For Uchenna Jones ’02, ’09, it’s all about family. As a labor and delivery nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, she helps start new families. And as the organizer of both the Madison Gospel 5K and the W1N Crew walking group and the co-founder of the Sole Sistas Run Madtown running group, she helps keep those families healthy.
Alumni Profile
UW Alumna Sadat Abiri’s Global Fight Against Mental Health Stigma
Sadat Abiri ’99, MSN ’10, MPH ’12 is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner and a mental health advocate, particularly for immigrants and the homeless. Abiri is bringing leaders and psychiatrists from Africa to Madison to continue their conversation about dispelling mental health myths and stigma as well as to increase access to mental health care.
Taking It All In
Emily Schumacher graduated in 2010 and entered practice in an oncology, neurology, and neurosurgery unit at American Family Children’s Hospital. Three years later, she enrolled part-time in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, which she will complete this spring. “I found what I was supposed to do. It was nursing,” she says. “It was a combination of all the things I love.”
UW Hmong-American Nurse Brings Her Community to the Doctor’s Office
Maichou Lor, who received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing, was born in a refugee camp in Thailand before her family immigrated to Madison. Lor is the first Hmong-American nurse to earn a PhD in the U.S.
Learning in Loss
Nurses made a difference during the most difficult experience of her life. Now Chelsea Adams ’16 wants to do the same.
Small Town Nurse, Big Time Impact
School of Nursing alumna Cris Custer cares for multiple generations of patients.
An App-solutely Amazing Nurse
School of Nursing alumna Valerie Hon, who was involved with eSchoolCare research as a student, takes leadership as a Portage School District Nurse.
Distinguished Alumna Karen Pridham
Her alma mater has long understood that professor emerita and alumna Karen Pridham, PhD, RN FAAN, possessed the “it factor” in research and teaching—the UW–Madison School of Nursing’s alumni organization awarded her its most distinguished honor …
Distinguished Alumna Diane Kjervik
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is one of nursing’s prime movers and a powerful counterpart for scientists turning discovery into health. Its stature today stems, in part, from one UW–Madison School of Nursing …
Distinguished Alumna Barbara Moilien Gruendemann
Three years ago, which is more than fifty years from the time she completed her nursing degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Barbara Moilien Gruendemann, PhD, RN, FAAN, CNOR, received her PhD in nursing science …