Four nursing faculty receive fellowships from MHEC
The award is available for new, full-time, tenured or tenure-tracking nursing faculty members.
By Megan Bradshaw on November 15, 2016
Towson University College of Health Professions (CHP) faculty Hayley Mark, Briana Snyder, Mary Gergis and Hee Jun Kim—all from the Department of Nursing—received a New Nursing Faculty Fellowship from the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC).
The award is available for new, full-time, tenured or tenure-tracking nursing faculty members. The fellowship provides $20,000 to the awardees, over a three-year period. Use of the award is at the faculty member’s discretion.
Mark is the department chairperson and comes to TU after a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins. She concentrates in community health nursing and preventative medicine. Snyder, an assistant professor, focuses on psychiatric and mental health nursing and dissociative disorders and intimate partner violence.
Gergis is an assistant professor whose areas of expertise lie in palliative and end-of-life-care and nurse-patient communication. Kim is also an assistant professor; focusing on racial and ethnic differences in pain and health as well as the health disparity in the U.S.
The fellowship program is part of the Nurse Support Program II funded through the Health Services Cost Review Commission. It was created to increase the educational capacity of nursing programs and number of nursing faculty in Maryland nursing programs.