Doctoral Student Receives CDC Award

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U OF M DOCTORAL STUDENT, LISA MARTIN-CRAWFORD, RECEIVES CDC AWARD
Research Aims to Prevent Diabetes on Reservations

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (June 13, 2005) - A doctoral student at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing has been awarded one of only four public health fellowships made annually by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Lisa Martin-Crawford, M.S., B.S.N., Minneapolis, received a 2005 Association of Schools of Public Health Minority Fellowship to support her study of the experience of Ojibway adolescents who live on reservations and have Type II diabetes. The goal of the two-year study is to improve preventive health care.

The CDC program prepares highly qualified minority doctoral students to identify health issues and work toward improving health in their communities. It gives them opportunities both to collaborate with public health researchers and learn to incorporate values of specific communities into their work. Martin-Crawford will partner with Linda Bearinger, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, a faculty member at the School of Nursing and at the university's CDC-funded Prevention Research Center in the Department of Pediatrics.

Martin-Crawford will share her findings within the American Indian community. "American Indians with Type II diabetes have unique needs and strengths which I want to identify and highlight," she said. "I am eager to hear the community¿s response to my findings and any recommendations on how to further the research.

"Winning this fellowship award was affirming to my career and research choices. I was honored, excited and felt fortunate to have such strong support from my family, friends and colleagues at the University. They offered great support in completing my degree and my research."

Martin-Crawford earned a master's degree with a major in nursing administration from the University of Minnesota, and a bachelor's degree from Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minn. She is a member of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing Center for Child and Family Health Promotion Research and an enrolled member of the Lac du Flambeau Tribe, an Ojibway tribe in northern Wisconsin.

The University of Minnesota School of Nursing, ranked among the nation's top nursing schools, is a leader in improving health care through research, education and service. Its nationally and world-renowned scientists discover practical health care treatments and solutions people can use today to improve their daily lives. The oldest continuing university-based school of nursing in the nation, it now has a combined undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 850 students. The school produces 55 percent of the faculty in Minnesota's public and private nursing schools, advanced practice nurses and nurses who can assume leadership positions. The School of Nursing is one of seven schools and colleges in the Academic Health Center, one of the most comprehensive facilities for health professionals in the nation, fostering interdisciplinary study, research and education.

A photo of Lisa Martin-Crawford is available in electronic format. Contact Aneisha Tucker at 612-626-1817 or tucke127@umn.edu.

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