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A Message from the Dean
To everyone who participated in our MCG School of Nursing spring events, I thank you. On the Friday of MCG’s April 21-24 homecoming celebration, one of our two Distinguished Alumni Award recipients, Dr. Kathryn Hannah (’75) presented an impressive overview of the evolution of health informatics, specifically nursing informatics, and her many contributions to both. Our undergraduate Nursing Scholars and our doctoral students attended, and Dr. Hannah gave each student one of the many texts she has published. The following morning, we had a well-attended Alumni Brunch where participants enjoyed a historical display designed by Professor Emerita Linda Ellis (’67 and ’72), supported by School of Nursing Development Officer Betty Meehan. The faculty displayed the posters and slide shows of their research and faculty practice and demonstrated the teaching effectiveness of our simulation with a high-tech “patient.” Alumni then progressed to the President’s Luncheon and gathered again for a reception at the Pinnacle Club, where President and Mrs. Dan Rahn joined us. Dr. Rahn gave the welcome at the dinner following the reception, both of which were sponsored by the School of Nursing Alumni Association. Alumni Association President April Porterfield led us through the evening of presentations and awards while I, as dean, gave an overview of the school’s current and future activities. As the new dean, I was thrilled as longtime friends gathered and shared their stories with one another and with me. In addition to Dr. Marty DesRosier’s (’75) introduction of Dr. Hannah as the recipient of the Phoebe Kandel Rohrer Distinguished Alumni Award, Shelby Lacy (’67 and ’95) was introduced by Professor Betty Daniels (’63) and presented with the E. Louise Grant Distinguish Alumni Award. These two magnificent nurses represent the school’s continuing legacy of preparing nurse leaders for service in Georgia and beyond. We also recognized Col. Gayle Wooding (’77) as a founding member of the Milton Antony Guild. Membership in the guild reflects gifts at a level of $250,000 or more committed through estate plans. The other major homecoming event was a Saturday morning open house. New students and their parents poured in from across the state and were very attentive during presentations. The entire group was invited to have lunch and to view the displays, posters, slide shows and simulation demonstration prepared for alumni. Most of the group stayed, asked questions and introduced their sons and daughters to us—the faculty, staff and me. To host both groups on the same day was an efficient way to showcase the school’s successes to two of our most important constituent groups. Next year, we will coordinate the events to include more parent and student time with us. We did learn that they and we were hungry after listening all morning to fact-filled presentations. Thanks to each of you who attended these events on behalf of your class, especially those representing the Class of 1958 as well as those who attended the school during E. Louise Grant’s era as dean. Thanks, too, to those of you who traveled from the far corners of the state and beyond to be with us. I have already received notes from several of you who enjoyed the events and plan to bring your classmates to homecoming next year. Thanks for your kind words. Start planning now to attend our 2006 homecoming celebration April 27 - 30. Just after we closed the book on homecoming and open house, we began the final countdown toward our hooding, graduation and honors convocation ceremonies. Thirty-three students and a faculty member received awards at the convocation. Thanks to the alumni and friends of the school who have recognized the importance of endowments – an account established in perpetuity in their name or the named of a loved one(s). Your annual award benefits a deserving student who may one day return to us as a distinguished alumnus! Ever onward and upward,Dr. Lucy Marion [Top] Dr. Marion Receives Research Award
The organization promotes quality nurse practitioner education nationally and internationally. Dr. Marion received the award April 16 at the organization’s 31st annual meeting in Chicago. She joined MCG in 2004 after serving as professor and department head of public health, mental health and administrative nursing and associate dean for academic nursing practice at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in nursing science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has served on state and national advisory groups concerning mental health care, environmental risks to children and the practice doctorate for nurses. Her National Institutes of Health-funded research focuses on sexual risk reduction interventions for high-risk minority populations. In Chicago, she developed a nurse-managed system in partnership with Thresholds Psychosocial Rehabilitation Agency to deliver integrated primary and mental health care for people with severe and persistent mental illness. She was recently appointed to the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force. At MCG, Dr. Marion is recruiting new faculty, working to expand the student body from 459 to around 600, enhancing and expanding the advanced-practice nursing majors to the level of a practice doctorate and moving toward an increased emphasis on post-baccalaureate education. The school is creating a new doctorate of nursing practice for graduates of both the traditional and new master’s programs. Dr. Marion received a Distinguished Alumnae Award from the University of South Carolina, a National Primary Care Policy Fellowship from the U.S. Public Health Service and membership in the inaugural class of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellowship. [Top] Dr. Bennett Named to National Nursing PanelDr. E. Gerald Bennett, chair of School of Nursing Department of Health Environments and Systems at the Medical College of Georgia, has been named a member of the Scientific Subgroup of the Oncology Nursing Society Research Advisory Panel. The society consists of more than 30,000 registered nurses and other health care providers who promote excellence in oncology nursing and cancer care. The Research Advisory Panel advises the society’s research director about research-related issues. Dr. Bennett also has been named a 2005 Chiron Mentor. Sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau International, the Chiron Mentoring Program pairs mentors with nurses seeking to improve their skills in leadership, scholarship and evidence-based nursing. Dr. Bennett and his mentee, Rosalind Gail Jones, an instructor in Dr. Bennett’s department, were one of only four pairs chosen for the program this year. He will mentor her in psychosocial oncology practice and scholarship. Dr. Bennett earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from MCG, a master’s degree in nursing from Case Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. His research interests include cancer symptom management, depression, social support and behavioral oncology. [Top]
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College of Georgia School of Nursing Dean Lucy N. Marion has been named
Nurse Practitioner Faculty Researcher of the Year by the National
Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties.
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