NHCGNE awards new fellows, scholars

The National Hartford Centers of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE), located at The Gerontological Society of America, has announced $1.2 million in awards to the latest cohort of Claire M. Fagin Fellows and Patricia G. Archbold Scholars studying gerontological nursing in academic settings across the U.S.

Five Claire M. Fagin Fellows will each receive up to $120,000 to support post-doctoral research training, mentorship, leadership and career development. Six Patricia G. Archbold Scholars will receive grants of up to $100,000 to support their doctoral training and launch careers in academic gerontological nursing; one-third of these scholars are members of an underrepresented minority group.

Since 2000, the NHCGNE has had the generous backing of the John A. Hartford Foundation, augmented with monies from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Mayday Fund. These partners have invested over $80 million in national efforts to build academic gerontological nursing capacity through their support. The initiative has supported 251 predoctoral and postdoctoral nursing scholars who have stimulated excitement about the field among nursing students and practicing nurses. They are the leaders who will shape future care for older persons.

"This program contributes towards important recommendations of the Institute of Medicine's report on the future of nursing that the nation provide more leadership training and opportunities for nurses and that we increase the number of doctorally prepared nurses," said NHCGNE Executive Director J Taylor Harden, PhD, RN, FAAN. "These highly skilled scholars are deeply committed to improving health care for aging patients."

The 2014 cohort of Patricia G. Archbold Scholars and Claire M. Fagin Fellows are a highly qualified group of dedicated gerontological nurses who will strengthen the knowledge base in such areas as family caregiving, home health and hospice care, care for persons with stroke, and critical illness in elders.

2014–2016 Claire M. Fagin Fellows

Kristin Cloyes, University of Utah

Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, University of Wisconsin

Corey Nagel, Oregon Health & Science University

Marci Nilsen, University of Pittsburgh

Melissa O'Connor, Villanova University

2014–2016 Patricia G. Archbold Scholars

Nancy Dudley, University of California San Francisco

Daniel Mick, Oregon Health & Science University

Scott Emory Moore, Clemson University

Darina Petrovsky, University of Pennsylvania

Tina Sadarangani, New York University

Ayasha Stewart, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Provided by The Gerontological Society of America