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. Linda Cassar received AWHONN Excellence in Education (Scholarly) Award.
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Dr. Adriana Glenn received the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation grant award in the amount of $49,995 for her proposal: A Nurse-Led Approach to Testing and Adapting a Telehealth Guide for E-Empathy in Goals of Care Conversations for African American/Black Kidney Patients, submitted to the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life Program (HSEI) 2021.
Dr. Kathleen Griffith received the 2021 Katzen Cancer Research Micro Grant Award ($4,865.00) for her research entitled, “A Feasibility Study of Sarcopenia and Treatment Toxicity in Patients with Co-Occurring Cancer and HIV”. Co-investigators include her colleagues in GW Cancer Center Hematology-Oncology, Faysal Haroun, MD and Khristine Arrieta, DNP, CRNP-F.
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Dr. Ellen Kurtzman is appointed as the Vice Chair of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) by AcademyHealth. The appointment is a 2-year term starting September 1 (2021). IRGNI is one of several Interest Groups (IGs) of AcademyHealth – IGs are groups of members that convene on specialized topics to facilitate interaction and create opportunities to exchange knowledge, disseminate research findings, inform policy and clinical decision-making, build research skills, and network.
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Dr. Daisy Le has been selected to receive an American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Student and Early Career Investigator Scholarship (SECIS).
Dr. Daisy Le received NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) award in the amount of $50,000 per year for 2 years for her project title: Understanding and Intervening on Multi-Level and Contextual Factors Associated with Cancer-Related Health Disparities.
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Dr. Tony Yang received award of $1 million for Local Community-Based Workforce To Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Access project from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). July 27, 2021.