U of M Nursing Professor Appointed to Minnesota Board on Aging

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Contact:           Mary Pattock, School of Nursing, 612-624-0939
                       Sara E. Buss, Academic Health Center, 612-624-2449

U of M NURSING PROFESSOR APPOINTED TO MINNESOTA BOARD ON AGING

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (April 12, 2004) —Margaret Moss, D.S.N., assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, has been appointed to the Minnesota Board on Aging by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The Minnesota Board on Aging was established in 1956 to plan for and meet the needs of Minnesota's seniors.

Moss earned a doctor of science in nursing degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston where she focused on American Indian aging. She also completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in American Indian aging research at the Native Elder Research Center, University of Colorado.

Moss, a Minneapolis resident, is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, and is a member of the Executive Council for the University of Minnesota Center for Gerontological Nursing (CGN). The mission of the CGN is to improve the health, quality of life, and delivery of nursing care to aging adults of diverse cultures through knowledge development, dissemination, and utilization.

Moss’s appointment to the Minnesota Board on Aging begins immediately and will end January 2008.