Patricia Reid Ponte, RN, DNSc, director, Oncology Nursing Services, has been selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow for 2001. She is recognized as “poised to lead and shape the U.S. health care system of the future.”
“I am honored and thrilled to participate in this exceptional program,” said Reid Ponte, who also serves as chief, Nursing and Patient Care Services at DFCI. “This fellowship will support the outstanding efforts under way at Dana-Farber and position me to provide leadership that Nursing and Patient Care Services needs at this time. I will work with DFCI President Ed Benz, MD, and the program’s core resource team to determine how to direct the grant and educational opportunity to promote our priority agendas for cancer care.”
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsors 20 three-year fellowships in order to offer participating nurses “the experience, insights, competencies, and skills necessary to advance executive leadership positions in a health-care system undergoing unpredicted change,” according to the foundation. Fellows remain in their current positions, with occasional time away for program activities.