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School of Nursing Faculty

Trudy J. Esch, MS, RN, IBCLC
Lecturer

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Room 3348
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482
Telephone: 734-647-0338
FAX: 734-647-0351
tjesch@umich.edu

Education
MS, Community Health Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1999
BSN, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1983

Current Research
NTCC, National Tuberculosis Curriculum Consortium, Grant 10/2003 - 8/2008

The National Tuberculosis Curriculum Consortium (NTCC) is sponsored by the National Health, Lung, & Blood Institute of the National Institues of Health. The major goal of the NTCC is to improve knowledge of tuberculosis in students in health professions schools throughout the United States.

NTCC is based at the University of California San Diego and has many collaborating schools and universities. Antonino Catanzaro, MD is the Project Director for the NTCC.The University of Michigan, School of Nursing is one of the NTCC collaborating partner schools. I am the PI at U/M.

Publication
Fair, B.S., Esch, T.J., Simpson, T., Field, K., Benkert, R., Brackley, M., Resnick, B. (2006). Educational competencies to strengthen tuberculosis curricula in undergraduate nursing programs. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 3(1), article 23, see http://www.bepress.com/ijnes/vol3/iss1/art23/.

Course Coordinator
N456, Community Health Nursing
N422, Community Care Nursing