Released on = July 18, 2007, 10:55 am

Press Release Author = Fulbright Scholar Program, please contact Teresa Liao,
communications specialist, Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
Telephone: 202.686.7869

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Dr. Patricia A. Cholewka, RN, Assistant Professor at New
York City College of Technology, Department of Nursing, and resident of Brooklyn,
NY, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar lecture/research grant at
Vilnius University, Lithuania during the 2007-2008 academic year, according to the
United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship
Board.


Press Release Body = Dr. Patricia A. Cholewka, RN, Assistant Professor at New York
City College of Technology, Department of Nursing, and resident of Brooklyn, NY, has
been awarded a Fulbright Scholar lecture/research grant at
Vilnius University, Lithuania during the 2007-2008 academic year, according to the
United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship
Board.

Dr. Cholewka will explore the role that nurses have in Lithuania for managing,
monitoring, and improving healthcare outcomes through the application of Information
Technology (IT). Her research will help determine the extent to which healthcare
system improvements, that include IT implementation, were successful after
Lithuania's independence from the Soviet Union and its subsequent accession into the
European Union in 2004. Results of this research will be published in professional
nursing and IT journals here in the U.S. in order to contribute to nursing research
by providing an alternative viewpoint when considering our own national e-Health
initiatives.

Dr. Cholewka is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will
travel abroad to some 150 countries for the 2007-2008 academic year through the
Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the
late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build
mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.

The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange
activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and
professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their
counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S.
They are among more than 266,600 American and foreign university students, teachers,
university faculty, and professionals who have participated in Fulbright exchange
programs.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or
professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership
potential in their fields. Among thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.


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Contact Details = Patricia A. Cholewka, EdD, MPA, MA, RN, BC
New York City College of Technology
The City University of New York
300 Jay Street, P-505
Brooklyn, NY 11201
e-mail: pcholewka@citytech.cuny.edu