Faculty Research
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Faculty |
Research Expertise |
|---|---|
| Acton, Gayle | Gerontology, caregivers of adults with dementia |
| Becker, Heather | Health of people with disabilities, chronic health problems: including cancer survivorship |
| Benham-Hutchins, Marge | Influence of health information technology on communication between healthcare providers from multiple professions along the continuum of care; patient centered care |
| Bose, Eliezer | The application of data science methods to better predict disease or disease state risk and to design preemptive interventions to prevent failure to rescue |
| Brown, Richard A. | Treatment of tobacco dependence and substance use disorders in adults and adolescents, comorbid psychiatric disorders, technology and social media interventions, exercise interventions, distress tolerance, motivational interviewing |
| Brown, Sharon | Diabetes self-management and facilitating improved health outcomes, particularly in Mexican Americans |
| Carter, Patricia | Behavioral interventions to promote quality of life for family caregivers of persons with chronic illnesses |
| Champion, Jane | Sexually transmitted diseases, health promotion, disease prevention |
| Danesh, Valerie | Identifying clinical deteriorations in patients and evaluating subsequent interventions across the continuum of care (e.g., acute, subacute, home health) |
| Delville, Carol | Emotional representation in chronic illness, particularly heart failure |
| Garcia, Alexandra | Diabetes symptom management and education, particularly in Mexican Americans |
| Gaskamp, Carol | Parish nursing, spirituality and healing environments |
| Harrison, Tracie | Qualitative and mixed method research to enhance the lives of people aging with disabilities |
| Hendrickson, Sherry | Parental home safety behaviors, underserved populations |
| Horner, Sharon | Families with children who have chronic illnesses; school-aged children with asthma |
| Johnson, Karen | Sports participation, adolescents, self-esteem |
| Kim, Miyong | cardiovascular health-related disparities among underserved ethnic minority populations, particularly hypertension and diabetes control, cancer prevention, and mental health |
| Kwak, Jung | Studies long-term care policy, dementia care and end-of-life decision-making |
| Meraviglia, Marty | Promoting healthy behaviors for low-income cancer survivors |
| Osier, Nicole | Understanding the molecular and genomic underpinnings of health, disease, and injury recovery in traumatic brain injury |
| Radhakrishnan, Kavita | Congestive heart failure, telehealth medicine, improving self-management |
| Rew, Lynn | Sexual health in adolescents; homeless adolescents |
| Stuifbergen, Alexa | Health promotion & quality of life for women with chronic, disabling illnesses |
| Timmerman, Gayle | Non-purge binge eating and weight in women; restaurant eating and obesity |
| Volker, Deborah | Ethical dilemmas and decisions made by adults with cancer, their families, and nurses |
| Walker, Lorraine | Gestational weight gain; health literacy; behavioral & psychosocial health of postpartum women; decision support for behavioral change |
| Xie, Bo | Elders, health literacy, improving health information access |
| Yoder, Linda | Quality of life in burned military service members |
| Young, Cara | Adolescent mental health with an emphasis on mental health promotion and prevention |
| Zuniga, Julie | Self-management of multi-morbidities in persons living with HIV |
