Awards and Honors

Professor Melissa Avery, PhD, APRN, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health.

Assistant Professor Cynthia Bradley, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE, received the Ruth Donnelly Corcoran Research Award from the National League for Nursing. She received the award at the NLN Education Summit in Washington, D.C.

Adjunct Faculty Eilon Caspi, PhD, was invited to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect.

Clinical Assistant Professor Mary DeGrote Goering, PhD, RN-BC, was accepted to Sigma’s Experienced Academic Leadership Academy.

Clinical Associate Professor Diana Drake, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, is chair of the Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health Board of Directors. 

Assistant Professor Melissa Horning, PhD, RN, PHN, received the Junior Investigator Award from Public Health Nursing section of the American Public Health Association.

Measurement of Adolescent Quality of Life as a Dynamic Construct: Novel Methods and Associations with Wellbeing by Professor Wendy Looman, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, was selected as a Distinguished Abstract by Midwest Nursing Research Society.

Assistant Professor Ryan Mays, PhD, MPH, FSVM, was elected a fellow of the American Heart Association, conferred by the Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease.

Professor Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAMIA, gave the keynote address at the conference Meaningful use of the Omaha System to support practice, research, and policy in the Netherlands. In addition, she was named a vice chair of AMIA 2020.

Minneapolis & Saint Paul Magazine presented the Award for Outstanding Nurse Educator to Associate Professor Susan O’Conner-Von, PhD, RN-BC, CNE.

Planetary Health Director Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, spoke on the panel Climate Crisis or Opportunity? Nursing Actions for a Healthy Future during the United Nations Civil Society Conference. Potter also testified before the Minnesota Climate Action Caucus’ Public Health and Climate Conversation.

Assistant Professor Lisiane Pruinelli, PhD, RN, participated in the panel Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science: A National Collaborative to Achieve Sharable and Comparable Nurse-Sensitive Data in Lyon, France at the 17th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics.

Professor Carolyn Porta, PhD, MPH, RN, SANE-A, FAAN, was inducted into the Academies for Excellence in Clinical Practice, which is the premier recognition given to faculty members at the University of Minnesota for clinical care.

Professor Cheryl Robertson, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, received the 2020 Distinguished Investigator Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society’s Population Health Research Interest Group.