Lenora Marcellus named the school’s new Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs and Partnerships

NURSING

Lenora Marcellus, Associate Professor and an accomplished researcher with the School of Nursing, has recently been named the school’s new Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs and Partnerships. She has also secured a $25,000 grant from Island Health to lead research on women who are pregnant or new to parenting and how they respond to learning their unborn or new born infant has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD). In this study, Marcellus proposes to examine women’s experiences and explore the impact that FASD diagnosis has on their quality of life, including their capacity to parent.  FASD is considered the leading global cause of developmental disability