News

January 2004

ACNM Student Scholarship Opportunities

To all nurse midwifery students, please make sure you consider the ACNM Foundation scholarship opportunities that can be found on the ACNM website at www.midwife.org.

Consider applying, the award is typically non-directed and can be used for any pursuit to achieve your academic goals!

Staff Departure:

We are sad to announce the departure of Marta Skalacki from the Nurse Midwifery Education program as projects manager. Marta’s last day was Jan 9th. She is now working in Telemedicine, and CME with the School of Medicine as project manager of the bio-terrorism grant she wrote for KDHE and Kansas. Marta has left us many venues to grow our program, continue with essential program database elements, and many skills about grant writing. We will miss her attention to detail and her many attributes that strengthened our program. Best wishes to her in her future career path.

Honors:

Kyanna Shelar (Class 04) was inducted as a member of Phi Kappa Phi at the Univeristy of Kansas. Only the top 10% of graduate students are eligible for membership in this academic honor society. Congratulations to Ky! Ginger Breedlove and co-authors Rachel Abramson and Beth Isaacson were awarded the inaugural Irving B Harris Book award in December in Washington D.C. This $10,000 award will provide funding to write their book: The Community Based Doula: Reclaiming Birth, Empowering Families, to be published by the Zero to Three Press in Chicago in 2004. Three books were selected to receive this award out of over 30 entries.

ACNM Region V-18 Kansas City Chapter 9th annual Conference:

March 5 and 6th, Kansas City, MO at the Helen Spencer Education Building on the St Luke ’s Main Plaza Campus. CNE and CME credit will be provided. Sr. Angela Murdaugh will be the featured guest on Friday night with inspirational thoughts to "Keep the spirit alive." Pick up a brochure from the Midwifery office or call 816-932-3737 for a brochure to be mailed. Early bird registration and student discounts are provided. Midwifery students attending will be automatically eligible for a chapter student scholarship drawing.

ACNM National Meeting:

The annual meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA May 28th to June 3rd. Student discounts and paging session opportunities are available to attend. See the ACNM website for more information at www.midwife.org.