Yvonne Troiani Sweeney Lecture Series for Nursing Enrichment Held at ESU

Posted by: Elizabeth Richardson on April 7, 2017, No Comments

The Yvonne Troiani Sweeney Endowed Lecture Series for Nursing Enrichment at ESU was held in the ESU Innovation Center on Thursday, April 6. This year’s keynote address by Glen R. Finney, M.D. was titled “21st Century Cognitive Care.”  Yvonne Troiani Sweeney’78 dedicated her life to her nursing career that spanned 30 years until she was diagnosed with a form of early onset dementia called posterior cortical atrophy. In 2014 her sister, Linda Niedbala ’83, with the help of her husband, Sam Niedbala ’82, started the lecture series in her honor.

Seated from left to right: Linda Niedbala, Yvonne Troiani Sweeney, and Yvonne’s husband, Chris Sweeney.

Second row: Sam Niedbala, Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., president of ESU, Glen Finney, M.D, Laura Waters, R.N., Ph.D., associate professor and chair of ESU’s nursing department, and Christopher Sweeny III.