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We are saddened to share the news that professor emerita Barbara Resnik, who founded the UCSF program for adult nurse practitioners and the specialty for occupational and environmental health nursing, died in late December. She was 95.
Barbara was a nursing pioneer whose work and advocacy advanced the profession. In the late 1960s, she co-authored two important papers in the New England Journal of Medicine with physician colleague Chuck Lewis on the expanding role of registered nurses in the outpatient clinic setting.
She began her long tenure at UCSF in 1969 and held dual appointments in the School of Medicine and School of Nursing. In 1974, she launched a continuing-education adult nurse practitioner program, which expanded to the Core Pathway Program – an academic program offering a Master of Science degree in 1978. The Core Pathway Program set the foundation for the development of further specialties, notably the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner and Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing specialties.
No services are being planned. In lieu of flowers, donations to honor Barbara’s life and legacy can be made to one of the following funds:
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Anthony and Barbara Resnik Scholarship Fund, Project ID # 7902476 — School of Nursing student scholarship support with preference for those specializing in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing or Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nursing
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Barbara A. Resnik Writing Award, Project ID # 7002400 — In support of a writing award at the School of Nursing
A gift can be made by check or credit card:
- By check: Make your gift payable to the UCSF Foundation with a note of the fund name/Project ID #. Please mail it by USPS to: UCSF, PO Box 45339, San Francisco, CA 94145-0339 Attn: Trish Davenport
- By credit card online: Visit http://tiny.ucsf.edu/SONGiving. Click on the blue button in the upper left that reads “Direct your gift to a specific area.” Select “Other,” type your choice of a fund/Project ID # and complete the online form.
Catherine Waters, PhD, RN, FAAN
Sally Bates Professor and Interim Dean
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Carol Dawson-Rose, PhD, RN, FAAN
James P. and Marjorie A. Livingston Chair in Nursing Excellence
Chair and Professor, Department of Community Health Systems
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