It gives me great pleasure to announce that Margaret Cooney Souders, PhD, CRNP has been appointed to the rank of Assistant Professor of Human Genetics in the Standing Faculty--Clinician-Educator track effective July 1, 2010.
Dr. Souders received her Master’s Degree in Pediatric Acute/Chronic Nursing (in 1996) and her doctorate in Nursing (in 2008) both from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Immediately after earning her Ph.D. she entered a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology.
Dr. Souders previously held an appointment as the Dysmorphology Supervisor of the SEED CDC Study in the Center for Autism Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She currently serves as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in the Clinical Genetics Center at CHOP and her clinical work informs her research and scholarship.
Her research focuses on describing the determinants of insomnia in children with genetic disorders and in developing targeted interventions to promote sleep in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Dr. Souders has served as Co-Investigator on five grants and is a strong collaborator on a multi-disciplinary team. She published seven data-based articles, two as first author, in high ranking journals in her field. She also has seven abstracts and one recently submitted publication.
Dr. Souders gives highly effective lectures on autism spectrum disorder. The ratings for the quality of her lectures are quite high. With her clinical background as well as her experiences in autism, she has accumulated tremendous clinical exemplars that she uses in connecting theory and research with practice in her teaching. We expect that these experiences will continue to provide context and will enrich her teaching as well as her scholarship.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Souders on her appointment, welcoming her to our School, and in wishing her a very productive academic career.
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