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October 2010
Shalala Delivers 2010 Littlefield Leadership Lecture
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing presents the 11th Annual Littlefield Leadership Lecture with keynote speaker Donna Shalala on Friday, October 15, 2010.
The Morning Lecture
The lecture will be held in the Wisconsin Union Theater at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Doors open at 8:00 a.m. and the program will begin at 9:00 a.m.
Unfortunately, tickets for the lecture are no longer available.
The Afternoon Program
After lunch, the program will focus on preparing a response which examines The Future of Nursing report's implications for Wisconsin.
If you are interested in attending the luncheon and/or afternoon program following the lecture, you must pre-register with the UW Foundation. To register, contact Coleen Southwell via email at: coleen.southwell@supportuw.org.
The Future of Nursing
Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami and former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present highlights from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine.
Shalala serves as co-chair of this initiative, which was organized in response to a continuing nursing shortage, limited educational opportunities for nursing and rapidly changing technology.
The initiative's recommendations were released on October 5, 2010 in the report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health available at: http://www.iom.edu/nursing. The recommendations include new ways to recruit, educate and retain nurses; to deliver nursing in a variety of settings; and to address nursing's role in the health care workforce.
More information about the Initiative on the Future of Nursing can be found at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Web site: http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=44748
The session will include a response panel with key leaders in health care education and practice. The panelists are:
- Katharyn May, Dean, UW-Madison School of Nursing
- Carolyn Krause, President, Wisconsin Nurses Association
- Richard Sinaiko, founder and CEO, Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting
Implications for Nursing in Wisconsin
Responses from the afternoon sessions will be used to craft a state of Wisconsin Leadership Response to the Future of Nursing report. Highlights will be published in the November issue of Nursingmatters.
Tentative topics for discussion tables include:
- the impact of technology on caring and clinical practice;
- clinical practices informing nursing education;
- increasing the capacity of nurses who are prepared in evidence-based practice; and
- innovations in nursing care delivery.
Speaker Bios
Donna Shalala, PhD, president of the University of Miami, co-chairs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Institute of Medicine Initiative on the Future of Nursing. She has more than 25 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher and administrator and has served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 1992, BusinessWeek named her one of the top five managers in higher education.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Her eight-year tenure made her the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history. She managed a nearly $600 billion budget, which included programs ranging from Social Security to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Shalala has more than three dozen honorary degrees and a host of other honors, including the Medal of Freedom presented by President George W. Bush in 2008.
Carolyn Krause, PhD, RN, president of the Wisconsin Nurses Association, is director of patient care system support at Meriter Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. She has held leadership positions in home health and acute care and has served as executive director for the Wisconsin Center for Nursing. She earned her BS and her PhD from the UW-Madison and has published several journal articles about how technology will impact nursing.
Katharyn May, DNSc, RN, FAAN, dean of the School of Nursing, joined the UW-Madison faculty in 2001 after serving as professor and director of the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and as president of the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing. She also held faculty and administrative posts at the University of California, San Francisco and Vanderbilt University. She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and serves on a major hospital board in the midwest.
Richard Sinaiko, MPH, founder and chief executive officer of Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting, Inc., has helped many clients address the complexities of the changing health-care market. He has held senior-level management positions in both academic and for-profit hospital settings, as well as group private practices and managed care organizations. His 35 years of management experience took him to the UCLA Medical Center, the Academic Medical Center Division of American Medical International and the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He earned his bachelor's degree in political science from the UW-Madison.
The Littlefield Leadership Lecture honors Vivian Littlefield, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and dean of the UW-Madison School of Nursing from 1984-1999.