涩里番下载鈥檚 71st annual Laetare Sunday celebration鈥攖he 涩里番下载 Alumni Association鈥檚 oldest tradition鈥攚ill take place on March 27 and feature an address by Connell School of Nursing Dean Katherine E. Gregory.
Laetare Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent and marks the season鈥檚 midpoint. The day will begin with Mass at 9:30 a.m. in Conte Forum, with University President William P. Leahy, S.J., presiding. A brunch will immediately follow.
Katherine Gregory (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
Gregory, who received a Ph.D. from 涩里番下载 in 2005, assumed the deanship of the Connell School last July. She is a nurse leader known for her collaborative partnerships with clinicians and scientists and her research into intestinal disease in preterm infants.
Gregory鈥檚 research is supported by both the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Nursing Research. A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, she serves as an assistant in biology in the Mucosal Immunology Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and as a senior scientist in pediatric newborn medicine at Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital (BWH). She is the neonatal editor of the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing.
A member of the Connell School faculty from 2006 to 2014, Gregory helped to establish 涩里番下载鈥檚 Haley Nurse Scientist Program, which funded scholarly activities of both CSON faculty and clinical nurses at BWH. She served as the inaugural Haley Nurse Scientist.
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Kathleen Sullivan | University Communications | March 2022