Alumni Awards
November 6, 2012
Alumni Awards/Reception
Consider nominating a colleague, friend, fellow alum for an Alumni Award - nominations due October 12 and will be presented November 6 at the Nursing Convocation followed by a reception. (Nomination form and award criteria)
UWM Alumni Association Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD)
2012 Kristin Haglund, PhD, 2002
2011 Mary Jo Baisch, PhD, 2006
2010 Beth Peterman MS, 2000, BS, 1974
2009 Darin C. Roark BS, 1999
2008 Aaron Buseh, PhD, 2001
2007 Nancy Kreuser, PhD, 1998
2006 Gwendolyn M. Perry-Brye, MS, 1998
College of Nursing Alumni Awards
2011
Presented at the November Convocation
Alumna of the Year
Michele S. Malin, RN, PhD
Advocate BroMenn Endowed Professor
Illinois State University, Mennonite College of Nursing, Normal, Il.
(with College of Nursing Dean Sally Lundeen and Alumni Chapter President Mary Hook)
Norma M. Lang Leadership Award
Laura J. Burke, RN, PhD, FAAN
Director of the System Nursing Research Department and Knowledge-Based Nursing Initiative (KBNI) Team Leader- Aurora Health Care
(with Alumni Chapter President Mary Hook)
Rising Star Awards
Kathleen Montgomery, MS, RN, PCNS-BC, CPHON
Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist- Hematology/Oncology/Transplant Unit- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
(pictured with Dean Lundeen, Mary Hook)
Sarah Tybring, RN, BSN
Orthopedic/EENT/Medical Unit Staff Nurse- Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
UWM College of Nursing 45th Anniversary Celebration
October 2, 2010
(Carolyn Krause, Eugenie Hildebrandt, Jacquline O'Connell)
Alumna of the Year
Jacquline O'Connell, MS, RN (1994)
Academic Affairs Coordinator, UW-Milwaukee College of Nursing
Carolyn R. Krause, PhD, RN (1986)
President, Wisconsin Nurses Association
Director of Patient Care System Support, Meriter Hospital, Madison, WI
Ellen K. Murphy Public Policy Award
Eugenie Hildebrandt, PhD, RN, ANP
Associate Professor, UW-Milwaukee College of Nursing
2009
1979 Alum
(l-r Boll, McManus, Kreuser, Nesbitt- Not pictured: M. Joyce)
Alumna of the Year
Patricia McManus, PhD, MS (1981), RN
Founder, Executive Director- Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin
Norma M. Lang Leadership Award
Bonnie J. Nesbitt, PhD (1995), RN
Professor, Viterbo University School of Nursing, La Crosse, WI
Ellen K. Murphy Public Policy Award
Nancy Kreuser, PhD (1998), RN
Health Officer, Wauwatosa Health Department
Rising Star Awards
Andrea Boll, BS, RN (2005)
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin- Pediatric ICU (Cardiac)
Martha Joyce, BS, RN (2006)
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin- acute care infant unit
2008
Norma M. Lang Leadership Award
Mary Jo Baisch, PhD (2006)
Assistant Professor at UW-Milwaukee
Ellen K. Murphy Public Policy Award
Gina Dennik-Champion, BS (1977), MS (1982)
Executive Director of the Wisconsin Nurses Association
Rising Star Awards
Tina Curtis, BS (2004)
Clinical leader in the Emergency Department and Level 1 Trauma Center at Froedtert Hospital
Amy Storm, BS (2003)
Surgical Unit Staff Nurse at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
