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America's No. 1 Nursing School
For more than 20 years, the University of Washington School of Nursing has been ranked America's No. 1 nursing school, including 17 years atop the U.S. News and World Report list, which began ranking nursing schools
in 1993.
Emphasizing Research
and Teaching
Six degree programs, multiple specialties, continuing education opportunities and world renowned research are part of the UW School of Nursing's goal of addressing society's most pressing challenges in health care. Students: Oliver Liscano and Joann Ucol.
Stay Connected
The School of Nursing is grateful for the support of its outstanding alumni, friends and community partners. Many participate as clinical preceptors, advisers and volunteers, and provide financial support for our students, faculty and programs.
Recognizing Leaders in Nursing
Every year the UW School of Nursing honors local and national leaders for their important contributions to the field of nursing and pays tribute to our community's most accomplished nurses and health care leaders at the annual Nurses Recognition Banquet.
Advancing Nursing Research
With a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and patient care the UW School of Nursing is the No. 3 Nursing School in research funding from the NIH, with six centers of excellence and over 185 active and pending research projects.
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Cynthia Price, MA, PhD, LMP Research Assistant Professor Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems 357266 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Email Address: cynthiap@u.washington.edu |
| Research: Dr. Price’s program of study is in the area of body psychotherapy. She has developed and is studying an intervention protocol that combines touch, mindful awareness, and emotional processing. Intervention studies have focused on body-oriented therapy for women in recovery from sexual abuse trauma, including female veterans with PTSD. These studies have combined quantitative and qualitative methods. Dr. Price is interested in the role of body awareness in health and healing – specifically as it relates to dissociative strategies to cope with stress, pain, and chronic mental and physical conditions. She has developed a scale of body awareness and bodily dissociation for use in mind-body research. | |
| Clinical Experience: Dr. Price is a licensed massage therapist and has a Masters degree in Counseling/Psychology. In clinical practice for 17 years, she combined bodywork with psychotherapeutic process and taught advanced practice seminars in bodywork for trauma recovery. | |
| Currently Dr. Price is a Research Group Member, Academic Consortium for Alternative and Complementary Health Care. She is also the Chair of Research Committee, Massage Therapy Foundation. As well as a Journal Reviewer: General Hospital Psychiatry, Journal of Movement and Therapeutic Bodywork, Mindfulness, Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine. In addition Dr. Price is a Grant Reviewer: Dept. of Defense; Royalty Research Grants, University of Washington; Institution of Translational Health Science, University of Washington; Massage Therapy Foundation and Abstract Reviewer for International Conferences: International Research Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health, Massage Therapy Foundation, American Public Health Association. |
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