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Welcome to NONPF's Spotlight on Members.  This new feature is intended to highlight recent promotions and accomplishments of our members.  Send us your news items, and we will post them here so other NONPF members can share your good news.
  • Rosanne Pruitt, PhD, APRN, BC, assumed the position of Director of the School of Nursing at Clemson University, effective July 5, 2005.
     
  • Jean Nagelkerk, RN, PhD, APRN, BC, began in March 2005 her position as Assistant Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Grand Valley State University.
     
  • Mary Anne Dumas, PhD, RN, CFNP, FAANP, and Jamie Newland, PhD, APRN, BC, FNP, FAANP became Fellows of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in June 2005.
     
  • Jamesetta Newland, PhD, APRN, BC, FNP, was appointed in May 2005 as Editor-in-Chief of The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care.  The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

  • Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, RN-CS, FAAN, FAANP, ACNP, CCRN, was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine in January 2005.  She also was inducted into the Institute of Medicine of Chicago in December 2004.
     
  • Margaret Fitzgerald, MS, APRN, BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP, has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation.  Established in 1980, the CSP is the speaking profession’s international measure of speaking experience and skill.  Fewer than 10 percent of the speakers who belong to the International Federation for Professional Speakers hold this professional designation.
     
  • Lucy Marion, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, Dean and Professor of Nursing at the Medical College of Georgia, has been appointed to serve on the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Consisting of experts from various health disciplines, the USPSTF updates and develops new guidelines for clinical preventive services. Dr. Marion is a past president of NONPF. She joins on the USPSTF other NONPF member Carol Loveland-Cherry, PhD, MPH, RN, Professor and Executive Associate Dean, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Completing her second (and final) term on the USPSTF, including serving as Vice-Chair, is Janet Allan, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, and also past president of NONPF.
  • Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/NPP, FAAN, FNAP, accepted the position as Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor of the College of Nursing at Arizona State University, effective January 1, 2005.
  • Debra J. Brown, PhD, RN, CFNP, CANP, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the FNP Program at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, was selected for the 2005 HHS Primary Health Care Policy Fellowship. Nominated by NONPF, Dr. Brown will participate in the 6-month Fellowship that is offered to provide a unique learning experience for early-to-mid career professionals to understand the development and implementation of primary health care policy, programs, and legislation.
  • Eileen Hayes, PhD, APRN, BC, FAANP, Associate Professor, FNP Concentration Coordinator, University of MA, Amherst, MA is engaged in an ongoing NIH/NINR funded study of nurse practitioner interactions with older patients (65 and older) in outpatient settings and the health outcomes of those interactions. To assure representation in the study by African American NPs, Dr. Hayes and the other investigators are inviting NONPF members to identify African American NPs in the greater Northeast who might like to know about the study. Members can contact Dr. Hayes at 413-586-6415.
  • Kathleen Wheeler, PhD, APRN, of Fairfield University, won the American Psychiatric Nurses Association award for Excellence in Education.   According to the APNA, the award is made each year to a nurse who demonstrates: “contributions to the education of nurses through innovative approaches in disseminating new knowledge in the field of psychiatric-mental health nursing, collaboration with other disciplines, and positive mentoring to peers and new nurses.”
  • Shelley Huffstutler, DSN, RN, CFNP, GNP is the new coordinator of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Nursing.
  • Catherine Gilliss, DNSc, RN, FAAN has accepted the position of Dean of the School of Nursing and Vice Chancellor of Nursing Affairs in the Duke University Health System, effective November 1, 2004.
  • Lenore Resick, MSN, RN, CRNP, BC, NP-C is the Acting Program Director for the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Duquesne University.  She continues to serve as Coordinator for the Nurse Managed Wellness Centers.
  • Maryjoan Ladden, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor and Director of Harvard Medical School and Pilgrim Health Care, and Kathryn Fiandt, DNS, APRN-BC, FNP, FAANP, Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, were selected for the 2004 cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program.  The Fellowship is a three-year advanced leadership program for nurses in senior executive roles in health services.
  • Arlene Miller PhD, RN, CS, has been named the new Department Head, Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing in the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
  • Margaret A. Fitzgerald, MS, APRN, BC, NP-C, FAANP, is the recipient of the 2004 Nancy Sharp Cutting Edge Award from the American College of Nurse Practitioner.   The Sharp Cutting Edge Award is presented to those who demonstrate efforts "above and beyond the call of duty" on behalf of the nurse practitioner community.  The award was presented to her at ACNP's 2004 National Nurse Practitioner Summit, February 9, 2004 in Washington, DC.  Click here for more information on the award presentation.
  • Ann O'Sullivan, PhD, CRNP, CPNP, FAAN, Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, was nominated by the governor (and confirmed by the state Senate) to the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing.  

Congratulations to NONPF members who are new Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing that were inducted in  November.

  • Pilar Bernal de Pheils, RN MS, FNP, UCSF School of Nursing
  • Agatha M. Gallo, PhD, RN, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Linda D. Norman, DNS, RN, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
  • Sally J. Reel, Phd, RN, APRN, BC, University of Arizona
  • Susan Jo Roberts, DNSc, ANP, Northeastern University
  • Constance R. Uphold, PhD, ARNP-BC, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System   

2004 AANP FELLOWS.  Congratulations to the NONPF members inducted in June as Fellows of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners:

  • Kathryn Fiandt, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Eileen F. Hayes, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Laurie Kennedy-Malone, University of NC Greensboro
  • Sally K. Miller, Thomas Jefferson U
  • Julie C. Novak, Purdue University Calumet
  • Randolph Rasch, Vanderbilt University
  • Sally Reel, University of Arizona
  • Deborah Vincent, Arizona State University
  • Barbara Tucker, University of TX Pan American     

They join the following NONPF members who were previously selected as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing:

  • Elizabeth Abel, PhD, RNC-ANP
  • Judith A. Berg, PhD, RNC, WHNP
  • Christine A. Boodley, PhD, RN, FNP
  • Christell O. Bray, RN, MSN, FNP
  • Eileen T. Breslin, PhD, RN
  • Mona M. Counts, PhD, CRNP, FNAP
  • Felicitas A. dela Cruz, DNSc, NP
  • Janet Unruh Davidson, PhD, CNAA, APRN, ARNP-FNP
  • Judith S. Dempster, DNSc, NP-C, FNP
  • Karen L. Dick, PhD, APRN, BC
  • Margaret A. Fitzgerald, MS, RN,CS, FNP
  • Rosemary T. Goodyear, EdD, RN-C, FNP
  • Deanna Gray-Miceli, DNSc, APRN
 
  • S. Joan Gregory, PhD, ARNP
  • Ruth M. Kleinpell, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN
  • M. Ernestine Kotthoff-Burrell, MS, RN, BC
  • Judith C. D. Longworth, PhD, APRN, FNP
  • Margaret McAllister, PhD, FNP-C
  • Karen Devereaux Melillo, PhD, RN,CS
  • Melanie Percy, PhD, CRNP
  • Charon A. Pierson, PhD, GNP
  • Linda R. Rounds, PhD, RN, FNP
  • Barbara Sheer, DNSc, FNP-C
  • Nancy L. Smith, PhD, APRN, CS
  • Diane C. Viens, DNSc, CFNP