2012 international new Fellows - American Academy of Nursing

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sHaROn DUDlEY-bROWn, pHD, Fnp-bC
Sharon Dudley-Brown currently has a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor at Johns
Hopkins University, in the Schools of Medicine & Nursing and is also the Co-Director of the
Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program in Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Johns Hopkins. She
sees patients and conducts research on patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Dr. Dudley-Brown has held several academic appointments, both nationally and internationally,
and has worked as a Nurse Practitioner at several institutions over the past 25 years. She has
published several peer-reviewed papers and abstracts in the fields of nursing, inflammatory
bowel disease and ulcerative colitis, and is currently a member of several editorial boards,
including Gastroenterology Nursing Journal, where she is the newly appointed on-line editor.
She is a co-editor of a recent textbook on translation in evidence-based practice, entitled
“Translation of evidence into nursing and health care practice,” published by Springer.
In addition, Dr. Dudley-Brown is a member of five professional societies, including the Society
of Gastrointestinal Nurses and Associates (SGNA), and the American Gastroenterological
Association (AGA), where she serves as the only non-physician provider on the Education and
Training Committee. Additionally, she is a member of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of
America (CCFA), serving on the National Nursing Initiatives Committee, as well as on her local
Medical Advisory Committee.
JEannE gEigER-bROWn, pHD, Rn
Jeanne Geiger-Brown is Assistant Dean of Research and Associate Professor at the University of
Maryland School of Nursing.
Dr. Geiger-Brown is a nurse scientist whose research is at the intersection of occupational
epidemiology, cognitive science and sleep medicine. She studies work schedules & sleep
deficiency, occupational sleep disorders, and screening for sleep disorders in occupational
settings. She also conducts intervention research to assist individuals and organizations to
improve the quantity and quality of sleep achieved by workers.
Dr. Geiger-Brown’s research has been translated in ways that raise public awareness about
fatigue among workers with shiftwork and extended work hours. It has also informed changes
in scheduling practices and policy in several health care settings. Her research contributed to
portions of the National Occupational Research Agenda for CDC/NIOSH, and assisted NIOSH
to modify an educational product for nurses engaged in shiftwork and extended work hours.
ElizabEtH JORDan, DnsC, Rn
Elizabeth “Betty’ Jordan is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth
Initiative (JHU GmI). She serves as program evaluation consultant for the nationalText4Baby
program, the first free mobile health service in the United States. She has over 28 years of clinical
experience and significant research expertise in labor and birth, and is a recognized international
nursing leader in maternal and newborn outcomes research, education and practice.
Dr. Jordan holds a joint appointment in the Department of International Health at the Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health and is part of a research team developing protocols for a funded
international mHealth study aimed at testing specific interventions that optimize the delivery of
efficacious antenatal and postpartum interventions through innovative mHealth tools, during critical
windows of time during the pregnancy continuum. Dr. Jordan also serves as the director of the
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Baccalaureate program. The School of Nursing recognized her
exemplary clinical and teaching skills with the 2005 Dean’s award for excellence.
Dr. Jordan has extensive publications in peer reviewed journals and presentations at regional,
national and international conferences. She served on the Board of Directors of the Association
of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses and the Board for the Healthy Mothers/
Healthy Babies Coalition. She maintains a clinical practice with the Baltimore City Health
Department, reviewing infant and fetal deaths. Dr. Jordan was recognized as one of the “Top
100 Women in Maryland” for her dedication and service to Maryland in helping address the
issue of poor birth outcomes.