Pulse - Summer 2012

              Dr. Babington named Dean........................1
Healthcare in the 21st Century.................2
Impact India..............................................2
Reflections from Nancy Lynch...................3
The Future of Nursing...............................3
Joining Forces for Veteran Care.................4
Fairfield Partners with
Bridgeport Hospital...................................4
Publications and Presentations................5
New Director of LRC..................................5
Global Health Issues.................................6
Commencement 2012...............................7
Message from Dean Campbell...................8
PULSE The
www.fairfield.edu/nursing
Summer 2012
School of Nursing names new Dean
After a nationwide search that
included many well-qualified can-didates
from around the country,
Fairfield announced earlier this spring that
Lynn Babington, Ph.D., formerly assistant
dean of graduate programs at Boston’s
Northeastern University, has been selected
to take the helm of the School of Nursing.
Dr. Babington fills a position most recently
held by longstanding faculty member Dr.
Suzanne Campbell, who was asked to lead
the school after the ten-year governance of
Dr. Jeanne Novotny.
In her academic leadership positions at
Northeastern, Dr. Babington led the devel-opment
of the Doctorate of Nursing (DNP)
program and served as its first director.
During the process, she worked collabora-tively
with colleagues in academia and nurs-ing
service and across disciplines within the
University. She chaired the Ph.D. in Nursing
committee as the University launched that
program. Before joining Northeastern, she
founded the Health Services Partnership to
provide medical management services to
community health centers in Boston, Mass.
Last summer, Dr. Babington spent six
weeks in Israel on a Fulbright scholarship
as an advisor to the ministry of health as it
works to create the country’s first doctorate
of nursing program. She has traveled
regularly to the Dominican Republic as
the president of the non-profit Intercultural
Nursing, Inc., an organization that provides
sustainable healthcare to rural areas on the
western frontier. Nurses and graduate nurs-ing
students spend two weeks conducting
clinics for underserved populations.
“I am excited
to join Fairfield
University and to
have the privilege of
leading the School
of Nursing,” said
Dr. Babington, who
earned a Ph.D. and
a M.S. in Nursing
from the University
of Washington. “The School has a very
strong faculty, all leaders in their respective
fields and extremely committed to both
education and following the Jesuit mission
of providing services to the community.”
As evidence, she cites the School’s ongoing
commitments to the School of Nursing
Health Promotion Center in Bridgeport,
the programs in Nicaragua, and the national
recognition Fairfield earned as one of
the first schools to receive the Veterans
Administration Nursing Academy grant.
University President Rev. Jeffrey von
Arx, S.J., thanked Dr. Campbell for her lead-ership
this past year. “Fairfield has been very
well served in the interim by the dedicated
work of Dr. Suzanne Campbell as acting
dean,” he said. “Far from being a caretaker,
she has advanced the agenda of the School
and engaged the commitment of its stake-holders
by her own infectious enthusiasm.”
Looking ahead, Dr. Babington sees
great opportunities for Fairfield’s School of
Nursing to create synergies between nurs-ing
and business and engineering. “We can
capitalize on the strengths of each of these
disciplines and create centers of education,
practice and research,” she said.
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