SON Home | UW Home | MyUW | UW Bothell | UW Tacoma | HealthLinks | Contact the School | Search SON | Internal Headlines | Briefly | From the Deans Desk Briefly Joie Whitney, professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems, was recently elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of the Wound Healing Society, a non-profit organization of clinical and basic scientists in the field of acute and chronic wounds. She is the third nurse to serve on this board in the past 13 years, since the start of the organization. Shao Yu Tsai , a first-year PhD student, was selected to speak on "Sleep and Anxiety in Children with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome" at the National Congress on the State of the Science in Nursing Research, Oct. 8 in Washington, D.C. The co-authors of this presentation included Carol Landis, professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems; Martha Lentz, research associate professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems; and Laura Richardson, pediatrician at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center. Cynthia Dougherty, research associate professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems, and her interdisciplinary research team received funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research for their study "Shared Decision-making in End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease." The editorial team of EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, a new health care journal from Elsevier press, has invited Margaret Heitkemper, the John and Marguerite Walker Corbally Professor in Public Service and chair of biobehavioral nursing and health systems, to serve on its editorial board. EXPLORE is a bi-monthly, interdisciplinary scientific journal set to launch in January 2005. EXPLORE addresses the scientific principles behind, and applications of, evidencebased healing practices from a wide variety of sources, including conventional, alternative and cross-cultural medicine. Board members serve a two-year term. Brenda Zierler, associate professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems and of surgery and health services, and her team Eleanor Bond, professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems; Judith Kelson, training grant manager of biobehavioral nursing and health systems, and others received notice that their Informatics Advanced Education Nursing Grant proposal was funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Nia Johnson - Crowley, research assistant professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems, and Gaylene Altman, director of the learning lab in biobehavioral nursing and health systems, and their team Betty Gallucci, professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems; Cliff Solomon, Web educational technologist for the School of Nursing; Judith Kelson, training grant manager of biobehavioral nursing and health systems; and Lisa Hales, program coordinator of biobehavioral nursing, received funding for the Advanced Education Nursing Grant proposal, "Nursing Educator Specialist Training (NEST) Program" from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Headlines | Briefly | From the Deans Desk   Copyright © 2008 University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195