UF College of Nursing’s Pieper named as president elect of national organization

The American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association has selected University of Florida College of Nursing faculty member Pamela Pieper, M.S.N., A.R.N.P., as president-elect. Pieper will assume the role May 24 at the organization’s national meeting in Fort Lauderdale.

Pieper, a clinical associate professor in the department of women’s, children’s and family nursing at the college’s Jacksonville campus, has been a faculty member since 1990 and is the pediatric surgery clinical nurse specialist/nurse practitioner and pediatric trauma coordinator at Shands Jacksonville.

As president-elect, Pieper will assume the responsibilities of the president upon the officer’s absence or temporary inability to serve, serve on the board of directors and prepare the annual budget. She will become president of the organization in May 2004.

Pieper is chairwoman and founding member of the Pediatric Nursing Council of Northeast Florida and is a member of the Florida Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Advisory Council’s Pediatric Committee. She has made more than 30 research presentations at both the local and national levels dealing with the topics of pediatric surgical care, pediatric trauma and the nursing profession. She recently was honored with the American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association prestigious Founders Award and was named one of the Great 100 Nurses of Northeast Florida.