Doctoral Faculty in Nursing

Name

Research Interests

Trina Aguirre, PhD, RN

• Obesity
• Food addiction
• Latino mothers/children
• Rural health
• Health Disparities
• Latino/Native American Health Disparities
• Breastfeeding
• Health Promotion

Windy Alonso, PhD, RN

• Heart failure
• Left ventricular assist devices and heart transplant
• Self-management of chronic conditions
• Exergaming
• Chronic illness management in rural areas

Sue Barnason, PhD, RN, APRN-CNS, CEN, CCRN, FAHA, FAEN, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Cardiovascular
• Weight management
• Symptom management
• Care transitions
• Vulnerable populations
• Comparative effectiveness
• Technology/Telehealth intervention delivery and monitoring

Ann Berger, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCNS, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Cancer Survivorship
• Fatigue
• Sleep intervention
• Physical activity
• Circadian rhythms
• Quality of life
• Rural/Urban population

Lynne Buchanan, PhD, RN, APRN-NP

• Adults & Elderly
• Health behavior change models for primary care
• Tobacco addiction and prevention in acute and primary care settings
• COPD assessment and management in the patient centered medical home

Kristin Dickinson, PhD, RN, OCN

• Fatigue
• Quality of life
• Genetics
• Mitochondrial function
• Oxidative stress

Christine Eisenhauer, PhD, APRN-CNS, PHCNS-BC, CNE

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Participatory Action Research
• Facilitation Leadership Methods
• Advanced Qualitative Methods
• Rural Public Health Systems
• Mobile Health Self-Monitoring
• Adherence
• Rural Men’s Weight Loss
• Rural Culture / Rural Social Networks
• Rural Outreach / Recruitment

Kate Fiandt, PhD, APRN-NP, FAANP, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Nurse managed health clinics
• Descriptions of users, description and correlation with outcomes, nursing interventions.
• Vulnerable patients-correlates of risk for poor outcomes and interventions to modify risks
• Integral Nursing Model

Nicholas Guenzel, PhD, RN

• Mental Health
• Addiction
• Minority Mental Health Disparities
• Native American Mental Health

Kelly Gonzales, PhD, APRN-NP, FNP-C

• Safety, safe medication administration, medication reconciliation
• Risk propensity
• Quality improvement
• Nursing education
• Community / Population
• Patient centered care
• Chronic care management
• Health promotion
• Advance practice

Alyson Hanish, PhD, MSN, RN

• Melatonin
• Pineal Gland
• Genetics & Circadian rhythms
• Sleep interventions
• Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Genetic testing in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Genomic Incidental Findings (public perspective)

Kathleen M. Hanna, PhD, RN, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Adolescents and Emerging Adults
• Transitions
• Self-management
• Parent-youth relationships
• Quality of life
• Diabetes

Breanna Hetland, PhD, RN, CCRN-K

• Integrative, holistic interventions
• Symptom management
• Mechanical ventilation
• Critical Care
• Family Engagement
• Patient and Family Self-Management
• Technological platforms in the ICU

Amy Hoffman, PhD, RN, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Symptom Management
• Self-Management
• Fatigue
• Pain
• Oncology
• Transitional Care
• Rehabilitation
• Research Methodology

Diane Brage Hudson, PhD, RN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Vulnerable families
• Adolescent and emerging adults
• Social support interventions
• Health promotion
• Health disparities
• Parenting
• Depressive symptoms
• Technology
• Health care utilization

Robin Lally, PhD, MS, BA, RN, AOCN, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Psychological adjustment to cancer
• Breast cancer (screening to end of life)
• Cancer survivorship
• Psychological coping with cancer-related symptoms
• Cognitive-behavioral interventions
• Psychological support & supportive relationships
• Qualitative – content analysis, grounded theory, focus group; Quantitative – observational and clinical trial

Terri Mathews, PhD, APRN-NP, BCBA-D

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Autism Spectrum disorders
• Generalization of skill acquisition
• Parent/family training, peer modeling, access to care
• Infant development, maternal stress and attachment

Libby Mollard, PhD, APRN-NP, IBCLC

• Women’s health throughout the lifespan
• Vulnerable populations
• Reproductive transitions
• Chronic illness in women
• Technology use in intervention and care delivery
• Qualitative methods

Tiffany Moore, PhD, RN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Maternal/Child Wellness
• Stress and Allostatic load in preterm infants (PI)
• Oxidative stress and inflammation in prenatal/neonatal populations
• Feeding intolerance in (PI)
• Probiotics & colonization in (PI)
• Metabolomics and preterm birth

Janet Nieveen, PhD, RN

• Cardiac patients
• Behavior change for physical activity
• Self-efficacy
• Technology
• At-risk adult populations
• Rural population

Bunny Pozehl, PhD, RN, APRN-NP, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Heart failure patients (including those with a Left Ventricular Assist Device)
• Exercise/Physical activity interventions
• Self-efficacy/Adherence
• Physical functioning
• Care transitions for chronic disease management

Jill Reed, PhD, RN, APRN-NP

• Obesity & weight loss
• Healthy lifestyles including promoting healthy diet and physical activity
• Rural populations
• Motivation for weight loss/improving health status

Sheri Rowland, PhD, APRN-BC FNP

• Cardiovascular risk reduction
• Clinic/Primary care based fitness testing
• Physical activity behavior
• Hispanic/Latino cardiovascular health
• Social Comparison
• Health behavior self-management

Myra Schmaderer, PhD, RN

• Self-Management
• Patient Activation
• Chronic Health
• Heart failure
• Multimorbidity

Marcia Shade, PhD, MNS, BS, RN

• Geriatric nursing
• Inappropriate use of medications/medication adherence
• Adverse events of medications
• Patient and medication safety
• Rural populations of older adults
• Self-management behaviors in older adults

Shirley Wiggins, PhD, RN

• Pediatric pain management (chronic & acute)
• Pain & sleep in the pediatric population
• Mixed methods research with children experiencing chronic illness & their parents
• Moving evidenced based nursing clinical practice guideline interventions into research to provide quality care outcomes.

Sue Wilhelm, PhD, RN

• Promotion of breastfeeding in vulnerable populations
• Nursing education

Lani Zimmerman, PhD, RN, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Cardiovascular (CV) Population
• At-risk CV populations
• Symptom management for cardiac interventions
• Self-management for risk factor modification or chronic disease management
• Using technology to deliver interventions and monitor outcomes
• Care transitions and health care utilization for chronic disease management

Elizabeth Beam, PhD, RN

• Personal protective equipment
• Reflective practice
• Biocontainment care
• Nursing education
• Education research
• Simulation

Claudia Chaperon, PhD, RN, APRN-NP-BC

• Interprofessional education in geriatrics
• Geriatric palliative care
• Gerontological NP practice
• Implementation and dissemination science
• Comprehensive Gero assessment
• Transitional care
• Sleep
• Circadian rhythms

Liane Connelly, PhD, RN, NEA-BC

• Nursing administration/Leadership
• Diversity and inclusion – workforce diversity
• Mentoring
• Reduction of lateral intimidation
• Simulation/technology in education
• Quality improvement

Janet Cuddigan, PhD, RN, CWCN, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Prevention and treatment of pressure injuries
• Physiological measurements of pressure injury risk in critically ill patients
• Evidence-based guideline development and implementation strategies
• Implementation/evaluation of pressure injury programs
• Secondary analysis of NDNQI database

Kate Fiandt, PhD, APRN-NP, FAANP, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Nurse managed health clinics
• Descriptions of users, description and correlation with outcomes, nursing interventions.
• Vulnerable patients-correlates of risk for poor outcomes and interventions to modify risks
• Integral Nursing Model

Teresa (Barry) Hultquist, PhD, MSN, RN, PHCNS-BC, NE-BC

• Mid-Life women
• Health & weight management
• Rural
• Educational technology
• Educational assessment and evaluation

Heidi Keeler, PhD, RN

• Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
  • Adolescent Health and Health Risk Behaviors
  • Elder Care/Caregiving
• Use of Dissemination and Implementation Science in Nursing Competencies
• Use of Technology in the Maintenance of Nursing Practice and Competence

Beth Culross, PhD, RN, GCNS-BC, CRRN, APRN-CNS, FNGNA

• Nursing education
• Simulations
• Instructional strategies/concept based learning
• Interprofessional education
• Gerontological nursing
• LTC nurse competencies/supporting LTC nurses
• Caregiver education and support
• Maintaining function in aging
• Safety/Fall prevention

Suhasini Kotcherlakota, PhD

• Nursing education
• Education/Instructional design (Theories/Design/Technologies)
• Teaching and Learning Strategies

Louise LaFramboise, PhD, RN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Critical care nursing
• Education
• Critical thinking
• Predictors of program and NCLEX success

Kim Rodehorst-Weber, PhD, RN, AE-C

• Faculties perceptions of moving to a concept based curriculum

Juliann Sebastian, PhD, RN, FAAN

• Nursing education
• Organization of care delivery systems
• Underserved populations
• Academic nursing practice
• Nurse-managed care centers
• DNP program curricula

Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler, PhD, RN, FAAN

(Eligible to chair dissertation)

• Teaching Learning/Educational Leadership
• Patient education
• Diabetes
• Breast health
• Professional failure to thrive
• Critical thinking
• Nursing education

Kevin Kupzyk, PhD

• Statistician