New YSN Center to Hold First Convocation on April 3
New Haven, CT — March 25, 2008
Yale University School of Nursing's new integrative Center for Enhancing Outcomes of Vulnerable Populations will host its first Convocation on Thursday, April 3, at YSN, 100 Church Street South, New Haven. A pre-event "meet and greet" will take place at 3:30 pm, and the program will begin at 4 pm.
The keynote speaker for the convocation will be Annette O'Connor, PhD, Professor in the School of Nursing and Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Ottawa, and a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Health Research Institute. Her talk is titled, "Recent Advances in Decision Support: Relevance to Vulnerable Populations?" Dr. O'Connor is an international leader in patient decision aids for options with benefit/harm profiles that are valued differently by various patient populations.
Tish Knobf, PhD, RN, FAAN, AOCN, American Cancer Society Professor of Oncology Nursing at YSN, will be speaking on "Evolutionary Journey to Intervention Research."
This initial convocation will serve as a transition whereby the current centers for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care and Health Policy are integrated into the new more encompassing center. The mission of the new center is to "promote the creation of knowledge that will lead to the understanding, development and testing, and dissemination of interventions to promote health in vulnerable populations. Health of vulnerable patients and families will be promoted through nursing research, care and education."
The Center for Enhancing Outcomes of Vulnerable Populations will:
• Facilitate the growth of collaborations among disciplines in key areas of research and practice with vulnerable populations
• Expand the scientific base of nursing practice with individuals and families at risk by evaluating the impact of nursing interventions on key outcomes across population groups
• Facilitate use of research-based knowledge in a timely fashion through multiple dissemination approaches
• Provide faculty development through training and mentorship to broaden the base of scholarship in nursing care of vulnerable populations.
