UBC nursing professors win awards of excellence

Assoc. Prof. Lynda Balneaves has won the 2010 Pfizer Award of Excellence in Nursing Research from the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology. Balneaves is the principal investigator in the Complementary Medicine Education and Outcomes (CAMEO) program at the BC Cancer Agency.

Asst. Prof. J. Craig Phillips has won the 2010 Richard L. Sowell Editor’s Award for Outstanding JANAC Reviewer from the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC), in recognition of his significant contributions to the quality of manuscripts published in JANAC. Phillips’ research expertise builds on his unique legal and nursing academic, research and practice experiences working with vulnerable populations, and includes projects in men’s health and HIV, global health and global citizenship in nursing, and clinical nursing practice.