[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4329]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                        HONORING ROSAMOND PAYNE

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 13, 2008

  Mr. TOWNS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Rosamond 
Payne, a Senior Associate Director in emergency medicine at Kings 
County Hospital Center. Mrs. Payne is also a Family Nurse Practitioner 
in emergency medicine as well. It behooves us to honor Mrs. Payne who 
immigrated to the United States from Grenada where she had vast 
political involvement in solving community issues and needs.
  For many years, Mrs. Payne has been a preceptor for Advance Practice 
Nurse Practitioner students; has been a mentor in the African-American 
Nursing Leadership Program at New York University. Additionally, 
Rosamond has been a professor of nursing for three years at the City 
University of New York serving on the curriculum committee and as the 
liaison between the City University of New York and the College of 
Nursing in the Netherlands.
  Mrs. Payne is well respected among the medical profession, having 
been drafted as a visiting clinical instructor at Columbia and Malloy 
Universities. To her credit, she entered the medical profession as a 
registered nurse in 1991, and with her enthusiasm and drive, she 
empowered people and encouraging them to improve themselves.
  She also does community outreach medical educational seminars on 
stroke and stroke education through the American Heart Association. 
Along the way, Mrs. Payne has given testimony before the legislators in 
Albany, New York regarding the drafting of the nursing curriculum to 
provide an excellent education for nursing students and to improve 
nursing student graduates to pass their licensing examinations in order 
to ameliorate the nursing shortage statewide.
  Finally, Rosamond has volunteered for years on medical missions to 
Guyana, South America and even drafted her 20 year old daughter, Ann 
Marie, who volunteered in December 2006 and is on her way to medical 
school herself in the near future.
  Madam Speaker, Mrs. Payne is a proud wife and mother who loves her 
profession. It is important for us to recognize her accomplishments and 
her selfless service.

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