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The Juris Doctor may be pursued concurrently with either the Master of Arts in Philosophy or the Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy. Upon completion of such a concurrent program, degrees are conferred both by the College of Law and the Syracuse University Department of Philosophy. Students enrolled in these concurrent programs may obtain their J.D. and either the M.A. or Ph.D. in Philosophy in substantially less time than would be necessary if the programs were separately pursued.

Candidates for admission to the concurrent program must gain admission to the regular program of each participating academic unit. Interested students will then be assigned a College of Law advisor who will assist in the preparation of a petition requesting admission to the concurrent program and outlining a program of study. The petition must be approved by both the College of Law and the Department of Philosophy, and it must be filed with the College of Law Interdisciplinary Programs Committee.

Typically, students in their first year of study in a concurrent Law/Philosophy program will enroll mainly in law courses.

The College of Law will allow 15 credit hours in Philosophy courses toward the J.D. if pursuant to an approved concurrent program. The basis for awarding credit hours is set out in the College of Law Handbook of Academic Rules.

The M.A. in Philosophy requires 24 hours of course work and a defense of a six credit thesis. Because of the relatively modest credit hour requirements for the M.A. degree, the Philosophy Department does not generally transfer credit hours toward the M.A. in Philosophy for work taken elsewhere. Transfer credits from the School of Law are negotiable, however, depending on specific courses taken.

Credit hour arrangements between the J.D./Ph.D. in Philosophy may be more flexible. Questions and general inquiries should be directed to the Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy.

The application deadline is early March, but earlier application is encouraged. The LSAT score is generally accepted in lieu of the GRE.

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Founder and President of The Academy for Future Science, an international NGO (non-government organization). He is a social scientist, futurist, remote sensing and space law specialist. He is author of twenty books, his best-seller is The Keys of Enoch® . Among his many other books is one he co-authored with physicist, Russell Targ, entitled End of Suffering and Mind Dynamics in Space and Time co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher and Desiree Hurtak.He has two Ph.Ds, one from the University of California (1977), and one from the University of Minnesota (1993). His M.Th. is from Luther Theological Seminary where he studied early Greek, Latin and Coptic literature from the Patristic period under Dr. Carl Volz.

Dr. Hurtak has accomplished extensive archeological studies in Egypt and was one of the principal discoverers in 1997 of the “Tomb of Osiris” on the Giza Plateau. He also worked in the pyramids of Mexico and Egypt doing GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) and acoustic sound tests. He is research director of the Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association.

In the 1980s he was a Director at Technology Marketing Analysis Corporation, San Francisco, which sponsored RETSIE (Renewable Energy Technology Symposiums) and worked with six government agencies, in addition to NASA, to bring together over a thousand engineers, scientists and industrial leaders to exchange information on renewable energy technology. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he was scientific consultant for LASERTECH in Brazil which developed lasers for industrial applications and for the study of rapidly changing environmental conditions, particularly in the study of deforestation and the soil conditions in the Brazilian farmlands and throughout the Amazon. He and The Academy For Future Science are the holders of fourteen gold and silver medal film awards for his work in bringing science and art together in the media .

Dr. Hurtak was a scientific consultant for Sidney Sheldon’s bestseller of an alien encounter entitled The Doomsday Conspiracy (1992) and a researcher in the field of extraterrestrial investigation for over 35 years. He was a speaker at The First International Conference on ET Research in Acapulco with Dr. J. Allen Hynek.

Dr. Hurtak was a speaker at the United Nations Rio+20 (2012), the UN DPI Climate Forum, New York (2007) and was a participant at the UN World Summit for Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002). He has spoken at major universities in Europe, South Africa, South America and the United States, and has spoken before the Russian Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Science.

He is a pioneer in the area of space law, having published papers with the American Astronautical Society and the Mars Society. In 2005 and 2012, he was an invited speaker to the Law School at Northeast University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, on space law and safeguarding non-renewable resources, and his papers have been published in McGill University’s Journal entitled Annals of Air and Space Law and The University of Mississippi, School of Law’s Journal of Space Law.

The Academy for Future Science, which he founded with his wife, Desiree, has helped the indigenous people in Africa and South America through their outreach of food, clothing and education and for this, Dr. Hurtak was made an honorary member of the Xavante Nation in Mato Grosso, Brazil. He has worked to promote clean water resources and environmental habitats using remote sensing with an understanding that time is running out for many non-renewable resources.

In the capacity of an international consultant Dr. J.J. Hurtak has been featured in numerous film documentaries, and has appeared on television programs throughout the world, including Evening Magazine, Good Morning Australia, Good Morning South Africa, 60 Minutes (International), Carte Blanche, Globo TV in Brazil and National TV in Japan, Hoy Mismo (Mexico) and the ECO-satellite program 2020 with famed journalist Jaime Maussan.

In ecumenical and interfaith work he has lectured at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Johannesburg (1999), Barcelona (2004), Melbourne (2009), and Salt Lake City (2015).

In the arts and humanities, J.J. Hurtak is lyricist for many CDs, including The Living Capstone-The Great Liturgy of the Divine Eternal Father (2000); The Sacred Language of Ascent (2006) with Alice Coltrane (not released); Rea Ho Boka (2009) with the South African Mighty Voice Cultural Choir; Sacred Name Sacred Codes (2012) with Steven Halpern; and Das Zeitzeugenkonzert with the German Symphonic Orchestra of Berlin (2010).

Social scientist, futurist and co-founder with her husband Dr. J.J. Hurtak of The Academy For Future Science, an international organization working in over fifteen countries. Dr. Desiree Hurtak is also an environmentalist and an author of several books. Her most recent work, co-authored with her husband, is entitled Overself Awakening which has already been translated into 6 languages, as well as The 72 Names of the Myriad Expressions of the Divine Mother . Her most recent book co-authored with her husband and Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher entitled Mind Dynamics in Space and Time .

Desiree has worked extensively in both Egypt and Mexico. She hosted a panel at the United Nations Rio+20 Summit (2012) where she presented The Academy’s work with the Indigenous peoples of Brazil, focusing on Youth and Sustainable development. She also presented at the UN DPI Climate Forum, New York (2007) and was a participant at the UN World Summit for Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002). She also lectured at The Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne (2009) and Salt Lake City (2015) and now Toronto (2018) as part of her work is to bring together a greater interfaith dialog. To this end, she was one of the co-founders of the Committee for Spiritual Values and Global Concerns (New York). She is also an Evolutionary Leader which allows for a dynamic networking of key critical thinkers from United Nations and other major academic institutions.

Dr. Desiree Hurtak has been a film producer with the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, a public access TV station. She has a Masters Degree in International Relations from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. from The New School University, in the area of Public Policy. She has worked extensively in Egypt and Mexico recording acoustic testing of many ancient structures and was part of the exploration in 1997 that found the “Tomb of Osiris” on the Giza Plateau.

She and her husband are well known for their media work including “The Light Body” , “The Voice of Africa “ and “Initiation” from which they have won 14 national and international film awards. She was a scientific consultant for Sidney Sheldon’s bestseller of an alien encounter entitled The Doomsday Conspiracy (1992) and recently was part of a film entitled Wisdom of the Wayshowers , which includes many leading futurists including Apollo 14 Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell speaking about the existence of the life beyond Earth and a musical CD Sacred Name Sacred Codes with Steven Halpern. Desiree has appeared on numerous films and radio presentations including The Deepak Chopa Show and Coast to Coast Radio.

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The J.D.-Ph.D. Program The Graduate Council of the Faculties at the University of Pennsylvania has approved a J.D./Ph.D. Program in Law and Philosophy. The program allows students to earn two degrees: the J.D. and the Ph.D. in philosophy. Students must meet all the requirements for these respective degrees as set out by the Law School, the Philosophy Department, and the Graduate Division of Arts and Sciences (as approved by the Graduate Council of the Faculties). In practice, this means fulfilling the normal requirements for each degree, with certain cases of double-counting of courses. The program of study, taking into account the merging of the requirements for the two degrees, is summarized in this table. A financial aid package is available, which provides the normal graduate stipend (including health insurance, if not otherwise covered) for five years, and tuition support for six years (including a forgivable loan for law tuition). Students admitted to the program receive a letter setting out the aid package in some detail.   The M.D.-Ph.D. Program The Medical School, in cooperation with the various Ph.D. programs of the University, operates an M.D.-Ph.D. known as the Medical Scientist Training Program. Students admitted to this program work out an approved course of study allowing them to fulfill the requirements for both the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. M.D.-Ph.D. students seeking the Ph.D. in philosophy have typically begun their studies with two years of course work in philosophy.  

John J. Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

John J. Chen, M.D., Ph.D., specializes in neuro-ophthalmology and has research interests in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, optic neuritis, ischemic optic neuropathy, imaging and neuro-immunology. He undertakes both clinical and translational research in the pathogenesis and treatment of neuro-ophthalmic diseases.

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• Optic neuritis. Dr. Chen evaluates the epidemiology, clinical and radiological features of optic neuritis and related disorders. These include neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein autoantibody-associated demyelinating diseases. He collaborates with a Mayo Clinic neuroimmunology lab to describe the clinical phenotype of new glial autoantibodies that can affect the optic nerve.
• Idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Dr. Chen investigates new tools to detect raised intracranial pressure, including magnetic resonance elastography.
• Imaging. Dr. Chen has a reputation as an expert in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging of the optic nerve. He explores the use of OCT, hyperspectral camera and other imaging modalities as biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease.

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Dr. Chen's research strives to provide improvement in the diagnosis of neuro-ophthalmic disease by advancing the application of imaging for various illnesses and on improving understanding of glial autoantibodies and how they affect the optic nerve.

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• Member, American Ophthalmology Society, 2023-present.
• Teacher of The Year, Mayo Fellows Association, Mayo Clinic, 2016, 2020, 2023, 2024.
• Mayo Clinic Distinguished Educator Award, Mayo Clinic, 2023.
• Fellow, Academy of Educational Excellence, Mayo Clinic, 2018.
• Fellow, North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, 2018.
• Leonard and Mary Lou Hoeft Career Development Award in Ophthalmology Research, Mayo Clinic, 2018.
• Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2017.
• Best Original Paper Presentation for Neuro-Ophthalmology, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2017.
• Fellow Teaching Award, University of Iowa, 2014.
• Heed Fellowship Award, The Heed Ophthalmic Foundation, 2014.
• Residency Teaching Award, University of Iowa, 2013.

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Dr. J. Gene Wang is the CEO of Immetas Therapeutics, a biotech company he co-founded with David Sinclair at Harvard focusing on inflammation pathways in aging. He is a physician scientist with nearly two-decades experience in advancing scientific innovations across multiple therapeutic areas, including immunology/inflammation (Abbott, GSK & Novartis) and oncology (Merck). He created development strategies and led cross-functional teams in the successful development of Humira®, Varubi®, Zolinza® and Gardasil®. He also led efforts to identify novel targets and brought multiple first-in-class compounds to clinical-stage and proof-of-concept studies. Dr. Wang received M.D. from Peking University and Ph.D. in Immunobiology from Yale University, and he completed medical residency training at Yale New Haven Hospital.

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Due to the demand for researchers and policymakers with interdisciplinary training in both law and environmental science, we offer a joint degree program that enables students to earn a J.D. from the School of Law and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Policy (ECR) from the   Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy  and  Rosenstiel School for Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Who Should Consider this Joint Program?

This program enables students with strong interests in both environmental policy and law to prepare for careers in either the private or public sector in a shorter amount of time than if pursuing both degrees separately.

As an intensive program, it provides high-level knowledge and research experience and is especially suited to those seeking to:

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Ph.D. Fellowship and $25,000 law school tuition for 2 years

Schedule & Credits

The joint program enables students to obtain both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in 6 years. Students fulfill all requirements of the current J.D. and ECR Ph.D. programs, including completing and defending a doctoral dissertation. One full year of the six will be spent taking courses in the School of Law, and the additional five years are spent taking both Law and ECS courses.  Click here to see schedule and credit specifics  about entering the program through the School of Law and for information about entering through the PhD program.

Scholarships and Tuition

Students will receive 4 years worth of stipends and tuition waivers from the ECR program for their PhD work, with the obligation to serve as a Teaching Assistant for 1 year out of the 4. The Law School will provide a $25,000 tuition scholarship for the first year in Law School, and then, assuming the student is in the top half of his/her class, a comparable scholarship ($25,000) pro-rated for subsequent years depending on the number of law school credits by semester.

Application Process

Students wishing to pursue the J.D./Ph.D. program must be admitted to both the J.D. and ECR Ph.D. programs separately. J.D. students wishing to pursue the J.D./Ph.D. program must apply to the ECR Ph.D. program for admission no later than Fall semester of their second year of law school. Enrolled law students who are subsequently accepted into the joint program must notify the law school registrar before taking their first ECR credits.

In order to be accepted to the Law School, students must take the LSAT and complete the online Law School application. In order to be accepted to the Ph.D. program, students must take the GRE and complete the ECR Ph.D. application.

Acceptance by one program does not in any way indicate or guarantee acceptance by the other degree program.

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Dr. Jennifer Jaquet Abess/EVR Graduate Program Director Email: [email protected] Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy Phone: 305-284-8259 Web: www.cesp.miami.edu

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Due to the demand for researchers and policymakers with interdisciplinary training in both law and environmental science, we now offer a joint degree program that enables students to earn a J.D. from the School of Law and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Policy (ECS).

This program enables students with strong interests in both environmental policy and law to prepare for careers in either the private or public sector in a shorter amount of time than if pursuing both degrees separately.

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Department of Philosophy The JD/PhD Program is designed to train the next generation of legal philosophers, who will teach legal and political philosophy in law schools, philosophy departments, departments of government, specialized graduate and undergraduate jurisprudence programs, and legal studies departments. The JD/MA is available on an ad hoc basis with permission of the Graduate Program in Philosophy and can be completed in the three years that the student matriculates at Penn Carey Law.

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Led by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Philosophy department, the JD/PhD Program is designed to train the next generation of legal philosophers. This program is designed for those who will teach legal and political philosophy in law schools, philosophy departments, departments of government, specialized graduate and undergraduate jurisprudence programs, and legal studies departments.

Students in this program have the opportunity to earn a combined JD/PhD in a condensed time frame while complementing their studies in each field with knowledge and research in the other.

Program Course Overview

Students can earn both degrees in six years. The Law School gives credit for up to four approved courses in the Department of Philosophy toward the JD (more if the courses are cross-listed with the Law School courses). The Philosophy Department requires that students complete all PhD coursework, which may include several courses from the Law School curriculum.

Most often, students spend their first two years in the Department of Philosophy and their third year at the Law School completing the traditional 1L curriculum. The next two years are spent in combined coursework in the two departments, followed by dissertation writing. On occasion, for the exceptional candidate, some other arrangement of coursework may be possible.

How to Apply

Students must apply and gain admission separately to each department. Applications to the Department of Philosophy are welcomed contemporaneously with the Law School application and vice versa.

For more information, admitted or current JD students should contact Amanda S. Aronoff. Applicants or prospective applicants to the Law School should contact [email protected] .

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Nursing Informatics is the "science and practice (that) integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with management of information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide."

Nursing Informatics Innovators: Harriet Werley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI

Compiled by Virginia Saba, EdD, RN, FAAN, FACMI; Constance Berg, RN, MBA, FHIMSS; Susan K. Newbold, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, FHIMSS; Jack E. Brixey, BS, MS, MT(ASCP), Juliana J Brixey, PhD, RN

Harriet H. Werley practiced as a nurse informatician before informatics was named and acknowledged as a field in nursing (Ozbolt, 2003).  Dr. Werley is recognized as a pioneer of nursing informatics and it is in this spirit that we review and honor the highlights of her career.

Werley was born in 1914 in Bern County, Pennsylvania, where her childhood was influenced by the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Werley’s father died at an early age, leaving the family to struggle financially.  These challenges, however, did not prevent Werley from successfully graduating from high school and saving enough money to attend the Jefferson Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia.  In 1941, she received a diploma in nursing and joined the United States Army. 

Werley was commissioned as an officer in the nursing corps and served in the Mediterranean Theater.  In 1946 during a break in service, she completed a Bachelor in Nursing degree at the University of California at Berkeley.  In 1948, she returned to military service.  Under the Army’s sponsorship, she completed her Master’s degree in Nursing Administration in 1951 at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York.

A career guidance program for Army Nurse Corps officers was established in the Office of the Surgeon General in June 1952.  Captain Harriet H. Werley was assigned as the first career guidance counselor (Feller & Cox, 2016).

Werley began her tenure as an administrator in the career guidance and planning section of the Army Nurse Corps.  In this role she moved the Army Nurse Corps to all bachelor prepared nurses.

At the Office of the Surgeon General, she was the first officially designated nurse researcher at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in Silver Spring, MD.  Dismayed by the lack of positions in the field of research, she began to advocate for more research by nurses. 

In 1955, Werley began work in the Department of Atomic Casualties Study at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.  Her work at WRAIR led to the creation of the nursing research department where she served as their first director.  As the Chief, Department of Nursing WRAIR, Werley was instrumental in increasing the inclusion of nurses in both medical and nursing research. 

In the late 1950s, she participated in conferences with IBM to identify data processing needs in health care. This interest continued throughout her career.  One significant conference was: the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) Conference project, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Nursing (UWM SON).  This was supported by a grant from the Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, Tennessee (Harriet H. Werley, Principal Investigator), and by the provision of computer resources during the NMDS Conference from IBM Corporation Academic Information Systems. Portions of the conference were published in the 1986 July-August issue of Nursing Management, pages 217-224. The NMDS includes 16 items organized into categories of nursing care and has been used as a framework by other nursing terminologies.

In 1962 Dr. Harriet Werley completed her military career with a tour of duty as the chief nurse of the U. S. Eighth Army.  Although, Werley retired in 1964 as a Lieutenant Colonel she continued with an active professional career. 

Werley earned her doctorate in 1969 from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.  She held various faculty and administrative positions at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI., The University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  In her academic positions, Werley continued advocating for nursing information systems with a research focus.

As a disseminator of knowledge, Dr. Harriet Werley was the first editor of the publication, Research in Nursing and Health.  The second editor was Werley’s colleague, Dr. Margaret Grier.

Dr. Harriet Werley was at the forefront of Nursing Informatics, which she originally labeled “Computers in Nursing Information.”  Werley was an influential leader in its development and integration into the nursing profession.  In 1977, she initiated one of the first computer-research conferences on ‘State-of-the-Art on Nursing Information Systems’ at the University of Illinois with Dr. Margaret Grier.  They convened the key nurses who were conducting research in the field of “Computers in Nursing Information.” As a result of the conference the papers were published in one of the first books on this topic (Werley & Grier, 1981).

In 1984, she initiated the first Council on Computer Applications in Nursing (CCAIN) at the American Nurses Association (ANA) and chaired its first board consisting of Virginia K. Saba, Kathleen A. McCormick, Rita Zielstorff, and Ivo Abraham.  As Chair she, with CCAIN Board members, submitted numerous resolutions to the ANA House of Delegates on the importance of computers in nursing which were approved.  This active board promoted numerous CCAIN activities including several early and first publications in the field of computers in nursing, namely: “Computers in Nursing Education,” “Computers in Nursing Research,” “Computer Design Criteria: For Systems that Support the Nursing Process” (Nursing Practice), and “Computers in Nursing Management.”  The Council also sponsored and conducted demonstration sessions at the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Annual Nursing Conferences. 

Dr. Werley initiated a major component of nursing informatics in collaboration with Dr. Norma Lang.  At the first invitational conference in Milwaukee, WI, 65 nurse clinicians, administrators, educators, and researchers designed, developed and established the nursing minimum data set (NMDS).  This was followed by a Post-Conference Task Force that finalized the original 16 elements of the NMDS-four of which were focused on nursing content.  In 1990 the ANA House of Delegates endorsed the NMDS described above to define costs and quality of care for the nursing profession. 

Dr. Werley gave presentations at numerous conferences on Nursing Information Systems as well as Nursing Informatics where she emphasized the need for research focus in the field.  One example was an invitational conference in 1990 entitled “State-of-the-art of Information Systems” sponsored by the National Commission on Nursing Implementation Project (NCNIP) held in Orlando, FL.  Besides these key milestones in the history of nursing informatics (NI), she was on the leadership committee of the Nursing Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC).  The SIG formed in 1981 by Dr. Virginia K. Saba, was the forerunner of the Nursing Informatics Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) established in 1990.

Dr. Werley mentored several doctoral nursing students in the field of NI Research, NMDS, and early implementation of NI.  She was very visible during the growth of NI and could be seen and heard attending or presenting at many national and international nursing conferences.

In declining health, Harriet Werley attended the 1996 Fall Symposium of the Nursing Informatics Working Group at AMIA located in Washington, D.C.  This was the last symposium Dr. Werley attended.  At this symposium, the Werley Award for the paper that made the greatest contribution to nursing informatics was awarded for the first time to Rita Zielstorff (a pioneer in nursing informatics).  Since then an annual Harriet Werley award is given at AMIA for the best student paper. 

Werley’s contributions to nursing was not limited to informatics. It is of interest that Dr. Werley was one of the founding members of the American Academy of Nursing and designated in 1994 as one of the Academy’s early Living Legends.

Harriet Werley died October 14, 2002 at the age of 88 years.  She had a nursing career of over 50 years and made enormous contributions to the profession of nursing.  Irrevocably, Dr. Werley is recognized as a pioneer of Nursing Informatics. 

Bibliography

• A Salute to One of Our Own, U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History.  Retrieved 10/02/2017
• Feller, C. M., & Cox, D. R. (Eds). (2016). Highlights in the history of the Army Nurse Corps. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History.
• Ozbolt, J. G. (2003). Harriet Helen Werley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI. J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc., 10(2), 224-225.  Retrieved 10/02/2017 from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10893372_Harriet_Helen_Werley_PhD_RN_FAAN_FACMI
• Saba, V. K., & Westra, B. L. (2015). Historical perspectives of Nursing Informatics. In V. K. Saba, & K. A. McCormick, (Eds.). Essentials of Nursing Informatics (6th Ed.) (pp. 3-22).  New York:  McGraw –Hill Education.
• Werley, H. H., & Grier, M. R. (Eds.).  (1981). Nursing Information Systems. New York:  Springer Publishing Company.

Dr. Mary J. McFarland, PhD

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Mary Jack McFarland, PhD, 79, passed away on May 17, 2024 at Pleasant Hills, Hutchinson. She was born January 2, 1945 in Hutchinson as the first child of Harold and Maxine (Butts) McFarland. Her sister Cindy joined the family two years later.

Mary graduated from McPherson High School and received her B.S. in Medical Technology from Bethany College in Lindsborg, and moved to Minnesota, to complete an internship at Hennepin County General Hospital in Minneapolis. She traveled to Colorado, where she worked for several years as a medical technologist for the Weld County Hospital in Greeley.

To continue learning in her profession, Mary received a teaching fellowship to University of Vermont where she graduated with a M.S in Medical Laboratory Science in 1973. Although Mary loved the scenery, people, and culture of Vermont, a warmer climate drew her to Phoenix, Arizona. There she worked at St. Luke’s Hospital for three years until she became a full-time instructor at Phoenix Community College teaching hematology and math to medical technology students.

This was a highly enjoyable time for Mary because she loved the field of hematology, academic life, and camaraderie with the faculty. During her seven years of teaching, she began taking classes in Psychology at nearby Arizona State University. She completed her Masters in Psychology and moved to Riverside, CA, to complete her PhD in Clinical Psychology at University of California Riverside.

Mary fulfilled her post-doctorate internships at San Bernardino County Mental Health meeting the requirements to become a licensed psychologist. Dr. McFarland relocated to Brookings, a small community on the beautiful coastline of Oregon close enough to California, to create a private practice there in rural Del Norte County.

For 21 years, Mary continued her busy private practice while teaching Psychology classes at Southwest Oregon College. She wove herself into the life and lives of the people in the Brookings community developing many friendships, playing clarinet in a woodwind quartet, and especially enjoying gardening.

As her health began to deteriorate, Mary closed her private practice, retired and circled back to Kansas where her life began to be near the family she treasured. After her return, Mary cherished the memories of all their gatherings, adventures, and most of all laughter. Mary held dear Marjorie Ledell (Vancouver, Wash.), her best friend since grade school and Glory, her almost human cat.

Mary is survived by: her sister, Cindy Burke of Inman, her nephew, Tony Burke (Michelle) of Austin, TX, nieces, Jackie Ribordy (Roland) of Windom and Joey Burke of Inman, and numerous great-nieces and great-nephews.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents, Maxine and Harold, both World War II veterans.

Cremation has taken place. Memorial service will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2024, at Grace Episcopal Church, 2 Hyde Park Drive, Hutchinson. Friends may sign her book from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Wednesday at Elliott Mortuary.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Grace Episcopal Church, in care of Elliott Mortuary, 1219 N. Main, Hutchinson, KS 67501.

Posted online on May 18, 2024

Published in Hutchinson Daily News