迪克西·里德

2021年9月10日

 随着2020年COVID-19大流行在全球蔓延，乔伊·斯图尔特-詹姆斯（Joy Stewart-James）立即采取行动，保护萨克拉门托州立社区。

“I cannot imagine what this past year would have been like if we didn’t have Joy leading our University’s COVID response,” said 囊状态 President Robert S. Nelsen.

“She kept our campus community safe during the pandemic and has played an integral role in improving the health and well-being of the Hornet Family.”

• 萨克州立大学通过授予他们大学的最高荣誉来庆祝六个人

为了表彰她在过去18个月里孜孜不倦的工作，尼尔森授予学生健康与咨询服务（SHCS）副校长斯图尔特-詹姆斯享有盛誉的总统杰出服务奖章。 刻花奖章授予为萨克拉门托州或公共和共同利益提供杰出服务的个人。

The University was to recognize Stewart-James during 囊状态 football’s home opener Saturday, Sept. 11.

“萨克拉门托 State is a community of more than 35,000 – a city, really – and we took on the responsibility that we are the public health agency for this university, and how do we go about keeping all of us safe?” Stewart-James说。

“We’ve had challenges all along the way, and you just learn to take a breath. 我们今天知道什么，什么对保持我们社区的健康和安全最有利？  I just tried to provide a measured response and steady the ship a little.”

她制定的COVID应对措施包括加强与萨克拉门托县公共卫生部门的现有伙伴关系，以便在COVID-19疫苗可用时将萨克拉门托州定位为疫苗接种地点。

In mid-January 2021, Stewart-James learned the county would provide 囊状态 with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which must be stored at temperatures between -80 and – minus 60 degrees Celsius. 她与自然科学与数学学院院长丽莎·哈默斯利（Lisa Hammersley）合作，安排使用新欧内斯特·e·茨南科学大楼（Ernest E. Tschannen Science Complex）的研究教员冰柜。

斯图尔特-詹姆斯和珍妮特·杜蒙谢尔是学生健康和咨询服务药房的药剂师，他们与护理学院的教师和学生合作，于2021年1月28日在大学联盟开设了一家COVID-19疫苗接种诊所。

在五个月内，护理学生和SHCS临床工作人员向大学教职员工、学生和社区成员注射了21,000多剂疫苗。

Nursing faculty and students had been on the front lines of 囊状态’s flu-shot clinics for several years, making it an easy transition to the COVID vaccination clinic.

斯图尔特-詹姆斯说，还有一个额外的好处，在大流行期间无法安排到诊所工作的护理专业学生可以通过在诊所工作来弥补他们所需的时间。

Stewart-James also led the campus’ COVID-19 testing, exposure reporting, and contact tracing efforts. 卫生服务团队为出现症状或接触COVID-19的教职员工和学生建立了早期报告系统，并在24小时内做出回应。 此外，她还与校园信息资源与技术办公室以及环境健康与安全办公室合作，创建了一个每日筛查博彩平台程序，可以实时向学生健康报告。   

“Joy and her team have worked tirelessly to respond to the pandemic,” Nelsen said. “We were in a good position to welcome the Hornet Family back to campus this fall, thanks to Joy’s incredible work. I am grateful for her leadership.”

Stewart-James earned her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and her master’s degree from the University of Oregon. 她在德克萨斯州奥斯汀的一家大型医院医疗保健系统工作了20多年，负责监督门诊诊所、住院和门诊部门。

在冠状病毒大流行之前，她是危机应对方面的资深人士。2009年，在她来到萨克州立大学一年后，新型H1N1病毒首次被发现并迅速传播到世界各地。

“This was new, and it was especially concerning among the college-age population, and we were not as prepared as we could be,” Stewart-James说。 “The campus did not have a strong working relationship with 萨克拉门托 County Public Health or with local hospital facilities.  我们迅速采取措施开始与县政府合作，并能够在校园内为学生和员工提供H1N1疫苗。 

“Over the last 10 years, we put into place a comprehensive communicable-disease outbreak campus plan, the Student Health Pharmacy has taken on mass vaccinations, and we have worked with 萨克拉门托 County Office of Emergency Services to become a point of dispensing during a public-health emergency.”

After 萨克拉门托 State turned to remote learning in March 2020, Stewart-James led her team’s efforts to serve students through telehealth medical visits and telecounseling sessions. Finding that “tele-services” offered better access for many students, she decided they are “here to stay.”

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在博彩平台表彰乔伊·斯图尔特-詹姆斯和其他急救人员为维护大学社区安全所做的工作的同一天，我们还记得20年前英雄们为他们在9/11袭击中遭受苦难的同胞所做出的牺牲。