Alisa Strayer, MSW, MPH, is a recent alumni of the UW Master’s of Social Work and Master’s of Public Health programs. She worked with the Dementia Action Collaborative on implementing and assessing the Dementia Friends program in Washington State. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find more scholar spotlight interviews here. What got you interested in healthy aging? After graduating from college, I worked at an organization, called Fountain House, which is a community center for people with mental illnesses. I…
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Scholar Spotlight: Qian Tu
Qian Tu, PhD, DNP, ARNP, is a recent alumni of the UW School of Nursing’s DNP-Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program. She received the de Tornyay Center’s 2020 DNP Pathways to Healthy Aging Award. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find more scholar spotlight interviews here. What is your Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project? I developed a depression toolkit for an adult family home, with screening tools and prevention and treatment activities. Adult family homes function similarly…
Scholar Spotlight: Alexa Meins
Alexa Meins, PhD, BS, is a recent alumni of the UW School of Nursing PhD program. She received the de Tornyay Center’s 2020 PhD Pathways to Healthy Aging Award. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find more scholar spotlight interviews here. What is your dissertation on? My dissertation explored green exercise, or physical activity while in natural spaces, for older adults. I partnered with Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Sound Steps programs to gain insight into how we can make…
Scholar Spotlights: Najma Mohamed
Najma Mohamed is a first year BSN student. During winter quarter in 2020, she traveled to Japan as part of the Keio University Short-Term Nursing and Medical Care Studies Program to learn about challenges of an aging society. UW students attending the program were supported by the Center for Global Health Nursing and the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here. What interested you about the…
Scholar Spotlight: Mariyam Arifova
Mariyam Arifova is a first year BSN student. During winter quarter in 2020, she traveled to Japan as part of the Keio University Short-Term Nursing and Medical Care Studies Program to learn about challenges of an aging society. UW students attending the program were supported by the Center for Global Health Nursing and the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here. Why did you choose nursing?…
Scholar Spotlight: Kuan-Ching Wu
Kuan-Ching Wu, BSN, RN, is the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging’s pre-doctoral scholar. A first year PhD student from Taiwan, her research interests include older adults with dementia and their caregivers. Her faculty mentor is Tatiana Sadak. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here. 2022 Update: The center is pleased to announce Kuan-Ching Wu as one of the center’s 2022-2023 Healthy Aging Scholars. Her project is on “A theoretical framework for…
Scholar Spotlight: Julia Meno
Julia Meno is a first year BSN student. During winter quarter in 2020, she traveled to Japan as part of the Keio University Short-Term Nursing and Medical Care Studies Program to learn about challenges of an aging society. UW students attending the program were supported by the Center for Global Health Nursing and the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here. Why did you choose nursing?…
Scholar Spotlight: Catherine Munene
Catherine Munene, CCRN, PCCN, BSN, is the de Tornyay Center’s Myrene C. McAninch Doctoral Scholar. A third year DNP student, her project is looking at falls in the outpatient setting. Her faculty mentor is Hilaire Thompson. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here. Why did you choose nursing? Initially, I was going to study computer science, but most of my relatives and friends here were in healthcare. They told me it…
Scholar Spotlight: Kristi Louthan
Kristi Louthan is the de Tornyay Center’s Germaine Krysan Undergraduate Scholar. An ABSN student, her research project looks at lifestyle factors and dementia in Asian American older adults. Her faculty mentor is Basia Belza. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here. What research or practice areas are you interested in? What I really love and am passionate about is kinesiology, so the movement of the body, and actually trying to fix…
Scholar Spotlight: Isadora Yi
Isadora Yi, BSN, MN, RN, is one of the de Tornyay Center’s Healthy Aging Doctoral Scholars. A DNP student, her project is creating a dementia care toolkit. Her faculty mentor is Hilaire Thompson. All interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Find all scholar spotlight interviews here. When did you realize you wanted to work in gerontology? I’ve always enjoyed working with my older patients but didn’t realize that this was my niche until I did a clinical…