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CNHS/Partners HealthCare Diversity From the Dean Collaborative: Where We Are Today— Imagine: A Latina nursing undergraduate leading an Where We’ll Be Tomorrow international health project, or completing a post-doc focused on cancer disparities, or a doctoral student from Kenya negotiating with the Ministry of Health to set up health clinics or proposing a U.S. bill on equitable access to health care. Now think about an exercise and health sciences student teaching Boston Public Schools children how to stay fit and active at GoKids Boston. As the most ethnically and racially diverse public university in New England, engaged in collaborative partnerships with more than 200 world-class hospitals, health care agencies, and physical fitness settings, and emerging contributor to global health, we share with you our urban mission with CLC members enjoy UMass Boston’s harbor cruise. a global perspective. We imagined it; we are achieving it. We are: How does change happen? It happens slowly, sachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—that became • Becoming New England’s expert on deliberately, purposefully—and, when it comes the CLC. cancer, health disparities, and cultural to making a sea change in a large multicenter Achieving a diverse workforce meant that competence organization, with patience and devotion. All of PHS and CNHS would create a program to provide • A leader in combining academic rigor those attributes resonate with the Clinical Leader- leadership opportunities to promising nursing with clinical practice through innovative ship Collaborative for Diversity in Nursing (CLC), students who would serve as a tapable cadre of academic service partnerships: a workforce development agreement designed upwardly mobile, baccalaureate-prepared minority • Clinical Leadership Collaborative for to achieve, in part, Partners HealthCare System’s registered nurses. Toward that end, PHS has thus Diversity in Nursing with Partners (PHS) and the College of Nursing and Health far dedicated $1.5 million to support 55 racially HealthCare (as described in an accom- Sciences’ (CNHS) vision of diversity by facilitating and ethnically diverse nursing students here at panying article). the successful progression of diverse undergradu- UMass Boston. More than just a scholarship, the • Dedicated Education Units with Massa- ate nursing students who, upon graduation, are CLC program seeks to: chusetts General Hospital (MGH) and expected to obtain employment and eventually 1. Support CLC nursing students through tuition Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH): nursing leadership positions with PHS. reimbursement, stipends, and the cost of An education-practice partnership That concept of diversity not only recognizes NCLEX-RN review courses. that represents an innovative clinical the fact that too few diverse patients in PHS are 2. Facilitate the smooth transition of CLC students education delivery model in which both cared for by a nurse who is also diverse, but also to employment as registered nurses at PHS staff nurses and nursing faculty take on that increased acceptance and respect of cultural facilities by: new roles to deliver more efficient and differences is strengthened by a diverse workforce, a. Maximizing the number of PHS clinical effective clinical instruction to nursing which strengthens PHS. This is the vision—shared placements a CLC student is assigned students. by Dean Greer Glazer, PhD, FAAN, RN, CNP, and b. Scheduling CLC students’ senior capstone Jeanette Ives Erickson, RN, MS, FAAN, Senior Vice preceptorship clinical in a PHS hospital —Greer Glazer, Dean, President for Patient Care and Chief Nurse, Mas- (Cont’d on page 2) College of Nursing and Health Sciences

2 3 – 4 4 5 6 7 Featured Research Global Focus on Student Photo News Corner Health Faculty & Staff Highlights Album featured news Meeting the Standards for a Quality Matters Review

In spring and summer from the 40 items listed in the QM Rubric. (To Carol’s first course, submitted for review 2010, two online courses learn more about the rubric, visit http://www. in spring 2010, was NURSNG 360: Professional developed by Carol Allen, qmprogram.org/rubric.) The standards are based Issues in Nursing. It was exciting to get the report MS, RN, were submitted to on research and published best practices for on- back: “Your course has met QM standards and Carol Allen Quality Matters® (QM) for line education. The set of standards evaluate the scored 83 out of 85 points on the rubric.” The review. “Quality Matters design and the content of online courses. A team report was detailed, with each of the review- (QM) is a faculty-centered, peer review process of three reviewers, who have been trained in QM, ers commenting on each of the 40 points of the that is designed to certify the quality of online conducts the review. At least one of the reviewers rubric with positive feedback and suggested and blended courses” (Quality Matters, 2010). has some expertise related to the course content. improvements to consider. The second course, The review process is based on a rubric of To prepare the courses for a QM review, NURSNG 361: Health Assessment and Health evidenced-based standards for quality assur- Carol attended a three-week course about apply- Promotion, also met the QM standards as of ance in online education. Both courses received ing the QM rubric to her course. The focus was the first week of September. Both courses now certification and national recognition of meeting on the 17 essential standards and analyzing how display the QM logo on the home page. QM standards. the course meets those standards. It is important The experience of passing the QM review According to QM (2010), the program has to know that the standards are not prescriptive— twice was rewarding. The peer review of course national recognition with a mission “to promote there are several ways to meet the standards. The content and the certification of meeting online and improve the quality of online education and course was helpful because it was set in a very delivery standards was a validation of utilizing student learning.” In order for a course to receive collegial environment. Members in the class were best practices. Our students deserve this level QM certification, it must meet the 17 essential from various disciplines from colleges and univer- of quality, and these courses now have national standards and score at least 75 out of 85 points sities across the country. recognition of quality. Quality does matter.

CNHS/Partners HealthCare—Diversity Collaborative (Cont’d from page 1) • Lucette Teixeira volunteered as a nursing serves as faculty advisor, and CLC administrative c. Assigning PHS registered nurse mentors assistant at a remote Cape Verdean hospital assistant Jariza Rodriguez. The commitment and to each CLC student for the purpose that services an impoverished community. collaboration of Gaurdia Banister, RN, PhD, ex- of imparting strategies for effectively • Cintia Crespo provided bilingual (English/ ecutive director of the Institute for Patient Care, managing the various racial, ethnic, and Portuguese) health care workshops to over Patient Care Services, Massachusetts General cultural issues that CLC students may 200 women in several community churches. Hospital (MGH), facilitates recruitment of men- encounter in their professional careers, • Christian Young and Cintia Crespo com- tors while championing the CLC at finance and while encouraging a career as a PHS bined their talents to provide affordable nursing leadership meetings. Similar support by nurse CPR training programs for nursing stu- members of the CLC steering committee occurs d. Assisting with summer PCA employment dents. All proceeds benefited the Student at other PHS hospitals. opportunities at PHS agencies (optional) Nurses Association (SNA). To date, 34 of the 37 CLCs who have • Seventeen CLC students have been graduated have found employment as registered 3. Employ CLC RN graduates with the expecta- inducted into the Theta Alpha Chapter of nurses in a PHS hospital. Graduated CLCs are tion that they will invest in PHS and eventu- the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor employed at MGH, BWH, Spaulding Rehabilita- ally move into nursing leadership positions. Society of Nursing. tion Hospital, and North End Rehabilitation and The program’s strength can be seen in the accom- • Airiau Constant has been training peer Nursing Center. Also, CLC graduate Ana Duarte plishments of the CLCs while still undergraduates: coaches for the Cultural Communication was recently accepted into UMass Boston’s Doc- • In 2009, graduating senior Alessandra Collaborative (CCC), which offers students tor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Adamo was nominated as the College of whose primary language is not English ad- What’s next? Drs. Banister and Winfrey are Nursing and Health Sciences’ candidate ditional assistance with textbook readings looking to expand the CLC to support diverse for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Award, through computer software. PHS registered nurses seeking graduate nursing the highest commencement award that an • Neldine Alexandre, Farah Fevrin, and Lu- degrees, while continuing to support under- undergraduate can receive. cette Teixeira organized a candlelight vigil graduate nursing students. Although facilitating • CLC Lyns Hercule participated in Kenya for Haitian earthquake relief. All proceeds the completion of graduate degrees does not Heart and Soul, a student/faculty mis- went to Partners in Health. increase the number of diverse nurses, it does sion to improve cardiovascular/metabolic • Melissa Romain served as a medical help position more minority nurses for middle- health in central Kenya; Lyns also traveled translator as part of TRUDEM’s Haitian management nursing positions. It has been said to New Orleans as a Hurricane Katrina earthquake relief efforts. that a journey of a thousand miles begins with relief volunteer. The CLC program is directed at CNHS by one step; the journey to increased diversity at Associate Dean Marion E. Winfrey, who also PHS has begun with 55 steps…and counting!

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A primary goal of our Center for Clinical acquired on a clinical floor. Simu- Education and Research (CCER) is to expand active lation also provides essential data learning throughout the lab curriculum. As evi- on assessment and intervention denced in the literature and from our own student skills, and these results inform and faculty evaluations, simulation is a valuable curricular revisions. learning strategy that promotes clinical compe- We began by using high- tency and reflective thinking skills. Over the past acuity events with emergent three years, Judith Healey Walsh, the CCER director, clinical deterioration, which for has coordinated the integration of simulation activi- our senior students progressed ties throughout the nursing curriculum. Sixty-five to a code situation. As we gained faculty and graduate teaching assistants received expertise in simulation and six hours of theoretical and experiential training in debriefing design and imple- simulation and debriefing methods. During the past mentation, we saw their value in Junior nursing students practice critical thinking in simulated clinical year, CCER staff facilitated 189 simulation sessions students’ learning other areas of experiences. in which 989 students participated. nursing practice—for example, Evaluation data demonstrate the success patient teaching and palliative care. We have em- skill of Jennifer Mardin Small, simulation coordi- of the simulation program. Ninety-four percent bedded cultural and ethical dilemmas and observed nator, who has been instrumental in the opera- of the students said the simulation was realistic that simulation and, specifically, debriefing provide tion and ongoing revisions of simulation. Our and challenging, and all said that their participa- an effective vehicle for students to evaluate their focus for this academic year is to pilot the use of tion in the program would assist them in their knowledge, attitudes, and skills, to modify their standardized patients in mental health simula- transition to nursing practice. Faculty reported that behavior, and to reflect on the effect of the change. tion and to study the effectiveness of simulation simulation provides valuable insight into students’ This progress would not have been possible in improving communication skills of students critical thinking and clinical ability that is not easily without the clinical expertise and organizational who are learning English.

CNHS and the Student Nurses Association Collaborate to Open a Reading Lab

The initiative is part of a larger integrated “Students are the beginning and the end of faculty, student, and staff collaboration named the program. They are the driving factor. They CCC (Cultural Communication Collaborative), are the ones at the beginning who work with the program and share it with fellow students; which fosters the development of essential com- and in the end these students improve their munication skills through student involvement reading and communication skills.” and innovative teamwork approaches. The —Airiau Constant, Undergraduate Nursing Class collaborative selected four main components of December 2010 for the program: reading, writing, speaking, and leadership-skill building opportunities. There is a great deal of interest in the pro- Lisa Ogagan (standing), first-semester senior and The program is starting small: It uses cofacilitator of the CCC Reading Program, leads a recycled Macintosh computers, Proportional gram within CNHS, across the university, and program orientation. Reading™ software, and files of nursing text- in the surrounding community. Students are books donated by a publisher. Financial support enthusiastic about the program largely because The College of Nursing and Health Sci- from Dean Greer Glazer and another small they can control their level of involvement. They ences and the Student Nurses Association have grant, and volunteer efforts from the Student set their own program goals and customize collaborated to open an innovative reading lab. Nurses Association have helped turn a former the reading materials to suit their own learn- The program welcomes students who wish to storage area into a reading lab. ing styles, purposes, and preferences. Some improve their reading speed and comprehension students also serve as peer reading coaches to of technically challenging content in the health fellow students. “Reading skills do not have to be inherent; you And there’s an added bonus: Not only do sciences. Students are guided by Student Affairs can acknowledge what is needed, set your goal, students say they are saving time and learning Specialist Peter Terres, Project Director, and and achieve it in the CCC Reading Program.” Associate Professor of Nursing Victoria Palmer- more, they also report that they are now enjoy- —Eneida DaCosta, Undergraduate Nursing ing reading! Erbs, Faculty Advisor and Academic Advisor. Class of December 2010

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research corner Global Health Faculty Building International Academic and Research Research Relationships: Faculty Visit Grants Glasgow Caledonian University

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences This spring, Dr. Scott Crouter (Exercise congratulates faculty recipients of recent research and Health Sciences) and Dr. Susan DeSanto- grant awards: Madeya (Nursing) traveled to Glasgow, Haeok Lee: Scotland, to visit with academic and research Associate Profes- colleagues from the School of Health and sor, Department of Social Care at Glasgow Caledonian University Nursing, (1) “Vaccine (GCU). The purpose of the visit was to explore Preventable Cancer possible research collaborations and teacher Behavior Measure- and student exchange programs for faculty and ment of Southeast students from CNHS and the School of Health Asian Americans,” and Social Care at GCU. National Institutes During their visit, Drs. Crouter and DeSan- Dr. Scott Crouter of Health, National to-Madeya participated in the GCU School of Haeok Lee Health and Social Care’s Professional Doctorate Cancer Institute; (2) The program’s modular design provides the Program, a modular program that offers manag- “Moving Forward to Equality in Health: Hepatitis professors with a condensed teaching schedule, ers, clinicians, and scientists an exciting and B Prevention Among Young Adults At-Risk,” Uni- giving them more time for research, and allows challenging alternative to the traditional PhD. It versity of Massachusetts Boston Joseph P. Healey students to work full-time while developing was designed to complement the current policy Research Grant their research projects and obtaining their de- drive toward developing expert practitioners in gree. Many of the students in the program live in health and social care to facilitate the develop- Suzanne other cities or countries and travel to Glasgow ment of researchers in practice—an outcome Leveille: Professor, for their one week of classes, then return home also valued by CNHS, which makes this an ideal Department of Nurs- to continue the program with online education- educational and research collaboration for the ing, (1) “Developing al and academic advisor support. Opportunities two colleges. The program modules—which are Rehabilitative Strate- to adapt this innovative program design for the in the areas of research methods; professional gies for Disability master’s and doctoral curricula at CNHS are development; and project development, design, Prevention in Pri- being explored. and management—are delivered over four mary Care,” Spauld- In addition to participating in the Profes- blocks, each of which is composed of four days ing Rehabilitation sional Doctorate Program, Drs. Crouter and of university-based study followed by indepen- Hospital, National DeSanto-Madeya networked with research- Suzanne Leveille dent study supported by a variety of educational Institutes of Health, ers from GCU’s School of Health and Social methodologies. National Institute on Aging; (2) “An Enhanced Medi- Care. Dr. Crouter met with Professor Malcom cation Monitoring System,” MedMinder Systems, Granat, the school’s head of research, and Inc., National Institutes of Health, National Heart other researchers in fields related to physical Lung and Blood Institute activity measurement—in particular, methods to improve the measurement of sedentary Eileen Stuart- behavior and how such behavior contributes to Shor: Assistant the development of obesity, diabetes, and other Professor, Depart- chronic health issues. ment of Nursing, Dr. DeSanto-Madeya also met with Dr. “Kenya Heart and Francine Cheater, director of the Institute for Sole: The Afya Njema Applied Health Research; Dr. Debbie Tolson, Project,” University of researcher in the School of Health; and other Massachusetts Bos- colleagues who share research interests in im- ton Joseph P. Healey proving the quality of life for individuals in later Research Grant Eileen Stuart-Shor Dr. Susan DeSanto-Madeya life through the development, implementation, and evaluation of palliative care interventions.

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FOCUS ON FACULTY and staff

CNHS Dean Greer Glazer joins Department of Exercise and Health Sciences Chairperson Dr. Laurie Milliken and Department of Nursing Chairperson Dr. Jacqueline Fawcett in welcoming our new faculty and staff. Faculty Staff Dr. Mary cise on C-Reactive Protein and Boston. She completed a Janet Craven Aruda, a Metabolic Syndrome: Findings postdoctoral research fellow- joins the Department from a Randomized Control Trial.” ship at the Center for Excellence Nursing of Nurs- She joins our faculty with nine in Chronic Illness Care at Yale Department ing clinical scholarly journal publications. Dr. University School of Nursing. as the clinical assistant Camhi is a certified health fitness Her dissertation research was coordinator professor, specialist. “TELEcares-Telehealth Support for the post- obtained in Cardiovascular Disease.” She master’s cer- Dr. Mary Aruda her PhD Dr. Emily Jones, joins us with 12 scholarly journal tificate and Janet Craven in nursing from the University a Department publications. Dr. LaCoursiere DNP program. of Massachusetts Lowell, MSN of Nursing as- is certified as a family nurse She has a BSN from from Boston University, and BSN sistant profes- practitioner. the University of Massachusetts from Cornell University–New York sor, obtained Boston. She has RN experience Hospital School of Nursing. Her her PhD in Dr. Tongjian as a school nurse at Quincy dissertation research was “Predic- nursing from You, a Public Schools and as a staff tors of Unprotected Sex for Teens the Accelerated Department nurse at Brigham and Women’s at Pregnancy Testing.” She was Dr. Emily Jones Baccalaureate of Exercise Hospital, Colonial Adult Day an assistant professor at Boston to PhD Program and Health Health Center, Spaulding Rehab- College’s William F. Connell at the University of Alabama Sciences ilitation Hospital, and VA Medical School of Nursing from 2003 to at Birmingham, and BSN from assistant Center. She holds Massachusetts 2010. She joins our faculty with Oklahoma Baptist University. professor, Department of Education teacher eight scholarly journal articles. Her dissertation research was Dr. Tongjian You obtained his certification, A‘ i Chi teacher cert- Dr. Aruda is a certified pediatric “Cardiometabolic Risk and Risk PhD in exer- ification, andA rthritis Aquatics nurse practitioner. Perception among Oklahoma cise physiology from the Universi- teacher certification. American Indian Women with ty of North Carolina, Greensboro; Dr. Sarah Previous Gestational Diabetes.” MEd in exercise physiology from Arlene Camhi, a She joins our faculty with three the National Research Institute of Hatch joins Department scholarly journal publications. Sports Science; and bachelor of the col- of Exercise Dr. Jones is certified in inpatient medicine in sports medicine from lege as an and Health obstetrics. the Chengdu Institute of Physi- administra- Sciences cal Education, Chengdua, China. tive intern assistant Dr. Sheryl He completed a postdoctoral to Associate professor, LaCoursiere, research fellowship in the sec- Dean Marion obtained a Depart- tion on gerontology and geriatric Dr. Sarah Camhi Arlene Hatch Winfrey to her PhD ment of medicine, Department of Internal assist with in kinesiology from the Univer- Nursing clini- Medicine, Wake Forest University the Commission on Collegiate sity of Maryland; MS in exercise cal assistant School of Medicine, Winston- Nursing Education accreditation. management from the University professor, Salem, North Carolina. His dis- of Queensland, Brisbane, Austra- obtained her sertation research was “Effects lia; and BS in kinesiology from PhD, MSN, Dr. Sheryl of Antioxidant Supplementation the University of Michigan. She and BSN in LaCoursiere on Muscle Damage and Oxidative recently completed a postdoctoral nursing from Stress in Rats after Downhill Exer- research fellowship in popula- the University of Connecticut. cise.” He was an assistant profes- tion science at the Pennington She also has a master’s degree sor in the Department of Exercise Biomedical Research Center in in health care management and Nutrition Sciences, School Baton Rouge, Louisiana. While at and post-master’s certificate of Public Health and Health the University of Maryland, she in information technology from Professions, State University of was a distinguished and out- the University of Connecticut, New York at Buffalo, from 2006 standing teaching assistant. Her and post-master’s family nurse to 2010. He joins us with 16 dissertation research was “The practitioner certificate from the scholarly journal publications. Effects of Low-Fat Diet and Exer- University of Massachusetts

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STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS PhD Student Hermine Poghosyan Receives Open Society Institute Grant

Hermine Poghosyan has been awarded where she developed a proposal for improving a Network Scholarship Program Global Grant health in rural communities of Armenia—in from the Open Society Institute. The institute particular, educating people about healthy awards competitive grants to students from lifestyles and safe sex. The project was funded select countries of Eastern and Central Europe, by the Swedish International Development the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia to en- Agency in two villages, then was expanded to able the students to pursue full-time doctoral twenty-four. She also completed a master’s in studies in universities around the world. The public health at the American University of institute advances the idea that an open Armenia. society is one based on the recognition that no During her work in Armenia, Hermine Hermine Poghosyan person has a monopoly on the truth, that peo- recognized the importance of health policy ple have different views and interests, and that in shaping health care and protecting the applied for the Open Society grant, she pur- institutions need to protect the rights of all public. Seeking to get involved in developing sued an internship at the Department of Public people so that they can live together in peace. policies that promote health, she chose the Health, working on Massachusetts’ first Health According to Hermine, a native of Armenia, UMass Boston Department of Nursing’s PhD Disparities Report Card. The report card will one challenge to building an open society is program because of its focus on health policy evaluate the progress of health disparities the lack of transparency in health ministries and its goal of preparing students to be policy among ethnically and racially diverse popula- and agencies, and the lack of involvement of analysts, researchers, and educators. The PhD tions in Massachusetts. It will examine certain Armenian people in the process of decision education will prepare her to conduct research health status indicators and social determi- making limits their ability to take part in and analyze, develop, implement, and evaluate nants and recommend policy proposals that decisions that will affect their health. national and international tobacco policies. will positively impact disparities. Hermine started her nursing career as a Hermine reports that the program gives her Network Scholarship Programs will pro- rural midwife in Armenia, hoping to improve the opportunity to work with nationally and vide Hermine with supplemental funding for women’s knowledge about their reproductive internationally known researchers and policy one year of study, with an option to reapply for health and rights. Later, she decided to pursue experts to obtain new skills and knowledge. an additional two awards after the first year. an education in women’s health internationally The program offers various opportunities We congratulate Hermine for receiving the at the School of Health Sciences in Sweden. for students to work closely with policy makers award and her other achievements, and wish After graduation, she returned to Armenia, in the state of Massachusetts. When Hermine her continued success in the future.

Student Ambassador Exercise and Health Sciences Georges Chick Dean’s Award Winner (Undergraduate Nursing Larry Kennard Class of December 2010) (EHS Class of June 2010) Georges Chick Georges Chick has consistently dedicated his time and energy to In his time at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Larry the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. He volunteered as a student Kennard distinguished himself with an exemplary academic record, ambassador for CNHS at past UMass Boston Welcome Day events while commitment to scholarship, and dedication to the entire student body. speaking with newly accepted students and their family members. He has He was actively involved in several faculty research projects and proved been an advocate for global health, traveling to Australia and Kenya this himself to be a trusted and proficient researcher. He served as an un- past summer. As part of the Afya Njema Project, Georges worked with dergraduate teaching assistant, volunteered to tutor several underclass- other CNHS students and faculty to reach their mission of improving men, and completed a highly competitive internship with the U.S. Army cardiovascular/metabolic health in central Kenya through surveillance, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. As an EHS Senior Class screening, and the development of a risk-reduction program that empha- Officer, Larry was instrumental in the organization of the 2010 CNHS sizes community engagement and self-management. Georges has also June convocation ceremony, where he was the recipient of the Exercise been an active member with UMass Boston’s Student Nurses Association and Health Sciences Dean’s Award. and the Golden Key International Honour Society. He will be graduating from the undergraduate nursing program this December.

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(L–R) Kathleen Kafel, CNHS Lecturer; Kay Edgecombe, Lecturer, Flinders University, Australia, and founder of the Dedicated Education Unit clinical innovation; Esther Seibold, Clinical Assistant Professor; and JoAnn Mul- ready-Shick, Undergraduate Nursing Program Director. Edgecombe spoke at the Research and Scholarship Initiatives Dialogue on September 15.

EHS students (L-R) David Lun, Natania Chalke, and Kristy Partyka display their project on the 24th Annual Research and Scholarship Day on May 13.

As the assistant dean for CNHS, James Auciello showed his support by running the 2010 Boston Marathon on April 19 in support of GoKids Boston’s mission to fight childhood obesity. Auciello joined with the 20 other “Team Motley Crew” runners to raise a total of $85,000. Dr. Eileen Stuart-Shor checking patients’ blood pressure and heart rate at Kambui Health Center in Kenya as part of the Kenya Heart and Sole: The Afya Njema Project on June 2010.

(L-R) Keynote Speaker Jaci VanHeest, Associ- ate Professor, Neag School of Education, University of Connecti- cut; EHS Chair Laurie Milliken; Associate Dean for Research Laura Hayman; Nurs- ing Chair Jacqueline Fawcett; and Keynote Speaker Terri Lipman, Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Professor of Nutrition, Professor of Nursing of Children at the School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania at Research and (L-R) “Team UHS” members Mary Hanson, Joanne Francis, Leav- Scholarship Day. erne Dickson, Rosemary St. Clair, and University Health Services team captain Pat Halon at the Go Red Walking Challenge.

(L-R) John Mascetta, Director of Student Affairs, graduate student Albert Kim, and Assistant Professors Eileen Stuart- Shor and Esther Seibold lead “Team No Name” and display their champion T-shirt for the Go Red Challenge.

“Casa de Latina” hosts healthy-cooking eating demonstra- tion at GoGirlGo! Open House on July 15.

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