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2025 PGH LECTURE

Navigating Turbulence: Steering Towards Nursing's Future

Saturday, November, 22, 2025 
Bayada Auditorium
2nd Floor | Room 251
Rocco A. Abessinio Building

8:30 am | Continental Breakfast
9:00 am to 10:00 am | PGH Lecture Begins
10:00 am to 11:00 am | Neumann Graduate White Coat Ceremony
11:00 am to 12:00 pm | Neumann Graduate Nursing Poster Presentations
12:00 pm | Lunch

This lecture is open to Neumann and PGH alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents, and the community.

This year the 19th annual Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH) Lecture Series will be part of Neumann’s Graduate Nursing Morning which celebrates the work of nurses and graduate nurses.

The 19th annual Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH) Lecture Series in collaboration with the J. Mark and Ann Claffey Baiada Professorship in Nursing & Home Health Care presents " Navigating Turbulence: Steering Towards Nursing’s Future” presented by Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN. Healthcare has become very turbulent over the past 6 years. This session will discuss ways nursing needs to steer through the challenges to improve education, practice, and quality outcomes for all people.

Dr. Anne Dabrow Woods has been a nurse for over 41 years and a nurse practitioner since 1998. She is dual certified as a primary care and acute care nurse practitioner and continues to practice for Penn Medicine, Chester County Hospital as a critical care nurse practitioner. Anne is an assistant professor and the DNP Program Coordinator for Neumann’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. She has extensive experience in nursing education and professional development and was previously the Chief Nurse of Wolters Kluwer Health, Learning, Research & Practice and Lippincott Publishing for over 15 years and was the publisher of the American Journal of Nursing, the first nursing journal. She has consulted with healthcare organizations, universities, and nursing organizations around the world to improve quality nursing education, care delivery and patient outcomes by implementing evidence into practice. For her work, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2015. She has won numerous awards for her writing and presentations. 

1.0 CEUs This Nursing Continuing Professional Development activity was approved by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Approver Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.


During its 92 years of operation, the Philadelphia General Hospital Training School for Nurses graduated 6,000 professional nurses. Graduates wore the double frill cap, known as the Blockley Frill, which is an enduring symbol of the prestige and reputation of nurses who performed the art and science of nursing service and education. The last patient was discharged from Philadelphia General Hospital on June 16, 1977. Today, the Philadelphia General Hospital lives on at Neumann, in our School of Nursing and Health Sciences' Endowed Nursing Lecture Series. 

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Jeanne Kiefner
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