It gives me great pleasure to announce that Dr. Eileen Sullivan-Marx, our Associate Dean for Practice and Community Affairs, has been selected as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow for 2010-11. The goal of the Health and Aging Policy Fellowship is to create a cadre of professional leaders who will serve as positive change agents in health and aging policy, helping to shape a healthy and productive future for older Americans. Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies and administered by Columbia University, this national program seeks to provide professions in health and aging with the experience and skills necessary to make a positive contribution to the development and implementation of health policies that affect older Americans.
In this role, Dr. Sullivan-Marx will focus on policymaking at the state and national levels particularly related to financing, dissemination, and quality of community based long term care for older adults. Building on her leadership in clinical practice, scholarship in improving outcomes of care for frail older adults, and education of nurses, advanced practice nurses and health professionals in the field of aging and interprofessional care, she will participate in policy making activities related to community based long term care in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Aging, Office of Long Term Living, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to learn how policy is implemented. And, if there is any further doubt about the role of our School in shaping health care policy in this country, particularly for frail older adults, it should be completely dispelled with this incredible and timely fellowship.
We are extremely proud of Eileen and her selection as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow. Her wisdom and expertise will be a tremendous resource for the State and she will bring great visibility to our School and to Nursing.
Congratulations Eileen!
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