SRU Good News for Jan. 14, 2009

UPMC-Presby hires '03 graduate for critical nursing post

Kathryn Darlington-Maine, a 2003 Slippery Rock University graduate, has been named intensive care unit pulmonary and thoracic transplant recovery nurse at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian.

            She will help patients recover from heart transplants and other operations involving thoracic organs including the lungs and esophagus.

            Darlington-Maine received her bachelor's degree in psychology from SRU, followed by a bachelor's degree in nursing from Duquesne University in 2004. She is married to Robert Maine, who graduated from SRU in 2003 with a degree in business and marketing.

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