Rutgers Nursing Magazine - Summer 2021

SPOTLIGHT: SELECTED FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS NEW FELLOWS Amita Avadhani (PhD, DNP, CNE, DCC, ACNP-BC, NP-C, CCRN, FAANP, FCCM), associate professor, specialty director for the DNP Executive Model program, and interim specialty director, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care, received the 2021 Advocate State Award for Excellence for New Jersey from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Judy Barberio (PhD, RN, APN-c), clinical associate professor, received the 2020 ELNEC Award of Excellence from the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium. Irina Benenson (DNP, FNP-C, CEN), assistant professor, received the 2021 “Peer Reviewer of the Year” Award from The Nurse Practitioner journal. Irina Benenson (DNP, FNP-C, CEN), assistant professor, and Sallie Porter (DNP, PhD, APN, RN-BC, CPNP), associate professor, are co-authors of an article listed in the Nurse Practitioner Journal Best of 2020 Collection. (Benenson, I., Porter, F. A., & Porter, S. (2020). Pediatric hypertension: A guideline update. The Nurse Practitioner 45 (5):16-23.) Yuri T. Jadotte (MD, PhD, MPH), associate professor and assistant director of the Northeast Institute for Evidence Synthesis and Translation, received the 2021 Early Career Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). Tracy R. Vitale (DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, NE-BC), assistant professor and specialty director for DNP Project/DNP Project Courses, received the 2020 Nurse of the Year Award from the March of Dimes, New Jersey chapter, in the Educator-Academia category. Julie Blumenfeld (DNP, CNM, IBCLC), adjunct faculty member, was elected a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Jill Cox (PhD, RN, APN-c, CWOCN, FAAN), clinical associate professor, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Linda Flynn (PhD, RN, FAAN), dean and professor, was inducted into the New York Academy of Medicine. AWARDS