Marilyn Chow, DNSc, RN, FAAN, vice president for national patient care services at Kaiser Permanente, will visit the School of Nursing in February as the 2010 Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholar.
Each year, the School invites a scholar from an ethnic or minority group to discuss a pressing issue facing healthcare and/or nursing. The goal of the program is to promote the inclusive exchange of ideas between scholar, faculty, students, School of Nursing fellows, the University and the surrounding community.
Marilyn Chow, DNSc, RN, FAAN, vice president for patient care services at Kaiser Permanente, is the School of Nursing 2010 Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholar.
On. Feb. 22, Chow will present a lecture entitled, “Designing the Future of Acute Care Models.” She will speak in the Fox Auditorium in the School of Nursing at 3 p.m. Her lecture is free and open to the public. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Jill Summers, jcsummer@email.unc.edu.
Chow is recognized for her expertise in leadership, innovation, regulation of nursing practice, work force policy and primary care. Her career has focused on promoting the role of nurses in primary care, advanced practice and hospital-based care. She has co-authored four books, including the award-winning Handbook of Pediatric Primary Care.
She is co-principal investigator for the national study, How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend Their Time. She has received several awards, including Women’s Honors in Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing Distinguished Alumni Award. She was recently selected as one of the distinguished 100 graduates and faculty of the UCSF School of Nursing for the Centennial Hall of Fame.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 4:57 pm
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