Gail Melkus, professor at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN), has been selected by the Connecticut Nurses' Association (CNA) to receive its Diamond Jubilee Virginia A. Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Research.
The Diamond Jubilee Awards, the CNA's most prestigious honors, recognize individuals or organizations who have made outstanding contributions to nursing in the areas of practice, education, research, administration, political action and service to the association.
An expert on type 2 diabetes, Melkus has directed research programs aimed at helping people with diabetes, particularly women of color, self-manage the disease. As an adult nurse practitioner and certified diabetes educator, Melkus recognized that care providers need specialized knowledge to care for these patients. She developed a program of study at YSN called the Diabetes Concentration, which offers master's students in all specialty areas at the school experience in clinical care and research. This was the first program of this type in the United States.
Melkus recently assumed the role of director of the Pilot Development Core in the federally funded Yale-Howard Exploratory Research Center on Health Disparities (see related story, this page). There, she will work with young investigators to develop the center's pilot studies.
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