“Positive psychological states and stress responses in caregivers of adults receiving an allogeneic bone marrow transplant,” Kelly R. Tan, PhD, RN, AERO Small grant recipient final report. Caregivers are a salient support system to patients with cancer. Caregivers provide not…
by Dr. Jessica Marsack (UMICH '18) | December 10, 2021 As Hillman Scholars in Nursing Innovation alumni, Dr. Megan Czerwinski (UMICH '20) and I were originally interested in hosting a more targeted event focused on a hackathon to improve the environmental…
Nina A. Juntereal (PENN '24) has been awarded two grants for her PhD thesis entitled, “A Longitudinal Descriptive Study of Antenatal Milk Expression and Milk Supply in Mothers of Infants with Congenital Surgical Anomalies”. The first grant is from the…
by, John F. Seman, Program Coordinator, Penn Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation | October 21, 2021 Current scholars, Cassis Boateng and Kierra Foley will present their projects and what they learned through the Design Thinking process at a Hillman…
Student nurses work on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic By Kyle Ingram | May 3, 2021 | 7:54pm EDT | Reprinted with permission from The Daily Tar Heel As general care floors in hospitals turned into COVID-19 triages,…
Gillian I. Adynski, PhD, RN (UNC-CH '20), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program, Duke University, litynski@email.unc.edu. June 11, 2021 | This week I am taking one of those rare breaks from academia where I am spending time with family…
Nurse-Patient Assignments Designed to Address Health Disparities | June 17, 2021 | Andrew M. Dierkes, PhD, RN (PENN '18), Assistant Professor, Acute & Tertiary Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, AMD323@pitt.edu. Decades of nursing health services and policy research…
Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, who is graduating in a few weeks, is the first nursing student to win this award. The President’s Innovation Prize was created by University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to strengthen the University’s commitment to innovation under the Penn…
by (Xiao) Linda Kang, PhD, RN (PENN '17) When we moved our family from the United States to Taiwan almost three years ago, little did we know that there would be a global pandemic. Even more unexpected would be the…
While finishing her PhD and Masters in Bioethics (MBE) at the University of Pennsylvania, Lauren Starr, PhD, MBE, RN, used her Hillman AERO grant to complete her dissertation research titled, “Associations Among End-of-Life Discussions, Healthcare Utilization, Costs, and Race/Ethnicity in…