Scholars

Kathleen Page 2025-2026 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Kathleen "Katie" Page, CNM, MSN, FACNM, is honored to receive the 2025 Allison Adams Wieczorek Scholarship. Katie earned her BA in Health Services from Randolph College (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s College) in 2008 and her MSN – Nurse-Midwifery f... read more.

Frank R. Palin 1995-1996 Winner | Master’s Degree: Frank R. Palin attended Yale University. Degree: Pediatric Primary Care read more.

Lillian Del Pappa 1972-1973 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lillian Del Pappa was awarded the Mead Johnson/ W.B. Saunders Company Scholarship. read more.

Kathaleen Ryan Pappas 1973-1974 Winner | Unspecified Degree

Jessica Parente 2019-2020 Winner | Master’s Degree: Jessica L. Parente is a recipient of a Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year. She is currently obtaining her Masters as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner through Eastern Kentucky University Online. Sh... read more.

Florence R. Parisa 1935-1936 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Florence R. Parisa was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

Elizabeth Parker 2021-2022 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Elizabeth “Ellis” Parker, MSN, RN-BC, CNE is the recipient of the 2021 Jane Eleanor Knox Scholarship. She is entering her third year in the Doctor of Education in Nursing Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, NY. Thi... read more.

Elizabeth Parker 2022-2023 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Elizabeth “Ellis” Parker, MSN, RN-BC, CNE, CHSE is the recipient of the 2022 Jane Eleanor Knox Scholarship for the second year. Ellis is a doctoral candidate in the Doctor of Education in Nursing Education program at Teachers College, Columbia Univer... read more.

Brennan Parmelee 2019-2020 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Brennan Parmelee, PhD(c), MSN, RN, CNE, awarded the Eleanor C. Lambertsen Scholarship, is a senior Stem Cell Transplant RN Coordinator at Houston Methodist Hospital. She received her BSN degree from The University of Texas at Austin, her MSN in Nursi... read more.

Elaina Parrillo 2023-2024 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Elaina “Laina” Parrillo, BSN, RN is a recipient of the Jane Eleanor Knox Scholarship, given to a doctoral student who has illustrated a unique commitment to nursing and clearly demonstrated leadership potential. Laina is currently a candidate for her... read more.

Rosemarie Parse 1968-1969 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Rosemarie Parse was awarded the Nurses’ Scholarship & Fellowship / Mead Johnson Scholarship. read more.

Mary T. Parsons 2005-2006 Winner | Doctoral Degree: My educational background began with a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from SU in 1985. Soon thereafter, I was married, raising two daughters, and running a home-based business. After getting through the early years of motherhood, I returned to scho... read more.

Alisa Pascale 2012-2013 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Alisa Pascale, winner of the Eleanor Lambertsen award, is a certified women’s health practitioner who spent the first 2 years of her NP career living and working in Cuba, New Mexico, with the Navajo Native Americans. Today she is practicing at Vincen... read more.

Veronica Pasha 2022-2023 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Veronica Pasha EMPA, RNC-OB, C-ONQS is the recipient of the Rita Reis Wieczorek Scholarship. Ms. Pasha obtained her Bachelor of Science from the City University of New York at Hunter College and an Executive Master’s in Public Administration from the... read more.

Megan E. Pate 2023-2024 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Megan E. Pate is the 2023-2024 proud recipient of the Judith G. Whitaker Scholarship. She is a PhD candidate at Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and a 2023 graduate (MS) of The James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies at Emor... read more.

Nisha Patel 2021-2022 Winner | Master’s Degree: Nisha Patel is the recipient of the 2021 Isabel McIssac Scholarship, which is awarded to master’s degree students in honor of Isabel McIssac, the first chairman of the original memorial fund for Isabel Hampton Robb. Nisha received a Bachelor of Scien... read more.

Jacqueline B. Patton 1992-1993 Winner | Master’s Degree: Jacqueline B. Patton was awarded the Estelle Massey Osborne / Lucy C. Perry Scholarship. read more.

Mabel Ann Patton 1928-1929 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Mabel Ann Patton was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

Keisha S. Paul 2024-2025 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Keisha S. Paul, MS, RN is the recipient of the Columbia University – Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association Inc./J. Margaret Ada Mutch Scholarship. Receiving this scholarship plays a significant role in providing Keisha the financ... read more.

Shirley Paul 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Planning a career as a Nurse Anesthetist, Shirley Paul received her BSN from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee. She continued She is now pursuing her Doctorate at the University of Minnesota’s Doctorate of Nursing Practice... read more.

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FEATURED SCHOLAR

Janassa Kapadia

(2010-2011 Winner)

An immigrant to the United States at age 9, Janassa Kapadia winner of the Estelle Massey award, credits her grandfather, a physician in Bombay, for her interest in the health care field. She first earned a BA d... read more.

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