de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging News
de Tornyay Center Receives the 2025 Faye Glenn Abdellah Leadership Award
October 16, 2025
From left to right: Basia Belza, Professor of Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics and Director of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging (accepting the Leadership Award on behalf of the center); Hilaire Thompson, Executive Dean of the UW School of Nursing; and Betty Bekemeier, Professor and Director of the Northwest Center for Public Health…
Scholar Spotlight: Jun Heo
September 3, 2025
Jun Heo was one of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging 2024-2025’s Healthy Aging Undergraduate Research Scholars and a BSN student. Heo’s faculty mentor was Anita Souza, and his project was on “Exploring Healthcare and Housing Differences Between Older Veterans and Non-Veterans in Permanent Supportive Housing: Barriers to Healthy Aging”. What made you choose…
Scholar Spotlight: Lydia Chen
September 2, 2025
Lydia Chen was one of the center’s de Tornyay Center’s 2024-2025 Healthy Aging Scholars and a DNP student. Her project was on ‘Using Artificial Intelligence in Improving Nursing Documentation in Skilled Nursing Facilities’ and her faculty mentor was Jamie Young. What made you choose nursing? My career started as an occupational therapist. I was working…
Scholar Spotlight: Madison McKee
September 2, 2025
Madison McKee was one of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging’s 2024-2025 Undergraduate Research Scholars. Her research project was on “Examining the Impacts of Facilitated Garden Activities for Individuals Living with Dementia and their Caregivers”, and her faculty mentor was Basia Belza. What made you choose nursing? I'm in the accelerated Bachelors of Nursing…
Scholar Spotlight: Sera Madsen
May 15, 2025
Sera Madsen is a UW School of Nursing DNP student and one of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging’s 2024-2025 Scholars. Her research project is on “Expanding Dementia Awareness through Faith-Based Organizations in Rural or Underserved Washington Communities”, and her faculty mentor is Kori Dewing. Why did you choose nursing? I was looking for…
Scholar Spotlight: Jessica Japra
May 14, 2025
Jessica Japra is a UW School of Nursing BSN student and one of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging’s 2024-2025 Undergraduate Research Scholars. Her research project is on “The Roles of Chronotype and Cognitive Function on Feasibility of Cognitive Training for Older Intensive Care Unit Survivors”, and her faculty mentor is Maya Elias. Why…