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Marti Schauf Rice, Ph.D.

Debra Hatmaker , Ph.D.

Phoebe Kandel Rohrer Award
Marti Schauf Rice, RN, MSN. Ph.D.

Dr. Rice, who received a master of science in nursing degree from MCG in 1974, received the School of Nursing’s Phoebe Kandel Rohrer Founders Award for Excellence in Research and Education. A professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, she also served as interim associate dean for research at the university from 2006-07.

Dr. Rice is a liaison for the UAB School of Nursing’s Center for Health Promotion, a member of the NIH-K430 Clinical Research Advisory Group and scientist in the university’s Center for the Advancement of Youth Health.

Her research focuses on anger, stress and self-concept in school-aged children. She is the principal investigator on a $2 million National Institute of Nursing Research intervention study aimed at reducing anger and stress and enhancing self-concept in fourth- and fifth-graders.

Dr. Rice is president-elect of the Southern Nursing Research Society and is a member of the review panel for Applied Nursing Research, the American and Georgia Nurses Associations and the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

E. Louise Grant Award
Debra Hatmaker, Ph.D., RN

Dr. Hatmaker, a two-time graduate of the School of Nursing, received the school’s E. Louise Grant Award for Excellence in Clinical Practice, Administration and Community Service. She received a master’s degree in 1986 and a doctoral degree in 1993.

She is the former coordinator for educational resources and technology for the MCG School of Nursing’s Athens campus and has been the chief programs officer for the Georgia Nurses Association since 2002. She volunteers as a certified sexual assault nurse examiner.

Dr. Hatmaker is the president of the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is first vice president of the American Nurses Association. She is a former president of the Center for American Nurses and the International Association of Forensic Nurses Forensic Nursing Certification Board.

Dr. Hatmaker was the 2005 Georgia Nurses Association Nurse of the Year and a past recipient of the association’s Distinguished Service Award and the MCG School of Nursing’s Virginia H. Kemp Leadership Award.