Organization & Administration of Nursing Ventures
Nursing Ventures offers two services:
Nursing Ventures Entrepreneurial Resource Center
(Administrator: Catherine Kane)
- Provides supports to University of Virginia nurse clinicians and faculty who have new nursing enterprise and product ideas.
- Provides UVa nurse product developers with product development expertise and advice.
- Provides UVa nurse product developers with access to online resources.
Health Care Product Evaluation Center – HCPEC
(Administrator: Deborah Conway)
Conducts health care product evaluations for:
- Companies seeking assistance developing and refining prototypes
- Companies seeking to diversify by acquiring rights to a device created by another firm
- Companies developing an off-label use for an established product
- Companies requiring an objective third-party evaluation of a single device or a series of competing designs
- Law firms specializing in intellectual property
Governing Board
Jeanette Lancaster, PhD, RN, FAAN
Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and Dean, School of Nursing
PO Box 800782
Charlottesville, VA 22908
(434) 924-0063
Email: bl6h@virginia.edu
Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, FAAN
Chief Clinical Officer
UVa Medical Center
PO Box 800788
Charlottesville, VA 22908
(434) 924-9112
Email: pfc4n@virginia.edu