Faculty

Department:

Research Interest

Belza, Basia

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing secondary disability in arthritis, chronic diseases and fatigue model

Berry, Donna

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Promoting improved quality of life in cancer; use of technologies to improve patient-provider communication

Blackburn, Susan

Family Child Nursing

Promoting biobehavioral regulation in neonates

Cunningham, Susanna

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Risk factor reduction, prevention interventions

Dougherty, Cynthia

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing secondary disability in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest

Gallucci, Betty

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing progression of disease in people with immune dysfunction

Heitkemper, Margaret

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing primary pathology and disability in gastrointestinal models

Landis, Carol

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing primary impairment related to interactions of pain & sleep

Motzer, Sandra

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing progression of disability in chronic illness related to immune factors

Mitchell, Pamela

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing secondary injury and disability, cardio & cerebrovascular disorders; reducing health disparities related to disability

Simpson, Terri

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing progression of disability in acute and chronic cardiorespiratory problems; genetic risk in pulmonary disorders

Strickland, C. June

Psychosocial & Community Health

Reducing health disparities in cancer screening

Thomas, Karen

Family Child Nursing

Promoting normal development of thermoregulation

Whitney, JoAnne

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Supporting Faculty

Aylward, Elizabeth

Radiology

FMRI and behavior, lab experience with fMRI

Becker, Kyra

Neurology

Inflammatory molecules in acute stroke models; lab experience with animal models of stroke; clinical research in acute stroke

Bond, Eleanor

BNHS

Mechanisms of gastric motility in onset and progression of impairment; laboratory animal models

Burr, Robert

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Measurement, time-series, non-linear dynamics., advanced signal analysis

Buchwald, Dedra

Medicine

Sleep and disability in chronic fatigue syndrome, HIV & STD risk factors in American Indians; complementary and alternative therapies, health disparities

Curtis, J. Randall

Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Biobehavioral program to improve end-of-life care in intensive care

Jarrett, Monica

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Preventing disability through self-management; clinical trial experience with IBS studies

Kim, Yongmin

Bioengineering

Instrumentation in the home, signal analysis, technologic innovation

Kirkness, Catherine

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Physiologic monitoring, physiologic complexity as factors in selective prevention of disability, technologic innovation

Kurth, Ann

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Technologic tools to improve STI/HIV screening and prevention. Computer, internet, and telephone-based approaches to HIV/STI testing, self-assessment and counseling

Lentz, Martha

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Sleep and chronobiologic factors in selective prevention of disability, sleep lab techniques

Lewis, Frances M. 

Family & Child Nursing

Psychoeducational interventions in serious illness; multi-site clinical trials, scripted interventions

LoGerfo, James

Health Services & Medicine

Health promotion in the elderly, health disparities reduction in the community

Mahurin, Roderick

Neurology, Psychiatry

Imaging of cognitive and emotional processes, fMRI

Newell, David

Neuroscience Institute, Swedish Medical Center

Cerebral autoregulation in traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, transcranial Doppler and multimodal monitoring

Scanlon, James

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Stress, coping, psychoneuroimmunology

Teri, Linda

Psychosocial and Community Health

Behavioral treatments in Alzheimer’s Disease, health aging, community intervention research and biobehavioral outcomes

Vitaliano, Peter

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Stress and coping, psychoneuroimmunology

Vitiello, Michael

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Sleep and psychoneuroimmulogy

Woods, Susan

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Hemodynamic and circadian responses to acute cardiovascular insults

Zierler, Brenda

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Prevention and clinical pathways for treatment of venous thromboembolism