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approachability as a teacher. Her students
repeatedly noted her classes as tough—but
where they learned the most. Her faculty
colleagues noted her as a teaching mentor—
and confirmed everything the students
reported.
Faculty Leadership
Award
Ann Hamric
The past year was a
particularly remarkable
one in Ann Hamric’s
distinguished career. In
addition to her excellent
and dedicated teaching
and advising of graduate
students, she has taken a leadership role
nationally in issues surrounding the evolution
of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree and
as a scholar of nursing ethics. She served as
the first nursing faculty member to chair the
University’s Faculty Senate during a crucial
year that included the search and selection
of a new University president and faculty
response to a controversial investigation by
the attorney general of the Commonwealth
of Virginia into the research of a former UVA
professor, a case that drew national attention
to issues of academic freedom.
Additional information on the Faculty Award
winners is available online at www.nursing.
virginia.edu/alumni/awards.
New Alumni Council Members Named
On July 1, three new Council members began their first terms.
Elizabeth “Betty” Sydrock Dunning (BSN ’74) ) recently received
her certification as a clinical nurse specialist. At that time, she
served as a clinical leader in cardiac-thoracic-vascular surgery at
the Inova Heart & Vascular Institute in Falls Church, Va. Currently,
Dunning is pursuing a clinical nurse specialist position in acute/
critical care, while also planning to enroll in a DNP program.
Dunning received her master’s degree from the Medical College
of Virginia and has regularly conducted evidence-based practice
research and presented at national and regional conferences. At
Inova Fairfax Hospital, she chaired the Nursing Practice Congress
and received nominations for and won several Nurse of the
Year awards. Dunning and her husband, David, a hematologistoncologist,
reside in Fairfax, Va.
Gerald “Joe” Montoya (MSN ’94, PCNP ’96, DNP ’08) is the second
person to receive a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from UVA.
He received associate and bachelor’s degrees in nursing from
the University of Southern Colorado in his native state. After
moving to Virginia and beginning his graduate work, he held
a number of clinical positions in the Charlottesville area and
at UVA and taught at Piedmont Virginia Community College.
Currently he is assistant professor of nursing at Longwood
University in Farmville, Va., and a nurse practitioner at the
Charlottesville Wellness Center. His research interests include
weight management/obesity and cultural disparities in
wellness issues.
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Martha Coupe Schneider (BSN ’04, MSN ’08) began her career
with degrees in sociology (from UVA) and public health/health
services management (University of California, Los Angeles).
Fifteen years later, she transitioned to nursing, beginning with
an associate degree, followed in quick succession by her BSN and
MSN degrees from UVA, where she is currently in the Doctor of
Nursing Practice degree program. She has held various clinical
and management positions in acute and critical care units at
Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville and Prince William
Hospital in Manassas, Va. Currently she is director of critical
care, progressive care and telemetry services, at Rockingham
Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Va. Nursing is a family
business for Schneider and her husband, David (BSN ’09), an
oncology nurse at the UVA Cancer Center.
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