| Cora Canlas Munoz Columbus, Ohio Advocate for Women’s Health Issues and Multi-ethnic Health Care |
When Cora Canlas Munoz came to the United States a year after
graduation from St. Paul College of Nursing in Manila in 1970,
she had her sights and her heart focused in acquiring the
highest educational attainment in the nursing profession. Just as
she had envisioned and planned, she acquired her masters
degree in Nursing Education, completed a post-masters Study in
Clinical Specialty (Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing), and
ultimately got a doctorate degree in Counselor Education all
painstakingly obtained from 1970-1995. This is quite a feat for
especially for someone who is a career woman, wife and mother.
Cora’s educational attainment serves well as her vehicle to
address social health issues affecting women, minorities and the
elderly. She loves her work and her academic disciple which is
apparent in her numerous involvement in conferences and
symposia touching mainly on the above mentioned issues which
are close to her heart. She has written numerous disquisitions
graduation from St. Paul College of Nursing in Manila in 1970,
she had her sights and her heart focused in acquiring the
highest educational attainment in the nursing profession. Just as
she had envisioned and planned, she acquired her masters
degree in Nursing Education, completed a post-masters Study in
Clinical Specialty (Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing), and
ultimately got a doctorate degree in Counselor Education all
painstakingly obtained from 1970-1995. This is quite a feat for
especially for someone who is a career woman, wife and mother.
Cora’s educational attainment serves well as her vehicle to
address social health issues affecting women, minorities and the
elderly. She loves her work and her academic disciple which is
apparent in her numerous involvement in conferences and
symposia touching mainly on the above mentioned issues which
are close to her heart. She has written numerous disquisitions
and made scholarly presentations that put across the need for an understanding of cultural diversity within the
American social circumstance, i.e., Cultural Issues in Nursing Practice; Cultural Care Needs of the Addicted
Women; establishing a Therapeutic Relationship with Asian Client, et. al. Cora has rendered her direct
participation and involvement in many programs and projects covering minority health, health problems in the
Asian community, minority women’s health initiative and breast and cervical cancer prevention as a
consultant, a proponent, a director or project coordinator. Her researches and technical writings have been
published in handbooks and journals and serve as guide and references for the nursing profession.
Born and raised in Manila, Cora is the product of the Filipino culture inculcated with the notion that education
is essential. Still focused on this parental injunction, she achieved a place in the Honor Society in Nursing at
the Ohio Wesleyan University at the same time that she was a member of the Sigma Theta Tau - International
Honor Society in Nursing (Epsilon Chapter). In 1989, she was nominated to the Charles B. Huelsman
Memorial Fellowship Fund and the Karlsberger Adams Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in the
College of Education at The Ohio State University. And finally, In 1994, while pursuing her doctorate degree,
she became a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society still at the Ohio State University. Suffice it to say
that the preeminent requirement to be able to obtain these distinctions is for one to excel in the academic
field. Easily, Cora qualified.
Professionally, Cora is affiliated with the following: Society for Evaluation and Research in Psychiatric
Nursing, American Association of Counseling & Development, American Association of Multicultural
Counseling & Development, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Ohio Psychiatric Nurses Network and
the Multiethnic Mental Health Consortium. She is presently an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing
of the Capitol University in Cleveland, Ohio and an Adjunct Faculty Member, Counselor Education, Department
of Human Services & Research of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Cora is married to Jaime Y. Munoz of Batangas and they are blessed with two children — Carlo, 16 years old
and Erica, 14.
American social circumstance, i.e., Cultural Issues in Nursing Practice; Cultural Care Needs of the Addicted
Women; establishing a Therapeutic Relationship with Asian Client, et. al. Cora has rendered her direct
participation and involvement in many programs and projects covering minority health, health problems in the
Asian community, minority women’s health initiative and breast and cervical cancer prevention as a
consultant, a proponent, a director or project coordinator. Her researches and technical writings have been
published in handbooks and journals and serve as guide and references for the nursing profession.
Born and raised in Manila, Cora is the product of the Filipino culture inculcated with the notion that education
is essential. Still focused on this parental injunction, she achieved a place in the Honor Society in Nursing at
the Ohio Wesleyan University at the same time that she was a member of the Sigma Theta Tau - International
Honor Society in Nursing (Epsilon Chapter). In 1989, she was nominated to the Charles B. Huelsman
Memorial Fellowship Fund and the Karlsberger Adams Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in the
College of Education at The Ohio State University. And finally, In 1994, while pursuing her doctorate degree,
she became a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society still at the Ohio State University. Suffice it to say
that the preeminent requirement to be able to obtain these distinctions is for one to excel in the academic
field. Easily, Cora qualified.
Professionally, Cora is affiliated with the following: Society for Evaluation and Research in Psychiatric
Nursing, American Association of Counseling & Development, American Association of Multicultural
Counseling & Development, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Ohio Psychiatric Nurses Network and
the Multiethnic Mental Health Consortium. She is presently an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing
of the Capitol University in Cleveland, Ohio and an Adjunct Faculty Member, Counselor Education, Department
of Human Services & Research of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Cora is married to Jaime Y. Munoz of Batangas and they are blessed with two children — Carlo, 16 years old
and Erica, 14.
Washington D.C. Since 1987
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