Chester, Pa.
– The Widener University Board of Trustees recently appointed four new members
to its ranks including two leading medical professionals in the region, a
senior vice president for DuPont and an undergraduate student leader.
Barbara Chamberlain
of Williamstown, N.J., the past president of the New Jersey State Nurses’
Association; Kathleen McNicholas of Rockland, Del., a medical director at
Christiana Care Health System; Thomas L. Sager of Wilmington, Del., senior vice
president and general counsel for DuPont; and Justin Gordon of Harleysville,
Pa., a senior computer science major, were elected at the May 3 meeting of the
Board of Trustees.
Until
recently, Chamberlain served as the program manager for Transforming Care at
the Bedside, a project managed by the New Jersey Hospital Association Institute
for Quality and Patient Safety and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation. In this position, she assisted staff nurses at the bedside to make
small changes to improve patient outcomes and patient and nurse satisfaction.
Chamberlain
has held positions as a staff nurse, clinical nurse specialist, and as an
academic and clinical faculty member at the diploma, associate’s, bachelor’s
and master’s levels of nursing education. She has served as the director of
research and development and the corporate director of clinical education in a
multi-system acute care health system. She also served as an officer in the
United States Air Force.
She earned
her doctorate in nursing from Widener University, and serves on the School of
Nursing Advisory Board and the Widener Leadership Council. She is also a very
active participant in the Widener University Nurses Alumni Association.
McNicholas
is the medical director for Performance Improvement and Surgical Utilization
Management at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware. Prior to her
promotion, she was associate chief of cardiac surgery. A member of the open
heart team at Christiana Care Health System since its inception, she
specializes in adult cardiac surgery, pediatric cardiac surgery and general
thoracic surgery.
In addition
to being a medical doctor, McNicholas holds juris doctor and master of laws
degrees from Widener University School of Law. Last year, she was named one of
the “Irish Legal 100” by Irish America magazine. She also serves on the
Widener Law Board of Overseers.
McNicholas’
former positions include director of pediatric cardiovascular surgery at
Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, N.J. and surgical house officer
at the Hospital for Sick Children in London. She is an associate professor at
Jefferson Medical College and previously held an academic appointment at
Graduate Hospital of Philadelphia. She completed training in general and
cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
Sager, a
member of the Widener School of Law Board of Overseers, helped pioneer the
DuPont Convergence and Law Firm Partnering Program and continues to have
oversight responsibility. Through his leadership, this program has become a
benchmark in the industry and has received national acclaim for its innovative
approach to the business of practicing law. In 2010, The National Law
Journal recognized Sager as one of the 40 most influential attorneys of the
past decade.
Sager is
past chairman of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, a group that
advocates for the expanded hiring, retention and promotion of minority
attorneys in corporate law departments and the law firms they serve. Recently,
the association established the Thomas L. Sager Award in his name. The award is
given in recognition of his individual efforts and achievements to promote
diversity in the legal profession.
In addition,
Sager serves as a board member for the International Institute for Conflict
Prevention and Resolution (CPR), and is a member for the CPR National Task
Force on Diversity in Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 2001, he received the
Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association Commission on
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, and he received the CPR
Corporate Leadership Award in 2009.
Gordon is
enrolled in the Widener Honors Program in General Education and is a member of
the Widener Presidential Service Corps/Bonner Leader Program, a distinguished
group of students who all work and learn together, devoting themselves to civic
engagement and receiving personalized leadership development training.
A consistent
Dean’s List student, Gordon has completed a cooperative education program with
the Arm Test and Evaluation Command in Aberdeen, Md. where he researched and
developed applications for Army testing utilized for design and construction of
a web application, worked on implementing a content management system for web
applications, and built a prototype basic instant messaging client.
A graduate
of North Penn High School in Lansdale, Pa., Gordon is the son of Gary and
Sharon Gordon.
“Barbara,
Kathleen, Thomas and Justin are very dedicated to helping Widener strengthen
its position as a leading metropolitan university,” said Widener University
President James T. Harris III. “We are proud to welcome such accomplished
leaders to the board of trustees. They have outstanding skills and experiences
that will complement the board and help the university take advantage of new
opportunities in an ever-changing higher education landscape.”
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