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Wednesday, October 1
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008
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Keynote Speaker. . . Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
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Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has worked for more than two decades to improve the quality of life for people around the world. Today, she is an advocate for mental health, early childhood immunization, human rights, and conflict resolution through her work at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
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A full partner with the President in all the Center's activities, the former First Lady is Vice Chair of the Center's Board of Trustees. She created and chairs The Carter Center's Mental Health Task Force, an advisory body of experts, consumers, and advocates promoting positive change in the mental health field. Each year, she hosts the Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, bringing together leaders of the nation's mental health organizations to address critical issues. Mrs. Carter emerged as a driving force for mental health when, during the Carter administration, she became active honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health, which resulted in passage of the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980.
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Mother of four, Mrs. Carter has maintained a life-long dedication to issues affecting women and children. In 1991, she launched with Mrs. Betty Bumpers, wife of U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, "Every Child By Two", a nationwide campaign to publicize the need for early childhood immunizations. Mrs. Carter plays an active role in the activities of ECBT promoting the importance of timely immunizations. She served on the Policy Advisory Board of The Atlanta Project (TAP), a program of The Carter Center addressing the social ills associated with poverty and quality of life citywide, from the program's inception in 1991 until its transfer to Georgia State University in 1999. In 1988, she convened with three other former first ladies the "Women and the Constitution" conference at the Center to assess that document's impact on women.
Outside the Center, Mrs. Carter is president of the board of directors for the Rosalynn Carter Institute of Georgia Southwestern State University (RCI), which was established in her honor on the campus of her alma mater in Americus, Georgia. The mission of the RCI is to help family and professional caregivers. In 1996 she became honorary chair of the call-to-action campaign, Last Acts: Care and Caring at the End of Life, a national coalition of individuals and organizations advocating more compassionate care for those who are dying. She also works for Habitat for Humanity, a network of volunteers who build homes for the needy, Project Interconnections, a public/private nonprofit partnership to provide housing for homeless people who are mentally ill, and The Friendship Force, a citizens exchange program in more than 40 countries.
Since graduating from Georgia Southwestern College in 1946, Mrs. Carter has received many honors, among them the Volunteer of the Decade and "Into the Light" awards from the National Mental Health Association; the Award of Merit for Support of the Equal Rights Amendment from the National Organization for Women; the Notre Dame Award for International Service; the Eleanor Roosevelt Living World Award from Peace Links; the Kiwanis World Service Medal from Kiwanis International Foundation; the Jefferson Award from the American Institute for Public Service; the Georgia Woman of the Year Award from the Georgia Commission on Women, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. In 2005 she was named an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics in recognition of the work she has done and continues to do for the health and well-being of children.
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Attendees -- FNINR is expecting nearly 1,000 nurse researchers, deans of nursing schools, presidents of medical schools, faculty, senior management of health-related associations, corporate and community leaders as well as members of Congress and their health care and legislative staffs.
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6:00 to 7:00 PM Reception
7:00 to 9:30 PM Dinner / Presentation of FNINR Awards / Keynote Address
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Sleeping Room Reservations -- Call the Omni Shoreham Hotel at 202-234-0700, or the toll-free reservation number at 800-THE-OMNI; and reference FNINR. The room rate is $219/night. Reservations must be made no later than Tuesday, September 9, 2008.
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Be A NightinGala Sponsor -- Pharmaceutical companies, equipment manufacturers, information technology companies, publishers, nonprofit organizations, and education firms are invited to sponsor the event!
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Platinum Sponsor
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$25,000+
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Gold Sponsor
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$20,000+
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Silver Sponsor
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$15,000+
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Bronze Sponsor
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Friend of FNINR
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$5,000+
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Sponsor a Table -- $2,800 for a table of ten.
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Sponsorships will be recognized in the program, on signage, throughout the event and on the FNINR website. Sponsor logos will be projected on the screens throughout the dinner.
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Sponsorship Funds -- Help FNINR meet its mission of providing resources to support nursing research and advance the mission of the NINR. FNINR supports research-based nursing practice by educating nursing professionals and the public about the advances made through nursing research and its benefits to patients, families, the community, and the delivery of health care. In 2004, the video Nurse Scientists: Committed to the Public Trust was produced through the support of Johnson & Johnson and features ten prominent nurse researchers and shows them in action and demonstrates the impact of their research.
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The Friends focuses on effective communication of findings of nurse scientists to inform all clinical stakeholders of the knowledge base that exists for making improvements in quality of care and patient safety in a wide spectrum of clinical practice settings. Financial support is given to the NINR Director's Fund and will be used to develop a variety of communication strategies in collaboration with NINR to inform the clinical communities, as well as the public at large, about the importance of nursing research.
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In 2007, the Ada Sue Hinshaw Research Grant was presented to Shirley Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Research at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, for research focusing on biobehavioral interventions to facilitate recovery and lifestyle change following acute cardiac events.
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Two distinguished nurse researchers received the 2007 Pathfinder Distinguished award -- Jacqueline M. Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Nursing, Epidemiology, Psychology and Occupational Therapy, Director, Center for Research in Chronic Disorders, for research focusing on adherence of people living with multiple chronic illnesses, including rheumatoid arthritis and hyperlipidemia.
Pamela H. Mitchell, PhD, FAAN, FANA, Associate Dean for Research at the University of Washington, a Holder of the Elizabeth Sterling Soule Endowed Professorship, Professor of Biobehavioral Nursing, for conducting a program of research focusing on improving recovery from brain injury through nursing surveillance and pscyhosocial interventions.
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