Cianelli is a bilingual and bicultural Hispanic nurse scientist with expertise in health disparities, HIV prevention, culturally tailored interventions, women’s health, and global health. She is currently an investigator on the UM SONHS’ National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities-funded Center of Excellence for Health Disparities Research: El Centro and co-principal investigator on an HIV prevention intervention for Hispanic women. El Centro’s mission is to advance the scientific development of interventions to improve the health of groups who experience health disparities.
Since 1998, the Executive Nurse Fellows (ENF) program strengthens the leadership capacities of nurses who aspire to shape health care in their communities, states and nationally. The program will provide Cianelli and her colleagues with coaching, education, and other support to strengthen their abilities to lead teams and organizations working to improve health and health care. The ENF program is located at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), and co-directed by Linda Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean emerita and professor at the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and David Altman, PhD, executive vice president and managing director at CCL.
“At this moment, when the role of nurses in providing care and promoting health is expanding and our country’s health care system is being transformed, we need nurse leaders with the strongest skills possible,” Cronenwett said. “The RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows program is enhancing the leadership skills of talented nurses all across the country. Our alumni are a virtual ‘Who’s Who’ of accomplished, prestigious nurses, and we know that Dr. Cianelli and the other members of the 2014 RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows cohort will do a tremendous amount to improve health care and build a culture of health in the United States.”
"It is a privilege to be designated an RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow,” said Cianelli. “The program represents a challenge and an opportunity to re-frame my leadership style paradigm. I look forward to utilizing the skills gained from this experience to contribute to the nursing profession.”
Executive Nurse Fellows hold senior leadership positions in health services, scientific and academic organizations, public health and community-based organizations or systems, and professional, governmental, and policy organizations. They continue in their current positions during their fellowships, and each develops, plans, and implements a new initiative to improve health care delivery in her or his community.
The full list of 2014 RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows—selected from more than 100 applicants—follows:
Jeffrey Adams, PhD, RN, director, Center for Innovations in Care Delivery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;
Aara Amidi-Nouri, PhD, RN, associate professor, chair of the BSN program, and director of diversity, Samuel Merritt University School of Nursing, Oakland, California;
Debra Arnow, DNP, RN, NE-BC, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska;
Debbie Bryant, DNP, RN, director of partnerships for healthcare quality research at Medical University of South Carolina and director of outreach and community relations at Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina;
Rosina Cianelli, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, associate professor, School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida;
Bonnie Clipper, DNP, MA, MBA, vice president and chief nursing officer, Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland, Colorado;
Amy Cotton, MSN, FNP-BC, FAAN, director of operations and senior service quality, Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, Bangor, Maine;
Malia Davis, MSN, RN, director of nursing and clinical team development, Clinica Family Health Services, Lafayette, Colorado;
Joy Deupree, PhD, MSN, WHNP-BC, assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, senior advisor for policy for the Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama;
Jeffrey Doucette, DNP, RN, CEN, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer, Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital, Newport News, Virginia;
Kate FitzPatrick, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, nursing clinical director, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Rebecca Freeman, PhD, RN, PMP, chief nursing information officer and manager of nursing informatics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina;
Jill Goldstein, RN, MA, MS, vice president, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, New York;
Darcy Jaffe, MN, ARNP, NE-BC, chief nursing officer and senior associate administrator, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medicine, Seattle, Washington;
Kathleen Johnson, DNP, RN-BC, NCSN, manager of student health services, Seattle Public Schools, Seattle, Washington;
Suzanne Miyamoto, PhD, RN, director of government affairs and health policy, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, District of Columbia;
Teri Pipe, PhD, RN, dean, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona;
Casey Shillam, PhD, RN-BC, associate professor and nursing program director, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington;
Elizabeth Stambolis, BSN, MS, CPNP, director of pediatric and adolescent medicine, Health Care for the Homeless, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland; and
Tami Wyatt¸ PhD, RN, CNE, associate professor, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee.
The fellowship is supported through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
For more information about the RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows program visit: www.ExecutiveNurseFellows.org.
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