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Biobehavioral Nursing Research Pre and
Post Doctoral Training Program

Core Faculty and supporting Faculty

Investigators representing all three departments in the SON participate in this training program. Their names and roles (core or supporting) are listed below.

Faculty	Department:	Research Interest

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

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