Expert on Patient Involvement in Health Care To Be Keynote Speaker at Yale School of Nursing

Lesley Degner, internationally recognized for research on patient involvement in medical decision-making, will speak February 26 at the 9th annual convocation of Yale School of Nursing’s Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care. The convocation will take place at 4 p.m. at Yale School of Nursing in the Lecture Hall, 100 Church Street South. “Excellence in Caring Awards” acknowledging consistent excellence in promoting or delivering care for people with chronic illness and their families will be presented.

Lesley Degner, internationally recognized for research on patient involvement in medical decision-making, will speak February 26 at the 9th annual convocation of Yale School of Nursing’s Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care.

The convocation will take place at 4 p.m. at Yale School of Nursing in the Lecture Hall, 100 Church Street South. “Excellence in Caring Awards” acknowledging consistent excellence in promoting or delivering care for people with chronic illness and their families will be presented.

Degner, whose keynote address is titled “Bringing Evidence into Practice: Can Theory Help in Promoting Knowledge Uptake?,” currently holds a 10-year National Research Chair from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. This supports her program for development of evidence-based nursing practice in cancer care, palliative care, and cancer prevention.

Degner is the author of “Life-Death Decisions in Health Care,” a groundbreaking book outlining the factors that influence the way treatment decisions are made for patients with life-threatening illnesses. A paper she published in 2003 describing a new way to measure how women with breast cancer derive meaning from their experience is now the basis used by many clinicians in communicating with breast cancer patients.

In October 2005, Degner was awarded the Dr. John M. Bowman Memorial Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Medal, which recognizes senior faculty for the quality of their research, the impact of the research nationally and internationally, and the distinction brought to the university by the research. She is the first nurse and the first woman at the University of Manitoba to be awarded this medal.

Last year, Degner received the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Oncology Nursing Society in the United States. She is the first non-U.S. citizen to receive this award.

For more information about the convocation, call Lisa Maloney at 203-785-2393.

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