The Latest News from the School of Nursing

New Alzheimer’s Centers Support Caregivers and Patients
9/1/18
An estimated 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease – 390,000 are residents of New York. By 2050, that number is expected to surpass 16 million.
Ramping up to meet the emerging needs of our aging society
9/1/18
By 2020, “people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under age 5” for the first time in human history, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Promoting Behavioral Health Integration in American Indian Primary Care Clinics
9/1/18
Behavioral health disorders — any mental illness or substance abuse disorder — are highly prevalent in primary care patients but are often underdiagnosed and undertreated, compromising treatment outcomes. Identifying populations and geographic settings that lack access to effective care is only the first step in addressing mental health needs and successfully providing requisite care to underserved and at-risk populations.
Breaking Down Barriers
9/1/18
Graduate Students to Receive Enhanced Addiction-Focused Training and Practice Through Inter-professional Collaboration in Integrated Care Settings
Fly, fight, win
9/1/18
There are moments that are forever etched into the hearts and minds of nations and individuals – those moments that you cannot forget. The ones where you can recall where you were, what you were doing, what you felt. The moments that mark a clear distinction of before and after.
Dean's Message
9/1/18
Dear Alumni and Friends,
UB nursing researchers named to 2018 class of American Academy of Nursing fellows
8/13/18
University at Buffalo School of Nursing faculty members Yu-Ping Chang, PhD, and Sharon Hewner, PhD, were named fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).
Adolescent abortion-fund patients face more barriers than adults
8/7/18
Adolescents who received funding to help pay for an abortion experienced greater hardships that affected abortion access compared to adult abortion-fund patients, according to a new UB study.
Nine out of 10 people caring for a family member with dementia don’t get enough sleep
8/1/18
More than 90 percent of people caring for a family member with dementia experience poor sleep, according to new research by the University at Buffalo School of Nursing.
Medical mission to Haiti
6/8/18
Nursing faculty and students treat 800 patients during the school's first trip to the Caribbean country.
UB hosting 5th annual Refugee Health Summit on April 20
4/18/18
Summit aims to improve access to culturally and linguistically appropriate services, efficient clinic and transportation systems and operations, and available economic opportunities.
Buffalo’s health disparities are the focus of community-wide conference hosted by UB
4/17/18
On April 28, the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is hosting "Igniting Hope: Building a Just Community With a Culture of Health and Equity," focused on addressing health disparities in Buffalo's African-American community.
Final push for Haiti
3/26/18
UB School of Nursing accepting donations for humanitarian trip.
UB faculty receive funding to increase access to care for low-income cancer patients and improve success of weight loss surgery
3/26/18
UB School of Nursing faculty receive IMPACT award and CTSI Pilot Studies Program grant.
College education linked to opioid misuse among baby boomers
3/21/18
University at Buffalo research connects education, depression and more to prescription opioid abuse in adults over age 50.
Gaining global perspective in Ghana
3/20/18
Students explore leadership, social innovation during a UB study abroad experience in West Africa.
Dementia expert to deliver lecture
3/20/18
Penn State professor Ann Kolanowski will discuss the difficulties of delirium during the School of Nursing’s 21st Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture.
U.S. News & World Report again ranks UB graduate schools and programs among nation’s best
3/20/18
The rankings are based on surveys of administrators at more than 1,970 programs and more than 16,500 academics and professionals.
Hispanic Americans across ethnicities want HIV testing in Spanish
3/14/18
New University at Buffalo research that investigated the language preferences of Hispanic Americans seeking HIV testing in New York found that the majority of Hispanic patients preferred to receive care in Spanish, even if they were fluent in English.
Workshop aims to bridge culture gap
3/1/18
A session presented by ISSS tackled the language and cultural barriers that affect international students in and out of the classroom.
Associate Professor Deborah Raines, alumni Ashley Wagner and Alexander Salinas published in Neonatal Network
1/17/18
Raines, Wagner and Salinas examine a case study involving intraamniotic infection (IAI) and nurses’ role in caring for a newborn exposed to IAI. When an infection occurs, the fetal inflammatory response is activated and is manifested by umbilical cord inflammation, which may result in the clinical signs and symptoms of sepsis. Newborns have an immature immune system; their immune system’s response to the inflammation impacts the newborn’s organ systems and culminates in early onset sepsis.
U.S. News ranks UB’s education, nursing online programs among nation’s best
1/9/18
Online programs in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education and School of Nursing were named to U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best Online Programs rankings.
Study: Treating refugees from Western perspective leaves providers and patients lost in translation
12/19/17
University at Buffalo nursing research revealed that Somali Bantu women are open to family planning when methods help to space births of future children, rather than preventing new additions to their families.
Colleagues continue research of UB nursing scholar who died in car accident
12/15/17
Colleagues of late University at Buffalo nursing researcher Ellen Volpe will carry on her professional legacy by completing a research project that was left unfinished at the time of her death.
SON faculty Hewner, Wu and PhD student Suzanne Sullivan published in Journal of Nursing Administration
11/30/17
Associate Professors Sharon Hewner and Bill Wu and PhD student Suzanne Sullivan were published in the November 2017 issue of Journal of Nursing Administration for their study, “Complexity of Chronic Conditions’ Impact on End-of-Life Expense Trajectories of Medicare Decedents.” Junxin Li, UB SON PhD alumna and postdoctoral research fellow at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, is also a co-author on the study.

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