Jillian Lucas Baker, DRPH,assistant professor of public health has been featured as an emerging scholar for 2014 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education Magazine. Baker is being recognized for her groundbreaking research on HIV/AIDS. Click here to view the article.

Baker has also been recognized by her alma mater, Drexel University as a “40 under 40” alumnus to watch. The program recognizes outstanding young alumni who are making a mark in their profession and community.

Students in La Salle’s Nutrition Coordinated Program achieved a 100 percent pass rate on the national exam. Likewise, La Salle’s nurse anesthesia students achieved a 100 percent pass rate on the national certification exam.

Diane Breckenridge, Ph.D., MSN, RN, ANEF, associate professor and Director of Nursing Workforce, Strategies for Success, recently presented at numerous conferences and meetings.

“Theory-Guided Evidence-Based Education Framework: Strategies for Success,” a poster, was presented at the Professional Nursing Educators Group 40th Annual National Conference in Kansas City, M.O. She was also an invited presenter on the same topic at Gywnedd-Mercy University in Gwynedd, Pa. and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Newtown, Pa.

Breckenridge served as a delegate to Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing’s 42nd Biennial Convention in Indianapolis. She is president-elect of the Xi Chapter from University of Pennsylvania and a joint member to La Salle’s Kappa Delta Chapter.

Zupenda Davis, DRPH, MPH, MCHES, assistant professor of public health and Director of the bachelor’s program in public health, recently received a Red Ribbon Award for policy makers, researchers or community leaders who have made significant contributions to the fight against AIDS.

Zane Robinson Wolf, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Nursing, and Denise Bailey, Ed.D., MSN, RN, CSN, assistant professor of nursing and Director of La Salle’s Neighborhood Nursing Center, had their article, “Paterson and Zderad’s Humanistic Nursing Theory: Concepts and Applications,” published in the International Journal of Human Caring, 17, 60-69.

Jule Anne Henstenburg, MS, RD, LDN, Director of the Nutrition Program, was voted the president-elect of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Society for Nutrition Education, the Philadelphia chapter of the national Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior.

Lisa Laura, JD, RN, LDN, assistant professor of nutrition recently spoke at the Philadelphia Society for Parental Enteral Nutrition’s fall meeting. She led two roundtable discussions on running a private practice. Two nutrition students, Natalie Gibson and Jacqueline Cost, also attended the meeting.

Elizabeth Emery, MS, RD, CNSC, LDN, spoke to a group of second-year medical students at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University on maldigestion and malabsorption in gatrointestinal disease.

Susan Adams, MS, RD, LDN, assistant professor of nutrition presented at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Food and Nutrition Conference and Exposition on October 22, 1013 in Houston, Texas. She was an invited speaker and presented her research on “Millennials Dietitians and Students” Breaking Through Stereotypes.” She also served as a delegate for Pennsylvania at the meeting. She also served as a panelist on a discussion of the film, “A Place at the Table,” a documentary on food insecurity.

Megan Hanna, a junior nursing major, sang the national anthem at a recent La Salle men’s basketball game, which was nationally televised on ESPN2. Hanna, from Jackson, N.J., is the treasurer of La Salle’s Resident Student Association Executive Board, a member of Epsilon Sigma Alpha, SNAP, National Residency Hall Honorary, Chapel Choir.

Mary Wilby, Ph.D., MSN, RN, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled, “Among the Missing: The Experiences of Vietnamese American Nursing Students.” Wilby is earning her Ph.D in Interdisciplinary Studies from Union Institute and University in Cincinnati.