Annie Rohan, winner of the Ada Munch/Columbia University Award is using her scholarship to expand her pre-dissertation education at Columbia University School of Nursing while working on a project evaluating the assessment of pain in premature, ventilated infants. This native New Yorker has three children and has worked as Neonatal Nurse Practitioner at Stony Brook Hospital. She was responsible for a three part series “Evaluation of Hypoxia in the Term Newborn Infant”, which received the “Best Practice” award for 2009 from MCN-The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. She was the first Nurse Practitioner to earn admitting privileges at the Schneider Children’s Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical Center and received staff privileges at Winthrop University Hospital North Shore University Hospital among many other community hospitals.
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