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Afaf I. Meleis, M.S. ’64, M.A., Ph.D.
Since 2002 Meleis has been at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing as the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, professor of nursing and sociology, and director of that school’s WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. Prior to being recruited to Penn, she was a professor at the UC San Francisco School of Nursing for more than three decades; she was also on the UCLA School of Nursing faculty from 1968 to 1971. Her scholarship is focused on global health, immigrant and women’s health, and on the theoretical development of the nursing discipline. Meleis has authored more than 150 articles and several books. She has won numerous awards for her scholarship and achievements, including the Medal of Excellence from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Meleis is also the only dean at the University of Pennsylvania to have received the Dr. Gloria Twine Chisum Award for Distinguished Faculty, awarded for community leadership and commitment to promoting diversity.
 

Catherine Burns, B.S. ’66, M.N., Ph.D.
Burns is the lead author of the award-winning Pediatric Primary Care (Burns, Dunn, Brady, Starr, & Blosser, 2009), the principal pediatric primary care textbook used by pediatric nurse practitioner and family nurse practitioner students and clinicians. The book is now in its fourth edition, with work on the next edition underway. Burns trained in a pilot pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) program in 1971 and then taught in the first UCLA PNP program, offered at the time through UCLA Extension. In 1974 she moved to Oregon, where there were only 12 nurse practitioners, and began that state’s first nurse practitioner program, then went on to direct the PNP program at Oregon Health & Science University for 30 years. Burns was recently awarded the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners’ (NAPNAP) highest award for service to children and was honored for her leadership at a reception at this year’s annual conference of the NAPNAP, of which she previously served as president.
 

Karen Hellwig, B.S. ’66, M.N. ’71
Hellwig’s 37-year career started when she was a public health nurse with the Los Angeles County Health Department and continued with her tenure as a nursing professor at El Camino College in Torrance, Calif.; during that time she also spent 24 years in home care nursing. Her most recently published article, “Caring for Vulnerable Children in Cambodia,” is the photo-essay of her travels with pediatric home health nurses who care for children with AIDS and other chronic conditions in rural Cambodia. Among her career accomplishments, Hellwig developed and implemented the certified home health aide course at El Camino College; developed and taught a real-time Internet nursing series to nursing students in Osaka, Japan; and developed and implemented a psychiatric case manager program for four home health agencies. She has also used her nursing skills in many volunteer capacities. Hellwig assisted with the establishment of The Chironians, the fundraising arm of the UCLA School of Nursing, and served as chair for five years.
 

Terry L. Bream, B.S. ’67, M.N. ’72
Bream has held key administrative positions at Kaiser Permanente for 20 years, the last 14 of them as administrator of clinical services for the Regional Office of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group in Pasadena. Prior to her work at Kaiser, she was vice president of nursing at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital. Other highlights of Bream’s 42-year nursing career include being elected president of the Hospital Council of Southern California Nursing Board, in 1990; and president of the Association of California Nurse Leaders, in 1996. Her book Caring: Making a Difference One Story at a Time was published this year. Bream’s most cherished professional highlight was also a personal one: As an associate faculty member at the UCLA School of Nursing, she handed her daughter Lauren her M.S.N. degree at the school’s 1998 Commencement.
  

Kristine M. Gebbie, M.S.N. ’68, Dr.P.H.
Gebbie has played a key role in matters of nursing, public health policy and emergency preparedness for many years, having worked with multiple federal, state and local agencies, as well as the New York Presbyterian Healthcare System. She served as chief state health official in both Oregon and Washington, established the first AIDS Policy Office at the White House during the Clinton administration, and directed all outpatient services at St. Louis University Medical Center. Most recently, Gebbie was named to the endowed Joan Grabe Deanship at Hunter College, City University of New York, in September 2009. Prior to that she served for 14 years as Elizabeth Standish Gill Professor of Nursing and director of the Center for Health Policy at Columbia University School of Nursing. Gebbie recently completed directing six years of emergency and bioterrorism training funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, through which she led the New York Consortium for Emergency Preparedness Continuing Education. Her current research is focused in public health infrastructure and public health law; she also continues to be a leader in developing the public health workforce for the 21st century.

 
Joan I. (Joni) Cohen, B.S. ’69, M.N. ’71, M.A., Ph.D. ’02
After receiving her master’s degree, Cohen went to work as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric-mental health nursing at the Greater Los Angeles Veterans’ Administration Hospital. During that time she developed an expertise in psychodrama, a form of group therapy, and went on to complete a Master’s in Social Science with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Counseling from Azusa Pacific College and become a licensed marriage and family therapist. Cohen has a particular interest in the relationship between the mindbody connection and its impact on health and well being, and has worked with a number of complementary therapies. She returned to the UCLA School of Nursing to pursue her doctorate, receiving a Vulnerable Populations Fellowship and conducting research in improving healthcare outcomes in socially vulnerable populations. At the VA, where she currently works part time, Cohen serves as a research mentor to nurses and other professionals in the Nursing Research Mentorship Program. She co-leads a psychodrama group with psychiatric patients at the VA and maintains a small private practice as a psychiatric nurse therapist.

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