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New Fellow Commemorative Program - American Academy of Nursing

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Kathleen Wheeler, PhD, RN, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC<br />

Kathleen Wheeler is a Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She has practiced<br />

as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse specializing in trauma for the past 25 years.<br />

Dr. Wheeler is a leader in projects that are highly significant to the future <strong>of</strong> psychiatric nursing. She<br />

served as co-Chair <strong>of</strong> the National Panel that developed the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner<br />

(PMHNP) Competencies, and is the founder and Chair <strong>of</strong> the National Organization <strong>of</strong> Nurse Practitioner<br />

Faculties PMHNP Special Interest Group (SIG). She also founded and Chairs the Research Special Interest<br />

Group for the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) International Association and on<br />

the Editorial Board for the Journal <strong>of</strong> EMDR Practice and Research. Dr. Wheeler is the co-investigator <strong>of</strong> a<br />

national psychiatric nursing graduate program curriculum survey and the author <strong>of</strong> an award-winning book:<br />

Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse. Awards include a 2008 AJN Book <strong>of</strong> the Year<br />

Award and the 2008 <strong>American</strong> Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) Media Award. In addition, she<br />

received APNA Awards in 2008 for Excellence in Practice, and in 2004 for Excellence in Education, and is a Distinguished Alumni<br />

<strong>of</strong> Cornell University-<strong>New</strong> York Hospital School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong>.<br />

Dr. Wheeler received her BSN from Cornell University-<strong>New</strong> York Hospital School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> and her MA and PhD from <strong>New</strong> York<br />

University. She also has post-masters certificates in outcome measurement, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, hypnosis, EMDR,<br />

and as an adult psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist.<br />

District <strong>of</strong> Columbia<br />

Ellen T. Kurtzman, MPH, RN<br />

U S F E L L O W S<br />

Ellen T. Kurtzman is Assistant Research Pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the Department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nursing</strong> Education at The George<br />

Washington University, Washington, DC. For nearly a decade, Ms. Kurtzman has been has been working in<br />

the field <strong>of</strong> patient safety and health care quality as an advocate, policy adviser, and researcher.<br />

Currently, her research, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), explores the influence<br />

<strong>of</strong> national health quality policy directions on hospital nurses and identifies strategies to strengthen<br />

nursing’s policy voice. Previously, she was the architect <strong>of</strong> national consensus standards for measuring<br />

nursing’s contribution to quality endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). While at NQF, Ms. Kurtzman<br />

also led national efforts to establish hospital and home health care quality and performance standards.<br />

In advancing these causes, she has published and presented on nursing performance measurement,<br />

public reporting, and quality issues.<br />

In the past, Ms. Kurtzman has served in senior capacities for large, national health services organizations<br />

including the <strong>American</strong> Health Care Association, National <strong>Program</strong> <strong>of</strong> All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Association, <strong>American</strong><br />

Red Cross, and The Partnership for Behavioral Healthcare. She was honored to serve as a Senior Examiner for the Malcolm<br />

Baldrige National Quality Award and Examiner for the U.S. Senate Productivity and Maryland Quality Awards.<br />

Ms. Kurtzman holds a bachelors degree in <strong>Nursing</strong> from the University <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania and a masters in Public Health from The<br />

Johns Hopkins University.<br />

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