The College of Nursing and the Alumni Association will host their annual Research Day and Alumna of the Year Celebration on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 from 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. at the Community Arts Auditorium and the Cohn Building. The keynote speaker is Dr. Frances Marcus Lewis, a professor in the Department of Family and Child Nursing at the University of Washington and the recipient of the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professorship. Her research activities focus on the processes by which life-threatening chronic illness impacts the family, including school-age and adolescent children.  The clinical prototype of greatest interest is maternal breast cancer.

Dr. Lewis is a noted evaluation methodologist and an expert in health behavior theory. She is currently serving as a technical consultant in the Ukraine for training physicians and nurses and for behavioral interventions for women with breast cancer.

Carol E. Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN, a 1976 MSN graduate of the College of Nursing, will be honored as 2012 Alumna of the Year. (See the separate story at wayne.nursing.edu.)  

Following presentations by Dr. Lewis and Dr. Smith, a poster session featuring Wayne State University College of Nursing faculty members, students and members of the local nursing community will be held at the College of Nursing’s Cohn Building. Light refreshments will be served.  

Additional information about Research Day is available by calling the Center for Health Research at (313) 557-4135.  Register at: events.wayne.edu/rsvp/con-research-day-2012/.  Complimentary light refreshments will be served.