Dr. Dowdell to serve on American Nurses Foundation committee

Villanova, PA, March 25, 2010 — Elizabeth Burgess Dowdell, Ph.D., R.N., CRNP has been invited to serve on the Nursing Research Grant Reviewer Committee of the American Nurses Foundation (ANF), the philanthropic arm of the American Nurses Association. The associate professor from Villanova University College of Nursing will serve a three year term. The invitation was extended on the recommendation of the ANF’s Board of Trustees because of her research prowess. An expert in parent-child nursing, Dr. Dowdell’s scholarly work focuses on health risk behaviors and vulnerability across the lifespan, victimology and issues of violence, and nursing care of children.