O'Connor Chair Lecture

This talk will be live streamed from Hartwick College on YouTube.

This fall, the School of Nursing will give you a presentation to impress and inspire you. Our speaker, Linda Tarr-Whelan, is a premier expert on women’s leadership in this country and internationally. She is a distinguished fellow of the well-known national think-tank Dēmos. Tarr-Whelan was a U.S. delegate to the UN 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, and her career path and networks stretch across the globe. She also received an honorary degree from Hartwick College during the 92nd Commencement ceremony.

• Featured speaker: Lee Woodruff, journalist, author, public speaker, and co-founder of the Bob Woodruff Foundation, presented: “Keeping Humanity in Healthcare.”
• Featured speakers: Paula Moshier, MSHA, BSN, R.N., CMPE, CPHRM, VP, Quality and Patient Experience, Bassett Healthcare Network and Karen A. Butler, R.N., BSN, J.D., Partner at Maynard, O’Connor, Smith & Catalinotto (MOSC), LLP, presented: “Safety in Nursing/Legal Issues.”
• Featured speaker: Dr. Teresa Stephens, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, is a nurse educator, researcher, and consultant with over 35 years experience in both practice and academic settings, from adjunct faculty to Dean, presented: “Life on Purpose: The Gift of a Resilient Mindset.”
• Featured speakers: Julie Dostal, Executive Director of LEAF Council on Alcoholism and Addictions; Dr. Lawrence Brown Jr., MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM, Chief Executive Officer at START Treatment & Recovery Centers; Joyce Nebush, RN, Regional Coordinator of SPAN (Statewide Peer Assistance for Nurses) presented: “Care and Treatment of the Addicted Population. An Urban/Rural and Nurse Perspective.”
• Featured speakers: Maria Vezina ’73, EdD, vice president and chief of nursing practice, education, advanced practice nursing credentialing, and nursing labor relations partnerships for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City; Kathleen Carver Cheney ’74, JD, New York City-based attorney and nursing leader; Colleen Leners, DNP, director of policy at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing presented: “Nurses’ Power in Policy – Nurses’ Care Reaches Beyond the Bedside.”
• Panelists: Helen Battisti – Chief Nutrition Officer at SpNOD, Registered, Certified Dietitian Nutritionist; Dr. Francis Battisti – Noted Educator, Speaker, Psychotherapist, Consultant and Author; Dr. Lisa Daly – PhD, PMHNP-BC, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner; Linda Thomson ’72 – Nurse Practitioner and Approved Consultant in Clinical Hypnosis presented: “Self-care in times of stress: Strategies to promote stress relief, coping and overall psychological well-being.”
• Panelists: E. Allison Holman, Professor of Nursing at the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and Department of Psychological Science at the University of California; Christopher Holmes, Director of Emergency Management for the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS); Maria MacPherson, Acting Director for the 14-county Central NY Regional Office (CNYRO) of New York State Department of Health presented “Where do we go from here? A forward-focused look at COVID-19.”
• Panelist: James Balthazar, ATF Supervisory Special Agent and Branch Chief; Christopher Holmes, Director of Emergency Management for the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS); Dr Zhongxia Hu, Clinical Assistant Professor in Interventional Radiology at SUNY Upstate; Kathryn Smith, lecturer for Hartwick College’s SCIE 150 Applied Theater in Healthcare course, “Simulation in Practice”
• Anna Song Beeber ‘98, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, and a research fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research,  “The Baby Boomers Have Arrived! – The Social Impact of an Aging Society.”
• Jean Van Kingsley RN, MS, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC and Noelle Granger, a special education teacher at Walton Central School, “The Landscape of Bullying in Rural America.”
• 2018 The O’Connor Foundation supported the Nursing Symposium, a celebration of 75 years of nursing at Hartwick College
• Lt. Colonel Andy Kaufman, Christy A. Coe, JD, MS, Suzi Landolphi, and Dr. Malika Carter contributed their unique perspectives on “Combating the Stigma of Mental Illness.”
• Michael Burns and the Mop and Bucket Company focused on communications skills and how they can be developed and improved
• Diane Georgeson, M.D. presented “Medical Care For Transgender Adults.”
• Robert Hess, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, the Founder and CEO of the Forum for Shared Governance, “Empowering Evidence for Shared Governance”
• Mark Carpenter, “The Silent Treatment: How Crucial Conversations Drive Patient Safety”
• Aidan Havener Bohlander, LICSW, “Toxic Stress and Trauma in Early Childhood: Reducing Impact, Nurturing Resilience”
• Lori Ciafardoni, MSN/Ed., RN, “Common Health Issues for the LGBT Population and Transgender Healthcare”
• Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., “Contaminated without Consent: Bringing Science and Human Rights to Environmental Actions.”
• Emily Edelman, “Genetics, Genomics, and You”
• Dr. Richard Zoucha, “Inter Cultural Communication in Transcultural Nursing”

For more information, contact Geneen Bolton at [email protected], 607-431-4790.