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Canadian to deliver 2009 DUSON Carter lecture
posted November 14th, 2008
This year’s Harriet Cook Carter Lecture—an annual lecture series begun by the School of Nursing’s Class of 1963 to commemorate the life of Harriet Cook Carter and her work on behalf of the Duke and Durham communities— will feature Barbara Paterson, Ph.D., M.Ed., B.N., R.N.
Paterson is professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Chronic Illness at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Paterson will address assumptions about what people with chronic illness need and want, and future directions for nursing science that consider the most recent evidence about what is needed to support and sustain self-management of chronic illness.
The 2009 Harriet Cook Carter Lecture will be held Wednesday, January 28, 2009.
Paterson has received several national and provincial awards in recognition of her research and her teaching. She is the principal investigator in several nationally funded research projects pertaining to the needs and experience of people with a variety of chronic illnesses, including chronic pain, kidney disease and Hepatitis C. She has been a visiting scholar at more than a dozen universities, including in Japan, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Australia and Switzerland.