RESEARCH INTEREST GUIDE

Adams, Swann Arp, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
777-4668, Room 617
Expertise:  Epidemiology methods, public health, health disparities, physical activity, subject recruitment.
Research:  Disparities in breast cancer screening and epidemiology; premature discontinuation of cancer treatment; dietary and physical activity interventions, subject recruitment strategies; inflammation processes and cancer .

Astle, Fredrick, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC
Clinical Associate Professor
777-0925, Room 518
Expertise: Poverty, aging.
Research: Healthcare professionals’ attitudes toward impoverished patients; poverty and nursing curriculum.

Baliko, Beverly, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
777-2292, Room 407
Expertise: Psychiatric-mental health nursing; crisis intervention, child and adolescent acute and long-term treatment, chronic mental illness in adults.
Research: Post-traumatic stress; grief and trauma related to violent death; domestic violence consequences of trauma and violence and mental health interventions following traumatic loss or interpersonal violence; experiences of family survivors of homicide; coping strategies of women survivors of life-threatening intimate partner violence (IPV); intervention for survivors of traumatic loss; women victims of IPV-related homicide and suicide.

Boyd, Mary, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
777-7276, Room 516
Expertise: Substance abuse; depression; violence against women; health; various surveys dealing with coping, life stressors, social support, alcohol expectancies, screening for depression/substance abuse.
Research: Intimate partner violence and associated mental health consequences; alcohol and other drug disorders and co-occurring disorders in women.

Burgess, Stephanie, PhD, APRN, BC, FAANP
Associate Dean for Nursing Practice
Interim Director, DNP Clinical Program
Clinical Professor
777-2219, Room 615
Expertise:High-risk teens; partner abuse.
Research:Vulnerable populations and health promotion and risk reduction; exercise in HIV patients; health policy, reimbursement, and scope of practice issues for advanced practice nursing.

Chappell, Katherine K. MSN, APRN, CPNP
Clinical Assistant Professor
777-4730, Room 506
Expertise: Pediatrics, particularly intensive care, developmental evaluation, and neurology.  Research: Pediatric assessment and developmental approach; clinical and didactic nursing education including use of simulation and other technology-based methods

Culley, Joan M., PhD, MS, MPH, RN, CWOCN
Assistant Professor
777-1257; Room 308
Expertise: Health Care Informatics; Systems Analysis; Mass Casualty Triage Systems, Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing, Public Health.
Research: Impact of integrative conceptual information models on the triage continuum of care during mass casualty events; Impact of clinical information technology on organizational, patient and clinician outcomes.

Hein, Laura C., PhD, RN, NP-C
Assistant Professor
777-7683; Room 420
Expertise: Health Disparities /cultural diversity; Lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) health issues and safety concerns; youth homelessness; survival strategies/income securing behaviors; violence/victimization; internet research with homeless youth; urgent care NP practice; theory.
Research: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health disparities; youth homelessness; violence/ victimization; resilience; psychological empowerment; and internet sampling.

Heiney, Sue, PhD, RN, FAAN
Research Professor
Dunn-Shealy Profesor of Nursing
Director, Breast Cancer Research Center
777-8214; Room 619
Expertise: Psychosocial Care of Oncology Patients (children and adults); group interventions for cancer patients, focus breast and prostate cancer.
Research: Teleconference Group Intervention for African American women with breast cancer, recruitment of African Americans to clinical trials, cultural sensitivity and psychometrics of measurement tools for African Americans, treatment adherence in African Americans.

Hewlett, Peggy O., PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean & Professor
777-3861, Room 202
Expertise: Academic/Service Partnerships; Community-Driven Initiatives; Health and Healthcare Policy & Planning.
Research: Workforce Supply and Demand Forecasting and Analysis.

Hodson, David S., EdD, MS, APRN, BC
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Associate Clinical Professor
777-2467, Room 140
Expertise: Adult psychiatric services including pharmacological intervention, cognitive and behavioral therapy. The management of acute and chronic patients.
Research:Stress, test anxiety, somatic therapies such as ECT, substance abuse among nurses, use of PDAs at the bedside to enhance patient outcomes.

McKinney, Erin M., MN, RN
Director, Client Simulated Lab
Clinical Assistant Professor
777-4499, Room 104
Expertise: Women’s health; simulation.
Research:Relationship between job satisfaction, interperonal stress, positive coping and self-esteem of NICU Nurses.

Messias, DeAnne, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Director, PhD Program- College of Nursing
777-8423, Room 308A
Professor - Women's and Gender Studies Program
777-4009, Suite 109 Jones Physical Science Center
Expertise: Language access, health literacy, cultural competence and praxis, and health disparities, cultural competence and praxis; community coalitions and community-academic partnerships; cultural issues and implications in health and healthcare; popular education and health teaching methods; transitions frameworks; international health and primary healthcare; community health nursing; women's health - global perspectives; qualitative research methods; feminist narrative analyses; participatory action research.
Research: Women's work and health; immigrant women's health; language access and cultural competence; community and youth empowerment, community-based participatory research, community-based Hispanic health interventions.

Poslusny, Susan, PhD, RN
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academics
777-9505, Room 403
Expertise: Women’s health, ecologic perspectives in health promotion and risk reduction, health disparities, community health and development, international health, stress and depression, nursing education and curriculum development.
Research: Women and depression, primary health care, sexually transmitted infection prevention; university-community partnerships, gender and racial stress on cardiovascular health, patient care simulation in nursing education, program evaluation.

Scharer, Kathleen, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Professor
777-8466, Room 310
Expertise: Child/adolescent psychiatric nursing, specifically inpatient treatment of children, milieu therapy, parenting emotionally disturbed children, children dealing with divorce, development of self-esteem, nurse-parent relationships in child psychiatric units; researching sensitive issues in child psychiatry; group therapy/support groups, community-based parenting.
Research:Nurse-parent relationships in child psychiatric inpatient settings; provider-family relationships in health care; mental health promotion in schools; web-based social support, primary mental health prevention activities with parents such as using parenting skill enhancement to assist children to be healthier.

Shake, Eileene, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Director, Center for Nursing Leadership
Director, DNP Organiztional Leadership Program
Cinical Associate Professor
777-5881, Room 211
Expertise: Nursing administration, nursing leadership, conceptual basis of health systems,  health policy and politics, systems theory, and complexity theory.
Research: Nursing student satisfaction when learning in the Dedicated Educational Unit Model; leadership; systems theory; patient safety and quality; and complexity science. .

Snyder, Rita, PhD, RN
Professor & Associate Dean for Research
Endowed Chair in Health Informatics Quality and Safety Evaluation
Director, Center for Health Systems Safety and Effectiveness Research
777-2868, Room 302-B
Expertise:Health care informatics; clinical systems analysis; computer simulation.
Research:Health Information Technology (HIT) transfer and impact evaluation, application of computer simulation to evaluate pre-post HIT impact on clinical workflow, quality and safety outcomes.