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Page Content  Lillie Shockney, administrative director of the Johns Hopkins Avon Breast Center, was selected as 2011’s “Amazing Nurse” in a national contest to celebrate and reward nurses’ value, sponsored by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future. For more information.
 Lynn Sibley, associate professor at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, director of academic programs for the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing and director of the Center for Research on Maternal and Newborn Survival, was presented the Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization on 14 November. The award is Awarded to an Emory faculty member who advances understanding of international and global issues through teaching, scholarship or other work for the university. One of the architects of the Home-Based Lifesaving Skills program, recognized as a 21st-century model for birth attendant education by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sibley holds a joint appointment in Rollins School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and an associate appointment in the Department of Anthropology.
 Suzanne P. Smith, who retired as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA) on 1 May 2010, retired from full-time employment with Lippincott on 31 October. During the intervening six months, she worked on various company-wide projects and served as consulting editor of JONA. She continues to serve as editor-in-chief of Nurse Educator.
 Diane Spatz, associate professor of health care of women and childbearing nursing and Helen M. Shearer Term Associate Professor of Nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, has been promoted to the rank of professor in the standing faculty-clinician educator track, effective 1 July 2012. Spatz’s scholarship centers on breastfeeding in vulnerable populations, high-risk pregnancy and development of protocols for the implementation of evidence-based strategies that enhance the use of human milk.
 Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, professor of scholarly practice, associate dean for practice and community affairs and Shearer Endowed Term Chair for Healthy Community Practices at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, was elected to the board of directors of the American Academy of Nursing on 15 October at the organization’s 38th annual conference and meeting.
 Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, holder of dual faculty appointments in the School of Nursing and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, is the principal investigator of a study that has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The study, which investigates the effects of health literacy on medication compliance among African-Americans living with HIV/AIDS, is part of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the nation’s first comprehensive coordinated HIV/AIDS roadmap with measurable goals, which include reducing new HIV infections, increasing access to care and reducing HIV-related health disparities.
 Diane M. Wieland, associate professor, LaSalle University School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, was elected to her second term as secretary of the board of directors for the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.
 Linda L. Young, a founding faculty member of Milwaukee School of Engineering School of Nursing, became dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire effective 1 August. Young is a certified family-life educator through the National Council on Family Relations and a certified nurse educator through the National League for Nursing. Her research and publications have pertained to quality of life and anxiety in adult patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation and also the impact on the family.
 Sherry L. Zisk, who recently served as an interim/transitional leader at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, is now chief nursing officer at Weirton Medical Center in Weirton, West Virginia, effective 5 December 2011. Zisk has spent most of her career at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she served in progressively responsible roles over the years, including chief nursing officer, chief operating officer and vice president. RNL
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