Faculty: Alphabetically

Marilynn Albert, MSN, ARNP
Senior Lecturer Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health policy and politics, kin care, women's studies, the changing structures of the U. S. health care system
Email Address: albertml@u.washington.edu

Gaylene Altman, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Dysmenorrhea, potential infertility.
Email Address: galtman@u.washington.edu

Sally Avenson, CNM, MSN
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Nurse-Midwifery
Email Address: avenson@u.washington.edu

Maggie Baker, PhD, RN, CNL
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Elder abuse and neglect and factors that influence the ability of community-dwelling elders to maintain their independence
Email Address: mwbaker@uw.edu

Kathryn E. Barnard, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Ecological factors of child development
Email Address: kathyb@u.washington.edu

Marjorie V. Batey, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: mbatey@u.washington.edu

Randal D. Beaton, PhD
Research Professor Emeritus, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Disaster behavioral health preparedness & response and interventions for occupational safety & health
Email Address: randyb@u.washington.edu

Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH, RN
Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Public health systems research, particularly as it pertains to state and local health departments and public health nurses.
Email Address: bettybek@u.washington.edu

Basia Belza, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Healthy aging, evidence-based health promotion programs, physical activity, public health interventions and policy
Dr. Belza is the Aljoya Endowed Professor in Aging
Email Address: basiab@u.washington.edu

Jeanne Quint Benoliel, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
Email Address:

Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, NEA, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Public and community health care systems, legislative policy and practice, accountability measures in organizational performance.
Email Address: bb2509@mail.cumc.columbia.edu

Donna Berry, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN
Affiliate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Oncology, cancer pain
Email Address: donnalb@u.washington.edu

Patricia A. Betrus, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Depression, women's mental health, violence and aggression, statistics and research design.
Email Address: katy@u.washington.edu

Susan T. Blackburn, PhD, FAAN, RN
Professor Emeritus, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: High-risk infants and their families, infant caregiving interactions and environments
Email Address: sblackbn@u.washington.edu

Carol A. Blainey, MN, RN, CDE
Associate Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Nursing education and self-management of diabetes mellitus
Email Address: cblainey@u.washington.edu

Eleanor F. Bond, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Critical care nursing
Dr. Bond is the Susan and Michael Cummings Term Professor in Nursing
Email Address: rebond@u.washington.edu

Cathryn Booth-LaForce, PhD, FAPS, RYT
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Social-emotional development of children; parenting and child-care; menopause transition; complementary and alternative therapies; yoga therapy
Booth-LaForce is the Charles and Gerda Spence Endowed Professor in Nursing
Email Address: ibcb@u.washington.edu

Elena Bosque, ARNP, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Multidisciplinary work to improve technologies that the neonatal intensive care unit nurse uses to make clinical decisions
Email Address: ebosque@u.washington.edu

Carol Boston-Fleischhauer, JD, MS, BSN
Senior Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Patient care practice, operations, management, education and consultation.
Email Address: carbos@u.washington.edu

Doris Boutain, RN, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health Disparity Research, Critical Theory, Community Health Systems, Worry, Stress and Health
Email Address: dboutain@u.washington.edu

Edna Brandt, MN
Associate Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
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Patricia A. Brandt, PhD, RN
Professor Emeritus, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Families and children/adolescents with chronic illness: adaptation and interventions
Email Address: pbrandt@u.washington.edu

Elizabeth Bridges, PhD, RN, CCNS, FCCM, FAAN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Hemodynamic monitoring, critical care in unique and austere environments
Email Address: ebridges@u.washington.edu

Marie Annette Brown, PhD, RN, ARNP, FNP-BC, FAAN
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Health promotion and Lifestyle strategies (light, exercise and vitamins) for treatment of mild depression; family responses to life threatening illness; grief and loss, end of life care
Email Address: mabrown@u.washington.edu

Helen Kogan Budzynski, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Stress response: cognitive/physiologic interface in chronic dysfunctions and self-management teaching
Email Address: hbudz@u.washington.edu

Robert Burr, MSEE, PhD
Research Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Psychophysiology and time series analysis.
Email Address: bobburr@u.washington.edu

Renee Cantarini, ARNP
Lecturer, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
Email Address: rencant@u.washington.edu

Doris A. Carnevali, MN
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
Email Address:

Marci-Lee Catanzaro, PhD
Research Associate Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address:

Rizza Cea,
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: @u.washington.edu

Noel J. Chrisman, PhD
Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health beliefs and practices, participatory action research, clinically applied anthropology, community organization
Email Address: noelj@u.washington.edu

Phyllis Christianson, MN, ARNP
Senior Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Gerontology
Email Address: phylch@u.washington.edu

Barbara B. Cochrane, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Older women's health, gerontology and healthy aging, postmenopausal hormone therapy, symptoms and symptom management, psychosocial oncology and cardiovascular nursing
Dr. Cochrane is the de Tornyay Term Professor for Healthy Aging
Email Address: barbc@u.washington.edu

Jane Cornman, APRN, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Integrative Health Care and Therapeutic Touch practitioner
Email Address: magicj@u.washington.edu

Christine M. Coyne, RN, PhD.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: coyne@u.washington.edu

Ruth F. Craven, EdD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Gerontological nursing
Email Address: ruthc@u.washington.edu

Susanna L. Cunningham, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Cardiovascular risk factor management and reduction
Email Address: susannac@u.washington.edu

Butch de Castro, PhD, MSN/MPH, RN
Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Occupational health issues among immigrant and minority worker populations with an emphasis on how psychosocial aspects of work (such as workplace discrimination, unfair working conditions, work organization, and occupational downgrading) affect physical and mental health, and, how workplace safety and health hazards encountered by nurses and other health care workers contribute to work-related injury and illness.
Email Address: butchdec@u.washington.edu

Rheba de Tornyay, EdD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health services, nursing education
Email Address: rheba@u.washington.edu

George Demiris, PhD
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Health informatics, home based technologies, technology and aging
Email Address: gdemiris@u.washington.edu

Colleen Dillon, PhD
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: infant mental health
Email Address: codillon@u.washington.edu

Margaret F. Dimond, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Gerontology, long-term care, public policy, quality of life
Email Address: dimond@u.washington.edu

Adrian Dobra, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: adobra@u.washington.edu

Ardith Doorenbos, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Palliative care, geroonoclogy, culturally congruent care
Email Address: doorenbo@u.washington.edu

Cynthia Dougherty, PhD, ARNP, FAHA, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Adaptations of individuals and families to cardiac illness
Email Address: cindyd@u.washington.edu

Mary Ann Draye, MPH
Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Primary health care, health promotion, risk appraisal, coping with infertility
Email Address: drayema@u.washington.edu

Leona L. Eggert, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Prevention science: Interpersonal and environmental interventions for preventing drug involvement, depression, and suicidal behaviors among high-risk adolescents.
Email Address: eggert@u.washington.edu

Mary Eklund, MN, ARNP
Senior Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Neurological illnesses.
Email Address: mary.eklund@gmail.com

Shawn Elmore, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Psychophysiology of affective disorders, circadian rhythms, companion animals and health
Email Address: sassy@u.washington.edu

B. Josephine Ensign, DrPH
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health interventions for high-risk adolescent populations, international health, primary health care
Email Address: bjensign@u.washington.edu

Nada Estes, MSN
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
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Sandra J. Eyres, PhD
Professor Emerita, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Environmental resources promoting adaptation and health
Email Address: seyres@u.washington.edu

Susan Flagler, DNS, RNC
Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Women's health care; nurse practitioner education
Email Address: susanf@u.washington.edu

Shuyuann Foreman, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: yuann@u.washington.edu

M. Jayne Freitag, RN, BSN, MN
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: jfreitag@u.washington.edu

Betty B. Gallucci, PhD. RN
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Oncology, Exercise and Immune Responses
Email Address: gallucci@u.washington.edu

Young Ah Goo, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: proteomics investigations, biomarkers discovery, Systems biology
Email Address: youngah@u.washington.edu

Katherine J. Graham, PhD (Sociology/Nursing), FAAN
Professor Emerita, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Quality of life of women across life span, women's health, community health care systems management health and health outcomes, policy
Email Address: kathyg@u.washington.edu

Stella Hay-Bevens, MA
Associate Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
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Karen E. Hays, DNP, CNM, ARNP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: kehays@u.washington.edu

Sue T. Hegyvary, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Health services research, facility organization, institutional quality assurance, nursing management
Email Address: hegyvary@u.washington.edu

Margaret M. Heitkemper, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Gastrointestinal physiology, enteral nutrition, geriatrics
Email Address: heit@u.washington.edu

Vicky Hertig, PhD, RN
Senior Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: vhertig@u.washington.edu

Jerald R. Herting, PhD
Research Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Adolescence, quantitative methods, social demography, and evaluation research
Email Address: herting@u.washington.edu

Connie Hirnle,
Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: chirnle@u.washington.edu

Agnes L. Hoffman, PhD
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
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Marte Hoffman, MN, ARNP
Senior Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Maternal-Infant Health
Email Address: hoffmanm@u.washington.edu

Carole Hooven, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
Email Address: chooven@u.washington.edu

Barbara J. Horn, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
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Beverly M. Horn, PhD, RN, CTN
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Cross-cultural research with communities
Email Address: bevhorn@u.washington.edu

Shwu-Shin Hou, MN, ARNP
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: sshou@u.washington.edu

Christine Hoyle, DNP, ARNP, FNP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Primary health care, motivational interviewing, chronic disease self management, peri-menopausal-menopausal women’s health issues
Email Address: cah@u.washington.edu

Sue Huth, RNC, BSN
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: suehuth@u.washington.edu

Monica E. Jarrett, PhD, RN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Research design, perceived stress and menstrual cycle regularity
Email Address: jarrett@u.washington.edu

Jill Jesurum, PhD, ARNP, FAHA
Clinical Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: jill.jesurum@swedish.org

Clark Johnson, PhD
Research Associate Professor Emeritus, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Medical informatics, research design and statistical analysis, intervention research
Email Address: cjohnson@u.washington.edu

Gail Johnson, DNP, ARNP, FNP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Community-oriented primary health care, global health, teaching methods for evidence-based practice, and nurse practitioner education.
Email Address: gailj@u.washington.edu

Mary C. Jones, MS
Assistant Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
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Pamela L. Jordan, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Expectant/new fatherhood, transition to parenthood, childbearing families, grounded theory methodology
Email Address: pjordan@u.washington.edu

Anne C. Kalkbrenner, RN, MN
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Research Interests: Nursing Professional Development; Transition to Practice
Email Address: annepink@u.washington.edu

Rebecca R. Kang, PhD
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Asian and Pacific Islander health, community health, health promotion, early childhood intervention
Email Address: becca@u.washington.edu

Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon, CNM, MN, ARNP
Senior Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: preterm birth, postpartum depression, human milk banking, and discourse analysis
Email Address: irakg@u.washington.edu

Deborah Kearnes, MN, ARNP
Senior Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Geriatrics
Email Address: dkearnes@u.washington.edu

Maia H. Kelley, RN, ARNP
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: maiahd@u.washington.edu

Jean Kelly, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Testing the efficacy and effectiveness of caregiver-child interactions to promote social and emotional health, birth to five.
Email Address: jkelly@u.washington.edu

Gail Kieckhefer, ARNP, PNP-BC, Ph.D.
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Motivation for health promotional and illness management behavior in children. Primary focus is children with asthma and their parents.
Dr. Kieckhefer is the Joanne Montgomery Endowed Professor in Nursing
Email Address: gailmk@u.washington.edu

Marcia Killien, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Women's health, reproductive decision making, work and family health
Email Address: killien@u.washington.edu

Eunjung Kim, PhD, RN, CPNP
Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Influence of Korean American parenting on adolescents' developmental outcomes
Email Address: eunjungk@u.washington.edu

Catherine Kirkness, PhD, RN, CNN(C)
Research Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Acute brain injury, critical care, physiologic complexity
Email Address: kirkness@u.washington.edu

Yoriko Kozuki, Ph.D., A.R.N.P., C.S.
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Adherence to psychotropic medications in population with schizophrenia spectrum disorders; mental health disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period
Email Address: ykozuki@u.washington.edu

Kathy  Kroening, PhD, ARNP
Lecturer, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Adolescent mental health, adolescents with learning disabilities, mentally ill adolescents and juvenile corrections
Email Address: kkroenin@u.washington.edu

Susan Landis, MN, RN
Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: slandis@u.washington.edu

Andrea Landis, PhD, FNP-BC, RN
Assistant Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: adolescents, sleep, obesity
Email Address: amlandis@u.washington.edu

Carol A. Landis, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Sleep, sleep disturbance and pain.
Email Address: calandis@u.washington.edu

M. Linn Larson, MN
Assistant Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
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Judy Lazarus, MSN, RN, CNM
Senior Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: jlazarus@u.washington.edu

Kathleen Leach, MN, ARNP, FNP
Senior Lecturer, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Primary Health Care and health promotion of all ages with focus on women's health and pediatrics.
Email Address: kgl@u.washington.edu

Janet Lenart, MN, MPH, RN
Senior Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: jlenart@u.washington.edu

Martha J. Lentz, PhD, RN
Research Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Sleep and biological rhythms, aging, research methods
Email Address: lentz@u.washington.edu

Linda L. Lewis, PhD, RN
Associate Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Pre-menstrual syndrome, women's health, critical care
Email Address: lllewis@u.washington.edu

Frances Marcus Lewis, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Complex organizational analysis, evaluation research, psychosocial factors in chronic illness
Dr. Lewis is the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor
Email Address: fmlewis@u.washington.edu

William Lober, MS, MD
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Health Informatics, including Global Health, Public Health, and Clinical Informatics
Email Address: lober@u.washington.edu

Rebecca Logsdon, PhD
Research Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Assessment and treatment of cognitive, behavioral, and psychological disturbances in dementia, quality of life; healthy aging.
Email Address: logsdon@u.washington.edu

David Lovell, PhD, MSW
Research Associate Professor Emeritus, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Criminal justice, mental health, and family support policies
Email Address: lovelld@u.washington.edu

C. Fiona Macpherson, PhD, RN, CPON
Clinical Assistant Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Symptom management for adolescents with cancer, end of life care
Email Address: cfmacph@u.washington.edu

Diane L. Magyary, PhD, ARNP
Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Child, adolescent and family counseling; the integration of mental health and primary health care; coping strategies for children with chronic health conditons
Email Address: magyary@u.washington.edu

Susan McCurry, PhD
Research Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Sleep disturbances in Alzheimer's disease; behavioral treatments for dementia patients and caregivers; cross-cultural differences in dementia onset and progression; successful aging.
Email Address: smccurry@u.washington.edu

Barbara Burns McGrath, RN, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Medical Anthropology, death and dying, HIV/AIDS, Science and Technology, US Pacific Islanders, community based participatory research
Email Address: bbmcgrat@u.washington.edu

Kerry Meyer, PhD, ARNP
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Gerontology, primary care
Email Address: kemey@u.washington.edu

Pamela Mitchell, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Interim Dean, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Neuroscience nursing, care delivery systems, clinical & translational research.
Email Address: pmitch@u.washington.edu

Ellen Mitchell, PhD, RN
Associate Professor Emerita, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Women's health, symptom experiences, menstrual cycle, menopausal transition
Email Address: nellem@u.washington.edu

Sandra Adams Motzer, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Associate Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Women's responses to chronic health disturbances.
Email Address: underhil@u.washington.edu

Shirley Murphy, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Normal populations who experience traumatic events including violent death bereavement and exposure to mass disasters, intervention studies.
Email Address: samurphy@u.washington.edu

Huong Q, Nguyen, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Chronic illness, self-management, symptoms, physical activity, depression, genetics, biomarkers, aging, economic analyses, patient-centered information and communication technologies
Email Address: HQN@u.washington.edu

Frederica O'Connor, PhD
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: : Facilitation of goal attainment among community-dwelling individuals with serious mental illness. Integrative primary and mental health services
Email Address: roc@u.washington.edu

Oliver Osborne, RN, FAAN, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
Email Address: oho@u.washington.edu

Monica Oxford, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: early parenting and child developmental outcomes for vulnerable families living in challenging environments
Email Address: mloxford@u.washington.edu

Stephen Padgett, PhD, RN
Lecturer, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health policy; nursing workforce & education; quality and safety; language and gender; sociology of professions
Email Address: spadgett@u.washington.edu

Maxine Patrick, Dr. P.H.
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address:

Cynthia Perry, PhD, ARNP
Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: perryc@u.washington.edu

Betty Pesznecker, MN
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
Email Address:

Peggy L. Pipes, MPH
Lecturer Emerita, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address:

Rosemary J. Pittman, MS
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests:
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Barbara Plovie, MN, ARNP, BC
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Personal knowing through autoethnography. Clinical education research including evaluation of multiple maternity clinical sites, evaluation of clinical student competence and confidence after maternity skills lab.
Email Address: bplovie@u.washington.edu

Sylvia Pollack, PhD
, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
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Cynthia Price, MA, PhD, LMP
Research Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: CAM therapies, PTSD and trauma recovery, mind-body medicine; body awareness, integrative care
Email Address: cynthiap@u.washington.edu

Lois Price Spratlen, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Mediation, sexual harassment, perceived workplace mistreatment, urban and ethnic factors in health and illness
Email Address: lprice@u.washington.edu

Patricia Prinz, PhD
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Gerontology
Email Address: sarp@u.washington.edu

Susan Ramage, MN
Clinical Instructor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: sramage@u.washington.edu

Brooke Randell, DNSc, RN, CS
Research Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Community-based prevention research with high-risk youth and families
Email Address: randellb@u.washington.edu

Marijo M. Ratcliffe, RN, MN, ARNP
Clinical Instructor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Pediatric pulmonary, Pediatric asthma, Children with Special Health Care Needs
Email Address: mamr@u.washington.edu

Kumhee A Ro, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC
Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Utilization of Nurse Practitioners in Acute Care Settings, Implementation of Policies/ Protocols in Clinical Practice, Preceptor Mentorship for Nurse Practitioner Education
Email Address: kamro@u.washington.edu

Tatiana Sadak, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Study of geriatric multimorbidity and neurodegenerative disorders, developing models of comprehensive dementia health services, defining leadership roles of nurses in providing dementia care.
Email Address: sadakt@u.washington.edu

Mary K. Salazar, EdD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Occupational and environmental health, health and safety of agricultural workers and their families.
Email Address: msalazar@u.washington.edu

Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Health Work Force and Health Services Research, Global Health Policy and Administration, Public Health Nursing
Email Address: msalmon@u.washington.edu

Bobbie Salveson, DNSc, CPNP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Research interests: Patient/family understanding of genetic information, Clinical outcomes of rare disease, Genetics and the environment, and Best practices in clinical education
Email Address: salveson@u.washington.edu

Karen G. Schepp, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Associate Professor, Interim Chair & Vice Chair for Education, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Coping efforts of families with hospitalized children, family, child, and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Email Address: kschepp@u.washington.edu

Carole Schroeder, PhD
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Patient experiences with health care, social determinants of health, social and health care inequities
Email Address: carolesc@u.washington.edu

Phyllis R. Schultz, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: @u.washington.edu

Anna Schwartz, FNP-BC, PhD, FAAN
Affiliate Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Cancer and exercise, symptom management, cancer-related fatigue
Email Address: annaswtz@u.washington.edu

Fiona Shannon, MHS, FNP
Clinical Instructor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Family practice, occupational health, and patients with breast diseases
Email Address: fiona@u.washington.edu

Sarah Shannon, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Nursing science, ethics
Email Address: sshannon@u.washington.edu

Terri Simpson, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Tuberculosis screening
Email Address: tsimpson@u.washington.edu

Karen A. Snedker, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: crime and risk, community context, adolescence, substance use, mental health, mixed methods.
Email Address: snedker@u.washington.edu

Stephanie Sola, MN, RNC, ARNP
, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Primary and preventive health care, women’s health, adolescent health, and nursing role and leadership development
Email Address: spadilla@u.washington.edu

Jennifer Sonney, MN, ARNP
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: jsonney@u.washington.edu

Susan J. Spieker, PhD
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Developmental psychology, mother/infant interaction
Email Address: spieker@u.washington.edu

C. June Strickland, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Ethnic populations, public health, Indian youth suicide prevention
Email Address: jstrickl@u.washington.edu

Melanie Summerour, RN, ARNP
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: pediatric nursing
Email Address: melanie5@u.washington.edu

Diana M. Taibi, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: dmtaibi@u.washington.edu

Linda Teri, PhD
Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Epidemiological and longitudinal studies of dementia and normal aging. Assessment and treatment of behavioral problems in dementia; clinical outcome trials; caregiving interventions.
Email Address: lteri@u.washington.edu

Karen A. Thomas, PhD
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Preterm infants, thermoregulation, care environments
Dr. Thomas is the Ellery and Kirby Cramer Endowed Professor in Nursing
Email Address: kthomas@u.washington.edu

Elaine Adams Thompson, PhD, RN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Attribution theory, adolescent drug use and suicide risk prevention, program evaluation
Dr. Thompson is the Sandra and Peter Dyer Term Professor in Nursing
Email Address: elainet@u.washington.edu

Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, CNRN, FAAN
Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Injury; traumatic brain injury; geriatrics; measurement and improvement of outcome; evidence-based practice/guideline development
Email Address: hilairet@u.washington.edu

Jenny Hsin-Chun Tsai, PhD, ARNP, PMHCNS-BC
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Ecological determinants of health, immigrant health, community mental health, critical theory, cross-cultural research inquiry, program evaluation
Email Address: jennyt@u.washington.edu

Virginia (Jennie) Turner, RN, MN
Lecturer, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests:
Email Address: vft@u.washington.edu

Joachim Voss, PhD, RN, ACRN
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: HIV, cancer, symptom management, genetics, skeletal muscle, mitochondria, environment, global health
Email Address: vossj@u.washington.edu

Amy J. Walker, PhD, MSN, RN
Assistant Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors
Email Address: walkeraj@u.washington.edu

Elaine Walsh, PhD, PMHCNS-BC
Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Suicidal behavior and drug abuse, high-risk behaviors in adolescents and young adults, school- and community-based prevention programs
Email Address: emwalsh@u.washington.edu

Deborah Ward, RN, PhD, FAAN
Associate Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Innovative approaches to nursing education, re-shaping the US health care delivery system.
Email Address: deborah.ward@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Teresa Ward, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Pediatric sleep
Email Address: teward@u.washington.edu

Carolyn H. Webster-Stratton, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emeritus, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Parenting, intervention programs for behaviorally disturbed children
Email Address: cws@u.washington.edu

Valerie Wegermann, MN, ARNP,FNP
Clinical Instructor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Primary health care with focus on medically underserved populations, pediatrics, and women's health.
Email Address: wegerv@u.washington.edu

Joie Whitney, PhD, RN, CWCN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Wound healing
Dr. Whitney is the Harborview Medical Center Endowed Professor in Critical Care
Email Address: joiewhit@u.washington.edu

Mayumi Willgerodt, PhD, MPH, MS, RN
Associate Professor, Family and Child Nursing
Research Interests: Ethnic minority health issues
Email Address: mayumiw@u.washington.edu

Juvann Williams, MN, ARNP
Senior Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests:
Email Address: jwolff@u.washington.edu

Vivian C. Wolf-Wilets, PhD, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Curriculum development, stress management, theory development and memory
Email Address: vwolfw@u.washington.edu

Seth Wolpin, PhD, MPH, RN
Clinical Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Health communication and health literacy through the use of information technology tools
Email Address: swolpin@u.washington.edu

Rebecca Wood, MSW
Clinical Instructor, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Geriatric mental health
Email Address: rew@u.washington.edu

Susan L. Woods, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Hemodynamic measurement, circadian rhythmicity, cardiovascular nursing.
Email Address: slwoods@u.washington.edu

Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: women's health, menstrual cycle, menopause transition

Email Address: nfwoods@u.washington.edu

Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Health systems and patient outcomes Interprofessional education, practice and research (developing faculty to be expert in mentoring students from various health professions). Prevention and management of deep vein thrombosis. Clinical guidelines and outcomes research for venous thromboembolism. Use of simulation and other educational technologies in team-based training.
Email Address: brendaz@u.washington.edu

Phyllis Arn Zimmer, MN, FAAN
Lecturer, Psychosocial & Community Health
Research Interests: Primary health care, health policy, health promotion, nurse practioner education/role development, STD/AIDS risk assessment
Email Address: pzimmer@u.washington.edu

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