A nationally known expert in women’s health will deliver two lectures in Omaha next week as part of an annual lectureship for the UNMC 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.
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Lorraine Walker, Ed.D. |
Dr. Walker’s 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.
Her presentation at UNMC on Oct. 30, “Internet & Communication Technologies for Health: What Mothers Tell Us,” will be held in Omaha in the College of Nursing Room 2017 and broadcast to the following locations: Lincoln, Room 304; Scottsbluff Room B132; Kearney Room 104; and Norfolk Room 156.
Dr. Walker is a leading expert in nursing on women’s weight gain during pregnancy and the 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 now in its fifth edition. The book 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.