BRADFORD, PA – Dr.
Lisa Fiorentino, associate professor of nursing, has been named the director
for the Center for Rural Health Practice at the University of Pittsburgh at
Bradford, which will enable the center and the nursing program to collaborate
on projects.
She succeeds Dr.
Youmasa Siewe, who left the position for health reasons.
Fiorentino, who also
serves as director of the nursing and radiological sciences programs at
Pitt-Bradford, will continue in those roles and to teach nursing. Her dual
roles in the nursing programs on campus and with the center will allow both
programs to work more closely with each other. For example, this spring a
nursing student will be assisting with research for the Northwest Pennsylvania
Adolescent Alcohol Research Cooperative, which is conducting research into
rural adolescent drinking patterns.
“There are so many
opportunities here for collaboration,” Fiorentino said. “I really enjoy the
challenge. This is a great model of interdisciplinary cooperation.”
Fiorentino has served
on the Pitt-Bradford faculty since 1985. She most recently completed a Master
of Arts degree in anthropology from the University at Buffalo, State University
of New York, where she also earned her doctorate and a Master of Science in
Nursing.
In addition to her
teaching duties, Fiorentino stays fit by ice skating and teaching ice skating
as a physical education class at Pitt-Bradford.
The Center for Rural
Health Practice is a collaboration of Pitt-Bradford and the University of
Pittsburgh. Its current programs are the adolescent alcohol study and a program
to bring Pitt medical students to Bradford for a family medicine rotation in a
rural health setting.
Past projects for the
center have included providing training for emergency responders throughout the
state, performing community health assessments and coordinating a research site
for the Center for Oral Health Research in Appalachia.
Fiorentino said she
and the staff are currently brainstorming ways to provide rural health
education and identifying potential partners for those projects.
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