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university of pittsburghNurseschool of nursing magazine + spring 2009PITTThe Pitt Anesthetistsof the 345th CSH, Iraqthis issue:p r i m a ry c a r e n u r s e s , n u r s i n g c a r ebeyond the hospital, nurse leadership

About the cover: Six University of Pittsburgh-trained nurses met up in Kuwait prior to deployment throughout Iraq. The Universityof Pittsburgh Nurse Anesthesia Program represents about one-eighth of all anesthesia providers in theater.InsidepittNurseFeaturesPrimary Care Nursing 2Care for vulnerable and underservedpopulations at home and around the worldbeyond the hospital 10Hospice, public health, and communityoutreach bring care where it is neededLeadership 14Leading advances in education, research,and public health policyDea n ’s Me s s a g e 1Stu d e n t Le a d e r s 19De v e l o p m e n t Ne w s 22Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08 23Sch o o l o f Nu r s i n g b y t h e Nu m b e r s 32Alu m n iAlumni News + Notes 33Nur s e Be a t 38Con t i n u i n g Ed u c a t i o n 42Rem e m b e r Wh e n 44It’s all thereCheck out the University of Pittsburgh School of NursingAlumni Society Web site for the latest alumni news. Visitwww.nursing.pitt.edu and click on the alumni society iconat the bottom of the page. From upcoming events and meetingsto event highlights and more, it’s all there!2 university of Pittsburgh

DEAN'S MESSAGEIn June 2006, Act 58 was signed into law,mandating 30 hours of continuing educationevery two years for registered nursespracticing in Pennsylvania. This is goodnews for nurses in Pennsylvania becausethe bill recognizes that registered nursescontinue to do more and are responsiblefor more in a health care environmentthat is increasingly complex and technical.Prior to Act 58, registered nurseswere the only health care providers inPennsylvania without mandatory continuingeducation requirements.More good news for nurses inPennsylvania: Under a new law that goesinto effect in July, health care facilities inPennsylvania can no longer force nursesto work beyond their scheduled shifts,with a few exceptions. We believe this billwill improve patient safety—a tired nurseis not a safe nurse in a clinical environmentwhere there is no marginfor error.And good news for healthprofessionals across the country:$500 million for nursing and healthprofessions training was included inthe final $787 billion stimulus packagesigned into legislation by PresidentBarack Obama on February 17, 2009. Ofthat $500 million, $300 million will beawarded to the National Health ServiceCorps and the remaining $200 millionwill be divided between the Title VIIHealth Professions Training Programsand the Title VIII Nursing WorkforceDevelopment Programs.Also good news, nurses again rank atthe top of Gallup’s 2008 annual “Honestyand Ethics of Professions” survey for theseventh straight year.The recent economic downturn isimpacting the University of Pittsburghas it is all universities. However, throughthe strength of the University’s strategicand budgetary planning, plans are inprocess to minimize negative effectsof the current economic environment.The Board of Trustees, faculty, staff,and administration are committed tomaking the University of Pittsburghone of the nation’s preeminent researchuniversities—an institution that provideshigh-quality undergraduate and superiorgraduate programs; is engaged inresearch, artistic, and scholarly activitiesadvancing knowledge and transferenceof that knowledge in science, technology,and health care; offers continuingeducation programs; and relates to thesurrounding community.The School of Nursing shares thiscommitment and is succeeding in meetingit to the fullest extent. The numberof applicants continues to increase,better-qualified students are enrolling,and research support continues to grow.Today, the University of PittsburghSchool of Nursing is ranked fifth inNational Institutes of Health researchfunding and seventh overall in graduateeducation by U.S. News & World Report,while Academic Analytics’ FacultyScholarly Productivity Ranking of theTop Performing Individual Programs for2006–07 places the School of Nursingeighth in the nation.In this issue, we continue to exploreways Pitt nurses are making a difference.Through research, clinical practice,volunteer, and community activities, ourfaculty, students, and alums are makinga difference in health care, their communities,and the world. From clinicalcare at the bedside to affecting social andgovernmental policy; from educating thenext generation of nurses to caring forour wounded warriors at home and onthe front lines of distant battlefields; fromprenatal and neonatal care to geriatricand end-of-life care; from research oninterventions and adherence to technologyand communications, nurses affectpatient care and outcomes in a variety ofways every day.While the days of nursing capsare long gone, nurses today wear manyhats and many uniforms; from scrubs tomilitary attire, from business suits towell, you’ll have to read the studentprofile on page 19.Clearly there are many ways Pittnurses make a difference. In the followingpages we highlight only a few.Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAANDean, University of PittsburghSchool of NursingPitt Nurse spring 2009 1

FEATUREPrimary Care NursingThe Pitt Anesthetistsof the 345th CSH, Iraq2 university of Pittsburgh

Primary Care NursingFar from home and family life, in an environment soaustere that the landscape sometimes seems plucked fromanother planet, University of Pittsburgh-trained nurses areworking on the front lines of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Thesemen and women of the military are providing care to U.S.troops and Iraqi locals, and—in some cases—medical trainingto both U.S. and Iraqi personnel. Their stories vary with theircircumstances, but they share common ground in the trainingthey received at the School of Nursing, which infuses thevital work of their commitment in the Middle East.For many of the six Pitt-trained nurses within the ranksof the U.S. Army’s 345th Combat Support Hospital’s anesthesiadepartment, a 90-day mission in Iraq represents their firstoverseas deployment. After months of advanced training, theyfind themselves traveling across multiple locations treatingwar zone casualties.The group, which includes Captain John Jones (BSN ’99,MSN ’01), Captain Bill Teskey (BSN ’98, MSN ’02), CaptainKurt Kline (BSN ’01, MSN ’04), Captain Scott Pearson (BSN’98, MSN ’05), First Lieutenant Brian Keller (MSN ’06), andFirst Lieutenant Jason Trudell (MSN ’06), wrote a letter to theSchool of Nursing describing the severe conditions of life in Iraq.“Deploying to Iraq was a shock for each of us, especiallythe heat. Our arrival in July slapped us all in the face with130+ degree daily high temperatures,” they wrote. “The heatcan best be mimicked by turning your oven to broil, openingthe door and putting your head inside while aiming a hair dryerat your face.”The group also has endured almost weekly sandstorms,which they compared to taking a full bag out of a vacuum cleaner“and hitting it like a piñata while a fan blows directly at it.”For as far as they can see in any direction, the landscape issand: no terrain features or vegetation of any kind. In the letter,they compare it to the surface of Mars.Opposite page caption: Captains John Jones (BSN ’99, MSN ’01),Bill Teskey (BSN ’98, MSN ’02); Kurt Klein (BSN ’01, MSN ’04), andScott Pearson (BSN ’98, MSN ’05), and First Lieutenants BrianKeller (MSN ’06) and Jason Trudell (MSN ’06) met up in Kuwait.When daytime highs dropped to 110 degrees, the groupwas relieved. “Apparently we have acclimatized,” they wrote,though they added, “Given the heat, it is a constant challengeto stay hydrated.”The group trained at Brooke Army Medical Center in SanAntonio, Texas, where they networked with a variety of practitionersranging from surgeons and anesthesia providersto intensive care and emergency nurses.“In these interactions with the providers of other specialties,we each discovered how thorough and complete our educationat Pitt had been,” they wrote. “We can each say with confidencethat the didactic and clinical experiences gained in Pitt’s NurseAnesthesia Program are second to none.”The hospital staff includes people from 44 states in theunion covering cases ranging from simple sedation and regionalanesthesia to anesthesia for major trauma. They also work toeducate the clinical nursing and allied health staff in topicssuch as anesthesia, resuscitation, and trauma. In addition to allof these responsibilities, the group is involved in certificationof basic, advanced cardiac, and pediatric advanced life supporttaking place in theater.The nurses participate in didactic education meetings withlocal Iraqi physicians and nurses and, in August, taught basiclife support and basic and advanced airway management to theresident and attending physicians of the local teaching hospital.They also are working on a comprehensive educational programfor Iraqi citizens who are interested in becoming nurses, whichare absent from Iraq’s current health care system. Typically, Iraqidoctors manage individual patients, and routine bedside care isprovided mainly by family members. Through their educationalmeetings, the nurses hope to demonstrate the role of the nurseas a health care provider and ensure that patients are safe andreceive appropriate treatment.The group expressed gratitude to their families, employers,and others for supporting their mission.“It is nothing short of an honor to be taking care of thetroops tasked with the duties of the front line,” the nurses wrote.“The risks they take and responsibility they shoulder each day isbeyond comprehension. In the event they need medical care ofany kind, they are met with strong providers and an enthusiasmof the highest degree.”Pitt Nurse spring 2009 3

Primary Care NursingCONTINUEDAlumni Meet in Kuwait Prior to DeploymentThroughout IraqEditor’s note: This letter from six School of Nursing alumni who were deployed to Iraqwas addressed to John O’Donnell, director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program.Greetings from sunny (and extremely hot) Iraq! Several Pittgrads decided to meet up in Kuwait prior to traveling on toour final destinations throughout Iraq: Jason Trudell and BrianKeller at Al-Asad Airbase, Kurt Kline and Bill Teskey at Tikrit,John Jones at Al Kut, and Scott Pearson at Talill. All supportthe 345th Combat Support Hospital with the exception of JohnJones, who is attached to an FST [forward surgical team]. TheUniversity of Pittsburgh Nurse Anesthesia Program representsabout one-eighth of all anesthesia providers in theater at present.Although our mission varies to some degree based on ourlocale, the mission always revolves around managing massivetrauma all the way down to such common things as anacute appendectomy.We all agree that such learning activities as acute crisis leadershiptraining (ACLT) and the variety of clinical experiencesthat Pitt had to offer were extremely beneficial downrange. Weprovide anesthetic in some of the most austere and unforgivingenvironments. Sand, lack of transport for supplies due to badweather conditions, and overall enemy activity necessitate theneed for adaptation and quick thinking when faced with takingcare of critical patients.Further, the ability to function as a team has never beenmore important. Our team of four anesthesia providers atAl-Asad account for one-fourth of all providers, which includegeneral/trauma surgeons, urology, psych, ER, and familypractice. Anesthesia [specialists are] expected to function inmany roles and are treated as independent providers who oneminute will be intubating a critically ill patient and placing themon a draw-over vaporizer/vent to placing a chest tubeon a patient with a pneumothorax (obviously a little differentthan stateside).For the current and future students of the University ofPittsburgh: We all agree that the education we have receivedfrom the University of Pittsburgh Nurse Anesthesia Programis second to none. However, saying that, we also realize thathard work, perseverance, and motivation go a long way. Wetruly believe that we, as military CRNAs, have one of the mostimportant jobs: Taking care of the men and women of theUnited States armed forces. The lessons in hard work, perseverance,and dedication carried over from Pitt are the standards wehold ourselves to on a daily basis. There are going to be gooddays and there are going to be bad days, you win some [and] youlose some, but always remember nothing in life worth fightingfor is ever easy. Hard work does pay off, and your patients aretrusting you with their greatest possession, their lives. They, aspatients, turn to you in a time of need. You owe it to them to bethe best that you can be 100 percent of the time.Best of luck to all the students, and remember: You get outwhat you put in.Respectfully,Jason Trudell, CRNA, MSNBrian Keller, CRNA, MSNJohn Jones, CRNA, MSNScott Pearson, CRNA, MSNKurt Kline, CRNA, MSNBill Teskey, CRNA, MSN4 university of Pittsburgh

Primary Care NursingMajor Returns to Rootsin Small Baghdad Clinicby Jamie Cornali (BSN ’93) from an assignment in IraqI am a major on active duty for the Past 15 years. I graduatedwith my BSN from Pitt in 1993 and was commissioned throughthe ROTC program there. I subsequently graduated from theUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2004with my MSN as an FNP. I am currently working at a smallclinic near the Baghdad airport as the sole health care providerhere. I work with six army medics and provide primary andemergency care to about 2,500 individuals.I have found my nursing training to be invaluable here.Many times I have had to go back to my nursing training to takecare of my patients (i.e., remembering how to mix and set a driprate for IV antibiotics—no IV pumps here!).I also have had to train my medics on primary careassessments. Their training primarily consists of emergencycare assessment and skills (rightly so), but where I am, 95percent of the care is primary care. It took several months, butthey are all now quite competent at their assessment skills. It iswonderful to see. In fact, most have loved it so much that fourout of six plan on becoming nurses: Twoare entering civilian programs, and twowill be going through the military’s LPNprogram. I am still working on theother two.Another thing I am proud of isthe new chief of the Army Nurse Corps(Major General Patricia Horoho,MSN ’92) is a fellow Pitt grad!Hail to Pitt,Jamie CornaliCaring for OurNation’s Sonsand DaughtersWhen I graduated from Pitt’s BSNProgram in 1998, I was well prepared to pursue a nursing careeras an Army Nurse Corps Officer. The program had offeredclinical rotations at large hospitals with complicated patients andhad blended didactic work with challenging clinical practice.Throughout my 10-year military career, I have drawn uponthese experiences to meet the clinical demands at my variouscommissions. As a new RN, I confidently assumed the role ofcharge nurse on a busy ward. To hone my skills as a medical-surgicalnurse, I attended a four-month Army ER/ICU course. Thenin 2005, I graduated from the U.S. Army’s Graduate Program inAnesthesia Nursing and am now practicing as a CRNA.My commissions have taken me from the large medicalcenters of San Antonio, Texas, and Washington, D.C., to smallcommunity hospitals in California and most recently to KellerArmy Community Hospital in West Point, N.Y. The most challengingexperience so far has been my deployment to a remoteForward Operating Base in eastern Afghanistan. As part of afield medical team, I was chief nurse anesthetist, operating onmilitary and civilian casualties in support of Operation EnduringFreedom. Beginning with my very first assignment at BrookeArmy Medical Center as a staff nurse on a step-down ICU, toan emergency room nurse at Fort Irwin, Calif., and then to mycurrent position as a CRNA at Keller, I have proudly cared forour nation’s sons and daughters. I believe the education I receivedat the University of Pittsburgh has been the backbone and thefoundation of my professional success.Major Allan L. Long (BSN ’98), Staff CRNAKeller Army Community Hospital, West Point, N.Y.(As this issue of Pitt Nurse goes to print, Major Long is preparing to deploy to Iraq.)Pitt Nurse spring 2009 5

Primary Care NursingNurse Anesthetist Aids Patients inThird WorldWhen Scott Pearson was anurse anesthesia student atthe University of Pittsburgh,he attended a lecture onthird world surgical missionsduring a summer seminar.The experience left enoughof an impression on him thathe decided to volunteer asan anesthesia provider fortrips through SurgicorpsInternational, a Pittsburgh-based organizationthat provides medical care to overseas patientsin need.To date, Pearson has traveled to Vietnam,Guatemala, Bhutan, and Uganda.“I have been fortunate in my life, and volunteeringmy time and resources provides methe opportunity to help others,” says Pearson,who also serves as a certified registered nurseanesthetist in the U.S. Army Reserves, throughwhich he was deployed to Iraq in the summerand fall of 2008.Most of the Surgicorps cases involve plasticsurgery to repair cleft lips, cleft palates, burnscars, congenital defects, and traumatic injuries.Although the organization treats all ages, mostof its patients are children.The groups work long hours—in somecases, 12-hour days—but, as Pearson reports,“the work is very rewarding.” In Bhutan, forexample, the team completed 72 cases in fivedays of surgery.In addition to directing patient care,Pearson also gave morning lectures to nurseanesthesia students in Mbale, Uganda, to teachthem about use of the intravenous generalanesthetic Propofol as well as an alternativeairway device.“My education at the University ofPittsburgh School of Nursing has providedme the skills to be an effective team memberon Surgicorps trips,” says Pearson. “I amvery thankful for the wonderful experienceat Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMCand other clinical sites where I gained experiencetaking care of children.”“I have beenfortunate inmy life, andvolunteeringmy time andresources providesme theopportunity tohelp others.”Above: Scott Pearson with anesthetists in UgandaRight: Pearson and Guy Leone, MD, with Bhutan burn victim6 university of Pittsburgh

Primary Care NursingPremature Births InspireAlum’s Family to RepresentMarch of DimesBy Joy Laughlin (MSN ’03), BSNBeing a nurse offers many challenges,and with these challenges comes knowledge:that which is gained from pastexperience and that which is stored forfuture endeavors. But when you or a lovedone is lying in a hospital bed, clutchingonto life, such knowledge can becomeyour worst enemy.This was my story several years ago—the actual day of my graduation fromthe Clinical Nurse Specialist Programat the University of Pittsburgh Schoolof Nursing. I found myself fighting formy own life after giving birth to my verypremature daughter. It was a day my familyand I will not forget, a day when mynursing knowledge haunted me becauseI understood what all the numbers meant,and a day when my nursing knowledgehelped me because I understood why themachines were sounding their alarms.I was unaware of it at the time, butI suffered from HELLP (Hemolysis,Elevated Liver enzymes and LowPlatelets) syndrome, which caused meto enter preterm labor and deliver mydaughter three months early. Eventually,I made a full recovery and my daughter,Emma, also did very well and came homeafter spending seven weeks in the neonatalintensive care unit (NICU).Fast forward two years later andmy second child, Brady, was born—alsothree months early! Thankfully, I wasmore closely monitored and did not getnearly as sick as I did with my firstpregnancy. But I relived the samescenario, watching my tiny son clutch tolife. Once again, the nursing knowledgewas too much at times, while also notenough, as my little two-pound boybreathed in synch with the ventilator andwas fed through IV lines.After living through two verydifficult deliveries and watching our littleones fight for life, my husband and Idecided we wanted to help other familiesexperiencing the challenges of prematurebirth. We had heard about the March ofDimes, a well-known organization whosemission is to improve the health of babiesby preventing birth defects, prematurebirth, and infant mortality. The March ofDimes has played leading roles in thedevelopment of the polio vaccine,surfactant therapy, and most recently,the development of America’s regionalsystem of NICUs.Left: Emma and Brady Laughlin, now healthy active children.The Laughlins want other families to know, “It’s okay, there areresources out there.”Right: The 2008 March of Dimes Ambassador Family: Joy andTodd Laughlin with Emma and Brady.8 university of Pittsburgh

Primary Care NursingLike Mother,Like DaughterSecond-generation Pitt NurseHas Impact on Neonatal CareOur goal is that oneday all babies will beborn healthy.In 2007, we formed a family team,Brady’s Bunch, to walk in March forBabies, which is sponsored by the Marchof Dimes. We raised more than $800 ourfirst year and had a team of 10 walkers.In 2008, our family was named thePittsburgh Ambassador Family for theMarch of Dimes, which allows us to travelthe area sharing our story. So far, Brady’sBunch has been able to raise more than$1,200 in 2008, and we had 20 peoplewalk with us in May. We are honored toserve in this important role in the effortto raise awareness about prematurity.Our goal is that one day all babies will beborn healthy, and we are grateful for theopportunity to tell our story and shareour hope with others who are experiencingthe pain of prematurity.Since 2007, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursinghas offered a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner concentrationas an extension of its successful and well respectedPediatric Nurse Practitioner programs to care for childrenlike Emma and Brady Laughlin.A quarter of a century after her mother,Frances Powell Bakewell, graduated fromthe University of Pittsburgh’s School ofNursing, Susan Bakewell-Sachs followedin her footsteps.So it is perhaps fitting that Bakewell-Sachs, a second-generation Pitt nurse,has had such a profound impact on othermothers’ children. In 1979, the same yearshe earned her baccalaureate degree fromPitt, she began working in a neonatalintensive care unit (NICU). In 1982, shecompleted her master’s degree in perinatalnursing to become a neonatal clinicalnurse specialist.“I always saw nursing as a clinicalrole,” she says. “The opportunity toparticipate in a clinical trial during the1980s educated me—it changed my focusand my career trajectory.”That study looked at prematurebabies to determine whether they couldbe discharged earlier with appropriatecare in the hospital and at home. Thefindings, which were published in theNew England Journal of Medicine in 1986,showed that advanced practice nursesdirectly impacted whether the babiescould be sent home sooner and demonstratedthe significance of a continuum ofcare in order to prevent rehospitalization.That experience inspired Bakewell-Sachs to focus on obtaining as muchknowledge as she could about the entirespectrum of care for tiny babies. Sheearned a PhD in nursing in 1992 and thena post-master’s certificate to become apediatric nurse practitioner so she couldprovide comprehensive primary care toinfants and children born prematurely.“I saw the impact clinical researchhas on defining nursing care,” she says.“And I could see how such researchsupports evidence in a way that is appropriatefor nursing.”Now serving as both dean andprofessor of nursing at the School ofNursing, Health & Exercise Scienceat the College of New Jersey, she alsoengaged in later research that examinedthe timing of hospital discharge forpremature infants.“It’s all about nursing care,”Bakewell-Sachs explains. “Neonatalnurses, practitioners, and researchers areimportant links between the mother andher baby and play crucial roles in providingevidence-based care that will enhancethe infant’s future physical and mentalhealth.” In addition to her own researchand clinical practice, Bakewell-Sachsis the neonatal editor for the Journal ofPerinatal and Neonatal Nursing and serveson the Nurse Advisory Councilof the March of Dimes to advocatefor better health policies and preventpremature births.“I believe it is my obligationto contribute,” she says.“Collaborationis one of theways I can doall the thingsI want to do.”Pitt Nurse spring 2009 9

eyond the hospitalPublic Health ‘Foot Soldier’ Seeks toBring Care to the UninsuredWhether addressing a restaurant chain’swidely publicized outbreak of HepatitisA, a national shortage of flu vaccine, orresources for diabetes patients who lackadequate insurance, Lorraine Starskyhas made public health the focus of hercareer with the Allegheny County HealthDepartment (ACHD).“The foundation that I received incommunity health at Pitt nursing schoolhas been invaluable in my role as a publichealth foot soldier,” says Starsky, whoearned her BSN in 1994 and was a classKeeper of the Light (see sidebar). Inaddition to the high-profile health crisesthe department has faced, she now servesas the diabetes nurse consultant withthe ACHD’s Chronic DiseasePrevention Program.“Carrying out this work in thecommunity has reinforced what all of usin health care are witnessing,” she says,namely: “Burgeoning numbers of peoplewithout health insurance, many workingfull-time jobs.” Many of the calls shereceives are from diabetics without coveragewho turn to ACHD as a last resort.Recognizing the need for a simple,concise guide to local resources, Starskywon support from her administratorto create Underinsured or Uninsured:A Guide to Health Care Resources inAllegheny County, which was released inMarch 2007. Updated every six months,the guide is one of the most frequentlydownloaded documents on the department’sWeb site, www.achd.net. Thedepartment mails printed copies to peoplewho do not have computer access.According to Jessica Seabury,executive director of the ConsumerHealth Coalition in Pittsburgh, almost 16percent of adults ages 19–64 lack healthinsurance in Allegheny County. Whenpeople lack coverage, many delay orforego medical care.Citing 2007 statistics from FamiliesUSA, Seabury says two uninsured peopledie in Pennsylvania each day becausethey waited too long to seek care, oftenfor conditions that could have beenprevented.“The guide that Lorraine createdis so critical because it is a comprehensive,reliable, and user-friendly resource tohelp people get the care they need,”she says.Starsky calls the positive responseto the guide by community organizations,social services agencies, and consumers“most gratifying.”She credits her education at theSchool of Nursing with providing“wonderful preparation for my career.”She specifically cites Jackie Lamb, herpediatrics clinical instructor, for servingas a role model and advocate for underservedpediatric patients and theirfamilies and Rosanne Levine, hercommunity health clinical instructor,who mentored her.Terri Seidman, manager of theAmerican Diabetes Association’s WesternPennsylvania chapter, calls Starsky “a truepublic health nurse.”“She is in touch with the community,and her tireless commitment to the publicis reflected in her ongoing outreach andcommunity involvement,” says Seidman.“She sees opportunities, grabs them, andcreates liaisons.”Lorraine Starsky (right) takes health information to IdaCummins and Harold E. Scott Jr. at the Epiphany Barber Shopin the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Wilkinsburg as part of theCenter for Minority Health’s annual Take Health Professionalsto the People day.10 university of Pittsburgh

eyond the hospitalYouth MinistryPosition a NaturalFit for Nurseby Barbara Benzenhoefer Belski (BSN ’76)Barbara Belski with nurse aides in the medical clinic at St. Mauritz, Uganda.Making a difference in community health in a Third Worldcountry seemed most unlikely when I stepped out of full-timenursing with the birth of my first child in 1979.My path to Uganda began back in April 2000, when theVisiting Nurse Association of Allegheny County (VNA) finallyfell to economic pressures. Having spent 15 years with the VNA,I crash landed into the next crossroads of my career. I found thatthe independence I developed as a home care nurse prepared mewell for my new adventure: director of youth and young adultministries at a large suburban parish.Working with high school students and young adultsinvolves all of the same communication and interventionskills that served me well during my years in nursing. Timemanagement, planning budgets, communicating effectively, anddeveloping leadership and life skills in our teens come naturallyin large part due to my experiences in nursing.Lecturing for the maternity nursing students when Itaught briefly at my alma mater paved the way for future publicpresentations, including many opportunities to teach both youthand adults. I remember as student nurses when we learned thedifference between sympathy and empathy—an essential skillwhen working in youth ministry, especially when introducingteens to working with the poor.As our mission team develops a plan to assist the peoplein Gulu, Uganda, we must recognize the need to empower thepeople to help themselves as much as possible. I draw constantlyfrom my nursing skills; I believe that nurses can make a positivedifference in any situation. My education at the Pitt School ofNursing prepared me well for a lifetime of leadership in mywork and in my community.To learn more, visit www.hopemissionuganda.org.Keepers of the LightKeepers of the Light represent an importantpart of the school’s distinguished history andtradition. The lamp Florence Nightingale carriedon her rounds among the British soldiersinjured in the Crimean War became a symbol ofher efforts to improve the practice of nursing.Through the years, the lamp became the symbolof the nursing profession’s commitment tothe task of ensuring continuous progressand improvement of nursing practice.The tradition of “Passing of the Light” wasestablished as part of the school’s first PinningCeremony in 1943 to symbolize the passingof this commitment from one generation ofnurses to the next. It is a ritual that representsthe graduates’ commitment to the ideals ofexcellence in nursing practice. The studentswho achieve the highest academic standing inthe graduating class are designated “Keepersof the Light” and become custodians of thelight until it is time to pass it on to membersof the next class at the Passing of the Lightduring the following year’s Pinning Ceremony.Keepers of the Light represent a long line ofexcellence in nursing practice at the schooland an ongoing commitment to improve thenursing profession. They represent the best ofthe School of Nursing and the best of the nursingprofession. Many have gone on to practice astop-notch clinicians, educators, researchers, andadministrators all across the country.Becausemultiplestudentsmay havethe sameacademicstanding, theremay be morethan one Keeper ofthe Light in a graduatingclass. There have been two ormore Keepers of the Light in 27 graduating years,including two graduating years when there werefour. There have been a total of 102 Keepers of theLight over the past 66 years.Pitt Nurse spring 2009 11

eyond the hospitalHospice: It’s About How You Live!It was late Friday afternoon, August 3,2007. An ambulance arrived at West PennHospital’s Emergency Department inPittsburgh. The paramedics delivered aman, unresponsive, the result of a massivehemorrhagic stroke. The man lookedyounger than his 57 years. His undersizedbuild was contracted and deformed fromthe lifelong effects of cerebral palsy. Theman’s two sisters were contacted; he wasnot expected to survive.Friday evening brought the confirmationof the diagnosis of “brain stemstroke from a large clot in the left internalcarotid, cause unknown … no profusion tothe left brain.”His physician recommended apalliative medicine consult. At first, thetwo sisters resisted. “I didn’t want a droopyfaced, overly religious person puttingtheir arms around me and feeling sorry,”one recalled.On Saturday evening, her opinionchanged as she, her sister, and thepalliative medicine physician met and sataround the patient’s bed. The physician,Dr. Kathy Selvaggi, asked that they tell herabout their brother. She heard a remarkablestory:Jim Prentice was born in 1950, ahealthy baby boy. However, within weeksof his birth, he developed a high feverand pneumonia. Children’s Hospital ofPittsburgh of UPMC saved his life, but theillness damaged a part of his brain and leftBacked by his sisters and his parents, Jim Prentice accepts anaward for a multilingual communication board he designed to helppeople who are unable to speak clearly.behind a new chronic diagnosis, cerebralpalsy. The family first experienced shock,then grief, then a determined resolve toguide and support Jim as he grew.His father created devices to assist hisson as he lived his life from a wheelchair.His mother charged not only herself butalso Jim’s two older sisters with learningand assisting with leg braces and dailyactivities. Jim grew bright, independent,and high spirited, a reflection of thefamily who surrounded him.He earned a master’s degree incomputer science at Carlow Collegein Pittsburgh. That degree led Jim to aresearch position at Westinghouse, andthen world travels. Along the way, hedesigned and developed a multilingualcommunication board for people withdisabilities. This pioneer transformed theworld for those unable to clearly speak.Jim survived his parents, refusingthe logical next step, to leave the familyhome. After their deaths, he and hissisters remodeled the home, providing itwith “smart” capabilities to support hisautonomy. Hired caregivers and his faithfulGerman shepherd named Mel ensuredhis independence. He loved life; dizzyinghis nieces and nephews on wheelchairspins, telling jokes, running his ownbusiness. He received many prestigiousawards for his work.It was in the midst of this living thathe awakened on a Friday morning, “notacting right.” In one morning, his life,and the lives of those who loved him,turned into chaos and uncertainty.Selvaggi carefully reviewed theneurology workup and shared those findingswith Jim’s sisters. In a fog of disbelief,a discussion ensued about what Jim wouldwant at this time of his life. He had drawnup a living will outlining his desires andhad spoken about his wishes with hissisters. Still, the decision to considerhospice seemed unbearable.The CT scan was repeated, but thebrain, the only perfect organ Jim wasgiven, was permanently damaged; therewas no chance of recovery. The CTreport accompanied Jim to the ForbesHospice Inpatient Unit. His sisters wouldask to see it again, for reassurance.Jim’s sisters toured the ForbesHospice Unit. They felt relief when theelevator door opened, revealing warmyellow walls, rich lighting, and staff whogreeted them with genuine smiles. Theirbrother would come. They would staywith him around the clock to see to histurning, bathing, and positioning; towatch over his body language, alert forany signs of discomfort; to continue theirrole of protector. This was not a man with“CP” who was dying. This was a brilliant,loving, humorous brother and uncle whowas living through his final days. Howcould the hospice staff come tounderstandall of this?12 university of Pittsburgh

LeadershipA pioneer reflectsFaculty member helped forgethe path for nurse practitionersEven before shefinished her first graduatedegree, Donna Nativio(BSN ’64), knew nurses hada bigger role to play as healthcare providers.Today, that point of viewis widely embraced. But inthe 1960s, it was an untestednotion that challenged manypeople’s concepts of professionalboundaries.But Nativio, PhD,CRNP, FAAN, associateprofessor at the School ofNursing and director of theFamily, Adult, Pediatric, andNeonatal Nurse Practitionerprograms and the Doctor ofNursing Practice Program,does not fear breaking tradition if it means getting better carefor patients and their families. So in an early job as a publichealth nurse for the Allegheny County Health Department, shebegan putting her idea to the test.“A whole lot of mommies and babies would come in. Thenurses would weigh and measure the babies and talk to themothers about how the baby was eating and developing, andthen we’d all wait for the physician to show up—sometimes upto 2½ hours,” she recalls. “I was impressed by the wasted timeand wasted talent of the nursing staff, and the wasted time forthose mothers as well.”Research done at the University of Denver supported herobservations. It found nurses were sometimes the only healthcare providers in the area they served.“They were disconnected from hospital systems, and themore education they had, the more autonomous and confidentthey could be in their ability to carry out what needed to bedone,” Nativio says. The Denver research showed with additionaltargeted education nurses could be front-line providersin areas of need.Nativio … does notfear breaking traditionif it means gettingbetter care for patientsand their families.So, Nativio recruited experienced public health nurses toparticipate in an on-the-job educational program. She enlistedLarry Dunegan, MD, a pediatrician, to help develop a curriculum,which they taught together. This program had 12 graduateswho revolutionized the well-child services to mothers and babiesin Allegheny County.A write-up about the program in a local newspaper ledto an interview with then-Dean Marguerite Schaefer, whooffered Nativio a job creating a similar program at the School ofNursing. Nativio demurred, feeling she still had much to do inthe community, but agreed to serve as a consultant.Not everybody was thrilled with the idea of expandingnurses’ roles. “I think this was a beginning of the concern wehave in health care now about boundaries in practice, and whohas the education to do what,” she says. “Nurses have made a lotof progress.”Critics claimed nurse practitioners might be acceptedamong low-income patients, who had fewer options, but middleorupper-income patients would insist on seeing a physician.As always, Nativio set out to prove the naysayers wrong.She took a job in an upscale suburban private practice where14 university of Pittsburgh

LeadershipNurse educator worksto address nursingshortage on both sidesof the equationfor two years she successfully demonstrated that her work wasvalued by the physicians and by mothers across income groups.At that point, Enid Goldberg, dean of the School ofNursing, offered to put Nativio on retainer and convinced herto accept a joint appointment between the school and Children’sHospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. In the early 1970s, Nativiobecame the second nurse practitioner hired by the hospital.Despite the resistance she met from some members of themedical and nursing staff, “the patients from the start acceptedand loved having, their nurse,” she says.Nurse practitioners were told to introduce themselves bysaying, “I’m not a physician.” Nativio welcomes the opportunityto consult with physicians but is proud of her nurse practitionerrole. “I don’t mind clarifying that, as long as the physician iswilling to say, ‘I’m not a nurse practitioner,’” says Nativio.Nurse practitioners have come a long way since then.“Today, the School of Nursing’s nurse practitioner graduates arehighly sought after, and the day-to-day relationships among thedisciplines are very good, as they work side by side with the goalof best patient outcomes,” says Nativio. “Challenges remain atthe policymaking level, when decisions are made about who’s incharge and who gets reimbursed.”There have been other firsts for this pioneer nurse practitioner.Nativio was one of the first pediatric nurse practitionersto gain national professional certification for excellence inpractice. She helped draft the first rules and regulations that arestill the basis for the legal practice of nurse practitioners in theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition, she was a foundingcoeditor of the American Journal for Nurse Practitioners anda founder (and past president) of the American College ofNurse Practitioners.Most recently, Dean Dunbar-Jacob appointed Nativio tolead another first—the school’s Doctor of Nursing Practice(DNP) program. The DNP is an alternative to the PhD fornurses who plan to work in a clinical setting.Nativio continues to answer questions about the expandedrole of nurses and has testified before the state assembly aswell as the U.S. Congress. It’s a familiar role for a pioneer, andone Nativio always has embraced. She has an office wall fullof awards, testimony to her distinguished service. And, “I havethe scars to prove I’ve earned the title of nurse practitionerpioneer,” she says.“As a nurse educator,I’m the first lineof ensuring qualitypatient care.”In her role as dean of health professions at WestmorelandCounty Community College, Kathleen Malloy (PhD ’89,MNEd ’76, BSN ’71), RN, is working hard to draw studentsinto health care at a time when shortages are nearingcritical numbers.“As a nurse educator, I’m the first line of ensuring qualitypatient care,” she says. “If I do my job right, it leads to thecontinuum of nurses providing quality care,” says Malloy, whoalso was appointed four years ago by Pennsylvania Governor EdRendell to cochair the Pennsylvania Center for Health Careers,a public-private partnership intended to address the shortage.The task is one that takes some patience, for as Malloypoints out, “It takes time for students to learn—to be able toput knowledge all together and then apply it. “Teaching criticalthinking is very difficult. Just because students are computerliterate doesn’t mean they are critical thinkers.”Malloy also contributes to a mentoring program for newfaculty that is designed to help new nurse educators and otherfaculty adapt to their new roles as faculty. Mentors assist newfaculty in design and sequence objectives, matching coursecontent to the students’ abilities and deciding on instructionaldesign. The objectives help faculty members know where theyare taking their students and set the basis for evaluations andcompetencies.“A good objective needs to be clear to the learner,” Malloysays. “It doesn’t need to be fancy.”Thanks to the rise in evidence-based practice, those objectiveskeep changing too: “Long gone are the days when we teachsomething just because that’s the way we learned,” she says. “Ifyou are a professional, you need evidence.”Pitt Nurse spring 2009 15

leadershipTaiwanese Nursing Pioneer UrgesStudents To Know The “Real World”Ever since she graduated as one ofthe first 19 students to earn a BSNfrom Taiwan’s most prestigious nationaluniversity, Yu-Mei Yu Chao has madea habit out of breaking ground in herchosen profession.The first Taiwanese citizen to receivea doctorate in nursing, Chao also is thefirst nurse to hold a high governmentposition in Taiwan, where she served asthe deputy general manager of the Bureauof National Health Insurance. She alsobecame the first Taiwanese health professionalelected to the American Instituteof Medicine of the National Academy ofSciences and the first nurse from Taiwanto be elected to the Board of Directors ofthe International Council of Nurses.Today, she is the chair of the TaiwanNursing Accreditation Council, a peerrevieworganization established in 2006.She also serves as an adjunct research“The idea ofhelping peoplegrew strong inmy heart at avery early age.”fellow with the National Health ResearchInstitutes of Taiwan, an adjunct professorat National Taiwan University, and a chairprofessor in the School of Nursing atCentral Taiwan Polytechnic University.The daughter of a physician, Chaowas drawn to health care when shewatched how her father took care ofhis patients.“The idea of helping people grewstrong in my heart at a very early age,” saysChao (MNEd ’67, PhD ’79).Her mother suggested that she followher father into medicine, but Chao hadother plans: She felt nursing was her truecalling and was a member of that firstgraduating class of 1960.That education helped her to successfullycompete for an internationalscholarship to study abroad, and she wonfull tuition to pursue an advanced degreeat the University of Pittsburgh Schoolof Nursing “at a time when the averageTaiwanese family would have no financialcapability to support their member goingabroad for advanced study.”In the Pitt dormitories, Chao metmany other graduate students from a varietyof countries. She recalls eating dinnerwith them and sharing her homesickness,as well as friendly gossip about classmatesand teachers.“The best of it was that we wereable to learn about the commonness anduniqueness of cultures in people fromdifferent societies and with differentbackgrounds,” she says.When she returned to Taiwan, shetaught and sought out clinical experiencesbefore returning to Pitt in 1975 forher PhD.“Pitt’s education has prepared meto become down-to-earth, to establishand develop views and knowledge from abottoms-up approach,” Chao says. “Thisnursing-rooted training has been so helpfulfor me to become not only a systemapproachthinker, but also a strategicdecision-maker in my entire career.”Named a 2008 Legacy Laureateby the University of Pittsburgh andhonored as a Distinguished Alumnus bythe University of Pittsburgh School ofNursing, Chao recommends that today’snursing students bring “capability andflexibility,” as well as innovative strategies,into the rapidly changing health caresystem.“Be sure that your nursing knowledgehas a strong connection with the realworld of nursing practices,” she says.“The experience to learn how to act andbe an accountable professional … hasbeen a very important quality which Ihave practiced and expected others todevelop in my work.”16 university of Pittsburgh

leadershipNursing leader helpsmagnet programpromote excellenceA visionary nursing leader,Patricia R. Messmer hasmade a positive impact on theprofession by demonstrating,through example, the relationshipof research to educationand nursing practice.For more than 20 years,Messmer (PhD ’88, BSN ’67),FAAN, has been interestedin the American NursesCredentialing Center (ANCC)Magnet Recognition Program.The program recognizeshealth care organizations thatprovide excellent nursing careand uphold professional traditions.When Messmer was thedirector of nursing research atMount Sinai Medical Centerin Miami Beach, Fla.,she alsoserved as the magnet projectdirector and guided the centerto magnet status. Messmerbecame a magnet appraiser forthe ANCC Magnet recognition,which is considered thestandard for quality patientcare. Messmer continued toserve in this role when shebecame the nurse researcherfor Miami Children’s Hospital.As Messmer describes it,ANCC evolved the role of thenurse researcher in a clinicalsetting and sees clinical needas the driving force behindnursing research. Although thenurse’s program of researchThe program recognizeshealth care organizationsthat provide excellentnursing care and upholdprofessional traditions.sometimes must move tothe back burner in a clinicalsetting, the resulting researchis more likely to have practicalapplications and can be moreeasily transferred toa real-world setting.About a year ago,Messmer left Miami tobecome the director of patientcare services research atChildren’s Mercy Hospitalsand Clinics in KansasCity, Mo. In that capacity,she oversees all researchprojects related to patientcare for nurses, allied healthprofessionals, social workers,and pharmacists. Onestudy involves neonatalunit patient simulation.“We’re going to look atbuilding team collaborationbetweennursing staff,nurse practitioners,the medical staff,and respiratorytherapists,” she says.Messmer also worked onan ambitious project designedto identify all 950+ AmericanNurses Foundation (ANF)nursing research grant scholarsfrom the past 54 years. Thecharitable and philanthropicarm of the American NursesAssociation (ANA), ANF supportsANA’s work to promotethe welfare and well-being ofnurses, advance the nursingprofession, and enhance publichealth. Messmer, ANF treasurer,initiated the project in2004 with the help of FloridaInternational Universitydoctoralstudent CraigPhillips (ANFgrant recipient,currently anassistant professor atthe University of BritishColumbia) and MargareteZalon, ANF president.“Looking at the list ofscholars shows how ANFfunding enabled them tostart and develop their owncareers,” she says. “Researchconducted by ANF scholarshas advanced the professionby facilitating knowledgedevelopment across the broadspectrum of nursing.”Pitt Nurse spring 2009 17

leadershipFamily traditionAlumNus follows aunt’s footsteps toSchool of Nursing, military serviceWhen Kathleen Srsic-Stoehr was astudent at the School of Nursing, shetook care of a 4-year-old leukemia patientduring one of herrotations.The child died,and even decades later,the impact of his lossstays with her. But so,too, does the memoryof how her instructortook her to the hospitalcafeteria and helpedher talk through her grief.“That element of nursing—caringand compassion—that’s what the facultydemonstrated with us,” she says.Throughout her 30-year career as anArmy nurse, Srsic-Stoehr (BSN ’72) livedthe ethics she acquired at the Universityof Pittsburgh. It was at Pitt that the selfdescribedintrovert learned to becomean agent for change, a characteristic thatstayed with her during her career, leadingthe push toward best practices in nursingcare. Srsic-Stoehr was a class Keeper ofthe Light and, during her last two yearsat Pitt, served as president of the studentnursing council where she took an activerole in such initiatives as increasingstudent representation on various facultyand curriculum committees. As targetedlearners of a new curriculum, studentsvoiced opportunities for improvementto strengthen their clinical learning.The council also called for an end tothe practice of wearing nursing caps, apractice that did not pass the traditionhallmark at the time. Though it may seemlike a relatively tame issue now, it wasrevolutionary then.In the midst of Srsic-Stoehr’sfreshman year, the school changed itscurriculum. That move, plus the overallanti-establishment atmosphere of theVietnam era, “was really symbolic for us,”she recalls. It taught the students “howwe could be advocates for change withpatients and nursing excellence.”While stationed at Walter ReedArmy Medical Center in Washington,D.C., Srsic-Stoehr noticed a highincidence of postoperative pneumoniaand other complications related to aninconsistent approach to preoperativeteaching and assisting patients postoperativelywith deep breathing, coughing, anduse of “blow bottles.”Her department head learned ofher interest and enabled Srsic-Stoehr towork with a nurse researcher who wasconducting a study about preoperativeteaching and postoperative outcomes.As a new graduate nurse, she activelycombined clinical practice and researchto include a coauthored journal articleabout the results of the study. She laterpursued a focus on patient education inher graduate work and went on to developWalter Reed’s hospital-wide preoperativeteaching program based on the work fromthe research study.“I always had outstanding mentorsand was selected for positions where therewas opportunity to make changes. TheArmy Nurse Corps provided experiencesthat built upon Pitt’s foundation in leadershipfor change,” she says.The decision to enroll in the Schoolof Nursing was, in many ways, an easyone. Srsic-Stoehr’s great-aunt, VictoriaViola May (MLIT ’54, BSNEd ’50),was an alumnus and also had served inthe Army as a first lieutenantstationed at Walter Reed.After World War II, Maybecame the director of St. FrancisMedical Center School of Nursing,but she steered her great-niece to heradvanced degree alma mater.When Srsic-Stoehr enrolled atPitt, she resided with “Aunt Vee” inPittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood,and May was a supportive advocatefor Srsic-Stoehr in her academicnursing pursuits.As a nursing educator, May workedin nursing education most of her entirecareer, and similarly, Srsic-Stoehrfollowed in those footsteps with particularfocus on nursing professional developmentand patient education. She thenmoved into various nursing administrativepositions to include chief nursingofficer of Brooke Army Medical Centerand the Great Plains Regional MedicalCommand. When she retired from theArmy, Srsic-Stoehr worked first as a nurseexecutive at a rural hospital in centralVirginia before accepting a position atthe Washington Hospital Center inWashington, D.C., as director ofnursing excellence.The title and role has evolved; Srsic-Stoehr now is senior director for nursingevidence-based practice and quality. Assuch, she works with clinical specialistsand clinical nurse specialists, educators,nursing staff, and interdisciplinary teams,helping them to apply evidence-basedpractices, develop clinical guidelines, andimpact patient outcomes through patientsafety and quality performance improvements.As facilitator and coach for thenursing practice and research sharedgovernance council, she has come fullswing from her shared decision-makingdays at Pitt and her early interests inlinking research and clinical practice.“Our instructors at Pitt taughtus to be change agents in patient careand nursing practice,” she says. “Now,evidence-based practice is how we makethat change.”18 university of Pittsburgh

STUDENT leadersmike nuzzoThe Spirit ofNursing!Sophomore nursing studentMike Nuzzo decided at anearly age he wanted to makea difference.Nuzzo started as a businessmajor but switched to nursing,where he felt he could do more tohelp others. “Nursing has so manyopportunities and avenues to pursue, Iknew I would never be bored and thatI would be able to help people,” he says.The schedule of a nursing student can begrinding—with long hours spent studying andcompleting assignments as well as studying forexams. In addition to the rigorous full-time studyrequired for the undergraduate nursing program, Nuzzo spends up to 25 hours aweek in his role as one of the two Pitt Panther mascots, Roc, a role he will keepuntil graduation. The two mascots share responsibility for attending all homeand away football games, as well as men’s and women’s home basketball games, tocheer on the teams and help to lift the spirits of the crowd.It can be a grinding schedule but, fortunately, Nuzzo is skilled in settingpriorities, an important quality for any nurse. And it is a job he really enjoys. Infact, Nuzzo seems almost to have been born to this role—his parents both werePitt cheerleaders, and his mother, Theresa Nuzzo, has coached the Pitt cheerleadersand dance team for the past 27 years.“When I’m Roc, I can forget what is going on in my life and focus onmaking people happy and laugh. I always try to be as upbeat and energetic aspossible,” says Nuzzo. “Being able to make little children laugh and seeing thejoy on their faces when they get to slap Roc’s paw makes all the hard work andsacrifice worthwhile.”The mascot is required to attend numerous charity and community eventssuch as Light-up Night, the Great Race, and the walk for autism, as well as othersporting events. It’s a demanding schedule, but Nuzzo says it’s worth it. “At theLouisville football game, I was able to make an autistic man laugh,” he says.“I’ll never forget the pure joy in his expression when he shook Roc’s paw.”Being a mascot is rewarding, but Nuzzo doesn’t plan to make it a career.After graduation he hopes to work in an ICU setting and then return to graduateschool to become a nurse anesthetist. “Being the mascot is an honor I take veryseriously,” he says. “I hope the next person to put on the Pitt Panther costumeand portray Roc feels the same way my predecessors and I have.”There are many ways to make a difference. Nursing is one way. Puttingon a costume to make people laugh is another.Pitt Nurse spring 2009 19

STUDENT leaderserin zellem, kristen shubertRight Time, Right Place,Right SkillsErin Zellem’s friendNancy Altsman had routineabdominal surgery. Then theunthink able occurred.“My family and I were glad Erin was able totake time from her busy class schedule to visitwith us,” Nancy says. “Erin had been throughErin Zellem (right) with her friend Nancy Altsmanthe same surgery in 2007, so she was able toanswer all my last-minute questions and calm my nerves.”The surgery went well and Erin joined Nancy in her room. While Nancy’sfamily left briefly, Erin stayed to talk. “Being a nursing student I took fulladvantage of the opportunity to ask the nurses and doctors lots of questions,” shesays. “Thankfully, they were all very helpful and willing to explain to ‘the student’what everything was for and why they were doing what they were doing.” Oneof Erin’s first questions was why Nancy wasn’t on a monitor and why she didn’thave a pulse oximeter on? The nurse said they had not been ordered and Erindidn’t ask anything more about it.Nancy kept pressing the little “magic button” (as she called it) on hermorphine pump to control her pain and drifted in and out of sleep. After awhile Erin noticed Nancy’s chest was not raising and lowering very much so shechecked her respiratory rate and discovered it was only seven breaths per minute.“During clinicals the instructors told us to call a code if a patient’s respiratoryrate was under 12 breaths a minute, so that’s what I did,” Erin says. “I knew Ididn’t look much like a credible professional dressed in a hoodie and sweats, andI wasn’t sure the codes were the same as in the hospital where I was performingmy clinicals, but I ran out of Nancy’s room calling, ‘Condition C!’”Erin’s training kicked in, enabling her to remain calm as she answeredquestions for the doctors and nurses who responded to the code. By then,Nancy’s respiratory rate had dropped to a three, and one of the residents calledfor Narcan ® . “We had just learned about this medication, so I knew it indicatedthere was too much morphine in Nancy’s system,” Erin says. Nancy became alertvery quickly after the Narcan was administered. “While I hated to see my friendback in pain, I was relieved to see she was breathing normally again!”Nancy didn’t comprehend how serious the situation was at the time, butlooking back she realizes, “Erin’s observation skills, intuitiveness, and persistenceplayed a large part in my well-being,” she says. “Her training, her passion forothers, and her attention to detail will make Erin an extremely gifted nurse.”Erin doesn’t feel like she did anything out of the ordinary. “Anyone in thePitt nursing program would have been able to do the same,” she says. “I’m justglad I was able to help my friend—that God had me in the right place at the righttime, with training that prepared me to feel confident enough to speak up.”It may not seem like much to Erin but it does to Nancy. “I’m so grateful Erinwas there when I needed her,” she says. “I honestly believe she saved my life!”Student Nursingin CambodiaKristen Shubert (MSN ’08) went to Cambodiawith Health Volunteers Overseas and worked asa student nurse anesthetist at Angkor Hospitalfor Children. Her role there was to help assessthe teaching and evaluation abilities of thenurse anesthetists there.“I worked one on one with the nurseanesthetists in the operating room and minorprocedure rooms and learned their anesthetictechniques,” she says. “The nurse anesthetistsat Angkor Hospital for Children have anexcellent knowledge of anatomy and techniquesto control pain in specific areas of the body.”As a student, Shubert gave the anesthetists theopportunity to practice their teaching skillsand strategies for educating anesthetists inCambodia. They then received feedback ontheir teaching from Richard Henker, PhD,(MSN ’02), RN, associate professor and vicechair in the Department of Acute and TertiaryCare, Shubert’s instructor who was also onthe trip.“I enjoyed this experience very much,” shesays. “I was exposed to excellent information inanesthetic management for pediatric patientsand learned new techniques and approachesthat are not seen in the United States.”On the practical side, Shubert notes, “Theliving conditions were very good. The hotelwas clean, close to the hospital, affordable, andthe staff was very nice and helpful.” Shubertappreciated the abundance of good restaurantswithin walking distance, plenty of opportunitiesfor sightseeing and shopping, and easilyaccessible transportation.“As much as I enjoyed my time in thehospital working with the staff and patients,I think my visit to the temples at Angkor Watwill be the most memorable part of the trip.”20 university of Pittsburgh

development newsMeet the NewDirector ofDevelopmentInsurance as aCharitable GiftJanice A. Devine hasjoined the Universityof Pittsburgh School ofNursing as director ofdevelopment. Devineworked at the WesternPennsylvania Hospitalfor the past 12 years,most recently as directorof annual givingand special events at West Penn HospitalFoundation, where she was responsiblefor planning, designing, and implementingall foundation annual giving, events,and special projects.“I am very excited and proud tobecome part of the Pitt family. Theschool’s prestigious reputation continuesto attract prominent students and facultywho, through their dedication and hardwork, have helped the School of Nursinggrow into a world-class institution,” saysDevine. “I look forward to meeting withfaculty, alumni, and current studentsto learn as much about the school aspossible so I can share their passion andhelp provide resources through which theschool can continue to flourish.”When alumni and friends of the Schoolof Nursing are considering how tomaximize a potential charitable gift,there are a variety of assets that shouldbe considered. This issue will focus oncharitable gifts using life insurance.Look for highlights about other charitablegiving vehicles in the coming issuesof Pitt Nurse.Life insurance is an excellent toolfor making a charitable gift, because itcan amplify the benefit of a gift that isconsiderably more than the cost of thegift to the donor.Annual donors in particular may beinterested in considering this opportunity.If a 50-year-old commits to giving$5,000 annually for 10 years, the $50,000total can be leveraged into a $360,000gift. For a couple, a second-to-die orsurvivor life policy would provide theschool with an $800,000 gift with thesame annual commitment.There are a number of other ways toinclude life insurance as a charitable gift.First, there is the assignation of a personallife insurance policy to the school. Thisallows an immediate income tax deductionto the donor. Or, an individual canalso name the school as the primary orcontingent beneficiary of a life insurancepolicy. While this method does not yieldan immediate income tax deduction, itwill result in a federal estate tax deductionfor the full amount of the proceedspayable to the school.By coupling estate planning techniques,you can increase the ultimate sizeof a gift. Donating appreciated capitalgain property such as stocks or real estateto the school, a donor can avoid theLife insurance is anexcellent tool formaking a charitable gift,because it can amplifythe benefit of a gift thatis considerably morethan the cost of thegift to the donor.capital gains tax and receive a deductionfor full-market value (with some exceptions).Then the cash proceeds can beused to fund a life insurance policy toprovide even more leverage and, thereby,an even larger gift.Finally, a popular way to use lifeinsurance in charitable planning isthrough a “wealth replacement” trust.Here, a charitable remainder trust can beestablished and a portion of the incomecan be used to purchase a life insurancepolicy. Insurance can be purchased thatwill replace a portion of the propertypassing to the charity, or all of theproperty within the charitable remaindertrust can be replaced. Because the lifeinsurance policy is owned by the trust, theproceeds of the policy will generally notbe subject to estate taxes.As always, consulting with your attorneyor financial planner is recommendedto ensure your individual plan makes themost sense for you.22 university of Pittsburgh

Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08Vincent P. CalabreseMartha A. Duncan, ’94Boyd CampbellBrent Alan Dunworth, ’96, ’99 +Linda Campbell, RN, RNP, ’60Bonita Keaveny Dupre-Rios, ’03Tama Meledandri Carey, ’77 +James J. DuratzLeah Mae S. Carlisle, ’66Dr. Judith Mary Dzyak, ’73 +Donna Dvorsky Caruthers, PhD, ’78, ’82, Jeanne Turner Earley, ’67 and’05 and William Franklin Caruthers II, Dr. William H. EarleyEsquire, LAW ’80 +Barbara McCormack Eisenhart, BSN,Dr. Gayle Ziegler Casterline, ’83, ’86 MSN, ’68Roland S. CatarinellaCarol Ann Deemer Elsesser, ’75;Dr. Denise C. Charron-ProchownikSHRS ’98 and James ElsesserPeng ChenAnne M. EmanuelFrank N. CiccoDebra Jean Engel, ’80 and GregoryScott Engel, MD, MED ’86 +Eric H. Cipcic, ’06Barbara Hootman Ensor, ’59 +Dr. Susan CohenDon Dewayne Enyart, ’95Douglas R. ColdwellMargaret Brackin Ewalt, ’56 +Carolyn Hocker Cooper, ’68Betty E. Falk, RN, BSN, ’48 and EdwardKaren L. CourtneyCharles Falk, MD, CAS ’39; MED ’43Anne Lipps Crawford, ’78Phyllis Hamparian Farson, ’82Susan Rae Culbertson, ’57Martha Fay Fellers, ’64 andPatricia Ann Cuthbert, ’68; EDU ’72, ’82 + Albert C. FellersMildred L. Czar, ’50, ’57 +Jennifer Whitehurst Fellows, KGSB ’04and Martin Fellows *Kathleen Yourish Czekaj, ’75Dr. Terri Elizabeth Weaver, ’73 andJennifer Lynn Dablock, ’99Bruce FiedlerDouglas R. DascenzoMariann Meholic Fisher, ’67Marilyn Brickner Davies, PhD, ’70, ’77;Ronald G. Fittro Jr., ’90, ’92GSPH ’85 and William R. C. Davies,CGS ’72; KGSB ’75Marcia Nelson Fix, ’58, ’61 +Dr. Alice Calabria Davis, ’73, ’84 +Dale Francis Fleck, ’00Beverly Ann Davis, ’70Michelle Josiane Pfenninger, ’02 andBrendan FlynnDale C. Davis, ’93 +Linda Margaret Fowler, DrPH, ’83;Ann Davisson, ’67GSPH ’86; GSPH ’97 +Jason Dechant, PhD, CAS ’94; FAS ’96Michael D. Gaber, KGSB ’00Susan Penman Decker, ’81 andMarybeth Gallagher, ’80Dr. Richard L. DeckerPatricia Rae Galsky, ’77Richard J. S. Del Signore, CAS ’54Rhonda Backers Garrett, ’75Ann M. Dietrick, ’05 +Dr. Lynn George, ’90 +Susan Jaditz Dixon, ’70 +Lorita Falvo Gerard, ’68, ’73; GSPH ’75 +Maria Groethe Donohue, ’92 andBryan C. Donohue, MDKaren L. Ghrist, ’95, ’06 +Barbara Louise Doring, HRP ’81Denis Alan Glunt, CAS ’67Martin W. DowlingMarie Gnus, ’48, ’52, ’70Dr. Karen N. DrenkardShai Goel, ’06Constance Notopoulos Drenning, ’65 and David GormsenRichard P. DrenningJune Riffle Grace, ’55 andDarlene Ann Dubay, EDU ’74, ’85, ’91 Lloyd F. GraceMargaret S. Dubuque, ’64Janet Laura Grady, DrPH, EDU ’74, ’89;GSPH ’00Laure Lestinsky Dudley, ’79 +George C. Grant, PhD, LIS ’81 andDeborah D. GrantCarrie Wolfe and Mark GreenwoodBarbara Bunton Griener, ’69Mary Bergan Grossett, ’59Viola Gaydos Halpin, ’52Rebekah Jean HamiltonMargaret Susan Hannan, PhD, ’01, ’07 +Dr. Mary Elizabeth HappTroy Philip Haupt, ’95Barbara Asche Haynes, PhD, ’67;EDU ’85 and Donald F. HaynesBrooke Hebert, ’03, ’07Donald J. HeipleCharlotte M. HellerRoberta G. Heller, ’67 +Dr. Richard A. Henker, ’02 +Cheryl Klein Herrington, ’77 +Joan E. Heyson, ’80Stacie F. Hitt, PhD, ’98Robert T. Hoffman, KGSB ’04 andJaime M. HoffmanRebecca Leigh Hoffman andW. Benjamin HoffmanLinda Susan Holden, ’74, ’87Joann Louise Holt, ’67, ’68Beverly Lois Horn, ’73Margaret J. Howe, ’58 +Marilyn T. Hravnak, PhD, ’83, ’00 andPaul F. Hravnak, ENG ’80; KGSB ’90;CGS ’06Barbara Foster Huff, ’78 andJames R. Huff II +Donna Schutz Humes, ’64, ’67Jean Lewis Huston, ’51Susan Harvan Imam, ’75 +Ruth E. InkpenCynthia Ann Intihar-Hogue, RN, BSN,CCM, ’94Eileen Jamison, ’57 +Brandi F. Jefferson, ’02, ’06Jim H. JenkinsRichard Curtis Jennewine, ENG ’62;KGSB ’66Gwendolyn L. Johnson, ’73, ’79 +Janice Davis Johnston, ’74 andDr. Dale E. Johnston, CAS ’72; FAS ’75Christine Ravasio Jones, ’72John W. Jones III, ’99, ’01Tricia Frack Jordan, ’93, ’98 andOliver R. Jordan, ’93, ’98Henry T. Joyce, ’02, ’04Laura Juran, ’72Michael J. KalinowskiIrene Kane, PhD, CAS ’74, ’80; EDU ’07and Kevin M. Kane, MDAnnette Marie Karahuta, ’80 +Abigail Debra Kaufer, ’01, ’06Dr. Mary Louise Keller, ’75, ’79 andDonald Harry Keller, EDU ’84 +Lana K. KelleyLinda Susan Kenwood, ’72Judith Keppel, ’84 +Elizabeth H. KereseyWilliam M. Keresey IIIMary Ann Kestner, ’73 +Mary A. KierJulius Mulwa Munyoki Kitutu, PhD,EDU ’97; EDU ’99; EDU ’02Karen Mohan Klein, ’76 andRobert A. Klein Jr.Marcia Peterson Klepac, ’67 andGlenn Edward Klepac, LAW ’70 *Leigh A. Kloss, ’76Terri E. Koehler, ’83Marcie Marie Kolick, ’94Loretta Piazza Lang, EDU ’61 andJoseph H. Lang, KGSB ’60Nicholas Charles Laudato Jr., PhD,EDU ’75 +Pauline Marie Law, ’88 +Maria Laykish, ’06Dorothy A. Lee, ’73Heeyoung LeeKapo L. LewC. Vanetta Lewis, ’71Karen Stegman Lilli, ’73 andRobert Harry Lilli, MD, HRP ’73E. Gay Lindsay, ’58 +Kimberly Woodcock Littell, ’83 andFrederick H. LittellMary Lee Zurich Long, ’73, ’02 +Darlene Averell Lovasik, ’82 andVernon Andrew Lovasik, DMD, CAS ’76;DEN ’91Jason S. Lowe, ’94 +Lisa Lowry, ’07Dr. Vicki Ann Lucas, ’77, ’7924 university of Pittsburgh

Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08Dr. Kathleen T. LuckeAnn E. Maiolo, ’82 +Janice Carol Maker, SOC WK ’85Cara M. Malcotti, ’05Alice Jean Maloney, ’73 +Miss Lois E. Mansfield, ’45 +Karen J. Maresch, ’91, ’95 +Sheryl B. Marquez, ’73 andJ. M. Marquez Jr., MDSusan Bitner Mars, ’64Rita M. Marsh, ’03, ’06 andKenneth James Marsh, GRE ’87 +Janice M. Marshall, ’97Hilary Stone Martin, ’78 andDennis Stevens Martin, CAS ’78 +E. Jane Martin, PhD, ’73; EDU ’79 +Evalyn Mae Martin, ’62 +Donna S. Martsolf, PhD, ’91Melissa Lynne Mastorovich, ’88 +Diane McDermott Mathews, ’72 +Bettina A. Dixon, ’93 and Jon F. MazurKerry J. McCarthyKerry James McCarty, ’93, ’95 +Donna Bell McClure, EDU ’62 andThomas David McClure, MD, CAS ’61;MED ’65 +Constance S. McCormick, GSPH ’85Dorothy Ceyrolles McElwee, ’79 andJohn Francis McElwee Jr., ENG ’80Kathryn Evans McGeary, ’52Lisa Marie McKibban, ’89Kathleen Mary McKool, ’72Jean McLaughlin, ’56 andJohn N. McLaughlinMary Alice McLaughlin, ’88Tammy Meckley and Scott MeckleyJoann Helen Megonnell, ’80 +Albert MendicinoCydney Afriat Menihan, ’73 +Ethel Joan Michael, ’68 +Margaret Virginia Michele, ’62, ’66 +John V. Milantoni, CAS ’60 +Elise M. Miller, ’67 and Ernest GeorgeMiller, CAS ’65Jacqueline Lynn Miller, ’95, ’04Linda Naylor Miller, ’84 +Amy D. Miller, ’73 and William TracyMiller, KGSB ’75 +Alexander M. Minno, MD, CAS ’43;MED ’47 and Frances Minno, Esquire Regina Harriet Phillips, PhD, ’67;James C. MitchellEDU ’77 +Dr. Jemelene Chastain Moore, ’68 + Cheryl Armstrong Pittman, ’85Leona Olander Moore, ’45Myrna Dible Porter, ’48Kristen Morgan and David MorganRobert Barry Powell, ’71Jeffrey R. MorganKimberly F. Power, ’86 +Deborah Lee Morgan andKatherine Greco Pyros, ’88, ’91Richard J. MorganSusan Ratliff Rauch, ’78Bryan Morreale, PhD, ENG ’99; ENG ’02; Jeanne Griffith Reed, ’43 +ENG ’06Cynthia Krieder Reighard, ’74 +James R. MoylesDr. Lynn F. Reinke, ’90Ruth Mrozek, ’64, ’70 +Victoria L. Rich, PhD, ’84, ’91 andJoan Marie Murray, ’95Alexander R. Rich, PhDElizabeth Louise Muse, ’78Eleanor Bash Richter, RN, BSN, ’55M. Judith Musial, ’73 +Marsha Lutes Roche, CAS ’76 +Denise Custer Myers, RN, ’73Nancy Galley Roderick, ’66Ronna Eisner Nagin, ’74 +Mary Nicholson Romero, ’56 +Christine Napier, ’87, ’92 andMargaret Quinn Rosenzweig, PhD,Steven Napier’86, ’01 and Michael HowardDonna Grace Nativio, PhD, ’64;Rosenzweig, Esquire, CAS ’81;GSPH ’67; EDU ’86 +LAW ’84 +Jacquelyn M. Nelson, ’91Cynthia L. Roth, ’81 +Kristen E. Nesser, ’01Dr. Nancy Lloyd Rothman, ’64Brigette Mularkey Niesen, ’81Ellen B. Rudy, PhDRaymond D. NietupskiMiss Maureen Rusnock, ’67, ’72Arthur Lee Noonan, CAS ’75 andMarion Long Russell, ’55Dr. Lucille Terry NorthcuttNancy Rishel Rymut, ’74Lois Gregory Norton, ’54Dorothy Lois Sabolsice, ’53Michelle L. Noschese, ’96 andDr. Susan Bakewell Sachs, ’79 andEdward A. Noschese, ’96 +Jonathan R. SachsIvan J. Novick, CAS ’49 andDaniel J. SafferMary B. Novick +Joanne Gorenflo Samuels, ’57;Phyllis A. Bergent O’Block, ’49 +GSPH ’64Marilyn Zrust, ’79, ’89 andCol. Patricia Hunter Saulsbery, ’75 andTimothy Charles O’Connor, CGS ’87 Thomas Bernard Saulsbery, CAS ’75 +John O’DonnellGrace Ammannito Scarsellato, ’59;Margaret Lee Oleary, ’82, ’89EDU ’70 and John N. Scarsellato, MD *Harriett H. Olson, ’61, ’76 +Dr. Elizabeth A. SchlenkVirginia C. Oyler, ’00 +Laura K. SchubertLouis J. Pace, ’94Elayne Marie Schweikert, ’94, ’95Elaine Louise Patalski, ’81, ’88Joy Thomas Seder, ’81 +Thelma E. Patrick, PhD, ’91 +Esther Frances Seeley, ’69Scott E. Pearson, ’98, ’05 +Sharon Henderson Seligson, ’68Amy Bettencourt Pelkey, ’04 andSandra A. Sell, ’88 and David M. Sell +Brian Pelkey, ’04Vincent Albert Petrelli, ENG ’82;Doris Sherman Petrosky, ’50 +ENG ’88 and Dr. Susan M. SereikaCheryl Tilley Petursson, ’75, ’80 andJanet Lea Shade, ’73Sigurdur R. Petursson, MDEthel Lawyer Shaw, ’42 +E. Michael Phillips, ’03 +Judith D. Shepherd andJohn W. ShepherdPaula Riess SherwoodLuda C. Shields, ’55 +Natalie Diehl Shriver, ’75 +Marlene Lucille Sienicki, ’96 +Dr. Joseph SincavagePatricia Vollmer Slingwine, ’72 andWilliam Richard Slingwine, ENG ’73 *Jennifer Abele Smith, ’72 +Karl Jay Smith, CAS ’70 +Mary Snyder Smith, ’64, ’67Dr. Shirley Ann Powe Smith, ’59, ’79and Robert Preston Smith, DDS,CAS ’55; DEN ’60Mary Catherine Smolenski, ’72Mary Lou Snodgrass andDr. W. Homer SnodgrassLinda S. SoleckiCharlotte Mae Spicher, PhD, ’63, ’75Linda Jean Spizzirri, ’75Teresa Stackhouse, ’06 +Diane Dalton Stajduhar, ’80 andKarl Conrad Stajduhar, MD, CAS ’79;MED ’83 +Amber Latta Stanko, RN, MN, ’73, ’80and Michael StankoBeverly Amanda Steinert, ’48 +Lucy Elwood Stetter, ’51 +Judy Ann Stevenson, ’95Mae Cook Stewart, ’60Carol S. Stilley, PhD, EDU ’92; EDU ’97Doris M. Stitely, ’68, ’71John Christian Strollo, ’98 +Elizabeth Phelps Sukarochana, ’57 +Matthew G. SuleckiKathryn SweeneyMarguerite F. Tamasy, PhD, RN, ’79 +Judith A. Tate, ’91Mary M. Taylor and William T. TaylorSusan R. Terlingo-Saxon, ’83 +Esther Mae Tesh, ’71Erin S. Teskey, ’04 and William BryceTeskey, ’98, ’02 +Catherine Hilaire Thompson, MS, RN,IBCLC, ’63Anita Lacava Thorne, ’57, ’64 +Denise Hirsch Tola, ’91Pitt Nurse spring 2009 25

Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08Patricia K. Tuite, ’85, ’92 +Sheila Alexander, PhD, ’89, ’04 +David J. TunneyAnnette M. Altman, ’95 andNancy Ullrich-Monro, ’64Kenneth R. Altman, CAS ’92James G. Underwood, ’04Rose Marie Alvin, PhD, ’86Alexander Simon Vujan Jr., MD, MED ’74Peggy Walter Anderson, CAS ’70 andJack R. Anderson, CAS ’70 +Wendy Lucille Weaver, ’93, ’95 +Jacqueline R. Gavin Anderson, ’89Dr. Scott WeberJulia Lee Anderson, ’92Valerie Bobbin Wengler, ’89 andTimothy WenglerDwight L. AndrewsCharles E. WestonAngela Jacobi, RN, MN, IBCL, ’77 andBurleigh Paul Angle, EDU ’72Beth A. White, ’05Linda McBride Antes, ’79 andChristine L. White, ’65Paul H. AntesJanet E. White, ’92 and Richard J.Mary C. Augustine, ’91White +Margaret Stanley Austin, ’77Allison L. White, ’93 and ThomasPatrick White IV, CAS ’93 *Ruth Z. Bachman, PNP, ’70 +Jean Pitzer Wiant, ’55 +Marcia D. BagameryNancy R. Adams Wieker, ’66Camille Brisini Bagnato, ’67, ’75Mark WildenSherry L. Baird, CAS ’75 +Kristen Fernandez, MD, ’89 andBarbara A. Baker, ’73Christopher L. Wilhelm, Esquire,Mark Robert Baker, DMD, DEN ’83CAS ’92 +Mary Dolbear Banks, ’65Dr. Mary Elizabeth PetersonChryssoula Barbas and John BarbasWilkins, ’83 +Patricia A. Barbas, A&S ’05; EDU ’06 +Dr. Nancy Jo Wilson, ’76Philip J. BargioneRuby L. Wilson, RN, EdD, ’54Helen V. BarkleyPatricia Maloney Wolpert, ’76Janet A. BarlettJoanne Patterson Woodruff, ’86Eleanore Barovitch, ’68 +Eric A. Wrenn, ’04Mildred Maxine Barricklow, ’71Margaret Wehar Yakin, ’89 andDavid Yakin, MDDale R. BartholomewJoan M. Yoder, ’78Carolyn Whitehill Baxter, ’61 andJames Robert Baxter, DDS, DEN ’61 +Christopher R. YoungAngela S. Bayless, ’78 +Merriam Elizabeth Young, ’98 +Kim Komaromy Beam, ’78Kathryn Shearer Zini, ’77 andAldo Zini, EN ’75 +Carolyn Elaine Bechtold, ’82Deborah Ann Zipay, KGSB ’89 *Tekla Wiehn Beeby, ’64Darla Kuhel Beers, ’83Individuals $99 and UnderFrederick Forrest Beers, CAS ’82Sara Barley Aalto, ’67Karen Beese and Michael J. BeeseMonretta Davis Aarons, ’59 andRobert T. Aarons, PhD, SOC WK ’60; Dorean Latecia Behney, ’95 +GSPH ’76; EDU ’78Sandra L. Bell, CGS ’05 andHenry L. Ablauf +Glenn K. BellBette Callahan Acker, ’46Margaret Wilson Bellak, ’73 andJohn Allen Bellak, ENG ’66Patricia Porter Adams, ’83Kathleen Mary Bellis, ’85Ronald Mark AdamskiPatricia Wehrheim Affe, ’70 +Carolyn Boag Belz, ’65, ’80Elizabeth Michlovic Benedum,Richard S. Albright’68, ’85 +Lyn Rene Alexander, ’99 + Susan E. BennMichelle BergmanDr. Lisa Marie Bernardo, GSPH ’00George M. Bernier Jr., MDMary Ellen Grassman Bernstein, ’87Margaret Ann Steele Berry, ’50Mary Joan Bilcheck, ’54Elizabeth Seely Black, ’49Eva Tansky Blum, Esquire, CAS ’70;LAW ’73 +Eileen Chasens Blumenfeld, DSNRuth Riddle Boatman, ’61 andJack D. BoatmanSherry Moskowitz Boberman, ’81Michelle Renee Bodziak, ’84Betty Jane Fox Boggio, ’57Julia M. Bohinski, ’07 +Rosemary Bolinger, CAS ’76, ’08Rose Marie Querio Bologna, ’62Sharon K. Bonavoglia andArthur E. BonavogliaBarbara Ann Bonenberger, ’75, ’79Jeanne Radzwill Bonidy, ’77A. Denise Gordon Bordlemay, ’69Paul Robert Borman, CAS ’65; FAS ’68Lorraine Borrell, JHN ’01, ’02, ’04Lenora Altvater Borucki, ’76, ’05Bernard G. Borum, ’94, ’06Michael J. BosaczykCarol Ann Bostjanick, ’67Lynda B. BoulayDiane Elizabeth Bowen, ’93Adele Fierst Bowman, CAS ’52, ’54Beverly Taylor Boyd, ’67, ’69June P. Boyles, ’64Lois Greenfield Boyles, ’79Elaine Bozza, ’05Martin F. BradleyDebra Rizzo Brady, PhD, ’74, ’81 andMartin John Brady, CAS ’75; FAS ’80 +Janice Braunegg Brandeburg, ’74, ’78and Stephen J. Brandeburg Jr.Kathleen Lovell Bratby, ’70 andF. Roger Bratby +Ruth Ann Crawford Brawdy, ’61Lillian Jossi Brenner, ’48Jennifer Streb Brezger, ’79Mychele Becer Brickner, ’73 andRobert Harry Brickner, ENG ’70Dr. Martha Wingerd Bristor, ’57Catherine Latu Brophy, ’84Betty Lee Brown, ’52Marcia R. Brown, ’77 +Nellie Hogan Brown, ’74Mary Ray Brumbaugh, ’56Joseph J. Brun, ’94 ’98Alice Braatz Brunswick, ’51Debra R. Brydon, ’06 +Deirdre Ann Bulian, ’00Daniel Paul Burick, ’76Jennifer Burkey, ’07 +Ann Louise Burkhardt, ’46, ’64Colleen Heeney Burkhardt, ’49Patricia Vernal Burkhart, PhD, ’72, ’96and Terry Paul Burkhart, PIA ’78Kathleen Marie Burns, ’72, ’76Carol Jean Byers, ’86Amelia Dolores Caddy, ’62Michelle R. L. Caicedo, ’93Judith Ann Callan, PhD, ’80, ’84, ’07Susan K. Callen, ’04Margaret P. Campbell, ’08Diane S. Campbell, ’81 and Robert C.Campbell, GSPH ’83Robert L. Campbell, KGSB ’55Mary Camporeale and RonaldCamporealeAnne M. Butz Canny, ’78Cynthia CanteyAmy L. Caputo, ’06Carol Stevenson Carr, ’62George Richard CarrickValerie Ann Carthew, ’99 +Teresa Karlo Caruso, ’77Frances Elizabeth CasilloMary Jo Cassano, ’93Kathleen Nicolette Cecil, ’62, ’79Robert J. CermignanoAlicia Swigunski Cessar, ’92 andJoseph D. CessarLawrence Richard Chaban, Esquire,CAS ’77; LAW ’80William Peter Chapas, CAS ’65Mary D. Chisholm-Zook, ’59Christina G. Claar, ’98; JHN ’00Jeanne Katherine Clancey, ’87 +Brig Gen Marcia F. Clark, ’63 +26 university of Pittsburgh

Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08Julie A. Clarvit, ’95 +Lois Chambers Davis, BSN, ’59Mary Ann Claus-Raible, ’85Michael T. DavisNancy E. Cobb, ’67Ruth De Haven, ’64Carla Nickl Cocco, ’83 andJanet Marie Deems, ’79Mark V. CoccoCheryl Fazio Delaney, ’73Marianne Channas Cockroft, ’80Cassandra Kosanovich Delisio, RN,Leslie Anne Coda, ’74BSN, ’68Beverly Fay Cohen, PhD, ’71, ’80 +Gail Burcin DeLucia, ’82Kathryn O. Coisman, ’97Mary Gregorius Demarest, ’50Charlotte Sporck Collman, ’50, ’79 Nancy Zentner DeMilta, ’81Pamela G. Colson, ’77Deborah Schloder DeMuro, ’79Yvette Perry Conley, PhD, GSPH ’93; Dianne Davis Dencler, ’63GSPH ’99Ellen Proeller Dennis, ’74 +Ann Fuller Connolly, ’87 and Mark JohnSusan Enzbrenner DeRosa, ’75Connolly, CAS ’87 +Sandra DesLouches, CGS ’07Mary Catherine ConnollyTerri L. Devereaux, ’06Helenea Hrebenak Connor, ’79Sushama Dhakal AcharyaMaryjane Cooney, ’89Denise J. Dianna, ’94Crystel Cornwell, ’77 +Sally Mae Shull-Diener, ’99 andWalter James Cornwell Jr., PHA ’77 +Erwin DienerMary Keller Cortese, ’69Patricia Allen DiGeorge, ’67 andThe Honorable Jay Costa Jr.John Donald DiGeorge Jr., ENG ’67Scott Coulson, EdD, EDU ’07Lucy B. Dillon, ’84Wilma Betts Couper, ’52Betsy Ann Kauffman DiNardo, ’84 +Lynn A. Klanchar, ’78 and Donn Moore Monica Marten Dinardo, ’78, ’84Chip CouttsTheresa Marie DinardoKenneth M. Coval, CGS ’82, ’97 +Julia Lynn Dlugos, ’96, ’00Michele M. Covington, ’96 +Nam H. Do, ’94, ’05Lawrence CoxSteven DoanNancy Coyne, ’94Patti Donaldson and Mark DonaldsonElizabeth A. CragoKathleen A. DonatelliBonnie Craig, ’91, ’93Anne Eulalia Donnelly, ’65Patricia Koon Craven, ’70Heidi S. Donovan, PhDMargaret H. CrightonSharon Dudik Doolin, ’78 +Susan Crissman, ’69, ’76Dr. Willa Marlene DoswellMiss Nancy Jane Crouthamel, ’75, ’83 +Frederick W. DoughertySue Ann Cunningham, CAS ’69Karen L. Dover and Mark K. DoverJanice E. Cutlip, ’53Michelle Dragotta, ’86, ’07Mary Jo Kelly Cwenar, ’74Donna Smiley Duchene, ’87Margaret C. Cygnarowicz, ’89T. Audean Duespohl, PhD, EDU ’89Joeta Kay D’Este, ’82Valeria C. Dukelow, ’60Robyn Jo Daniels, ’99, ’01Stephanine Sue DuplagaJoanne Pfaller Daniels, ’73 and WilliamJoan Welty Duran, ’67Walter Daniels, ENG ’72Dr. Martha L. Dushaw, ’54Sarah Markle Dattilo, ’56Thomas J. EarleyDr. Lynda J. DavidsonLouise R. Eckroth, ’47 +Bonnie Davis, R.N., ’69, ’76Taryn M. Edwards, ’04 +Leah E. Davis, ’05 +Okan U. ElciLinda Kay Eld, ’82Amy Lyn ElliottCatherine Carmack Emanuele, ’77T. Kunkle Emberg, ’68Mary Louise Ende, ’65Richard Allen EngbergPatricia R. Ergas, ’63Helen Weber Errera, ’62, ’69Melanie Matthews Erskine, ’78, ’85Mary Bartlett Espinosa, ’69 and RubenJose Espinosa, PhD, CAS ’67; FAS ’69;FAS ’74Nancy Mack Ettinger, ’65Joyce Gilmore Evans, ’72Karen Kunkle Evans, ’69Becky Lee FaettAnthony FalconeSusan Ann Farrell, ’79Barbara Joan Feathers, ’98Mary Dillie Feathers, ’46 +Marian Knight Fedak, ’76 and BernardJ. Fedak, ENG ’68; KGSB ’73 +Eleanor Annis Feerst, ’60; EDU ’65Constance Graff Feiler, ’88 and SidneyI. Feiler, CAS ’64; EDU ’66Maryanne Fello, ’72; EDU ’76Richard J. FeraBarbara Foley Ferreira, ’75Norma C. Fetters, ’56Janet Wingerd Feucht, ’55Marie A. FioravantiRoberta M. FioreSally Foster Fitzgerald, ’70Janet Giunta Flecker, ’81Jennifer A. Fleegle-Vitsas, ’03, ’07Sonya Ickes Fleming, ’72Karen Krajewski Florian, ’78 andDr. Frederick M. Florian, CAS ’77Edith Keenan Flurkey, ’56Carol Eidel Foltz, ’64Sandra Anne FoundsDr. Linda McKeever Fowler, ’76, ’80 +Nancy Bush Fowler, ’61Mary Leap Franceschini, ’65Virginia Powell Francis, ’45, ’48Darlene Ann Freker-Bartos, ’86Kenneth H. FriskeThelma Eunice Fuller, ’70, ’74Barbara Mae Fullerton, ’83Vicky Harshadkumar GandhiNicole Marie GannonMary Ann Newell Gapinski, ’76Dr. Linda J. GarandLinda Smith Garcia, ’72Dorothy W. Garland, ’80Sheila Giesler Gealey, ’94Carlotta Marie Gedman, CPP, CGS ’80Carolyn S. Geister, ’66Leah Vota George-Cunningham, ’76Tenisha Lynn GibbsNancy Whitley Gibellino, ’72 +Carol Effie Gidney, ’72Renee E. Gilhousen, ’79Pamela Ann Gill, ’05 +Donna Maguire Gillis, ’67Bonnell Weigle Glass, ’67 +Dorothy Hornick Glasson, ’44Sally L. Glatfelter, ’03John R. Glunt Jr.William Edward Glunt, KGSB ’87Susan Franz Gold, ’75Dea M. GoodmanPatricia K. Goorin, ’04Pauline Barnes Gose, ’49Kristine A. Gosnell, ’91 +David F. Gould IIIJoanne Hart Graffte, ’69Deborah L. GrayRichard GrayJane L. Green, ’53Gail Tussing Greene, RN, BSN, CRRN,’76 and Daniel C. GreeneJudith Meredith Gregory, ’67Sally Jean Gresty, ’65Margaret J. Grey, DrPH, ’70Deborah Ann Griffith, ’75 and WilliamSchuler Griffith, PhD, FAS ’73; FAS ’79Joan Lesniak Grocki, ’82 and DanielJoseph Grocki, LIS ’84Wilma D. Groethe, CRNP, ’96 +Suzanne Weller Gross, ’56, ’63Jana L. Gruber, ’73Louise D. Grundish, RN, ’76Tanya T. Gurian, ’77 +Pitt Nurse spring 2009 27

Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08Judith Mueller Gustafson, ’63JoAnne Lipps Highberger, ’72Jane Guttendorf, ’87, ’94Anne Louise Hitchak, ’76, ’81Cheryl Scofield Gutterres, ’63Jennifer Marcia Hlad, ’94Nancy Voye Haddad, ’82James P. HodgenPaul G. HaganCarol Fitzpatrick HodgkissAlice Jane Haines, ’89Meghan Rice Hodgson, ’03 +Susan Ann Hammer, ’85 +Allan S. HoffmanMarcia A. HammerleMargaret J. Hoffman, ’78Margaret Ann Hancock, ’66Rosemary L. Hoffmann, PhD, ’77, ’83;Shelley Kathryn Hando, ’95SHRS ’06 and Paul Charles Hoffmann,PHA ’79Brenda S. HansenBeverly Benz Hogan, ’59Nina Patterson Hansen, ’79Ann Willcox Hoist, ’74, ’99 and FrancisSally Ann Harding, ’58 +Stephen Hoist, KGSB ’67Gwendolyn L. Hardt, ’57Margaret D. Holdcroft, ’56 +Janet Pruitt Harman, ’78Marcia Hartman Holland, ’80Julie Anne HarrisRuth Hollen, RSM, ’80Richard W. HarrisMary Lee Holler, RN, BSN, MNED, ’78William HarrisonLori Wardrop Holt, ’99Mary L. Harshbarger, ’66Roberta Ann Hoover, ’95, ’98 +Lorri Ann Harshberger, ’87; JHN ’97 Jeanne Dettis Hopple, ’77 andShirley K. Hart, ’58William H. Hopple IIH. Ann Hartary, RN, ’64Deborah Ann Horst, ’79Gloria Dragan Haughton, ’52, ’63 +Stacey Ellen Houck, ’98 +Wilson Weaver Haughton Sr., CAS ’53; Martin Pierre HouzeEDU ’67 +Susan Hreha, ’78Carol Smithburger Haus, PhD, ’72,Deborah A. Hrzic and Dennis P. Hrzic’83, ’03 +Debra L. HughesAllyson Ann Havill, ’88M. Katherine Brown Hull, ’78 andDorothy Hawthorne BurdineWillard HullMary E. Hawthorne, ’90Olga R. Hulley, ’45 +Brenda Crush Hay, ’80Maria Hunt, ’80 and Lawrence HuntAlexander Hays IVRuthie Campbell Hunt, ’59Sharon Butts Hays, ’70Florence M. Hunter-Umstead, ’81, ’96 +Nancy Rae Hazo, ’65 and MosesLinda Lu Hutchinson, ’82Joseph Hazo, CAS ’64 +Nancy Patricia Hutchinson, ’70Penny HearnJessica Marion Hutchison, CAS ’96,Nancy Russell Hedges, ’62’02, ’04 +Susan Shook Heller, ’80 and DeanBrenda Golby Ivanac, ’73 andStanley Heller, HRP ’79 +John IvanacNorma Quinet Hesen, ’55Elizabeth Ann Ivey, ’59 and WilliamMadeleine Ramik Hess, PhD, ’73, ’80 J. C. Ivey, DDS, CAS ’56; DEN ’60Andrew HibianDana R. James and Dennis JamesIrene C. Hickey, ’80Gayle Stirling Jameson, ’82, ’97Susan Volpe Hicks, ’56, ’60 and Harry Ronald Jardini, ’80E. Hicks, KGSB ’55; KGSB ’56David Rudolph Johnson, ’97, ’04 +Rachel Hicks, ’01Sandra JohnsonDr. Kathy R. Higgins, ’75, ’78Susan Elisabeth Johnson, ’83Linda Westapal Higgins, PhD, ’87, ’97 +Charlotte N. Jones, PhD, ’56, ’73;EDU ’79Lance JonesMarian Kenny Jonnet, ’81Felice Luka Jordahl, ’83 +Margaret M. Joyce, ’91 +Mary E. Jubeck, ’69, ’91Marguerite Ann Judy, ’73Deborah Jewett Kaczkowski, ’73 andEdward F. Kaczkowski, ENG ’72Patricia L. Kalish, ’68William Kalish, CAS ’67Virginia E. Kalyan, ’54 +Nancy Kaminski, ’78 and DeanRaymond Kaminski, CAS ’75 +Roberta Karsh Kaplan, ’83Jane Singer Kart, ’68, ’78 andBarry H. Kart, MD +Carrie Kaylos, ’06Alison Lynn Keating, EDU ’02Mary Ellen Keefer, ’76Mildred Volz Kegel, ’53 and ReverendAdam G. Kegel, ENG ’49Marilyn Louise Keil, RN, ’57Nancy Jo KellerKathleen KennedySheila Hays Kerr, ’67, ’70Donna Clemens Ketterer, ’74 +Carol Kieda, LIS ’94MaryBeth Kifus, ’05 +Sister Lorelda KilchensteinJennifer King, CAS ’77Linda Evelyn King, ’63Judith Etzel King, ’62 andWilliam R. KingDorlee Dale Kingen, ’70Elizabeth Stein Kinley, ’87Deann Hillegass Kinsey, ’82, ’85Denise Myers Kirchner, RN, MN,MPS, ’76Sandra Kramer Kiser, ’68Dr. Patricia Darlene Kissell, ’66, ’68Megan M. Klamerus, A&S ’05Christina L. KlarnetMary Beth S. Klein, RN, BSN, ’77 andCharles KleinSara Jo KleinRose Marie Kmetz, ’70 +Christina Tibbitts Knezevich, ’75 andJohn D. KnezevichThe Honorable Catherine Baker Knoll +Diane M. KnowltonGlory Valentovish Koerbel, ’78Howard KohosJames J. KoprivaBeverly J. Kormanik, ’56Nancy Neiberg Kosanovich, ’65, ’67Mildred Huston Kovacik, ’67, ’74 andPaul J. KovacikFrances Marie KratofilDeborah Petro Kreahling, ’78, ’90Nancy Joan Krokosky, ’80 and EdwardM. KrokoskyMary Louise Krul, ’57Sandra Louise Kubala, ’94, ’00Caroline Wright Kuhl, ’69Roberta Kurland, ’04Rose Marie Kutlenios, PhD, ’79, ’85, ’99Charles E. KutzAmy Lou Labant, PhD, ’99Sister Judith A. Laffey, ’85Janeen LaForceJane M. Lagrotteria, ’90 and PaulSamuel Lagrotteria, PE, ENG ’84 +Ruth Christina Lambert, ’71Margaret Mary Lambrou, ’82Dr. Diane Novotny Lancaster, ’79Tracey Lynn Lang and Dr. Craig A. LangMargaret Ann Lanigan, ’70Cynthia Cheryl Lann, ’72Laurie LapsleyMargaret Ann Larson, ’76Elizabeth M. LaRue, PhD, LIS ’95;’94, ’06Thomas Francis Lattner, ENG ’80Susan Klinkner Lauffer, ’75 and RussellThomas Lauffer, PHA ’76Helen L. Laughran, ’56Carol Lindsay Lausch, ’63 +Denise L. Lavalle-Bandini, CGS ’92Marian A. Leake, ’54Katharine A. Lembright, RN, ’46Audrey Marie Lentz, ’64Kimberly Cipra Leone, ’77 and Guy R.Leone, MD, MED ’82 +Marian Janco Leone, ’8328 university of Pittsburgh

Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08James Joseph Lestitian, LAW ’73Michalena Fran Levenduski, ’79, ’83 +Susan Holsinger Lindman, ’66Mary Jo Lindsay, ’85 +Jennifer Hagerty Lingler, PhD, ’98;FAS ’03, ’04 +Matthew S. LivingstonOlga Roman Lloyd, ’54Sandra Davis Lloyd, ’78Grace Lockard, ’78Melissa Jill Lokovic, ’98Robert D. LorahMary C. Quinn Loughran, ’77; GSPH ’87Jill Funfar Love, ’81 and Charles J.Love, MD, MED ’83Jacqueline Kay Lownie, ’65 +Xiaoli Lu, ’94 ’02; GSPH ’06Kristin M. Lubinski, ’93 +Devera Bloom Lucker, ’60Sister Barbara Lum, ’78Dr. John A. LyonsPatricia Ann Lysko, ’77 +Mary Kate MacKenzie and WarrenR. MacKenzieHolly Joy Myers Mackey, ’84Dr. Marlene C. Mackey, ’75Kathy Sue Magdic, ’92, ’95Capt. Charlene Rychlinski Mahu, USN,Ret., ’73 and Felix Paul MahuMarlene Schirf Mailloux, ’63Theresa Stephenson Majetic, ’87Mary Jane Maloney, ’63Margaret E. Manion, ’89Judy ManjerovicWilliam M. Manning, ’04Jan Davis Manzetti, PhD, ’79, ’92 +Sandra Nuss Markley, ’60Ruth Ewing Marlin, ’49, ’55, ’70Barbara G. Martens, ’83Nancy Simpson Marts, ’52Rachel A. Mathers, ’98 and LawrenceJohn Mathers, MD, MED ’00Judith Tabolt Matthews, PhD, ’98;GSPH ’99 and Richard Alan Matthews,KGSB ’79Joseph Gerard Mattis, ’95 +Marsey E. MauerKaye Maxwell and Walter MaxwellJoan B. Mays, ’57 and A. Earl Mays,CAS ’53Margaret M. McCagueMaura K. McCall, ’08Kay McCandless, ’74; GSPH ’75Barbara Joan McCarthy, ’74 +Joan Frances McCarthy, ’97Loretta H. McCarthy, ’61 +Rosemary Dinello McCarthy, PhD, ’02and Richard McCarthyRuth Ann McChesney, ’61 +Cynthia W. McClellanBruce McCollumJames J. McCreanorDiane R. McDougal, ’77Beatrice Joan McDowell, PhD,GSPH ’78; EDU ’85 +Christine L. Casey and RobertMichael McDunnJudith Culler McGlothlin, ’69John McGonigleThe Honorable James R. McGregor,LAW ’57 and Marguerite U. McGregorAmy Krall McLaughlin, RN, ’98 andDennis McLaughlinArlene Altmyer McLean, ’67Elizabeth Irene McNallyMargaret A. McNeilAnn McNemar, ’69Nancy Flanigan McSteen, ’55 and J.David McSteen, ENG ’55 +Margaret H. Meeker, ’69 +Carolyn J. Menk, ’58DeEtta MetzDr. Jacqueline Mansour Mickley, ’70Jerry J. Migliozzi Jr.Patricia Ann Mihallo, ’82 +Jacqueline Winters Mihm, ’78, ’92Suellyn Kramer Milchovich, ’72Arlene Arrigoni Miller, ’62Barbara Lynch Miller, ’73Beth E. Miller, ’72Jodi J. Miller, ’05Rosemary Birmingham Miller, ’47Tharon K. Miller, ’90 +Martha Suzan Milvet, ’79, ’92 +Ann Margaret Mitchell, PhD, EDU ’87Steven H. MitchellThomas J. MitchellSophia Jermanovich Orlovich, ’76 +Eileen W. Mitchell, ’76 and Timothy C. Miss Mary Anna Orrison, ’50Mitchell +Ray S. OswaldDorothy Gera Mizikar, ’63Lydia Lee Ott, ’55 and William Yee Ott,Janice Maier Molnar, ’66DDS, CAS ’52; DEN ’54Judith Ann Montgomery, ’61Barbara Bryce Owen, ’56John I. MooreLaura Bushmire Palmer, ’73, ’82Pearl Friedman Moore, RN, MN, FAAN, Paula Joanne Palmer, ’74; HRP ’87 and’68, ’74 +Paul D. PalmerJo Ann Moorhead, ’76Joyce Urda Pareigis, ’61, ’63Jena Victoria Morey, ’89Helen Baxter Parenti, ’81 and MichaelCarol Morihlatko, ’80J. Parenti, DMD, CAS ’80; DEN ’83 +Mary Beth MorrellKathleen A. Ryan Park, ’77Barbara M. Moulton, ’67 +Autumn E. ParramoreDarrick W. MowreyAurora D. Patterson, ’00Kimberly MowreyMarguerite Ursula Patton, ’83Lynn Carlson Moyer, ’89 +Barbara Elaine Peace, CAS ’79Robert Donald Moyer Jr., MD, MED ’92 + Dr. Janice Lee Penrod, ’76Admir Music, ’94 ’04Jane Broyan Perazzola, ’77 andCarl Joseph Perazzola, ENG ’75Edvin Music, ’94 ’01Adele Korowicki Perdeus, ’75 +Carol Myers, ’06Martin PerlmanBarbara J. Nagle, ’54 +Janet L. Peterson, ’95, ’96 andDenise Mericli Nagy, ’84Kim A. PetersonDorothy Pinette Nardella, ’76, ’80Charlotte R. Petrarco, ’65 and WilliamJean M. Nelson, ’70Donald Petrarco, PHA ’66 +Marylou Nesbit, ’75Irene PetrovichJanet Young Newcamp, ’72 +Lynn Michele Petruzzi, ’86 andRobert J. PetruzziCaren Evette Newman-Lawee, ’74Linda Lee Pfeffer-Klea, ’76Alice Hopkins Newton, ’43 +Katherine West Phillips, ’89Karen Ruth Nigra, ’89Dr. Dorothy Stagner Pickens, ’81Joan F. Nock, CGS ’04 +Joan Altree Piemme, .N, MNEd,Carol Jones Noonan, ’76 +’60, ’65Blanche Peterson Nordeen, ’60Barbara Mineweaser Piper, RN, ’86, ’95Dr. Loretta Brush Normile, ’72, ’77 +and Derek John Piper, ENG ’85 +Genevieve Mihelcic Novak, ’68Charlotte G. Pischke, ’58Mary A. O’Connor, PhD, RN, ’83, ’99 Nancy Contakos Plumb, ’62, ’67John Marc O’Donnell, ’91 +Patricia Ann Plummer, ’03Patricia Cloonan O’Donnell, ’49Gale B. Podobinski, CGS ’87Ellen Ann O’Donovan, ’84 and Terrence Margaret M. A. Pointek, ’54, ’59James O’Donovan, ENG ’87Mary Elizabeth Polacek, ’85Dolores Liszka O’Hara, ’73, ’77Donna Linhart Pomaybo, ’65Linda O’Malley-Dafner, ’87Hazel L. Pontious, ’50Mary-Jo McCarthy O’Neal, ’76Major Rose Anne Popovich, ’89Dorothy M. O’Neill, ’47Diana L. Portillo, ’60James M. Obringer, ’94, ’99Heidi E. Preisendanz, ’75Mary Pettus Ogden, ’58Michele M. Prior, ’80Lori Ghetian Olive, ’82 + Sally Sciabica Purnell, ’78Pitt Nurse spring 2009 29

Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08Kathryn Jane Pusateri, ’61 +Sally Reed Pyle, ’63Patricia C. Quatrini, ’82 and Vincent J.Quatrini Jr.Jacqueline C. DeCroo, ’75, ’85 andRobert Joseph Rabel, CAS ’70Jill V. Radtke, ’05Carolyn Hays Raham, ’63Lisa Bucciarelli Rajakovich,SOC WK ’79, ’83Mary Evans Ramey, ’64, ’68 andDonald George Ramey, ENG ’66Sharon Foster Raquet, ’65Nancy Clare Razorsek, ’87Barbara Pavuk Recker, ’79 and PerryDavid Recker, LIS ’86Marcia Palka Rees, ’78 and PaulZachary Rees, DMD, DEN ’81 +Andrew G. ReifCarol Glatz Reitmeyer, ’78Carolyne Doyle Ressler, ’65, ’92James E. Ressler, GRE ’92, ’07Patricia Ann Rettig, ’79Cheryl Ann Rich, ’77Lois Gay Richards, ’58Susan Gredesky Richey, CAS ’91Barbara Ryan Ride, ’48 and FrederickG. Ride, DDS, DEN ’43Ronald Wayne Rill, EDU ’67Mary Linda Ripp, ’75Evelyn Rogus Rippin, ’71; EDU ’74Shelley S. Riser, ’92 +Charlynn Lee Ritenour-Bailey, ’95, ’97 +Vera Lee Davis Robbins, ’51 and RobertStanley Robbins, MD, MED ’52Jennifer Lynn Robinson, ’95Margaret Mihalik Robinson, ’47Patricia J. Koren Robinson, ’76, ’79 +Andrea F. Rodgers Fischl, CAS ’75;GSPH ’80Laura A. Rodgers, CRNA, BSN,MSN, ’85 +Patricia J. Rodriguez, ’62 +Adelyn Materna Rogalla, ’65, ’84 andAlbert H. Rogalla, ENG ’64Mary T. Vins Roll, ’54Gail Lorraine Roosa, ’73Maria L. Rosporski, ’82, ’94Lisa Kay Tamres, CAS ’83 andDr. Alexander RudnickyMartha Brand Rudy, ’70Mary Baran Rudy, ’76, ’80Margaret Phyllis Rumley, ’50Scott C. Rusiewicz, ’04Carol Boye Russo, ’75Marilyn Ryan, ’80Sharon Lucas Rydbom, ’74Valerie Ann Sabo and Daniel J. SaboShirley Prizent Sacks, RN, ’57James V. SadvariRebecca B. Staub Sahl, ’90David SalandroMarilyn Maddox Salem, ’54 andAlexander Nassar Salem, CAS ’50 +Diane Conte Salipante, ’71Shari Renee Sand, ’07 +Debbie Adams Sanders, ’79 +Jacqueline A. Yochum Saracco, ’75Rebecca Jane Satryan and RichardPatrick Satryan ILauren Marie Saul, ’73 +Heather Lee Saunders, ’95, ’02 andBrian William Saunders, GRE ’96Susan Scanland, ’81Patricia Lynn SchmittMaureen Higgins Schnittger, RN,PhD, ’74Carol Sue Pell Schnitzler, ’75 andMichael Steven Schnitzler, CAS ’74Emily Anderson Schock, ’49 and ArthurC. Schock, ENG ’50Marcia Dale Schoeffel, ’86, ’04Barbara A. Scholle, ’77Nancy Anne Schoman, ’97Barbara Spak Schultz, ’73Susan K. Schwartzman, ’90 andDr. Eric Schwartzman +Bernice Seigal Scott, ’67Steven ScutellaJennifer Sealy, ’06Katherine Lynn Seepe-Daniels, ’80Barbara H. Seiple, ’64Alita Sellers, PhD, ’78; EDU ’91 +Bernadette Schmitt Semenick, ’82 andRichard Charles Semenick, ENG ’82Carole Shimko Senter, PhD, ’72, ’77;GSPH ’95; EDU ’04Peter A. SeppiJudith Sacco Serago, ’74 +Kathy A. Seyman, ’80 and MichaelJohn Seyman, ENG ’79Robert P. ShafferSandra L. Shanahan, ’68; PIA ’85Juliana Shayne, ’73 +Anne ShieldsAnne J. Shiley, ’64, ’74 +Judith Ann Shovel, ’80Donna L. Showalter, ’76Gordon Grant ShultzLuann Smith Shutt, ’77, ’81Anne M. Sillaman, ’07 +Bruce S. SilverLynn Marie Simko, GSPH ’82, ’90Susan Switzer Simpkins, ’64Margaret Turocy Sinback, ’74 andTimothy H. SinbackLinda Mayer Sismour, ’73 +Lynn Wolfe Slavic, ’70Gladys C. Dill Sloane, ’45Thomas Paul Sloane Jr., ’80Rosemary Slobodnyak, ’87Theresa Slover and Frank SloverAli Janel Smith, CAS ’00 +Barbara Jean Smith, PhD, ’68, ’89Elizabeth Louise Smith, ’54James Clair Smith, CAS ’76 andLaura SmithLeslie SmithLynne Lytle Smith, ’88, ’91Rachel Paddock Smith, ’80Brenda Menear Smith, ’86 and ThomasKenneth Smith Jr., SOC WK ’87Joan Smith-Walleck, ’68; GSPH ’78Jeanne M. Smucker, PhD, ’96, ’98David T. SnellLinda Ann Snyder, ’75, ’86Sara Hankins Snyder, TTV ’04; A&S ’06Mi-Kyung SongSherry Wonsidler Sonneborn, ’74 andMichael George Sonneborn, CAS ’75Sandra Griffiths Sonnessa, ’78Dr. Janet Rexrode Southby, ’69Lucille A. Sowko, ’82Jeanne Davic Soyars, ’59 +Dr. Arlene Misklow Sperhac, ’73Barbara Elliott Spier, PhD, ’68;SOC WK ’89 +Elizabeth Snyder Spragg, ’64Carol J. SpragueDawn Michelle Springer, ’00Kathleen M. Srsic-Stoehr, MSN, MS, RN,CNAA-BC, ’72Robert StampaharLinda J. Stanton, ’84 and David C.Stanton, MD, DMD, CAS ’84 +Madalyn Pugh Stanton, ’55Kirsti Hetager Stark, ’74, ’85Lorraine S. Starsky, ’94Lois Helen Steiber, ’49Howard R. Stein, EDU ’08Jeanne Louise Stelmak, ’96 +Patricia E. George, ’47Beverly Ann Stephenson, ’58Carol Hobaugh Stewart, ’74Erin D. Stimer, A&S ’07Margaret Ann Stoeff, ’95Heidi Stogard, ’08 +David StonelakeGloria Adamson Strang, ’73Sue Ann Strohm, ’81 +Glenda L. StroudAnn K. Strunk and Jon P. StrunkGlenda Simonton Stump, ’77Mindi Annette Styn, PhD, GSPH ’06Janet Elaine Stys, ’95Nancy Sullivan, ’70Arlene Jones Sumner, ’65Dena Jean Sutermaster, ’84, ’92Donald SuzenskiBarbara Jean Swicord, ’70, ’73Ruth Maurer Switch, ’47Megan W. SylvesTeresina Synborski, ’79 and DonaldAlbert Synborski Jr., CAS ’78Frances Hamilton Szafran, ’73 andJames Joseph Szafran, LAW ’72Paulette Szwast, ’04 +Margaret Park Tait, ’59, ’75Kathe Berk Taliaferro, ’70 and Alvin B.Taliaferro Jr., KGSB ’73Nancy Lee Tall, ’79, ’94, ’96 +Phyllis Speck Tarno, ’55 and M. LeeTarno Jr., DMD, DEN ’5630 university of Pittsburgh

Honor Roll of Donors 2007–08Melaine Meisel Taylor, ’71James A. TheysDeborah Sorce Thomas, ’75Marion R. Thomas, ’56Deborah Enders Thornberg, ’77 +Mary Grace Tighe, ’77 and JohnThomas Tighe III, PHA ’78 +Andrea Joan Topoleski, ’73Robert L. TrautweinJean Degenhardt Trester, ’72Steven J. TrinkalaVictoria Novak Trumbore, ’50 andForrest A. Trumbore, PhD, FAS ’50Jamie R. TrunzoPamela Kepic Trunzo, ’77Melanie T. Turk, ’08Karen Pasternak Turner, ’80Wendy Weyant Tusay, ’88Sara Workman Tyler, ’72Amy Adelmann Uhler, ’83Michelle Upvall, FNP, PhDSusan Terry Urrows, ’76Ellenor Williams Vajda, ’44, ’49Cynthia ValentaRuthann Valentine, ’66, ’68 +Donna Kay Valler, ’60Susan Nickel Van Cleve, ’77Dorothy A. Veneski and RaymondC. VeneskiEleanor Portman Vercher, ’62 +Jacqueline Kay Verville, ’83 andPatrick Camille Verville, ’83Norma Jean Vidale, ’62 +Mary Lee VillaniMiss Teresa Marie Vojtilla, ’61 +Karen Teresa Vujevich, ’93Pamela L. Wagaman, ’76 +Julie M. WagnerRobin Smith Wagner, ’82Elizabeth Ann Wahl, ’77Timothy P. WahlenAllison T. Walker, UCIS ’07Curtiss Alexander Wall, ’95Marjorie Geason Walrath, ’91Sandra Fleegle Waugaman, ’83Jane Karen Way, ’59Mary Jo Weeks, ’88 and Daniel E.Weeks, PhDJohn Mark WeidleNancy Jo Reed Weiland, ’75Maranne Purcell Welch, ’62 +Valre Walter Welch, ’69Diane J. WerleyLucille Valasek Werthman, ’76, ’79 andRonald J. WerthmanJacqueline Wesche-ThobabenBeth Garber West, ’79John E. WhiteDawna A. White, ’89 and RobertStephen White, CAS ’89; CGS ’06Susan Marie Whitfield, ’83Jacqueline M. WhitlingJill Pitzer Wiley, ’77Mary Ellen Wilkinson, ’82 +Dina Daddio Wilson, ’64, ’71June Siard Wilson, EDU ’50 +Michael A. WinneyBarbara V. Wise, ’75, ’02Michael WiseChristian H. Witzke IIINorma Lou Wood, ’49Virginia Gail Ratliff Woomer, ’79Erin Kathleen Wright, ’02 +Judith A. WrightDarlene Alice Wynn, ’89Martin WynnJo Ann YostCaroline Chadwick Young, ’70 +Norman C. Young Jr.Barbara Rupp Yourous, ’75Patricia Mellon Zajac, ’72, ’76Jean ZamzowDianxu Ren, PhD, GSPH ’05; GSPH ’06and Xinhua ZhaoPhyllis Dunkle Ziants, ’47Alice Gantzer Zich, ’67Richard G. Ziegler, ’93Lynn Zinaich, ’79Kathleen M. ZoldosOrganizations, Foundationsand Corporations84 Lumber CompanyAlcoa FoundationAlle-Kiski Medical CenterAlpernSchubert P.C.Alzheimer’s AssociationPennsylvania Higher EducationAmerican Nurses FoundationFoundationBecton Dickinson FoundationPennsylvania State Nurses AssociationCanadian Fur CompanyRobert Morris UniversityCarlow UniversityScalise IndustriesCenter for Organ Recovery & EducationSky Bank(CORE)Somerset Community HospitalChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Speakman Financial GroupCitizens School of NursingSt. Clair HospitalColgate-Palmolive CompanySt. Margaret FoundationConstruction General Laborers &STAT Staffing Medical Services, Inc.Material HandlersStuckeman Charitable TrustDuquesne UniversityT. A. Ward Constructors, Inc.Edgar Snyder & Associates, LLCTri-Ad Litho, IncorporatedExxonMobil FoundationUnited Way of Allegheny CountyFayette Regional Health SystemUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical CenterFederal Home Loan Bank of PittsburghUniversity of Pittsburgh PhysiciansFMDL Equipment Inc.Orthopedic SurgeryFogarty, Rufft, Turbiner Associates UPMC PresbyterianThe John A. Hartford FoundationUPMC Bedford MemorialHCR Manor Care FoundationUPMC Cancer CenterHealthsouth/BirminghamUPMC Department of AnesthesiologyHeritage Valley Health System, Inc. UPMC Horizon Community HealthHeritage Valley SewickleyFoundationIBM International FoundationUPMC Magee Womens HospitalIcynene, Inc.UPMC McKeesportIndiana Regional Medical CenterUPMC MercyIntegrated Voice SolutionsUPMC NorthwestThe International Society for Heart &UPMC PassavantLung TransplantationUPMC Passavant Professional StaffJayar Construction Co., Inc.UPMC St. MargaretJewish Healthcare Foundation ofUPMC Senior CommunitiesPittsburghUPMC ShadysideJohnson & JohnsonUPMC Shadyside School of NursingLadies Hospital Aid Society of WesternUPMC South SidePennsylvaniaUPP, Department of AnesthesiologyLifeCare Managment Services, LLCVerizon FoundationLorillard Tobacco CompanyWest Virginia University Hospital, Inc.Lutheran Community FoundationWestern Pennsylvania Laborers’Macy’s FoundationWound, Ostomy Continence NursesMediaQuestSocietyMedical Staff of Sewickley Valley HospitalThe Western Pennsylvania HospitalMonongahela Valley HospitalThe Western Pennsylvania HospitalMorgan Stanley FoundationSchool of NursingOncology Nursing Society Foundation WPAHS-Allegheny General HospitalPassavant Hospital FoundationWPAHS-Canonsburg General HospitalPaul’s Hair StylingWPAHS-Forbes Regional HospitalWPAHS-Suburban General HospitalPitt Nurse spring 2009 31

School of Nursingby the Numbers449&70: The School of Nursing officially marksthis milestone anniversary of its founding:April 6, 1939–April 6, 2009.and 9: Classmates with School ofNursing graduation years ending in70either of these numbers will markmilestone reunions at Alumni Day2009 on Saturday, September 26.thirty-two6610232: The number of December 2008 graduates of the school’snurse anesthesia master’s major.66: The number of102:Cameos of Caring30awardees honored atthe 2008 GalaThe number ofKeepers of the Lightover the past 66 years.30: The number of continuingeducation credits mandatedfor registered nurses inPennsylvania during eachtwo-year license period.Mandatory Continuing Education forRegistered Nurses in PennsylvaniaOn June 29, 2006, Governor Ed Rendell signed into law Act 58 of 2006(SB 235), which requires 30 hours of board-approved mandatory continuingeducation (CE) during each two-year license period for individuals licensed asregistered nurses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The first group thatwill need to verify completion of 30 hours of board-approved CE are those RNsexpiring October 2010. The CE credits must be completed in the timeframesindicated in the table below for your expiration date. For example: If yourlicense expires on April 30, 2011, you will need to complete 30 hours of boardapprovedcontinuing education between May 1, 2009, and April 30, 2011.If your expiration date onThen you must obtain 30 hoursyour RN license is/will be: of board-approved CE from:October 31, 2010 11/1/08–10/31/10April 30, 2011 5/1/09–4/30/11October 31, 2011 11/1/09–10/31/11April 30, 2012 5/1/10–4/30/12For purposes of academic credit, the board has limited the number of CEhours that may be obtained from a single source or course. Therefore, onecourse/source in a quarter system may offer no more than 10 CE hours,regardless of the number of academic credits.This bill recognizes that registered nurses continue to practice in anenvironment that is increasingly complex and technical. Prior to Act 58,registered nurses were the only health care providers in Pennsylvaniawithout requirements for mandatory continuing education for licenserenewal. Earning 30 hours of CE every two years is mandated in nine otherstates: Alaska, California, Delaware, Kentucky, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico,Utah, and West Virginia. Faced with an aging population of patients who aresicker, and health care delivery systems that continue to develop and evolve,it has become increasingly important for nurses to continue education tokeep pace with advances in scientific knowledge, new technologies, andmedical discoveries. The CE regulations were published in the PennsylvaniaBulletin as final on July 12, 2008, and can be viewed on the continuingeducation link of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Web site atwww.panurses.org. All licensees should have received a letter from thePennsylvania State Board of Nursing explaining this requirement. ThePennsylvania State Nurses Association answers questions about the newrequirements on the Education link of its Web site at www.panurses.org.The University of Pittsburgh is an approved provider of continuing educationby the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.In addition to continuing education courses, the school offers Fast TrackBack, a refresher course for registered nurses with a current nursing licensein the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. More nurses are coming out ofretirement because of the economy, but despite the current nursing shortage,recent reports indicate that lack of current experience may make it harderto re-enter the workforce. Nurse recruiters say even a short career hiatuscan create a big obstacle to getting back into the rapidly changing world ofhealth care. Nurses who have been out of the job market for as little as oneyear sometimes say they find themselves left out in the cold when lookingfor a new job. Fast Track Back prepares registered nurses for re-entry intohospital-based nursing practice through 25 hours of classroom and humansimulation learning and 80 hours of hospital-based practice with an experiencedregistered nurse clinical coach.32 university of Pittsburgh

alumni news + notes1940sAdena J. Davis (BSN ’47) participatedin a parent-child healthseminar in August 2008 at theLincoln Avenue Church of God inPittsburgh. Tips for healthy livingwere shared with parishioners.1960sDr. Sandra Sulsberger Bowles(MNEd ’64, BSN ’61) retired asdean of the Division of the HealthSciences at the University ofCharleston (UC) in August 2008,after completing 45 years in nursingeducation—including 40 yearsat UC. She currently servesas “in-house” consultant to UC’sSchool of Pharmacy as it preparesto seek full accreditation of a newPharmD program.1970sRenee E. Gilhousen, MSN,CRNP, FNP-BC (BSN ’79)is a communicable diseasenurse consultant withthe PennsylvaniaDepartment of Health,Northwest District.Elaine Miller, DNS, RN,CRRN, FAHA, FAAN (MN ’75)is professor of nursing,nursing science and adulthealth and coordinator of theCenter for Aging with Dignity at theUniversity of Cincinnati College ofNursing. Her research focuses onstroke education. Dr. Miller is editorof Rehabilitation Nursing, a magazinepublished by the Association ofRehabilitation Nursing.Dr. Holly Williams (BSN ’76)served a two-week deployment toBaton Rouge in September 2008where she ran a federal medicalstation for patients evacuated fromNew Orleans, La. in advance ofHurricane Gustav.1980sNorine Jenkins (BSN ’84) is presidentof McKeesport, Pa.’s BethlehemBaptist Church Nurses Unit thatsponsors a Junior Nurse TrainingProgram. The unit offers comfort andhealth support to church membersand the community, as well aspromoting the nursing profession.Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN,CPNP/NPP, FAAN, FNAP (MSN ’83)was recognized by the NationalAssociation of Pediatric NursePractitioners with its 2008 LorettaC. Ford Distinguished Fellow Award.This award is given annually to anactive NAPNAP member who bestexemplifies contributions to theexpansion or improvement of pediatrichealth care and the advancementof the profession of pediatric nursepractitioners at the local community,state, and/or regional level.Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, PhD,PMHCNS-BC,PMH-NP-BC(MSN ’88) wasnamed the 2008Practice Nurse ofthe Year by theNorth CarolinaNurses Associationat its annualconvention in Winston-Salem, N.C.,this past October. Soltis-Jarretthas practiced psychiatric nursingfor more than 20 years with aclinical and research interest in theconcept of somatization in womenand participatory research inpsychiatric-mental health nursing.She has a private psychotherapypractice in Winston-Salem, and consultswidely on issues of rural care,women’s mental health, managementof personality disorders, andtreatment-resistant depression.Patrick C. Verville (BSN ’83) couldnot join his Class of 1983 classmatesto mark a 25th reunion atAlumni Day 2008 on May 3 becausehe was on active duty as a navynurse at Landstuhl Regional MedicalCenter in Germany until October. Hisclassmates who gathered that daywrote greetings that were sent hisway after the event.1990sJustin D. Engleka (BSN ’95) helpedestablish the Cedars Hospicein Monroeville, Pa. and is in theprocess of developing a palliativecare program at Allegheny GeneralHospital, along with fellow alumnaSusan A. Jessell (MSN ’06, BSN ’04).Jose R. Flores (MSN ’99,BSN ’99) is FNP programdirector at the University ofSt. Francis, Albuquerque.Barbara L. Forsha (MSN ’94)has been appointed to serve asthe Quality Management Officerfor VA Healthcare-VISN 4. She isresponsible for the oversight of allquality care issues within VISN 4.Prior to this appointment, Ms. Forshaserved as the Quality Manager for VAPittsburgh Health Care System since2006. She began her career at theVA in 1998.Gloria P. Gotaskie (MSN ’94,BSN ’77) was among the 2008winners of UPMC’s Award forCommitment and Excellence inServices (ACES). She works as anoncology clinical nurse specialistat UPMC’s Hillman Cancer Centerand serves on the School ofNursing’s Nursing Alumni SocietyExecutive Board.Cheryl D. Hettman (PhD ’96)is associate professor in theDepartment of Nursing at CaliforniaUniversity of Pennsylvania.Major General Patricia D. Horoho(MSN ’92) has been appointed chiefof the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (ANC)and promoted to the rank of majorgeneral. Horoho is currently servingas commander of the MadiganArmy Medical Center in Tacoma,Wash, (ANC) and received a raretwo-rank promotion from colonel tomajor general. She was previouslythe commander of the Walter ReedHealth Care System.Regina G. McCollum (BSN ’95), aregistered nurse in the intermediatecare unit at Children’s Hospital ofPittsburgh of UPMC, is the recipientof the 2008 Mary LeMoyne PageAward. The award was establishedin 1964 and is presented each Mayduring National Nurses Week to anurse nominated by peers for outstandingcontributions to pediatricnursing at Children’s Hospital.Dr. Lynn F. Reinke (MSN ’90) is aresearch nurse at the University ofWashington School of Nursing inSeattle, Wash. After earning a PhDin biobehavioral nursing science atthe University of Washington in May2008, Reinke accepted a postdoctoralposition in Health ServicesResearch and Development at theVA Puget Sound, Seattle.Mark Yost (BSN ’97) is a clinicalresource and contract administratorat Lexington Medical Center inColumbia, S.C. He was involved inthe design and installation of one ofthe first digital integrated operatingroom suites in that state.Pitt Nurse spring 2009 33

alumninews+ notes2000sTheresa L. Brown (BSN ’07) wrotean article on her personal reflectionson the death of a patient that waspublished in the September 8, 2008,Health section of The New YorkTimes.Angela R. Collins (BSN ’07) is aregistered nurse at St. JosephMedical Center in Towson, Md., in themedical-surgical ICU.Taryn Edwards (BSN ’04) is a clinicalnurse III at The Children’s Hospitalof Philadelphia, Pa., in the newborn/infant intensive care unit.Katie Ness Kandrysawtz (BSN ’05)is working as a staff nurse at YorkHospital’s inpatient adult oncologyunit. She is in the first year of thefamily nurse practitioner programat Millersville University and on trackto graduate in 2011.Crystal Moss (BSN ’06) is a clinicalsupport and education specialistwith Innercool Therapies.Kristine Keefer Wolff (MSN ’00,BSN ’93) has been selected as anursing leadership representativeon Team Pennsylvania, a group thatwill participate in a national NursingSummit sponsored by the RobertWood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) inFebruary 2009 in Washington, D.C.The Summit is a RWJF collaborationwith the U.S. Department of Labor,the Health Resource and ServicesAdministration and the Centerto Champion Nursing in Americato address the critical decline innursing education capacity as amajor driver in the nursing shortageacross the United States. Wolff alsoreceived grant funding from theLadies Hospital Aid Society for agrief program for staff throughUPMC’s Good Grief Center for bereavementsupport.In MemoriamDorothea Bumpus, BSN ’49 Jane M. Ung, BSN ’73Marie T. Coyne, MNEd ’67February 27, 2008Florence M. Thompson,BSNEd ’48February 22, 2007Jean Pitzer Wiant, BSN ’55December 30, 2008Ruth M. Young , BSNEd ’51,MA ’61October 14, 2008Dr. Madeline R. Turkeltaub, MN ’70Dr. Turkeltaub passed away on June 21, 2008. Throughouta successful professional career, she was recognizedas a nurse leader, nurse educator, and practitioner. Dr.Turkeltaub held positions as an administrator in bothnursing education and nursing service and set nursingpolicy on the National Council of State Boards of Nursing,the National League for Nursing, and other local, state,and national organizations. The School of Nursingrecognized her as Distinguished Alumna in 2003. At thetime of her death, Dr. Turkeltaub was director, Divisionof Extramural Research Activities, the National Instituteof Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.Pitt Nursing AlumnusReceives National HonorMargaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Yale School of Nursingdean and Annie Goodrich Professor, has been awardedThe Council for Advancement of Nursing Science(CANS) Outstanding Nurse Scientist Award. A BSN’70 alumna of the University of Pittsburgh School ofNursing, Grey accepted the award on October 2 at theNational Congress on the State of the Science in NursingResearch in Washington, D.C.Throughout an extraordinary professional career, Greyhas focused her research on adolescents coping withdiabetes and the study of behavioral interventions thatimprove metabolic control of diabetes and the qualityof life in young people and their parents. She has beenprincipal investigator for grants totaling more than $20million, authored more than 200 publications, and waselected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005.Nursing Alumni andPathways to ProfessionsSchool of Nursing alumni Marian Hershman (BSN ’58)and Darlene Ursiny (BSN ’91) participated in Pitt AlumniAssociation’s Pathways to Professions on October 23during Homecoming Weekend. Alumni representingschools and colleges across campus are invited toattend this networking event for students to learn moreabout careers.2008 Lantern NightFlame-bearers IncludePitt Nursing AlumniOn August 24, 2008, five School of Nursing alumniparticipated in the University’s 88th annual LanternNight ceremony at Heinz Memorial Chapel. Each alumnushas a special relationship with a member of the 2008freshman class. 2008 Lantern Night flame-bearers wereChris Barry (BSN ’79), mother of School of Arts andSciences freshman Ellen Barry; Doris J. Davies (BSN’52), grandmother of Arts and Sciences freshman SarahDavies; Mary Fike (BSN ’79), mother of Arts and Sciencesfreshman Kathryn Fike; Joann Pantages (MSN ’86),mother of Arts and Sciences freshman Christa Pantages;and Mary Rudy (BSN ’76, MN ’80), mother of engineeringfreshman Alexandra Rudy.Begun in 1920, Lantern Night is one of the longeststandingtraditions at the University of Pittsburgh andsymbolizes the passing of the light of learning to thenext generation of Pitt women.Friend of the School NamedUniversity Emeritus TrusteeJ. Roger Glunt was elected an emeritus trustee by theUniversity of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees in late October.Glunt is a business administration graduate of theUniversity and has served as an alumni trustee. He ispast president, director emeritus, and a life member ofthe Pitt Alumni Association. A special friend of the Schoolof Nursing, Glunt chairs its volunteer advisory committeefor the University’s capital campaign; establishedthe Nancy Glunt Hoffman Memorial Fund at the Schoolto honor his late sister, a nursing alumna; and hosts anannual golf outing to raise funds toward endowing achair in oncology nursing research at Pitt.Strong Pit t Nurse Presence at20 08 American Thoracic Societ yInternational Meeting in TorontoFour Pitt Nurse alumni have leadership roles within theAmerican Thoracic Society: Kathy Lindell, RN (PhD ’07),is the incoming chair of the nursing assembly;Gerene Bauldoff, RN (MSN ’93, PhD ’01), is chair of theprogram committee; Margaret Ann Carno, RN (PhD’02), is chair-elect of the program committee; and LynnReinke, RN (MSN ’90), PhD, has been elected representativeto the nominating committee and also serves onthe diversity committee. Annette DeVito Dabbs, RN(PhD ’03), received the Marilyn Hansen Award for thetop-scoring nursing abstract.34 university of Pittsburgh

Nursing Alumni Society:Meet the PresidentBeth Mastrangelo, RN (BSN ’99)Unit Director, Same Day Surgery and PACU,Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC,President, Nursing Alumni SocietyExecutive CommitteeHometown: Pittsburgh, Pa.Years in nursing: 10How did you get into nursing?I always knew I wanted a job where I could work with children.When I was a young girl, one of my neighbors was an oncologynurse and helped me learn more about her career. Even as a Pittnursing student, I was confident nursing was the best choice forme … and I’ve never regretted my decision!What do you like best about your job?I really enjoy working behind the scenes at the hospital. I’mstill involved in pediatrics, but I’m impacting the patients andfamilies in a different way. As a manager, I’m fortunate to assist agreat team of nurses with providing the best care possible.What are the most important things you want people to know aboutthe Pitt Nursing Alumni Society?It’s very important graduates realize they’re immediatelymembers of the Nursing Alumni Society upon graduation,and membership is free! The society sponsors many programsthroughout the year … everything from shadowing and mentoringto the annual alumni day event. Getting involved is easy, andit’s not a huge time commitment. There’s really something foreveryone! I encourage fellow alumni to check out our Web siteat www.nursing.pitt.edu, click on “Alumni” on the header bar; orcontact Joan Nock, assistant director of alumni relations in thenursing alumni office, at jno100@pitt.edu or at 412-624-2404.I can be contacted through Joan. I welcome the opportunity towork with you to advance the alumni effort of our alma mater.What do you do when you’re not at the hospital?My husband and I moved to the South Side of Pittsburgha few years ago and along with the many restaurants in the area,we find there’s always something happening in the city. Fromconcerts to bike races to sporting events, Pittsburgh has somuch to offer. While we travel several times a year, we trulylove Pittsburgh and plan on raising a family in this “mostlivable city!”Annual Poinsettia SaleThanks to our loyal customers, the 2008 Poinsettia Saleraised $575. New vendor Chelse’s Greenhouse providedexceptional plants in a variety of holiday colors.UPJ Receives $4 MillionState Grant for New Nursing,Health Sciences BuildingThe University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown has received $4 million in statefunds for the construction of a new nursing and health sciences buildingas part of the Commonwealth’s Put Pennsylvania to Work initiative. Thisfacility will enable the training of more nurses and health care practitionersand will underscore the University of Pittsburgh’s commitment to WesternPennsylvania’s economic development. Founded in 1927, Pitt–Johnstown isthe first and largest regional campus of the University of Pittsburgh.Gold Banner Status:The Nursing Alumni Society was recognized by the Pitt Alumni Associationat its annual Banner Luncheon on Friday, October 24, for maintaining GoldBanner Status. A $500 award was presented as part of this recognition.Executive Committee Seeks AlumniThe Nursing Alumni Society Executive Committee is looking to increase itsmembership. If you have a minimal amount of time to give (approximatelytwo hours four times per academic year) and have a maximum amountof energy and ideas, your fellow alumni invite you to join with them inworking to advance the alumni effort at the School of Nursing. Please contactJoan Nock, assistant director of alumni relations, at 412-624-2404 or atjno100@pitt.edu. Sharing your time and talent helps support alumni projectsat your alma mater and inspires students, our future alumni!For the Latest Alumni NewsCheck out the Nursing Alumni Society Web site. Visit www.nursing.pitt.edu;then click on “Alumni” on header bar for the latest alumni information. Fromupcoming events and meetings to event highlights and more, it’s all there!Reminder: Career Update Form OnlineVisit www.nursing.pitt.edu, click on the “Alumni” tool bar at the top of thehome page, then click on “Career Update Form.” It’s electronically submittedto our alumni office. We can’t wait to hear from you!Pitt Nurse spring 2009 35

alumninews+ notesAlumni Day 2008Alumni Day 2008: A Celebration of Pitt Nursing on Saturday, May 3, treatedreturning alumni to a special day that included a welcome reception, presentationsby the 2008 Distinguished Alumni awardees—Pearl Moore andTerri Weaver—and a luncheon program at The Twentieth Century Club.The alumna traveling the farthest distance—a total of 2,237 miles fromDanville, Calif.—was Jessica Geist Jordan, who marked a 35th reunion withthe Class of 1973. School of Nursing alumni attending this event includedmother and daughter: Gay Barley Lindsay, marking a50th Class reunion with the Class of 1958 and Gay’sdaughter, Mary Jo Lindsay, an alumnus from the Classof 1985.left: The earliest classrepresented wasthe Class of 1948,with Mary SullivanArenth of Allison Park,Pa. marking a 60threunion.above: Classmatesfrom the Class of1958 marking a 50threunion were (L toR): Margaret Howe,Marian NeustadtHershman, MaryDonnan Baker, E. GayBarley Lindsay, andCharlotte G. Pischke.above: The Class of 1973 joined DistinguishedAlumnus Terri Weaver to celebrate a35th reunion.left: The Class of 1978 was the best representedreunion class.Right: Nursing Alumni Society PresidentBeth Mastrangelo (BSN ’99) presentsthe 2008 Senior Student Award to SirenaLehmer (BSN ’08), representing one ofthe school’s newest alumni.above: The Class of 1988 also planned a reunion during Homecoming 2008 October24–26; pictured here are (L to R) Melissa Mastorovich, Beth Smithnosky Fantasia,Jeannette Parker Podlogar, Cristen Silvagni Walker, Sherry Phillips Stamp, and ConstanceGraff Feiler.left: Six School of Nursing Honorary Alumni joined to congratulate 2008 Honorary AlumnusWilliam Cully (third from right). They were (L to R): Mary Rodgers Schubert, Joan Nock,Susan Sereika, Leslie Hoffman, Dean Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, and J. Roger Glunt.36 university of Pittsburgh

2008 Distinguished AlumniPearl Moore (BSN ’68, MN ’74)Pearl Moore, RN, MN, FAAN, hasbeen a significant force in thenursing profession for more thanfour decades as a nurse clinician,nurse educator, nurse administrator,and nurse leader.Moore’s career has been markedby a dedication to improving carefor cancer patients. A pioneerpractitioner in the field of oncology clinical nursing at UPMC Montefiore,she merged clinical practice with research as the first coordinator of theBrain Tumor Study Group, part of a groundbreaking national consortiumconducting clinical trials. Her efforts have been instrumental in positioningthe Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), of which she is a founding member,as the largest professional oncology association in the world.When she retired as chief executive officer of ONS in 2007, Moore lefta legacy that few can hope to achieve. She has been an inspiration tocolleagues, to cancer patients, and to the future of the profession. Inretirement, she continues to share her expertise with service with theJewish Healthcare Foundation and the Ladies Hospital Aid Society and as anexecutive board member of the Patient Advocate Foundation.2008 Honorary AlumnusWilliam J. CullyWilliam J. Cully earned anundergraduate degree from theUniversity of Pittsburgh nearly 60years ago from the School ofArts and Sciences. The pride heholds for his alma mater hasdeepened over the course of thosesix decades. Time and again he hasdemonstrated an extraordinarycommitment to the Universitythrough his giving back of time, talent, and treasure. In 2006, Cully focusedhis support on the School of Nursing when his dear friend, Roger Glunt,pledged to endow a chair in oncology nursing at Pitt through the NancyGlunt Hoffman Memorial Fund. Not only did he make a generous donation tothe fund, but he is also a member of the Nancy Glunt Hoffman Golf Outingplanning committee, soliciting sponsors, auction items, and participants. Theglass skill prizes presented at the outing are in-kind donations and manufacturedat United Plate Glass Company, Inc., where Cully is president.Cully serves on the School of Nursing’s Volunteer Advisory Committee, wherehe shares his wisdom and expertise to advance nursing’s capital campaigneffort. The school is a better place because of Cully and is proud to designatehim with honorary alumnus status.Terri E. Weaver (BSN ’73)Terri Weaver, PhD, RN, FAAN,professor of nursing at theUniversity of PennsylvaniaSchool of Nursing, hasadvanced the profession asa nurse researcher, author,nurse educator, and mentor.A leader in evidence-basedpractice and research, shehas conducted studiesglobally that have evaluated the impact of sleep disorders on dailyfunctioning and performance, particularly in obstructive sleep apnea.Two instruments developed by Weaver—the Pulmonary FunctionalStatus Scale and the Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire—have been heralded nationally and internationally.Earning master’s and doctoral degrees in nursing at the University ofPennsylvania, Weaver’s affiliation with Penn spans 30 years, duringwhich time she has inspired colleagues and the next generation ofnurse leaders.Weaver has welcomed opportunities to represent the nursing professionin leadership capacities and is especially proud to serve as chairof the national Board of Directors of the American Lung Association, theoldest voluntary public health organization in the United States.Call for 2009 Distinguished and Honorary AlumniOur alumni represent the University of Pittsburgh locally, nationally, and internationallythrough their work as nursing professionals. The school annually selects one ormore distinguished alumni and honorary alumni awardees to be recognizedat Nursing Alumni Day.Distinguished Alumni AwardNominees for the Distinguished Alumni Award must be a University of PittsburghSchool of Nursing program graduate and are considered on the basis of leadership,achievement, and contribution in areas similar to the following: academia, administration,clinical practice, research, and service (professional and community).(Distinguished Alumni Award nomination packets should indicate in which areanominees should be considered.)Honorary Alumni AwardThis award recognizes an individual who is not a graduate of the University ofPittsburgh School of Nursing but who has demonstrated extraordinary service andsupport to and for the school’s mission.Nomination packets* for the 2009 Distinguished and Honorary Alumni awards willbe accepted through May 4, 2009. Awardees will be formally honored at NursingAlumni Day 2009 on Saturday, September 26, 2009.Distinguished and Honorary Alumni nominations should be submitted to theUniversity of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing Alumni Office, 218 Victoria Building, 3500Victoria Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. For more information, please contact Joan Nockat the Nursing Alumni Office at 412-624-2404 or at jno100@pitt.edu.*Nomination packets for both the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Honorary AlumniAward should include any materials (such as curriculum vitae or résumé) and informationthat supports that nomination (i.e., letters of support and pertinent materials).Pitt Nurse spring 2009 37

* NurseBeatFaculty NewsSusan A. Albrecht, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for studentand alumni services, development and public relations,and associate professor in the Department of Health andCommunity Systems, was named 2009 president-elect ofthe Board of Directors of the Association of Women’s Health,Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). AWHONN is theforemost nursing authority that advances the health careof women and newborns through advocacy, research, andthe creation of high-quality, evidence-based standards ofcare. Albrecht received an award from the Health Resourcesand Services Administration for her proposal, “AdvancedEducation Nurse Traineeship.” Albrecht also receivedawards from the Pennsylvania Higher Education Foundationfor her proposal, “Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Scholarships forDisadvantaged Students,” and from the Pennsylvania HigherEducation Foundation for “Graduate Nurse Education Grant.”Sheila A. Alexander (PhD ’04, BSN ’89), assistant professorin the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, receivedan award from the National Institute of Nursing Researchfor “Long Term Outcomes in ICU Patients: Delirium &Apolipoprotein E.” Alexander also received a Leadershipin Nursing Award from Sigma Theta Tau International, EtaChapter in recognition of her outstanding accomplishmentsas a researcher; the 2008 Norma J. Shoemaker Grant forCritical Care Nursing Research to research biomarkers thatmay be able to predict delirium onset or duration in theintensive care unit; and the 2009 Neurology Specialty Awardfrom the Society of Critical Care Medicine for her abstract onnitric oxide synthase genes and their ability to predict nitricoxide levels in cerebrospinal fluid and the association amonggenes, NO levels, and cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoidhemorrhage.Helen K. Burns (PhD ’93, MN ’81), RN, associate dean forclinical education and associate professor in the Departmentof Health and Community Systems, received an awardfrom the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board for herproposal, “Interactive and Video Conferencing.”Karen Courtney, PhD, RN, assistant professor in theDepartment of Health and Community Systems, receivedan award from the National Institute of Nursing Researchfor “After-hours Communication Support for Hospice FamilyCaregivers and Patients.”Annette DeVito Dabbs, RN, (PhD ’03), assistant professorin the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, receivedan award from the National Institutes of Health NationalInstitute of Nursing Research for her proposal, “PhaseIII Trial of Pocket PATH: A Computerized Intervention toPromote Self-Care.” DeVito Dabbs also won an awardfor the best research presentation by a nurse or socialscientist for her abstract, A Randomized ControlledPilot Trial of Pocket PATH vs. Standard Care and EarlySelf-Care Behaviors after Lung Transplantation, at theSusan A. AlbrechtHelen K. BurnsHeidi S. DonovanWilla DoswellMary Beth HappRichard HenkerMarilyn HravnakInternational Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation28th annual meeting and scientific sessions.Heidi S. Donovan, PhD, RN, assistant professor in theDepartment of Acute and Tertiary Care, received an awardfrom the National Institute of Nursing Research for “WebbasedOvarian Cancer Symptom Control: Nurse-guidedvs. Self-directed.”Willa Doswell, PhD, RN, assistant professor in theDepartment of Health Promotion and Development, receivedan award from the Staunton Farm Foundation for “ProjectUplift: Using Parish Nurses to Reduce Mental and BehavioralHealth Risk in Urban Communities.”Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean andprofessor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing,received an award from the National Institutes of Healthfor “Adherence and Health-Related Quality of Life: Translationof Interventions.” Dunbar-Jacob also was honored bythe YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh with the Science andTechnology Award at the 2008 A Tribute to WomenLeadership Awards Luncheon.Mary Beth Happ, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor in theDepartment of Acute and Tertiary Care, received a Circle ofExcellence Award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.Richard Henker, RN, PhD, associate professor and vice chairin the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, received anaward from the Clinical & Translational Science InstituteBasic to Clinical Collaborative Research Pilot Program for“Genetic & Other Risk Factors of Opioid-induced Sedation andRespiratory Depression: Mice to Humans and Back Again.”Marilyn Hravnak, PhD, RN, CRNP, associate professor in theDepartment of Acute and Tertiary Care, received the internationalBayada Award for Technological Innovation in NursingEducation and Practice, presented by the Drexel UniversityCollege of Nursing and Health Professions. Hravnak alsoreceived a 2009 Annual Scientific Award from the Society ofCritical Care Medicine (SCCM) for her abstract, “RelationshipBetween Left Ventricular Wall Motion Abnormalities andMarkers of Neurocardiac Injury in Patients with AneurysmalSubarachnoid Hemorrhage.”Leslie Hoffman, PhD, RN, FAAN, department chair andprofessor in the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, willreceive the first annual Outstanding Educator Award fromthe American Thoracic Society at the 2009 InternationalConference, May 15–20.Julius Kitutu, PhD, assistant professor in the Departmentof Acute and Tertiary Care and director of the Departmentof Student Services, received an award from the HealthResources and Services Administration for his proposal,“Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students.” Kitutu alsoreceived a grant from the Pennsylvania Higher EducationFoundation for “Nursing Education Grant Block Grant.”38 university of Pittsburgh

Yolanda Lang, MSN, CRNP, DrPH, assistant professor in theDepartment of Acute and Tertiary Care, received the MediqueLeadership Award.Elizabeth La Rue, PhD, MLS, AHIP, assistant professor in theDepartment of Health and Community Systems, received aSteven Manners Faculty Development Award or her proposal,“The Validity and Utility of a Tool for Evaluating Web PagesPresenting Health Content.”Jennifer Lingler (PhD ’04, MSN ’98), MA, BSN, FNP, assistantprofessor in the Department of Health and CommunitySystems, has been awarded the prestigious BrookdaleLeadership in Aging Fellowship for her project, “PromotingAlzheimer’s Caregivers’ Communicative Skillfulness.” Lingleris one the first awardees from the University of Pittsburghand one of the first nurses to receive this coveted fellowshipsince it was established in 2004. Lingler also received anaward from the Alzheimer’s Association for her proposal,“Making Sense of MCI: An Investigation of Patient andFamily Perspectives.”John O’Donnell, MSN, RN, instructor in the Departmentof Acute and Tertiary Care and director of the school’sNurse Anesthesia Program, received the 2008–09 HRSATraineeship Grant Award in the amount of $33,462. Theaward will help support 25-50 full-time nurse anesthetistmaster’s students at the school.Margaret Q. Rosenzweig, PhD, RN, assistant professor inthe Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, received anaward from the Oncology Nursing Society for her proposal,Promoting Health & Wellness with Advanced Breast Cancer:A Public Education Grant Proposal. Rosenzweig also receivedan award from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for herproposal, “Advanced Breast Cancer: Living with Healthand Wellness.” In addition, Rosenzweig was awarded firstplace by the NCI in a poster competition at the CancerDisparities Summit.Paula Sherwood, PhD, RN, CNRN, assistant professor inthe Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, received anaward from the National Institute of Nursing Research forher research, “Patient and Health Care System OutcomesFollowing Expanded Endonasal Approach (EEA).” In addition,the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Board of Directorsand the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science(CANS) Steering Committee honored Sherwood with theAAN/CANS Investigator with a Brilliant Future Award. Theaward recognizes Sherwood’s remarkable research productivityin psychosocial oncology and neuroscience, an areaof major significance to nursing and health care knowledge,and acknowledged her as an emerging leader in nursingscience advancement.Patricia Tuite, RN, MSN, instructor in the Department of Acuteand Tertiary Care, received a Leadership in Nursing Awardfrom Sigma Theta Tau International, Eta Chapter in recognitionfor her outstanding accomplishments and fostering ofhigh professional standards.Leslie HoffmanElizabeth La RueJohn O’DonnellMargaret Q. RosenzweigPaula SherwoodPatricia TuiteGail A. WolfGail A. Wolf, RN, DNS, FAAN, professor in the Departmentof Acute and Tertiary Care and coordinator, nursingadministration and leadership program, received a LifetimeAchievement Award from the American Organization of NurseExecutives. Wolf was also recently selected to receive thePresident’s Award from the American Nurses CredentialingCenter (ANCC) and was nominated by the staff at UPMC fora Legacy Award in honor of her significant contribution tonursing practice. In addition, she was recently elected toserve as chair of the Commission on Magnet Recognition,which is part of ANCC.FAANFour faculty from the University of Pittsburgh School ofNursing were inducted into the American Academy ofNursing as new fellows. Helen K. Burns (PhD ’93, MN ’81),RN, associate dean for clinical education and associate professorin the Department of Health and Community Systems;Denise Charron-Prochownik, PhD, RN, associate professor inthe Department of Health Promotion and Development; MaryBeth Happ, PhD, RN, associate professor in the Departmentof Acute and Tertiary Care; and Ann Mitchell, PhD, RN,HNC, associate professor in the Department of Health andCommunity Systems each were nominated for this honor bytwo current academy fellows and selected by the Academy’s15-member Fellow Selection Committee for their outstandingachievements in the nursing profession.Two University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing alumni alsowere inducted as fellows: Barbara Broome (PhD ’97), RN,and Margaret C. Slota, PhD, (MN ’80, BSN ’75).The academy is constituted to anticipate national andinternational trends in health care, and address resultingissues of health care knowledge and policy. Not only is theinvitation to fellowship recognition of one’s accomplishmentswithin the nursing profession, but it also affordsan opportunity to work with other leaders in health care inaddressing the issues of the day. The academy’s missionis to serve the public and nursing profession by advancinghealth policy and practice through the generation, synthesis,and dissemination of nursing knowledge.Pitt Nurse spring 2009 39

* NurseBeatIsong President’sAwardeesJanice S. Dorman, PhD, MS, associate dean for scientificand international affairs and professor in the Department ofHealth Promotion and Development, and Yvette P. Conley,PhD, assistant professor in the Department of HealthPromotion and Development, received the President’s Awardat the International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG)conference in November. The award, which is given at thepresident’s discretion, was presented in recognition of alltheir work for ISONG and nurses working in genetics. This isthe first ISONG award given to a non-nurse.International Meetingon Simulationin Health CareFaculty from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursingpresented at the 2009 International Meeting on Simulation inHealth Care, held January 10–14 at Walt Disney World Resortin Florida.Assistant professors Rose L. Hoffmann, PhD, RN and AliceBlazeck, DNSc, RN, along with instructors Marie Fioravanti,MSN, RN, and Gretchen Zewe, MNEd, RN, led a well-attendedworkshop on incorporating generational differenceswithin simulation scenarios. A second workshop was ledby associate professor Ann M. Mitchell, PhD, RN, FAAN,along with assistant professor Sandra Founds, PhD, RN,instructor Rachel (Shelley) Libman, MSN, RN, Fioravanti, andHoffmann. They guided an interactive group of internationalparticipants on incorporating cultural principles and communicationskills within a variety of simulation scenarios andteaching strategies.John O’Donnell, MSN, CRNA, director of the school’s NurseAnesthesia Program, presented a four-hour postgraduateinstructors’ course titled Instructor Training: Structuredand Supported Debriefing: A Learner Centered Review andPractice of Different Approaches. This international debriefingcourse was requested by the organizers of the meeting anddemonstrated similarities, differences and best practicesfor simulation debriefing approaches across the world. Inaddition, O’Donnell presented a panel on Simulation CenterAccreditation to an audience of more than 150 representativesof simulation centers across the world.John O’DonnellLinda DudjakTransitions:Christa Bartos (PhD ’08, MSIS ’94), BSN, joined theDepartment of Health and Community Systems as a full-timeassistant professor.Jaime Burkhart (MSN ’06, BSN ’03), joined the Departmentof Acute and Tertiary Care as a part-time instructor.Christine Cassesse (MSN ’04, BSN ’79), joined theDepartment of Health and Community Systems as a full-timeinstructor.Brenda Cassidy (MSN ’97, MSN ’86), BSN, joined theDepartment of Health Promotion and Development as afull-time instructor.Dawn Chambers, MSN, BSN, joined the Department of Acuteand Tertiary Care as a full-time instructor.Linda Dudjak (PhD ’97, MSN ’83), BSN, joined the Departmentof Acute and Tertiary Care as a full-time associate professor.Kathryn Finney, (MHA ’90), BSA, BSN, joined the Departmentof Acute and Tertiary Care as a full-time instructor.Susan Foley, PhD, MSN, BSN, joined the Department of Healthand Community Systems as a part-time assistant professor.Robert Kaufman, PharmD, joined the Department of Acuteand Tertiary Care as a full-time assistant professor.Rebecca Kronk (PhD ’08, MSN ’99), BSN, joined theDepartment of Health Promotion and Development as apart-time assistant professor.Rita Madden, MPH, BS, joined the Department of HealthPromotion and Development as a part-time instructor.Rebecca Manning, MSN, BSN, joined the Department of Acuteand Tertiary Care as a part-time instructor.Patricia McHenry, MSN ’97, BSN ’95, joined the Department ofHealth Promotion and Development as a part-time Instructor.Michael Neft, MSN, MHA, BS, joined the Department of Acuteand Tertiary Care as a full-time instructor.Nicole Olshanski, MSN, BSN, joined the Department of Acuteand Tertiary Care as a full-time instructor.Joyce Penrose, PhD, (DrPH ’83), MS, BSN, joined theDepartment of Health Promotion and Development as apart-time instructor.Kathleen Spadaro (PhD ’08), MEd, BSN, joined theDepartment of Health and Community Systems as a parttimeassistant professor.Robin Tate, MSN, BSN, joined the Department of Acute andTertiary Care as a part-time instructor.Lauren Terhorst (PhD ’07, MEd ’06), MA, joined theDepartment of Health and Community Systems as a full-timeassistant professor.40 university of Pittsburgh

Retired FacultyNewsConstance S. McCormick (MPH ’85), retired Departmentof Health and Community Systems faculty, was honoredthis past April by the University’s Graduate School ofPublic Health with the Margaret F. Gloninger ServiceAward for her community health Vial for Life project. Thepurpose of this project is to have a simple form withvital health and medical information available in thesame place in every home so that emergency medicalpersonnel and family members can easily find it in caseof emergency. The form is placed in a large medicine vialand stored on the top shelf of the refrigerator. To date,more than 13,500 Vials for Life have been assembledand distributed in McCormick’s home community ofBethel Park, Pa.Longtime Faculty RetiresJoanne Malenock, RD, PhD,a School of Nursing facultymember for 37 years, retired inDecember 2008.Malenock joined the Schoolof Nursing in 1971 asa full-time instructorand became a full-timeassistant professorin 1973. Since 1983,she has workedas a part-time assistant professor in theschool’s Department of Health Promotion andDevelopment. In addition to teaching nutritionon the Oakland campus, Malenock was anassistant professor at the Universityof Pittsburgh at Johnstown from 1983 to1994. During that time, she also taughtnutrition courses in the nursing programs atCarlow and Duquesne Universities.While maintaining a faculty practice atthe UPMC Diabetes and Endocrine Center,Malenock has worked at Carlow’s WellnessCenter since 2007, been an active member ofthe Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh Dietetic Associations,and served on the board of directors of the Sto-RoxHealth Center and the Lutheran Service Society ofWestern Pennsylvania.Malenock earned a Bachelor of Science degree in dieteticsfrom Carlow College, a Master of Science degreein public health nutrition from Case Western ReserveUniversity, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in highereducation from the University of Pittsburgh.Student NewsSenior Megan Cardy of Germantown, Md., has beenawarded the 2008 Pediatric Nursing Scholarship atChildren’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.Megan will spend spring term 2009 there, completing theprecepted clinical requirements for the Transitions intoProfessional Nursing course in preparation for a career inpediatric oncology nursing.2008 SNAPConvention HonorsThe University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing received aGold Achievement Award for Membership and Retentionat the Student Nurse Association of Pennsylvania (SNAP)56th Annual Convention in November.Jatolla Davis, junior nursing student, was elected2008–09 SNAP vice president and Latasha Kast,sophomore nursing student, was elected 2008–09 SNAPGreater Pittsburgh regional coordinator.Below: (L to R) Jatolla Davis, junior, 2008–09 SNAP vice president,and Latasha Kast, sophomore, 2008–09 SNAP Greater Pittsburghregional coordinatorUPCOMING EVENTSPinning CeremonySaturday, April 25, 2009Soldiers and Sailors Military Museumand Memorial6 p.m.Graduate Student DinnerSunday, April 26, 2009Pittsburgh Athletic Association4 p.m.Nancy Glunt Hoffman MemorialGolf OutingFriday, July 24, 2009Highland Country Club12:30 p.m. Shotgun start6 p.m. Auction, reception, andawards dinnerAlumni Day 2009A Celebration of Pitt NursingBrunch and ProgramSAVE THE DATE:Saturday, September 26, 2009Reunion classes ending in 4 and 9will mark milestone reunions.Visit www.nursing.pitt.edu often forupdates.Cameos of Caring Awards GalaSaturday, October 17, 2009Spirit of Pittsburgh BallroomDavid L. Lawrence Convention Center6 p.m. Auction and reception7 p.m. Dinner and awardspresentationPitt Nurse spring 2009 41

Continuing EducationThe University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing’s Continuing EducationProgram provides a broad range of onsite and online activities tailored tonurses in clinical practice. To meet the new legislative requirements forannual continuing education, we are launching a series of online educationalprograms. To learn more about our educational programs, please call412-624-3156, e-mail pjk14@pitt.edu, or visit www.pitt.edu/~nursing/continuingedu/index.html.ONSITE PROGRAMS AT VICTORIA BUILDINGFast Track Back: ReEntry to Practice for RegisteredNurses ProgramSpring Session: April 15–May 13, 2009The Fast Track Back: Reentry to Practice for Registered Nurses programprepares registered nurses for re-entry into hospital-based nursing practicethrough 25 hours of classroom and simulated learning and 80 hours ofhospital-based practice with an experienced registered nurse clinical coach.This program is designed to refresh the nursing skills of the registered nursewho has a current nursing license in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.This program is a recognized refresher program and not a reinstatementprogram. A reinstatement program would be required in the event aregistered nurse has let the Pennsylvania nursing license expire.Program Fee: $1,300 plus a $12 liability insurance fee, which is requiredfor nurses doing clinical practice at UPMC facilities. The program fee includestuition, textbooks, lunch, and parking for the didactic and simulationcomponents at the Oakland Campus.Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 105Sixteenth Annual Nursing Horizons Conference:Best Practices in Interprofessional Practiceand CommunicationFriday, May 15, 2009The 16th Annual Nursing Horizons Conference: Best Practices inInterprofessional Practice and Communication will take place on Friday, May15, 2009, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, 3500 VictoriaStreet, first floor. The target audience is clinicians, educators, and managersin clinical and academic settings. This conference showcases best evidencein interprofessional communication and practice as they relate to patientcare. At the conclusion of the day, nurses will learn how best evidence, appliedin practice, promotes interprofessional dialogue and enhances patient care.Please check our Web site at www.nursing.pitt.edu for upcoming registrationinformation.2009 Pharmacology Update ConferenceAugust 2009Our 2009 Annual Pharmacology Update includes topics of interest for allhealth care professionals, including advanced practice nurses, pharmacists,physicians, and physician assistants. We emphasize a broad pharmacologicknowledge base through dynamic presentations of pharmacologic issuesaffecting patient care. Concurrent sessions address drug therapies foradult and child populations with content that enables clinicians to offerpharmacologic interventions that are evidence-based and support bestpractice. The objectives of this conference are to:1. Offer evidence-based pharmacologic management for specific illnesses.2. Discuss patient response to drug therapies.Please check our Web site at www.nursing.pitt.edu for upcoming registrationinformation.ONLINE PROGRAMSBasic Clinical Ethics for NursesThis online module provides the practicing nurse with information aboutterms, concepts, and theories commonly used in clinical ethics. Guidelinesto ethical decision-making include exploration of personal philosophy andvalues, the ANA Code of Ethics, and an exercise in applying ethical conceptsand theories. The participant will have opportunities to evaluate his/herprogress in learning about clinical ethics and receive feedback on responsesto two quizzes. This module will be helpful to registered nurses from diverseeducational and specialty backgrounds, as well as other health care providersseeking a basic course in clinical ethics. Enrolled participants have sixmonths to complete the course.Program Fee: $20Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 2The Clinical Preceptorship: A Bridge betweenKnowledge and PracticeAt the School of Nursing, preceptorships are used in senior- and master’slevelcourses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The strengthof the program is the involvement of preceptors like you—knowledgeable,experienced nurses who are willing to guide students. The School of Nursingis offering a five-module, self-paced online course for nurses who work oneon one with our nursing students.The titles of the modules are:• Clinical Teaching Techniques• Supervision of Nursing Students• Communication and Conflict Resolution• Managing the Clinical Learning Environment• Evaluating the StudentProgram Fee: This online course is offered without charge to current andpotential Pitt nursing student preceptors. You can choose to complete onemodule or all five.Continuing Nursing Education Credits: 1 for each completed moduleFor more information about any of these courses, reservations, or registrationinformation, go to www.nursing.pitt.edu.The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing is an accredited provider ofcontinuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’sCommission on Accreditation (ANCC).42 university of Pittsburgh

Pitt Nursing accessoriesPit t Nursing bracele t ’s popul arit y continue s!Join the many alumni, students, and friends of the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursingwho are proudly showing off Pitt nurse pride each time they wear this lovely bracelet, createdexclusively for the Nursing Alumni Society. Made of sterling silver beads and Swarovski crystals,the bracelet features blue and khaki crystals. Each piece is handcrafted and strung on 49-strandstainless steel nylon-coated wire. Bracelets—available in 7-inch, 7½-inch, and 8-inch lengths—canbe ordered in two styles. One style features more crystals, whereas the other features more sterlingsilver beads. The bracelet comes with a nursing cap charm, and customers may choose between alobster claw or toggle clasp. Bracelets sell for $50 each.When ordering, please make sure to specify length, style, and clasp. Use the order form provided ordownload an order form from the School of Nursing Web site at www.nursing.pitt.edu; clickon “Alumni & Friends.” Questions can be directed to the School of Nursing alumni office at412-624-2404. Proceeds benefit student activities and scholarships.Qty. Size Style Clasp Price TotalSmall (7")Approx. wrist size 6" $50medium (7 1 /2")Approx. wrist size 6 1 /2" $50large (8")Approx. wrist size 7" $50Shipping/HandlINg $ 3Order Total $Name:Address:Phone:E-mail:Make checks payable to University of Pittsburgh and write “Pitt Nursing Bracelet” on thememo line. Mail check and order form to: University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing, AlumniOffice, 218 Victoria Building, 3500 Victoria Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.Nightingale L ampEnjoy this lovely ceramic NightingaleLamp, symbolic of modern nursingand a reminder of the University ofPittsburgh School of Nursing’s tradition of“passing of the light,” for only $25.Pitt Nursing Tote BagsThe Nursing Alumni Society is offering a trendy tote bagfor $15. It’s crafted from durable duck cloth and measures18” wide by 11 ½” high. The School of Nursing’s seal isscreen-printed on the front. Proceeds benefit studentscholarly activities. As always, thank you for your support!I would like to orderI would like to orderTotal enclosed: $Name:Address:lamp(s) at $25 each.tote bag(s) at $15 each.E-mail:Please make checks payable to University of Pittsburgh.Mail or drop off your order to:University of PittsburghSchool of NursingJoan Nock218 Victoria Building3500 Victoria StreetPittsburgh, PA 15261Thank you for your support of the Nursing Alumni Societyand School of Nursing students!Pitt Nurse spring 2009 43

REMEMBER WHENCan you identify the year and the faces?If so, contact Joan Nock at 412-624-2404 or jno100@pitt.edu. We will publish your answer in the next issue of Pitt Nurse.Want to share your memories with fellow alumni? Just send us your favorite photo of yesteryear, and we’ll run it in an upcoming issue.Submit your pictures to: University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing, 218 Victoria Building, 3500 Victoria Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Allpictures will be returned.Remember When? Photo from Winter 2008 IssueThe ‘Remember When?’ photo of the BSN Class of 1988 that appeared in the Spring 2008 issueof Pitt Nurse created quite a stir! Jacqueline Noble Cowan (BSN ’88), Beth Ann ModzelewskiHeuer (BSN ’88, MSN ’02), Luevonue Lincoln (MN ’78, PhD ’82), Angela Marie Margetto (BSN’88), Stacie Marie Murzynski (BSN ’88), and Cheryl A. Kupiec Troutman (BSN ’88), contacted thealumni office to identify this handsome group of nursing alumni. They are (L to R): StephanieAnn Stewart (BSN ’88), Tuwonda Roberson-Crawford (BSN ’88)*, Patricia Ann Lewis (MSN ’96,BSN ’88), Keith Lamont Dawson (BSN ’88), Sandra Kay Johnson (BSN ’88), Delores ReneeWilliams (BSN ’88), and A. Michele Tedder (BSN ’88).*Roberson-Crawford is a ‘lost’ alumnus. If anyone remains in contact with her, please ask her toupdate her contact information with the School of Nursing by using the convenient online career updateform or by calling the alumni office at 412-624-2404.44 university of Pittsburgh

University of PittsburghS c h o o l o f N u r s i n gA l u m ni S o c i e t yExecutive Committee2008–09 OfficersPresidentBeth K. Mastrangelo ’99Baccalaureate RepresentativeBethany A. Francis ’05Post-Baccalaureate RepresentativesGloria P. Gotaskie ’77, ’94A. Jane Haines ’89Immediate Past-PresidentJoan P. Byers ’87Chair, African American Nursing Alumni CommitteeLuevonue Lincoln ’78, ’82Representative to the Pitt Alumni AssociationMichael Cellurale ’06Ex-OfficioJacqueline Dunbar-JacobAt-Large Alumni SupportMonretta D. Aarons ’59Jessica Devido ’04Cynthia K. Hofius ’05Pearl F. Moore ’68, ’74Michele M. Prior ’80Chad Rittle ’00Dr. Shirley P. Smith ’59, ’79Kris Keefer Wolff ’93, ’00Pitt NurseAssociate Dean, Development,Alumni Affairs and Student ServicesSusan A. Albrecht ’75, ’78Director of Advancement and External RelationsJennifer Fellows, MBADirector of DevelopmenTJanice DevineAssistant Director of Alumni RelationsJoan F. NockAssistant Director of Public RelationsJoan E. BrittenContributing WritersJoan E. BrittenAlice Jane HainesNiki KapsambelisJoan NockDesignDepartment of University Marketing CommunicationsPrincipal PhotographyJoe KapelewskiMike DrazdzinskiThe University of Pittsburgh, as an educational institution and as an employer, values equality of opportunity, human dignity,and racial/ethnic and cultural diversity. Accordingly, the University prohibits and will not engage in discrimination or harassmenton the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation,gender identity or expression, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. Further, the Universitywill continue to take affirmative steps to support and advance these values consistent with the University’s mission. Thispolicy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities. This is a commitmentmade by the University and is in accordance with federal, state, and/or local laws and regulations.For information on University equal opportunity and affirmative action programs and complaint/grievance procedures,please contact the University of Pittsburgh; Office of Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion; 412 Bellefield Hall; 315 SouthBellefield Avenue; Pittsburgh, PA 15260; 412-648-7860.Published in cooperation with the Department of University Marketing Communications. UMC67026-0309

School of Nursing218 Victoria Building3500 Victoria StreetPittsburgh, PA 15261NONPROFIT ORG.U.S. POSTAGEPAIDPITTSBURGH PAPERMIT NO. 511Alumni Day2009Save the DateSaturday, September 26, 2009University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing alumniare cordially invited to this celebration of Pitt Nursing.Alumni from graduation classes ending in 4 and 9will mark milestone reunions.Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to reconnectand reminisce!Look for more Alumni Day 2009 details online atwww.nursing.pitt.edu, or contact Joan Nock in theSchool of Nursing alumni office at jno100@pitt.edu,412-624-2404, or toll free at 866-217-1124.Positionyourselffor thefuture.In addition to our outstanding baccalaureate programs, theUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Nursing offers:• Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with four majorsand 13 areas of concentration, including the ClinicalNurse Leader (CNL), which is now available onlineas well as onsite• Two doctoral programs with multiple points of entry- Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) with four majorsand 13 areas of concentration, including the ClinicalNurse Leader (CNL)- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)