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Dr. Margaret C. Freda "Saving Babies, Together^®"Award: Recipients

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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