YOUR GIFTS, OUR THANKS From left: Madison Clinic physician Saleh Adi and nurse practitioner Colette O’Brien work with nursing student Dara Nunn to check on a patient with diabetes. DIABETES MINOR AMONG FIRST IN THE COUNTRY Thanks to a generous $1.5 million gift from a member of the Diabetes Center Leadership Council who has a child with diabetes, master’s of science students at the <strong>UCSF</strong> School of Nursing can now minor in diabetes. The program, which will enroll its inaugural student cohort in the spring of 2013, is among the first in the country to prepare nurses specifically to care for diabetes patients across their lifespan. Both the curriculum and clinical training are interprofessional ventures between the schools of medicine and nursing. “With increasing rates of obesity and an aging population, diabetes is epidemic not only in the US, but worldwide,” says Kit Chesla, RN, PhD, FAAN, professor, diabetes researcher, and Shobe Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality at the <strong>UCSF</strong> School of Nursing. “We need to train more nurses who can help patients manage the disease in a very knowledgeable way.” MULTI-TALENTED STUDENT RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP Arielle Bivas, the inaugural recipient of the Betty H. Gabriel Chancellor’s Endowed Scholarship, is also an artist and a teacher. She was inspired to pursue nursing while caring for her mother who was ill with breast cancer. A first-year master’s student, Bivas is interested in discrepancy in care and working to improve health care for a diverse world. “My experience mentoring adolescents, counseling young adults, and most recently volunteering with cancer survivors has allowed me to see how I can work with each individual to find the most effective strategy for him or her. I will continue to do that as a nurse practitioner,” she says. Her scholarship was created by two extraordinary gifts: one from Herbert Gabriel, DDS ’43, in memory of his wife and nursing alumna, Betty, BS ’43; the other from <strong>UCSF</strong> Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, and her husband, Nicholas Hellmann, MD. Arielle Bivas; Betty Gabriel circa 1943; Herbert Gabriel at <strong>UCSF</strong> Alumni Weekend 2012 ALUMNA LEADER LOYAL TO ANNUAL FUND Jayne Cohen, BS ’84, MS ’85, PhD ’89, remembers that she felt stimulated from the moment she first stepped on campus as a student at the <strong>UCSF</strong> School of Nursing. She says, “The students were already high level professionals who were seeking the theory behind their practice and wanting the fulfillment of an advanced, formal education. I was also impressed that senior faculty members were teaching introductory classes, and with the breadth of lectures from visiting specialists.” Cohen has been on faculty at San Jose State University as a women’s health nurse practitioner for 25 years, and in 2001 became director of its nursing school. A loyal donor to the <strong>UCSF</strong> School of Nursing Annual Fund, she says, “At San Jose State, I am able to carry forth the practice and ethical standards that I learned at <strong>UCSF</strong> to teach future generations of nurses. I feel indebted to <strong>UCSF</strong>, and it is important to me to be a donor. I give regularly to the annual fund because I believe it is vital that the dean have unrestricted support to use where it is most needed: for student scholarships, faculty recognition, and starting new programs.” GRATEFULNESS AT HEART <strong>OF</strong> PLANNED GIFT Gail Perin, RN, MS, PNP, was one of the first clinical nurse specialists at <strong>UCSF</strong>. Perin knew she wanted to be a nurse from an early age, and after completing her master’s at <strong>UCSF</strong> in 1970, she chose to specialize in pediatric oncology. Entering the field at a time when unprecedented progress was being made, she witnessed children surviving cancers that previously would have ended their lives. Perin returned to graduate school at <strong>UCSF</strong> in 1995 after 25 years on faculty to get her pediatric nurse practitioner qualification. She then worked for California Children’s Services until her retirement. She and her husband David Perin, MD, who completed his residency in pediatrics at <strong>UCSF</strong>, have made a bequest in their living trust to the School of Nursing. “I have a great deal of gratitude that <strong>UCSF</strong> was here and that I was a part of it all,” says Perin.