Research Newsletter
5. Awards and Accolades
- The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) named Suzanne
Bakken, DNSc, RN, as recipient of the 2006 Virginia K. Saba Informatics
Award. This prestigious award recognizes an individual’s distinguished
career with significant impact permeating the care of patients and the
discipline of nursing, and honors a professional with exemplary principles
and practices and a substantial record of contribution to the field of
nursing informatics.
- In October 2006, Dr. Suzanne Bakken was elected to membership
in the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the highest honors in the fields
of medicine and health. The IOM, part of the National Academies, is unique
in its role as both an honorific membership group and advisory organization.
Dr. Bakken is one of only 48 members from Columbia University who have been
elected to the IOM.
- Dr. Bakken was also selected as one of the 100 most distinguished
alumni of the University of California-San Francisco School of Nursing.
- Arlene Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP , Assistant Professor of
Nursing, was invited to present at the February 2007 DataSpeak Internet
audio conference series entitled, “New Findings from the National Survey
of Children’s Health.” The conference was sponsored by the MCH
Information Resource Center , funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Dr. Smaldone presented, “Sleepless in America : Inadequate Sleep and
Relationships to Health and Well-being of Our Nation’s Children.” Dr.
Mary Byrne and Dr. Judy Honig also co-authored
a manuscript with Dr. Smaldone: Smaldone A, Honig J, Byrne M. Sleepless
in America : Inadequate Sleep and Relationships to the
Health and Well-being of Children. Pediatrics 2007;119(Suppl 1):S29-37.
- Sookyung Hyun, DNSc , Associate Research Scientist, won
the Harriet H. Werley Award for her paper on nursing informatics at the American
Medical Informatics Association annual meeting. This award has been won by
a Columbia nurse four times in the past six years.
- Kristine M. Gebbie, DrPH, RN , the Elizabeth Standish
Gill Associate Professor of Nursing, was named to the health policy advisory
committee for New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s transition office.
- Rachel Lyons, MS, PNP , is 2006 winner of the CampusRN/AACN
Scholarship. Ms. Lyons, enrolled in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DrNP)
program, plans to build on her pediatric nursing experience as she trains
for advanced practice nursing.
- 1st year DNSc student Rebecca Schnall, RN, MPH, MBA has won the American College of Legal Medicine's 2007 Hirsch Award for Outstanding Writing by a student in dentistry, podiatry, nursing, pharmacy, health science, health care administration, or public health. Her paper, "The Ethical implications of decision-making for the treatment of extremely premature infants at the threshold of viability", was written for her CUSON course, “N9600 Legal and Ethical Issues in Advanced Nursing Practice,” with Drs. Nancy Reame and Anne Peirce as co-instructors.