EMBARKING ON A NEW ERA - UCLA School of Nursing

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.