Faculty Research Interests: Overview

Melissa Avery, PhD, RN, CNM (avery003@umn.edu)

• Exercise in pregnancy and gestational diabetes
• Outcomes of nurse-midwifery care in vaginal birth after Cesarean section
• Technology-enhanced learning

Linda Bearinger, PhD, RN, FAAN (beari001@umn.edu)

• Health promotion and youth development with vulnerable adolescent populations
• Prevention of risky behavior, particularly around sexual health and violence involvement
• Health care services for adolescents and the competencies of health providers

Donna Z. Bliss, PhD, RN, FAAN (bliss@umn.edu)

• Fecal incontinence: epidemiology and symptom management; dietary fiber management
• Prevention and management of incontinence associated with perineal dermatitis
• Nutrition support: dietary fiber; tube feeding and diarrhea

Linda Chlan, PhD, RN (chlan001@umn.edu)

• Outcomes and effectiveness of nursing interventions
• Testing non-pharmacologic relaxation and anxiety management techniques with critically ill patients
• Music intervention

Connie Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI (delaney@umn.edu)

• Health informatics; knowledge discovery/data mining
• Management and international minimum data sets
• Knowledge representation

Joanne Disch, PhD, RN (disch003@umn.edu)

• Nursing leadership and management
• Nursing faculty satisfaction and productivity
• Improving patient safety through nurse-physician partnerships

Laura Duckett, PhD, MPH, RN (ducke001@umn.edu)

• Breastfeeding of full-term and pre-term infants and maternal employment; infant health
• Maternal-infant-family health during the first year
• Parent-infant attachment

Sandra Edwardson, PhD, RN, FAAN (edwar002@umn.edu)

• Administrative/health policy issues related to outcomes
• International health

Kathleen Fagerlund, PhD, CRNA (fager003@umn.edu)

• Costs and benefits of nurse anesthesia education
• Interactions of anesthesia and Parkinson's disease

Jayne A. Fulkerson, PhD (fulke001@umn.edu)

• Child/adolescent health: prevention and health promotion regarding eating disorders, obesity, depression, and substance use
• Family-based health promotion
• Psychometrics/instrument development

Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN (garcia@umn.edu)

• Latino adolescent/family mental health promotion
• Latino immigration/acculturation influence on health and well-being
• Cultural competency of health professionals

Ann Garwick, PhD, RN, LMFT, FAAN (garwi001@umn.edu)

• Children and special health needs; asthma management
• Cross-cultural health and culturally competent care
• Family health and caregiving, stress and coping

Joseph Gaugler, PhD (gaug0015@umn.edu)

• Longitudinal implications: care for disabled adults
• Effectiveness of services for caregiving families
• Effects of social integration on outcomes in long-term care

Cynthia Gross, PhD (gross002@umn.edu)

• Use of mindfulness interventions to reduce symptoms for persons with chronic insomnia, transplant patients and others
• Quality of life outcomes of persons after transplantation and in chronic health conditions
• Quality of life measurements and clinical trials

Linda Halcón, PhD, MPH, RN (halco001@umn.edu)

• Complementary/botanical therapies and infectious diseases
• Stress and coping interventions for refugees
• Risk behaviors among homeless adolescents; risk and protective factors

Helen Hansen, PhD, RN (hanse042@umn.edu)

• Interdisciplinary collaboration; creativity and innovation
• Nursing management and leadership
• Healthcare workforce; nurse workplace violence

Susan Henly, PhD, RN (henly003@umn.edu)

• Psychometric methods for health sciences research (classical test theory and IRT)
• Covariance structures (estimation, robustness, and model selection)
• Hierarchical data structures and longitudinal models (quality of care and health trajectories)

Ann Jones, PhD, RN (jones240@umn.edu)

• Transition experiences of new graduate nurses

Cathy Juve, PhD, RN, WHNP (cjuve@umn.edu)

• Distance learning
• Cross-cultural study on menopause

Merrie Kaas, DNSc, RN, CNS (kaasx002@umn.edu)

• Nursing interventions: women with late life depression
• Mental health/illness in long-term care
• Advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing
• Family caregiving of persons with mental illness

Madeleine Kerr, PhD, RN (kerrx010@umn.edu)

• Intervention-effectiveness research
• Preventing occupational hearing loss
• Latino worker health promotion

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, PNP (kreit003@umn.edu)

• Mindfulness-based stress reduction with transplant and chronic insomnia patients
• Integrative care of eating disorder patients
• Optimal healing environments

Kathleen Krichbaum, PhD, RN (krich001@umn.edu)

• Quality of long-term care delivered to elders
• Factors influencing a healthy work environment for nurses
• Education interventions to improve learning and elder health

Martha Kubik, PhD, MSN, RNC (kubik002@umn.edu)

• School and community-based intervention research
• Adolescent health: physical activity and eating habits
• Youth depression: Population-based health care

Barbara Leonard, PhD, RN, FAAN (leona001@umn.edu)

• Children and adolescents with Type I diabetes
• Spirituality
• Chronic illness in children and families

Joan Liaschenko, PhD, RN (jliasch@umn.edu)

• Morality and knowledge in nursing work
• Feminist ethics and feminist theory
• Nurse-physician collaboration and disciplinary identities

Linda Lindeke, PhD, RN, CNP (linde001@umn.edu)

• High-risk infants: school-age outcomes of adverse events
• APN roles and strategies
• Children's satisfaction with healthcare

Ruth Lindquist, PhD, RN, FAAN (lindq002@umn.edu)

• Quality of life and adjustment to cardiovascular and neurological diseases
• Behavior change adherence
• Technology, health behavior and self-care

Wendy Looman, PhD, RN (looma003@umn.edu)

• Social capital
• Family-community interactions: special needs children

Margaret Moss, DSN, RN, JD (mossx015@umn.edu)

• Making medical anthropology clinically relevant for urban and reservation-based American Indians
• Ethnogeriatrics: American Indian aging
• Program and policy innovations in American Indian elder care

Christine Mueller, PhD, RN, CNAA (cmueller@umn.edu)

• Quality of life in nursing homes
• Long-term care nursing leadership
• Nurse staffing and nursing practice models in long-term care

Carol O'Boyle, PhD, RN (oboyl002@umn.edu)

• Infection control-- nurses' internal motivational factors; hand hygiene
• International public health and infection control
• Bioterrorism and nurses

Susan O'Conner-Von, DNSc, RNC (ocon0025@umn.edu)

• Pediatric pain and palliative care
• Preparation for surgery: pre-operative fears
• Non-pharmacologic interventions for pain management

Cynthia Peden-McAlpine, PhD, RN (peden001@umn.edu)

• Hermeneutic and phenomenological methods
• Expert thinking in nursing and AP nursing practice
• Family values/beliefs in end-of-life decision making

Cheryl Robertson, PhD, MPH, RN (rober007@umn.edu)

• Refugee health: War trauma and torture
• Strength-based interventions
• Global public health

Mary Rowan, PhD, RN, CNM (rowan005@umn.edu)

• Ethics and end-of-life care
• Technology-enhanced education

Renee Sieving, PhD, MSN, RN (sievi001@umn.edu)

• Youth-health promotion
• Healthy youth development
• Prevention of adolescent multiple health risk behaviors (sexual risks, violence and school drop-out)

Diane Treat-Jacobson, PhD, RN (treat001@umn.edu)

• Outcomes of exercise training in patients with claudication from peripheral arterial disease (PAD)
• Quality of life assessment and measurement

Cecilia Wachdorf, PhD, CNM (wachd002@umn.edu)

• Comparisons of nurse- and direct-entry midwives
• Outcomes of midwifery care
• Midwifery education
• Models of healthcare and values systems of midwives

Bonnie Westra, PhD, RN (westr006@umn.edu)

• Informatics, business process improvement, systems analysis, quality improvement and public/health policy
• Public health, home-care, hospice
• Leadership, organizational behavior change

Jean Wyman, PhD, APRN, FAAN (wyman002@umn.edu)

• Urinary incontinence outcomes and measurement
• Fall prevention and exercise in the elderly

Fang Yu, PhD, MSN, RN (yuxxx244@umn.edu)

• Non-pharmacological interventions for improving cognition and function in older adults
• Aerobic exercise in older adults with dementia