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Katey Ayers Endowed Professorship NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING

The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing community stability, economic
and Bloomberg School of Public barriers, and more impact well-
Health announced the appointment of being and health of individuals
Craig Pollack, MD, MHS, as inaugural and societies,” says Dean Patricia
chair of the Katey Ayers Endowed Davidson, PhD, MEd, RN, FAAN.
Professorship. Funded through a gift
from JHSON Class of 1967 Alumna Pollack is an associate professor in Housing and Urban Development, and
Katey Ayers—and matched by the the Department of Health Policy and the National Institutes of Health. ◼
Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Management at the School of Public
Fund—the professorship will tackle Health with a joint appointment in
the intersection of housing and social the Department of Epidemiology at Healthcare Outlook Forum
services and their impact on health. the School of Medicine. He examines
health effects of housing mobility Craig Pollack will be part the next
“We are excited to welcome Dr. Pollack programs that help families move Johns Hopkins DC Forum on health
and housing, 6-8 p.m. November
to this position and expand his from areas of concentrated poverty. 18 with Dean Davidson, Professor
already well-established expertise His work has earned funding Sarah Szanton and other experts.
8 and knowledge in how social from the Robert Wood Johnson RSVP: son-events@jhu.edu 9
determinants of health like housing, Foundation, the U.S. Department of

Virtual Sims Plan Earns

DELTA Award

“Deconstructing Health Care Silos: Interprofessional
Education Using Multiplayer Virtual Simulation and
Virtual Reality for Medical and Nursing Trainees”
(Principal Investigators: Kristen Brown, Shawna Mudd,
Catherine Horvath, and Nancy Sullivan—School of
Nursing; and Nicole Shilkofski, Justin Jeffers, Julianne THE WHITE COAT
Perretta, and Sandy Swoboda—School of Medicine) is
among this year’s winners of DELTA grants of up to
$75,000 given to six teams made up of JHU faculty, staff, Members of the Spring 2021 cohort of the MSN (Entry into Nursing)
and students. program show off the white coats presented by Johns Hopkins School
of Nursing donors to celebrate the start of their nursing journeys. Coats
The awards are bestowed by the provost to help “unleash arrived with messages of pride and inspiration from the donors themselves MAGAZINE.NURSING.JHU.EDU
the potential of digital technology.” ◼ and a request to share photos from wherever students happened to be.

See more white coat images and many more snapshots from the life of the
school at FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/HOPKINSNURSING/ALBUMS