Faculty and Staff Notes
Dr. Deb McQuilkin has
been appointed the CON Director of Global Initiatives.
Dr.
Sheryl
Mitchell
has been appointed the Interim Director of the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program.
Dr. Ronit Elk’s Diversity
Subgroup of the AAHMP has had a special series on diversity accepted by the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. Dr. Elk will serve as one of the four co-editors for this special series.
Faculty Publications Dr. Ronit Elk, Special Issue Guest Editor, “The First Step Is
Recognizing, Acknowledging, and Respecting the Inequity, Disrespect, and Disregard Our African American Patients Have Experienced,” Journal of Palliative Medicine, February 2016, 19(2): 124-125. Read it HERE. Grants Submitted Dr. Jeannette Andrews and Dr. Martha Tingen , “Tailored
Smoking Cessation App for High-risk Individuals Receiving Lung Cancer Screening, “ Subaward on NIH R01 from NIH/ NCI. Dr. Melissa Reitmeier, Drs. Beverly Baliko and Mary Boyd, “ Health Occupations Providing Excellence in SBIRTS (HOPES),” Training Grant from SAMHSA.
Dr. Ronit Elk, “ Culturally Tailored Conversations at EoL:
What African American Patients Want Physicians to Know, “ Research from National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC).
Dr. Ronit Elk, “Culturally Tailored Conversations at EoL:
What African American Patients Want Physicians to Know,” ASPIRE-I, Track II-A from USCVPR. Dr. Robin Estrada and Dr. Delesha Carpenter, “ Compar-
ing the effectiveness of tailored and generic videos to improve and maintain children’s inhaler technique,” Subaward on NIH R01 from NIH/NINR.
NP/CNM Lobby Day at the Stathouse, 250 NPs from across the state supported House Bill 3078 and Senate Bill 246 to change some of the regulations for nurse practitioners.