Faculty Research

Associate Professor
Expertise: Gerontology, caregivers of adults with dementia

Research Scientist
Expertise: Health of people with disabilities, chronic health problems: including cancer survivorship

Assistant Professor
Expertise: Influence of health information technology on communication between healthcare providers from multiple professions along the continuum of care; patient centered care

Assistant Professor
Expertise: The application of data science methods to better predict disease or disease state risk and to design preemptive interventions to prevent failure to rescue

Research Professor
Expertise: 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

Joseph H. Blades Centennial Memorial Professor Emeritus in Nursing
Sr. Research Scientist
Expertise: Diabetes self-management and facilitating improved health outcomes, particularly in Mexican Americans

Associate Professor
Expertise: Behavioral interventions to promote quality of life for family caregivers of persons with chronic illnesses

Professor
Lee and Joseph D. Jamail Endowed Professorship in Nursing
Expertise: Sexually transmitted diseases, health promotion, disease prevention

Assistant Professor
Expertise: Identifying clinical deteriorations in patients and evaluating subsequent interventions across the continuum of care (e.g., acute, subacute, home health)

Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing
Expertise: Emotional representation in chronic illness, particularly heart failure

Associate Professor
Expertise: Diabetes symptom management and education, particularly in Mexican Americans

Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs
Expertise: Parish nursing, spirituality and healing environments

Professor
Expertise: Qualitative and mixed method research to enhance the lives of people aging with disabilities

Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing
Expertise: Parental home safety behaviors, underserved populations

Associate Dean for Research
Dolores V. Sands Chair in Nursing Research
Expertise: Families with children who have chronic illnesses; school-aged children with asthma

Assistant Professor
Expertise: Sports participation, adolescents, self-esteem

Professor
Associate Vice President for Community Health Engagement
La Quinta Centennial Endowed Professor
Expertise: cardiovascular health-related disparities among underserved ethnic minority populations, particularly hypertension and diabetes control, cancer prevention, and mental health

Associate Professor
Expertise: Studies long-term care policy, dementia care and end-of-life decision-making

Assistant Professor
Director of the Biobehavioral Core of St. David’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations
Expertise: Understanding the molecular and genomic underpinnings of health, disease, and injury recovery in traumatic brain injury

Assistant Professor
Expertise: Congestive heart failure, telehealth medicine, improving self-management

Professor
Expertise: Sexual health in adolescents; homeless adolescents

Dean
Laura Lee Blanton Chair in Nursing
James R. Dougherty, Jr. centennial Professor in nursing
Expertise: Health promotion & quality of life for women with chronic, disabling illnesses

Associate Professor
Expertise: Non-purge binge eating and weight in women; restaurant eating and obesity

Associate Professor Emerita
Expertise: Ethical dilemmas and decisions made by adults with cancer, their families, and nurses

Professor
Expertise: Gestational weight gain; health literacy; behavioral & psychosocial health of postpartum women; decision support for behavioral change

Associate Professor
Expertise: Elders, health literacy, improving health information access

Associate Professor
Expertise: Quality of life in burned military service members

Assistant Professor
Expertise: Adolescent mental health with an emphasis on mental health promotion and prevention

Assistant Professor
Expertise: Self-management of multi-morbidities in persons living with HIV