June 11, 2013

The CNHP Alumni Network Gains New Leadership

Congratulations and welcome to the first Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) Alumni Network Board of Directors. This dynamic group is comprised of CNHP alumni from many different healthcare disciplines from all over the United States. The first meeting for elected leadership will be June 19, 2013 from 6-7:30 pm at the College of Nursing and Health Professions. Officers:

President: Feruza Esanova (BSN 2009) works at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY

Vice President: Laura Kowal (MPT ’98) is an attorney specializing in business and corporate matters with a focus on healthcare clients and regulation in Philadelphia, PA

Secretary: Jaimie Burger (BSN 2013) is a nursing assistant in the Emergency Room at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA

Treasurer: Vivian Williams (BS Behavioral Health Counseling '04) is an adjunct professor in CNHP’s Behavioral Health Counseling Department

General Board Members:

Charlotte Alexander (BSN 2011) is a clinical nurse at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Ajarat Bada (BSN 2008) is a public health analyst and Founder/Director of The Missing Millennium Development Goal

Suzan Blacher (MSN 2011) is an assistant clinical professor of nursing (distance learning faculty) at Drexel University

Corrona Boston (MA Creative Arts Therapies '09) is an art therapist and the developer and co-director of the Artist in Me Project

Josh Daniel (BA Biomedical Science 2006) is a physician in neurology at the JFK Medical Center

Kimberly Doney (MS Nursing Education 2007), was most recently the Director of Education in Nazareth Hospital for 23 years

Michael Coveney (MSN 2011) is the nursing director on a 48-bed medical telemetry unit at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA

Patricia Fitzgerald (MSN 2012) is a nursing instructor at Penn State University and the Harrisburg Area Community College

Ann Marie Kriebel-Gasparro (FNP 1997) is a member of the clinical faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and practices part-time in occupational health

Bernadette Glynn (Radiologic Technology 1980) works in the CT Department at the Delaware County Memorial Hospital

Yi Ming Law (BS Nutrition 2012) is a Project Associate in Consulting at The Food Trust, a nonprofit in Center City Philadelphia, PA

Jennifer Mease (MSN Leadership and Management 2010) is a nursing director at Hahnemann University Hospital in orthopedics, trauma and neurology in Philadelphia, PA

Kathleen Morouse (MS Nursing Education 2013) is an adjunct professor at Chatham University; informatics nurse at UPMC Mercy in Pittsburgh, PA

Kristen Smith (MHS 2014) is a Clinical Research Coordinator a Capital Health Hospital in Trenton, NJ

Angela Askew Robinson (HSAD 2008) is an allied health instructor at Kaplan University in Broomall, PA

Andrea Rost (BSN 2009) is the Director of Professional Development & Staff Education at Hahnemann University Hospital

Kim Sivak (MSN Leadership and Management 2005) is a nurse manager for Behavioral Health Services at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Wilmington, DE

Kim Talley (BSN 1996, MSN 2003) is Director of Patient Care Services, Surgical Division, at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE

Joyce Kunkle (MSN 2007) is a former nurse who, in retirement, is now an instructor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Delaware

Deanna Schaffer (ADN, BSN) is an assistant clinical professor at CNHP and the Chair of the BSN Co-op Program

Michael Conti, assistant clinical professor in the Nurse Anesthesia Department at CNHP