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September 23, 2014, Volume 61, No. 06 |
Ben Franklin Technology Partners: Dr. Bordogna
The Board of Directors of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania honored Joseph Bordogna, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering and dean emeritus of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, with a resolution acknowledging his more than 30 years of dedicated support of the organization, and his nine years of service on its Board of Directors.
The Board stated that, “Dr. Bordogna was actively involved with the formation of the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania. This singular act spurred on an organization, which has gone on to invest more than $170 million to grow more than 1,750 regional enterprises across all areas of technology and create nearly 31,000 new jobs attributable to Ben Franklin’s work.”
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Interim President: Dr. Cummings
Penn alumnus Glenn Cummings has been appointed interim president of the University of Maine at Augusta. He assumed the position on September 9 and will serve until a permanent president is found. Dr. Cummings earned a doctorate degree in higher education management from Penn’s Graduate School of Education in 2010.
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Research Award: Dr. Gasman
Marybeth Gasman, professor of higher education and director of the Center for Minority-Serving Institutions at the Graduate School of Education, earned a 2014 HS Warwick Research Award for her recent book, Engaging Diverse College Alumni: The Essential Guide to Fundraising. The award recognizes Dr. Gasman’s “Outstanding Published Scholarship in Alumni Relations for Educational Advancement.” The award is shared between Dr. Gasman and her co-author, Nelson Bowman III, the executive director of development at Prairie View A&M University. The awards are administered by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
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Outstanding Book Award: Dr. Ghaffar-Kucher
Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, associate director of the International Educational Development Program at the Graduate School of Education, earned the Comparative and International Education Society’s 2014 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award for her new edited volume, Refugees, Immigrants and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion. The award was issued to Dr. Ghaffar-Kucher and her co-editor, Lesley Bartlett, an associate professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The award recognizes a book that mirrors its namesake’s primary concerns of gender and education and education in areas of conflict.
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Distinguished Scientist: Dr. Graves
Dana Graves of the School of Dental Medicine is the recipient of the International Association of Dental Research’s Distinguished Scientist Award in Basic Research in Periodontal Disease. The prize, supported by the Colgate-Palmolive Company, recognizes and encourages “outstanding achievements” in periodontal disease research. Dr. Graves is a professor in the department of periodontics and vice dean for scholarship and research at Penn Dental Medicine. With more than 150 published papers in peer-reviewed, high-level journals, his research has focused on inflammation, wound repair, diabetes and their relationship to periodontal disease.
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GSA Fellow: Dr. Hirschman
Karen B. Hirschman, research associate professor in the School of Nursing, has been selected as one of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA)’s 2014 Fellows. GSA, the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging, has named 61 professionals as its newest fellows. The status of fellow—the highest class of membership within the Society—is an acknowledgment of outstanding and continuing work in gerontology. Dr. Hirschman’s program of research is centered on advance care planning, decision-making, caregiver burden and end-of-life care with a specific emphasis on individuals with cognitive impairments and their family members.
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Afterschool Champion: Dr. Peter
The Afterschool Alliance recognized Nancy Peter, director of the Out-of-School Time Resource Center (OSTRC) at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, as a State Afterschool Champion for her continuous support of afterschool programs. Dr. Peter was honored for her support and expansion of innovative approaches to increase learning and closing opportunity gaps. Her work has helped to build student skills and create pathways for lifelong learning. The Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool Youth Development Network submitted her nomination. The OSTRC, which she founded in 2003, promotes youth achievement through staff support and professional development.
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Distinguished Service: Dr. Smith
Amos B. Smith, III, William Warren Rhodes–Robert J. Thompson Professor of Chemistry in SAS, has been named the winner of the 2014 Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award. The award, sponsored by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, recognizes outstanding service to the organic chemistry community. Dr. Smith’s research focuses on three principal areas: development of innovative synthetic methods with wide application, demonstration of the utility of these synthetic tactics for the rapid construction of complex natural and unnatural products with significant bio-regulatory properties and novel bio-organic/medicinal chemistry programs.
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AcademyHealth Article of Year
A study paper co-authored by two LDI Senior Fellows and a University of Chicago health economist, has won the 2014 AcademyHealth “Article of the Year” award.
Originally published in the Journal of Health Economics, the work, “Shipping out instead of shaping up: Rehospitalization from nursing homes as an unintended effect of public reporting,” was produced by Dan Polsky, a professor of both medicine at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and health care management at Wharton; Rachel Werner, associate professor of medicine at the Perelman School; and Tamara Konetzka, associate professor in the University of Chicago’s department of health studies.
The study detailed in the article revealed for the first time how significant numbers of nursing home operators were “gaming” the Nursing Home Compare system launched by the federal government in 2002.
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American Academy of Nursing Fellows
Six Penn nurses have been selected as fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). Those selected demonstrated significant contributions to nursing and health care and sponsorship by two current Academy fellows.
The Penn inductees include:
Rita K. Adeniran, director of diversity and inclusion, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, is also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow (2012-2015); Dr. Adeniran strives to foster environments at Penn that embrace diversity, support inclusion and provide culturally competent health care to all patients.
Deborah Becker, associate professor of nursing, School of Nursing; Dr. Becker oversees implementation of the adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner curriculum, advises students and teaches clinical seminar courses. She is actively involved in expansion of the scope of practice and role of the adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner. She is also division chair of the Helene Fuld Pavilion for Innovative Learning and Simulation; responsible for overseeing integration of simulation into undergraduate and graduate curricula.
Regina S. Cunningham, chief nurse executive, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Cunningham is also adjunct associate professor of nursing in the School of Nursing. As chief nurse executive, Dr. Cunningham leads broad strategic and operational functions in nursing, including developing professional practice standards and guidelines, outpatient and inpatient transitions of care, oversight of quality initiatives and strengthening the integration of scholarly development within nursing practice.
Mary Kate FitzPatrick, clinical director of neurosciences, women’s health & neonatal nursing, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. FitzPatrick is clinical director for neuroscience care and women’s health & neonatal nursing and interim director for advanced practice on HUP’s senior leadership team, a 2014-2017 Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow and past president of the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN). Dr. FitzPatrick’s expertise covers diverse areas but focuses on trauma system development & policy setting, and leading innovations in peer review models for nurses.
Ann Kutney-Lee, assistant professor of nursing, School of Nursing; Dr. Kutney-Lee’s scholarship is focused on the effects of nursing care organization on health outcomes. Her work has provided critical, cutting-edge research evidence to stakeholders on promising strategies for improving patient outcomes through investments in nursing.
William F. McCool, midwife director at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Midwifery Graduate Program in the School of Nursing; Dr. McCool’s emphases in teaching include the need for health care practitioners’ influence in public policy and development of the professional identity for midwives and women’s health care nurse practitioners. His research focuses on experiences of pregnant and laboring women, especially as related to the role of stress, and experiences of midwives and traditional birth attendants who care for these women, particularly with regard to recovering from unexpected adverse health outcomes.
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