Felissa R LashleyDr. Lashley has authored more than 300 publications, and has presented nationally and internationally on a variety of topics, including simulation. The first and second editions of her book, Clinical Genetics in Nursing Practice, received Book of theYear Awards from the American Journal of Nursing. Three of her other books have won AJN Book of the Year awards: The Person with AIDS: Nursing Perspectives (Durham and Cohen, Eds), Women, Children and HIV/AIDS (Cohen and Durham), and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues (Lashley and Durham) (which was also a Choice awardee) while Tuberculosis: A Sourcebook for Nursing Practice (Cohen and Durham) won a Book of the Year Award from the Nurse Practitioner journal. She created a webpage for nurses to share biopreparedness and emerging infectious diseases information, and initiated an annual interdisciplinary conference on emerging infectious diseases. Dr. Lashley has over 350 presentations, most recently on emerging infectious diseases and avian influenza and simulation. She has been interviewed on avian influenza for television, radio, newspapers, and most recently, Oprah Winfrey=s magazine, the AO@ (June, 2006). Dr. Lashley has received several million dollars in external research funding. She has been an invited member of a number of research advisory groups at National Institutes of Health. She was a member of the NIH consensus panel on Phenylketonuria: Screening and Management. Dr. Lashley received the 2000 Research Recognition Award for Outstanding Research from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. In March, 2003 she received the distinguished alumni award from Illinois State University, and in 2005 was initiated into their Hall of Fame. In 1999, she received the Distinguished Nurse Research Award from the Illinois Nurses Association. She also received the SAGE award for mentoring nurse leaders in 2001 from the Illinois Leadership Institute. She was an associate editor of the journal, IMAGE: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship. She is a member of the editorial boards of AIDS Education and Prevention, and Nursing and Health Sciences. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, and of the statewide NJ MEDPREP committee. She has been selected as a Awoman of excellence@ by the New Jersey Women In AIDS Network. Read More Read Less