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Faculty and Staff
Marilyn J.
Krajicek, Ed.D., RN, FAAN
Project
Director, Leadership Option Program: Care of Children with
Disabilities/Chronic Conditions
Associate
Professor, School of Nursing
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Science Center
| Educational Background: | BSN, Duchesne College, Omaha, Nebraska |
| MSN, Washington University, St.Louis, Missouri | |
| EdD, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado |
Dr. Krajicek is also the Director of the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care, a 5-year project funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. She has been Nursing Director at JFK Partners: Promoting Families, Health and Development (the Colorado University Affiliated Program on Developmental Disabilities) since 1968. Dr. Krajicek has extensive experience in Academic Nursing and has a commitment to interdisciplinary training. A Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, and the American Association on Mental Retardation, her particular interest has been community care of children with disabilities and chronic conditions. Dr. Krajicek has numerous publications to her credit. In 1986 she developed the First Start Curriculum: Care of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions, which has gone through two revisions and is currently undergoing a third revision. Dr. Krajicek was recently honored by the American Association on Mental Retardation for her many years of advocacy and dedication on behalf of children with disabilities and their families.
Dalice Hertzberg, RN MSN CRRN
Outreach
Coordinator, Leadership Option: Care of Children with Disabilities/Chronic
Conditions and their Families
Instructor, JFK
Partners, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; and the School of
Nursing, University of Colorado Health Science Center
| Educational Background: | BSN, University of Colorado School of
Nursing, Denver, Colorado |
| MSN, University of Colorado School of Nursing, Denver, Colorado | |
| Certification in Rehabilitation Nursing |
Ms. Hertzberg is also Project Coordinator for “Community Based Health Promotion for People with Disabilities”, a grant program of JFK Partners. She is a frequent presenter at national conferences and teaches class sessions on child health and disability issues in the School of Nursing and at JFK Partners. Ms. Hertzberg has worked overseas in Armenia and Vietnam teaching about disability issues. She developed, in collaboration with Dr. Krajicek, and offers the Internet course NURS6433, Health and Education Needs of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers with Disabilities and Chronic Illness. Ms. Hertzberg co-authored the book “Pediatric Rehabilitation Nursing”, published in 1999 by W.B. Saunders, which is the first book published on this topic. She is a contributor to the Nursing Core Curriculum for the American Association of Mental Retardation, which is in progress, and is an author/reviewer for the Rehabilitation Nursing Core Curriculum for the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses, published in 2000.
Virginia Torrey, BA
Program Specialist
| Educational Background: | BA, Wellesley College |
Mrs. Torrey is a former Public Relations Director of Wellesley College in Boston, MA. She has been a Program Specialist in child health programs since 1985. The Leadership Option Program relies upon her extensive skills in administration, budgeting, conference planning and publications production.
Rachel Haynes, RN, ND, MSN, CPNP
Dr. Rachel Haynes currently works as a pediatric nurse practitioner at Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing Consultants, and as a clinical instructor at the School of Nursing, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Professionally, she serves as the President of the Colorado Rocky Mountain Chapter of NAPNAP (National Association for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners), as well as representing Pediatric Nurse Practitioners on the Rocky Mountain Youth Executive Board.
As a clinical instructor she works within the post master's Leadership Option Program for Children with Special Needs as well as for the National Resource Center for Health, Safety and Child Care. She is involved in teaching a Leadership Role Seminar for master's students in nursing, as well as grant writing, conference planning/evaluation, and conducting research. As a pediatric nurse practitioner, Dr. Haynes provides primary care to infants, children, adolescents and their families. She works in both a traditional hospital based clinic, as well as three non traditional community sites (teen homeless shelter, Latino church clinic, and a drop-in shelter for gay and lesbian youth).
Dr. Haynes designed, implemented and evaluated a Care Management Program for children and adults with disabilities enrolled in a Medicaid Managed Care health plan in 1997. She went on to work with the Colorado State Health Care Policy and Financing Medicaid Department under the Robert Wood Johnson "Safety Net" grant, facilitating cohesive statewide networks between agencies that serve children with special needs. Dr. Haynes graduated from the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program in 1998 and the Nursing Doctorate Program in 1997 from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She received her Baccalaureate Degree in Biopsychology in 1990 from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Elisabeth Rosenberg, BS
Program Assistant
| Educational Background: | BS, University of Cincinnati |
Ms. Rosenberg is a former public elementary school teacher and has taught in the East, overseas, and in Colorado. She has been involved with education projects since 1980, among them as a manager in a business enterprise as well as an Admissions Director at a private school. She comes to the Program with solid experience in office management and organization from her past 10 years of assisting in the School Of Nursing and at the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care since 1997.
