BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF PANEL MEMBERS 

JAN R. ATWOOD, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. Atwood is Professor in two departments in the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: the Curriculum in Public Nursing, and Health Behavior/Health Education. At the university, she is also a member of the Lineberger Cancer Research Center and a research associate in the Cecil B. Sheps Health Services Research Center. Formerly, Dr. Atwood served as Behavioral Sciences Coordinator, Cancer Prevention and Control, Arizona Cancer Center; as a community health faculty member at the Univer- sity of Arizona and the University of Michigan; and as Director of a pre- and postdoctoral training program for instrument development. Dr. Atwood also has served as a consultant in Asia on community health for the World Health Organization and as a rural public health nurse in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dr. Atwood holds NIH grants for studying cancer prevention among minority populations and nutri- tion-based interventions to decrease cholesterol in rural populations. Her publications in nursing and interdisciplinary journals address cancer prevention, adherence, instrument, and nursing systems re- search. Dr. Atwood is on the editorial board of U.S. and international nursing journals and has served on a number of grant review panels for the NIH and other organizations. 

RAYMOND T. COWARD, PhD, MSW 

Dr. Coward is Director of the University of Florida's Center on Rural Health and Aging, Associate Director of the Institute for Health Policy Research, and Professor of Medicine and Sociology. Dr. Coward's primary research interest is rural health services, with emphasis on programs for older persons. He is the principal investigator of two NIH research grants and co-principal investigator of a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to establish the Florida Rural Health Research Center. Dr. Coward was the founding editor of The Journal of Rural Health and serves on the editorial boards of The Gerontologist and the Journal of Applied Gerontology. He is the author or editor of 12 books and mono- graphs, including Health Services for Rural Elders, published in 1994. Dr. Coward has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Researcher Award (1993) and President's Award (1991) from the National Rural Health Association; Distinguished Alumni award from Purdue University (1991); and Distinguished Research Award from the American Rural Health Association (1981). In 1989, Dr. Coward was named the University of Vermont's 1989 University Scholar in the Social Sciences. 

SANDRA L. FERKETICH, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. Ferketich is Professor and Director of the Division of Family and Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Arizona. Previously, she was on the faculty at the School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ferketich holds an NIH/NINR grant to study the effectiveness of nursing care for homeless individuals with mycobacterium tuberculosis. Another study, of the effectiveness of a multilevel nursing practice model for rural Hispanics, is funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). Dr. Ferketich also serves as project director for an NIH pre- and postdoctoral training grant for instrument development. She has served as a study section reviewer for the NIH and AHCPR and as a study section member for the NIH. Dr. Ferketich is on the editorial board for Journal of Nursing Measurement and Research in Nursing and Health; for the latter, she also is editor of the column, "Focus on Psychometrics." Her publications address family members' response to the stress of high-risk pregnancy and childbirth, community-based nursing interventions especially with respect to Hispanic rural populations, model building, and instrument development. 

BARBARA A. GIVEN, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. Given is Professor and Director of the Center for Nursing Research, College of Nursing, and Associate Director, Cancer Center, Michigan State University. She has been involved in community-based research since 1978, focusing primarily on elders and adults with chronic illness. Dr. Given has received research grants from several NIH components and other organizations to support nursing intervention research for continuing cancer care in rural areas. Her research is focused on formal and informal patterns of care for client and family members, including utilization of services and the costs of supportive and continuing formal and informal care. Dr. Given has published the results of her research in various interdisciplinary and nursing journals. As a member of the Oncology Nursing Society research group, she also has been active in influencing state-level policies and priority funding areas for aging. She has served as a grant reviewer for several NIH components and is a member of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Study Section on Dissemination. She serves as a reviewer for numerous professional journals. At Michigan State University, she also serves as a member of the Research Center, College of Nursing. In recent awards, she has been named the American Nurses Foundation Distinguished Researcher (1994) and the Oncology Nursing Society Distinguished Researcher (1995). 

MARK C. HORNBROOK, PhD 

Dr. Hornbrook is a Senior Investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (CHR) and is Program Director of CHR's Health Services, Social, and Economic Studies. He also holds an academic appointment as Professor, Community Health Care Systems Department, School of Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University, where he teaches health economics and cost-benefit analysis in the graduate programs. Dr. Hornbrook's research on aging includes two randomized controlled trials of exercise and environmental interventions to reduce falls and injuries among elderly persons. He has recently completed a cost-effectiveness analysis of a health maintenance organization (HMO)-based enhanced home health intervention for frail elderly patients and their caregivers. His research has been focused on developing new primary care models in HMOs to meet the needs of frail members. He has also studied the utilization and health status effects of reductions in drug benefits to Medicare beneficiaries in HMOs. Dr. Hornbrook is a nationally recognized expert in medical risk-assessment and case-mix models and their application to resource allocation and payment systems. Dr. Hornbrook serves on the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Scientific Review and Evaluation Board which reviews investigator-initiated research. 

GERRI LAMB, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. Lamb is Director, Carondelet Community Nursing Organization, Carondelet Health Network, Tucson, Arizona, and an adjunct faculty member at the College of Nursing, University of Arizona. She is currently serving as Site Director for Carondelet's Community Nursing Organization, a 3-year demonstration project sponsored by the Health Care Financing Administration. The purpose of this project is to develop a new capitated system of community and ambulatory care for Medicare beneficiaries. Previously, Dr. Lamb served as Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester and the University of Arizona for graduate-level and post-master's degree nurse practitioner programs. Dr. Lamb is a well-known speaker on nurse case management, presenting numerous national and international speeches on this topic. She also has published several articles on nurse case management and community-based nursing models. Dr. Lamb's research is focused on collaborative decision making of nurse practitioners and the process and outcomes of nurse case management with high-risk populations. 

JOANNE LUKOMNIK, MD, MPH 

Dr. Lukomnik is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University School of Public Health. She also serves as a Consultant to the Bureau of Primary Health Care, U.S. Public Health Service (PHS). As a member of the National Health Care Reform Task Force, Dr. Lukomnik chaired the subgroup on Prevention and Public Health and was a member of the group which examined the needs of low-income, under- served, and vulnerable populations. She has served as a physician in health centers in South Bronx and East Harlem, New York; as Chief Medical Officer for the National Health Service Corps and the Community and Migrant Health Center programs; as Medical Director of the Jersey City Medical Center's ambulatory care programs; and as Medical Director/Executive Director of the Comprehensive Family Care Center, Einstein Medical School. Dr. Lukomnik has initiated school-based health clinics, health care programs for homeless persons, primary care programs for substance abusers, pediatric AIDS treatment and HIV prevention programs, and Stay Well programs for elderly persons. She has taught at the Medical School, City University of New York, and at Einstein Medical College. Dr. Lukomnik also has served on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Access and on a number of PHS advisory committees. In her research and writing, she has focused on access to care, the need for preventive and primary care services, special populations, small area analysis, and community and migrant health centers. On the faculty at Columbia University School of Public Health, she is designing and evaluating initiatives to increase primary and preventive care services for low-income and vulnerable populations. Dr. Lukomnik is a member of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. 

SALLY L. LUSK, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. Lusk is Professor, Community Health Nursing, and Director, Occupational Health Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Michigan. The Occupational Health Nursing program is a master's degree program within the Educational Resource Center supported at the University by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Dr. Lusk has served as Director of this program since its inception in 1987. Her own research is focused on workers' use of personal protective equipment. Through projects funded by the NIH and NIOSH, Dr. Lusk is identifying the predictors of workers' use of hearing protection equipment and developing and testing interventions to increase use of this equipment. With support from the United Auto Workers-General Motors National Joint Committee on Health, she is also conducting a study to identify nonauditory effects of noise. Published articles address the role of the occupational health nurse, testing of the Health Promotion Model, and factors influencing workers' use of hearing protection. Dr. Lusk is a member of the Board of Directors, Midwest Nursing Research Society, and chaired the Society's 1994 program. She participated in NINR's second conference on research priorities for nursing research. Dr. Lusk has served on NIH grant review panels, serves on the editorial board of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal, and is a reviewer for several other journals. 

JOAN K. (KATHY) MAGILVY, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. Magilvy is Associate Professor, School of Nursing, and Program Director of the Ph.D. Program in Nursing, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver. She teaches community health nursing, gerontology, and qualitative research methods. Dr. Magilvy also is principal investigator of an NIH-supported research project on health care transitions for rural older adults. This project is an ethnographic, community-based study conducted in 13 rural Colorado counties. With Federal and other support, Dr. Magilvy has completed additional research studies focused on home health care, discharge planning, and rural health. Her research interests include persons living with chronic illness and disabilities, community analysis and planning, and delivery of community-based nursing and health care. Dr. Magilvy has presented her research results at national and international meetings; published in major nursing, gerontology, and public health journals; and participated in two recent invitational conferences on long-term care and rural health policy for older adults. She also consults on qualitative research methods, home care, health of rural elders, and community analysis research. Dr. Magilvy is a member of NINR's Nursing Research Review Panel. 

BEVERLY J. McELMURRY, EdD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. McElmurry is Professor, Public Health Nursing, and Associate Dean, Office of International Studies, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition, she directs the College's World Health Organization Collaborating Center for International Nursing Development of Primary Health Care. She also directs pre- and postdoctoral training programs in primary health care research, supported by the NIH. Besides primary health care, Dr. McElmurry's research and academic interests have focused on graduate education in nursing, nursing ethics, and women's health. With funding from public and private sources, she has collaborated with others in developing community-based, primary health care demonstration projects on a range of topics. Subjects include community health advocate and nurse teams in health and development activities; university and community health partnerships; "grass-roots" participation in social policy; school-based, interdisciplinary health care teams for grades K through 8 in inner-city schools; peer education for AIDS prevention in Botswana; leadership development; outreach to newly legalized Hispanic families through nurse/advocate teams; health literacy skills of inner-city residents; and primary health care curricula for grades K through 12. Dr. McElmurry has presented her research findings in a variety of publications. Her recent publications include edited books on global challenges to women's health and development and an annual review of women's health. Dr. McElmurry participated in NINR's first conference on research priorities for nursing research. She is a past recipient of the Distinguished Researcher's Award of the Midwest Nursing Research Society. 

FRANCES MUNET-VILAR , PhD, RN 

Dr. Munet-Vilar¢ is Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, San Jos‚ State University, California. A native of Puerto Rico, she has focused on research on Latinos. Specific areas of interest include coping and adaptation of Latino families that have a child with cancer, immune responses and psychobehavioral responses of mothers caring for a child newly diagnosed with cancer, caregiver burdens of Latinos caring for a family member with AIDS, and the quality of care of AIDS patients. This research has been supported by Federal and other sources. Dr. Munet-Vilar¢ consults nationally and internationally on the care of oncology patients and on strategies of conducting research and implementing health programs with Latinos. She received an Ethnic Minority Fellowship from the American Nurses Association and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Research Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Munet-Vilar¢ is a member of the Oncology Nursing Society, Sigma Theta Tau, and the National Hispanic Nurses Association. 

GERALDINE PADILLA, PhD 

Dr. Padilla is Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Nursing, University of California at Los Angeles. Previously, she was a Research Scientist and Director of Nursing Research at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. Dr. Padilla has focused her research on hospital-to-home transition systems of care; the complexity of home care problems and nursing interventions; and the effects of disease, treatment, and delivery of care factors on the health-related quality of life of persons with chronic illness. She is particularly interested in addressing these issues with persons of Hispanic or Asian/Pacific Islander background who have cancer or arthritis. Her current research is supported by several NIH components. 

CYNTHIA C. SCALZI, PhD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. Scalzi is Associate Professor and Director of Nursing Administration Programs at the School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She also serves as Associate Professor in the Health Care Department at the Wharton School and as Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. As Director of the Nursing Administration Program and the Dual Degree (MSN/MBA), Dr. Scalzi prepares nurses to manage the delivery of health care services in a variety of settings, including acute care, long-term care, home care, occupational health, and community-based practice settings. She also serves on the university's steering committee for Academic Nursing Practices, which oversees a wide range of community-based nursing services. Dr. Scalzi's research involves examination of the factors influencing periods of growth and decline in the home care industry during 1980 90. She has presented her research findings at national meetings and has published in major nursing, home care, and public health journals. In a current study, she is examining the impact of managed care on the home health industry and the consequences for populations' access to care. 

LINDA THOMPSON, DrPH, RN 

Dr. Thompson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore. She also serves as Associate Faculty, Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Thompson has been the principal investigator on several community-based research or demonstration programs funded by public and private sources to improve the health of women and children. Through these programs, she has examined such areas as problem behaviors in adolescents, use of neighborhood health advocates, and control of intentional injuries among adolescent males. Her research on the health needs of incarcerated children resulted in publication of a book entitled Hard Time Healing Hands: Developing Primary Health Care Services for Incarcerated Youth. This book received an honorable mention in the Distinguished Service Award category from Washington Edpress for outstanding treatment of a major public concern. Dr. Thompson is currently conducting research on reducing infant mortality through the use of perinatal nurse supplementation in the home. She has served on research and demonstration grant application review groups for the NIH and the Health Resources and Services Administration. 

TONY WHITEHEAD, PhD 

Dr. Whitehead is Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park. He also is founder and Director of the Cultural Systems Analysis Group, a research and technical assistance unit at the university which specializes in qualitative and community action research. Formerly, Dr. Whitehead was on the faculty of the Department of Health Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he founded and directed the Department's Rural and Cross-Cultural Health Group. He also received a National Research Council's Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship to study food and culture in France and a Young Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study food and hypertension in rural North Carolina. With other public and private support, Dr. Whitehead has conducted research in the United States and abroad on a range of rural and urban community health topics. These include food and culture in the South, urban community development, inner-city ministers' perceptions of community health needs, men and family planning, village health committees in Africa, development of a country's nutritionists, communication breakdowns between rural health providers and their clients, health and education programs for adolescent girls, basic and evaluation research related to AIDS, and ethnographic research on African Americans with HIV infection. As a co-investigator on multidisciplinary research teams, Dr. Whitehead has brought his anthropological expertise to studies of childhood risks in an urban community, childhood immunization, drug trafficking, arthritis in rural communities, cardiovascular disease, and men and family planning. He has published more than 30 scientific articles and book chapters on his varied research interests. He is presently writing his third book for the University of Illinois Press. 

CLARANN WEINERT, S.C., PhD, RN, FAAN 

Dr. Weinert is Associate Professor of Nursing, College of Nursing, Montana State University. With NIH support, she is conducting a national study of the impact of multiple sclerosis on individuals and their families, focusing especially on rural and urban differences. In another NIH-funded study, she is examining the transition to menopause for women with long-term illness. Her research on the barriers and incentives to the use of Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs for rural residents is supported by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). Dr. Weinert is the chairperson of the American Nurses Association Rural Health Task Force and serves on AHCPR's Health Services Research Study Section. She has published in several areas, including social support, instrument development and psychometric testing, home care needs of rural cancer patients, family adaptation to long-term illness, rural health, and rural nursing theory.