Faculty Awards

Andrea Wallace—Appointed Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholar

Barbara Kyles—Nurse Educator Excellence Award

Elizabeth Swanson Shelter House of Iowa City— Group Governor’s Volunteer Award 1. (She was given this award along with: Sr. Teresa Keller, Jane Prater, Kathy Clark, Tess Judge-Ellis, Keri Rupe)

Kathleen Buckwalter—Doris Schwartz Award presented by the Health Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America

Kathleen Buckwalter—Appointed to the IOM Committee on the Mental Health Workforce for Geriatric Populations

Keela Herr—MNRS and John A. Hartford Foundation Award for Leadership in Geriatric Nursing Research

Meridean Maas—Appointed to the IOM committee “Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment”

Meridean Maas—Living Legend Recognition at the American Academy of Nursing

Toni Tripp-Reimer—MNRS Senior Scientist Award

HCGNE Selected Presentations

Dr. Herr Presented Lecture for IASP Education Project in China.

On March 10, 2012, funded by the IASP Developing Countries Pain Education Project, Keela Herr, PhD, RN, AGSF, FAAN, Professor & Associate Dean for Faculty, from The University of Iowa College of Nursing, gave lectures at Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China.  This was the follow-up lecture for the IASP project, a geriatric pain education program for Chinese primary health care providers, organized by Li Li, MSN, RN.   Dr. Herr presented on pain and aging: challenges, assessment and management best practices.

The trainees of the IASP project who finished a day and a half of lectures last December, as well as the doctors and nurses form the hospital, attended this half-day lecture.

After sharing her expertise in geriatric pain, there were good discussions between Dr. Herr and the attendees.

Dr. Herr has been the visiting professor of Southern Medical University since 2005.  She has visited China three times and each time she presented on pain related topics to assist nurses and other health care professionals to improve assessment and management of pain in elders.  This IASP project was one of the collaborative results with her great help and guidance.