University at Buffalo Nursing Researchers Named to 2018 Class of American Academy of Nursing Fellows

Two University at Buffalo (UB) School of Nursing faculty members, Yu-Ping Chang, PhD, and Sharon Hewner, PhD, have been named fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). Fellows are recognized for their contributions to nursing and health care and their influence on health care policy.

Yu-Ping Chang is a Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Endowed Professor and associate dean for research and scholarship in the UB School of Nursing. Her research is focused on mental health, prescription drug misuse and addictions in older adults, and caregiving and medication management for individuals with dementia.

Sharon Hewner is an associate professor in the UB School of Nursing and her research is focused on transitions of care, and health services and informatics. Her research aided in the discovery that post-discharge telephone calls may reduce hospital readmission rates for high-risk patients, and the development of an automated discharge summary that could quicken communication between hospitals and primary care physicians.

UB School of Nursing Dean Marsha Lewis, PhD, tells Buffalo.edu, “The impact of their research nationally and internationally is clearly evident in this AAN fellowship, an elite group including approximately 2,500 nurse leaders (of more than 3 million professional nurses in the US) who have been recognized by their peers as accomplishing extraordinary milestones in their nursing careers. Drs. Chang and Hewner join a number of faculty in the UB School of Nursing who are fellows of the academy.”

Chang and Hewner, along with the rest of their class of 2018 AAN fellows, will be recognized at the AAN 2018 Transforming Health, Driving Policy Conference this coming November. To learn more about University at Buffalo nurse researchers Yu-Ping Chang and Sharon Hewner, visit here.