News & Press Releases
- Dr. Jeanne Geiger Brown was recently funded as a K-12 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Scholar by the University of Maryland School of Medicine under the NIH Roadmap program to develop researchers that cross disciplinary boundaries. Dr. Geiger-Brown’s research intersects occupational epidemiology, sleep medicine, and cognitive psychology. She is the first nurse to receive this award from the School of Medicine.
- Award-winning journalist Suzanne Gordon, BA, has joined the School of Nursing as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Family and Community Health. Ms. Gordon has been studying and interviewing nurses and other caregivers, and writing about care giving and health care reform issues for the past 15 years. During her tenure at the School of Nursing, she will be working on several projects in the Work and Health Research Center, and providing student seminars on communicating the role and competencies of the professional nurse.
- A feature story in the Baltimore Sun’s education supplement (9/17/06), “Work and Health Research Center Benefits Nurses, Others,” highlighted the School of Nursing’s Center of Excellence – The Center for Work and Health Research. Jane Lipscomb, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor, FCH, and director of the Center, was pictured on the front page of the supplement and quoted in the story. Also quoted in the story were Jeffrey Johnson, PhD, professor, FCH, and associate director of the Center, and Kate McPhaul, PhD, MPH, RN, assistant professor, FCH.
- A special section of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, “Long work hours, safety, and health: Toward a National Research Agenda”, was edited by Jeffrey Johnson and Jane Lipscomb, was published November 2006. The papers published in the section come form the Long Working Hours Conference held at the University of Maryland School of Nursing on April 29-39th, 2004. Center members Drs. Alison Trinkoff, Jeanne Geiger Brown, and Jane Lipscomb (and their collaborators Le and Lang) published an article in this special section examining the impact of long working hours and mandatory overtime on musculoskeletal problems in nurses.