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Stephanie Mearns, M.N. ’90Mearns is a nurse executive whose experiences have spanned the spectrum of healthcare delivery arenas, from large teaching institutions to small community hospitals. She is currently vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive at Seton Medical Center in Daily City, Calif., following a stint as senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer for California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles. Throughout her career she has also been committed to mentoring and developing future nursing leaders. Mearns has been an active fundraiser and voice for nurses on legislative issues affecting the profession. She has served as a nursing leader in a number of organizations, including the Healthcare Association of Southern California, the Association of California Nurse Leaders, and the California Healthcare Association. In 1997 she was selected for the Johnson & Johnson Wharton School of Business Fellowship program, a prestigious program offered to chief nursing officers from around the world.
Anita Bralock, M.N. ’91, Ph.D. ’03Bralock, a practicing nurse for 29 years, completed her midwifery training in 1995 and set out on a mission to provide culturally competent care to women from underserved communities. For the past 18 years, she has also taught various courses for both undergraduate and graduate students at USC, Charles R. Drew University and Azusa Pacific University. She was an assistant professor of clinical nursing and coordinator of women’s health care at USC, where she initiated the nurse midwifery master’s program; assistant professor of the Nurse Midwifery Education Program at Charles R. Drew University; and since 2004 has been on the faculty at Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing, where she is currently department chair of Second Degree Programs. Bralock’s interest is in reducing health disparities among young African American and Hispanic women. Her research examines factors that decrease risky sexual behaviors among female adolescents and young adults. Bralock received the Outstanding Clinical Nurse Educator Award from USC three times and the Outstanding Nurse Educator Award once.
Barbara Bates-Jensen, M.N. ’92, Ph.D. ’98For her master’s thesis at the UCLA School of Nursing, Bates-Jensen developed a tool for measuring the status of chronic wounds, the Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool. She went on to receive her doctoral degree from the school and to further her research in improving the quality of pressure ulcer and related care in nursing homes using technology, and methods of translating and maintaining effective research interventions into daily nursing home practice. Bates-Jensen is currently an associate professor at the school and in the David Geffen School of Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics. In addition to authoring numerous research papers on pressure ulcers, she is co-editor of the book Wound Care: A Collaborative Practice Manual for Health Care Professionals, now in its third edition, and has been a consultant for the U.S. Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services on pressure ulcer related areas. She is currently evaluating a non-visual method of detecting early pressure ulcers using a device that measures skin and tissue water.
Nancy Jo Bush, M.N.’92, M.A.Bush, a lecturer and assistant clinical professor in the school’s Oncology Nursing program, has held joint clinical practice and faculty positions teaching graduate oncology nursing at the school since 1988. She has experience as an oncology clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner in private practice. Bush’s clinical expertise is in the psychosocial impact of cancer for patients, families, and caregivers. She is on the Board of Directors of The Wellness Community Valley/Ventura in Westlake, Calif., where she has also volunteered as a support group therapist and medical educator. Bush has published extensively in the area of psychosocial oncology; among others, she is co-editor of Psychosocial Nursing Along the Cancer Continuum, published in 2006 by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS). Among her awards, she received ONS’s Advanced Practice Nurse of the Year in 2002 and a Nursing Excellence Award in Teaching from Nurseweek.
Anna Gawlinski, D.N.Sc. ’93Gawlinski, a cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist since 1979, has since 2002 served as the first director of evidence-based practice at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Nursing. In the former capacity, she has developed and implemented an infrastructure that supports research and evidence-based practice initiatives in the Department of Nursing. Her work in mentoring staff nurses, advanced practice nurses and clinical and administrative leaders has helped clinicians apply research findings in day-to-day practice situations to improve patient outcomes. Gawlinski’s own research focuses on accurate measurement of hemodynamic and oxygenation variables, as well as the associated clinical outcomes when using various methods of measurement in advanced heart failure patients. Gawlinski is also known for her collaborative work with cardiologists for improving care of patients with acute myocardial infarctions and acute coronary artery syndromes. In her role as an adjunct professor, Gawlinski teaches students in training to become clinical nurse specialists who work with medical center clinical nurse specialists on research based practice changes at the hospital.
Kelly Guzman, M.N. ’94Guzman’s more than two decades of healthcare experience include administrative positions with responsibilities for acute care, interventional and ambulatory services, as well as skilled nursing facility and sub-acute service lines. She currently serves as executive director for transition planning at Healthcare Technical Services, a Westwood-based consulting firm, working with hospitals to assemble and implement project plans and coordinate the logistics of their moves when they are either adding a wing or replacing their facility. Previously she was transition planning director for the UCLA Westwood Replacement Hospital Project – the project that resulted in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Guzman is an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, having served as president of the Los Angeles Chapter for two years and continuing to serve as a board member focusing on fundraising efforts for nursing scholarships. She is also a clinical faculty preceptor with the school’s Nursing Administration program.
Jane Blood-Siegfried, D.N.Sc. ’95Blood-Siegfried, an associate clinical professor at Duke University School of Nursing, has been concerned with the health of infants and children in the clinical setting for more than 30 years. Over the course of her clinical career as a nurse practitioner she became interested in the developmental changes in neonates following birth and how they are affected by environmental insults. Her current focus of study involves the immune and neurobiologic factors associated with sudden infant death syndrome. Blood-Siegfried was a fellow and guest researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences from 1998 to 2004 and currently has a major grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to examine the effects of perinatal nicotine exposure on the development of protective autonomic responses in suckling rats. In addition to her research, she teaches pathophysiology and pediatric primary care to graduate nursing students at Duke and maintains a clinical practice as a pediatric nurse practitioner in a rural community in North Carolina.
Suzette Cardin, D.N.Sc. ’95Cardin, the school’s assistant dean for student affairs, has been an adjust associate professor in the Nursing Administration program since 1998. Prior to that, she was director of the cardiac care unit and cardiac observation unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for 14 years. Cardin is well known in the field of critical care nursing administration and practice, particularly in the areas of family-centered critical care nursing and successful leadership and management styles in today’s healthcare environment. In 1997 she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in recognition of her contributions as nursing unit director as well as her numerous publications, national nursing affiliations and ability to share her knowledge with others in a variety of ways.
Bernice L. Coleman, Ph.D. ’95Coleman has 25 years of advanced practice nursing experience as a clinical nurse specialist and, currently, as a board-certified acute care nurse practitioner in the heart transplantation and ventricular assist programs at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. As a doctoral student at the school under the direction of Dr. Donna Vredevoe, she cultivated her clinical and bench interest in transplant immunology, and went on to complete postdoctoral studies in the Histocompatibility Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai. Coleman has presented and published on the topics associated with care of the cardiac surgical patient, critical care nursing issues and ethnic immunogenetics of heart transplantation. She was awarded the 2008 Distinguished Alumna/I Award from the Yale School of Nursing, from which she received her M.S. degree; and the GE Healthcare and American Association of Critical Care Nurses 2009 Pioneering Spirit Award.
Cathy Rodgers Ward, D.N.Sc. ’95Ward, director of nursing at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, is responsible for nursing care in all inpatient and observation areas in the hospital, which has 24 nursing units and 445 licensed beds. More than 2,000 employees, including 1,400 registered nurses, are under her supervision. Ward has provided leadership and direction at UCLA for the past 23 years in a variety of management roles. Prior to her appointment at UCLA, she was assistant professor at Boston University School of Nursing; a clinical nurse specialist at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston; and cardiovascular nurse clinician in cardiac surgery at the University of Alabama. Ward also served as a member of the executive transition team for the planning and opening of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in June 2008.
Mark Sevilla, M.S.N. ’97Sevilla, assistant vice president of patient care services for Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., has 28 years of experience in nursing administration, education, and inpatient/outpatient services. Prior to his position at Carolinas Medical Center he spent four years as vice president of patient care services at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, where he was responsible for a $132 million operating budget and 1,200 full-time employees. He was also executive director of critical care services at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo, Calif. from 2001 to 2005. Sevilla began his career as an emergency department technician at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills, Calif. After completing a B.S.N. program at Cal State Dominguez Hills, he enrolled in the UCLA School of Nursing’s M.S.N. program in Nursing Administration. Through a variety of healthcare roles he has been particularly interested in creating organizations and cultures in which nurses can thrive.
Shelly S. de Peralta, M.S.N. ’98For the last decade, de Peralta has been a cardiology nurse practitioner at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, with responsibilities for managing outpatients and inpatients with cardiac and internal medicine needs. The VA system offers extensive support for nurse practitioners, affording a great deal of autonomy. De Peralta serves as co-chair for advanced practice nurses at the VA, and co-chairs an advanced practice nurses review board overseeing the credentialing and peer-review process for the system’s 80-plus nurse practitioners. She has also been involved as a statewide legislative liaison for the California Association for Nurse Practitioners. De Peralta has been active in research, presenting abstracts at national and regional meetings; and lectures on cardiac conditions to residents, fellows, nurse practitioners, and other nurses both within the VA and in the community. She has served as a preceptor for nursing students at UCLA and Case Western University.
Peter Anderson, B.S. ’99, M.S.N. ’01Anderson is board-certified as a family nurse practitioner, holds an Advanced AIDS Certification from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and is an HIV specialist certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine. He works as a nurse practitioner in private practice with several physician colleagues in West Hollywood providing primary care and HIV/AIDS specialty care to approximately 750 patients. Anderson also conducts clinical research in HIV therapeutics as a sub-investigator, and currently has approximately 80 patients enrolled in Phase II, III and IV clinical research trials. Anderson is an assistant manager of 4SE, a 31-bed inpatient nursing unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center that provides acute inpatient care for a diverse mix of oncology, palliative, and HIV/AIDS patients. In 2005 he completed an American Association for the Study of Liver Disease nurse practitioner hepatology fellowship at USC’s Hepatitis Research Center and subsequently managed patients with chronic hepatitis at L.A. County-USC Medical Center. He is the current president of the UCLA School of Nursing Alumni Association.
Isabell B. Purdy, M.S.N. ’99, Ph.D. ’04Purdy has been a neonatal nurse for more than 32 years. The first 20 were devoted to clinical nursing care of the most fragile infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); over the last decade-plus, she has expanded her clinical focus to providing follow-up care for high-risk infants among this vulnerable population. She joined the Division of Neonatology and Developmental Biology at UCLA in 2004, and became clinical director of the NICU Research Data Center and NICU High Risk Infant Follow-up Clinic. In pursuing her doctorate as a fellow in the UCLA School of Nursing’s Center for Vulnerable Populations Research, she studied relationships between biophysiologic stress, higher cumulative perinatal glucocorticoid exposure and neurobehavioral outcomes of preterm infants. As a psychoneuroimmunology postdoctoral fellow, she discovered that maternal/infant immune factors were also influential. Drawing on her training as well as her undergraduate studies in music, she is conducting a randomized controlled trial with an NICU classical music intervention to examine influences on preterm infant stress reactivity, immunity, and development.
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