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President
Marcia Van Riper, PhD, RN (USA)
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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Marcia Van Riper, PhD, RN is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Family Health Division in the School
of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). She has a joint appointment in the Carolina
Center for Genome Sciences. The primary focus of her program of research is the family experience of being tested
for and living with a genetic condition, with special emphasis on families of children with Down syndrome. To date,
other conditions she has focused on include Sickle Cell Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer,
Huntington Disease, and Factor V Leiden. Marcia coordinates efforts within the UNC-CH School of Nursing to integrate
genetics, genomics, ethics, and pharmacogenomics throughout both the undergraduate and graduate curricula. Marcia
and her colleagues are currently conducting a study concerning knowledge and attitudes about pharmacogenetic testing
among clinicians (currently they have data from over 2000 clinicians). Each semester she teaches a required undergraduate
nursing course, “Family-Centered Genomic Health Care.” In addition, every other year she coordinates
an interdisciplinary course “Genomics and Society.” According to Marcia, some of the best experiences
of her career are the experiences she has had while attending Family Nursing Conferences throughout the world.
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President-Elect
Sharon Denham, DSN, RN (USA)
Ohio University, School of Nursing
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Dr. Denham graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1997. She is a full professor at Ohio University’s
School of Nursing, Athens, Ohio where she has taught since 1991. She has had leadership roles in the Appalachian
Studies Association, the National Council on Family Relations, served on the Board of Directors or the National
League for Nursing’s Accreditation Commission, and is currently president-elect for the International Family
Nursing Association. Her research has largely focused on family health and Appalachian health disparities. She has
numerous publications and has given many regional, national, and international presentations. Her book entitled Family
Health: A Framework for Nursing, a conceptual framework, suggests an ecological lens to understand the health needs
of contextually embedded family households. She spent several years working with the National Diabetes Education
Program to develop Diabetes: A Family Matter www.diabetesfamily.net . This culturally sensitive program and toolkit focuses on health promotion and type 2 diabetes prevention in the
Appalachian region. She is beginning a second year of a CDC funded dissemination and evaluation project working
with 16 Appalachian counties in 3 states. A newly awarded CDC funded project called Strengthening Communities to
Prevent Diabetes in Rural Appalachia promises to bring almost $2.5 million over the next 5 years to prevention work in
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Secretary
Roberta S. Rehm, RN, PhD (USA)
University of California San Francisco
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Roberta S. Rehm, PhD, RN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University
of California at San Francisco. She had a long clinical career as a pediatric nurse, working as a Neonatal Nurse
Educator and a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pediatric Cardiology. Currently, she conducts research with families
raising children with complex chronic conditions, and teaches care of children with special health care needs and
qualitative research methods to master’s and doctoral students. Her current projects include an ethnographic
study of planning for the transition to adulthood for youth with complex needs, and a Community Based Participatory Research
project, in which her team is conducting a pilot study of an intervention to facilitate transition planning for
youth and families. Roberta has enjoyed meeting family nurses from around the world while attending International
Family Nursing Congresses in the U.S., Chile, Canada, and Iceland. She hopes to see YOU in Kyoto, Japan in June,
2011
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Treasurer
Donna Miles Curry, PhD, RN (USA)
Wright State University (USA) |
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Donna Miles Curry, PhD, RN is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs for the College of
Nursing & Health, Wright State University. Dr. Curry received her AA in Nursing from Maryville College,
St. Louis, her BSN & MSN from St. Louis University and her PhD in Family Relations & Human Development from
The Ohio State University. She has been a pediatric nurse for over 35 years. In addition to being a
pediatric nurse, Dr. Curry is an educator, administrator and board certified pediatric clinical nurse specialist.
Her program of research has included parenting during infancy, pain management, nursing education and nursing education
history. Dr. Curry lectures on family nursing in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition
to IFNA, Dr. Curry is an active member of several other professional nursing organizations such as Sigma Theta Tau
International Nursing Honor Society and the Society of Pediatric Nurses.
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Directors (3-Year Term)
Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD (Canada)
University of Calgary |
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Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD, is a nurse educator, author, and agent of change with a mission to build capacity in nurses
and other health care practitioners to care for families with competence, confidence, and compassion. She co-developed the
Illness Beliefs Model ( http//:www.illnessbeliefsmodel.com) and focuses her scholarship on Family Systems Nursing, illness suffering and family healing, therapeutic conversations with
families, family interventions in health care, and family intervention research. She is the Editor of the Journal of Family
Nursing (http://jfn.sagepub.com) and served as the Director of the Family Nursing Unit, University of Calgary (2002-2007).
She currently offers workshops and consultation about practice knowledge with families to an international community of health
care professionals. Website: http://www.janicembell.com |
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Catherine A. Chesla, RN, DNSc, FAAN (USA)
University of California San Francisco
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Catherine (Kit) Chesla, RN, DNSc, FAAN is Professor and Shobe Endowed Chair for Ethics and Spirituality in the Department
of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. For over 20 years she has taught family
theory, intervention and research methods to doctoral and Family Nurse Practitioner students. Her research focuses on
understanding and intervening with families where an adult member has a chronic illness. She has conducted multiple studies
with families living with type 2 diabetes in African American, Chinese American, Latino and White families. Currently she
heads an NIH-funded Community Based Participatory Research project where, in partnership with service agencies in San Francisco’s
Chinatown, she offers a family-focused cognitive behavioral intervention to assist Chinese immigrants manage their diabetes.
Her team adapted an intervention to be culturally appropriate, and they are testing its efficacy in this population. Websites:
http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/public/shobe/index.shtml and http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/ffchesk.htm |
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Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir, RN PhD (Iceland)
University of Iceland Faculty of Nursing |
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Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir, is a professor and the academic chair of family nursing at the University of Iceland, Faculty
of Nursing and at Landspitali University Hospital. During the past decade, she has collaborated on national and international
research focusing on families of children with asthma. She has also collaborated with Icelandic researchers on intervention
research projects regarding families of children and adolescents with cancer, asthma, and diabetes. Her current research
links quality of life with family experiences of violence, childhood chronic illness and adolescents with cancer. She
is also working these days on family nursing intervention research within the Icelandic culture. Dr. Svavarsdottir has
published her work in several national and international nursing journals as well as having published book chapters both within
Iceland as well as internationally.
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Directors (2-Year Term)
Suzanne Feetham, PhD, RN, FAAN (USA)
University of WI Milwaukee and Children's National Medical Center |
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Suzanne Feetham, PhD, RN, FAAN has held clinical, research and leadership positions in academia, health systems and the United
States Federal government. Her career has focused on health care of families and underserved populations. She is recognized
nationally and internationally for her research and scholarship in nursing research of families and the integration of genetics
and genomics in national education, practice and policy. As holder of the H. H. Werley Endowed Research Chair at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, she was Principle investigator on a study of families considering genetic testing for cancer susceptibility,
co-investigator on four family studies funded by the National Institutes of Health. In 1977 she developed the Feetham Family
Functioning Survey (FFFS). Currently, the FFFS is used in research of families across disciplines, has been translated into
several languages including American Sign Language, Spanish, Russian, Bosnian, Chinese and Japanese and has reported application
in more than 70 research publications. Currently she is Visiting Professor at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Nursing
Research Consultant at Children’s National Medical Center Washington DC
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Naohiro Hohashi, PhD, RN PHN (Japan)
Kobe University
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Naohiro Hohashi, PhD, RN, PHN, graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1989. In 1992, instruction in the field of family
health nursing began in Japan, and from its start he worked to support pioneering efforts to nurture this new field at the
Department of Family Nursing, the University of Tokyo. At present he is a full professor at the Division of Family Health
Care Nursing, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, where he is responsible for a master's program leading
to certification as Certified Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Family Health Nursing --- a family health nursing specialty unique
to Japan. He also serves as Director of International Exchanges for the Japanese Association for Research in Family Nursing
(JARFN). His fields of research and practice cover a wide range of subjects, from inpatient (at hospitals) to outpatient and
at-home (community), both in Japan and overseas. Website: http://www.hohashi.org/
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Carole Robinson, PhD, RN (Canada)
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
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Carole Robinson is the Acting Associate Dean (Post Graduate Studies) in the Faculty of Health and Social Development as well
as the Acting Director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. Her Ph.D. is in Family
Systems Nursing (Calgary) and she is an Advanced Practice Nurse in Pain and Symptom Management and Palliative Care. Carole’s
program of research focuses on palliative care in rural and remote settings with emphasis on ethics, family caregiving, and
advance care planning. Her teaching, research, and practice have a common aim of effective intervention to support families
to live well in the palliative context. She is committed to making a difference that matters to families living with life
limiting illness.
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