College of Nursing Professor Receives Kathleen A. Dracup Distinguished Lecture in Exemplary Career Mentoring Award
College of Nursing Professor and Linda C. Gill Endowed Chair of Nursing Debra Moser, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, was recently honored with the Kathleen A. Dracup Distinguished Lecture in Exemplary Career Mentoring Award at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions Annual Conference held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La., Nov. 12-16, 2016.
The award honors a senior member of the Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (CVSN) who is well known for their gifts and generosity in mentoring early career scientists.
“We congratulate Dr. Moser for this well-deserved achievement,” says Dr. Janie Heath, PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, dean and Warwick Professor of Nursing. “She is a true pioneer of research in self-care interventions that help cardiac patients, and the College is grateful for her commitment to the nursing profession.”
Dr. Moser’s distinguished career began with 12 years of critical care nursing. Now, as co-director of the RICH Heart Program, she researches ways to improve outcomes and quality of life in people with heart failure and other cardiac conditions. She has served as co-editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing since 1997 and is currently involved with six different NIH-funded research projects, including three collaborative efforts with investigators from other institutions. She also directs the Center for Biobehavioral Research in Self-Management of Cardiopulmonary Disease at the College of Nursing.
“Dr. Moser is dedicated to promoting the success of others and has been incredibly generous with her time in mentoring students and faculty, all of whom have gone on to be highly successful,” says Terry Lennie, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and associate dean for graduate faculty affairs. “She’s had a far reaching impact by helping advance the careers of many researchers in the U.S. as well as across the globe from Australia to Ireland and Sweden in Europe to China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand in Asia to Jordan in the Middle East.”
The Kathleen A. Dracup Distinguished Lecture in Exemplary Career Mentoring Award highlights the importance of early-career mentoring in cardiovascular and stroke nursing to the CVSN and the commitment of the AHA to fostering the development of the next generation of scientists. Early-career mentoring is a critical element of a successful research career and showcasing outstanding early-career mentors will promote others to both adopt effective mentoring strategies and allow early-career members to benefit from insights that experts have on early career success.
Dr. Kathleen Dracup is recognized as a Pillar of Excellence for exceptional and lifelong contributions to cardiovascular nursing. Her mentorship, dedication to and development of early-career cardiovascular nurse scientists has set in motion an incredible acceleration in the development in the cardiovascular nursing science and new knowledge to improve the care of patients with cardiovascular disease and their families.
