Martha E. Rogers Grant Awardees

2023 Awardees

W. Richard Cowling, III, PhD; RN

  • Faculty, East Carolina University, College of Nursing; Project Title: Renderings of Human Field Patterning: A Unitary Appreciative Inquiry.

Jane Hopkins Walsh, PhD, PNP-BC

  • Boston College; Dissertation Title: Migrants’ Wellbecoming, Digital Practices, and Perceived Health, Mental Health and Social Support Needs Along the Migration Route and in Border Towns in Latin America.

Past MER Scholarship Recipients

2021 Recipient

Rudolf Cymorr Kirby P. Martinez, PhD

  • Faculty, San Beada University, College of Nursing, Manilla, Philippines; Project Title: Traditional Filipino Healing Practices as Health Patterning Modality.

2019 Recipient

Shirley Conrad, RN, PhD, CCRN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC

  • Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing; Dissertation Title: The influence of Nurse Coaching on Power of Knowing Participation in Change in the Process of Health Patterning.

2018 Recipient

Phillip Gimber, PhD, RN

  • City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center; Dissertation Title: Relations amongst Power, Self-Health Patterning, and Quality of Life in Older Adults.

2017 Recipient

Katherine Post, MS, APRN, PhD

  • Boston College; Dissertation Title: Exploring Patient Engagement in Breast Cancer Survivorship through a Rogerian Science Lens.

2016 Recipients

Mary Antonelli RN MS, PhD

  • Boston College; Dissertation Title: Mutual Caregiving: Living Meaningfully as an Older Couple.

Ann Marie Leveille Tulce, PhD, RN, MSN, MPH

  • City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center; Dissertation Title: A Quasi-experimental Study of Health Patterning Modality about Childhood Vaginitis and Power in Haitian Primary Caregivers.

2015 Recipient

Lisa Heelan-Fancher, PhD, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, CNE

  • Seton Hall University; Dissertation Title: Exploring the Relationships of Power, Attitude regarding Intermittent Fetal Monitoring, and Perceived Barriers to Research Utilization with Labor and Delivery Nurse’s Attitudes toward Patient Advocacy.

Kathleen Sheikh, PhD, FNP-BC; CNE

  • Widener University Dissertation Title: Equipoise: The Relationships Among Power as Knowing Participation in Change, Engagement in Healthcare Decision-Making, and Patients’ Satisfaction with Healthcare Decision-Making.

Other Past Scholarship Awards

Mary Joseph

  • CUNY Graduate Center; Dissertation Title: Folklore as a Health Patterning Modality.

Maureen Schneider

  • Seton Hall University; Dissertation Title: Power, Trust, and Job Satisfaction in Nurse Managers.

Jill M. Fuller

  • Hampton University School of Nursing, Hampton, VA; Dissertation Title: Family pattern on Power Knowing Participation in Change Among Adult Substance Abusers in Rehabilitation.

Sunjoo Jang

  • Seoul National University College of Nursing, Seoul, Korea; Dissertation Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Meditation for Women with Breast Cancer".

Pamela J. Reis

  • East Carolina University College of Nursing; Dissertation Title: Optimism, Health, and Well-Being in Pregnancy.

Elizabeth J. Repede

  • University of North Carolina Greensboro, School of Nursing; Dissertation Title: Women Abused as children and participatory dreaming: A study of unitary healing.

Nancy H. Scroggs

  • University of North Carolina Greensboro, School of Nursing; Dissertation Title: Life Patterning of Women Experiencing Midlife Transition.