Directory of Scholars

2010s Cycles

Angela Spruill 2010-2011 Winner | Master’s Degree: Winner of the Isabel McIsaac award, Angela Spruill has spent her entire nursing career since graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in oncology at University of N C Health Care. She has been an OCN since 2006 and has worked o... read more.

Veronica Umeh 2010-2011 Winner | Master’s Degree: Veronica Umeh received her first Baccalaureate degree in Food Science and Technology in her native Nigeria in 2000. In 2004, in the United States, she enrolled in the accelerated nursing program at Wayne State University in Detroit graduating with he... read more.

Ifeyinwa Asiodu 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Winner of the M. Elizabeth Carnegie scholarship is native Californian Ifeyinwa Asiodu, a nurse since 2003. Ifeyinwa received her Bachelor’s degree from USC. After attending a Summer Research Training Program at UCSF in 2006 she decided the School of... read more.

Esther Bernhofer 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Whittaker scholarship winner, Esther Bernhofer, has combined a diverse nursing career with the raising of 8 children. Graduating with her BSN from the University of Akron in 1981 and went on to work at various institutions in the Cleveland area. Afte... read more.

Kelly Conway 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: NEF scholarship winner, Kelly Conway, received her BSN and her MA from the University of San Francisco. Kelly feels a DNP would provide an improved ability to effect needed change on nursing practice, health care and health policy. Working in homeles... read more.

Karen Johnson 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Karen Johnson is our winner of the NSNA scholarship that she is using towards her PhD degree from the University of Kansas. Karen currently works as a nursing instructor at Pittsburg State University in the undergraduate and graduate programs as well... read more.

Jamal Norman 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Winner of the Lucy Perry scholarship, Jamal Norman, started her nursing career after she received her baccalaureate degree from the University of Central Arkansas. She worked as a labor and delivery nurse in Louisiana and, while working with medical... read more.

Tara O’Brien 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Barclay scholarship winner Tara O’Brien combined her BSN in Nursing with a minor in Psychology from Ohio University. Her nursing career has been a diverse one, including staff nurse, case manager and nurse educator --- this last includes teaching wit... read more.

Ellen O’Neal 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: A native of Illinois, Lillian Hiemenz award winner Ellen O’Neal got her Bachelor’s degree at Marquette University in Wisconsin and a Masters in nurse-midwifery At Georgetown University. Her work has taken her to a wide variety of settings including G... read more.

Sheila Pennell 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Winner of the Margaret Tyson scholarship, Sheila Pennell, is working on her doctoral degree in nursing through UMass’s BS to PhD program where her graduate course work includes in-depth specialization in geriatrics. Her passion about Geriatric nursin... read more.

Nicholas Perrino 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: A Chicago native, Eleanore C. Lambertsen scholarship winner Nicholas Perrino did his undergraduate work at Loyola University and continued with his graduate work at Northwestern University and Columbia. He currently serves as the Director of Professi... read more.

Carrie Tudor 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Winner of the Isabel Hampton Robb scholarship Carrie Tudor is currently enrolled in the PhD Program at The John Hopkins University School of Nursing. Her previous experience includes working as a public health professional with health providers and m... read more.

Julia Yurcich 2011-2012 Winner | Doctoral Degree: The Miriam M. Powell scholarship went to Julia Yurcich who received her BS degree from Grand Canyon University in Arizona in 2008. She continued on to the DNP program with an emphasis in geriatrics at Arizona State University. While working on her ed... read more.

Analiza Baldonado 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree: The Isabel McIsaac scholarship went to Analiza Baldonado who is continuing her graduate work at the University of Phoenix while working as the Quality Improvement Coordinator of Valley Health Plan. Analisa started her nursing education with a BSN in... read more.

Christopher Contino 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree: NEF scholarship winner Christopher Contino started his studies in mechanical engineering while working as an emergency medical technician and that led to his true career in healthcare. He first obtained his paramedic certification from Thomas Jeffers... read more.

Heather Crowe 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree: Heather Crowe got her BSN from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 2008 and went on to work as a Cardiovascular ICU nurse for two years. She will use her NEF scholarship monies to pursue her Master’s degree with a concentration in Nurse Anesthes... read more.

Keyona Grant 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree: Winner of the Estelle Massey Osborne scholarship Keyona Grant received her BSN from Emory University in Atlanta. She went on to work for the next two and a half years at Emory University Hospital in their Cardiovascular/Thoracic Intensive Care unit.... read more.

Sara Markt 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree: Winner of the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing Alumni Association/Ada Mutch scholarship, Sara Markt had a “pre-nursing” career with a BA in Anthropology and working as Deputy Secretary for the NYC Dept, of Health and Mental... read more.

Carolyn Rios 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree: NEF scholarship winner Carolyn Rios earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Buffalo. During that time she also participated in two summer internships – one at Rochester Medical Center in the MICU/CCU and one at NYU Langone Medical Center... read more.

Dina Salvatore 2011-2012 Winner | Master’s Degree: With NEF scholarship winner Dina Salvatore we have a two time winner. Dina is continuing to pursue her graduate degree at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. One of Dina’s primary concerns is the lack of sufficient medical care in th... read more.

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