Conference Program

Wednesday, May 16

OPENING GENERAL SESSION (1:00pm – 2:30pm)

Presenter(s): Elaine Tagliareni, Professor, Independence Foundation Chair in Community Health Nursing Education, Community College of Philadelphia

Room:
Wedgwood Ballroom

Elaine Tagliareni

Elaine Tagliareni is a Professor and Independence Foundation Chair in Community Health Nursing Education at the Community College of Philadelphia . After earning her bachelor's degree in Nursing from Georgetown University , Tagliareni pursued her master's degree in Mental Health and Community Nursing from the University of California at San Francisco and obtained a doctorate from Columbia University 's Teacher's College. Her doctoral work focused on the role of the nurse educator in community colleges.

She has been involved with associate degree programs for her entire career. Elaine has led a major national effort to integrate gerontology into curricula and to assist faculty to re-conceptualize student-teacher partnerships.