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LETTER FROM THE DEANThe traditional symbol for a 60th anniversaryis the diamond. As we celebratethe 60th anniversary of the foundingof the UCLA School of Nursing,I’m struck by just how apropos that symbol is.Diamond comes from the Greek word adamas, which means unconquerable and enduring. This certainlyapplies to the School of Nursing as we reflect on the last six decades. The school has faced significant challengesat many points over its 60-year history, but has proved unconquerable in overcoming each one ofthem. There is no doubt that we have endured. But far more than enduring, we have always emerged fromthese challenges stronger and better equipped to build on our legacy as educators, researchers, and providersof community service.Our history is one that should fill each of us with pride. In the 60 years since being officiallyestablished in 1949, our school has led the way as nursing education has shifted from the hospital to theuniversity, as the science of nursing has come of age, and as advanced practice nurses have carved a niche asinvaluable players in the healthcare arena.Our pioneering spirit dates back to the school’s founding dean, Lulu Wolf Hassenplug, who told Universityof California administrators that a condition of her accepting their offer was that the new school bea university-based program for baccalaureate and master’s preparation. At a time when nursing studentswere often treated as hired help for hospitals, this represented a new model, with students integrated intothe university.Dean Hassenplug did things her way, even when it ruffled establishment feathers. Early on she decidedthat her students wouldn’t be required to wear the traditional nursing caps during their clinical rotations.Instead of being identified by their apparel, she explained, her students would be identified by what they did.The symbolism, at a time when nursing was finally being recognized as a profession, was unavoidable.

But this wasn’t just about symbolism. From the start, the school established innovative curricula thatwere used as models by other nursing schools in the United States and abroad. Some of the most widelyadopted theory-based patient care models were developed, tested and utilized at our school in the late 1960sand early 1970s. Our faculty helped to pioneer the new role of the nurse practitioner beginning in the early1970s and continuing through the 1990s with the establishment of the West Coast’s first acute care nurse practitionerprogram. The school has always had a strong foundation in science – in the early years, faculty wereamong the first to conduct research on nursing interventions and outcomes – but the research enterprisehas grown dramatically in the last two-plus decades with the establishment of our doctoral program and therecruitment of some of the most renowned scientists to our faculty.Our school’s history of making a difference isn’t confined to the important research findings that havechanged patient care, nor is it limited to the graduates who continue to transform nursing practice andscience – 60 of whom are featured in this issue. We are also a school with a rich history of diversity amongour students, and a school with an unrivaled track record when it comes to addressing the needs of society’smost vulnerable members, whether it’s through the community-based participatory research of our facultyin underserved communities or the nurse-managed clinics that we run. Most notable among the latter is theUCLA School of Nursing Health Clinic at the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles’s Skid Row area, whichhas been in operation since 1983 and currently receives more than 8,000 visits from homeless and indigentpatients each year.At several points in our history we have dealt with financial and budgetary crises, but with the help ofour alumni and friends we have always overcome them. Today, even as we face the formidable economicchallenges confronting the entire University of California system, we continue to thrive. Our student populationhas doubled in the last three years alone. Our faculty continues to expand on the practice of nursingscience, building a wide-ranging research enterprise that is developing potential solutions to the most importanthealth challenges of the day, from improving the health of our most vulnerable groups to addressingissues related to wound care, Alzheimer’s disease and other illnesses of our aging population.Indeed, while there is so much to be proud of, what we are really celebrating as we turn 60 is the outlookfor our future. The possibilities for the coming years are boundless; our vision is expansive.Research: In the last year, funding for research grants at our school has tripled – from $6 million to approximately$18 million. Every day, nurses see the challenges faced by the individuals to whom they providecare. From the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside, our faculty scholars are using the science of nursingto solve real-world problems and improve the delivery of care. They are improving prevention efforts

for the homeless at risk of hepatitis and HIV viruses; improving the quality of pressure ulcer care in nursinghomes; determining if high-protein diets will reduce the incidence of heart failure; assessing the relationshipof brain activity and sleep apnea to cardiovascular health; and examining addiction in chronic painpatients. These are but a few of the major initiatives currently being funded.Education: While our student enrollment has more than doubled in the last four years, it is still notenough given the critical nursing shortage that will occur in the next decade, as nurses retire and the agingbaby boom population increases the demand for healthcare services. We need not only to expand ourability to train more nurses, but also to produce more teachers to train the nurses. Our Center for theAdvancement of Gerontological Nursing Science in particular is emphasizing the recruitment of practicingnurses who return to school, obtain a doctorate focused on aging and then teach nurses how to care for ourelder population.Community Service: While we already provide healthcare to the underserved through our clinic at theUnion Rescue Mission, we are looking for other ways to expand our relationships within the community andexpand culturally competent healthcare services. Several of our faculty recently received grants to look atways to improve care for African Americans and Latinos here in Los Angeles.Global Outreach: The World Health Organization is also marking its 60th anniversary – and in muchthe same way as the UCLA School of Nursing. While the WHO highlights its achievements of the last60 years, it is addressing the challenges of the future. We are developing international/global initiatives thatwill allow us to expand our education and training to provide students with the opportunity to learn nursingfrom a culturally competent perspective. Global outreach will facilitate student exchange, researchexperiences and resource sharing.At the UCLA School of Nursing we celebrate a 60-year record of achievement at a time when we arepoised to accomplish even greater things in the years ahead. We live in an era in which our contributions havenever been more vital to the population’s health. Nurses are the faces of the future. And the best nurses – inresearch, education and clinical practice – will be UCLA nurses.COURTNEY H. LYDER, N.D., G.N.P., F.A.A.N.Dean and Professor, School of NursingAssistant Director for Academic Nursing,UCLA Health System

SIXTY WHOHAVE MADE ADIFFERENCEOver its 60-year history, the UCLA School of Nursinghas graduated numerous individuals who have madesignificant contributions to – and in many cases, transformed –clinical practice, science, education, and health policy.Here are 60 alumni who exemplify the outstanding caliberassociated with a UCLA School of Nursing degree.

1950SRoberta J. Gerds (Langton), B.S. ’54, M.N. ’77Gerds was a pre-nursing student at UCLA when theSchool of Nursing began to admit students to the newbaccalaureate program; more than two decades after shegraduated, she returned to the school and earned hermaster’s degree in 1977. During her career Gerdsworked in staff nursing (mainly in maternity/labor and delivery settings), public health nursing andteaching. She was a childbirth educator who taughttraining classes for other childbirth educators and wasactive in the Childbirth Education Association. Gerds’teaching career included 18 years at California StateUniversity, Bakersfield, from which she retired in 2000.She was active in the community, working with the Maternal,Child and Adolescent Health Council of KernCounty, the Breastfeeding Promotion Coalition,Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies of Kern County, andthe KCEOC Health Advisory Council. In retirementGerds has been working with members of her church toassist people in the congregation who need help in managinghealthcare needs.1950Ann Larae Ivey, B.S. ’57, M.S. ’64After earning her B.S. as part of the school’s fourthgraduating class, Ivey became a public health nurse forthe City of San Bernardino. With five years of experience,she returned to UCLA and earned an M.S. inNursing Administration. Ivey then went back to theSan Bernardino County Health Department as a supervisingpublic health nurse and progressed throughpositions of increasing responsibility until she becamechief of community health services, a position she heldfor 10 years. In that role, Ivey worked actively to solvethe problems of the community by collaborating withand leading communities in addressing issues of childrenat risk, homelessness, hearing impairment, ethics,teen pregnancy, and healthcare reform. In 1999, Iveywas involved in the planning and implementation of aMasters in Nursing program at California State UniversitySan Bernardino; she was a consultant for theprogram from 1999 until her death in 2008. Ivey alsoserved as an associate clinical professor at Loma LindaUniversity School of Nursing for 25 years and as a lecturerat the UCLA School of Nursing.Rose Marie Nesbit, B.S. ’57Having graduated from the school with highest honors,Nesbit went on to work as a public health nurse for theLos Angeles County Health Department in Inglewood,and later at the Santa Monica Health Center assistingthe assistant district health officer in providing immunizationsfor parochial school children throughout LosAngeles County. Well after Nesbit’s formal nursing careerended, she has continued to promote the professionthrough her support of the school. Nesbit was chair ofthe Board of Advisors under Dean Ada Lindsey andDean Marie Cowan. With her husband, Dr. RichardNesbit, she was active on a committee that successfullyraised funds to establish the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug EndowedChair in honor of the school’s founding dean.

Bernice Doyle Nelson, B.S. ’58After graduating from the school in 1958, Nelson begana career as a public health nurse in Los Angeles, risingthrough the ranks to become the clinical nursing directorfor the North County Health Centers in 1992. Shewas in that position in 1994 when the region was devastatedby the Northridge earthquake. More than20,000 residents were left homeless, water and electricitywere cut off, health centers closed, the Mid-ValleyComprehensive Health Center was severely damagedand Olive View Medical Center curtailed most of itsservices. Nelson and her nursing staff began operatinga triage clinic in their center’s parking lot, andwithin days had set up tents to give immunizations,triage tuberculosis patients, and provide physical examsfor children and prenatal patients. The services provedinvaluable, and the nursing staff earned the commendationof then-Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareDonna Shalala.19601960sAfaf I. Meleis, M.S. ’64, M.A., Ph.D.Since 2002 Meleis has been at the University of PennsylvaniaSchool of Nursing as the Margaret Bond SimonDean of Nursing, professor of nursing and sociology,and director of that school’s WHO Collaborating Centerfor Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. Prior tobeing recruited to Penn, she was a professor at the UCSan Francisco School of Nursing for more than threedecades; she was also on the UCLA School of Nursingfaculty from 1968 to 1971. Her scholarship is focused onglobal health, immigrant and women’s health, and onthe theoretical development of the nursing discipline.Meleis has authored more than 150 articles and severalbooks. She has won numerous awards for her scholarshipand achievements, including the Medal of Excellencefrom Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Meleisis also the only dean at the University of Pennsylvania tohave received the Dr. Gloria Twine Chisum Award forDistinguished Faculty, awarded for community leadershipand commitment to promoting diversity.Catherine Burns, B.S. ’66, M.N., Ph.D.Burns is the lead author of the award-winning PediatricPrimary Care (Burns, Dunn, Brady, Starr, & Blosser,2009), the principal pediatric primary care textbookused by pediatric nurse practitioner and family nursepractitioner students and clinicians. The book is now inits fourth edition, with work on the next edition underway.Burns trained in a pilot pediatric nurse practitioner(PNP) program in 1971 and then taught in thefirst UCLA PNP program, offered at the time throughUCLA Extension. In 1974 she moved to Oregon, wherethere were only 12 nurse practitioners, and began thatstate’s first nurse practitioner program, then went on todirect the PNP program at Oregon Health & ScienceUniversity for 30 years. Burns was recently awarded theNational Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners’(NAPNAP) highest award for service to children andwas honored for her leadership at a reception at thisyear’s annual conference of the NAPNAP, of which shepreviously served as president.

Karen Hellwig, B.S. ’66, M.N. ’71Hellwig’s 37-year career started when she was a publichealth nurse with the Los Angeles County Health Departmentand continued with her tenure as a nursingprofessor at El Camino College in Torrance, Calif.; duringthat time she also spent 24 years in home care nursing.Her most recently published article, “Caring forVulnerable Children in Cambodia,” is the photo-essayof her travels with pediatric home health nurses whocare for children with AIDS and other chronic conditionsin rural Cambodia. Among her career accomplishments,Hellwig developed and implemented thecertified home health aide course at El Camino College;developed and taught a real-time Internet nursingseries to nursing students in Osaka, Japan; and developedand implemented a psychiatric case manager programfor four home health agencies. She has also usedher nursing skills in many volunteer capacities. Hellwigassisted with the establishment of The Chironians, thefundraising arm of the UCLA School of Nursing, andserved as chair for five years.Terry L. Bream, B.S. ’67, M.N. ’72Bream has held key administrative positions at KaiserPermanente for 20 years, the last 14 of them as administratorof clinical services for the Regional Office of theSouthern California Permanente Medical Group inPasadena. Prior to her work at Kaiser, she was vice presidentof nursing at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital.Other highlights of Bream’s 42-year nursing career includebeing elected president of the Hospital Council ofSouthern California Nursing Board, in 1990; and presidentof the Association of California Nurse Leaders, in1996. Her book Caring: Making a Difference One Storyat a Time was published this year. Bream’s most cherishedprofessional highlight was also a personal one: Asan associate faculty member at the UCLA School ofNursing, she handed her daughter Lauren her M.S.N.degree at the school’s 1998 Commencement.IMELINEUCLA School of Nursing1944The Department of Public Health Nursingis established in UCLA’s College of AppliedArts, offering registered nurses coursesleading to a Bachelor of Science degree.1947Lulu Wolf, who wasteaching at VanderbiltUniversity, is askedby Provost ClarenceDykstra to come to UCLAto serve as professorand chair of what is nowcalled the Departmentof Nursing. She acceptsthe position in 1948under the condition thatshe be allowed todevelop her vision ofa university schoolof nursing.1949The University of California Regentsauthorize creation of the UCLA School ofNursing, with Lulu Wolf as the first dean.1950The first baccalaureate classbegins at the school.1953UCLA becomes the first nursing schoolin California to confer the Master of Sciencedegree to nurses.

Kristine M. Gebbie, M.S.N. ’68, Dr.P.H.Gebbie has played a key role in matters of nursing, publichealth policy and emergency preparedness for manyyears, having worked with multiple federal, state andlocal agencies, as well as the New York PresbyterianHealthcare System. She served as chief state health officialin both Oregon and Washington, established thefirst AIDS Policy Office at the White House during theClinton administration, and directed all outpatient servicesat St. Louis University Medical Center. Most recently,Gebbie was named to the endowed Joan GrabeDeanship at Hunter College, City University of NewYork, in September 2009. Prior to that she served for 14years as Elizabeth Standish Gill Professor of Nursingand director of the Center for Health Policy at ColumbiaUniversity School of Nursing. Gebbie recently completeddirecting six years of emergency and bioterrorismtraining funded by the Health Resources and ServicesAdministration, through which she led the New YorkConsortium for Emergency Preparedness ContinuingEducation. Her current research is focused in publichealth infrastructure and public health law; she alsocontinues to be a leader in developing the public healthworkforce for the 21st century.Joan I. (Joni) Cohen,B.S. ’69, M.N. ’71, M.A., Ph.D. ’02After receiving her master’s degree, Cohen went towork as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric-mentalhealth nursing at the Greater Los Angeles Veterans’Administration Hospital. During that time she developedan expertise in psychodrama, a form of group therapy,and went on to complete a Master’s in SocialScience with an emphasis in Marriage and FamilyCounseling from Azusa Pacific College and become alicensed marriage and family therapist. Cohen has aparticular interest in the relationship between the mindbodyconnection and its impact on health and wellbeing, and has worked with a number of complementarytherapies. She returned to the UCLA School ofNursing to pursue her doctorate, receiving a VulnerablePopulations Fellowship and conducting research in improvinghealthcare outcomes in socially vulnerable populations.At the VA, where she currently works parttime, Cohen serves as a research mentor to nurses andother professionals in the Nursing Research MentorshipProgram. She co-leads a psychodrama group with psychiatricpatients at the VA and maintains a small privatepractice as a psychiatric nurse therapist.19701970sDianne S. Moore, M.P.H., M.N. ’70, Ph.D.Throughout her career, Moore has been an innovatorand leader of change, using best practices and new ideasto help provide patients, students and communitieswhat they need in a manner that serves them best. Sheis currently the founding dean of nursing at West CoastUniversity and vice president for nursing academics forthe three WCU campuses. West Coast University nursingstarted in 2005 and now admits approximately 80undergraduate students to each of three campuses every10 weeks. After obtaining her M.N. from the UCLASchool of Nursing, Moore worked as the first clinicalnurse specialist at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica,Calif. She later moved to Oregon, where she wasthe state’s first perinatal clinical nurse specialist andplayed a key role in developing the regional perinatalhelicopter transport system. Moore also became a certifiednurse midwife while attending New York Universityfor her doctorate.

1954Eight students graduate fromthe baccalaureate program.Trisha G. Zagha-Bear(Patricia Gordon), B.S. ’71In response to what she saw as the diminished focus ondeaf pregnant women and deaf families with youngchildren, Zagha-Bear established and became CEO ofPerinatal Foundation for the Deaf. The nonprofit organizationprovides in-home education in a culturallyappropriate milieu for the deaf to understand pregnancy,childbirth, child development, parenting skills,nutrition, and health. Goals include encouraginghealthy birth outcomes; reducing Cesarean sections; decreasinghospital stays; increasing breastfeeding; improvingchild physical, mental, and emotional health;reducing obesity in children; and decreasing childabuse. After a varied career that included work as achildbirth specialist for hospitals in New York and Arizonaand as the nurse for the consulates and their familiesat the American Embassy in Guadalajara, Mexico,Zagha-Bear returned to California in 1989 to studyAmerican Sign Language and ultimately became a certifiedinterpreter for the deaf.Linda Burnes Bolton, M.N. ’72, Dr.P.H.Burnes Bolton is vice president for nursing, chief nursingofficer and director of nursing research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Her areas ofresearch, teaching, and clinical expertise include nursingand patient care outcomes, improving organization performance,quality care, and cultural diversity within thehealth professions. Burnes Bolton is co-investigator ofthe Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes researchteam. She is a past president of the AmericanAcademy of Nursing and the National Black NursesAssociation, and has provided leadership for severalstate and national programs, including service as chairof the National Advisory Committee for TransformingCare at the Bedside, VA Commission on Nursing, andthe California AHEC Health Professions Committee.Currently Burnes Bolton serves on multiple nursingand health services advisory boards and is a trustee ofthe Case Western University board. In 2009 she was appointedvice chair of the Institute of Medicine Commissionon the Future of Nursing. Burnes Bolton is therecipient of numerous awards for her scholarly workand community service.1958Lulu Wolf Hassenplug is named“Woman of the Year” by theLos Angeles Times.1966A Master of Nursing program is approved forthe preparation of the clinical nurse specialist.1968The Johnson BehavioralSystems Model is firstpublished by facultymember Dorothy Johnson.■ Lulu Wolf Hassenplug retires.

Irashel P. Fitzgerald, M.N. ’73, M.P.A.In the early 1970s Fitzgerald was involved in developingand implementing pediatric nurse practitioner programsfor 11 health districts of Los Angeles County, aswell as maintaining her own weekly pediatric nursepractitioner clinic. She was a founding member of theNational Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates andPractitioners and served as a member of the AmericanNurses Association committee that established the firstpediatric nurse practitioner examination. Fitzgeraldlater spent 12 years with the Los Angeles County ProbationHealth Services Department as an assistant administratorto three detention and 13 camp youthfacilities in operations functions of payroll, personnel,procurement, plan, and policy for the San FernandoValley Juvenile Health Infirmary. Since 1990 Fitzgeraldhas worked as a consultant, including as principalwriter for the Cameroon, Africa Association of Universityof Women’s AIDS Project.Anayis Derdiarian, M.N. ’74, M.P.H., D.N.Sc.Derdiarian joined the UCLA School of Nursing facultyin 1974, when cancer-nursing content in curricula waslacking nationwide. In 1976 she obtained a three-yearNational Institutes of Health grant to implement, as ademonstration project, a graduate curriculum in cancernursing based on the Johnson Behavioral System Model(JBSM). She then received a second three-year NIHgrant to develop and operationally define the JBSM’stheoretical framework in order to measure its efficacy asa research and practice instrument for use in cancercare; this instrument became known as the DerdiarianBehavioral System Model (DBSM). The DBSM instrumentwas also tested on patients with AIDS and cardiovascularand respiratory diseases. Derdiarian’s otherresearch focused on newly diagnosed cancer patientsand their informational needs. Her works were publishedand replicated in 11 nations. As director of nursingresearch at the L.A. County-University of SouthernCalifornia Medical Center, Derdiarian developed andimplemented a nursing care quality measurement andimprovement program as the basis for a quality improvementinformation data system that became a nationalmodel.Kathleen Dracup, M.N. ’74, D.N.Sc.The dean and Endowed Professor in Nursing Educationat the UC San Francisco School of Nursing,Dracup is recognized nationally and internationally forher investigation in the care of patients with heart diseaseand the effects of this disease on spouses and otherfamily members. She has tested a variety of interventionsdesigned to reduce the emotional distress experiencedby cardiac patients and their family members andto reduce morbidity and mortality from sudden cardiacdeath. Dracup has also been an influential mentor forcardiovascular nursing researchers for the past threedecades. Many of her students hold key leadership positionsin university schools of nursing in the UnitedStates as well as in Australia and Europe; additional studentsare clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners,and nurse administrators who are instrumental in influencingthe care of cardiovascular patients in hospitalsand clinics. Dracup has published her research inmore than 300 articles and chapters, and recently publishedthe textbook Intensive Coronary Care.

Carol Greene, B.S. ’74, M.N. ’89An advanced practice nurse with many years of experiencein clinical practice and leadership roles, Greenecurrently serves as regional ANP manager for PediatrixMedical Group, a leading national provider of maternal-fetal,newborn and pediatric subspecialty physicianservices. After graduating from the UCLA School ofNursing with her baccalaureate degree, Greene spent10 years working as a nurse in acute care. She then returnedto UCLA to earn her master’s degree and begina career as a neonatal nurse practitioner. Along with herclinical experiences, she became involved in management.Greene is currently director of advanced practitionersfor the western region of her national medicalgroup. As an active member of the Continuing NursingEducation team for Pediatrix Medical Group, Greenepresents at conferences and reviews materials for Webbasededucation.Margo Creighton Neal, M.N. ’74After graduating from the UCLA School of Nursing,Neal was part of the first wave of psychiatric/mental health nurses to be certified by the AmericanNurses’ Association. She was also the first independentprovider of continuing education for nurses in theUnited States, starting in 1970. Neal began with oneprogram, Nursing Care Plans, and worked with anothernurse, Mary Jensen, to develop the process andcontent and to present workshops. She worked withtwo coauthors – Phyllis Cooper and Pat Cohen, alsograduates of the school – to produce the first volume ofNursing Care Planning Guides and ended up publishingfive more volumes in several editions. In 1985, Neal soldher education and publishing enterprise to Williams &Wilkins, medical and nursing book publishers in Baltimore.Four years later she and a partner started NursecomInc. to publish nursing journals and clinicalbooks and engage in association management.1970The Neuman SystemsModel: A Total Approachto Patient Problemsis published byDr. Betty Neuman, amember of the faculty.1971Dr. Rheba de Tornyayis recruited asthe school’ssecond dean.■ The Roy Adaptation Modelis described by Sister Callista Roy,a graduate student at the school.1972A federal grant enables the schoolto become one of the first to establish aprogram to prepare nurse practitioners.1976Dr. Phyllis Putnam, a member of the facultyfrom 1963 to 1990, obtains a grant to starta geriatric specialization program at theschool, the first of its kind in the nation.1977Dr. Mary Reresbecomes the School ofNursing’s third dean.

Sharon M. Valente, M.S. ’74, Ph.D.Valente, associate chief nurse for research and educationat the Greater Los Angeles Veterans AffairsHealthcare System and holder of a faculty appointmentat the UCLA School of Nursing, conducts research inthe areas of mental health, human sexuality, suicide, andend-of-life care. She is the coauthor of three books, includingSuicide: Assessment and Intervention and HumanSexuality, as well as approximately 120 peer-reviewedarticles. Among her many honors, Valente received the2008 GLA Nursing Hero award and has been featuredwith an Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityInnovation Profile. Her teams also received two nationalVA Innovation Awards in 2008. Valente servedon the American Psychological Association End of LifeTask Force and has received the American Associationof Suicidology Shneidman Award. She has led a PeopleTo People delegation on suicidology to Russia andEstonia. After earning her master’s degree at the school,Valente obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology from USC.Salpy Akaragian, B.S. ’75, M.N. ’80As director of UCLA’s International Nursing Center,Akaragian leads the international outreach program forthe Department of Nursing with multiple countries:She has hosted visitors from more than 20 different nationsand coordinated education and training experiencesfor more than 2,000 international visitors.Akaragian is also director of UCLA’s Competencies,Students, Credentialing and Teaching Institute, whichincludes the performance-based development system forthe department. As the U.S. partner representative forUnited States Agency for International Development/American International Health Alliance grants from1995 to 2004, she directed multiple health care projectsand initiated reforms in Armenia. In 2004, Akaragianestablished The Cochlear Implant Regional Center inYerevan, Armenia with the AIM Fund and the UCLAmedical team. She is the founder and first president ofthe Armenian-American Nurses Association in Californiaand in 1996 facilitated the formation of the ArmenianNurses Association in Armenia.Carol J. Alexander, B.S. ’75, M.A.As director of clinical services for Stat Home HealthCare for the last 24 years, Alexander has spearheadedthe agency’s success, culminating in its designationas one of the HomeCare Elite, a listing of Medicarecertifiedagencies whose performance is among the top25 percent of providers nationwide. In addition, as amember of the California Association for Health Servicesat Home and the National Association of HomeCare, Alexander has been instrumental in shaping policyfor new state and federal regulations on the deliveryof home health services. In response to the demandfor knowledgeable professionals in the area of homehealth care, Alexander in 1985 started Spectrum HealthCare Consultants, which specializes in the interpretationand application of regulations governing Medicarecertifiedhome health agencies. Alexander has testified inWashington, D.C. and provided insight on Medicare andhome health care issues in other state and national forums.As president of the Nurses Ministry and national vicepresident of the National Missionary Baptist AssociationNurses Auxiliary, she has developed policies andprocedures for the delivery of care to congregations.

1981The Doris and Louis Factor Health SciencesBuilding opens, giving the school a central locationand a significant increase in space.Sister Callista Roy, M.N. ’75, Ph.D.Roy, a professor and nurse theorist at the William F.Connell School of Nursing in Boston College, is bestknown for development of the Roy Adaptation Modelof Nursing and leadership for knowledge-based practice.At least 350 research publications are studies basedon the model. Lecture commitments have taken Roy to31 countries on five continents, and the Roy AdaptationAssociation has five international chapters. As early as1987, an estimated 10,000 nurses had studied in schoolswhere the curricula used the Roy Adaptation Model.The impact of the model on practice continues, withhealthcare agencies using it in designing the strategiesfor Magnet Status. Roy has more than 150 publications,including 11 books (two of which are award-winning)with translations in 12 languages. She has received 42research and training grants covering a wide range oftopics, including neuroscience. At the Connell Schoolof Nursing, she was part of a team initiating a Ph.D.program in nursing that graduated 130 students in thefirst 17 years. Among her many honors, Roy was nameda Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing.Jan Fredrickson, B.S. ’76, M.N. ’80Fredrickson has been a pediatric nurse throughout hercareer – as a staff nurse in the pediatric ICU and the pediatricemergency department; as a pediatric nursepractitioner at a school-based clinic, community healthcenter, pediatric private office, for the county healthdepartment and as a community volunteer; and as aclinical nurse specialist in pediatrics/maternal-childhealth, the pediatric ICU, and the pediatric emergencydepartment. She has been on the UCLA School ofNursing faculty since 1987, with major teaching responsibilitiesfor pediatric nurse practitioner and pediatricclinical nurse specialist students. Fredrickson hastaught in 20 courses and given guest lectures in sevenothers; these have included the physical assessmentcourse as well as pediatric pre-licensure courses. Shewas one of six nurses chosen by the Emergency NursesAssociation to develop the emergency nursing pediatriccourse. As a testament to her impact as a teacher,Fredrickson has seen many former students go on to serveas clinical preceptors and mentors of current students.1983The school establishes a nurse-managedclinic serving a mostly homeless populationat the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles’Skid Row area.■ Dr. Sharon Reederis named to a newly createdposition as associate deanfor research, helpingto solidify the school’seffort to build a top-rankednursing research program.1984The estate of Audrienne Moseley,a nurse who had never been affiliated withUCLA, grants $1.9 million to the school.

Linda Sarna, M.N. ’76, D.N.Sc.Sarna, professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, hasbeen a leader in addressing the critical public health issuesof lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death;and tobacco use, the leading cause of preventable death.A pioneer in oncology nursing education, she helped toestablish one of the first graduate oncology nursing specialtyprograms at UCLA more than 30 years ago. Asthe lead investigator for the Tobacco Free Nurses(TFN) initiative, Sarna led the first-ever national programhelping nurses to quit smoking and promotingnursing involvement in tobacco control. TFN was selectedas an exemplar by the World Health Organizationfor The Role of Health Professionals in TobaccoControl. Sarna’s scholarship includes more than 100peer-reviewed publications; more than 50 book chapters,monographs or commentaries; and 10 policies/positionstatements. She is an editor of the 2009 volume ofthe Annual Review of Nursing Research focused on nursingresearch in tobacco control. Among her manyawards, she was honored as the 2009 Oncology NursingSociety’s Distinguished Researcher.Linda M. Gorman, M.N. ’77As a clinical nurse specialist for palliative care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Gorman is part ofan inpatient consultation team that provides and coordinatespalliative and end-of-life care services to patientsthroughout the medical center. She is coauthor/editorof several books, including Psychosocial Nursing CareAlong the Cancer Continuum, published by OncologyNursing Press (second edition published in 2006), whichreceived the American Journal of Nursing Book of theYear award for psychiatric/mental health nursing in2007; Psychosocial Nursing for General Patient Care (thirdedition published in 2008), which received the AmericanJournal of Nursing Book of the Year Award for psychiatric/mentalhealth nursing in 2008; and Compendiumof Treatment of End Stage Non-Cancer Diagnoses: Renal,published in 2005. Gorman lectures extensively on topicsrelated to end-of-life care, symptom management,and promotion of quality psychosocial and palliativecare. In 2009 she was named CNS of the Year by theNational Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.Kay Baker, M.N. ’78Baker served as associate dean for student affairs at theUCLA School of Nursing until her retirement in 2006.In that role she assisted students with their financial,personal and professional issues and facilitated theirprogress in school. She continues to work as a consultantto other schools of nursing for curriculum and studentissues and has served on numerous committeesinvolved with advancing the profession of nursing atthe local, state, and national levels, including as a memberof the University of California Office of the President’sadvisory committee for establishing futuregrowth in the health professions for the UC system.Baker obtained her M.N. from the UCLA School ofNursing with a specialty in cardiovascular nursing. Shewas a clinical nurse specialist at Ronald Reagan UCLAMedical Center in charge of education, research, andteaching for a medical unit. She has also had a groupconsultation practice for patients with heart disease andtheir families.

1986Dr. Ada M. Lindseybegins her tenure as theschool’s fourth dean.Lora E. Burke, M.N. ’78, Ph.D., M.P.H.Burke, professor of nursing and epidemiology at theUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Nursing and GraduateSchool of Public Health, received her M.N. fromthe UCLA School of Nursing with a cardiovascular specialty,then completed her Ph.D. in nursing and M.P.H.in epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, followedby a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascularbehavioral medicine at the same institution,where she has been a member of the faculty since 1999.Starting with a National Research Service Award as adoctoral student, Burke has had continuous NationalInstitutes of Health funding to support her researchprogram, which has included a series of clinical trialsfocused on behavioral strategies to improve complianceto treatment regimens targeting cardiovascular diseaserisk reduction and long-term weight loss. She has incorporatedthe use of technology to validate self-reportmeasures, and was the first to document actual patternsof self-monitoring among participants in behavioraltreatment for weight-loss studies. An active mentor ofjunior faculty members and students, Burke has alsomaintained leadership positions in the American HeartAssociation and the Society of Behavior Medicine.Gayle Giboney Page,B.S.N. ’78, M.N. ’82, D.N.Sc. ’92Page is professor and Independence Foundation Chairin Nursing Education, and director for the Center ofNursing Research, for the Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Nursing. Her research investigates the biologicconsequences of unrelieved pain, specifically withregard to cancer resistance and alterations in neuroendocrineand immune function. Page has moved fromstudying the biobehavioral consequences of acute surgicalpain in animal models to exploring the long-termnegative biological consequences of painful stress in theearly neonatal period, to her most recent efforts todevelop a chronic pain model for exploring risk andprotective factors in chronic pain development. She alsoco-directs a National Institutes of Health RoadmapInitiative postdoctoral training program to prepareinterdisciplinary researchers to address the complexchallenge of pain.1987A second UCLA School of Nursing-run clinic,serving mostly women and children in theSkid Row area, is opened at Para Los Ninosand later moved to the St. Francis Centerin the downtown Garment District.■ A doctoral program is launched at theschool, with seven students in the first class.The degree, originally a D.N.Sc., changesto a Ph.D. in 1996.■ The Chironians is establishedas the school’s annual fund-raising body.1989The Chironians group begins a grass-rootsfund-raising drive to establish a Lulu WolfHassenplug Endowed Chair at the school.The four-year effort raises $325,000from alumni and friends toward the school’sfirst endowed chair.■ The school hosts 16 students fromKitasato University School of Nursing in Japan,leading to an ongoing exchange involvingfaculty and students, emblematic of theschool’s extensive international involvement.1991The school graduates its first four doctoralstudents, who immediately begin successfulcareers.

Nancy W. Fawzy, M.N. ’79, D.N.Sc. ’91Fawzy, part of the first graduating class of the UCLASchool of Nursing doctoral program, has worked withcancer patients for more than 35 years, always with aninterest in the importance and impact of psychosocialissues faced by patients and family members. She participatedin landmark research demonstrating that ashort-term structured psycho-educational interventionhelps newly diagnosed cancer patients cope more effectivelyand feel better emotionally, as well as providing asmall but statistically significant survival benefit. Fawzywas the founder and director from 1991 to 2002 of theJohn Wayne Cancer Institute Psychosocial Care Programat Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica,Calif. She was the co-founder and supervisor of the PositiveAppearance Center at Saint John’s, one of the firsthospital-based boutiques catering to the cosmetic andcomfort side effects of cancer treatment. Fawzy has receivedthe “Excellence in Supportive Care” Award fromthe Oncology Nursing Society and the “Three TylerPsychosocial Service Award” from Chapter II of theJohn Wayne Cancer Institute Auxiliary.19801980sLinda Searle Leach, M.N. ’80, Ph.D.An assistant professor in the UCLA School of Nursingwho also has an appointment as a nurse scientist withthe Nursing Research Program at Kaiser PermanenteSouthern California, Leach is a health services researcherwho examines healthcare organizations, nursingadministration and leadership, the professional role ofthe registered nurse, and care delivery issues includingpatient safety. She coauthored a policy report, California’sNursing Workforce: Increasing Capacity in Schoolsof Nursing for the California Institute for Nursing andHealth Care, outlining recommendations to addressnursing educational capacity issues for the State ofCalifornia. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Leachwas involved with the Children’s Hospital Los AngelesVersant RN Residency, where she designed and evaluateda version of an innovative approach to advancededucation for nurses. Leach was the national presidentof the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses(AACN), the world’s largest specialty nursing organization,and president of the AACN Certification Corporationin 1988-89.Sherri Rasmussen, M.N. ’80Rasmussen was a nurse manager of the coronary care(critical care) unit at UCLA Medical Center, where shewas considered an expert clinician and leader in the careof cardiac and critical care patients, exerting her influenceover clinical practice through her leadership, publications,and presentations. She went on to becomenursing director of the critical care units at GlendaleAdventist Medical Center, a position she held when,tragically, she was murdered in 1986. She was a tirelessadvocate for patients, ensuring that they received thehighest-quality professional and compassionate carepossible. Rasmussen’s leadership and guidance createdan environment in which there was a sense of commonpurpose, high morale and teamwork. Whether deliveringcare herself or supervising others, she was dedicated tothe highest principles of nursing practice. Rasmussen,who entered college at age 16, was described as “brilliant”by her peers at the UCLA School of Nursing, whereshe obtained her master’s. She also taught at the schooland lectured internationally on critical care nursing.

Syd Whalley, M.N. ’80, J.D.With encouragement from a public health nurse shemet while in high school, Whalley enrolled in CornellUniversity School of Nursing, graduating in 1975. Afterthree years as a pediatric nurse, she decided to specializein pediatric oncology nursing and applied to theUCLA School of Nursing for graduate education.Whalley started the Bone Marrow Transplant Programat Children’s Hospital-Los Angeles, and served as theprogram’s clinical nurse specialist for seven years. Later,Whalley became interested in politics and healthcarepolicy, enrolling at the UCLA School of Law and graduatingin 2001. In March 2005 she joined the WesternCenter on Law and Poverty, the state’s oldest and largestlegal services support center, as a foster care benefitsadvocate, and later became the organization’s executivedirector, a position she held until early 2009.Barbara J. Riegel, M.N. ’83, D.N.Sc. ’91Riegel was part of the school’s first doctoral class, graduatingin 1991. After earning the degree, she worked asa clinical researcher for Sharp HealthCare in San Diego,then as a member of the faculty at the School of Nursingat San Diego State University. In 2002 she joined thefaculty of the University of Pennsylvania School ofNursing, where she is currently a professor of nursingas well as an editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.An active nurse scientist who studies adults withcardiovascular disease, Riegel focuses her research inthe self-care of adults with heart failure. She has lecturedaround the world on the issues faced by thesepatients and has written more than 150 scholarly publicationsin peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and internationaljournals. She is a fellow in the American HeartAssociation and American Academy of Nursing.1993U.S. News & World Report ranks UCLAfifth in the nation among nursing schoolswith graduate programs.1994The school establishes one of the West’sfirst (and largest) Acute Care NursePractitioner programs.■ A post-master’s nurse practitionerprogram is launched for master’s-preparednurses seeking nurse practitioner certification.1995Several months after greeting old friendsat the 45th-anniversary celebration,Lulu Wolf Hassenplug dies at age 91.■ Two research training grants awardedby the National Institutes of Health contributeto the first major influx of postdoctoralscholars to the school.■ A Nurse Midwife Training Programis established at the school.■ A neuropsychiatric subspecialty isoffered for students in the school’s programs.1996The site of the school’s second nursemanagedclinic shifts to the Burke HealthCenter in Santa Monica.■ Dr. Kathleen Dracup begins a fiveyearterm as the first holder of the Lulu WolfHassenplug Endowed Chair in Nursing.

Mary E. Bowen (Roth), M.N. ’84, J.D., D.N.Sc.Since January, Bowen has been professor of nursing anddirector of the School of Nursing at Ohio University.Previously, she was associate dean for research and facultydevelopment at Thomas Jefferson University, JeffersonSchool of Nursing in Philadelphia. In additionto extensive involvement in teaching and curriculumdevelopment, Bowen has launched an online Master’sin Nursing degree program and has published and presentedpapers nationally and internationally in onlineeducation. After her UCLA School of Nursing education,Bowen went on to earn her doctorate and J.D. degreesfrom the University of San Diego. In addition toexperience in teaching, administration of higher nursingeducation, grant writing, and curriculum development,she has nearly two decades of clinical experience.Bowen was appointed by Pennsylvania governor EdRendell to the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing inSeptember 2003 for six years. In 2004 she was elected tothe nominating committee of the National CouncilState Boards of Nursing.Elizabeth D. Tate, M.N. ’85A board-certified family nurse practitioner and clinicalinstructor in the Department of Neurology at SouthernIllinois University School of Medicine, Tate has for thelast 19 years specialized in pediatric movement disorders,serving as clinical director and co-founder of theNational Pediatric Myoclonus Center. In 2007 she receivedthe national Claire Chee Award for Excellence inChild Neurology Nursing from the Association ofChild Neurology Nurses. The annual award “recognizesand honors the nurse who has rendered distinguishedservice within the profession of child neurologynursing, and who demonstrates, through strength ofcharacter and competence, a commitment to the care ofchildren and their families with neurological disorders.”Tate was first author of Unforgettable Faces: Through theEyes of a Nurse Practitioner (Atheneum Press, 1999), anexploration of the bonds between a nurse practitionerand her patients and her professional role.Lynn V. Doering, M.N. ’86, D.N.Sc. ’94During her tenure as a professor at the school – includingchair of the school’s Acute Care Section since 2002– Doering has been instrumental in the implementationof the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program. She hasalso developed a research program focusing on the evaluationof physiologic and psychosocial adaptation inhigh-risk patients with cardiac disease. Most recently,Doering’s work has focused on the relationship of inflammatorybiomarkers for depression and its treatmentin patients recovering from coronary artery bypassgraft surgery. Doering took an unusual route to nursing.She earned a bachelor’s degree in English literaturefrom Stanford University, then took a position as a wardsecretary at UC San Francisco’s Moffitt Hospital. There,she saw firsthand how important nursing care was topatients’ physical and emotional recovery. She went onto become a cardiology clinical nurse specialist underthe mentorship of Dr. Kathleen Dracup, then a professorat the UCLA School of Nursing and now dean ofthe UC San Francisco School of Nursing. After earningher doctorate, Doering joined the UCLA School ofNursing faculty for the 1994-95 academic year.

1997A new A.D.N.-B.S.-M.S.N. program offersassociate-degree nurses the opportunity toobtain a bachelor’s and master’s degree in anaccelerated program. The program replacesthe baccalaureate program, which had suspendednew admissions beginning in 1993.■ Dr. Marie J. Cowan,recruited from theUniversity of Washington,begins her tenure asthe school’s fifth dean.Debra K. Moser, M.N. ’88, D.N.Sc. ’92Moser, known for her expertise in heart failure andacute myocardial infarction patient care, is professorand holder of the first endowed chair in nursing at theUniversity of Kentucky. In addition to her academic position,she is co-editor of the Journal of CardiovascularNursing, co-director of the RICH Heart Program, anddirector of the Center for Biobehavioral Research inSelf-Management of Cardiopulmonary Disease. She haspublished more than 180 journal articles and threebooks, and lectures extensively. Moser’s research concentrateson improving morbidity, mortality, and qualityof life outcomes in patients with heart failure andacute myocardial infarction. She also studies differenthealthcare delivery models for improving heart failurepatient care. Moser’s research program includes morethan $20 million in funding. Her work has been recognizedwith more than 23 awards, including the Lembrightand Heart Failure Research Awards from theAmerican Heart Association Council on CardiovascularNursing.Deborah A. Rice, M.N. ’88For more than 20 years Rice has been a family nursepractitioner in a private practice clinic in Lancaster,Calif., and since 1992 she has been a family medicinelecturer at the UCLA School of Nursing. In 1998 shewas appointed by California’s governor to serve as acommissioner on the California Healthcare WorkforcePolicy Commission of the Office of Statewide HealthPlanning and Development. The commission, on whichRice continues to serve, allocates funds from the Song-Brown Act – financially supporting family practicetraining programs in order to increase the supply ofphysicians, physician assistants, and family nurse practitioners,especially to medically underserved communitiesof California. Rice was also publicly elected to theAntelope Valley Hospital Board, serving two terms(1996 to 2004) and being elected board chair in 2001-2002. The board is responsible for the planning and provisionof short- and long-term healthcare services.Antelope Valley Hospital has service areas that are designatedas medically underserved. The hospital has anannual budget of more than $220 million, maintains a334-bed facility and operates the second-busiest emergencyroom in the state.■ The School of Nursing andDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecologyform a partnership to offer midwifery servicesat UCLA Medical Center. Other faculty practicepartnerships are established with UCLAMedical Center in cardiothoracic surgery,cardiology, occupational health and nursingadministration.1998Two core course requirements are offeredto students on the Internet. A telemedicinecollaboration with the School of Medicineis established to offer clinical educationto outlying clinics.■ The Adult Nurse Practitioner Programin Occupational Health is established.

Mary A. Woo, M.N. ’88, D.N.Sc. ’92Woo’s research has focused on investigations into autonomic-cardiacinteractions in relation to sudden deathrisk, particularly in advanced heart failure patients. Inher early studies focusing on heart rate variability as anindependent predictor of sudden cardiac death risk inadvanced heart failure patients, she used both traditionaltechniques and a new method she developed –called Poincare plots – that was the first heart rate variabilitytechnique to be an independent predictor of suddendeath risk in advanced heart failure patients. Morerecently, she was the first investigator to report specificsites of gray matter loss in heart failure patients, and iscurrently funded by the National Institutes of Healthto verify these findings in a larger sample of subjects.Woo has continued to examine predictors of suddendeath risk as well as the influences of sleep and hemodynamicson heart rate variability and mortality in heartfailure. After graduating from the school’s doctoralprogram Woo joined the school’s faculty, where she iscurrently a professor. She served as associate dean forresearch from 2001 to 2006.19901990sStephanie Mearns, M.N. ’90Mearns is a nurse executive whose experiences havespanned the spectrum of healthcare delivery arenas,from large teaching institutions to small communityhospitals. She is currently vice president of patient careservices and chief nurse executive at Seton MedicalCenter in Daily City, Calif., following a stint as seniorvice president of patient care services and chief nursingofficer for California Hospital Medical Center in LosAngeles. Throughout her career she has also been committedto mentoring and developing future nursingleaders. Mearns has been an active fundraiser and voicefor nurses on legislative issues affecting the profession.She has served as a nursing leader in a number oforganizations, including the Healthcare Association ofSouthern California, the Association of CaliforniaNurse Leaders, and the California Healthcare Association.In 1997 she was selected for the Johnson & JohnsonWharton School of Business Fellowship program, aprestigious program offered to chief nursing officersfrom around the world.Anita Bralock, M.N. ’91, Ph.D. ’03Bralock, a practicing nurse for 29 years, completed hermidwifery training in 1995 and set out on a mission toprovide culturally competent care to women from underservedcommunities. For the past 18 years, she hasalso taught various courses for both undergraduate andgraduate students at USC, Charles R. Drew Universityand Azusa Pacific University. She was an assistantprofessor of clinical nursing and coordinator of women’shealth care at USC, where she initiated the nurse midwiferymaster’s program; assistant professor of theNurse Midwifery Education Program at Charles R.Drew University; and since 2004 has been on the facultyat Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing, whereshe is currently department chair of Second DegreePrograms. Bralock’s interest is in reducing health disparitiesamong young African American and Hispanicwomen. Her research examines factors that decreaserisky sexual behaviors among female adolescents andyoung adults. Bralock received the Outstanding ClinicalNurse Educator Award from USC three times andthe Outstanding Nurse Educator Award once.

Barbara Bates-Jensen, M.N. ’92, Ph.D. ’98For her master’s thesis at the UCLA School of Nursing,Bates-Jensen developed a tool for measuring thestatus of chronic wounds, the Bates-Jensen Wound AssessmentTool. She went on to receive her doctoral degreefrom the school and to further her research inimproving the quality of pressure ulcer and related carein nursing homes using technology, and methods oftranslating and maintaining effective research interventionsinto daily nursing home practice. Bates-Jensenis currently an associate professor at the school and inthe David Geffen School of Medicine’s Division ofGeriatrics. In addition to authoring numerous researchpapers on pressure ulcers, she is co-editor of the bookWound Care: A Collaborative Practice Manual for HealthCare Professionals, now in its third edition, and has beena consultant for the U.S. Centers for Medicaid andMedicare Services on pressure ulcer related areas. She iscurrently evaluating a non-visual method of detectingearly pressure ulcers using a device that measures skinand tissue water.Nancy Jo Bush, M.N.’92, M.A.Bush, a lecturer and assistant clinical professor in theschool’s Oncology Nursing program, has held jointclinical practice and faculty positions teaching graduateoncology nursing at the school since 1988. She has experienceas an oncology clinical nurse specialist andnurse practitioner in private practice. Bush’s clinical expertiseis in the psychosocial impact of cancer for patients,families, and caregivers. She is on the Board ofDirectors of The Wellness Community Valley/Venturain Westlake, Calif., where she has also volunteered as asupport group therapist and medical educator. Bush haspublished extensively in the area of psychosocial oncology;among others, she is co-editor of Psychosocial NursingAlong the Cancer Continuum, published in 2006 bythe Oncology Nursing Society (ONS). Among herawards, she received ONS’s Advanced Practice Nurseof the Year in 2002 and a Nursing Excellence Award inTeaching from Nurseweek.1999As part of the first wave of recruitmentunder Dean Marie Cowan, nine new assistantprofessors join the school, bringing new areasof research excellence as well as bolsteringexisting strengths. The UCLA School of Nursingmoves from a rank of 15th to 8th amongschools of nursing in the amount of revenuefor research received from the NationalInstitutes of Health.■ The Center for Vulnerable PopulationsResearch, the school’s first center of researchexcellence, is established by a $1.48 millionNational Institute of Nursing Research grant inrecognition of the school’s pioneering effortsand continuing leadership in the field. Dr.Deborah Koniak-Griffin (below left) ultimatelybecomes the director, with Dr. Adey Nyamathi(below right) serving as co-director.2000With funding from the stateOffice of Health Planningand Development throughthe Song-Brown Act, Dr. MaryAnn Lewis spearheads aninitiative to increase thenumber of family nursepractitioners who go on toserve in diverse and medicallyunderserved areas.

Anna Gawlinski, D.N.Sc.’93Gawlinski, a cardiovascular clinical nurse specialistsince 1979, has since 2002 served as the first director ofevidence-based practice at Ronald Reagan UCLA MedicalCenter and adjunct professor at the UCLA Schoolof Nursing. In the former capacity, she has developedand implemented an infrastructure that supportsresearch and evidence-based practice initiatives in theDepartment of Nursing. Her work in mentoring staffnurses, advanced practice nurses and clinical and administrativeleaders has helped clinicians apply researchfindings in day-to-day practice situations to improvepatient outcomes. Gawlinski’s own research focuses onaccurate measurement of hemodynamic and oxygenationvariables, as well as the associated clinical outcomeswhen using various methods of measurement in advancedheart failure patients. Gawlinski is also knownfor her collaborative work with cardiologists for improvingcare of patients with acute myocardial infarctionsand acute coronary artery syndromes. In her roleas an adjunct professor, Gawlinski teaches students intraining to become clinical nurse specialists who work withmedical center clinical nurse specialists on researchbasedpractice changes at the hospital.Kelly Guzman, M.N.’94Guzman’s more than two decades of healthcare experienceinclude administrative positions with responsibilitiesfor acute care, interventional and ambulatoryservices, as well as skilled nursing facility and sub-acuteservice lines. She currently serves as executive directorfor transition planning at Healthcare Technical Services,a Westwood-based consulting firm, working withhospitals to assemble and implement project plans andcoordinate the logistics of their moves when they areeither adding a wing or replacing their facility. Previouslyshe was transition planning director for theUCLA Westwood Replacement Hospital Project –the project that resulted in the Ronald Reagan UCLAMedical Center. Guzman is an active member of theNational Association of Hispanic Nurses, having servedas president of the Los Angeles Chapter for two yearsand continuing to serve as a board member focusing onfundraising efforts for nursing scholarships. She is alsoa clinical faculty preceptor with the school’s NursingAdministration program.Jane Blood-Siegfried, D.N.Sc. ’95Blood-Siegfried, an associate clinical professor at DukeUniversity School of Nursing, has been concerned withthe health of infants and children in the clinical settingfor more than 30 years. Over the course of her clinicalcareer as a nurse practitioner she became interested inthe developmental changes in neonates following birthand how they are affected by environmental insults.Her current focus of study involves the immune andneurobiologic factors associated with sudden infantdeath syndrome. Blood-Siegfried was a fellow and guestresearcher at the National Institute of EnvironmentalHealth Sciences from 1998 to 2004 and currently hasa major grant from the National Institute of NursingResearch to examine the effects of perinatal nicotineexposure on the development of protective autonomicresponses in suckling rats. In addition to her research,she teaches pathophysiology and pediatric primary careto graduate nursing students at Duke and maintains aclinical practice as a pediatric nurse practitioner in arural community in North Carolina.

Suzette Cardin, D.N.Sc.’95Cardin, the school’s assistant dean for student affairs,has been an adjust associate professor in the NursingAdministration program since 1998. Prior to that, shewas director of the cardiac care unit and cardiac observationunit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centerfor 14 years. Cardin is well known in the field of criticalcare nursing administration and practice, particularlyin the areas of family-centered critical care nursingand successful leadership and management styles intoday’s healthcare environment. In 1997 she was inductedinto the American Academy of Nursing inrecognition of her contributions as nursing unit directoras well as her numerous publications, national nursingaffiliations and ability to share her knowledge with othersin a variety of ways.Bernice L. Coleman, Ph.D. ’95Coleman has 25 years of advanced practice nursing experienceas a clinical nurse specialist and, currently, asa board-certified acute care nurse practitioner in theheart transplantation and ventricular assist programsat Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. As adoctoral student at the school under the direction ofDr. Donna Vredevoe, she cultivated her clinical andbench interest in transplant immunology, and went onto complete postdoctoral studies in the HistocompatibilityLaboratory at Cedars-Sinai. Coleman has presentedand published on the topics associated with careof the cardiac surgical patient, critical care nursing issuesand ethnic immunogenetics of heart transplantation.She was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Alumna/iAward from the Yale School of Nursing, from whichshe received her M.S. degree; and the GE Healthcareand American Association of Critical Care Nurses 2009Pioneering Spirit Award.2001To meet the needs of a growing numberof working and remotely located students,the school establishes UCLA’s first Webbaseddegree-granting program to studentsenrolling in the Masters in NursingAdministration program.■ After serving as chairof the UCLA AcademicSenate in 1999-2000,Dr. Donna Vredevoe isappointed vice chancellorof academic personnel.In the Academic Senate,School of Nursing facultyincreasingly assumeleadership positions onimportant committees,strengthening the school’srole and influence on thecampus and statewide.2002The school begins offering a programfor students working toward dual clinical nursespecialist/nurse practitioner certification,providing graduates with greater flexibilityin a dynamic job market.2003The doctoral program is restructured toreflect areas of study in which nursing makesa significant contribution toward health,as defined by the research expertiseof the school’s faculty. The four pathways:biobehavioral sciences, biologic sciences,health disparities/vulnerable populations,and health services.

Cathy Rodgers Ward, D.N.Sc.’95Ward, director of nursing at Ronald Reagan UCLAMedical Center and an assistant clinical professor at theUCLA School of Nursing, is responsible for nursingcare in all inpatient and observation areas in the hospital,which has 24 nursing units and 445 licensed beds.More than 2,000 employees, including 1,400 registerednurses, are under her supervision. Ward has providedleadership and direction at UCLA for the past 23 yearsin a variety of management roles. Prior to her appointmentat UCLA, she was assistant professor at BostonUniversity School of Nursing; a clinical nurse specialistat Beth Israel Hospital in Boston; and cardiovascularnurse clinician in cardiac surgery at the University ofAlabama. Ward also served as a member of the executivetransition team for the planning and opening of theRonald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in June 2008.Mark Sevilla, M.S.N.’97Sevilla, assistant vice president of patient care servicesfor Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., has28 years of experience in nursing administration, education,and inpatient/outpatient services. Prior to hisposition at Carolinas Medical Center he spent four yearsas vice president of patient care services at PresbyterianHospital in Charlotte, where he was responsible for a$132 million operating budget and 1,200 full-time employees.He was also executive director of critical careservices at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Centerin Mission Viejo, Calif. from 2001 to 2005. Sevilla beganhis career as an emergency department technician atSaddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills,Calif. After completing a B.S.N. program at Cal StateDominguez Hills, he enrolled in the UCLA School ofNursing’s M.S.N. program in Nursing Administration.Through a variety of healthcare roles he has been particularlyinterested in creating organizations and culturesin which nurses can thrive.Shelly S. de Peralta, M.S.N.’98For the last decade, de Peralta has been a cardiologynurse practitioner at the VA Greater Los AngelesHealthcare System, with responsibilities for managingoutpatients and inpatients with cardiac and internalmedicine needs. The VA system offers extensive supportfor nurse practitioners, affording a great deal of autonomy.De Peralta serves as co-chair for advancedpractice nurses at the VA, and co-chairs an advancedpractice nurses review board overseeing the credentialingand peer-review process for the system’s 80-plusnurse practitioners. She has also been involved as astatewide legislative liaison for the California Associationfor Nurse Practitioners. De Peralta has been activein research, presenting abstracts at national and regionalmeetings; and lectures on cardiac conditions to residents,fellows, nurse practitioners, and other nurses bothwithin the VA and in the community. She has served asa preceptor for nursing students at UCLA and CaseWestern University.

Peter Anderson, B.S.’99, M.S.N.’01Anderson is board-certified as a family nurse practitioner,holds an Advanced AIDS Certification fromthe Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and is an HIVspecialist certified by the American Academy of HIVMedicine. He works as a nurse practitioner in privatepractice with several physician colleagues in WestHollywood providing primary care and HIV/AIDSspecialty care to approximately 750 patients. Andersonalso conducts clinical research in HIV therapeutics as asub-investigator, and currently has approximately 80patients enrolled in Phase II, III and IV clinical researchtrials. Anderson is an assistant manager of 4SE, a 31-bed inpatient nursing unit at Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter that provides acute inpatient care for a diversemix of oncology, palliative, and HIV/AIDS patients. In2005 he completed an American Association for theStudy of Liver Disease nurse practitioner hepatologyfellowship at USC’s Hepatitis Research Center andsubsequently managed patients with chronic hepatitisat L.A. County-USC Medical Center. He is the currentpresident of the UCLA School of Nursing AlumniAssociation.Isabell B. Purdy, M.S.N.’99, Ph.D.’04Purdy has been a neonatal nurse for more than 32 years.The first 20 were devoted to clinical nursing care ofthe most fragile infants in the neonatal intensive careunit (NICU); over the last decade-plus, she has expandedher clinical focus to providing follow-up carefor high-risk infants among this vulnerable population.She joined the Division of Neonatology and DevelopmentalBiology at UCLA in 2004, and became clinicaldirector of the NICU Research Data Center and NICUHigh Risk Infant Follow-up Clinic. In pursuing herdoctorate as a fellow in the UCLA School of Nursing’sCenter for Vulnerable Populations Research, she studiedrelationships between biophysiologic stress, higher cumulativeperinatal glucocorticoid exposure and neurobehavioraloutcomes of preterm infants. As a psychoneuroimmunologypostdoctoral fellow, she discoveredthat maternal/infant immune factors were also influential.Drawing on her training as well as herundergraduate studies in music, she is conducting arandomized controlled trial with an NICU classicalmusic intervention to examine influences on preterminfant stress reactivity, immunity, and development.2005The Center for American Indian/IndigenousResearch and Education (CAIIRE) isestablished at the school with the recruitmentof Dr. Felicia Schanche Hodge, CAIIRE’sfounder and director.■ Dr. Joyce Newman Giger, a nationallyrecognized leader in transcultural care andcultural competence, is recruited andappointed as holder of the Lulu WolfHassenplug Endowed Chair.■ The UC Board of Regents votes toallocate $5.2 million to reinstate the school’sbaccalaureate program for undergraduatesand to establish a new Masters Entry ClinicalNurse (MECN) program to prepare non-nurseswho have completed undergraduate studiesin other fields for clinical roles in hospitalsand other healthcare settings.2006Dr. Linda R. Phillips, arenowned expert in gerontologicalnursing, is recruitedto be the Audrienne H.Moseley Chair in Nursing.Barely a decade after itsfirst endowed faculty chairwas established, the schoolnow has five — invaluableresources for recruiting,retaining, and supportingtop professors.

2000sPeggy Berwald, M.S.N.’00Berwald is senior vice president of patient services andchief nursing officer of Torrance Memorial MedicalCenter, a 401-bed, not-for-profit community hospital inTorrance, Calif. In that role she is responsible for theprovision of high-quality and cost-effective patient care,as well as for the standards of nursing care and professionalpractice across the organization, working closelywith the senior executive team, physician leadershipand hospital board of directors. Berwald has 36 yearsof experience in an acute care environment, the last 31of them at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. Shebegan at the medical center as a direct patient care staffnurse in the intensive care unit and went on to becomeintensive care unit supervisor, followed by positions assupervisor and then director of coordinated care.Berwald has also worked in medical surgical servicesand nursing education.2000Aaron J. Strehlow, Ph.D.’01Since 1986, Strehlow has practiced full time as a nursepractitioner at the UCLA School of Nursing’s academicnursing center at the Union Rescue Mission, and since1995 he has served as the center’s administrator. Theclinic provides primary healthcare to the homeless andindigent on Los Angeles’ Skid Row and is part of theNational Health Care for the Homeless Program. In hisprofessional career Strehlow has been involved in allaspects of homeless healthcare, mostly at a clinical practicelevel. He has worked with all levels of students inthe clinic over the years, and has been actively involvedwith the National Health Care for the Homeless Counciland Clinician’s Network, serving in both memberand officer roles. Strehlow has lectured nationally onhomeless healthcare issues, has conducted patientcenteredresearch and serves on several advisory boardsfocused on health-related problems of vulnerable populations.He also serves as an assistant clinical professorat the UCLA School of Nursing, lecturing on pharmacologyand other topics.Capt. Lori S. Frank, M.S.N.’02Frank has served as a general duty staff nurse in a largehealthcare facility and in medium-sized ambulatorycenters, both in the United States and overseas. She hastaught and designed curricula for the medical basicschool (Corps school), having twice served with theMarine Corps and in a joint assignment with the Army.She returned in March 2007 from deployment in supportof Operation Iraqi Freedom. While in Al Asad,Iraq, she was the senior nurse and officer-in-charge ofancillary services at a busy Level II surgical hospital.In early 2008 Frank was transferred from Naval HealthClinic in Corpus Christi, Texas to the Medical Educationand Training Command in San Antonio. She iscurrently the Navy representative to the Base Closureand Realignment Commission initiative to move allservice-enlisted medical training to San Antonio.Frank’s many awards include the Fleet Marine ForceQualification, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, theNavy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, andthe Humanitarian Service Medal.

2008The Center for the Advancement ofGerontological Nursing Science is establishedin the school under the leadership ofDr. Linda R. Phillips.Lorna Kendrick, Ph.D.’03Kendrick, an associate professor of nursing at LomaLinda University, has had a wide variety of experiencesduring her 31-year nursing career, from positions incritical care and neuro-ICU to director of nursingand associate dean of an undergraduate program. Since1995 she has maintained a private practice as a child/adolescent nurse practitioner, particularly focusing onmental health issues. Kendrick has conducted researchon disparities in the health and mental health care ofyoung African American men. While attending theUCLA School of Nursing for her doctorate, she was thefirst nursing student to receive the UCLA GraduateDivision Chancellor’s Award. She went on to join theVanderbilt University faculty as an assistant professor,then served as associate dean of the B.S.N. program atTennessee State University before joining the LomaLinda University faculty in 2006.Cecilia Mendoza, B.S.’03, M.S.N.’05In September 2008, Mendoza, a family nurse practitionerwho had graduated with her master’s degreefrom the UCLA School of Nursing’s Bridge Programthree years earlier, was mobilized in support of OperationEnduring Freedom to provide medical supportto the wounded sailors, marines, soldiers, and airmenwho were injured or became ill in Afghanistan or Iraq.It was a dramatic experience that taught Mendozamuch about evidence-based care of patients with multipletrauma, traumatic brain injuries, and post-traumaticstress disorders. Previously, Mendoza had workedthree years for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department asa family nurse practitioner providing care for the maleand female inmates. After starting her career as amedical assistant before becoming first an L.V.N. andthen an R.N., she worked as an emergency room nurseuntil applying to the UCLA School of Nursing for heradvanced education and training.■ The School of Nursing-run clinic at theUnion Rescue Mission, now administeredby Aaron Strehlow (Ph.D. ’01), commemorates25 years of service to the indigent populationof Los Angeles’ Skid Row. The clinic’s staffof certified nurse practitioners serves severalthousand patients each year.■ After a decade of leading the schoolthrough a period of considerable growth insize and stature, and months after she wasrecognized by the American Academy ofNursing as a “Living Legend,” the academy’shighest honor, Dean Marie Cowan dies.■ Dr. Courtney H. Lyder, a nationallyrenowned and prolific researcher on issuesrelated to healthcare for older adults anda leading advocate for healthcare diversity,is recruited from the University of Virginiato become the school’s sixth dean.

Charles Griffis, Ph.D. ’05After graduating in 1981 with a Master’s in NurseAnesthesia from the UCLA School of Medicine, Griffisspent the next two decades working as a clinician andclinical educator for the UCLA Nurse Anesthesia Program,part of the Department of Anesthesiology. In2001 he entered the UCLA School of Nursing’s doctoralprogram and the following year, under the guidance ofhis adviser and committee chair Dr. Peggy Compton,he began research into some of the mechanisms bywhich pain may influence the immune system and theentire human organism. Since graduating in 2006 hehas sought to apply his knowledge and research skills tohelping patients. In addition to his continuing researchand clinical activities, Griffis teaches nurse anesthesiastudents as well as nurse practitioner and B.S.N. studentsat the School of Nursing as an assistant clinicalprofessor in UCLA’s Department of Anesthesiology.Sarah L. Miller, M.S.N. ’05While a student in the M.S.N. program at the school,Miller served as class president and president of theGraduate Students in Nursing Association. She is amember of the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Societyand has achieved her national board certification asa critical care clinical nurse specialist and acute carenurse practitioner. Miller is currently working as anacute care nurse practitioner and clinical educator atValley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif. Sheremains active in various nursing organizationsthroughout the Greater Los Angeles area. Miller recentlycompleted her term as president of the UCLASchool of Nursing Alumni Association, during whichshe was instrumental in the association’s revitalization.She is a past membership chair and current presidentof the California Association for Nurse Practitioners,West Los Angeles Chapter. Miller is also an associateclinical professor in the UCLA School of Nursing.

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