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Doctoral Program

PROGRAM FACULTY

Debra Barksdale

Cardiovascular Health and Responses
Hypertension
Cortisol
Stress and Coping
Biobehavioral research methods
Black American adults
Diversity and discrimination in Health Care
Care of families and the underserved
Spirituality and health

Anna Beeber

Dementia care
Care of elderly
Improving medication safety and quality of life in assisted living

Linda Beeber

Depression in mothers of young children
Interventions for depressive symptoms
Psych-mental health nursing
Depression in women with HIV disease
General linear models
Diversity and inclusiveness in nursing

Diane Berry

Behavioral and physiological work with African American, Latino, and Caucasian children and parents to manage their weight and prevent type 2 diabetes.
Interventions for Spanish –speaking parents and their children; Weight reduction programs to manage overweight /prevent type 2 diabetes in Hispanic families.

Barbara Carlson

Physiological signal processing/analysis
EEG sleep and arousal in older adults
Respiratory periodicity during sleep
Patterns of cardiovascular stability during sleep
Neurocognitive measures and assessment
Cerebral oxygenation in sleep
Biological markers of memory impairment and cognitive decline in older adults

Jamie Crandell

Statistical methods

Cathie Fogel

Health promotion/disease prevention for disadvantaged women and incarcerated women
Preterm labor risk assessment and prevention
STD/AIDS prevention for incarcerated women
Pregnant prisoners
Weight reduction in incarcerated women
Violence and women prisoners

Sandy Funk

Research dissemination and utilization
Applied measurement and psychometrics
Research facilitation
Chronic illness
Preschool developmental screening

Jill Hamilton

End-of-life decision making
Measurement of coping in elderly minority cancer patients

Donna Havens

Hospital organization and outcomes
Evidence-based management and organization
Staff nurse decisional involvement
Magnet Hospitals
Translating organizational research into practice
The nursing work environment
Implementation research

Eric Hodges

Maternal feeding responsiveness
Risk of eating disorders in infants

Coretta Jenerette

Health related stigma in minority adults with sickle cell disease.

Cheryl Jones

Nursing & health care systems
Quality & patient safety
Cost, quality, & outcomes of health services
Economics of care delivery
Nursing work environment
Health services research

Diane Kjervik

Nursing law and ethics
Informed consent and the elderly
Mental health law and ethics
Policy and nursing
End of life decision-making
Advance directives
Women's issues

George Knafl

Adaptive modeling of longitudinal health outcomes

Kathleen Knafl

Mixed-methods synthesis of research on childhood chronic conditions and family responses

Shawn Kneipp

Health disparities related to socioeconomic status, welfare policy, and women’s health.
Relationships between stress, physiologic responses to stress, and chronic disease.
Public health nursing interventions to improve health in vulnerable populations.

Jennifer Leeman

Translating research to practice
Implementing change in practice
Disseminating research findings
Managing diabetes

Mary Lynn

Psychometrics and evaluation
Definition and measurement of quality of care
Statistical and research methods
Work satisfaction
Organizational commitment
Patient-centered intervention
Patients' expectations
Outcomes measurement
Predicting success in undergraduate nursing program

Barbara Mark

Organization of acute care health systems
Organization theory
Outcomes and patient safety research

Deborah Mayer

Cancer survivor’s information seeking and lifestyle behaviors
Using technology to improve clinical outcomes

Merle Mishel

Middle range theories
Theory of uncertainty in illness
Uncertainty in illness scales
Uncertainty management interventions with cancer patients
Uncertainty in chronic illness
Theory-based interventions
Experimental designs
Psychosocial theories in acute and chronic illness
Psycho-educational interventions for the chronically ill

Virginia Neelon

Delirium/Acute confusion & chronic cognitive impairment in older adults -measurement and intervention
Role of hypoxic challenge in sleep and cognitive decline in older adults
Physiology of aging
The study of biobehavioral markers of vulnerability
Development of non-invasive methods of measuring physiologic responses
Biobehavioral markers of vulnerability & resilience
Biobehavioral measures of intervention effect

Marilyn Oermann

Dissemination of research in the clinical nursing literature
Evidence-based practice
Clinical teaching methods and evaluation

Mary Palmer

Aging
Long-term care
Older adults in acute care
Urinary continence in adults
Gerontology/Geriatrics
Health promotion

Pamela Rowsey

Neuroendocrine and immunopeptide regulation of body temperature
Cytokines, exercise, injury and illness
Organophosphate insecticide-induced changes in core temperature
Chemical vulnerability and the Gulf-War Syndromes

Marguerite Sandelowski

Reproductive technology
Psychosocial, cultural, ethical issues
Technology in nursing
History, philosophy
Qualitative methodology

Shiela Santacroce

Uncertainty in illness
Post-traumatic stress
Survivorship
Intervention fidelity
Adolescents-young adults –life threatening illness
Physiological outcomes
Chronic psychological stress

Todd Schwartz

Statistical methods

Gwen Sherwood

Caring
Pain relief
Nursing administration

Anne Skelley

Type 2 diabetes in African-American women
Coping, social support and stress
Mindfulness-based interventions to reduce diabetes risk

Mi-Kyung Song

Palliative care interventions
Preparation for end-of-life decision-making

Kristen Swanson

Loss in childbearing
Caring
Clinical therapeutics
Random clinical trials
Phenomenology
Nurse-patient relationship

Theresa Swift-Scanlan

Epigenetics (Relationship of environment to genetics)

Suzanne Thoyre

Co-regulatory mechanisms of feeding and growth of preterm infants
Maternal working models of feeding co-regulation
Physiologic regulation during feeding in preterms
Observational coding
Biobehavioral measures
Feeding issues for children with Down syndrome

Marsha Van Riper

Families of children with developmental disabilities
Ethical implications of genetic testing
Children with Down Syndrome and their families
Family experience of a genetic condition
Family-provider relationships
Ethical issues in genetic testing
Feeding issues for children with Down syndrome
Siblings
Genetic testing in minority families

Jia-Rong Wu

cardiovascular disease
computerized medication adherence

SeonAe Yeo

Exercise to reduce pre-eclampsia
Heart rate variability in sedentary obese pregnant women