Problem Solving for Better Health: A Global Perspective

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Barry H. Smith MD (Cornell '72) PhD (MIT '68) is Director of The Rogosin Institute. He is Professor of Clinical Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and Attending Physician at the New York Presbyterian Weill-Cornell Medical Center. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD MBA RN FAAN is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OH where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also Professor Department of Geriatrics Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York NY. In 1990 Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate Doctor of Humane Letters from her alma mater Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate Doctor of Humane Letters from the Frontier University of Nursing. She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series vols. 1-26; she edits the journals Applied Nursing Research Archives in Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Education Perspectives the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR) and a series of nursing research digests Pamela Hoyt-Hudson BSN RN (Georgetown '86) has directed the global nursing program at the Dreyfus Health Foundation of The Rogosin Institute for the past eight years.