UB Nursing School Names New Associate Dean

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Karen J. Radke, Ph.D., a nurse physiologist, has been named associate dean for academic affairs at the University at Buffalo School of Nursing.

Radke came from the University of Rochester, where she was an associate professor of nursing in the School of Nursing and an associate professor of pharmacology and physiology in the School of Medicine and Dentistry.

She holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from Loma Linda University School of Nursing, and a master's degree in biological sciences from Boston University School of Nursing. She also earned a master's degree as a family nurse practitioner from the College of Nursing at Texas Women's University in Houston, and obtained her doctorate in physiology, with a minor in pharmacology, from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1983.

After completing her doctoral degree, Radke spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis. Her career also has taken her to Jamaica, where she held a one-year appointment as chair of the Department of Nursing Education at West Indies College in Mandeville. In addition, Radke worked for several years as a public-alth nurse in California and as a family nurse practitioner in Tennessee.

She is an active researcher in the areas of fluid-electrolyte physiology and endocrinology, and has published widely in professional and research journals. In 1997, she received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Rochester School of Nursing.

Radke lives in Williamsville.