International Engagement of School of Nursing Faculty
Many faculty members in the School of Nursing are actively engaged in international work. The following faculty members are active internationally and they describe their work below.
Dr. Ruth Barnard
Dr. Barnard is an Associate Professor Emeritus and has been an Academic Information Specialist in the Office of Academic Affairs at the School of Nursing.
Recent International Activity:
Beginning in 2001, Dr. Barnard led the effort to start a new nursing school/program in Haiti, called the Faculté des Sciences Infirmières de l'Université Episcopale d'Haïti in Léogâne, Haïti (FSIL). After the completion (2004) and dedication (Jan. 2005) of a new dormitory (with funds provided by USAID-ASHA through the Medical Benevolence Foundation, FSIL opened in January 2005. The school runs a 4-year program with approximately 120 students currently enrolled. The first FSIL class will graduate January 10, 2009. Dr. Barnard currently serves on the FSIL Governing Board and she is also president of the Haiti Nursing Foundation (HNF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity, founded in Michigan in 2005, to promote the advancement of nursing in Haiti. The primary focus of this charity is on education, specifically the FSIL, where HNF is one of two charities providing most of the financial support for FSIL.
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Dr. Carol Boyd
Dr. Boyd is a Professor at the School of Nursing. She is also director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan and a Research Scientist at the University of Michigan’s Substance Abuse Research Center. Her current international activities are focused on gender and substance abuse.
Recent International Activity:
In 2004, Dr. Boyd has taught a course on Feminist Research Methods for the Social Sciences at both Beijing Women’s College and Fudan University in China.
As director, Dr. Boyd’s activities at IRWG include overseeing the Global Feminism Project and grants from the Luce and Ford Foundation which support the establishment of a gender studies institute at Fudan University. IRWG also has an active visiting scholars program, and approximately three international scholars apply to study at IRWG each year.
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Dr. Christopher R. Friese
Dr. Friese is an Assistant Research Scientist at the School of Nursing and a Research Associate with the University of Michigan Health System. His international activities have focused on oncology prevention and treatment education.
Recent International Activity:
Dr. Friese is working with the Center for Panagia Philanthropini in Thessaloniki, Greece, on breast cancer prevention and treatment education, and he has given several lectures on this topic in Greece to health care providers from Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Syria while in Greece, and in Nairobi, Kenya to Kenyan and Tanzanian health care providers.
Dr. Friese plans to continue working with the Center for Panagia Philanthropini, pending the availability of travel funds. He also mentions that there is potential for student participation in this endeavor (undergraduates and graduate students in nursing, public health and/or medicine for clinical, teaching, outreach activities). In addition, Dr. Friese is hoping to plan a similar program for Eritrea.
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Dr. Shaké Ketefian
Dr. Ketefian is a Professor at the School of Nursing and Director of International Affairs. Her current interests include graduate education and factors that affect nursing knowledge development from a global perspective.
Recent International Activity:
Dr. Ketefian’s research/scholarly expertise and publications have focused on research utilization, ethical issues in health care, measurement of ethical practice, research ethics, global issues in health and knowledge development, graduate and doctoral education internationally. She is a recent Editor of Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal. She has provided extensive consultation on graduate and doctoral education in many countries, and has conducted research with international colleagues. She is currently involved in a research study in five countries, examining the factors that influence nursing research and development of nursing science, in collaboration with nurse scholars.
Dr. Ketefian is a co-founder of the International Network of Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN) and served as its first elected President.
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Dr. Janet Larson
Dr. Janet Larson is a Professor and Chair of the Division of Acute, Critical and Long Term Care Programs at the School of Nursing. Her current international activities are focused on pulmonary rehabilitation of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Recent International Activity:
Since 2008, Dr. Larson has traveled every other year to Russia to participate in a summer cruise event which includes tours of hospitals and other health care facilities and 30 hours of continuing education provided by cruise participants. The cruise participants are comprised of approximately 10 Russian nurses and approximately 35 nurses from the US and other countries.
In April 2007, Dr. Larson co-presented a 5-day workshop (with Dr. Marie Driever) on research methods for practicing nurses in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
In October 2008, both Dr. Larson and Dr. Driever presented a follow-up, 3-day workshop on research project design in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
Russia: Dr. Larson continues to mentor a former doctoral student who is currently conducting research in Russia on the transmission of TB among health care workers in Russia.
Australia/England: Dr. Larson is currently developing a joint project on respiratory health and physical activity to be conducted both in the US and England. Student involvement in this project is possible.
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Ms. Jody Lori
Jody Lori, CNM, MS is a Lecturer IV in the Nurse-Midwifery Program and a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She has field work experience in Ghana, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mexico and Zambia. She recently completed a 3-year, USAID-funded project in post-war Liberia, West Africa, to increase access to basic obstetric life saving measures within the home and community. She also recently took part in an international, multi-center, NIH-funded randomized controlled trial of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in six developing countries.
Recent International Activity:
Her program of research focuses on community-based interventions to address the high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work is based on a human right’s approach to reduce the enormous disparities between the levels of maternal mortality in developing and developed countries. She currently has a study underway to develop a baseline data management strategy to inform and target culturally relevant interventions using verbal autopsies of maternal mortality and severe morbidity cases in one rural county in Liberia.
She is also working in collaboration with the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) with funding from a private donor to develop a major multi-year project addressing midwifery pre-service education and faculty retention in Ghana, West Africa.
Jody has several graduate students working with her on data analysis from her projects in Liberia for their Master’s thesis. She has taken both undergraduate and graduate students to Guatemala, Mexico and Liberia for clinical as well as research opportunities.
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Dr. Lisa Kane Low
Dr. Kane Low is an Assistant Professor of Nursing and Women’s Studies. Her international work has been in the Central American region, and she has been very active in providing study abroad opportunities for Michigan students.
Recent International Activity:
Dr. Kane Low’s research interests are focused on reproductive health of women in Northern Rural Honduras and elsewhere in that country. She provides training in neonatal care and management of labor to staff in birth centers. The goal is to upgrade midwifery skills of nurses and birth attendants to reduce maternal and child mortality and to promote health.
Dr. Kane Low has Michigan students accompanying her on most of her overseas trips to supervise their clinical education and research training. She is very active in disseminating results of her research through publications and scientific presentations.
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Dr. Judith Lynch-Sauer
Dr. Lynch-Sauer is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing. Her international activities have focused on study abroad and intervention programs.
Recent International Activity:
In May 2004 and May 2005, Dr. Lynch-Sauer led a Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduate (GIEU) trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. In June 2006 and July 2006, she visited the MSU nursing study abroad programs in Ghana and London, UK, and helped establish a collaborative relationship between that institution and UM. In October 2008, Dr. Lynch-Sauer assisted other faculty members with proposal planning/writing for GIEU submission.
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Dr. Milisa Manojlovich
Dr. Manojlovich is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, in the Division of Nursing Business & Health Systems. Her international activities have focused on building research capacity.
Recent International Activity:
Dr. Manojlovich has been involved in an international collaboration between health service research faculty and students from two universities in Ontario, Canada. The purpose of the collaboration is to build a research capacity infrastructure and synergy between UM, the University of Toronto, and the University of Western Ontario.
She is also scheduled to be a guest speaker at an international nursing leadership conference in Antalya, Turkey.
Dr. Manojlovich has a growing interest in the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN) and has been elected its Treasurer. She also plans to maintain ties to Canadian researchers while also exploring possibilities for developing European connections.
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Dr. Laurel Northouse
Dr. Northouse is the Mary Lou Willard French Professor at the School of Nursing and co-director of the Socio-Behavior Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her current international activities are focused on the impact of cancer on the family.
Recent International Activity:
Dr. Northouse has been a keynote speaker at various international conferences in Italy, Australia and Japan.
Dr. Northouse has been invited to be part of an international think tank on the Fear of Cancer Recurrence in February 2009. She will be collaborating with 14 other international researchers in Scotland.
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Dr. Joanne Pohl
Dr. Pohl is a Professor and at the School of Nursing. Her current international activities include an interest in nurse-managed primary care as it relates to meeting global health care needs on an international level.
Recent International Activity:
Dr. Pohl was an external reviewer to and consultant of Hong Kong University’s Department of Nursing Studies. She assessed their masters programs on-site, has evaluated scholarly papers produced from this program, and has assessed the overall program over a period of three years. To this day, she continues to have contact with them on an informal basis.
Dr. Pohl has worked with Kathy McCarty, a nurse midwife, in Zimbabwe, and has also sent students to work with Ms. McCarty for clinical experience. Dr. Pohl has and is currently conducting literature reviews for Ms. McCarty with regards to her work with HIV patients. Ms. McCarty has twice been a guest speaker at here at the School of Nursing.
Dr. Pohl has also led a GIEU trip to Honduras with undergraduate students.
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Dr. Joyce Roberts
Dr. Roberts is a Professor and Coordinator of the nurse-midwifery rrack at the School of Nursing. Her current international activities are focused on care practices during labor.
Recent International Activity:
In June of 2006, Dr. Roberts traveled to Skopje, Macedonia and taught a series of classes over a two-week period on professional issues related to midwifery (MW) education, on standards for MW practice, and on the legal status of MW. These lectures utilized information from the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). The trip was conducted under the auspices of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CAMA) in a project addressing medical skills and education. Currently, Dr. Roberts still maintains contact with the coordinator of nurse-midwifery of the Skopje, Macedonia project which addresses midwifery education.
Students interested in both nursing midwifery, particularly in the preparation of midwives in international settings, and in Christian missions should contact Dr. Roberts.
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Dr. Deborah A. Sampson
Dr. Deborah A. Sampson is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing. Her current international activities are focused on history of nursing, health policy, access to primary care, and health legislation.
Recent International Activity:
Dr. Sampson’s activities include an ongoing historical analysis of disaster relief nursing in the US/Canada and genetics research in the Bandiagarra region of Mali Africa with Dr. Jackie Taylor during the summer of 2007.
Dr. Sampson’s interests include developing intensive clinical experiences for upper grade undergrads and graduate students in developing nations.
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Dr. Huey-Ming Tzeng
Dr. Huey-Ming Tzeng is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing. Her research focus is on patient safety, research methodology and statistics, and nursing management and health care delivery systems.
Recent International Activity:
Since September 2007 to present. Dr. Tzeng has been a consultant to Shin Kong Medical Center’s Nursing Department in Taipei, Taiwan. She has also been collaborating with Dr. Yuanmay Chang, Chief of Nursing at Shin Kong Medical (June 2007–present).
Dr. Tzeng is also a research consultant for the Taiwan History Research Foundation in Taipei, Taiwan (February 2008–present) and collaborates with Chang-Yi Yin, a professor and director of the board for the Taiwan History Research Foundation.
From June 2005 to July 2006, Dr. Tzeng was a consultant to the General Veteran’s Administration Medical Center’s Nursing Department, in Taipei, Taiwan. She also collaborated with Dr. Teresa Yin, Chief of Nursing in the Nursing Department there, which resulted in a research article that has been published with Journal of Nursing Care Quality (SCI, SSCI).
Dr Tzeng plans to conduct multi-nation, collaborative research projects on patient safety-related issues with a focus on inpatient falls. She is also interested in taking students to Taiwan to work on these projects.
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Dr. Antonia M. Villarruel
Dr. Villarruel is the Associate Dean for Research and the Nola J. Pender Collegiate Chair at the School of Nursing. She has an extensive background in health promotion and health disparities research and practice.
Recent International Activity:
Dr. Villarruel’s major international activity has been focused on developing individual and parent interventions to reduce HIV sexual risk behavior among Mexican youth. This NIH (NINR, FIC) supported research builds and expands on successful research conducted in the US. This research has facilitated the development of research capacity at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) and also the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. For example, nurse investigators in Mexico have received independent funding from the Mexican government (CENSIDA, PROMED) to advance related research. In addition to research in Mexico, Dr. Villarruel has collaborated with CICAD (Comisión Interamericana para el Control del Abuso de Drogas) from the Organization of American States in a multinational study related to drug use and domestic violence among women. She has consulted with numerous countries related to research and research development. Dr. Villarruel is currently a Trustee of CGFNS International (formerly the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools).
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University of Michigan School of Nursing
Office of International Affairs
SNB, Room 3216
400 North Ingalls
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482
Contact: Shaké
Ketefian, EdD, RN, FAAN,
Professor and Director of OIA
Tel: 734-763-6669
Fax: 734-615-3798
Email: ketefian@umich.edu
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