The Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing & Patient Care Services
2004 – 2005 Presentations
Sarah Kagan, PhD, APRN, BC, AOCN
Sarah Kagan, PhD, APRN , BC , AOCN, is the first visiting scholar hosted by the Institute's Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services. An associate professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania , she received a 2003 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work.
Dr. Kagan's primary clinical appointment is as a gerontology clinical nurse specialist in Medical Nursing at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania , where she consults patients, their families, nurses, and physicians on the complex needs of older adults hospitalized for acute or chronic illness. Dr. Kagan's secondary faculty appointment is in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, where she consults on clinical research and the management of patients who have head and neck cancers and are suffering complex wounds and other symptoms. At the University of Pennsylvania , Dr. Kagan also teaches undergraduate students in the nursing program, lectures in the gerontology and oncology master's degree programs and precepts graduate students and geriatric medicine fellows in acute care gerontology and symptom management. Dr. Kagan's research focuses on symptom management in older adults, particularly those who have cancer.
As a researcher, teacher, and clinical nurse, Dr. Kagan has shown excellence in all three areas, with a compassion and devotion to the elderly.
Face to Face: Identity, Symptoms, and Collaboration in Head and Neck Cancer
Language Lessons Learned from Older Adults with Cancer: Merging Grounded Theory and Practice
Invisible Symptoms? Invisible Patients?
Integrating Cancer Into a Life Mostly Lived - Older Adults Coping with Cancer
