A nationally known expert in women’s health will deliver two lectures in Omaha next week as part of an annual lectureship for the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing.
Lorraine Walker, Ed.D., Luci B. Johnson Centennial Professor in Nursing at the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, will present the third annual Anna Marie Jensen Cramer Memorial Lectureship in Women’s & Children’s Health & Family Nursing on Oct. 29. The lecture is open to the community. She also will deliver a lecture the following day for the UNMC campus.
Dr. Walker’s lecture, “Transforming Women’s Health: Gaps, Needs, Opportunities after Birth,” will be presented at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Thompson Alumni Center, 6705 Dodge St. A reception at 5:30 p.m. will be followed by the lecture at 6:30 p.m. Targeted audience is nursing faculty, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, researchers and other health care professionals. Seating is limited. RSVP is required.
Her talk will address common gaps in the care of women during the extended postpartum year and needs that affect maternal health and well-being both short and long-term.
Dr. Walker is a leading expert in nursing on women’s weight gain during pregnancy and postpartum period. She also has extensive expertise in the areas of behavioral and psychosocial health in childbearing women and new mothers, the motherhood transition, and its implications for maternal and infant health.
She is co-author of a text on theory development strategies in its 5th edition and is used worldwide in nursing graduate programs. She teaches courses in the areas of global health, quantitative data analysis, and philosophic and theoretical foundations of nursing science. Her background is multidisciplinary covering the fields of nursing, education, and public health.
The endowed annual lectureship was created through the University of Nebraska Foundation by the late Berniece F. Cramer. Cramer, the daughter of William Joseph and Anna Marie (Jensen) Cramer, of Hardy, Neb., established the lectureship in honor of her mother. Each year the lecture will feature a nationally known expert in women and children’s health issues.
Berniece Cramer, who died in August 2010 at the age of 88, completed nurses training in 1944 at Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. After graduation, she served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1945-1948 in the Philippines and Japan. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Hastings College and a master’s degree from Teachers College of Columbia University in New York.
Her career included teaching at Cornell University in New York, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Public Health Service in Chicago, ultimately serving as branch chief until she retired in 1990. She continued lecturing until 1992.
RSVP by Oct. 23 by contacting LaDonna Tworek at ltworek@unmc.edu or call 402-559-4109.
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