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Dr. Margaret C. Freda "Saving Babies, Together®"Award: Recipients
2020: Joanna Carrega, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of North Georgia. Dr. Carrega received a $7,000 grant for her research proposal, Maternal Stress, Sleep and Breastfeeding Outcomes Among First-time Mothers.
2019: Lindsey Garfield, PhD, RN, APRN
Reducing Disparities in Postpartum Care Utilization: A Community Engaged Approach
2018: Caitlin Dreisbach, BSN, RNC,C-EFM
Leveraging Data Science to Examine the Influence of Maternal Obesity on the Association Between Microbial Function and Impaired Glucose Tolerance During Pregnancy
2018: Bridget Ibrahim, MSN, FNP-BC
Desperately Seeking VBAC: The Experiences of Women Who Sought a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Section in the United States
2017: Lorie Goshin, PhD, RN
Perinatal Nursing Care of Incarcerated Pregnant Women in Hospital Settings
2017: Kelley Baumgartel, RN, PhD
The Sleep Experience of Mothers with Hospitalized Preterm Infants and Subsequent Breast Milk Volumes
2016: rescinded
2015: Jeanne Alhusen, PhD,CRNP, RN
Tailored self-management intervention promoting resilience
in perinatal depression2014: Patricia Suplee, PhD, RNC-OB
Rutgers University
The award will help fund Dr. Supleeās research study entitled, Identifying Urban Women's Needs for Postpartum Self-Care and Parental Transition. The purpose of the study is to explore the relationship between birth outcomes and neighborhood characteristics within an urban population of African American and Hispanic women. The study is part of her wider program of research on improving nursing interventions to improve health for underserved minority urban women.
2013: Susan W. Groth, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FAANP
Rochester University
Dr. Groth received the award for her study entitled, The dietary choices of low-income, pregnant African-American women. The purpose of the study is to gain an understanding of the factors that drive the dietary choices of low-income, pregnant African-American women. The study is part of Groth's wider program of research, in which she explores a variety of factors that contribute to obesity in women, including genetic pre-disposition, behavioral and environmental components.
2012: Audrey Lyndon, PhD, RNC, CNS-BC
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Nursing
Dr. Lyndon received the award for her study Parent perspectives on communication and safety in neonatal intensive care. Dr. Lyndon is a Clinical Research Scholar in the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and a volunteer leader with the AWHONN—California Section and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.
2011: Susan M. Ludington, CNM, PhD, FAAN
Carl W. and Margaret Davis Walter Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Dr. Ludington received the award for her study Reducing severity of neonatal abstinence syndrome. She has conducted numerous research projects related to premature infants, breastfeeding and kangaroo care.
2010: Lynn Clark Callister, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Brigham Young University, College of Nursing
Dr. Callister received the award for her research exploring the prevalence and impact of postpartum depression among disadvantaged Hispanic women and the barriers to accessing appropriate care. She has conducted numerous research projects related to childbearing women and is widely published in the fields of global health and nursing.
2009: Robin B. Knobel, PhD, RNC, NNP
Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Nursing
Dr. Knobel received the award to help fund her study Body temperature and vasomotor tone in extremely low birthweight preterm infants during the first days of life. Dr. Knobel is a previous recipient of the March of Dimes Graduate Nursing Scholarship and has received a grant from the National Institutes of Nursing Research to investigate thermoregulation.
2008: Denise Côté-Arsenault, PhD, RNC, IBCLC, FNAP
Associate and Brody Professor, University of Rochester, School of Nursing
Dr. Côté-Arsenault received the award to conduct a pilot study Caring connections in pregnancy after perinatal loss. Dr. Côté-Arsenault is a nationally recognized nurse scholar. She has spent more than 2 decades researching perinatal loss and pregnancy after perinatal loss.
2008: Mary Regan, RN, PhD
Associate Professor, Minnesota State University
Dr. Regan received the award for her research Development of an elaborated coding system to score intrapartum conceptions of risk about childbirth. Her study sought to develop an instrument to measure labor and delivery nurses' conceptions of risk about childbirth.
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