Victoria Marie Indyk
Madonna University, USA
Biography
Victoria Marie Indyk, PhD, RN has been a Felician Sister for 48 years. She was born and raised in Detroit and graduated in 1969 from St. Casimir High School in Detroit, MI. Her Madonna University education included earning a BSN (1975) and a MSN (1993). Doctoral studies were at Wayne State University where she earned a PhD in Nursing (2007). She has worked as a Professor of Nursing at Madonna University for the past 20 years and enjoys teaching undergraduate nursing students on all levels. Her Doctoral research was on Osteoporosis in postmenopausal nulliparous women religious. Research also completed on Osteoporosis in veiled Arab Muslim women living in Southeast Michigan and Healthcare Needs In Jacmel, Haiti. She does volunteer services at St. Frances Cabrini Clinic for the poor and United Neighborhood Initiatives in Southwest Detroit. She also has coordinated community health fairs with nursing students at various locations including in Detroit, Farmington Hills, and Livonia, MI. She has a great love and compassion for the people of Haiti. She travels to Jacmel, Haiti three times per year for Mission Trips and has completed 9 trips with nursing students and faculty from Madonna University to help with healthcare and outreach programs at the Felician Sisters Mission in Jacmel, Haiti.