Wendy Looman

Wendy Sue Looman, PhD, RN, CNP Associate Professor Telephone Number: 612-624-6604 FAX Number: 612-626-6606 E-mail Address: looma003@umn.edu Office Location: 6-117 Weaver-Densford Hall

Mailing Address:

School of Nursing
University of Minnesota
5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall
308 Harvard Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Research Interests:

Specialty areas are Social Capital; family-community interactions for children with special health care needs; instrument development and translation; Velocardiofacial syndrome and care coordination. (Recent grants and selected publications are listed below.)

Teaching Areas:

Family Health Theory
Children with Special Health Care Needs
Pediatric Nursing

Practice:

Currently practicing clinically as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner on a multidisciplinary team in the Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Clinics in the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.

Research and Education Grants:

Title of Project: Correlates of Quality of Life for Rural and Urban Families of Children With Velocardiofacial Syndrome (VCFS)
Funding Agency: P20, NINR (Minnesota Center for Health Trajectory Research)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Dates: May 1 2008 - April 30 2009

Title of Project: Arabic Translation and Testing of the Social Capital Scale with Egyptian Families of Children with learning disorders
Role: Co-PI
Project Dates: 2004-2007

Title of Project: Social Capital, Parental Depressive Symptoms and Childhood Quality of Life: A Study of Children and Families from Subspecialty and Primary Care Clinics
Funding Agency: American Academy of Pediatrics, Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) grant
Role: Co-Investigator
Project Dates: 2005-2007

Title of Project: Health Promotion Through Civic Engagement: A Partnership for the Evaluation of a Community Initiative to Prevent Obesity in Youth
Funding Agency: COPE (Council on Public Engagement) grant, University of Minnesota
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Dates: 2005 - 2006

Title of Project: Hmong Translation of the Social Capital Scale for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Funding Agency: Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Dates: 4/1/05-3/31/06

Title of Project: Health Promotion Through Civic Engagement: A Partnership for the Evaluation of a Community Initiative to Prevent Obesity in Youth
Funding Agency: UMN Council on Public Engagement (COPE)
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Dates: 1/1/05-6/30/05

Title of Project: Validation of the Social Capital Scale for Families of Children with Chronic Conditions
Funding Agency: Grant-in-Aid, University of Minnesota Graduate School
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Dates: 1/04-6/05

Title of Project: Predoctoral National Research Service Award, Project Title: Development of a Tool to Measure Family Social Capital
Funding Agency: National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Dates: 2000-2003

Title of Project: Child and Parent Relations Project
Funding Agency: University of Michigan
Role: Research Assistant
Project Dates: March 2000-2003

Title of Project: Graduate Program Self-Assessment
Funding Agency: University of Michigan, Office of Academic Affairs
Role: Research Assistant: Analysis and preparation of written report on the Graduate Program Self-Assessment.
Project Dates: January 2002-March 2000

Title of Project: Study of intergenerational family relationships on psychological adaptation in families with teenage mothers
Funding Agency: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research
Role: Research Mentee
Project Dates: May 1998-October 1998

Selected Publications:

Looman, W. S., O'Conner-Von, S. K., Ferski, G. J., & Hildenbrand, D. S. (2008). Financial and Employment Problems in Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs: Implications for Research and Practice. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 22(4).

Looman, W. S., & Lindeke, L. L. (2008). Children and youth with special health care needs: Partnering with families for effective advocacy. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 22(2), 134-136.

Looman, W. S. (2006). Development and testing of the Social Capital Scale for Families of children with chronic conditions. Research in Nursing & Health, 29(4), 325-336.

Looman, W. S. (2006). A developmental approach to understanding drawings and narratives from children displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 20(3), 158-166.

Looman, W. S., & Lindeke, L. L. (2005). Health and social context: Social capital's utility as a construct for nursing and health promotion. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 19(2), 90-94.

Looman, W. S. (2004). Defining social capital for nursing: Experiences of family caregivers of children with chronic conditions. Journal of Family Nursing, 10(4), 412-428.

Donovan, J. E., Leech, S., Zucker, R. A., Loveland-Cherry, C. J., Jester, J., Fitzgerald, H. E., Puttler, L. I., Wong, M. M.,  & Looman, W. S. (2004). Really underage drinkers: Alcohol use among elementary students. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 28(2), 341-349.

Looman, W. S. & Loveland-Cherry, C. J.  (2001). Effects of a family intervention on adolescent alcohol use over time: a hierarchical linear model of longitudinal data. In Chiang Mai University Faculty of Nursing (Eds), Improving Life Through Health Promotion: Nurses Making a Difference (pp. 299-311). Chiang Mai, Thailand: Create Printing Group.

Center Memberships:

Center for Child and Family Health Promotion Research
Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs