Scholars

Lyndsay DeGroot 2021-2022 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lyndsay DeGroot, PhD(c), BSN, RN is the recipient of the Mathy Mezey Scholarship. She is a fourth year PhD Candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD. Following the death of a close friend and her aunt from septic sh... read more.

Jacqueline M. Deighan 1969-1970 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Jacqueline M. Deighan was awarded the Paralyzed Veterans Scholarship. read more.

Dorothy J. DelBueno 1968-1969 Winner | Master’s Degree: Dorothy J. DelBueno was awarded the Paralyzed Veterans Scholarship. read more.

Sergine Delma 2025-2026 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Sergine Delma, DNP-FNP student at Columbia University School of Nursing, is the 2025–2026 recipient of the Columbia University – Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association Inc./J. Margaret Ada Mutch Scholarship. Established in honor o... read more.

Marlene E. Delphey 1964-1965 Winner | Baccalaureate Degreee: Marlene E. Delphey was awarded the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship. Degree: BA read more.

Donna Demarest 1985-1986 Winner | Unspecified Degree: Donna Demarest was awarded the American Journal of Nursing / NEF Scholarship. read more.

Jean Ann DeMars 1974-1975 Winner | Master’s Degree: Jean Ann DeMars was awarded the Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. Scholarship. read more.

Loretto A. Denmark 1961-1962 Winner | Baccalaureate Degreee: Loretto A. Denmark was awarded the Bruck’s Scholarship. Degree: BA read more.

Maral Derkhorenian 2015-2016 Winner | Master’s Degree: Recipient of the Barbara L. Tate Scholarship, completed the University of Pennsylvania, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program in July 2015. During her masters of nursing program in her clinical practicum, she had the opportunity to wor... read more.

Kathleen Dermady 2013-2014 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Liesel M. Hiemenz Scholarship winner Kathleen Dermady provides midwifery services to women in an academic prenatal center and has a special interest in caring for women challenged with diabetes in pregnancy. She began her nursing studies at the Unive... read more.

Gordana Dermody 2014-2015 Winner | Doctoral Degree: The first nurse to win the Mathey Mezey Scholarship, is pursuing her doctorate at the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her commitment to gerontology nursing is demonstrated by her research interests which... read more.

Muriel Derosiers 1971-1972 Winner | Unspecified Degree

Patricia A. Descamp 1977-1978 Winner | Master’s Degree: Patricia A. Descamp was awarded the E.R. Squibb & Sons Scholarship. read more.

Elizabeth Devine 1980-1981 Winner | Doctoral Degree

Diane Devlin 1980-1981 Winner | Baccalaureate Degreee: Diane Devlin was awarded the NSNA / Laura Smith / AJN Scholarship. Degree: BA read more.

Lillian Jeannette DeYoung 1974-1975 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Lillian Jeannette DeYoung was awarded the Isabel Hampton Robb Scholarship. read more.

Amit Dhir 2022-2023 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Amit (Mickey) Dhir NP-C, MSN, MBA, AAHIVS is the recipient of the Cynthia Davis Sculco Scholarship. He is currently a first year PhD student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) in Baltimore, MD. Mickey graduated with his Bachel... read more.

Mary Diamond 1976-1977 Winner | Master’s Degree: Mary Diamond was awarded the Nurses’ Scholarship / NSNA – Laura D. Smith / American Journal of Nursing Scholarship. read more.

Oralia Diaz 2010-2011 Winner | Master’s Degree: Oralia Diaz got her undergraduate degree in nursing in the spring of 1996. Since then she has been actively involved in non profits including the one she founded, Arte Sana, which assists Latina victims of sexual abuse and intimate partner violence.... read more.

Katherine E. DiBella 1989-1990 Winner | Master’s Degree: Katherine E. DiBella was awarded the Edith M. Pritchard Scholarship. School attended: Yale University Degree: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner read more.

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FEATURED SCHOLAR

Beth Chiatti

(2013-2014 Winner)

Beth Chiatti, a nurse educator and winner of an NEF Scholarship, is pursuing her doctoral degree at Widener University in Chester, Pa. (where she also got her Masters degree). Her BA in Anthropology gives her a... read more.

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NEF’s named scholarships, created with a minimum donation of $50,000, honor and memorialize nurse leaders, from Isabel Hampton Robb to Thelma Schorr to Susan Bowar-Ferres. 100% of donations help to keep NEF scholarships funded in perpetuity; organization expenses are covered by prudent management of NEF’s investments.

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