Sarah H. Kagan

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Sarah H. Kagan
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Chicago;
Rush University;
University of California, San Francisco
Awards MacArthur Fellow
Scientific career
Fieldsgerontological nurse
Institutions University of Pennsylvania

Sarah Hope Kagan, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an American gerontological nurse, and Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] [2]

University of Pennsylvania Private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university located in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chartered in 1755, Penn is the sixth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It is one of the nine colonial colleges founded prior to the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder and first president, advocated an educational program that trained leaders in commerce, government, and public service, similar to a modern liberal arts curriculum. The university's coat of arms features a dolphin on its red chief, adopted from Benjamin Franklin's own coat of arms.

Life

Professor Kagan teaches students across the baccalaureate, masters and doctoral programs in the School of Nursing as well as offering lectures and clinical preceptorships in the School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Nursing Undergraduate Honors Program and the Penn-UK and Penn Australia Study Abroad Programs in the School of Nursing. Dr. Kagan regularly teaches two undergraduate honors courses "Sweet Little Old Ladies and Sandwiched Daughters" and "Ageing, Beauty, and Sexuality". In addition, she directs the advanced qualitative methods course in the PhD program. Dr. Kagan teaches a course in comparative health systems and elder care in conjunction with the Departments of Community Medicine and Nursing Studies at the University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Kagan's program of clinical research is centered on human experience and illness, with a focus on symptom experience for older adults, particularly those who have cancer. Her second book – published by Penn Press in 2009 – is entitled Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans: Blessings and Battles. Dr. Kagan commonly examines the experience of cancer for older adults through naturalistic, interactionist inquiry using head and neck cancer as a model to understand cancer experience in older adults. Her Current investigations include collaborative projects to understand embodiment in younger and older individuals who have oral tongue cancer and that of those who have undergone microvascular reconstruction of the oral cavity for oral tongue and mandible cancers. Dr. Kagan welcomes undergraduate students, in particular, as collaborators in her research.

She graduated from the University of Chicago with an A.B. in 1984, from Rush University with a B.S. in 1986, and from the University of California, San Francisco with an M.S. in 1989 and a Ph.D in 1994. [3]

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References

  1. http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/faculty/profile.asp?pID=33
  2. "Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery – Academic Website". www.uphs.upenn.edu.
  3. https://secure.www.upenn.edu/secretary/inauguration/speakers.html#kagan