College of Nursing Researcher Wins Fellow Award

By Nate Hinkel

 Carol Enderlin, Kathie Gately

April 26, 2012 | Carol Enderlin, Ph.D., R.N., a clinical assistant professor in the UAMS College of Nursing, was named one of three winners of the Arkansas Gerontological Society’s Fellow Award for outstanding contributions to the field.

 

The Fellow Award is recognition by peers in the Arkansas Gerontological Society (AGS) for exceptional contributions to the field of gerontology and represents the highest class of membership. The AGS Board of Directors confers the honor.

 

“We are honored to have someone with Carol’s experience and expertise within the College of Nursing,” said Lorraine Frazier, Ph.D., R.N., dean of the UAMS College of Nursing. “Her research and contributions to the field and our program contribute greatly to patient care and education. She is a very worthy recipient of this honor and we’re very proud.”

 

Enderlin is a nationally recognized researcher in several areas, including sleep. She was one of 17 in the country to complete a John A. Hartford Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Geriatric Nursing in 2008, where the funding supported two years of doctoral study with an emphasis in geriatrics. Enderlin’s research focus is sleep in older women with breast cancer, while also studying various sleep patterns and conditions  in patients with multiple myeloma..

 

Enderlin has served on the AGS board and has been a conference subcommittee member since 2009. She is the founding chair of the Arkansas Genetics Health Committee (AGHC) Adult Subcommittee, formed to address genetic issues of the adult population in Arkansas. She led the revision of the Arkansas Genetics Plan to include adult health concerns and issues related to familial aspects of chronic disease and cancer. She co-chairs the AGHC. She is the co-chair of the National Gerontological Nursing Association’s Evidence-Based Practice Education Committee and chair of the Geriatric Research Interest Group of the Southern Nursing Research Society. Enderlin has been nationally published nine times and has authored two book chapters on sleep.

 

“It’s a tremendous honor to have been recognized with the Fellow Award among so many of my colleagues and friends,” Enderlin said. “I am passionate about making a difference in the geriatric field and it’s a wonderful feeling to have earned this designation.”