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Faculty |
Department |
Research Interest |
Directors |
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| Landis, Carol | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Individual vulnerabilities and biobehavioral health consequences of sleep disturbance |
| Mitchell, Pamela | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Individual vulnerabilities and interventions to reduce environmental risk and improve outcomes in critically ill neurologic patients and adverse responses post-stroke; care delivery system organization and patient outcomes. |
| Whitney, JoAnne | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Biobehavioral measures and outcomes of interventions to aid tissue repair and wound healing |
Other Core Faculty |
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| Belza, Basia | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Physical activity health promotion in adults and older adults with chronic conditions |
| Demeris, George | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Use of patient-centered technologies in home and hospice care |
| Dougherty, Cynthia | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Biobehavioral interventions to aid adjustment and improve recovery from sudden cardiac arrest, ICD implantation, and in heart failure |
| Heitkemper, Margaret | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Individual vulnerabilities and symptom management interventions in IBS |
| Shannon, Sarah | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Improving end-of-life care for critically ill patients; use of simulation to improve disclosure of medical errors |
| Teri, Linda | Psychosocial and Community Health | Individual vulnerabilities in Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers; testing interventions to increase independence and improve physical functioning in older adults |
| Thomas, Karen | Family Child Nursing | Interactions between individual vulnerabilities and the environment on developmental biobehavioral outcomes in newborns, high risk infants, and young children |
Supporting Faculty |
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| Blackburn, Susan | Family & Child Nursing | Effects of the neonatal intensive care environment on development and neurobehavioral outcomes of supportive care interventions |
| Bond, Eleanor | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Ovarian hormones and stress on gut structure and function |
| Bridges, Elizabeth | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Optimizing performance measurement and the integration of hemodynamic data into the care of critically ill patients; optimizing care environments for military causalities |
| Cochrane, Barbara | Family & Child Nursing | Midlife and older women’s health promotion and symptom management |
| Curtis, J. Randall | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine | Improve quality of palliative and end-of-life care for persons with terminal or chronic diseases |
| Doorenbos, Ardith | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Cross cultural symptom management and palliative care at the end of life |
| Jarrett, Monica | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Psychological co-morbidity and symptom management interventions in IBS |
| Kirkness, Catherine | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Individual vulnerabilities after head injury and optimizing care environments to improve biobehavioral health outcomes |
| Kohen, Ruth | Gene expression studies in mental disorders and psychiatric co-morbidity in medical conditions | Gene expression studies in mental disorders and psychiatric co-morbidity in medical conditions |
| Lewis, Frances M. | Family & Child Nursing | Interventions to improve biobehavioral health outcomes in families experiencing life threatening chronic illness (e.g. breast cancer) |
| McCurry, Susan | Psychosocial & Community Health (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) | Behavioral interventions to reduce psychiatric and physical disability in Alzheimer’s disease. |
| Nguyen, Huong Q. | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Use of patient-centered technologies for symptom self-management and physical activity health promotion behavior change in older adults with chronic conditions |
| Simpson, Terri | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Individual vulnerabilities to acute inflammatory conditions in critically ill adults |
| Taibi, Diana | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies for Insomnia in arthritis and in older adults |
| Thompson, Hilaire | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Translational approaches to improve biobehavioral outcomes after traumatic brain injury |
| Vitaliano, Peter | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Individual vulnerabilities and biobehavioral health outcomes in various populations under chronic stress, primarily in care givers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease |
| Vitiello, Michael | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Individual vulnerabilities and treatments for age-related changes in sleep, circadian rhythms and cognition |
| Voss, Joachim G. | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Mitochondrial DNA gene expression studies and biomarkers of fatigue in HIV/AIDS |
| Woods, Nancy F. | Family Child Nursing | Individual vulnerabilities & socioenvironmental risks in women with PMS, during menopause transition, and frailty in older women |
| Zierler, Brenda | Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems | Development and dissemination of evidenced based guidelines to prevent and/or treat deep vein thrombosis |
