News
The Eighth Annual
Sonna Ehrlich Merk
Distinguished Lectureship
Presented by Indiana University School of Nursing and
Clarian Health
Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing in the
Pay-for-Performance Movement
Friday, March 7, 2008
University Place Conference Center & Hotel Ballroom
Keynote speaker
Sean P. Clarke, RN, PhD, CRNP, FAAN
Associate Director
Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
Contact
Mary Pat Poskon at 317-274-4019 or mpposkon [at] iupui [dot] edu
Information
- Seating: 11:30
- Luncheon served: 11:45
- The Keynote Presentation: 12:30-1:00
- Parking: available in the underground garage of University Place
- RSVP deadline: February 22, 2008
- Individual tickets: $25.00
- Table sponsorship: $500.00
Sean P. Clarke, RN, PhD, CRNP, FAAN
Dr. Clarke is Associate Director of the University School of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's widely-regarded Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. He began his career as a staff nurse in coronary care in Montreal, Canada, and a faculty member in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Following the receipt of a doctoral degree in nursing from McGill University in Montreal in 1998, he completed three years of postgraduate clinical and research training at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the standing faculty at the University Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, in 2001. At that time, Clarke became the Associate Director of the internationally-recognized Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research that was established in 1989 as a research and research training enterprise focusing on the outcomes of health care and health workforce policy.
Clarke is particularly interested in the impact of nurse staffing and organizational climate in hospitals on mortality and other adverse events in patients, and on occupational health issues (such as sharps injuries) in nurses. His current projects involve the relationship of organizational climate to safety issues in Pennsylvania hospitals, how nurse staffing and work environments in hospitals affect patient outcomes when patient volume is taken into consideration, and differences in access to and quality of hospital care for different racial and ethnic groups.
A Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and a Fellow of the Population Studies Center at Penn, Clarke also serves on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's national Nursing Advisory Council. In addition, he is an adjunct faculty member at the Universite de Montreal, the largest university school of nursing in the French-speaking world.
