NURSING - Key Persons
Al Alawi, R. and Alexander, G.L. (2020). A systematic review of program evaluation in baccalaureate nursing programs. Journal of Professional Nursing. 2019 Dec 30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2019.12.003(link is external and opens in a new window). [Epub ahead of print].
Ashley Graham-Perel is a registered nurse and is triple board-certified in Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing Professional Development, and as a Certified Nurse Educator.
Before joining the faculty at Columbia University School of Nursing as an assistant professor, she worked as a clinical instructor at New York University and as a clinical nurse educator in an acute hospital setting.
Graham-Perel's research focuses on her passion for diversity and inclusivity in nursing, specifically nursing education, and the admission, retention, and success rates of diverse nursing students. She is also investigating the historical impact of the training of Black women in nursing at New York City's Lincoln School for Nurses and the persistence of health care disparities in African American communities.
Graham-Perel has an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University; an MS in nursing education from New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing; and a BS in nursing from New York City College of Technology.
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Assistant Professor of Nursing at CUMC
Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators (2022-2025). "Using machine learning to measure racial/ethnic bias in obstetric settings" 2022 fellows | Betty Irene Moore Fellowship (ucdavis.edu)(link is external and opens in a new window)
Ezeonwu, M., Berkowitz, B. (2014). A collaborative community wide health fair: The process and impact on the community. Journal of community health Nursing, 31:118-129.
Fleming, R., Berkowitz, B., & Cheadle, A. (2005) Increasing minority representation in the health professions. Journal of School Nursing, 21(1): 31-39
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Chief Strategy Officer, University Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, New York
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- Assistant Professor of Nursing at CUMC
Don Boyd, PhD, MS, CRNA has joined the CUSON faculty in 2018 as Associate Director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program. Dr. Boyd is a nurse of 28 years, with 16 years of them as a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). Throughout his nursing career, Dr. Boyd has continuously utilized best evidence in providing care, advocated for patients, families, and the nursing profession, and provided high quality care to patients and families across the care continuum. Dr. Boyd has trained nursing students and student registered nurse anesthetists and has advocated for nursing scope of practice with a focus on nurse anesthetist scope of practice. Dr. Boyd is passionate about leading within the nursing profession, leading within the nurse anesthesia specialty, and educating and mentoring the next generation of nurse leaders.
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Assistant Professor of Nursing at CUMC
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- Professor of Nursing at CUMC
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- Vice President of Clinical Solutions for Northwell Holdings & Ventures, New York, New York
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Vice Dean, Strategic and Innovative Research
Elizabeth Corwin, PhD, FAAN, joined the school in 2019 as Vice Dean of Strategic and Innovative Research.
Corwin comes from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, where she served as Associate Dean for Research and held the Edith F. Honeycutt Chair in Nursing.
Corwin is leading interdisciplinary research aimed at uncovering the biological mechanisms responsible for symptom development and adverse health outcomes in pregnant and postpartum women. She is a doctorally prepared physiologist, as well as a certified family nurse practitioner. Throughout her research career, she has combined her expertise as a basic scientist with her experience caring for women and families across the lifespan.
In Corwin's research, she utilizes cutting-edge omic technologies and approaches, including microbiomics and metabolomics, to provide a better understanding of the bidirectional contributions of exaggerated inflammation and chronic stress to adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes, especially among low-income and minority populations. Her work currently focuses on characterizing the vaginal microbiome in light of the health disparity in preterm birth experienced by African American women. Dissemination of her research identifying a biological fingerprint of disadvantage in minority and low-income pregnant women has added urgency to the national dialogue on the need to eliminate health disparity.
Paul, S., Corwin, E.J. (2019) Identifying clusters from multidimensional symptom trajectories in postpartum women. Res Nurs Health. doi:10.1002/nur.21935. Epub ahead of print.
Corwin, E.J., & #Ferranti. (2016). Integration of biomarkers to advance precision nursing interventions for family research across the lifespan. Nurs Outlook, 64(4), 292-298.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
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- Health Trust Simulation Center
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- Professor of International Nursing ( in Psychiatry )
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- Chief Executive Officer, Community Health Centers of Lane County Assistant Director, Health and Human Sciences of Lane County, Eugene, or
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean, Development and Alumni Relations
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- Assistant Professor, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York, New York
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Vice Dean, Finance and Administration Assistant Deans
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- Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology ( in Nursing )
Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD, is Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology at the Columbia University School of Nursing. Her research reflects her dedication to addressing health care disparities in children and adolescents suffering from chronic illnesses, which often carry multiple serious functional ramifications. She examines and identifies numerous contextual, familial, and individual psychological factors that impact disease management and health outcomes. To date, she has had a major influence through rigorous control trials evaluating school-based behavioral interventions to treat asthma in underserved youth from low-income, urban communities. Dr. Bruzzese tailors her interventions to early and middle adolescents, building on opportunities for incorporating self-care into practice. Preparing adolescents to transition to self-care and to be consumers of the healthcare system, her approach is interdisciplinary, involving the translation of findings from the biological, social, developmental and behavioral sciences to interventions that are tested rigorously in the "real-world" setting of schools. Dr. Bruzzese's work is evolving from efficacy to effectiveness and cost-effectiveness trials, and dissemination and implementation efforts in asthma management. Most recently, she has translated her urban high school intervention for use in rural settings, and she has applied her expertise to bring added value to other public health concerns (e.g., adolescent sleep, sickle cell disease). Since 2005, Dr. Bruzzese has been funded by NIH.
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- DNP, CNM, FAAN, Assistant Dean, Global Initiatives
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean, Student Affairs
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean, Marketing and Strategic Communications
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing, Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Dean, School
- Fellow of the American Academy
Dean Lorraine Frazier joined Columbia Nursing from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), where she was professor and dean of the Cizik School of Nursing. She completed her PhD at UTHealth in 2000 and joined the faculty in 2002, rising to professor, associate dean, and chair of the Department of Nursing Systems in 2008. Prior to that, Frazier was the dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Frazier is an accomplished cardiovascular and genetics researcher and is regarded as a pioneer in developing and promoting state-of-the-art translational research programs. Frazier also is a national expert in biobanking, the emerging science of collecting, storing, and sharing blood and tissue samples for the purpose of advancing medical research and providing access to genetic information. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the UTHealth School of Public Health Human Genetics Center, Frazier served as director of the UTHealth Biobank and project director for TexGen, a biobank consortium involving academic institutions across Texas. Her research into the interactions of behavior and genetics in patients with acute coronary syndrome has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Frazier is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a fellow of the American Heart Association. She was selected for the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows program in 2009. Frazier also is a graduate of the Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager Wharton Executive Education program (2011) and the AACN-Wharton Executive Leadership Program (2012).
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Dean, School of Nursing
Mary O'Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing
Sanner, J.E., Frazier, L, & Udtha, M. (2013). The role of platelet serotonin and depression in the acute coronary syndrome population. Yale Journal of Biological Medicine. 86(1), 5-13. Epub 2013, Mar 12.
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- Chairman, Seabrook Island, South Carolina
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- DrPH, Professor Emerita
- Professor
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
Hickey is an accomplished educator, with expertise in curriculum design, innovation, program development, implementation and accreditation processes. She has served in leadership roles in public and private universities, advancing the strategic plan and mission.
Hickey is very active in national organizations, with a particular focus on advanced-practice nursing. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH), a member of the Curricular Leadership Committee of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), and a representative on the National Task Force for Quality Nurse Practitioner Education (NTF). Her work in these organizations helps shape the future of nursing education.
Hickey has taught at all levels of nursing education and publishes and presents on educational innovations and various academic topics. She has had opportunities to engage with local and international partners to develop initiatives to improve nurse training and patient outcomes. Her primary clinical scholarship interests focus on are access to and utilization of reproductive healthcare as well as risk taking behaviors. As a dually certified women's health and family nurse practitioner with consistent practice experience she strives to integrate education, clinical practice, and leadership throughout her many professional experiences.
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Professor of Nursing at CUMC
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean, Clinical Affairs
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
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- Captain ( Retired ), U.S. Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia
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- President & Co - Founder, Inspiren Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- BC, FAAN, Associate Dean, Faculty Development
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- Senior Advisor to the President, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, New York, NY
Ruth Masterson Creber is a Professor of Nursing whose research focuses on improving quality of life for patients with cardiac conditions across the disease continuum, and developing innovative interventions for health care delivery. She is leading the evaluation of a mobile integrated health intervention for patients with heart failure to provide evidence to support a novel healthcare delivery service using community paramedics and facilitated telemedicine with emergency medicine teams to provide better transitions of care from hospital to home. Professor Masterson Creber is also leading global, pragmatic, cardiac surgery clinical trials across over 70 hospitals in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australia to evaluate the impact of coronary bypass graft surgery on patient's quality of life, symptoms, and cognition. The results of these trials will help determine what type of graft vessels for coronary artery bypass graft surgery offer long-term symptom relief and improve cognitive function. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the American Heart Association and has received numerous awards for her work, and was recently inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Hall of Fame.
Professor Masterson Creber received her BA and BSN from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and School of Arts and Sciences, an MSc in Epidemiology from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Columbia University School of Nursing. Prior to joining Columbia University, she served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences in the Division of Health Informatics, and Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine (2018-2022). Since completing her training, she has been funded as Principal Investigator by multiple NIH institutes and PCORI.
Dr. Masterson Creber has mentored multiple undergraduate students, Masters-level students, PhDs, and post-docs, many of which have gone one to receive their own federal funding and tenure-track faculty positions.
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Professor of Nursing
Bruzzese, J.M., Kingston, S., Zhao, Y., DiMeglio, J.S., Cespedes, A. & George, M. (2016). Psychological factors influencing the decision of urban adolescents with undiagnosed asthma to obtain medical care. J Adol Health, 59, 543-8. doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.010
George, M., Abboud, S., Pantalon, M.V., Sommers, M.S., Mao, J., & Rand C. (2016). Changes in clinical conversations when providers are informed of asthma patients' beliefs about medication use and integrative medical therapies. Heart & Lung, 45, 70-8. doi:10.1016/j.hrtlng.2015.11.002
Keddem, S. Barg, F. Glanz K. Jackson, T, Green, S. George, M. (2015). Mapping the urban asthma experience: using qualitative GIS to understand contextual factors influencing asthma control. Social Science & Medicine, 140, 9-17. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.06.039
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- DNP, ANP, DCC, Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs
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- President & CEO, White Plains Hospital, White Plains, New York
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- Retired President & CEO, AMN Healthcare Independent Director, McKesson, Dallas, Texas
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean, Student Affairs
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Associate Dean, Global Health
Dr. Hughes has been involved in a number of international capacity building projects. The most recent (while at the University of Illinois at Chicago) include: (1) Building an effective partnership for innovative nursing education and research to advance public health in India funded by the US-India Educational Foundation, Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative (PI); (2) Rwanda Human Resources for Health funded by CDC and the Global fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (UIC Project PI); and (3) Building research capacity in low- and middle-income countries concerning the major global health problem of migration-related non-communicable diseases, funded by NIH and Fogarty International (UIC Leadership Team member).
Veronica Barcelona, PhD, is a public health nurse and a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist. Her program of research interrogates the root causes of inequities in pregnancy and birth outcomes for pregnant people and their newborns. Together with her collaborators, she leads projects studying this problem, using a variety of methods including multi-omics and machine learning. One current project examines how DNA methylation mediates the association between racism and discrimination and adverse birth outcomes such as preterm birth. Another currently funded project uses natural language processing (NLP) to identify stigmatizing language in the electronic health records of pregnant people admitted for labor and birth at two New York hospitals. In this study, Dr. Barcelona and team are studying how stigmatizing language use differs by race and ethnicity for birthing people, and its associations with pregnancy-related morbidity outcomes.
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- Assistant Dean
- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Assistant Professor of Nursing at CUMC
- Group Senior Vice President
Wilhelmina Manzano, Group Senior Vice President; Chief Nursing Executive ; Chief Operating Officer; Perioperative Services, New York-Presbyterian, New York, New York
Yelitza Castanos, DNP, AGPCNP-BC,is an adult-gerontology nurse practitioner and an assistant professor of nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing, where she completed her Master's in Scienceand Doctor in Nursing Practice. She earned her Bachelor's in Nursing from the College of New Rochelle. She has over nine years of nursing experience in psychiatric nursing, community health, leadership, and primary care. She is board certified as an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Pr actitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She also has subspecialty training in women's health, which includes cervical cancer screening, family planning, and well-woman exams. Her clinical interests include disease prevention, health promotion, complex chronic illness management, and family planning.Castanos' research interests focus on palliative care, women's health, and endocrinology.
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