Jonas/Hartford Scholar (2010-2012)

Erica Schorr, BSBA, BSN, RN

University of Minnesota

Ms. Schorr received a BSBA degree in marketing and premedicine from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2004, and a BSN from the University of Detroit Mercy in 2005. She has over four years of experience as an acute care and home care nurse. Currently, she is working as a research assistant on a National Institute of Nursing Research project on exercise training to reduce claudication. She plans to focus her dissertation research on examining age and gender differences in the experience of persons experiencing peripheral arterial disease symptoms with the goal of identifying better screening instruments to improve and increase detection, diagnosis, and treatment of this disease.