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Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy is a professor at Villanova University and co-director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children\u2019s Health and the Environment, part of the national of network Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units.<\/p><\/div>\n
The free, public lecture will also be presented virtually via WebEx, but registration is required.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Dorothy Hussain Distinguished Lecture enables us to host experts each year on topics with real-life implications for our nursing students, faculty and the broader community,\u201d said Dr. Eileen Walsh, senior associate dean for academic affairs and chief nurse administrator in the College of Health and Human Services<\/a>. \u201cEnvironmental health is an essential focus and increasingly important topic in our field. We look forward to insights from Dr. Ruth Mc-Dermott-Levy.\u201d<\/p>\n McDermott-Levy brings a wealth of expertise in environmental health, a subspeciality of public health that considers how factors such as human-made pollution, naturally occurring substances, and environmental change adversely affect the health of individuals or their communities.<\/p>\n She has completed extensive research on environmental and public health nursing, including as a 2018-19 Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Health and Environmental Science to Finland, and currently serves as a professor in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University outside Philadelphia and as co-director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children\u2019s Health and the Environment at Villanova.<\/p>\n The Mid-Atlantic Center for Children\u2019s Health and the Environment is one of 10 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units in the United States. It is the only unit led fully by nurses.<\/p>\n The Alliance of Nurses for Health Environments recognized McDermott-Levy for leadership in environmental health nursing with the Charlotte Brody Award in 2020.<\/p>\n The Dorothy Hussain Distinguished Lecture is named after the late Dorothy Gladys Hussain, whose professional career spanned 32 years as a staff nurse and critical care nurse at the former Medical College of Ohio Hospital. She was known for patient advocacy and championing patients\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n Dr. S. Amjad Hussain, a professor emeritus of medicine and humanities at UToledo, will moderate.<\/p>\n