SON Home | UW Home | MyUW | UW Bothell | UW Tacoma | HealthLinks | Contact the School | Search SON | Internal Headlines | Briefly | From the Deans Desk Lee Wins UCSF'S Top Award for Research Kathryn Lee '86, the James and Marjorie Livingston Endowed Chair in Nursing at the University of California- San Francisco (UCSF), received UCSF's prestigious 2004 Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award. The award recognizes a UCSF School of Nursing faculty member or graduate who has made an outstanding contribution to nursing science and research. As recipient, Lee delivered the Helen Nahm Research Lecture at UCSF in June. Lee, an international expert on sleep and women's health, studies circadian rhythms, sleep and fatigue as they relate to key phases during women's lives, such as childbearing and menopause. Lee was one of the first researchers to study changes in sleep on a longitudinal basis. Her first studies described alterations in circadian temperature rhythms and sleep stages over the menstrual cycle and during pregnancy and postpartum. Her mentors include Betty Giblin, professor emeritus, Joan Shaver '76, and Nancy Wo ods, dean. Lee earned her master's and PhD degrees from the UW School of Nursing. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar, Lee joined the UCSF faculty in 1988, has twice received Mentor of the Year Awards from doctoral students, and serves on several national boards and committees. This award, inaugurated in 1981, honors the late Helen Nahm, dean of the UCSF School of Nursing from 1958-1969. Former awardees from the University of Washington include Professor Emeritus Jeanne Quint Benoliel in 1983 and Marylin Dodd '73 in 1993. Return to Headlines Headlines | Briefly | From the Deans Desk   Copyright © 2008 University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195