DEAN OF UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF NURSING WILL DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT ACADEMIC CONVOCATION

Dr. Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob will be the featured speaker at UPT's Academic Convocation on Thursday, September 2.

TITUSVILLE, Aug. 23 – The University of Pittsburgh at Titusville will hold its seventeenth annual Academic Convocation on Thursday, September 2, at 2:00 p.m., on the veranda and lawn of McKinney Hall.

            Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Professor of Nursing, Epidemiology and Occupational Therapy, and Director of the School of Nursing’s Center for Research in Chronic Disorders, will deliver the keynote address.

Dunbar-Jacob is a nurse/psychologist with extensive experience in the research, educational, and service arenas.  She received her BSN from Florida State University, a master’s degree in psychiatric nursing from University of California at San Francisco, and her PhD in counseling psychology from Stanford University.

She has spent most of the past three decades as an educator, teaching nursing students from the undergraduate through the doctoral levels, as well as medical students, public health students, medical residents, and psychology students. She has also mentored a substantial number of junior nursing faculty.

 Her research career spans the last 25 years, funded mostly by the National Institutes of Health, and most recently funded by the National Science Foundation.  She has been involved in the study of patient adherence to treatment in individual studies and multi-center trials, addressing a variety of patient populations including rheumatological conditions, cardiovascular risk factors, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, cancer screening, depression, and transplantation. 

Her clinical trial experience has included deputy director of the behavioral science group for the Lipid Research Clinics Program, behavioral science consultant for the feasibility phase of the Diabetes Complications and Control Trial, and most recently a member of the behavioral science committee of the Women's Health Initiative.

Dunbar-Jacob has a national and international reputation both within the discipline of nursing and across other health care disciplines.

She is active nationally in the American Heart Association, has served in several leadership positions, including President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and as a board member of the Society for Clinical Trials.  She is a fellow in the Society for Behavioral Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychological Association and the American Heart Association.

In 2000, Dunbar-Jacob was appointed to the National Advisory Council for the National Institute of Nursing Research.  In 2001, she received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award at the University of Pittsburgh for her past and current research.

            In 2003, she was accepted into the Robert Woods Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program.  In 2004, she was elected President of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research for the 2004-2005 term.

            During the convocation, an induction ceremony will be held for new members of Phi Theta Kappa, an honorary fraternity for two-year colleges.

            UPT faculty in full academic dress will proceed to McKinney Hall from the J. Curtis McKinney II Student Union to the tunes of the bagpipe, played by Eugene Zimmerman of Franklin.

            The public is invited to attend the ceremony and reception immediately following.  In the event of rain, the convocation will relocate to Henne Auditorium in the Broadhurst Science Center.

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