Treat-Jacobson honored for community-engaged scholarship

Professor Diane Treat-Jacobson, PhD, RN, FAAN, received the college-wide President’s Community-Engaged Scholar Award from the Office for Public Engagement and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at a ceremony on April 4.  

The award recognizes exemplary community-engaged scholarship in a field of inquiry, with recipients demonstrating a longstanding academic career that embodies the University of Minnesota’s definition of public engagement.

“Dr. Treat-Jacobson is a talented scholar; a shining star who has demonstrated the mutual abilities to contribute significantly to clinical science, quality of health care and quality of life of citizens of Minnesota who suffer from PAD,” wrote Professor Ruth Lindquist, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, in her nomination letter.

Treat-Jacobson is the project director of Promoting Healthy Aging and Mobility in Rural Minnesota: The PAD PRAIRIE Initiative, which has increased awareness, diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in rural Minnesota. Her research has contributed to national guidelines for treatment of PAD.