2019 UPINHF Speakers
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
“Engaging in Advocacy and Health Promotion to Reduce Cost of Non-communicable Diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries”
Dr. Josefina A. Tuazon, DrPH, MN, RN
Professor and former Dean
College of Nursing
University of the Philippines Manila
Recipient, 2019 International Nurse Award
University of the Philippines International Nursing and Healthcare Forum (UPINHF)
BSN Class of 1977
College of Nursing
University of the Philippines Manila
Dr. Josefina A. Tuazon is Professor of Nursing of the College of Nursing, University of the Philippines Manila. She was past dean of UPM College of Nursing and head of WHO Collaborating Centre for Leadership in Nursing Development 2004 – 2010. She was appointed to the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Technical Committee on Nursing Education regulating nursing education in the country in 2011- 2013. She is currently UPCN Program Head for Research and Graduate Program Chair and Graduate Program Coordinator. She also headed the Secretariat of the Asia Pacific Emergency and Disaster Nursing Network (APEDNN) for 2013 – 2015 where she is a founding member and continues to be an active core member.
She holds leadership positions in various groups, national, and international, to name a few, Founding President of the Pain and Palliative Nurses Association of the Philippines (PPNAP), Board member of the Pain Society of the Philippines (only non-physician in the Board), Convenor and Member of the Executive Committee of the East Asian Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS), Board Member of the International Council on Women’s Health Inc (ICOWHI), founding President of the UP Honor Society of Nursing, and the PCHRD Scholars Society. She is engaged in research and is panel chair and reviewer for the UP Manila Research Ethics Board. She has contributed to the institution of ethics review for student and faculty research and the promotion of evidence-based practice.
As a teacher and educator, she was presented the highest national award as Metrobank Foundation’s Outstanding Teacher for 2000, the Award for Continuing Excellence in Service (ACES) in 2009 and featured in their second volume of Ten Outstanding Filipino Teachers in 2012. She was also recognized by her high school alma mater, St. Theresa’s College Quezon City Alumni Association as Teresa’s Light Woman of Service in Education in 2001. As a professional nurse, she was UP Alumni Associtoin awardee in 2002 and 2008 Outstanding Professional for Nursing by the Philippine Professional Regulations Commission.
First and foremost, in the last two decades, Prof Tuazon is an advocate for health promotion and the prevention of non-communicable diseases with a doctorate in Public Health majoring in Health Promotion and Education. She contributed to the development of the Philippine Department of Health national policy and program on the prevention of non-communicable diseases and the promotion of healthy lifestyle. She is a staunch advocate for tobacco control, asthma and diabetes education, and prevention of non-communicable diseases working closely with the Department of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO), Framework Convention Alliance on Tobacco Control, Philippines (FCAP) as Vice President, Philippine Coalition for the Prevention and Control of NCDs which she helped to organize in 2004, Association of Diabetes Nurse Educators of the Philippines (ADNEP) where she helped develop the diabetes nurse certificate course, and the Philippine Association of Diabetes Educators (PADE). In the recent K to 12 educational reform of the Department of Education, she was invited as a consultant and content expert for the health curriculum, including content editing of modules for Grades 1 and 7. The direction of balancing content in non-communicable diseases with communicable diseases may be attributed partly to her active engagement in this reform.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
“Growing Future Nurse Leaders to Advance and Sustain Health Care”
Janette Moreno, DNP, RN, CEA-BC, CCRN-K (BSN’94)
BSN Class of 1994
College of Nursing
University of the Philippines Manila
Highly educated, motivated and passionate Healthcare Professional & Nursing Leader with a strong foundation in nursing leadership and clinical education combined with a creative approach to managing care, teamwork and embracing innovation to proactively transition visions into reality. Dynamic and inspirational Mentor, with proven history of accomplishment in curriculum development, staff development, simulation training, evidence-based practice, shared governance and leadership, clinical operations, enterprise-wide project management, and Magnet hospital experience.
Dr Janette Moreno has completed her Doctorate in Nursing Practice, Executive Leadership from the University of San Francisco, California. She is the director of professional development and clinical education at Stanford Children’s Health. With more than 20 years of clinical and leadership experience, she has extensive experience with clinical and academic teaching, mentoring, coaching, consulting, curriculum development, and professional development of nurses at all levels of care in various health care settings. She currently serves as the President for Greater SF Chapter, Co-chair of Healthy Work Environment Committee for the Association of California Nurse Leaders, and Bylaws Chair for the American Nurses Association/California.
“Forging Global Partnerships to Promote Excellence in Healthcare“
Lorraine S. Evangelista, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
BSN Class of 1985
College of Nursing
University of the Philippines Manila
Lorraine S. Evangelista is a Professor and Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of California (UC) Irvine Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing. She completed her baccalaureate training at the University of the Philippines Manila College of Nursing (cum laude) in 1985. She received her master’s and doctoral degree from the University of California Los Angles (UCLA) School of Nursing in 1993 and 2000, respectively. Dr. Evangelista is a skilled clinician, researcher and educator. She has worked in the critical care setting in several nursing roles for over 15 years. As a researcher, she is recognized nationally and internationally for her investigation into the care of patients with heart disease and the effects of this disease on the patients and family members. She has over 100 publications in medical and nursing journals on adherence, self-care, psychological distress, quality of life, and health literacy. She received a 2.5-million-dollar grant from the National Institute of Health in the State to examine the effects of macronutrients on delaying the progression of heart failure (2010-2016) and was part a UC system-wide consortium that was awarded 9.9 million to examine the impact of wireless technology on reducing variations in care of patients hospitalized with heart failure (2012-2015). In 2017, she completed a U.S. Fulbright scholarship to study the lifestyle behaviors and risk factors of Filipinos in underserved communities.
“The Effectiveness of a Training Program for Advanced Practice Nurses on the Care of Patients with Primary Hypertension”
Sarla Duller, PhD, MN, ANP-BC, RN (MN’76)
MN Class of 1976
College of Nursing
University of the Philippines
Dr. Duller is a staunch advocate of the institutionalization and enactment of advanced practice nursing in the Philippines being an advanced practice registered nurse herself. She is an accomplished nurse clinician, educator, researcher and leader. Her extensive clinical experience, leadership and scholarship, locally and internationally, is impressive and commendable.
She finished her BSN from Central Philippine University, Iloilo, home of the first nursing school in the country, the Iloilo Mission Hospital. She is an alumna of the University of the Philippines where she pursued her Master of Nursing and more recently, her PhD in Nursing in 2017. She took her post-masters NP certification program from the US Department of Defense Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as a scholar of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles, California.
As an educator, she held numerous teaching positions in the US as an adjunct faculty, clinical professor, course coordinator and nurse educator. She was affiliated with the University of California Los Angeles, Riverside Community College and Veterans Affairs Medical Center West Los Angeles. In the Philippines, she has served as a lecturer and instructor in Centro Escolar University, Arellano University and UP College of Nursing.
As nurse clinician, she spearheaded several clinics/programs as Adult Nurse Practitioner at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in Los Angeles, CA: NP-led liver clinic, NP in the liver transplant program, pre-op clinic; primary and acute care clinic. She started her nursing career in the Philippines as a staff nurse in the pediatric ward in St Luke’s Medical Center before becoming a certified critical care nurse and nurse administrator in the USA. She has kept her RN license current both in the Philippines and in Californa, USA.
As an administrator and consultant, she held several positions such as associate director for clinical service (ambulatory care), director of primary and acute care center and patient care coordinator in intensive care units.
She is a member of the Professional Regulation Commission Board of Nursing (PRC-BON) Technical Working Group on Advanced Practice Nursing. As a Board Certified Adult NP, she has extensive experience as an APN as she was an expert panel member for the Adult Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination of the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Maryland, USA (2005-2010).
Her dissertation in the PhD Nursing program entitled THE ROLE OF THE ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES IN THE PHILIPPINES IN THE CONTROL OF HYPERTENSION is the culmination of her expertise and commitment in advancing APN in the country. Her research agenda include competency acquisition of APN, perceptions on NP role and nurse-led hypertension management.
In August 2018, the University of the Philippines International Nursing and Healthcare Forum awarded our speaker the Nurse Scientist Award in New Jersey, USA together with her mentor, former UP College of Nursing Dean Dr Lourdes Marie Tejero.
“Filipino American Beliefs About High Blood Pressure, Self-Care Activities, and BP Status”
Felicitas A. Dela Cruz-Millman, DNSc, RN, FAANP (GN’59, BSN’65)
Speaker profile coming soon…
“Creating Evidence -Based Practice Culture: A Path to Sustainable Healthcare”
Dolora Sanares-Carreon, DNP, MPA, RN, NE-BC(GN’75)
Dolora Sanares-Carreon completed her basic nursing education (GN’75), master of public administration (MPA’82), and earned academic units towards a PhD in regional planning at the University of the Philippines (UP). She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the Texas Christian University.
Dr. Sanares-Carreon started as a nurse clinician in a neurology unit at UP-PGH, a foundation to her later advancement as clinical educator in the department of psychiatry. Right after completing graduate work in public administration, she was recruited as research associate, then management specialist to the strategic planning arm of the UP-Vice President for Planning and Finance. Concurrently, she participated as researcher in foreign-funded research projects of the UP-School of Urban and Regional Planning where she was a doctoral student. She later on joined to a national multisectoral initiative by the President of Republic of the Philippines as project evaluation officer.
Back to her roots, Dolly (as she is known to colleagues and peers) held progressive nursing leadership roles at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) medical, psychiatry, and perioperative nursing departments. She employed research and clinical inquiry in transforming her creative ideas into practice innovation, one of which was the inception and feasibility study of an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) model at a time when EBP was yet a new concept in the USA. The research outcome was recognized by the chief nursing officer, who placed her on special detail to transform its educational components into online self-directed asynchronous learning module. This initial work was instrumental to more than a decade-long engagement as program manager for the strategic planning and implementation of EBP at UTMB-Nursing Services.
Dolly was invited to speak during the 3rd Institute of Regulatory Excellence by the US National Council of State Board of Nursing. She has presented in national and international conferences, published in peer reviewed journals, and written book chapters. She received awards for improving quality at UTMB, excellence in research by Sigma Theta Tau-Alpha Delta Chapter, excellence in nursing leadership by the Good Samaritan Foundation, and pioneering leadership in EBP at UTMB. Dr. Sanares-Carreon is in the official registry of the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) as content expert in EBP.
Dolly retired after 25 years of service at UTMB and lives in Texas with husband Primo. She is currently an adjunct faculty in the doctoral program of the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. Dolly also accepted the invitation as EBP consultant(pro-bono) to the UP-PGH EBP Capacity Building Project.
Aging in Place: Navigating Transitions to Assisted Living
Marilyn Pattillo, PhD, APRN-BC
BSN Class of 1969
College of Nursing
University of the Philippines
Dr. Marilyn Pattillo received her PhD in nursing in 1983 from the University of Texas at Austin, MSN in 1977 from Texas Women’s University and BSN in 1969 from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. She has over 45 years of experience in critical care, medical-surgical nursing, and gerontological nursing in acute and primary care. She retired as Associate Professor in Clinical Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing in 2013 and from active clinical practice in 2018.
Dr. Pattillo is also a retired Colonel from the United States Air Force, having served for over 26 years, active and reserve, as a clinical and flight nurse, participating in many aeromedical evacuation missions. She initiated and has been nationally recognized for the disaster nursing program at the University of Texas at Austin. She has volunteered for the American Red Cross, Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), National Nurse Response Team, Project Hope, and International Medical Relief. Dr. Pattillo was honored by President George W. Bush with an appointment to the Vietnam Education Foundation, 2001-2006.
In 2011, Dr. Pattillo was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing for outstanding contribution to the profession. She has received many leadership, service, writing, and academic awards from the University of Texas, Texas Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau Epsilon, Texas Nurse Practitioner Association and Journal of Gerontological Nursing. She has conducted research and published on teaching, critical care, gerontological nursing practice, and disaster preparedness. Dr. Pattillo is also a recipient of the Distinguished Dean Julita V. Sotejo Medallion of Honor.
Currently, she is active in Austin Advanced Nursing Practice Alliance, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and serves on the Board of Texas Medical Foundation Health Quality Institute.