GW Nursing is teaming with accomplished, well-respected faculty who are experts in their fields, and each year the awards and honors roll in, rewarding them for their excellent work.
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Dr. Erin Athey was accepted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. March 2020.
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Dr. Melissa Batchelor was selected to participate in the 2019 Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) supported by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dr. Melissa Batchelor had a project receive funding project on: Towards Age-Friendly: Improving Lives for All 2.0 has been selected for University Seminars Funding Program 2020-21.
Dr. Melissa Batchelor was awarded funding from the University Seminars Funding Program 2019-20 for Towards Age-Friendly: Improving Lives for All.
Dr. Sabrina Beroz was inducted as Fellow into the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education.
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Dr. Catherine Cox is inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney was selected as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence.
Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney was a visiting professor in the School of Health Sciences in Spring 2019. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney received invited distinguished scholar position at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Griffin Applied Economics Incubator. https://voices.uchicago.edu/griffinincubator/visitors/
Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney received funding from the NIH for the project, Hablame Bebe: Improving health information access for low-income Hispanic children’s early language environments. The project seeks to develop, disseminate, and evaluate health information pertaining to early developmental milestones and language environments for low-income Hispanic families using the Hablame Bebe application.
Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney received funding from the NIH Center for Advancing Translational Sciences CTSI-CN Discovery Pilot Award Program as a co-investigator for the project, Early Detection of Autism with Automated Social Cognition & Imitation Screener (AScIS). She proposed adapting existing technology to develop a novel automated social cognition and imitation screener (AScIS) that identifies robust developmental benchmarks in infants (ages 6-12 months) associated with a heightened risk of ASD.
Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney was awarded funding by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her project, Social Mission and the Culture of Health: Nursing Schools Educating for Health Equity. This project will work to define further discussions and potential initiatives to advance social mission within nursing education really call for a better understanding of the social mission of nursing schools in the context of current educational possibilities and realities
Drs. Sandra Davis, Anne-Marie O’Brien, Adriana Glenn, Sharon Lambert (GW CCAS) and Loren Kajikawa (Corcoran School of the Arts and Design) were awarded funding from the University Seminars Funding Program 2019-20 for “The Power of Music to Heal, Inspire and Unite.”
Dr. Maritza Dowling was awarded funding from the fiscal year 20s21 COVID-19 Research Fund competition through the GW Office of the Vice Provost for Research for her submission, Usability and Acceptability of Telehealth Technologies During COVID-19 Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of Medicaid and Medicare Beneficiaries.
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Dr. Majeda El-Banna was appointed to serve on the National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA) Program Review Committee. This committee is to deliberate and recommend accreditation status for programs that have submitted a self-study and hosted an on-site program evaluation visit.
Dr. Majeda El-Banna was inducted as Fellow into the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education.
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Dr. Asefeh Faraz’s project, Psychometric Testing and Evaluation of the Novice Nurse Practitioner Role Transition (NNPRT) Scale, was selected for the 2019 GW Nursing Pilot Proposal.
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Dr. Kathleen Griffith was inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Kathleen Griffith was appointed to co-lead the Geriatric and Functional Assessments in Non-AIDS Defining Cancers project with other external colleagues. The goal of this research is to document relative differences in accelerated aging indicators between patients with NADCS and those with cancer who do not have a history of HIV disease. The P30 umbrella grant is held by Kevin Cullen, who is the cancer center director (P30CA134274).
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Dr. Pamela Jeffries received the 2019 Virginia Nurses Foundation (VNF) Leadership Excellence Award for a Nursing School Dean/Director.
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Dr. David Keepnews was appointed to a three-year term on the National Board of Directors of CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder).
Dr. David Keepnews was inducted as a Fellow into the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education.
Dr. Karen Kesten was awarded the STTI Phi Epsilon Faculty Grant Award for her Practice Scholarship Study, “Outcomes of Practice Scholarship as Reported by Nurses Holding a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree.”
Dr. Karen Kesten received the 2019 Nursing Outlook Excellence in Education Award. From the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Joyce Knestrick was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN).
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Dr. Daisy Le was awarded funds by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN), for her project, “The My SHARE (Self-sampling HPV Awareness, Results, and Empowerment) Study: A pilot trial of HPV self-sampling as a remote intervention to promote cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV,” under the CTSI-CN Community Engagement Pilot Award Program.
Dr. Daisy Le is selected to receive an AACR Scholar-in-Training Award to support her attendance at the AACR Virtual Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved.
Dr. Daisy Le was awarded funding for the 2019 GW Cancer Center Intra-Program Pilot Cancer Grant for the grant entitled “Promoting HPV Self-Sampling Test Kits to Increase Cervical Cancer Screening among Women Living with HIV.”
Dr. Daisy Le was selected as 2020 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
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Dr. Anne-Marie O’Brien received funding from the GW University Seminar Series for her project, Addressing Income Inequality and Its Growing Threat to Our Nation and The World.
Drs. Anne-Marie O’Brien and Sandra Davis received funding from the GW Nashman Center Faculty Development for Community-Engaged Scholarship 2020-2021 for their project, Optimizing Health in an Urban Community: Bringing Together Community, Nursing, Nutrition and Mindfulness in DC’s Ward 8.
Dr. Anne-Marie O’Brien received funding for her project, A simulation-based peer intervention training Program to increase active bystandership among a sample of police officers. Drexel University – Rapid Response to Racial Injustices Grant Program 2020.
Dr. Jeanne Murphy was awarded funds by Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN), for her project, “Mindfulness-Based Pregnancy Eating Awareness Promoting Optimal Development (MB-PEAPOD)-DC: Tailoring and testing a place-based intervention for excessive gestational weight gain for African-American women in Washington D.C,” under the CTSI-CN Community Engagement Pilot Award Program.
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Dr. Cara Padovano is selected to participate in the second cohort of GW Academic Leadership Academy.
Dr. Laurie Posey is awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant to assist the Child Nurse Practice Development Initiative within the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of Cape Town with transitioning their post-graduate diploma programs in child nursing and critical care child nursing to a blended learning format.
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Dr. Rhonda Schwindt received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
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Dr. Sherrie Wallington was selected to participate in the second cohort of GW Academic Leadership Academy.
Drs. Sherrie Wallington and Tony Yang are selected as fellows for 2020 RWJF Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program. They received funding for their project, “It’s a Dad Thing: Fathers as Powerful Agents of Change in Reducing Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the District of Columbia,” a mixed-methods study examining the role of fathers in reducing maternal mortality in the District of Columbia.
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Dr. Tony Yang received funding from the George Washington Cancer Center as co-investigator for his project, A secondary analysis of state cancer registries to understand the epidemiology of liver cancer in the Washington D.C. area.
Drs. Tony Yang, Sherrie Wallington and Daisy Le received funding from the Office of Minority Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the project, Academic-Community-Government Partnership to Reduce Liver Diseases Attributable to Hepatitis B Virus in the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area.
Dr. Tony Yang received funding from Merck & Co as principle investigator for his project, A Multimethod Examination of Conditionally Admitted Kindergartners and School Entry Vaccination Requirements.
Dr. Tony Yang was awarded a two-year grant as principal investigator by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for his project, A Community-based Patient Navigation Model for Hepatitis C Screening and Linkage to Care in People with Substance Use Disorders and Other High-Risk Populations in the District of Columbia.