Alex T. Bourdon, ME '80, has used his University of Delaware training in engineering to carve out a successful career in manufacturing management.
His manufacturing assignments have been in nuclear defense materials, polymers, fibers, films, instruments and medical diagnostic reagents.
Bourdon has been responsible for turning around eight manufacturing plants, launching new products and improving regulatory compliance and product quality. When working for Dade Behring Inc., a global provider of medical diagnostic products, Bourdon helped launch Dimension Vista, a 2006 product line that integrated four technologies for the high volume clinical laboratory. After joining PMI, he moved the early-stage medical company to a publicly traded one in October 2007.
During his years at Dade Behring and PMI, Bourdon has collaborated with University of Delaware programs in mechanical engineering and medical technology. Both programs received equipment and services that saved significant amounts of money. He also fostered student internships, scholarships and employment opportunities for University graduates. He helped initiate an Honors Day award for a senior majoring in medical technology, and two additional scholarships were funded in his name by Dade Behring after he left the company.
Active in his community, Bourdon has served as corporate recruitment chairman for the 2005 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Wilmington Walk to Cure Diabetes and on the 2006 American Cancer Society's Corporate Leadership Council. He has also coached sports teams for over 30 years, most recently as the head volleyball coach for Wilmington Christian High School.
He was honored by the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a distinguished graduate during its 2005 Alumni Career Celebration. He currently serves on that department's program development committee and on the visiting committee for the College of Health Sciences. Arthur L. Goldstein, ‘59M EG, is a pioneer in water purification and separation technology.
Goldstein, who retired as Chairman and CEO of Ionics, Incorporated, oversaw the growth of a small R&D company into an internationally recognized leader in water purification, desalination and separation technology.
Joining Ionics, in 1960, Mr. Goldstein helped established the company as one of the premier companies in the water desalination, supply and reuse, as well as in industrial water processing and monitoring. In 2005, Ionics was bought by General Electric for approximately $1.3 billion.
The holder of 18 patents related to the purification and processing of liquids, Goldstein was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors that can be given to an engineer. Membership in the NAE honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice or education, and Goldstein joins 18 other UD alumni and six engineering faculty in achieving this recognition.
A member of the Delaware Diamond Society since 2003, Goldstein was presented the UD College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996.
The Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance Committee of Partners Healthcare System, Mr. Goldstein continues to play an active role in education and business. Mr. Goldstein is a trustee at the California Institute of Technology and a trustee of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. Elizabeth M. Morris, CHS '73, is a pediatric nurse practitioner in civilian practice who completed a 33 year career as a Navy Nurse Corps officer, retiring at the rank of Rear Admiral.
After graduating with honors from UD on a Navy Nurse Corps scholarship, she began her military nursing career during which she held clinical, headquarters and command positions. During Operation Desert Shield/Storm, she coordinated the identification of reserve medical personnel for mobilization in support of the first Gulf War. Morris was responsible for implementing Navy Medicine's Integrated Medical Support Plan at the National Naval Medical Center.
Promoted to Rear Admiral (lower half) in 2001, Morris served as Deputy Director, Navy Nurse Corps, Reserve Component and on the Secretary of the Navy's National Naval Reserve Policy Board. Recognized exemplary performance, she was awarded her second star and promoted to Rear Admiral (upper half) in 2004. Assigned as Associate Chief, Human Resources for Navy Medicine, she was the first Nurse Corps Reserve Admiral to serve as senior flag officer advisor to the Navy Surgeon General and 7,200 reserve medical personnel. Her efforts to have reserve medical personnel recognized as full and equal partners on Navy Medicine's health care team earned her the Legion of Merit and resulted in more than 3,145 reserve medical personnel being mobilized to care for casualties of the Global War on Terrorism.
Since her graduation from the University of Delaware, Morris has been a loyal Blue Hen. She served as a member of UD's Volunteer Admission Support Team, making phone calls to potential students and representing the university at several college fairs in Northern Virginia. She continues to support the School of Nursing through the alumni association.
A certified pediatric nurse practitioner with Capital Area Pediatrics in Northern Virginia, Morris serves on the Board of Managers for the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and is Education Chairman for the Virginia Chapter, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. Carol Post, AS '91M, has been a groundbreaking champion of legal reform against domestic violence and an advocate for its victims. When she began her thesis work, Delaware was the only state that lacked a coalition to combat domestic violence. Post has since used her academic training and research to change how Delaware's courts treat incidents of domestic violence and to create statewide networks of support for its victims.
The Project for Domestic Violence Reform, a community service organization, was a direct outgrowth of Post's master's degree thesis, in which she analyzed the outcomes of domestic violence cases in Delaware's Family Court system. Her findings provided a baseline data for subsequent studies and inspired the creation of a court program to assist victims of battering by providing advocacy services.
Post is a founder of the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and has served as Executive Director for over 13 years. The nonprofit Coalition has grown from a staff of one to a current staff of six and now has an annual operating budget of over $650,000. Membership has grown to include five member organizations and more than 115 supporting organizations and individuals.
As a statewide, nonprofit organization, the Coalition works with the criminal justice, healthcare, education and social service communities to create effective policies and programs for battered women and their children. DCADV is also one of 14 state coalitions funded by the CDC to create primary projects aimed at stopping violence before it starts. Post serves on the Board of the National Network to End Domestic Violence and has qualified as an expert witness in Delaware's Superior Court.
Post maintains her ties with her mentors and colleagues in the Department of Sociology and the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Program, providing many opportunities for UD students to pursue service-learning internships and volunteering her services as a lecturer for the two programs. Lisa Rowen, AS '82, CHS '82, has been described as an "expert clinician scholar" who has advanced her scholarship over the last two decades while holding various leadership positions in the nursing profession. Rowen is recognized nationally as an innovator and leader in clinical nursing, nursing education and research, patient safety and nursing management.
After graduating from UD, Rowen served as a clinical nurse in the department of surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. For six years, she provided nursing care to surgical in-patients while also attending graduate school full time at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and working in a research position.
From 1991 to 1998, Rowen served as vice president for patient care services at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, a 285-bed acute-care community teaching institution. She returned to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1998, where she served as director of nursing surgical services until 2007.
During her nine years at Johns Hopkins, she championed work on the effect of hand-hygiene on lowering infection rates. While at Hopkins, Rowen also created the concept of a "nurse partner," which links a bedside nurse to a non-nurse partner by cell phone. The nurse "partner" could complete tasks that would ordinarily take the nurse from the bedside. After implementation of the nurse partner role on a surgical unit, the nurses' time at the bedside doubled and patient satisfaction scores rose by 10 points.
Rowen has authored over 40 papers and is editor-in-chief of Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care. She serves as adjunct faculty for graduate nursing programs at Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland and George Mason University.
In 2007, Rowen became chief nursing officer and senior vice president of patient care services at the University of Maryland Medical Center. There she is responsible for leadership and management of all nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, clinical nutrition, social work and rehabilitative services. |