Breast Cancer: Journey to Recovery

Wendy C. Budin, PhD, RN, C, is Assistant Professor of Nursing and Program Director of the Lamaze International Childbirth Educator Certification Program at Seton Hall University. She received one of the first NJ Breast Cancer Visiting Research Scholar Fellowships, awarded by the NJ State Commission on Cancer Research, 1996, to work with Dr. Carol Noll Hoskins, Professor of Nursing, New York University (NYU), on research dealing with adjustment to breast cancer. Dr. Budin’s research ““Psychosocial Adjustment to Breast Cancer in Unmarried Women”” was funded by a grant from the American Nurses Foundation, and she was named the 1994 ANF Barbara A. Given Scholar. For this research, she also received the 1997 Sigma Theta Tau International Regional Research Dissertation Award. Other awards include the Distinguished Alumnus Award, Nursing Alumni Council, Seton Hall University, 1998; the NYU Arch Award, 1996 and Division of Nursing, Rudin Award, 1995; Excellence in Research Award, Sigma Theta Tau, Gamma Nu Chapter, 1991; and Faculty Role Model from the graduating class of Seton hall Chollege of Nursing,1996, 1997. Dr. Budin is certified as a perinatal nurse by The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Dr. Budin was appointed to the Joint Nursing/Psychosocial Advisory Group to the NJ State Commission on Cancer Research, the Education/Research Committee and Certification Council of Lamaze International and is a consultant for Regents College, The University of the State of New York, in the content area of Research in Nursing.

||Judith Haber, PhD, APRN, CS, FAAN, is a family therapist in private practice in Stamford, CT and Professor and Director of the Master’s and Post-Master’s Certificate Programs in the Division of Nursing at New York University. She is also a founding partner in a professional image consulting firm, Image Care Associates. Dr. Haber was formerly Professor and Director of the Department of Nursing at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, New York.

Dr. Haber earned her baccalaureate degree in nursing, cum laude, from Adelphi University and her master’s and doctoral degrees from New York University. She earned a Certificate of Advanced Achievement in Family Therapy from the Center for Family Learning, New Rochelle, New York and is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Clinical Specialist in Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing.

Dr. Haber is internationally recognized as a clinician and educator in psychiatric-mental health nursing. She has received two AJN Book of the Year awards for her classic textbook Comprehensive Psychiatric Nursing, recently published in its 5th edition and translated into Spanish and French. Dr. Haber is also co-editor of Nursing Research: Methods, Critical Appraisal and Utilization, now in its 4th edition, translated into German and Italian, and recipient of a 1994 AJN Book of the Year Award.