Corrine Y. Jurgens, RN, PhD, FHFSA was named the 2024 Distinguished HFSA Member Award winner.
Dr. Corrine Jurgens is an Associate Professor and PhD Program Director at Boston College’s William F Connell School of Nursing. Prior to Boston College, she was a faculty member in the School of Nursing at Stony Brook University for 25 years. While at Stony Brook, Dr. Jurgens held several positions including the Associate Dean for Research, Program Director for the DNP program and Director of Cardiovascular Nursing Research. Her extensive clinical experience in cardiac and critical care nursing informs her program of research.
Dr. Jurgens research focuses on biobehavioral factors underpinning symptom perception among patients with heart failure. To support judicious use of healthcare resources, the aim of her program of research is to appropriately stratify patients to self-monitoring or intensive/objective clinical oversight. Dr. Jurgens has conducted and published several studies and given numerous presentations nationally and internationally. A key element of her research was the development of a robust measure of heart failure symptom perception that predicts clinical events. The Heart Failure Somatic Perception Scale has been translated into several languages including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Turkish to name a few. She has collaborated with many international investigators conducting the translations and psychometric testing of the scale.
Dr. Jurgens is an active member of HFSA serving on numerous committees for nearly 20 years. She was on the Board of Directors for 12 years and held the officer positions of secretary and treasurer. Dr. Jurgens also served as Chair of several committees including Nursing, Finance, Audit and Lifetime Achievement Award. Lastly, she was on the planning committees for Scientific Sessions, Optimal Medical Therapy Certification and currently is on Leadership Recruitment. In 2019, Dr. Jurgens had the honor of representing HFSA at the Japanese Heart Failure Society Scientific Sessions in Hiroshima, Japan to present on multidisciplinary management of patients with heart failure. In addition to HFSA, Dr. Jurgens is active in the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Eastern Nursing Research Society. She served as Scientific Sessions chair representing the AHA Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing council for 7 years, chaired 2 scientific statements and has been on several writing groups for performance measures and data standards. Dr. Jurgens serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Cardiac Failure, the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing and reviews for numerous nursing and medical journals.
Dr. Jurgens earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Vermont, her Master of Science from Stony Brook University, and her PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition, Dr. Jurgens was a Claire M. Fagin Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on elders with heart failure. She is a fellow of the American Heart Association, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the American Academy of Nursing.