Month: February 2018

Presenter: Dr. Patricia Gazarian
Date: March 6, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Skinner Hall, Room 101

The fourth talk in the College of Nursing’s Spring Seminar Series will be presented by Dr. Patricia Gazarian, Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Boston and an alumni of our PhD program.

Dr. Gazarian’s program of research is focused on preventable patient harms, specifically the role of patient engagement and nurse decision making.  She is also interested in how the patient experiences dignity and respect during hospitalization, including loss of dignity and respect as a preventable harm. She is an expert in the use of cognitive task analysis and the critical decision method as ways to understand the cognitive requirements of clinical work and has used these methods to understand deterioration among hospitalized patients.

Her population of interest is adults and elders in acute and critical care environments.

Registration is now open for the 2018 Ounce of Prevention Conference, Working Together for Healthier Communities.

When:  March 27, 2018; 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Where:  DCU Center, Worcester, MA

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Presenter: Dr. Susan Shaw
Date: February 27, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Skinner Hall, Room 101

The third talk in the College of Nursing’s Spring Seminar Series will be presented by Dr. Susan Shaw, associate professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences. She will speak on “Medication adherence and chronic disease self-management among community health center patients in Springfield, MA,” and will also talk about her role as director of the Center for Community Health Equity Research.

Presenter: Dr. Peter Friedmann
Date: February 13, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Skinner Hall, Room 101

Peter Friedmann, chief research Officer and endowed chair for clinical research, Baystate Health, speaks on “Health Reform and Addiction Treatment: Lessons from a National Study” as part of the College of Nursing spring seminar series.

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Dr. Andrea Barsevick will present the first 2018 NINR Director’s Lecture. In her presentation, “The Science of Symptom Management,” Dr. Barsevick will describe her program of research which addresses cancer-related symptoms and quality of life research. The lecture will be followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion.

About the Speaker

Andrea Barsevick, PhD, RN, FAAN, AOCN is a Professor in the Population Science Division of Medical Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. She is known internationally for her research on symptom clustering during and after cancer treatment, particularly fatigue and its interactions with sleep disturbances, depressed mood, and quality of life.

Dr. Barsevick is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a past member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines Panel on cancer-related fatigue.

About the Event

This event is free and open to the public. The event will not be webcast, but it will be available on YouTube a few weeks following the lecture.

The NINR Director’s Lecture series is designed to bring the nation’s top nurse scientists to the NIH campus to share their work and interests with a transdisciplinary audience. For more information, visit https://www.ninr.nih.gov/directors-lecture.