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Each semester, the Connell School brings to Boston College an inspiring leader who speaks on an issue at the forefront of health care. Pinnacle lectures are open to all Boston College students, staff, faculty, alumni, and preceptors as well as practitioners and scholars unaffiliated with Boston College. View archived videos of past Pinnacle lectures.
SPRING 2024
Yawkey Center, Murray Room
Navy Veteran, former United States Naval Nurse Corps Officer, and Filmmaker
M.H.A., Health Care Administration; B.S., Nursing
Founder, For Nurses By Nurses Productions
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Denetra Hampton, spring 2024 Dr. Maureen P. McCausland Pinnacle Keynote Speaker
Denetra Hampton is the founder of For Nurses By Nurses Productions, a media platform that includes aÌýleadership initiative, digital nursing and health science library, and film production company.ÌýHer work is focused on bridging gaps in health inequities through scientific storytelling.Ìý
A nurse, 22-year Navy veteran, and a former United States Naval Nurse Corps Officer, Hampton studied public health and diversity outside the U.S., including in Chile and Argentina. In 2018, she released The Black Angels: A Nurse’s Story, about Black nurses in the 1940s who risked their lives to care for patients with tuberculosis—an incurable disease at that point—after white nurses refused to do so.Ìý
Her most recent work, The First Four, honors the inaugural African American nurses to graduate from Chicago'sÌýProvident Hospital and Training School for Nurses.ÌýShe also produced Year of the Nurse and Midwife: A Film Project, Racism in Nursing: The African American Nursing Experience, and The Dixie 3: A Story on Civil Rights in Nursing.
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