Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
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May 15, 2017
We are picking up a lot of heavy metal these days. Mark Chance, vice dean for research, has been named a Distinguished University Professor and will receive his silver medal at the August convocation. Mark Griswold returned from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance meetings in Hawaii…
March 28, 2017
Event will explore global health issues of importance APP, including the School of Medicine, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, Brazil, will be holding a three-day…
March 20, 2017
It’s early in the budget process. Almost always, the President’s budget is modified in Congress. The current proposal will not stand. Nonetheless, it is still disheartening to learn of a budget that proposes a $5.8 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health—over 18% of its total. Over the…
March 14, 2017
Thanks to gains in research and admissions, Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine maintained its top-25 position in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings. For several other programs, improvements in individual categories weren’t enough to avoid slight dips in their…
March 14, 2017
US News and World Report declares us among the top 25 medical schools in the United States. We are pleased to be in such company and delighted to be acknowledged for our achievements as an outstanding institution of biomedical learning and discovery. Of course, rankings such as these can’t capture…
March 01, 2017
Fonya Atabong Reflects on Her Journey By Michelle Simakis Her plans to return to Cameroon as a Fulbright Scholar brought back a lot of memories for Fonya Atabong, DNP, RN (NUR ’12). Atabong, an assistant professor of medical surgical/pediatric nursing at Northern Virginia Community College, grew…
March 01, 2017
The Science Behind Making Healthy Decisions By Kristin Ohlson “Lack of knowledge is not the problem,” says Shirley Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean of research and the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. “It’s not that people don’t know what…
March 01, 2017
BSN Students in the Community By Susan Griffith
Photos by Daniel Milner Undergraduate nursing students at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing have performed health screenings on approximately 40,000 Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) elementary schoolchildren since 2003. This unique…
February 24, 2017
Joyce Fitzpatrick, the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, won the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health’s Action in Advocacy Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Nursing's Future Leaders. The award will be presented in conjunction with the UN 61st Commission on the Status of…
February 21, 2017
Many questions have arisen about the role of the University in the support of physician-scientists and scientists based at University Hospitals. Our support is multifaceted and very strong. We list here some of the areas in which our support is provided. Many physician scientists are employed…