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| Joyce Newman Ginger |
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| Joyce Newman Giger, Ed.D., APRN, BC,
FAAN
Professor and Endowed Chair, UCLA
Dr. Joyce Newman Giger
is Professor and Lulu Wolff Hassenplug Endowed Chair, School of Nursing, UCLA
where she serves as the first African American elected Chair of the Faculty
Executive Committee, coming most recently from the University of Alabama at
Birmingham where she served as Professor of Graduate Studies for eleven years.
Dr. Giger holds an Associate Degree in Nursing from Kentucky State University,
Frankfort; a Bachelors in Science in Nursing from Goshen College, Goshen,
Indiana; a Masters of Science in Education from Indiana University at South
Bend; a Masters of Arts in Nursing and a Doctorate in Educational
Administration from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Dr. Giger, a fellow
of the American Academy of Nursing, has authored approximately 135 articles, 14
book chapters, and 6 books on strategies to enhance the provision of
culturally-appropriate care and has developed a model for assessing cultural
phenomena relevant to the delivery of culturally appropriate care (Giger &
Davidhizar, 1991; 1995; Giger, Davidhizar, & Wieczorek, 1993). Her textbook titled Transcultural Nursing:
Assessment and Intervention, 5th
Edition (2008) Mosby Year Book, Inc. has
been adopted widely by schools of
nursing and has been translated in French.
In February 2003, it was selected for the 13th year as a
"Brandon-Hill Best New Book."
In addition, her second international text on cultural assessment was
released in July of 1998 on the care of Canadian clients.
Her
co-authored model on transcultural health care provides a framework that
focuses on key cultural phenomena that impact on health care and advocates
systematic exploration of the individual's cultural context. Her model for Transcultural assessment, which
has six major phenomena, that include
biological variations, has been cited, excerpted, modified, and utilized in
approximately 357 nursing textbooks, medical texts, and other allied
health-related areas in 2003 alone. In recognition of this exemplary body of
work, Dr. Giger received the "Outstanding Research in Minority Health Care
2000 Award" from the Southern Nursing Research Society on February 5,
2000.
Dr. Giger has received in excess of several
million dollars in research and other grants. Her groundbreaking work on
genetic predictors of coronary heart disease and interventions to stop the
phenotypical expressions of such predictors in pre-menopausal African-American
women (19-45) was first funded by the Department of Defense, Uniformed Health
Services, University, University of the
Health Sciences. Dr. Giger has
definitively identified nine (9) genetic predictors for coronary heart disease
and the Metabolic Syndrome in this vulnerable population and these findings
appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of Ethnicity and Disease. The publication of these astounding findings
brings nursing and nurses to the
forefront in genetic sequencing and frequency distribution analyses in this
vulnerable population.
Other
past honors include: Elected Scholar of the Transcultural Nursing Society;
Outstanding Women in the World, Who's Who in Nursing, Who's Who in America,
Outstanding Young Women in America, Outstanding Alumna, School of Education,
Indiana University of South Bend; Outstanding Alumna, School of Nursing, Ball State University, Muncie Indiana; 2000 Notable
Women in America. In 2008, she was elected into the Institute of Excellence,
National Black Nurses Association. In
2006-2007, Dr. Giger was appointed as Visiting Professor/Scholar, the
University of Alabama at Birmingham. In
2003, Dr. Giger was selected as the King/Chavez/Parks Scholar for the
School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition, in 2003, The National Black
Nurses Association bestowed upon Dr. Giger one its highest and most prestigious
honors by naming her one of three Trailblazers in Nursing and Healthcare. In February 2003, Secretary of Health and
Human Services, The Honorable Tommy Thompson,
appointed, Dr. Giger to the Advisory Council for the National Institutes
for Health/National Institute for Nursing Research. This appointment extends through January 31,
2007. On April 30, 2005, Dr. Giger received an honorary doctorate in Human
Letters from Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana.
In Spring 2000, Dr. Giger was selected as a member of the inaugural
class for the NIH/NINR Summer Genetic Institute. She is currently the Chair of the "Expert Panel on
Cultural Competency" for the American Academy of Nursing and a member of the Expert Panel on Genetics for
the American Academy of Nursing. She
also served as the Chair-Elect for Council on Cultural Diversity, American
Nurses Association and Chair-Elect Council on Community-based and Long-Term
Care for the American Nurses Association. She has served as the Editor of the Journal
of the National Black Nurses Association since 1999.
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