University of South Florida College of Nursing is proud to announce the recipients of the 2011 Alumni Awards. The recipients will be recognized at the Pinning Ceremony on Friday, August 5, in the second floor ballroom of the Marshall Student Center. Alumni are invited to arrive at 6 p.m. to participate in the Alumni Path of Light procession for the graduating students. If you would like to attend, RSVP by August 3 to Lauren Kelly, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations at lkelly2@health.usf.eduor (813) 974-7072.
The honorees are:
Distinguished Alumnus Award: Dr. Audrey Nelson ’77, Center Director of the Patient Safety Center of Inquiry. Dr. Nelson founded the first nurse-led VA Center of Excellence for research in safe patient handling and mobility. As a nurse scientist, she has led a program of research and research translation in safe patient handling that is now culminating in a $200 million VA-wide implementation program funded by the VA.
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award: Dr. Versie Johnson Mallard ’05, Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor at the USF College of Nursing. Dr. Johnson Mallard is also the recipient of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Rising Star Award and has participated on nine funded studies, had fifteen peer-reviewed publications and eighteen referred posters/abstracts. Currently, she has assumed a national leadership position with the National League for Nursing.
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Distinguished Alumnus Award
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award
