed her DNP. Along the way, she has spent two semesters at the school’s clinical site in Malawi (see “Toward a World of Justice,” pg. 10), where she was deeply affected by the poverty of the patients and the dedication of local nurses working with scant resources. She also served as a University senator and recently founded the nursing school student council.

“I’ve always wanted to serve underserved populations, and I’ve always been interested in leadership,” says Yoshimachi, who speaks Japanese, Chinese, and Korean in addition to English.

Although she’s not yet sure how she’ll combine those two goals, she’s confident she’ll find a way. “Because of my family background, I’m used to thinking globally.

Whether I work in the U.S. or elsewhere, I’ll bring that perspective wherever I go.”

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JEFFREY SCOTT BAILEY, MS ’19, DNP ’22 Raised by a single mother in suburban Maryland, Bailey came out as gay at age 15. His mom responded by pushing him out of the house. Fortunately, he had a summer internship lined up with a ballet company in Manhattan—and when he returned home, he was ready to begin a show-business career. After dropping out of high school, he hit the dinner-theater circuit; that led to lead roles in Broadway musicals, bit parts in film and on TV, and a memorable turn as the bicycle guy in the Nelly video Stepped on My J’z.

When Bailey was 30, a diagnosis of testicular cancer prompted him to consider medical school. After earning his GED, but before he’d decided to commit to med school, he earned a degree in surgical technology and was hired by an Atlanta hospital.

“When the nurses saw how I interacted with patients, they told me, ‘You know, you’re really nurse-y,” he recalls. He also nursed his mother when she was dying of breast cancer. But he didn’t think of becoming a nurse until years later.

First, he met his life partner, who urged him to apply to Columbia to earn an undergraduate degree. To Bailey’s surprise, he was accepted, and in 2018 he received a BA in human evolutionary biology. And finally, at 48, he realized where his life journey had been taking him. He entered the MDE program, snagged his MS, and is now on track to complete his DNP in 2022.

Once he’s certified as a family nurse practitioner, Bailey plans to work in a rural community, where he hopes his lived experience will make him a valuable resource. “There aren’t many options in those areas for the gay or transgender kid who’s terrified to tell their doctor, or the parents who want to be supportive but don’t know how,” he says. “I’m going to be there for them. I want to be their provider.”

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oday, the profession of nursing reflects the demographics of the U.S. population far better than it did in Florence Nightingale’s day. At Columbia Nursing, underrepresented minorities make up 54 percent of the student body, compared to 40 percent of the nation at large. (And the faculty, at 28 percent, is catching up.) Still, the pursuit of equity and justice in health care—the cause that drove Nightingale more than any other—is a never-ending quest.

The school has redoubled its focus on diversity since the appointment of Dean Lorraine Frazier, PhD, in the fall of 2018. In part, this reflects the dean’s personal knowledge of what it means to be marginalized. Born in Northern Ireland to a Catholic father and a Protestant mother, she immigrated to Houston with her family at age eight to escape sectarian strife. Like many immigrant families, hers struggled to adjust to their adopted country. “We came from a small, rural community, and my father didn’t drive,” she recalls. “I remember a time when he took three buses to get to work.” The family’s troubles intensified after her father developed glomerulonephritis as a result of an untreated strep throat. “We didn’t know the health-care system. It was a challenge for us in ways that you really have to go through to understand.”

Having a daughter with disabilities adds to Dean Frazier’s insights. “I know what it’s like to go into nice restaurants and never be ‘seen,’” she says. “We make people uncomfortable, so they look away.” These experiences fuel her passion for improving society’s sensitivity toward differences—particularly within health care—and for ensuring that Columbia takes a leading role in that cause.

In May 2019, Columbia Nursing held a day-long retreat to ponder fresh approaches to such issues. The result was a campaign called the Social Justice and Health Equity Commitment, whose statement of principles declares that the school opposes social forces that “harm people, groups, and communities through marginalization, exclusion, exploitation, and voicelessness” and supports the elimination of barriers to health based on “race or ethnicity; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disabilities; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics.”

That commitment quickly led to a variety of initiatives. The school established a social justice/health equity assessment as part of the faculty and staff annual review process, with all employees asked to participate in at least two consciousness-raising activities related to issues of bias, diversity, and inclusion. The Office of Diversity and Cultural Affairs (ODCA), directed by Associate Dean Taylor, launched a series of workshops, films, and discussions aimed at building diversity awareness. The ODCA also established a new Subcommittee on Fostering an Inclusive Environment and began taking other steps to increase community engagement, promote recruitment of minority faculty, and support curricular content that boosts cultural competence and sensitivity toward health disparities. In March 2020, Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD, RN—nationally recognized for her research on minority health (but no relation to Associate Dean Taylor)—was named the Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing and director of the new Center for Research on People of Color.

And then, after the horrifying video of a white officer kneeling on George Floyd’s Vivian Taylor, EdD neck went viral, the school was swept up in the wave of protest that spread across the nation and the world. “We’ve never seen such a diverse and sustained movement to dismantle racism and white supremacy,” observes Associate Dean Taylor. “White people, particularly, are talking about these things at a whole new level.”

Many members of the Columbia Nursing community joined marches and rallies, with the administration’s support; a team led by MDE student Shayna Feuer distributed masks for COVID-19 protection to protestors. Meanwhile, Columbia University Irving Medical Center formed six campus-wide task forces to address structural racism—focusing on education, training, and curriculum; clinical care; community and public programs; population and implementation sciences; faculty recruitment and retention; and civility— each of which includes a faculty representative from the School of Nursing. In addition, the school has launched its own task force to disseminate anti-racism resources for students, faculty, and staff.

More such projects are in the pipeline, and still more have yet to be imagined. “There’s a lot of great work to be done,” Dean Frazier says. “And this is the perfect time for us to be doing it.”  JÖRG ME YER

and practice—with the ultimate goal of creating a national health action plan to achieve those goals.

“Columbia Nursing is probably unparalleled among schools that do work in this area,” says Tonda Hughes, PhD, RN, associate dean of global health, who led the summit. “I don’t think there’s any other place like it in terms of its rich resources. It’s a really exciting place to be.”

“Because racism and other forms of injustice have an enormous impact on public health, the nursing field has a special duty to grapple with these issues,” says Taylor.

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By Andrea Kott, MPH

Photographs by Jörg Meyer

Ranked first in the nation, Columbia Nursing’s DNP program celebrates 15 years of boosting graduates’ career trajectories with a clinically focused terminal degree.

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olumbia Nursing alumni Patricia Maani-Fogelman, DNP ’05; Patricia Harren, DNP ’05; and Edwidge Thomas, DNP ’05, are highly accomplished clinicians, scientists, educators, and leaders. But if they hadn’t earned clinical doctorates in nursing, they would not be where they are today.

In the 15 years since Maani-Fogelman, Harren, and Thomas became the first graduates of Columbia Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program, the demand for doctorally prepared nurse practitioners has boomed.

Elderly and chronically or terminally ill patients are living longer; medically underserved populations are growing; and the supply of primary-care physicians is shrinking. The need for nurse practitioners (NPs) with the education to provide comprehensive, coordinated, evidence- and valuebased care is more important than ever. Since the COVID19 pandemic, public awareness of how pivotal nurses are to the compassionate and efficient delivery of care to both patients and their families has surged, says Vice Dean of Academics and Dean of Students Judy Honig, DNP ’05.

“Throughout this pandemic, we have watched our nurses’ dedication to patient care and families,” Honig says.

“Nurses bridge the gap for families who cannot be with

their loved ones. They share very difficult, vulnerable times with them.”

In recognition of nurses’ invaluable contributions, the World Health Organization has designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, inspiring Columbia to shine a light on the essential and expanding role for DNPs in today’s health-care workforce.

Filling in the gaps In 2004, the DNP program was an idea whose time had come.

Ten years earlier, in 1994, Columbia had established the Center for Advanced Practice (CAP), the first primary-care faculty practice in the country staffed with nurse practitioners. (The practice is now called the Nurse Practitioner Group.) CAP compensated its NPs at the same rate as primary-care physicians and gave them admitting privileges at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. In 2000, Columbia faculty members published a groundbreaking study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Based on experiences at CAP, it showed no difference in outcomes for patients randomly assigned to nurse practitioners or physicians. Yet health and health care were changing rapidly, and nurse leaders like Honig and then-dean Mary

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Mundinger, DrPH, realized that CAP’s NPs were facing challenges for which they were not prepared.

“CAP had many NPs who were expected to care for patients at the same level as physicians,” says Honig, a pediatric nurse practitioner who joined Columbia in 1988 and practices urban pediatric primary care. But the level of NPs’ knowledge about patient management, genetics, ethics, and the use of evidence and guidelines was not comparable to that of physicians. “We were accountable in ways that we were never accountable before,” she explains. “The demography was changing, pediatric and primary care were getting more complicated, and reimbursement and access to care were getting more challenging,” she continues. “The DNP program helped us fill in the education and practice gaps.”

Performing at the highest level In 2004, Maani-Fogelman was creating a lung transplant program in Columbia’s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, when Mundinger recruited her to help develop and then join the nursing school’s first DNP class.

As the transplant program’s senior NP and clinical chief, Maani-Fogelman had a demanding job that required in-depth knowledge of internal and pulmonary medicine, postsurgical follow-up, immunology, pain management, psychology, hematology, and endocrinology. She evaluated and managed

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severely ill patients with end-stage lung disease. She oversaw five lung transplant coordinators, educated staff nurses and patients, and worked on numerous quality improvement projects. She felt, however, that she could be doing more. “It took encounters with Mary to make me realize that something was missing,” Maani-Fogelman recalls. “Earning the DNP drove the academic piece of me that was lying quiet.”

The program bolstered her clinically and gave her a firm foundation in program development, health care business management, and informatics. “It helped me see how big the scope of a nursing career can be,” says Maani-Fogelman, who went on to become an associate professor at Columbia Nursing. “I got more involved in lung transplant research and started publishing. I furthered my development in pulmonary care, critical care, palliative care, and cancer and started the nation’s first pulmonary palliative clinic.” Plus she began educating other clinicians in palliative care. “The DNP has made it possible for me to perform at the highest level,” she says.

Today, Maani-Fogelman is the systemwide medical director of Palliative Medicine at the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania, which serves a largely rural, impoverished population. In addition to providing direct clinical care, she oversees all academic and clinical palliative care programs; develops and implements clinical protocols and quality

Patricia Harren, DNP

assurance programs; and educates medical providers, residents, nurses, and other staff.

“There are not a lot of NPs in the country who are directors of medical programs,” says Maani-Fogelman, who is also a national educator for the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, a national education initiative that the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) co-developed to improve palliative care. “For an NP to be doing what I’m doing here—integrating platforms that include business planning and strategic growth; EMR integration; clinical protocol development; and physician, resident, and nurse education on palliative medicine—is unheard of. It’s nontraditional. But it works. And it is the future: true interdisciplinary leadership across the spectrum of health care.”

Thinking about problems differently Like Maani-Fogelman, Harren was deeply engaged in her nursing career when Mundinger tapped her to join the inaugural DNP class. She was already an advanced practice nurse with multiple certifications. She was also a senior transplant coordinator, recruited to create the adult and pediatric liver transplant programs, which would later become NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation.

“ Earning the DNP drove the academic piece of me that was lying quiet,” Maani-Fogelman recalls. “It helped me see how big the scope of a nursing career can be.”

But the more she learned about the DNP program, the more she saw its value. “I’d been an experienced nurse for a long time, but I learned so much in the DNP program that wasn’t available in my regular NP program, like how to run a practice,” Harren says. “The DNP program taught me how to look at problems from multiple angles, not just in terms of clinical protocols but also in looking for confounding variables in a patient clinical presentation and in terms of practice management, cost reporting, and billing,” she explains.

Now the clinical director for all pediatric solid organ transplant programs and adult abdominal organ transplant programs at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Harren divides her time between clinical and managerial duties. She cares for patients, collaborates on managed care contract negotiations, develops and implements patient and staff education initiatives, monitors transplant volume and outcome statistics, participates in recruiting physicians, and hires administrative and professional staff—responsibilities for which she says the DNP prepared her thoroughly. Echo-

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ing Maani-Fogelman, she notes that clinical directors also have traditionally been physicians. “They never would have considered a nurse for the role I have now,” Harren says.

Furthermore, Harren says that without the DNP she would not have been able to serve on committees of the American Society of Transplantation. “I have a Columbia doctorate that says I’ve advanced myself as a nurse. People value that.” She notes that the DNP carries particular clout at an academic medical center like Columbia, where scholarship matters as much as clinical expertise. “More than half of my NP staff are DNPs,” adds Harren, an assistant professor of nursing. “When we’re hiring, I look for the DNP because I know the education and training that it represents.”

Providing value-based care Thomas once thought that her nursing career would be a stepping stone to becoming a primary care physician for all populations, with a specific focus on immigrant and underserved communities. But years of caring for these communities, first as a nurse in the medical, surgical, and neurological intensive care units of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; then in her first role as a nurse practitioner at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, where she managed a largely immigrant Caribbean population with multiple uncontrolled chronic diseases; and subsequently at CAP, which ultimately became Columbia Advanced Practice Nurse Associates (CAPNA), drove her desire to improve patients’ health well before they developed complications from their chronic conditions. “I always felt that we had an opportunity to impact the course of patients’ conditions during their primary-care experience, that had we intervened and engaged them earlier to help them understand and manage their disease, they probably would have had a better outcome and not ended up in the ICU,” she says.

At CAPNA, Thomas had begun to put this holistic, comprehensive approach to care into practice. Still, she sought more. “I knew the DNP degree would give me a solid foundation in research, practice management, data analysis, and the ability to publish,” she says. “The degree provided me with the knowledge, skills, and training that positioned me well for a successful career in nursing.”

It also catapulted her into nursing leadership, first as CAPNA’s director of clinical services, then as director of clinical practice affairs at New York University College of Nursing; there, she managed a primary-care practice for underserved populations and developed a mobile health

According to a 2019 paper that Mundinger co-authored, only 15 percent of the nation’s 533 DNP programs are clinically focused programs.

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van program and today is the clinical lead of the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program in Mount Sinai Hospital’s Performing Provider System.

DSRIP is a federal program that incentivizes states, through Medicaid funding, to improve health-care quality, cost-efficiency, and outcomes. To obtain full DSRIP funding, states must meet certain performance goals, such as reducing avoidable hospitalizations, halting Medicaid spending growth, and making managed care payments value-based. To achieve such goals, New York promotes Performing Provider Systems (PPSs), coordinated care networks that involve partnerships between a lead hospital and other providers. Mount Sinai is one of these networks, and Thomas’ functional role is that of chief medical officer of the PPS. “I’m not aware of another nurse running a PPS in the New York State DSRIP.” Thomas provides strategic direction and clinical leadership to maximize the $400 million that Mount Sinai’s PPS can earn. “Our network has about 82 metrics we need to meet to get our full allotment of dollars,” she explains.

These metrics reflect numerous factors, including the design, implementation, and quality of clinical programs, practice improvements, and financial operations.

“There are 350,000 lives attributed to Mount Sinai’s network, and 300 partner organizations—including Mount Sinai Health Systems, the Brooklyn Hospital Center, about eight Federally Qualified Health Centers, care management organizations, skilled nursing facilities, community-based organizations, and pharmacies,” Thomas says. “My role is to collaborate with partners in designing clinical improvement strategies, deciding where to dedicate our resources, monitoring partner performance on clinical outcomes, and making sure we’re holding everyone accountable.”

Under Thomas’ leadership, Mount Sinai’s PPS has achieved significant clinical improvements—increasing comprehensive screening rates for diabetes and clinical depression, improving diabetes and hypertension monitoring and management, and reducing potentially avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions. “We’ve made amazing strides in moving the dial on improving health outcomes for our Medicaid patients,” she says.

She credits her role in these achievements to her doctoral education and the skills she gained in how to navigate the health care system, manage population health, and improve patient care. “Without the DNP, there is no way I would ever have been considered for such a role.”

The state of the DNP Columbia’s DNP program—recently ranked first in the nation by U.S. News & World Report—has flourished, experiencing a nearly tenfold increase in enrollment since it began 15 years ago. “Most studies say we’re headed for

Edwidge Thomas, DNP

a primary-care workforce shortage and a booming population with more complex medical needs,” Honig says. “NPs are that workforce.”

Among these complex medical needs are respiratory crises like those associated with COVID-19, which, along with a spate of other issues, require nurses with the education and experience to practice at the highest level of the profession. “Our number-one ranking speaks to the way we prepare our DNPs: to meet the needs of patients, families, and the health-care system,” Honig adds.

Yet there are concerns about the focus of the degree that Honig and Mundinger attribute to a 2004 AACN position statement, which expanded the definition of “practice” to include nonclinical care—and to the consequent emergence of nonclinical DNP programs. “The fatal flaw was defining practice in such a broad way that anything a nurse does in health care practice is considered nursing, whether it’s policy, informatics, or administration,” Honig says. “There are many DNPs who aren’t advanced clinicians. Significant numbers of nurses with a baccalaureate degree are pursuing a DNP in leadership and administration and other nonclinical roles.”

According to a 2019 paper that Mundinger co-authored for the journal Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, only 15 percent of the nation’s 553 DNP programs are clinically

focused programs. The paper expressed concern that “two different types of programs ... use the same degree designation,” leading to “potential confusion about what ‘nursing practice’ could mean.”

In fact, the proliferation of nonclinical DNP programs threatens to hamper NPs’ opportunities for advancement, believes Mundinger, as well as the autonomy, authority, and respect they are accorded. “We shouldn’t be using the DNP degree and title for nurses trained as administrators,” she says. “It is unrealistic to promote full clinical practice authority and reimbursement for DNPs unless the public can unambiguously rely on who can be identified as a DNP.” According to Honig, Columbia plans to keep the DNP clinically focused and to provide all students, from novices to advanced practice nurses, with the full breadth of clinical education and experience that the degree has historically represented. “Our school has maintained a philosophy of preparing very strong clinicians who appreciate and understand the context in which care is delivered,” Honig says, “and we take this responsibility very seriously. Our graduates, with their clinical skills and deep understanding of the complexity of health care, are making a difference in the lives of patients and their families—and are poised and educated to seize career opportunities.” 

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Government and Private Funding for

Research and Training July 1, 2019–June 30, 2020

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Principal Investigator: Cilgy Abraham, BS Project Title: Practice Environments and Electronic Health Records Use in Primary Care: Reducing Nurse Practitioner Burnout R36HS027290 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $42,913 Total Project Dates: 1/1/2020–12/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Gregory Alexander, PhD Project Title: A National Report of Nursing Home Quality Measures and Information Technology R01HS022497 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $738,785 Total Project Dates: 3/1/2020–7/31/2022

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Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD Project Title: Precision in Symptom Self-Management Center (PriSSM) P30NR016587 (Multiple PI: Arlene Smaldone, PhD) Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,722,457 Total Project Dates: 8/16/2016–5/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD Project Title: Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (RHeaDI) T32NR007969 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $1,939,614 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2017–6/30/2022

Principal Investigator: Melissa Beauchemin, PhD Project Title: Implementation of CINV Guidelines in Pediatric Cancer Patients DSCN-18-068-01-SCN Program Funding Source: ACS Total Budget: $30,000 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2018–6/30/2020

Principal Investigator: Billy Caceres, PhD Project Title: Examining Associations of Sexual Identity, Life Experiences, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Sisters K01HL146965 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI Total Budget: $854,887 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–06/30/2024

Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD Project Title: A Pilot Study to Improve Sleep Quality in Urban High School Students with Asthma R21HD086448 Program Funding Source: NIH-NICHD Total Budget: $456,375 Total Project Dates: 9/25/2016–8/31/2019

Principal Investigator: Kenrick Dwain Cato, PhD Project Title: Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety R01HS023708 Program Funding Source: AHRQ (University of Pittsburgh Subcontract) Total Budget: $46,926 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2015–4/30/2020

Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD Project Title: Translating an Evidence-Based Urban Asthma Program for Rural Adolescents: Testing Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness and Understanding Factors Associated with Implementation R01HL136753 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI Total Budget: $3,620,591 Total Project Dates: 7/5/2017–6/30/2023 Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD Project Title: Multi-Component Technology Intervention for African American Emerging Adults R01HL133506 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI (Wayne State University Subcontract) Total Budget: $165,081 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2016–6/30/2021 Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD Project Title: Peer-Administered Asthma Self-Management Intervention in Urban Middle Schools R01MD012225 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD (Rhode Island Hospital Subcontract) Total Budget: $136,006 Total Project Dates: 9/25/2017–6/30/2022 Principal Investigator: Kellie Bryant, DNP Project Title: Hearst Simulation Lab Proposal HEARSTCU19-2045 Program Funding Source: William Randolph Hearst Foundation Total Budget: $500,000 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–06/30/2021 Principal Investigator: Kellie Bryant, DNP Project Title: The Hyde and Watson Foundation Grant 2020 HYDE9216127 Program Funding Source: Hyde and Watson Foundation Total Budget: $9,000 Total Project Dates: 4/14/2020–4/13/2021

Principal Investigator: Kenrick Dwain Cato, PhD Project Title: Communicating Narrative Concerns Entered by RNs (CONCERN) R01NR01694101 (Multiple PI: Sarah Collins, PhD [Contact]) Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,415,488 Total Project Dates: 5/1/2018–1/31/2022 Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Corwin, PhD Project Title: Maternal Stress and the Gut-Brain Axis in African American Infants R01MD009746 Program Funding Source: NIH (Emory University Subcontract) Total Budget: $13,313 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2019–12/31/2019 Principal Investigator: Stephen Ferrara, DNP Project Title: Collaborative Access for LGBT Adults (CALA) UD7HP29872 Program Funding Source: HRSA Total Budget: $488,062 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–9/29/2020 Principal Investigator: Stephen Ferrara, DNP Project Title: HRSA Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency (ANE-NPR) Program BASSETTCU19-0741 Program Funding Source: HRSA (Bassett Subcontract) Total Budget: $353,672 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–6/30/2023 Principal Investigator: Lorraine Frazier, PhD Project Title: Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare at Columbia University JCHCU16-0569 Program Funding Source: Jewish Communal Fund/Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Total Budget: $11,082,858 Total Project Dates: 12/28/2017–12/27/2027

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Government and Private Funding for Research and Training Principal Investigator: Lorraine Frazier, PhD Project Title: Ladies Christian Union (LCU) Fund for Women’s Education LCUCU19-1334 Program Funding Source: LCU Total Budget: $90,000 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–6/30/2020 Principal Investigator: Lorraine Frazier, PhD Project Title: The Hyde and Watson Foundation Grant 2018 HYDECU18-0474 Program Funding Source: H&W Total Budget: $10,000 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2018–8/31/2019 Principal Investigator: Lorraine Frazier, PhD Project Title: Dr. Scholl Foundation Scholarship Fund SCH0LLCU19-3903 Program Funding Source: Dr. Scholl Foundation Total Budget: $10,000 Total Project Dates: 1/1/2020–12/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Maureen George, PhD Project Title: Self-Care Decision-Making: Feasibility of the BREATHE Asthma Intervention Trial R21NR016507 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $455,758 Total Project Dates: 9/26/2016–7/31/2019 Principal Investigator: Amanda Hessels, PhD Project Title: Impact of Patient Safety Climate on Infection Prevention Practices and Healthcare Worker and Patient Outcomes K01OH011186 Program Funding Source: CDC Total Budget: $324,000 Total Project Dates: 9/2/2016–8/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Amanda Hessels, PhD Project Title: Simulation to Improve Infection Prevention and Patient Safety: The SIPPS Trial R18HS026418 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $1,860,798 Total Project Dates: 3/1/2019–2/29/2024 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Impact of Supportive Policies on Minority Stress, Drinking, and Health Among Women R01AA013328 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA (University of Illinois at Chicago Subcontract) Total Budget: $958,320 Total Project Dates: 2/1/2017–7/31/2021

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Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Sexual Orientation Differences: Prevalence and Correlates of Substance Use and Abuse R01DA036606 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIDA (Public Health Institute Subcontract) Total Budget: $137,725 Total Project Dates: 2/1/2017–8/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Health, Stress, and Tobacco Use Disparities Among Sexual Minority Populations R01CA212517 Program Funding Source: NIH-NCI (University of Michigan Subcontract) Total Budget: $49,991 Total Project Dates: 6/16/2017–11/30/2019 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Sexual Orientation, Discrimination, and Health Disparities in DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorder R01AA025684 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA (University of Michigan Subcontract) Total Budget: $65,390 Total Project Dates: 4/1/2018–1/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Stress, Hazardous Drinking, and Intimate Partner Aggression in a Diverse Sample of Women and Their Partners R01AA027252 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA Total Budget: $2,750,690 Total Project Dates: 9/10/2019–6/30/2024 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: Role of Stress in Shaping Maternal, Infant, and Child Outcomes R01HD091405 Program Funding Source: NIH-NICHD (University of Utah Subcontract) Total Budget: $63,586 Total Project Dates: 9/14/2018–5/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Tonda Hughes, PhD Project Title: National Nursing Summit on LGBT Health MACYJJCU19-3257 Program Funding Source: Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Total Budget: $10,000 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2019–8/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Theresa Koleck, PhD Project Title: Advancing Chronic Condition Symptom Cluster Science Through Use of Electronic Health Records and Data Science Techniques K99NR017651 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $180,235 Total Project Dates: 6/1/2018–3/31/2020

Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD Project Title: Flu SAFE: Flu SMS Alerts to Freeze Exposure R01AI127812 (Multiple PI: Lisa Saiman, MD, Melissa Stockwell, MD [Contact]) Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAID Total Budget: $798,011 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2016–8/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Elaine Larson, PhD Project Title: Nursing Intensity of Patient Care Needs and Rates of Healthcare-Associated Infections (NIC-HAI) R01HS024915 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $1,350,476 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2016–8/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Maribeth Massie, PhD Project Title: Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships A22HP33098 Program Funding Source: HRSA Total Budget: $32,297 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–6/30/2020 Principal Investigator: Alison Norful, PhD Project Title: Optimizing the Use of Primary Care Provider Workforce During Chronic Disease Care: The Measurement and Impact of Provider Co-Management RFUCU18-1324 Program Funding Source: RFU Total Budget: $25,000 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2018–6/30/2020 Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Disease Outcomes and Nurse Practitioner Practice R01MD011514 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,558,012 Total Project Dates: 6/13/2017–1/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Disease Outcomes and Nurse Practitioner Practice Administrative Supplement R01MD011515-03S1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $393,934 Total Project Dates: 2/1/2019–1/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Nurse Practitioner Supply, Practice, and Economic Efficiency to Benefit the Underserved and Medicaid Patients R101016 Program Funding Source: NCSBN Total Budget: $256,416 Total Project Dates: 3/1/2018–8/31/2020

Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Social Networks in Medical Homes and Impact on Patient Care and Outcomes R01HS025937 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $2,123,805 Total Project Dates: 2/1/2019–1/31/2024 Principal Investigator: Lusine Poghosyan, PhD Project Title: Influence of Nurse Practitioner Practice Restrictions on Chronic Disease Health Disparities R101047 Program Funding Source: NCSBN (University of Pennsylvania Subcontract) Total Budget: $44,678 Total Project Dates: 1/1/2019–12/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Tawandra Rowell-Cunsolo, PhD Project Title: Constructing a Hypertension Continuum of Care for HIV-Infected Formerly Incarcerated Black Men 100-1091654-83591 Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI (Research Foundation for the State University of New York Subcontract) Total Budget: $10,882 Total Project Dates: 11/1/2019–6/30/2020 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Video Information Provider for HIV-Associated Non-AIDS (VIP-HANA) Symptoms R01NR015737 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,331,859 Total Project Dates: 7/16/2015–5/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Video Information Provider for HIV-Associated Non-AIDS (VIP-HANA) Symptoms Alzheimer’s Supplement R01NR015737-04S1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $404,982 Total Project Dates: 6/1/2018–5/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD The Wise App Trial for Improving Health Outcomes in People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) R01HS025071 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $1,989,445 Total Project Dates: 9/30/2016–9/29/2021 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial of MyPEEPS Mobile to Improve HIV Prevention Behaviors in Diverse Adolescent Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) U01MD011279 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD Total Budget: $7,882,836 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2016–4/30/2021

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Government and Private Funding for Research and Training Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: mLab App for Improving Uptake of Rapid HIV Self-Testing and Linking Youth to Care R01MH118151 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD Total Budget: $4,090,639 Total Project Dates: 8/3/2018–5/31/2023 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Mentoring and Research in Self-Management for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention K24NR018621 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $570,127 Total Project Dates: 4/17/2019–3/31/2024 Principal Investigator: Rebecca Schnall, PhD Project Title: Mobile Adaptation and Testing of a Uniquely Targeted HIV Intervention for Young Transgender Women R56MH113684 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR (Brown University Subcontract) Total Budget: $58,321 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2018–9/20/2020 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Infection Control in Home Care and Predictive Risk Modeling R01HS024723 Program Funding Source: AHRQ Total Budget: $1,391,760 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2016–10/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Infection Prevention in Home Health Care (InHOME) R01NR016865 (Multiple PI: Patricia Stone, PhD) Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,534,014 Total Project Dates: 9/21/2017–6/30/2021 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Infection Prevention in Home Health Care (InHOME) Administrative Supplement R01NR016866-03S1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $450,645 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–6/30/2021 Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Home Health Agencies in the Changing Policy Environment AHHQICU18-0122 Program Funding Source: AHHQI Total Budget: $149,983 Total Project Dates: 4/1/2018–9/30/2019

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Principal Investigator: Jingjing Shang, PhD Project Title: Exploring Prevalence of Wound Infections and Related Patient Characteristics in Homecare Usinq Natural Languaqe Processing VNSNY201901 (Originally Awarded to K. Woo, PhD) Program Funding Source: Visiting Nurse Service of New York Total Budget: $2,896 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2019–8/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, PhD Project Title: Columbia University Future of Nursing Scholars (3rd Cohort: 2 Scholars) 73510 Program Funding Source: RWJF Total Budget: $75,000 Total Project Dates: 4/15/2016–7/31/2019 Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, PhD Project Title: Columbia University Future of Nursing Scholars (4th Cohort: 2 Scholars) 74336 Program Funding Source: RWJF Total Budget: $150,000 Total Project Dates: 4/15/2017–7/14/2020 Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, PhD Project Title: Columbia University Future of Nursing Scholars (5th Cohort: 2 Scholars) 75252 Program Funding Source: RWJF Total Budget: $150,000 Total Project Dates: 4/1/2018–7/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, PhD Project Title: Jonas Nurse Leaders and Veterans Scholar Program 2018–2020 JCNVHCU181060 Program Funding Source: Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Total Budget: $90,000 Total Project Dates: 8/1/2018–7/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, PhD Project Title: Jonas Nurse Leaders and Veterans Scholar Program 2019–2021 JCNVHCU19-1670 Program Funding Source: Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Total Budget: $20,000 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–6/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, PhD Project Title: Jonas-Flynn Scholarship JCNVHCU19-1670 Program Funding Source: Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Total Budget: $20,000 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2019–6/31/2021

Principal Investigator: Arlene Smaldone, PhD Project Title: Hydroxyurea Adherence for Personal Best in Sickle Cell Treatment R01NR017206 (Multiple PI: Nancy Green, MD [Contact]) Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,938,465 Total Project Dates: 9/27/2017–6/30/2021 Principal Investigator: Kodiak Soled, MS Project Title: Perinatal Social Support in Underserved and Minority Populations F31NR019203 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $91,040 Total Project Dates: 6/1/2020–7/31/2022 Principal Investigator: Kodiak Soled, MS Project Title: Perinatal Social Support Among Sexual and Gender Minority Childbearing Parents AWH0NNCU19-3986 Program Funding Source: AWHONN Total Budget: $10,000 Total Project Dates: 5/1/2020–4/30/2021 Principal Investigator: Samantha Stonbraker, PhD Project Title: Information Visualizations to Facilitate Clinician-Patient Communication in HIV Care (Info Viz: HIV) K99NR017829 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $180,672 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2018–8/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD Project Title: Comparative and Cost-Effectiveness Research Training for Nurse Scientists T32NR014205 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $1,503,740 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2017–6/30/2023 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD Project Title: Study of Infection Management and Palliative Care at End-of-Life (SIMP-EL) R01NR013687 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,759,942 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2012–3/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD Project Title: Study of Infection Management and Palliative Care at End-of-Life (SIMP-EL) Alzheimer’s Supplement R01NR013687-06S1 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $477,060 Total Project Dates: 9/13/2018–3/31/2020

Principal Investigator: Patricia Stone, PhD Project Title: Center for Improving Palliative Care for Vulnerable Adults with MCC (CIPC) P20NR018072 (Multiple PI: Jingjing Shang, PhD) Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,039,992 Total Project Dates: 8/8/2018–5/31/2023 Principal Investigator: Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD Project Title: Yale Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research (YALE-TCC) YUGR109257(C0N-80002338) (5U54MD010711) Program Funding Source: NIH-NIMHD (Yale University Subcontract) Total Budget: $4,758 Total Project Dates: 3/1/2020–5/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD Project Title: Research Education in Cardiovascular Conditions (RECV) NYUF1416-01S (R25HL145323) Program Funding Source: NIH-NHLBI (New York University Subcontract) Total Budget: $2,500 Total Project Dates: 4/17/2020–3/31/2021 Principal Investigator: Maxim Topaz, PhD Project Title: Improving Patient Prioritization During Hospital-Homecare Transition: A Mixed Methods Study of a Clinical Decision Support Tool R01NR018831 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $2,019,591 Total Project Dates: 9/25/2019–7/31/2022 Principal Investigator: Cindy Veldhuis, PhD Project Title: Testing Associations Among Sexual Identity, Race/Ethnicity, Relationship Characteristics, and Hazardous Drinking F32AA025816 Program Funding Source: NIH-NIAAA Total Budget: $190,406 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2017–8/31/2020 Principal Investigator: Judy Wolfe, EdD Project Title: NSL-Graduate Nursing 4E4DHP17942-03-01 Program Funding Source: HRSA Total Budget: $149,741 Total Project Dates: 7/1/2015–6/30/2020 Principal Investigator: Katherine Zheng, BSN Project Title: Developmental Assets in Adolescents with Chronic Illness and Co-morbid Depression F31NR018779 Program Funding Source: NIH-NINR Total Budget: $45,016 Total Project Dates: 9/1/2019–8/31/2020

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G E T T Y IM A G E S

Our faculty’s research continues to create new knowledge that advances health care. Listed are selected articles published by leading peer-reviewed publications.

Maura Abbott was a co-author of “Cancer

and the Immune System: The History and Background of Immunotherapy,” published in Seminars in Oncology Nursing.

Mansi Agarwal and Patricia Stone were among

the authors of “Changes in US Nursing Home Infection Prevention and Control Programs from 2014 to 2018,” published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association; “COVID-19 Prepared-

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ness in Nursing Homes in the Midst of the Pandemic,” published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; “Response to Jimenez et al. Response to Tark et al.: Variations in Physician Orders for LifeSustaining Treatment Program Across the Nation: Environmental Scan, published in Journal of Palliative Medicine; “Support of Nursing Homes in Infection Management Varies by U.S. State Departments of Health,” published in The Journal of Hospital Infec-

tion; and “Variations in Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Program Across the Nation: Environmental Scan,” published in Journal of Palliative Medicine.

Gregory Alexander was among the authors of “Advancing Health Information Technology Roadmaps in Long Term Care,” published in International Journal of Medical Informatics; “Exploring Information Technology (IT) Sophistication in New South Wales Residential Aged Care Facilities,” published in Australian Health Review; “Exploring Resident Care Information Technology Use and Nursing Home Quality,” published in Journal of Gerontological Nursing; “Forecasting Content and Stage in a Nurs-

ing Home Information Technology Maturity Instrument Using a Delphi Method,” published in Journal of Medical Systems; and “Health Data Sharing in US Nursing Homes: A Mixed Methods Study,” published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

Adriana Arcia and Suzanne Bakken were among the authors of “Helping Hispanic Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia ‘Get the Picture’ About Health Status Through Tailored Infographics,” published in The Gerontologist.

Adriana Arcia, Maureen George, Sabrina Mangal, and Jean-Marie Bruzzese were the authors

of “Design and Comprehension Testing of Tailored Asthma Control Infographics for Adults with Persistent Asthma,” published in Applied Clinical Informatics.

Adriana Arcia and Samantha Stonbraker ’16 were

the authors of “Information Needs and Information-Seeking Processes of Low-Income Pregnant Women in Relation to Digital Maternity Education Resources,” published in Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Suzanne Bakken was among the authors of

“Adherence Self-Management and the Influence of Contextual Factors Among Emerging Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus,” published in Nursing Research, and “Psychometric Properties of a Spanish-Language Version of a Short-Form FAMCARE: Applications to Caregivers of Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias,” published in Journal of Family Nursing.

published in Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, and “The Use of Technology to Support Precision Health in Nursing Science,” published in Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Suzanne Bakken and Patricia Stone were

among the authors of “Use of Individual Development Plans for Nurse Scientist Training,” published in Nursing Outlook.

were the authors of “Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife: A Look at Nursing in JAMIA,” published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Suzanne Bakken and Kathleen Hickey were

among the authors of “Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter Detection After Ablation or Cardioversion Using the AliveCor KardiaMobile Device: iHEART Results,”

Jean-Marie Bruzzese and Elaine Larson

were among the authors of “Professional Development Outcomes Associated with Interdisciplinary Research: An Integrative Review,” published in Nursing Outlook.

Kellie Bryant was among the authors of

Rohima Begum ’16, Jianfang Liu, and Carolyn Sun were the authors of “Always

InforMED: Nurse Champion-Led Intervention to Improve Medication Communication Among Nurses and Patients,” published in Applied Nursing Research.

Walter Bockting was among the authors of “Exploring New and Existing PrEP Modalities Among Female Sex Workers and Women Who Inject Drugs in a U.S. City,” published in AIDS Care; “Knowledge About Oral PrEP Among Transgender Women in New York City,” published in AIDS and Behavior; and “Transgender Women’s Concerns and Preferences on Potential Future Long-Acting Biomedical HIV Prevention Strategies: The Case of Injections and Implanted Medication Delivery Devices (IMDDs),” published in AIDS and Behavior.

Laura Britton ’16 was among the authors of “Associations Between Perceived Susceptibility to Pregnancy and Contraceptive Use in a National Sample of Women Veterans,” published in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

“Innovations in Simulation: Nursing Leaders’ Exchange of Best Practices,” published in Clinical Simulation in Nursing.

Billy Caceres was among the authors

of “Provider and LGBT Individuals’ Perspectives on LGBT Issues in Long-Term Care: A Systematic Review,” published in The Gerontologist.

Billy Caceres and Kathleen Hickey were the

co-authors of “Examining Sleep Duration and Sleep Health among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Adults: Findings from NHANES (2005–2014),” published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Billy Caceres, Kathleen Hickey, Suzanne Bakken, and Haomiao Jia were among the

authors of “Mobile Electrocardiogram Monitoring and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Findings from the iPhone Helping Evaluate Atrial Fibrillation Rhythm Through Technology (iHEART) Study,” published in Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Billy Caceres and Tonda Hughes were among

Jessica Brooks ’03 was among the authors Suzanne Bakken and Gregory Alexander

comes in Urban Children With and Without Asthma,” published in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

of “Peer Support in Coordination of Physical Health and Mental Health Services for People with Lived Experience of a Serious Mental Illness,” published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, and “Psychometric Validation of the Job Satisfaction of Persons with Disabilities Scale in a Sample of Peer Support Specialists,” published in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.

the authors of “A Population-Based Study of the Intersection of Sexual Identity and Race/Ethnicity on Physiological Risk Factors for CVD Among U.S. Adults (Ages 18–59),” published in Ethnicity & Health, and “Sexual Identity, Adverse Life Experiences, and Cardiovascular Health in Women,” published in Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Jean-Marie Bruzzese was among the authors

Billy Caceres, Kasey Jackman ’17, and Walter Bockting were among the authors of “Assess-

of “Internalizing Symptoms and Sleep Out-

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Selected Faculty Publications vascular Disease in US Adults: An Analysis of Data from the 2014–2017 BRFSS,” published in Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Billy Caceres, Cindy Veldhuis, Kathleen Hickey, and Tonda Hughes were the authors of

“Lifetime Trauma and Cardiometabolic Risk in Sexual Minority Women,” published in Journal of Women’s Health.

Christian Cansino ’17 was among the authors

of “Effects of Midazolam on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting and Discharge Times in Outpatients Undergoing Cancer-Related Surgery,” published in AANA (American Association of Nurse Anesthetists) Journal.

Eileen Carter ’14 was among the authors of

“Clinical Nurse Preparation and Partnership in Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: National Survey Findings Are a Call to Action for Nurse Leaders,” published in JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration; “Exploring Prescriber Perspectives Toward Nurses’ Active Involvement in Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Qualitative Study,” published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology; and “Infection Preventionists Role in Antimicrobial Stewardship: Survey of APIC Members,” published in American Journal of Infection Control.

Eileen Carter ’14, Kenrick Cato ’14, Kristine Kulage, Jianfang Liu, and Elaine Larson were

among the authors of “Programmatic Details and Outcomes of an Academic-Practice Research Fellowship for Clinical Nurses,” published in Applied Nursing Research.

Eileen Carter ’14, Amanda Hessels, Kenrick Cato ’14, Bevin Cohen ’17, Reynaldo Rivera, and Elaine Larson were the authors of

“Evaluation of the Joint Nurse Scientist Role Across Academia and Practice,” published in Nursing Outlook.

Eileen Carter ’14, Althea Hicks, Jianfang Liu, and Kenrick Cato ’14 were the authors of

“The Jonas Scholars Program—Evaluation of a Decade-Long Program to Advance Doctoral-Prepared Nurses,” published in Nursing Outlook.

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Kenrick Cato ’14, Jennifer Dohrn ’05, Yu-Hui Ferng, and Elaine Larson were among the

authors of “Nurse and Midwife Researcher Collaboration in Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa: A Social Network Analysis,” published in International Nursing Review.

Stephanie Chan and Rita Marie John ’05

co-authored “Idiopathic Anaphylaxis: What You Do Not Know May Hurt You,” published in Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Bevin Cohen ’17, Jianfang Liu, and Elaine Larson

were among the authors of “Temporal Change of Risk Factors in Hospital-Acquired Clostridioides difficile Infection Using TimeTrend Analysis,” published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Sarah Collins, Kenrick Cato ’14, Suzanne Bakken, and Haomiao Jia were among the

authors of “CONCERN Factorial Design Survey (FDS) Methods Test: Using REDCap as a Survey Platform,” published in Studies in Health Technology & Informatics.

Elizabeth Corwin was among the authors of “Maternal Genitourinary Infections and Poor Nutritional Status Increase Risk of Preterm Birth in Gasabo District, Rwanda: A Prospective, Longitudinal, Cohort Study,” published in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth.

Caroline Fu, Mansi Agarwal, Ashley Chastain,

and Patricia Stone were among the authors of “Self-Reported National Healthcare Safety Network Knowledge and Enrollment: A National Survey of Nursing Homes,” published in American Journal of Infection Control.

Caroline Fu, Elise Mantell, Patricia Stone, and Mansi Agarwal were the authors of “Charac-

teristics of Nursing Homes with Comprehensive Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: Results of a National Survey,” published in American Journal of Infection Control.

Maureen George, Adriana Arcia, and Jean-Marie Bruzzese were among the authors of “Afri-

can Americans Want a Focus on Shared

Decision-Making in Asthma Adherence Interventions,” published in The Patient.

Amanda Hessels was a co-author of “Relationship Among Safety Culture, Nursing Care, and Standard Precautions Adherence,” published in American Journal of Infection Control; and among the authors of “Impact of Patient Safety Culture on Missed Nursing Care and Adverse Patient Events,” published in Journal of Nursing Care Quality, and “Nurse Leaders at Night: Preparing Administrative Supervisors and Understanding the Role,” published in Nurse Leader.

Kathleen Hickey was among the authors

of “Atrial Fibrillation Is Associated with Recurrent Ventricular Arrhythmias after LVAD Implant: Incidence and Impact in a Consecutive Series,” published in Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research.

Kathleen Hickey and Suzanne Bakken were

among the authors of “Corrigendum to Precision Health: Advancing Symptom and Self-Management Science,” published in Nursing Outlook.

Tonda Hughes was among the authors of “Vulvodynia: ‘A Really Great Torturer’: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study Examining Pain Experiences and Drug/Non-drug Pain Relief Strategies,” published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, and “Sexual Minority Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Literacy: A Qualitative Descriptive Study,” published in Health Education & Behavior.

Kasey Jackman ’17, Billy Caceres, and Rebecca Schnall ’09 were the authors of

“Bullying and Peer Victimization of Minority Youth: Intersections of Sexual Identity and Race/Ethnicity,” published in Journal of School Health.

Haomiao Jia and Rebecca Schnall ’09 were among the authors of “A Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial of an mHealth HIV Prevention Intervention for Sexual Minority Young Men: My PEEPS Mobile Study Protocol,” published in BMC Public Health.

Haomiao Jia, Jessica Schwartz, Kenrick Cato ’14, and Sarah Collins Rossetti ’09 were

among the authors of “Identifying Nurses’ Concern Concepts About Patient Deterioration Using a Standard Nursing Terminology,” published in International Journal of Medical Informatics.

Rita Marie John ’05 was the author of a

book chapter titled “Ethical Considerations in the Care of Pediatric Patients,” in Ethical and Legal Issues for Doctoral Nursing Students, published by DE Stech Publications, Inc. She also authored two chapters titled “Respiratory Disorders” and “Atopic, Rheumatic, and Immunodeficiency Disorder,” in Burns’ Pediatric Primary Care, published

by Elsevier. She was among the authors of “Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome,” published in The Nurse Practitioner.

Elaine Larson was the author of “Musings on Retirement,” published in Nursing Outlook, and among the authors of “Evaluation of an Educational Intervention Utilizing Nurse ‘Champions’ and Nurses’ Documentation of Intensive Care Unit Delirium,” published in Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing; “A Scoping Review of Validated Tools to Measure Incivility in Healthcare Settings,” published in JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration; and “Sexual Relationship Power and Safe Sex Communication Among Partnered Women in the Dominican Republic,” published in Journal of Transcultural Nursing.

Marlene McHugh ’08 was among the authors

of “Advantages and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team Approach to Surgical Care,” published in Surgical Clinics of North America.

Kristine Kulage and Elaine Larson were the

authors of “The Benefits of Internal Grant Reviews Can Extend Beyond Positively Impacting Research Funding Success Rates Without Incurring Additional Costs,” published as a Letter to the Editor in The Journal of Pediatrics; “Continuing Education Module-Information Needs and InformationSeeking Processes of Low-Income Pregnant Women in Relation to Digital Maternity Education Resources,” published in The Journal of Pediatrics; and “Continuing Education Module-Information Needs and Information-Seeking Processes of Low-Income Pregnant Women in Relation to Digital Maternity Education Resources,” published in The Journal of Perinatal Education.

Kristine Kulage and Arlene Smaldone ’03 were

among the authors of “How Has DSM-5 Affected Autism Diagnosis? A 5-Year Follow-Up Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis,” published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Kristine Kulage, Patricia Stone, and Arlene Smaldone ’03 were the authors of

“Supporting Dissertation Work Through a Nursing PhD Program Federal Grant Writing Workshop,” published in Journal of Professional Nursing.

Mary O’Neil Mundinger was a co-author of

“Response to Letter to the Editor by Linda McCauley,” published in Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice.

Meghan Murray ’16, Ashley Chastain, Patricia Stone, and Jingjing Shang were among the

authors of “Measuring Quality in Home Healthcare,” published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Allison Norful ’17, Maureen George, and Lusine Poghosyan were among the

authors of “Instruments to Measure Shared Decision Making in Outpatient Chronic Care: A Systematic Review and Appraisal,” published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

Michelle Odlum was among the authors of “Exploring HIV Concern in a Population of Dominican American Women Midlife and Older,” published in BMC Public Health, and a co-author of “Understanding Comorbidities and Their Contribution to Predictors of Medical Resource Utilization for an Age- and Sex-Matched Patient Population Living with HIV: CrossSectional Study,” published in JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research).

Lusine Poghosyan and Jianfang Liu were among the authors of “Physician-Nurse Practitioner Teamwork in Primary Care Practices in New York: A Cross-Sectional Survey,” published in Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Lusine Poghosyan, Jianfang Liu, and Marlene McHugh ’08 were the authors of “Organi-

zational Support for Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care and Workforce Outcomes,” published in Nursing Research.

Lusine Poghosyan, Allison Norful ’17, and Maureen George were among the authors

of “Mental Health Delivery in Primary Care: The Perspectives of Primary Care Providers,” published in Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

Nancy Reame was the author of “Meno-

pausal Night Sweats: More Evidence for Long-Term Repercussions of Childhood Abuse on Women’s Health,” published in Menopause: The Journal of the North American Menopause Society.

Sarah Collins Rossetti ’09 was among the

authors of “Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Real-Time Safety Reporting by Hospitalized Patients and Their Care Partners: The MySafeCare Application,” published in Journal of Patient Safety.

Rebecca Schnall ’09 was the author of “National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding Patterns in Schools of Nursing: Who Is Funding Nursing Science Research and Who Is Conducting Research at Schools of Nursing?” published in Journal of Professional Nursing; and among the authors of “Converting and Expanding a Mobile Support Intervention: Focus Group and Field-Testing Findings from Individuals in Active Tuberculosis Treatment,” published in International Journal of Medical Informatics, and “The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Among People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Throughout the Life Span,” published in Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

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Between HIV Symptom Burden and Inflammatory Cytokines: An Analysis by Sex and Menopause Stage,” published in Journal of Women’s Health.

Rebecca Schnall ’09, Jianfang Liu, Suzanne Bakken, and Samantha Stonbraker ’16 were

among the authors of “Multi-Modal Methodology for Adapting Digital Health Tools to New Populations: Adaptation of the Video Information Provider (VIP) for Persons Living with HIV with HIV-Associated Non-AIDS (HANA) Conditions,” published in Studies in Health Technology & Informatics.

Rebecca Schnall ’09, Jianfang Liu, and Nancy Reame were the authors of “Ecological

Hydroxyurea Adherence in Youth with Sickle Cell Disease: A Study Protocol,” published in BMC Pediatrics.

Samantha Stonbraker ’16, Suzanne Bakken, and Rebecca Schnall ’09 were among the authors

of “Developing Infographics to Facilitate HIV-Related Patient-Provider Communication in a Limited-Resource Setting,” published in Applied Clinical Informatics.

Samantha Stonbraker ’16 and Rebecca Schnall ’09

were the authors of “Patient Preferences for Visualization of Longitudinal PatientReported Outcomes Data,” published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Patricia Stone co-authored “Nurses and

Momentary Assessment of HIV versus Reproductive Health Symptoms in Women of Differing Reproductive Stages Living with HIV,” published in the journal Menopause: The Journal of the North American Menopause Society.

Nursing Support Matter: Interpreting the Evidence,” published in BMJ Quality & Safety, and was among the authors of “Quality Innovation Networks Share Varied Resources for Nursing Homes on Mostly User-Friendly Websites,” published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Jingjing Shang was among the authors of

Patricia Stone and Mansi Agarwal were among

“Home Care Nurses’ Identification of Patients at Risk of Infection and Their Risk Mitigation Strategies: A Qualitative Interview Study,” published in International Journal of Nursing Studies.

the authors of “Integration of Palliative Care and Infection Management at the End of Life in U.S. Nursing Homes,” published in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and “Infection Preventionist Staffing in Nursing Homes,” published in American Journal of Infection Control.

Jingjing Shang, Ashley Chastain, Meghan Murray ’16, and Patricia Stone were among the

authors of “Measuring Quality in Home Healthcare,” published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Arlene Smaldone ’03, Kasey Jackman ’17, and Judith Kelson were among the authors

of “Dissemination of PhD Dissertation Research by Dissertation Format: A Retrospective Cohort Study,” published in Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

Arlene Smaldone ’03, Haomiao Jia, JeanMarie Bruzzese, and Joshua Massei were

among the authors of “HABIT Efficacy and Sustainability Trial, a Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve

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Patricia Stone, Jingjing Shang, Elaine Larson,

and Jianfang Liu were among the authors of “Association of Registered Nurse and Nursing Support Staffing with Inpatient Hospital Mortality,” published in BMJ Quality & Safety.

Carolyn Sun, Caroline Fu, and Kenrick Cato ’14 were among the authors of “Exploring

Practices of Bedside Shift Report and Hourly Rounding. Is There an Impact on Patient Falls?” published in JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration.

Carolyn Sun, Kristine Kulage, and Elaine Larson

were among the authors of “Promoting

Nursing Research Globally: The Writing to Improve Nursing Science (WINS) Program,” published in International Nursing Review.

Maxim Topaz was among the authors of “Identifying Patients at Highest Risk: The Best Timing to Apply a Readmission Predictive Model,” published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, and “Patient-Centered Care via Health Information Technology: A Qualitative Study with Experts from Israel and the U.S.,” published in Informatics for Health and Social Care.

Cindy Veldhuis was among the authors of

“Psychological and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Urban Women’s Preventive Care Use,” published in Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Cindy Veldhuis and Tonda Hughes were among

the authors of “Do Relationships Provide the Same Levels of Protection Against Heavy Drinking for Lesbian and Bisexual Women? An Intersectional Approach,” published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity; “First Comes Marriage, Then Comes the Election: Macro-Level Impacts on African American, Latina/x, and White Sexual Minority Women,” published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy; “It’s Complicated: The Impact of Marriage Legalization Among Sexual Minority Women and Gender Diverse Individuals in the United States,” published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity; and “Research on Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Use Among Sexual Minority Women: A Global Scoping Review,” published in PLOS One. Moka Yoo-Jeong was among the authors of

“Correlates of Loneliness in Older Persons Living with HIV,” published in AIDS Care.

Katherine Zheng ’19, Jean-Marie Bruzzese, and Arlene Smaldone ’03 were the authors of “Ill-

ness Acceptance in Adolescents: A Concept Analysis,” published in Nursing Forum.

JĂ–RG ME YER

Columbia Nursing congratulates Bobbie Berkowitz, dean emerita, on being named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing.

This is the academy’s highest honor and is bestowed on individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary, sustained contributions to nursing and health care.

We thank Bobbie Berkowitz for her dedication and service to nursing. Her contributions to the profession and to Columbia Nursing continue to be felt far and wide.

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1: Vivian Taylor, Jasmine Travers ’16, and Patricia Stone at the Health Policy Issues: Preparing for the 2020 Election event.

10: Robert Sean Warnock ’00, Wei-Ti Chen ’02, and Maral Hovasapian ’17 at the Meet the Dean event in Los Angeles.

2: Mary Turner Henderson ’64 and Dean Lorraine Frazier at the Meet the Dean event in San Francisco.

11: George Lindsay and Dean Lorraine Frazier at the Annual Dean’s Dinner.

3: Susan Lewis Cruz ’82 and Shanelly Singh ’20 at the Meet the Dean event in Portland, Maine.

4: Holly Nyerges Hooker ’65, Jay Hooker, and Meagan Chan ’19 at the Meet the Dean event in San Francisco.

5: Stephen Ferrara, Valeta Prendergast, and LCU Fund Nursing Scholars at the Annual Dean’s Dinner.

6: Kimberly Whitfill ’97, Sylvia Blaustein ’88, Anika March ’12, and Lauren Jaburg Lese ’92 at the retirement brunch for Laura Zeidenstein ’05.

7: Sarah Shipley Stone ’69, Brenda Barrowclough Brodie ’65, Dean Lorraine Frazier, and Dorothy Simpson Dorion ’57 at the Meet the Dean event in Portland, Maine.

8: Maria Corsaro ’13, Laura Zeidenstein ’05, and Rebekah Ruppe ’09 at the retirement brunch for Laura Zeidenstein ’05.

12: Katharine “Posie” Carpenter ’88 and Dean Lorraine Frazier at the Meet the Dean event in Los Angeles.

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13: Patricia Stone, Sheila Burke, Tina Alvarado Shanahan ’81, and Midge Harrison Fleming ’69 at the Health Policy Issues: Preparing for the 2020 Election event.

14: Reva Feinstein, Vaneh Hovsepian ’18, Jasmine Travers ’16, Cristina Lindsay, Jennifer Dohrn ’05, Meredith Shields ’14, Dean Lorraine Frazier, and Shannon More ’14 at the She Opened the Door Conference.

15: Mary Watson Wright ’68, Jean Robbie Thomson ’68, Linda Johnston Habif ’68, and Sarah “Sally” Thomson Popoli ’68 at the Meet the Dean event in Portland, Maine.

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From the Alumni Association President

Dear Fellow Columbia Nursing Alumni,

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reetings on behalf of the Alumni Association in this Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. The year 2020 has proved to be unforgettable, and through it all we have looked to advance nurses’ vital position in transforming health care, highlight the challenges that are faced, encourage inclusivity and participation, and celebrate the amazing work that nurses and midwives do each day.

COVID-19 shook our world as we know it, but Columbia Nursing alumni, students, faculty, and staff rose to the challenge in countless ways. It has been inspiring to read all the “Nurse Hero” stories that community members have allowed the school to share on social media and our website. I am also moved by the student-led initiative, “Art in the Time of Crisis,” which invited Columbia Nursing affiliates to contribute artistic pieces addressing intersectional themes surrounding the anti-racism movement and lived experiences during the pandemic.

All of this has occurred during the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. As one of the nursing pioneers during challenging times, she would be proud of our accomplishments. #ColumbiaNursingStrong Over the last year, Dean Frazier spent time with alumni and friends in Portland (Maine), San Francisco, and Los Angeles at alumni events, and then pivoted – along with the rest of us – to participating in virtual events for alumni and friends. She helped launch a new initiative this summer called “Virtually Speaking: A Columbia Nursing Webinar Series,” and our inaugural program focused on Columbia Nursing and COVID-19. Please watch your inbox and look to our alumni events page on the website for future offerings.

The Alumni Association encourages you to share your experiences, knowledge, and passion for nursing by participating in various volunteer activities and by joining us at events. The Student Alumni Connection Program and the Alumni Admissions Ambassador Program offer ways to connect directly with accepted and current students.

If you would like to become more engaged with the school, have an idea for a virtual event, or wish to update your contact information, please contact our alumni office at sonalumni@cumc.columbia.edu.

On behalf of the Alumni Association, I hope you have a wonderful fall, and I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at future events – both online and in person.

Warm Regards,

Laura Ardizzone ’10, DNP, CRNA, ACNP, DCC President, Columbia Nursing Alumni Association Director, Nurse Anesthesia Services, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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2020-2021 Alumni Association Board of Directors Laura Ardizzone ’10 Paige Mackey Bellinger ’12 Daniel Billings ’18 Kevin Browne ’92 Kenrick Cato ’14 Patricia DeAngelis Fife ’68 Mollie Finkel ’12 Hilda Haynes-Lewis ’99 Christa Simpson Heinsler ’76 Kevin Hook ’98 Denise Houghton ’78 Matthew Jenison ’12 Rosalind Riordan Kendellen ’74 Wanda Montalvo ’15 Kathleen McCooe Nilles ’89 Rose Chapman Rodriguez ’06 Marjorie Salas Weis ’17 Natalie Wilson ’11 Connie Yip ’13

2019–2020

Class Notes 1960s Margaret Tuxen Akers ’69BS presented at the

Maine Seacoast Mission Island Eldercare Retreat. This visionary group of Maine island community members is spearheading personal, effective care for the elderly on Maine’s unbridged islands.

Linda Kivowitz Glazner ’64BS received the Columbia Nursing 2019 Neighbors Humanitarian Award.

1970s

Judith Melson Mercer ’74MS received the Columbia Nursing 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award in Nursing Research.

Tener Goodwin Veenema ’80BS received the

1980s

1990s

Jeanne Allen ’80BS, was given a Lifetime

Aliza Bitton Ben-Zacharia ’98 was inducted as a

Achievement Award by the Connecticut River Valley Farmworker Health Program for her work with migrant farm workers.

Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

lence Award in Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice from the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System.

Nessa Coyle ’81MS received the Columbia Nursing 2019 Distinguished Career in Nursing Award.

Katherine Kyle ’79BS works for the Peace

Corps in Washington, D.C. and abroad, training Peace Corps medical officers, who provide medical care to volunteers in the countries that they serve. She was a Peace Corps medical officer in Togo in 2011 and 2012.

Nanci Simmons McLesky ’71BS is an

assistant professor at the University of Utah. She received the Distinguished Gerontological Nurse Education Award from the National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing (NHCGN).

Kerri Anne O’Connor-Scanlon ’93BS ’97MS was

named executive director of Glen Clove Hospital by Northwell Health, effective Nov. 4, 2019.

Joan Sapienza ’97 helped take care of

Janna Lesser ’81BS was inducted as a

COVID-19 patients during the pandemic.

Her advice for our community is to be an advocate for patients and be strong and fearless, even though it can be hard. She says to make sure you find an outlet you love for decompressing; it helps so much.

Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Mark Toles ’96BS was inducted as a Fellow of

Christa Heinsler ’76BS is a member of

St. Anne’s Hospital advance practice nursing staff and sees ostomy and wound care patients at an outpatient facility. Nursing staff visited residents of the nursing home who were no longer allowed visitors, where the nurses brought some comfort and eased worries for residents and victims during this cruel pandemic.

Jesus Casida ’96MS was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Neil Coogan ’83BS received the 2019 Excel-

Elizabeth Cooper ’71MS received the Colum-

bia Nursing 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award for Nursing Administration.

Columbia Nursing 2019 Distinguished Career in Nursing Award.

Susan Fox ’84BS was named one of Crain’s 2019 “Notable Women in Health Care.”

the American Academy of Nursing.

Janet Cook Ready ’81BS is the new chief

operating officer at St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse, New York.

Tina Alvarado Shanahan ’81BS was inducted into the 2019 National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.

Paula Cogan Simon ’83BS works as an oncology medical science liaison for Exact Sciences, the maker of Cologuard, in the Washington, D.C. area. Paula earned her doctorate in population health in 2014 from A.T. Still University.

She continues to do clinical nursing in vascular and oncology infusion.

2000s Yira Curry ’08BS ’09MS; Maria Silva ’09BS ’10MS; and Anna Blackett ’14BS ’15MS are dedicated

midwives working together at Maimonides Medical Center taking care of pregnant women, some of whom have COVID-19.

Jennifer Dohrn ’85MS ’05DNP led a delegation of nurses with expertise in global response to pandemics to conduct 39 oral histories in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Monrovia, Liberia, with nurses and midwives who were active in the response to the Ebola outbreak (2014–2016).

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Class Notes Rita Marie John ’05DNP was named Author of the Year by The Nurse Practitioner.

Patricia Engel McGoldrick ’01MS and her partner, Steven Wolf, are building an epilepsy center at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, New York.

Rebekah Ruppe ’00BS ’01MS ’09DNP

received the 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award from the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

Arlene Smaldone ’03PhD was inducted as a Fel-

low of the American Academy of Nursing.

Marguerite Beiser ’06BS ’08MS supervised quarantine and isolation tents for homeless individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic response. She says the hardest part was balancing the need to rapidly implement new population-wide public health protocols against established approaches to meet the individual needs and challenges of the patients.

Marlene McHugh ’89BS ’91MS ’08DNP received the Nursing Practice Award from the American Nurses Association, New York.

Andrea Sonenberg ’07PhD has been appointed

Lora Peppard ’08DNP is now associate deputy

director for treatment and prevention at Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA).

Edwidge Thomas ’93MS ’05DNP received the Healthcare Innovation Award from the Community Healthcare Network of New York City.

Nancy Marie Hurley Pontes ’03PhD was inducted

Victoria Tiase ’06MS participated in an

as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Pontes was also honored with the Eastern Nursing Research Society’s (ENRS) 2019 Nursing Research Authorship Award at the 2019 ENRS Annual Scientific Session, in Providence, Rhode Island.

book From Flare to Fabulous: 25 Things You Must Do to Avoid Your Next Lupus Flare.

iHeartRadio podcast titled All About Nursing, which explains how nurses play a significant role in providing health care in multiple care settings. She was recently appointed to the National Academy of Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020–2030; she also serves as a working group steering committee representative at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

Jordan Berner ’18MS is working as a nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist and is helping to take care of patients with COVID-19.

Elisheva Schachter Rosner ’05BS has been

2010s

Olivia Birchenough ’17MS works in the PICU,

to the Board of Directors of the New York State Public Health Association.

Dianne Belshe ’12BS is a clinical research

nurse in solid organ transplant and infectious disease and is currently enrolling patients in COVID-19 clinical trials, in hopes of creating a different future for others who catch the virus.

Michelle Bernabe ’13BS has been working

Margaret Romero ’98BS ’00MS published the

working at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York for almost 13 years, with the last seven as a bedside and charge nurse in the NICU. She also volunteers as president of the Orthodox Jewish Nurses Association. She has organized weekly Zoom conference calls for Jewish nurses on topics related to COVID-19. She also organized a major N95 mask distribution to those on the front lines.

Sarah Collins Rossetti ’09PhD received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), which is conferred annually. The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology. Rossetti also received the Columbia Nursing 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award in Nursing Research.

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Zafar Anwar ’18MS is a CRNA working on

the front lines taking care of patients with COVID-19, serving as an airway management expert and continuing to save lives.

with local NYC psychiatrists and Peabody Award winner Ben Adair to create the weekly podcast Pandemic Check In, which is designed to address callers’ mental health needs and share the stories everyone is experiencing during the pandemic.

which was recently converted over to an adult COVID-19 ICU, and despite all that is going on, she has never felt more confident in her decision to become a nurse.

Laura Ardizzone ’04MS ’10DNP traveled to Jos,

Felesia Bowen ’10PhD was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Nigeria, with the Carter Center to conduct a five-day train-the-trainer course for teachers in Nurse, Nurse Midwives, and Community Health Worker programs to share competency-based educational methods with their fellow faculty members.

Donald Boyd ’06MS ’17PhD received the Columbia Nursing 2019 Emerging Leader Nursing Award. Boyd also received a 2019 Columbia Alumni Medal from the Columbia Alumni Association.

Melissa Parsons Beauchemin ’06BS ’10MS ’19PhD completed her PhD at Columbia

Claire Brieva ’17MS was one of the co-winners of the Above and Beyond Award for July 2020.

Nursing and is now a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health studying cancer-related population sciences and implementations of supportive care guidelines in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult cancer.

Bianca Bucci ’19MS is working on a COVID-19

unit at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia and has had the pleasure of working alongside future Columbia nurses who have stepped up to help on the front lines. She says that every

day they are using their skills to treat patients with COVID-19, and they share a common bond through Columbia, which has been a light in the darkness of these times.

Kenrick Cato ’08BS ’14PhD was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Deborah Chin ’19MS was awarded the Ambulatory Care Nursing Certification by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Paul Coyne ’13BS ’15MS ’16DNP was named one of the top 25 emerging leaders by Modern Healthcare. Coyne was promoted to assistant vice president, clinical practice, and chief nursing informatics officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Coyne was also named to “30 People Under 40 Changing Healthcare” by Business Insider. Coyne has published a book with other national nurse leaders titled The Nurse’s Guide to Innovation: Accelerating the Journey.

Paul Coyne ’13BS ’15MS ’16DNP and Amy Rose Taylor ’14BS ’16MS served as judges at the

Society for Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders Hackathon sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.

Paul Coyne ’13BS ’15MS ’16DNP and Michael Wang ’13BS ’18MS were the winners of the

Nurse-led Team Award, bestowed by the American Nurses Association as part of the 2019 ANA Innovations Awards.

Elizabeth Cruz ’18MS has been working in the

trauma/ED unit during this tumultuous time but has realized nursing is beautiful, with the potential to touch so many lives. Learn to be still with the losses and congratulate the wins, she advises.

Rachel Drolet ’10BS ’13MS is a nurse practitioner at the ColumbiaDoctors Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Group.

Tracy Higgins ’16PhD has always felt a strong

bond with New York. After retiring from a long military career in counterintelligence around the globe, she came to Columbia for her PhD. Later, she went to Florida for experience and to get certified in med/surg, neuroscience, and psychiatry. When her beloved NYC came under siege with COVID-19, she felt the familiar sense of military mission to return to the field to help, and is grateful to be learning from her colleagues and brave patients at NewYork-Presbyterian as they work together through this crisis.

Norita Holipas ’10 normally works in the OR

as a CRNA at Mount Sinai New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, but has volunteered during the COVID-19 crisis to help the critical care nurses at Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel ICU take care of the most critically ill patients.

Michaela Jones ’13BS ’15MS ’16DNP has been

working as a front-line provider on the inpatient COVID-19 floors, which is different from her permanent NP job, but she has learned to make the most out of any situation at work and turn it into a learning experience.

Lodz Joseph ’16BS ’17MS, a certified nurse midwife practicing at a federally qualified health center in Georgia, was interviewed on the Journey to Midwifery podcast by Amber Wilson.

Myunghwa Kim ’12MS ’19DNP is currently work-

ing at Mount Sinai as a COVID-19 provider and then volunteers at a COVID-19 drivethrough testing facility in Bergen County, NJ. Brad Lieberman ’17MS started a new nurse-

led venture called TruTriage, aimed at bringing 911 nurse triage and nurse care coordination to underserved communities.

Michelle Meissner ’19MS has been working with the Department of Health at the Bergen County Community College testing site for COVID-19.

Debbie Dubeansky ’10BS ’13MS works for Lake

Health/University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and provides palliative care and hospice oversight in northeastern Ohio’s only comprehensive community cancer center.

Wanda Montalvo ’15PhD was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Montalvo was also awarded Nurse of the Year by the National Hispanic Nurses Association New York Chapter.

Patricia Jean Moreland ’03MS ’10PhD was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She also received the Columbia Nursing 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award for Nursing Education.

Ellen Nadel ’15BS ’18MS ’19DNP normally

works as a nurse practitioner in a primary care office but knew she could help during the pandemic, so she started to work as part of the inpatient medicine team at Elmhurst Hospital. She is now back in her primary care office completing COVID-19 antibody and PCR testing, as well as treating the mental health crisis that this outbreak has ignited.

Kha Nguyen ’19MS is working in the NICU at

Lincoln Memorial Medical Center, where she is taking care of some of the sickest patients in the hospital. She tells Columbia nurses to remember that they are not alone battling this pandemic. Everyone is in this together.

Allison Norful ’17PhD was elected to the

advisory board (Member-at-Large) of AcademyHealth’s Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues. She also received the Columbia Nursing 2020 Early Career Alumni Award: Emerging Nurse Leader.

Erin Pratt ’19MS was working full time nights on a postpartum floor, but after seeing the desperate plea from so many hospitals due to COVID-19, she wanted to help in any way she could. She volunteered to work as a COVID-19 nurse in the ICU. Tatiana Ripnick ’12BS is working in a

psychiatric emergency crisis room, where everything has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lea Minton ’10BS ’11MS is pleased to share the

birth of a midwifery bill into law: Hawaii now recognizes all midwives who are nationally certified and requires a license to practice.

Nadia Elgoghail Santana ’13BS ’15MS ’16DNP

was a guest writer for the HuffPost featuring her article, “I’m a Health Care

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Class Notes Provider Without Commercial Health Insurance. Here’s My Story.”

Victoria Scigliano ’19MS fearlessly responded to the call for help during the COVID-19 crisis by joining the hard-working first responders in NYC by taking a job in the ICU at Montefiore Medical Center.

Natalie Song ’18MS is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and has been providing tele-

psychiatry to help individuals struggling to maintain their mental health and emotional well-being during this global crisis.

Jasmine Travers ’16PhD received the Columbia Nursing 2020 Early Career Alumni Award: Emerging Nurse Leader.

Natasha Steinhardt ’11BS ’12MS has been

Angela Tuffy ’17MS has been working in the

working as a midwife on the front lines and is helping treat pregnant women with COVID-19.

Boston Medical Center Trauma/ICU unit, which was converted into a COVID-19 ICU. It has been a life-changing experience and she is thankful for her MDE classmates she is still friends with for their comic relief and unconditional love.

Deanna Tolman ’11DNP is an FNP at Revere

Health in Provo, Utah.

2019-2020

In Memoriam 1930s Jane Elizabeth Thompson Whistler ’35

1940s Anna Golden ’47 Virginia Allen Haley ’49 Katherine Hall ’45 Ruth Lambert Iezzoni ’48 Hester MacGregor ’44 Nancy Mathes ’48 Martha Rosman May ’46 Janet Reisert McNeil ’44 Virginia Tedeschi Morales ’46 Patricia Edmunds Newman ’46 Patricia Riker Pimbley ’47 Helen Reinecke ’45 Jane Crowell Rieffel ’46 Martha Gilman Saunders ’48 Adeline DeVoto Schwartz ’46 Ellen Smith Scott ’46 Constance Given Stewart ’47

1950s Gail Hoover Barron ’55 Lydia Bosanko ’58 Mary Knowlton Crookshank ’54 Virginia Oakes Dykstal ’50 Ruth Gunsel ’51

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Elizabeth Barry Houghton ’53 Betty Lee Kerr ’55 Alice Marie Pape Kundel ’57 Beverly Weiter Lindaberry ’53 Eleanor Lipman Luhrs ’56 Susanna Lee Lunt ’55 Kay Nord Lurie ’55 Marguerite Martin ’55 Maria Keane Peshenka ’55 Margaret Little Psarakis ’57 Marilyn Steifvater ’54 Mary Ann Bing Strayer ’57 Aileen Leary Swan ’51 Veronica Dobies Vaillancourt ’51 Laurie Verdisco ’58 Marilyn Vestigo ’52 Ann Marie Wagner ’51 Sylvia Ryder Warren ’53 Mary Newtown Western ’52 Edith Baldwin Wonnell ’56

1960s Joan Buechler ’61 Margaret Craig ’64 Joan Siglin Darby ’68 Julie Jordan Drennan ’62 Vivian Tarbell Elbert ’60 Josepha Eyre ’62 Joan Feeney ’60 Sally Leiter ’66

Kathleen Callaghan MacFarland ’63 Linda Pape ’63 Elizabeth Timm Robbins ’64 Mary Ann Bing Strayer ’61 Margaret Young ’68

1970s Nancy Benson ’75 Anne Caulfield ’73 Donna Funke ’71 Mary Ann Quigley Jonaitis ’77 Frances Karovic ’71 Dorothy Marshall ’76 Pamela Schwab ’70 Helen Spriggs-Murdock ’75 Frances Thacher ’78

1980s Clidean Harvey Acosta ’87 Jeanne Auerbach ’84 Ann Johnson Buck ’83 Diane Lynn Jones Petrouskie ’84 Joyce Vickers ’81

1990s Mary Doyle Ahern ’96 Wayne Harris Landau ’99 Mary Louise Ryder-Larkin ’98

2000s Christopher Stephen Davis ’09

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