Women’s History Month is an annual celebration of the women of our past, present and future. To mark this occasion, we invited students, faculty, staff and alumni of the Duke University School of Nursing to share stories of women who continue to inspire them daily.
This list is organized in alphabetical order based on the submitter’s name:
From Jill Brennan-Cook
Dr. Travers, Ph.D., MSN, RN, FAEN, FAMIA, is the lead faculty for the MSN-Informatics program at Duke University School of Nursing. She has a strong foundation of clinical experience as an emergency nurse, informaticist, and educator. Dr. Travers has worked in informatics since the early 1990s, first in clinical informatics and later as a researcher and teacher. In addition to over 30 years of clinical emergency nursing experience, she has a master’s in Nursing Management, a doctorate in Information Science, and a certificate in Health Outcomes.
Paula Koppel, PhD student, will present "The Power of Rapport: Enhancing the Health and Well-being of Nurses and their Patients" for the annual GRADx event on Friday, March 26, from 4 to 6 p.m. This event will be hosted by the Graduate School and Society Duke Fellows. This is a TED talk event with graduate students describing their areas of research in a virtual format.
Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, REACH Equity, and Roybal Center will present "Using the NIA Health Disparities Framework to Optimize Equity in Aging Research" on May 21 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. EST. Register online.
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, MSN'17, incoming DUSON dean, will be a participant of the report release webinar for the forthcoming report "Sexually Transmitted Infections: Adopting a Sexual Health Paradigm" on March 24 from 11 a.m.
Two medical student mentees of Donna Biederman, associate professor, were accepted into the A.C. Reid Schweitzer Fellowship program: Tamar Chukrun and Trisha Dalapati. Sally Wilson is the site mentor. The site is Project Access of Durham County.
DUSON’s resident experts in mindfulness and meditation, Jacqui McMillian-Bohler, assistant professor, and Lesley Rink, Ph.D.
Sophia Smith, associate professor, was interviewed by ABC 11 for its story "Gov. Cooper opens vaccinations to some members of Group 4 starting next week" on March 11. She spoke from the perspective of being a two-time cancer survivor.