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Dr. Connolly is Assistant Professor, Yale School of Nursing, and Assistant Professor, Section of the History of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. She holds a BSN from the University of Pennsylvania, an MSN in Primary Care from the University of Rochester and a post-master's certificate as a pediatric acute/chronic care nurse practitioner from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Connolly received a PhD in nursing history from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Connolly also completed two years of postdoctoral training at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health's History of Public Health and Medicine Program. Her postdoctoral training at Columbia was enhanced by a fellowship in the United States Senate with the late Senator Paul Wellstone [D-Minn]. There, she placed contemporary health care issues into historical context for current legislative action.
Nursing history; history of infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis and AIDS, changing ideas and practices with regard to children's health; foundations of American health care, health care policy
Dr. Connolly has just completed a project using social history methodology to focus on a unique early twentieth century intervention, the pediatric tuberculosis preventorium. Her work provides insight into the intellectual foundations of nursing, particularly early twentieth century nursing care of children; yields new information concerning the ways in which the identification and assessment of risk factors is highly culturally dependent and subject to the biases of the evaluators and of the predominant culture; and analyzes the legacy of past politics in current health and social welfare policies. The resulting book is published in early 2008 by Rutgers University Press as part of the "Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series. Entitled "Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970," Dr. Connolly provides a provocative analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the preventorium. This unique facility was intended to prevent TB in indigent children from families labeled irresponsible or at risk for developing the disease. Yet, it also held deeply embedded assumptions about class, race, and ethnicity. She goes further to explain how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.
Her current research, undertake in collaboration with YSN Professor Ann Williams, focuses on nursing in the context of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Their research is national in scope and will entail the completion of dozens of oral histories of nurses involved in the epidemic over the course of the past 25 years in the United States. Although historians have written about AIDS physicians and situated nursing the epidemic in the context of other "plagues" such as tuberculosis, no one has completed a broad-based, scholarly history of nurses and AIDS.
Dr. Connolly has received research support as a primary investigator through the National Library of Medicine's Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health funding mechanism. Her work has also been supported by numerous other sources including individual pre and postdoctoral grants from the National Institute for Nursing Research, Sigma Theta Tau International, STTI XI chapter, the University of Virgina's Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, and Rutgers University's Center for Children and Childhood Studies. Dr. Connolly's doctoral student research won the Marion Gregory student award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the Teresa E. Christy award from the American Association for the History of Nursing.
More recently, her scholarship was recognized by the American Association for the History of Nursing when she was awarded the Lavinia Dock Award, the organization's highest honor for the publication, "Beyond social history: New approaches to understanding the state of and the state in nursing history." This work is a theoretical and methodological critique of nursing history in which I put forward new directions for the field.
Beyond Yale, Dr. Connolly is a consultant to the American Academy of Nursing's Expert Panel on Nursing History, on the editorial board of Pediatric Nursing, a reviewer for the Nursing History Review, and participates on a National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine study section for the "Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health Care," funding mechanism.
In the Graduate Entry Pre-Specialty Program at Yale, Dr. Connolly teaches the Seminar in Pediatric Nursing and Clinical Practice in Pediatric Nursing courses. In the master's and doctoral programs, she teaches a methods seminar on historical research and an elective: Nursing, Health, and Social Welfare in American History. Within the broader university, Professor Connolly advises undergraduate history of medicine thesis students and, beginning 2007, will teach an undergraduate history seminar entitled; Children's Health in American History, 1800-2000. She is also helping to develop the new Yale University Health Studies program.
Clinically, Dr. Connolly has more than 20 years of experience as a pediatric nurse and nurse practitioner in acute care, chronic care, and outpatient settings. She has presented her work at numerous nursing and history conferences, both nationally and internationally.
March 2007 "Undeveloped and Undernourished:" Children at the Charlottesville, Virginia Blue Ridge Sanatorium, 1920-1945 Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Charlottesville VA
April 2006 Private Funding for Public Health: The Case of New York City Public Health Nursing, 1895-1940. Eastern Nursing Research Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
August 2005 Translating Science into Practice: An Historical Analysis of Nurses and the Pretuberculosis Diagnosis, 1900-1940. Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Group University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia
June 2005 Early "Rhodes" to School-based Health Care: An Historical Perspective on Early Twentieth Century School based Health Programs and their Contemporary Legacy. National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, Providence, Rhode Island
March 2005"Advance Guards of the Health Army": The Bureau of Nursing Service for New York City's Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, 1900-1940. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama.
July 2004 "Knowledge Migration, Culture, and Science: A Case Study of Children, Nurses, and Tuberculosis Prevention in Western Europe and North America, 1900-1940." Presented at Sigma Theta Tau 15th International Nursing Research Congress, Dublin Ireland.
January 2004 "Enduring Issues in American Nursing," Presentation to nurses and physicians at Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, New York.
November 2003 "Translating science into practice: An historical analysis of nurses and the "pretubercular" child, 1900-1940, " Presented at Sigma Theta Tau International 37th Biennial Convention, Toronto, Canada.
September 2003 "Executive ability and a motherly instinct": Nursing and New York Hospital's Convalescent Cottages for Children, 1907-1936. Presented at the annual research conference of the American Association for the History of Nursing, Milwaukee, WI.
September 2003 "Lessons from Abroad": Nursing, Children, and Pretuberculosis, 1900-1940. Presented at International Nursing History Conference Exploring Diasporas: Nursing and Midwifery Cultural Migrations 18th - 20th Centuries. Oxford, England.
March 2003 "Translating science into practice: An historical analysis of nurses and the "pretubercular" child, 1900-1940, " Presented at Eastern Nursing Research Society, New Haven, CT.
February 2003 "An Historiography of Tuberculosis and Children," Invited Presentation at the University of Rochester . Sponsored by the School of Nursing, Department of History, and Medical School Department of Medical Humanities, Rochester, NY.
January 2003 Prevention through Detention: The Tuberculosis Preventorium Movement in the United States, 1900-1940. Presented at Rutgers University Colloquium Series on Children and Childhood Studies. Camden, NJ.
October 2002 "Advance Guards of the Health Army": The Bureau of Nursing Service for New York City's Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, 1900-1940. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Philadelphia, PA.
October 2002 The Power of the "Public" in the Art of the Possible. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Philadelphia, PA.
September 2002 "Advance Guards of the Health Army": The Bureau of Nursing Service for New York City's Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, 1900-1940. Presented at the annual research conference of the American Association for the History of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT.
September 2002 Replacing the "Grim Nurses of Poverty and Sickness" with Pediatric Nurses: Trained nurses at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1855-1941. Presented at the annual research conference of the American Association for the History of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT. [Presented with Mary Walton MSN].
April 2002 "Not Just Poor and Pitiable but Physically in Need": New York Hospital's Campbell Convalescent Cottages for Children, 1907-1936. Presented at the annual research conference of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Kansas City, KS.
March 2002 "Advance Guards of the Health Army": The Bureau of Nursing Service for New York City's Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, 1900-1940. Presented at Eastern Nursing Research Society, State College, PA.
February 2002 Nurses and Early Twentieth Century Convalescent Hospitals. Presented at the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry Seminar Series at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Charlottesville, VA.
January 2002 History and the 'Hill': The Uses and Misuses of History in a Political Setting. Presented at the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Joint Seminar Series. Philadelphia, PA.
April 2001 Examining Pediatric Nursing's Past: Envisioning Its Future. Presented at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
September 1999 Lessons from the Past: Implications for the Future. Symposium Coordinator and Presenter at Better Health Through Nursing Research: State of the Science Congress, Washington DC.
June 1999 Experiments in Health Care: Nursing Innovations Past and Future. Symposium presented at the International Council of Nurses Centennial Conference London, England.
May 1999 Nurturing Incarceration: The Preventorium Experiment in the United States. Presented at the annual research conference of the American Association for the History of Medicine, New Brunswick, NJ.
May 1999 Looking Backward, Thinking Forward: Pediatric Nursing in the Twenty-First Century. Keynote Address at Regional Pediatric Nursing Update, Wilmington, DE.
April 1999 Tuberculosis Prevention in Children in New York City in the Early Twentieth Century. presented at Eastern Nursing Research Society, New York, NY.
September 1998 Pale, Poor and Pretubercular: The Tuberculosis Preventorium. Presented at the annual research conference of the American Association for the History of Nursing. Jackson, MS.
June 1998 Historical Research Methodology. Presented at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Doctoral Student Seminar. Baltimore, MD.
April 1998 Inventing the First Tuberculosis Preventorium in New York City, 1900-1909. Presented at the New York Academy of Medicine Seminar Series. New York, NY.
Lavinia Dock Award
Marion Gregory Outstanding PhD Student Award, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, 2000
Teresa E. Christy Award
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