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• ANF President, Margarete L. Zalon
  A special thank you to our ANF President, Margarete L. Zalon, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC. Dr. Zalon’s commitment to ANF is exemplified by her hard work and passion. Dr. Zalon first encountered ANF as an ANF Scholar through the ANF Nursing Research Grants (NRG) Program. She credits ANF with starting her research career with a grant funded by the Wallerstein Foundation for Geriatric Life Improvement in 1991.
• Linda Finch, PhD, RN
  When Linda Finch, PhD, RN, made her first attempt to garner an ANF grant, she was not successful. But because reviewers' took the time to offer their advice, she was able to resubmit a stronger research proposal, which led to her becoming a 2004 ANF scholar.

  "My whole area of focus has been looking at the nurse-patient relationship and particularly the caring piece of it," says Finch, a Tennessee Nurses Association member.

• Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, RN, FAAN
  In 1983, Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, RN, FAAN, used her ANF grant to study what was close to her heart—infant development. At the time, she was a pediatric nurse practitioner and a doctoral student at Temple University.

  "I was seeing a number of preemies in the office," says Medoff Cooper, a Pennsylvania State Nurses Association member. "Their parents were having problems taking care of them, because the babies were so crabby, so difficult."

• Jean McSweeney, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
  Dr. McSweeney has contributed significantly to the field of women's cardiovascular disease. Although she has received prestigious funding for her research endeavors, ANF provided her first funding as a SNRS/ANF Scholar. According to Dr. McSweeney, the study conducted with funds from ANF provided the essential foundation for her work on women's prodromal and acute symptoms associated with myocardial infarction and served as the springboard for her future studies.
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