Louisiana - April 2021

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for the implementation of a COVID-19 Telehealth
Program
• Dr. Paula Zeanah, Lafayette General Medical
Center/Our Lady of Lourdes Eminent Scholar
Endowed Chair in Nursing and the Director
of Research at the Picard Center for Child
Development and Lifelong Learning at UL
Lafayette, received the 2020 Award for Child
Advocacy from the Louisiana Chapter of the
American Academy of Pediatrics
• Drs. Paula Zeanah, Jeanne Cartier, and Cynthia
Suire, led a team of faculty members from UL
Lafayette who collaborated with researchers,
faculty, and mental health and social services
sector leaders from across Louisiana to produce
the state’s first and most comprehensive report
on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in
Louisiana. After the report’s publication and
presentation of findings at the Health Summit
2020 in Baton Rouge, Dr. Zeanah was featured in
a documentary, Toxic Stress: Adverse Childhood
Experiences in Louisiana, which aired on the
Louisiana Public Broadcasting Network.
• Dr. Lisa Broussard, Associate Dean and Acadian
Ambulance Endowed Professor in Nursing, and
a colleague were selected by Sigma Theta Tau,
the International Honor Society for Nursing,
to develop the faculty development program,
Scholarship of Teaching, which was produced in
collaboration with the authors of the companion
faculty programs, Scholarship of Discovery and
Scholarship of Practice.
• Dr. Melinda Oberleitner, Dean of the College of
Nursing and Allied Health Professions, Professor
in the Department of Nursing, and the BORSF/
SLEMCO Endowed Professor in Nursing, was the
only nurse from Louisiana selected for induction
as a 2020 Fellow in the American Academy of
Nursing (FAAN).
• Dr. Denise Linton, a Professor in the Department
of Nursing and the holder of the Dudley Joseph
Plaisance/BORSF Endowed Professorship
in Nursing, inducted as a 2020 Fellow in the
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
(FAANP).