NOND Board MemberBeth Marks, RN, PhD
NOND Board President
Chicago, Illinois
Beth Marks is Associate Director for Research in the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities (RRTCADD), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), President of the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND), and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development (DHD), UIC. She directs intervention research programs and other activities related to the empowerment and advancement of persons with disabilities through health promotion, health education, health literacy, health advocacy, primary health care, and occupational health and safety activities. Dr. Marks has developed and implemented community-based surveys related to health and safety for people with disabilities, has written publications and presented papers in the area of disability, health, and community engagement in the U.S. and internationally, and manages the websites for the RRTCADD and NOND. She has co-edited a special issue for Nursing Clinics of North America entitled Promoting Health across the Lifespan for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, a Feasibility Study Report to advance nursing education at Bel-Air Sanatorium and Hospital in Panchgani, Maharashtra, India through The Global Health Leadership Office/WHO Collaborating Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, and a monograph on Primary Health Care in the Americas for the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization. In February 2009, Dr. Marks co-produced a documentary with Bronwynne Evans, RN, PhD entitled Open the Door, Get 'Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities. She has two books entitled 1) Health Matters: The Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for People with Developmental Disabilities and 2) Health Matters for People with Developmental Disabilities: Creating a Sustainable Health Promotion Program that will be published by Brookes Publishing Company in the summer of 2009. Currently, along with her colleague Jasmina Sisirak, MPH, she is developing a moderated, interactive distance learning (IDL) health promotion course for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) to build capacity in providing health/wellness initiatives in day/residential programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is also working with the Western Regional Pacific Office of the World Health Organization to prepare a concept paper and a trainer-of-trainers course on disaster preparedness and response for persons with disabilities as components of the technical, research and capacity-building aims of the Asia Pacific Emergency Disaster Nursing Network. Dr. Marks received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and her Masters degree in occupational and community health nursing from University of Cincinnati and a PhD in nursing from University of Illinois at Chicago.
NOND Board President
Chicago, Illinois
Beth Marks is Associate Director for Research in the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities (RRTCADD), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), President of the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND), and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development (DHD), UIC. She directs intervention research programs and other activities related to the empowerment and advancement of persons with disabilities through health promotion, health education, health literacy, health advocacy, primary health care, and occupational health and safety activities. Dr. Marks has developed and implemented community-based surveys related to health and safety for people with disabilities, has written publications and presented papers in the area of disability, health, and community engagement in the U.S. and internationally, and manages the websites for the RRTCADD and NOND. She has co-edited a special issue for Nursing Clinics of North America entitled Promoting Health across the Lifespan for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, a Feasibility Study Report to advance nursing education at Bel-Air Sanatorium and Hospital in Panchgani, Maharashtra, India through The Global Health Leadership Office/WHO Collaborating Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, and a monograph on Primary Health Care in the Americas for the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization. In February 2009, Dr. Marks co-produced a documentary with Bronwynne Evans, RN, PhD entitled Open the Door, Get 'Em a Locker: Educating Nursing Students with Disabilities. She has two books entitled 1) Health Matters: The Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for People with Developmental Disabilities and 2) Health Matters for People with Developmental Disabilities: Creating a Sustainable Health Promotion Program that will be published by Brookes Publishing Company in the summer of 2009. Currently, along with her colleague Jasmina Sisirak, MPH, she is developing a moderated, interactive distance learning (IDL) health promotion course for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) to build capacity in providing health/wellness initiatives in day/residential programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is also working with the Western Regional Pacific Office of the World Health Organization to prepare a concept paper and a trainer-of-trainers course on disaster preparedness and response for persons with disabilities as components of the technical, research and capacity-building aims of the Asia Pacific Emergency Disaster Nursing Network. Dr. Marks received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and her Masters degree in occupational and community health nursing from University of Cincinnati and a PhD in nursing from University of Illinois at Chicago.
