School of Nursing

www.nursing.duke.edu

Highlights

• Catherine Lynch Gilliss, BSN'71, DNSc, RN, FAAN, became the school's 10th dean and vice chancellor for nursing affairs of Duke University Health System.
• Duke Trustees approved building a $22.8 million headquarters for the school, to be completed in July 2006.
• Duke approved a new PhD nursing program targeting chronic disease, scheduled to enroll students for Fall 2006.
• The school received funding for its first five endowed professorships.
• A new pediatric acute/chronic care nurse practitioner program (AC-PNP) became one of just eight nationally.
• Cindy Brantley, BSN, RN, MSN'05 (GNP), won a grant from the American Medical Director's Association to study nursing home quality of care.
• Marva Price, FNP, DrPH, RN, FAAN, received two U.S. Department of Defense research grants to improve diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer in African-merican men.
• The National Institute of Nursing Research extended funding through 2007 for the TRAC (Trajectories of Aging and Care) Center's P20 Nursing Research Development Center.

A group of nursing students joined the medical school in Spring 2004 for a 10-day mission trip to Honduras, where they set up a makeshift clinic in a former church

Awards and recognition

• Associate Clinical Professor Brenda Nevidjon, MSN, BSN'72, RN, fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)
• Assistant Professor Queen Utley-Smith, EdD, RN, Great 100 Nurses list
• Assistant Professor Donald "Chip" Bailey, PhD, RN, 2004 Award for Excellence in Geriatric Nursing Education, from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing

Faculty and staff appointments

• Holly Lieder, MSN, RN, CPNP, assistant clinical professor
• Linda L. Davis, PhD, RN, professor

Major gifts

• Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Chadwick, Jr. of St. Pete Beach, Fla., $1.5 million establishing the Laurel Chadwick Professorship in Nursing
• Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Mario of Wilmington, N.C., $1 million, Building Fund
• Bessemer National Gift Fund of Woodbridge, N.J., $1 million, Building Fund
• Ruby Wilson, RN, PhD'69, former dean, $500,000, Building Fund