Rutgers Nursing Magazine - Summer 2020

L E A D E R S H I P E X C E L L E N C E SPOTLIGHT: SELECTED FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS School of Nursing faculty made important strides over the past academic year, including these selected achievements: R U T G E R S N U R S I N G / S U M M E R 2 0 2 0 18 / 19 Awards & Honors American Academy of Nursing – New Fellows n Mary L. Johansen (PhD, RN, NE-BC), clinical associate professor n Jeffrey Kwong (DNP, MPH, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN), professor n Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins (PhD, RN, FAAN), associate professor, interim associate dean for nursing science, and director, Center for Healthcare Quality American College of Critical Care Medicine n Amita Avadhani (DNP, DCC, ACNP-BC, NP-BC, CCRN, FAANP, FCCM), associate professor; specialty director, DNP-Practice (executive model); and interim specialty director, Adult Gerontology Acute Care Program, was inducted as an ACCCM fellow. American College of Nurse-Midwives n Robin Schafer (EdM, CNM, IBCLC, CNE, FACNM), lecturer, was inducted as an ACNM fellow. New York Academy of Medicine n Linda Flynn (PhD, RN, FAAN), dean and professor, was elected an NYAM fellow. She will be inducted in November 2020. National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence n Olga F. Jarrín Montaner (PhD, RN), assistant professor, was named a Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursi ng. Grants & Gifts Edna Cadmus (PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN), clinical professor and specialty director, Nursing Leadership program, is executive director of the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing, which received a Growing Apprenticeship in Non-Traditional Sectors (GAINS), $500,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Olga F. Jarrín Montaner (PhD, RN), assistant professor, is a co-investigator on the New Jersey Minority Aging Collaborative, $3.6 million, three-year infrastructure grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging (grant #R24 AG063729 to XinQi Dong). Mengting Li (PhD), assistant professor, is principal investigator of an Alzheimer’s Association International Research Grant of $147,195 over three years for Family Typology, Acculturation and Cognitive Function in Older Immigrants (co-principal investigators: XinQi Dong and Donald Hoover). Andrea Norberg (DNP, MS, RN), is executive director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center, which received these sponsored project awards: n AIDS Education and Training Center National Coordinating Resource Center, $8,500,000 over five years from the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (grant # U1OHA28686). This includes supplemental funding for the Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America Initiative. n Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center, Northern New Jersey Regional Training Partner, $1,085,185 over five years from Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry, HIV Center (prime recipient) and the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (grant # U1OHA29291). School of Nursing established the Pauline C. and Arthur G. Hubel Endowed Scholarship with $100,000 from the Arthur G. Hubel Testamentary Trust, matched by $50,000 from the RBHS Chancellor's Challenge.