Darby Endowed Lecture
Lecture Title: "The Art and Science of Heart Failure Self-Care"
Speaker: Barbara Riegel, D.N.Sc., R.N., F.A.A.N., F.A.H.A.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Music Recital Hall on the SOU Ashland Campus (parking lot(s) 30 & 36)
450 S. Mountain Ave.
Ashland, Ore. 97520 (get directions with google maps)
Lecture begins at 7 p.m. (free)
Dessert reception follows
For more information, please contact Delcy Tibbetts at 541 552-8480.
Dr. Riegel is an international scholar and leader in the field of heart failure and self-care. She is Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor of Gerontology and director of the Biobehavioral Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
Heart failure is the most common cardiac diagnosis in elders and a major reason for hospital admission. Dr. Riegel conducts extensive research with this group of patients and has led interdisciplinary research in chronic heart failure since 1994. She has tested various disease management approaches and developed psychometrically sound methods of measuring the self-care of people with heart failure. Dr. Riegel's work is widely published in peer reviewed journals and books, and she is co-editor of The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
Dr. Riegel has received the Lembright Award from the American Heart Association, the first annual Nursing Research Award of the Heart Failure Society of America, the Distinguished Research Lectureship Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and many other honors. She is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Nursing.
