Provost Kumble R. Subbaswamy
presents award to Associate
Professor Patricia Burkhart.
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Faculty member
receives outstanding teacher award
Associate Professor and
Director of the Undergraduate Program
Patricia Burkhart, R.N., Ph.D., was awarded a 2007 Provost
Outstanding Teacher Award in the category for Tenured 10 Years
or Less. Based on her teaching accomplishments and the letters
of support submitted on her behalf, this is truly a well
deserved honor, said Associate Provost for Undergraduate
Education Philipp Kraemer. The award was presented at a public
ceremony on April 23, 2007.
Burkhart received her bachelor's degree in
nursing (magna cum laude) from the University of Pittsburgh and
a master's degree in nursing from West Virginia University. She
returned to the University of Pittsburgh to complete a Ph.D. in
parent-child nursing, receiving a doctoral scholar's award for
high scholastic achievement and contributions to nursing care of
children.
Before coming to UK in 1999, Burkhart taught
for 15 years at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, W.Va.,
where she also received an award for outstanding teaching. As an
associate professor with tenure in the College of Nursing, she
has taught undergraduate parent-child nursing, mentored
undergraduate research interns, masters’ and doctoral students.
She is a full member of the graduate faculty. Burkhart initiated
an undergraduate research internship program in 2002. Research
interns are mentored by nursing faculty with funded research.
Students say it makes research “come alive” for them. The
interns have published articles in peer-reviewed journals,
presented papers at national and international conferences, and
won awards for their research projects. In January 2007,
Burkhart was appointed director of the undergraduate program in
the College of Nursing which will double its enrollment of
students beginning in the fall 2007.
Burkhart's research is focuses on testing an
intervention to improve children's adherence to asthma
self-management. Her work has been published in nursing and
medical journals, including the Journal of Nursing
Scholarship, Pediatric Nursing, Nursing Clinics of North
America, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Journal of
Asthma, and International Review of Asthma. Her
award-winning presentations have been given at numerous national
and international conferences. She has received research funding
from the National Institute of Nursing Research/National
Institutes of Health and the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health.
Burkhart is on the board of directors of the
Lexington-Fayette County Health Department. She was a scientific
writer for the World Health Organization report, Adherence to
Long Term Therapies: Evidence for Action, published in 2003.
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