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Dean Linda Sarna, Rn, PhD, FAAN, Dean and Professor, Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Chair, UCLA School of Nursing to retire effective June 30, 2021.
Dr. Stella Bialous is one of the World Heart Federation's 2018 Heart Hero award recipients. World Heart Day is September 29, 2018.
Dean Linda Sarna was the 2018 ONS Lifetime Achievement Award recipient at the Oncology Nursing Society's (ONS) 43rd Annual Congress in Washington, DC. on May 17, 2018.
On World No Tobacco Day 2017, Linda Sarna and Stella Bialous were named American Academy of Nursing Edge Runners for Tobacco Free Nurses Project
Announcing the Eastern Europe Nurses’ Centre of Excellence for Tobacco Control – Developing Nurse Champions for Tobacco Dependence Treatment“ (EE-COE II.) project will begin February 2017 until January 2019
On November 7th, 2016, Linda Sarna, an internationally recognized scholar in promoting the role of nursing in tobacco control and oncology research focused on patients with lung cancer, was been appointed the seventh dean of the UCLA School of Nursing.
Linda Sarna, interim dean at the UCLA School of Nursing, has been elected as the first National Board Chair for the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP).
When Nurses Smoked in Hospitals -- Interim Dean Linda Sarna was interviewed by Ersilia Pompilio, RN, MSN, PNP for Working Nurse, a monthly magazine and website for California RNs, about the not-so-long-ago time when both nurses and patients smoked freely in hospitals.
08/17/2016 - Dean Sarna interviewed by Diana J Mason for HealthCetera on "The Continuing Anti-smoking Campaign"
The Continuing Anti-smoking Campaign. By Diana J. Mason, June 16, 2016. We talk about the history and culture of smoking, why these are still relevant today, and what advocates are doing to continue to reduce the rate of smoking in this country, including universities such as UCLA creating smoke-free campuses. Dean Sarna also provides some tips about quitting smoking
04/28/2016 - AACN Endorses Tobacco-Free Schools of Nursing