Directory of Scholars

Victoria Ball 2009-2010 Winner | Master’s Degree: My career goals have always involved working with and helping others. Since a career in nursing involves serving a community, socializing, helping others, and assisting people in reaching optimal health, it seemed a natural fit. I was able to fulfill... read more.

Jessica Kramer 2009-2010 Winner | Master’s Degree: Jessica Kramer is in the master's program at the University of Pennsylvania and works at HUP, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia's inner city. Her goal is to be a women's health nurse practitioner, helping the vul... read more.

Shelley Lynch 2009-2010 Winner | Master’s Degree: Winner of the Isabel McIsaac Memorial Scholarship, NEF's top master's award, Shelley Lynch is a critical care nurse with a passion for travel. As an undergraduate at Hartwick College, she studied transcultural nursing in the rural outposts of Jamaica... read more.

Caroline Morin 2009-2010 Winner | Master’s Degree: I knew that I wanted to be a nurse from a very young age. I was a sophomore in high school when I shadowed my cousin, a nurse practitioner, for a day. I was inspired by his combination of passion for patients as well as his medical knowledge. I knew... read more.

Janine Prime 2009-2010 Winner | Master’s Degree: Janine Prime graduated from the University of Virginia Bachelor of Science in Nursing program in 2005. She has practiced in hematology-oncology since her graduation. Her career began on the inpatient adult oncology unit at INOVA Fairfax Hospital. In... read more.

Kari Radoff 2009-2010 Winner | Master’s Degree: Kari Radoff is studying to be a nurse midwife at UCSF where she did her basic nursing program. Fluent in Spanish, she has volunteered throughout Latin America in hospitals, midwifery clinics, community health, an indigenous healer's hut and, most rec... read more.

Tashika Reeves 2009-2010 Winner | Master’s Degree: Tashika Reeves was the first in her family of 13 to graduate from high school and the only one to graduate from college. When her older brother died at the age of 10 from an undiagnosed brain aneurysm, she witnessed what she knows now was world-class... read more.

Deborah Benes-Nadworny 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: After receiving her BSN and MSN from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Deborah Benes-Nadworny geared her career to academia teaching Pediatric Nursing at Fitchburg State University in Lowell, Massachusettes. She maintains her interest... read more.

Peggy Berry 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Peggy Berry, with 25 years of health care experience is using her NEF scholarship to pursue her Doctorate at the University of Cincinnati. Certified as a Senior Human Resources Professional she has done extensive research and programs on workplace vi... read more.

Pamela Crary 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Pamela Crary, NEF scholarship winner, received her MSN at the University of Wisconsin where she focused on Nursing Education. Now, while continuing her graduate work at this university she is on the faculty at Edgewater College teaching undergraduate... read more.

Rebecca Deal Poston 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: After completing a BA in Religious studies Rebecca Deal Poston made a career change, getting her second Baccalaureate degree in Nursing from the University of Virginia. She continues to pursue her interest in the field of Pediatric Nursing and feels... read more.

Erin Ferrante 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Winner of the Margaret Tyson award, Erin Ferrante, is continuing her graduate studies at Emory University where she got her MSN in Public Health Nursing. This mother of three young boys is committed to research and to educating both nursing professio... read more.

Susan Lane 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Susan Lane is currently a research assistant at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro where she is pursuing her Doctoral degree. She received her MSN at Gardner Webb University in 2003. She plans to continue her career in a faculty role in acad... read more.

Grace Onovo 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Grace Onovo grew up in Nigeria where she attended the School of Nursing at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital and the School of Midwifery at Mater Misericordia Hospital. To further advance her career in Nursing she migrated to the United Sta... 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.

Teresa Richardson 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Teresa Richardson, winner of the M. Elizabeth Carnegie award, is a full time student at Catholic University of America where her doctoral research is related to the prevalence of depression among African American school aged children who are any way... read more.

Annie Rohan 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Annie Rohan, winner of the Ada Munch/Columbia University Award is using her scholarship to expand her pre-dissertation education at Columbia University School of Nursing while working on a project evaluating the assessment of pain in premature, venti... read more.

Nicole Rouhana 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Winner of the Evelyn Barclay award, Nicole Rouhana, started her career over twenty-five years ago in Saudi Arabia as a Pediatric Registered Nurse. In 1996 she returned to school at Binghamton University to get her Masters and completed a post-Masters... read more.

Kristen VanderEnde 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Starting her career as a nurse and nurse-midwife on the island of Saipan, Kristen VanderEnde then moved with her family to Kenya where she did volunteer work for a year, It was her experience in these places with women without economic resources to p... read more.

Rebecca West 2010-2011 Winner | Doctoral Degree: Isabel Hampton Robb award winner, Rebecca West, did her undergraduate and graduate (Masters) work at the University of Illinois. Rebecca feels that clinical research in mindfulness is a new and growing field and she wants to grow with it. She became... read more.

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