PCNA Executive Board
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President MSN, ANP, FAHA, FPCNA, FAAN Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford, CA |
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Immediate Past President PhD, ACNS-BC, RN-BC, FAHA, FPCNA Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago, IL |
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President Elect RN, MN, FAHA, FPCNA, FAAN University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL |
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Treasurer RN, ScD, FPCNA, FAAN Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD |
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Project Development Committee Chair MSN, APRN-BC, APNP, FAHA, FPCNA Meriter Medical Clinic, Madison, WI |
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PCNA Board of Directors
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DNP, MSN, ANP-BC, FAHA, FPCNA University of Miami School of Nursing, Miami, FL |
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RN, BSN, FAHA, FPCNA Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA |
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PhD, CNP, CLS, FAHA, FPCNA, FAAN Rush University and Heart & Vascular Institute, Chicago, IL
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MSN, ACNP, CLS, FAHA, FPCNA Rhode Island Cardiology Center, Providence, RI |
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MSN, CNS, FAHA, FPCNA Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA |
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MSN, ANP-BC, FAHA, FPCNA Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA |
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PhD, RN, FPCNA, FAAN University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA |
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Jo-Ann Eastwood PhD, RN, CCNS, ACNP-BC, FAHA UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA |
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RN, ANP, PhD, FAHA, FPCNA, FAAN Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD |
PCNA Board of Directors - Bios
LYNNE T. BRAUN, ANP, PHD, CNP, FPCNA, FAAN, FAHA
Bio: Dr. Lynne Braun is a nurse practitioner in the Rush Heart and Vascular Institute, focusing on preventive cardiology and women and heart disease. She is also a Professor in the Department of Adult Health and Gerontological Nursing in the Rush College of Nursing. She completed a PhD in Nursing Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990, and a post-masters certificate as an Adult Nurse Practitioner from Rush University in 1997. She has been on faculty and has held a practice position at Rush University Medical Center since 1980. Her clinical and research interests include cardiovascular risk reduction, exercise, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension management. She served as co-investigator for 3 research grants funded by the National Institutes of Health, currently, a study entitled, “Reducing Health Disparity in African American Women: Adherence to Physical Activity.” She is Past President of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. Dr. Braun has been an active volunteer for the American Heart Association since 1980 in numerous capacities. Most recently, she served on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association of Metropolitan Chicago, Medical Leadership Committee for Chicago’s Go Red Luncheon, Illinois Advocacy Committee, and is Chairperson of the Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing. Dr. Braun is regular speaker at the AHA Scientific Sessions on topics related to cardiovascular disease prevention. She is a co-author of four AHA/ACC Scientific Statements, the AHA/ACC statement on Performance Measures for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, and 2 AHA clinical practice guidelines. Dr. Braun is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Heart Association, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, the National Lipid Association, and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association.
JANE NELSON-WOREL, MSN, APRN-BC, APNP, FAHA, FPCNA
Jane Nelson Worel MS, APRN-BC, APNP, FAHA, FPCNA is an Adult Nurse Practitioner, currently practicing Internal Medicine/Primary Care in Madison, Wisconsin.
Jane has over ten years of experience in Preventive Cardiology. Areas of clinical interest include women and heart disease and the management of patients with complex dyslipidemia, hypertension and metabolic syndrome. She has spent much of her early career involved in cardiac rehabilitation and health promotion programs in administrative and program development roles. Most recently, Jane helped establish a Women's Heart Care Clinic - whose goal is to assist women in the reduction of cardiovascular risks through lifestyle intervention along with appropriate medical therapies.
In addition to her clinical role Jane serves as a lecturer and clinical preceptor for the University of Wisconsin – Madison, School of Nursing – DNP program.
She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison with both MS and BS degrees in Nursing and an MS in Clinical Exercise Physiology. She has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Heart Association where she currently serves on a leadership committee. She is a Past President and current member of the Board of Directors for the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association.
CINDY LAMENDOLA, MSN, ANP-CP-BC, FAHA, FPCNA
Cindy Lamendola, MSN, ANP-BC, FAHA, FPCNA is a nurse practitioner/clinical research nurse coordinator at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Cardiology in Stanford, California. She received her MSN, from the University of California in San Francisco in 1997. In her current position, Ms. Lamendola's time is divided between clinical research and clinical practice. Her clinical research focus is on insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and its relationship to cardiovascular disease. Her clinical practice is focused on caring for complex patients with type 2 diabetes. Ms. Lamendola has been involved in cardiovascular nursing and primary and secondary prevention most of her career. Previously, she was an associate director/director of a large community cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation program with a focus on risk factor education, lipid management and research. She also developed and managed a lipid clinic in a cardiovascular medical practice. Cindy Lamendola is a founding member, past president and current board member of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. She is also a member and fellow of the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Nursing Council and participated in the American Heart Association Prevention Conference VI: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Writing Group IV: Lifestyle and Medical Management of Risk Factors. She is also a member of the American Diabetes Association.
Ms. Lamendola is past president of the California Society for Cardiac Rehabilitation and is a fellow of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. She currently serves on the review board for the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, and the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. She has spoken nationally on insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, lipid management, and cardiovascular risk factors, and has also published articles in peer-reviewed journals on these subjects. She recently wrote a chapter on Insulin resistance, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, in Cardiac Nursing, a companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease. Moser, D, Riegel B Eds, Saunders, Elesvier Missouri, 463-484. 2008.
JERILYN ALLEN, RN, SCD, FAAN, FPCNA
Jerilyn Allen, RN, ScD, FAAN is, associate dean for research and m. adelaide nutting professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public health. Dr. Allen received a BSN from Pennsylvania State University, a Masters degree from the University of Maryland, and a Doctor of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The contributions of Dr. Allen’s program of research to the understanding of cardiovascular risk factors, prevention, and lifestyle modification in persons with or at high risk for the development of cardiovascular disease is well-recognized and highly regarded in the field of cardiovascular nursing and medicine. She has developed and tested innovative intervention models to advance nursing care such as a program of home-based risk factor modification, a nurse case management system for the treatment of hyperlipidemia, and improving adherence to national guidelines in federally qualified community clinics to reduce total cardiovascular risk in urban underserved communities.
As the principal investigator and co-investigator on multidisciplinary research teams in the medical and public health arenas, she has advocated for the nursing perspective. This has shaped the scope of research questions asked and their relevance to nursing and cardiovascular health. The interdisciplinary nature and findings of the research have made important contributions to the practice of nurses, physicians, and other health care providers who are involved in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Her research is always characterized by its innovation and clinical relevance.
Dr. Allen has presented her work both nationally and internationally and authored many outstanding publications in refereed, peer-reviewed nursing and medical journals. Dr. Allen’s expertise has been sought for formal consultation on numerous research initiatives in the U.S. and abroad, influencing the directions of research, practice and policy. Dr. Allen has served actively as a positive mentor, teaching, guiding, and developing faculty and students in research within the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and other universities nationally and internationally.
JOANNA D. SIKKEMA, DNP, MSN, ANP-BC, FAHA, FPCNA
Joanna Sikkema, DNP, APRN-BC, FAHA, FPCNA is a board certified adult nurse practitioner and faculty at the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies. She has been teaching in the Adult/Gerontology Acute and Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program. Ms. Sikkema is a Fellow of the American Heart Association Council of Cardiovascular Nursing and of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association.
She has served on several national health care advisory boards including the American College of Cardiology CREDO, the American Medical Association PCPI Project in Cardiology and the American Nurses Association Congress of Nursing Practice and Economics. She has authored several publications and chapters in current textbooks and participated in the writing of the recent AHA/ACC Guidelines for the management of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease.
KATHY BERRA, MSN, ANP, FAAN, FPCNA
Kathy Berra graduated from Stanford University and received her Master's and Adult Nurse Practitioner Degree from the University of San Francisco. Her research at the Stanford University School of Medicine has focused on heart disease prevention, women and heart disease, and nurse case management for CVD risk reduction. She is past president of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association where she serves on the Board of Directors and is the president elect. She is active on the American Heart Association and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of WomenHeart – the national coalition of women with heart disease.
Ms. Berra's current research is with the LIFE Study at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. LIFE is evaluating a variety of biophysical and psychosocial responses to physical activity in seniors. She has published extensively in the medical literature, has authored 2 books, and speaks internationally on heart disease related subjects. She was honored as “Clinician of the Year” by the AHA Council on Cardiovascular Nursing in 2009.
CHERYL R. DENNISON HIMMELFARB, RN, ANP, PhD, FAHA, FPCNA, FAAN
Dr. Cheryl R. Dennison Himmelfarb is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Department of Health Systems and Outcomes and School of Medicine Division of Health Sciences Informatics. She is a deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and Director of the ICTR Office of Recruitment and Retention. Dr. Dennison Himmelfarb’s research involves developing and testing interventions to promote self care and reduce cardiovascular risk among high risk populations in the acute care and community settings. She has been an investigator or principal investigator on numerous NIH-funded randomized controlled trials testing interdisciplinary models of care and telehealth-based interventions. She has over 60 publications and has presented on issues in cardiovascular risk management and self care at local, national, and international scientific meetings.
MARY ANN CHAMPAGNE, RN, MSN, FPCNA
Mary Ann Champagne, RN, MSN is a clinical nurse specialist and the nurse coordinator for the Stanford University Medical Center's Preventive Cardiology Clinic. Ms. Champagne received her Bachelor of Science degree from Seattle University and her Master of Science degree with a specialty in adult cardiovascular nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She has spent the majority of her professional career in the area of risk reduction and prevention of cardiovascular disease; starting out in the coronary care unit and moving in to cardiac rehabilitation and then to primary and secondary prevention. She was one of the nurse coordinators in the Stanford Coronary Risk Intervention Project (SCRIP). This was an angiographic regression trial that utilized nurse case managers to implement an aggressive multiple risk factor reduction intervention in patients with coronary artery disease. She has been a medical supervisor in the local cardiac rehabilitation program for over 30 years. She also lectures in subjects related to global cardiovascular risk reduction and disease prevention with an emphasis on dyslipidemia and hypertension. Ms. Champagne is one of the founding board members of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. She served as president of PCNA for two terms and has also been co-chair for the annual symposium. She continues to serve on the Board of PCNA and has been involved in a variety of activities, including serving as chief editor of “A Pocket Guide: National Guidelines and Tools for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction.” Ms. Champagne has been a member of the Cardiovascular Nursing Council of the American Heart Association (AHA) since mid 1980’s. She has supported many of the local, state and national AHA initiatives. In November 2004, she was designated as a Fellow in the AHA.
LOLA A. COKE, PHD, ACNS-BC, RN-BC, FAHA, FPCNA
Dr. Lola Coke is an assistant professor in Adult Health and Gerontological Nursing at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Coke has worked as a cardiovascular nurse for 30 years; 15 as a cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist. Her acute care experience ranges from intermediate cardiac critical care to care of post open heart and peripheral vascular surgery patients. Her research area of interest includes the impact of resistance training on household physical activities and quality of life in women experiencing cardiac events. She was awarded an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship in 2001 and developed a “Healthy Heart” program for underserved African American women, continuing the program for two years, and currently serves on the Advisory Council for the program. In 2006 she received the “Martha Hill New Investigator” Award from the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, American Heart Association for her resistance training research. In addition, Dr. Coke recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biobehavioral Health Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Coke is certified in Motivational Interviewing and conducts workshops and webinars in MI. Dr. Coke is a member of the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, serves as co-web editor for the Council website and serves on the membership committee. Dr. Coke is also a member of AACVPR and ACSM. Besides her program of research, Dr. Coke’s passion is to develop culturally sensitive, literacy appropriate materials to teach underserved populations about cardiovascular risk factor reduction and to develop creative and effective methods to begin educating patients in the acute care setting.
BARBARA FLETCHER, RN, MSN, FAAN, FPCNA
Barbara Johnston Fletcher, RN, MSN, FPCNA, FAAN is currently Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, College of Health, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. As a clinician and researcher in the field of cardiovascular nursing, she has conducted seminal studies on activity for cardiac patients, which evolved into a steady trajectory of scholarly inquiry into exercise behaviors and outcomes for different patient populations. She has led multidisciplinary research projects as a co-principal investigator of federally funded studies addressing cardiovascular risk factors.
Barbara has consistently disseminated her expertise and research through more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books,. She is a founding board member of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association and has supported nursing education and leadership for many years. Her leadership in the American Heart Association's Council on Cardiovascular Nursing led directly to innovative health policy activities, increased visibility for nursing science, and expanded the scope of nursing's influence in important patient care and research issues. Her innovative and creative contributions to nursing, health care, and the public are exemplary.
She is one of the founding members of “Us”, a University of North Florida, College of Health program addressing women and girls’ health in the greater Jacksonville area.
LAURA L. HAYMAN, PHD, MSN, FAAN, FPCNA
Dr. Laura L. Hayman, PhD, MSN, FAAN, FPCNA is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Nursing in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS) and Associate Vice-Provost for Research at UMass Boston.
Dr. Hayman earned her BSN, MSN, and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. Her program of research and scholarship has focused on primary prevention of obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in children, adolescents and families from diverse populations. Her current interdisciplinary projects combine clinical and community-based approaches designed to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors and reduce risk for obesity and cardiometabolic disease in school-aged children and adolescents and community-based research designed to reduce health disparities and promote health equity.
Dr. Hayman has served on numerous national and international interdisciplinary advisory and expert panels relevant to primary prevention of obesity and CVD in childhood and adolescence. Dr. Hayman serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, and MCN: The American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing. She is a past president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) and a member of the Society's Health Policy Committee.
Dr. Hayman has also served in leadership roles in the American Heart Association (AHA); currently, she is a member of the Committee on Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Obesity in the Young and the Leadership Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. She holds fellowships in SBM, AHA, the American Academy of Nursing, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and PCNA. She has been a member of the PCNA Board of Directors since 1997, served as president, 2006-2007, and currently chairs the International Committee.
NANCY HOUSTON MILLER, RN, BSN, FAHA, FPCNA
Nancy Houston Miller, RN, BSN, FAHA, FPCNA, is the associate director of the Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program and adjunct clinical assistant professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She attended the University of Washington School of Nursing where she obtained her BSN. Her fellowships include the American Heart Association’s Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. Ms. Houston Miller has been the director of many major clinical research trials in cardiology prevention and rehabilitation. She is also one of the developers of the MULTIFIT nurse care management program for patients with chronic disease including hypertension, diabetes, CAD, and heart failure. She is a past chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Affiliate of the American Heart Association, and has served on the national board of directors. Ms. Houston Miller is one of the founders of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association and is a past president. In 2000, she received the Award of Meritorious Achievement from the American Heart Association for her work in secondary prevention, and the Award of Excellence from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation for her contributions to cardiac rehabilitation. The author of over 150 publications including both journal articles and book chapters, she also serves on editorial boards and speaks both nationally and internationally on topics of prevention and rehabilitation.
JANET B. LONG, MSN, ACNP, CLS, FAHA, FPCNA, FNLA
Janet Long earned a MSN in the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program from the University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Nursing in Worcester. She practices as a cardiology nurse practitioner at The Cardiovascular Institute Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals where she manages general cardiology patients as well as serves as the co-director of the Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program.
She is a past president of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA) where she continues to serve on the board of directors. She is also a past member of the board of directors for the National Lipid Association (NLA), the Northeast Lipid Association (NELA) and the Accreditation Council for Clinical Lipidology (ACCL). She is a member on the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Nursing Education Committee and the ACC Core Curriculum Education Committee, where she is a faculty member. She is a fellow in the American Heart Association, National Lipid Association, and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association and a Diplomate of the Council of Clinical Lipidology.
