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About Sherri Garber Mendelson, PhD, RNC, CNS, IBCLC

Dr. Mendelson attended University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana and Chicago graduating in 1977 with a BSN.  She spent her early career in the Mother-Baby Unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital before moving for one year to a Kibbutz in Israel.  Upon returning, she began work in Labor and Delivery at Lutheran General Hospital and completed her MS in Perinatal Nursing at University of Illinois in 1984.  Dr. Mendelson worked as a clinical nurse in all areas of obstetrics and pediatrics, NICU, and PICU before taking a position as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in 1984.  Her family moved to California in 1992.  Sherri was employed as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center since 1997.  She completed her PhD in Nursing at UCLA in 2007 and assumed a role as Director of Nursing Research and Magnet Program Director at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center.
 

Positions

2010 - Present Director Nursing Research, Magnet Program and Professional Role Development, Providence St. Joseph Health ‐ Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills, CA
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1996 - 2010 Clinical Educator Maternal Child Health, Providence St. Joseph Health ‐ Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills, CA
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2018 Research Fellowship Program
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
2014 - 2018 Private foundation grant for Nursing Research
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
2016 - 2017 Research Fellowship Program, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center; Research
Hearst Foundation
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Professional Service and Affiliations

1983 - Present Member, Sigma Theta Tau
Present Member, Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
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Honors and Awards

  • 2009 AWHONN JOGNN Research article of the year
  • 2008 PACLAC Member of the Year
  • 2005-2006 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • 2000-2004 Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles

Education

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2007 PhD, University of California, Los Angeles ‐ Nursing
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1984 MS, University of Illinois at Chicago ‐ Perinatal Nursing
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1977 BSN, University of Illinois at Chicago ‐ Nursing
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Research Works (24)