At Penn Nursing, one of our greatest accomplishments lies in our tripartite mission of practice, education and research. The Dean's Lecture Series was, in part, designed to serve as an example of how prominent leaders in the field merge their individual missions of scholarship and practice, and today, for the first time ever, we merged a Dean's Lecture with a research colloquium featuring the work of our very own doctoral students. Dr. Carolyn Sampselle's inspiring lecture on "Translational Research Imperatives: Bidirectional and Interdisciplinary" concluded with our Doctoral Student Organization's Spring Research Colloquium.
Dr. Sampselle's presentation affirmed our goals for interdisciplinarity and translation. Her program of research on the prevention and treatment of urinary incontinence in women has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for more than 12 years, and she is currently Principal Investigator of two research grants that have a substantial commitment to urinary incontinence in women of historically underrepresented groups. She stands as a professional role model to the nurse researchers of tomorrow.
And it is those nurse researchers of today whose scholarship remains a testament to students who care to change the world through research, practice and education. Our students developed an exemplary poster session that was elegant, well organized, and reflective of their developing scholarship in several areas, which include:
• Examining the effects of NAFTA on the development of Mexican nursing,
• Addressing acute malnutrition in sub-Sahara Africa,
• Studying the "silent epidemic" of depression among African-American adolescents,
• Using focus groups to adapt ethnically-appropriate recruitment messages for a prostate cancer screening program,
• Researching pediatric cardiology providers' understanding of transition,
• Measuring the effects of Streptozotocin-induced diabetes on hippocampal neurogenesis and behavior,
• Comparing and contrasting the attributes and application of thriving and adolescent thriving,
• Investigating the impact of growth, cardiac physiology, and parental stress on development at six months of age,
• Delineating, clarifying and redefining the concept of self-monitoring in type 2 diabetes mellitus,
• Reviewing pediatric acute care outcome measures, and
• Exploring the concept of "resuscitability" in an adult trauma population.
We credit the co-chairs of the poster session, Sharon Irving and Danielle Olds, for making this event extraordinary, and to the DSO President, Linda Herrmann, for her vision and support of the colloquium. Our goal as nurse scientists is to cultivate a generation of leaders who can use their research education to revolutionize patient care and change the world. Today, and until 1:00 pm tomorrow, you can visit the Carol Ware Gates Lobby to view our doctoral students' research posters to see just how this vision is being achieved.
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