PhD Faculty
- Knowledge representation standards/essential data
- Big data and knowledge discovery
- Interprofessional education and Triple Aim impact
- Environmental, social and individual factors fostering healthy youth development
- Coping mechanisms in immigrant and refugee youth
- Drugs, substance use, violence and mental health in immigrant and refugee youth
- Maternal confidence for physiologic birth
- Outcomes of nurse midwifery care in vaginal birth after Cesarean section
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Family management of children with chronic health conditions, development of self-care and health care autonomy, mixed methods
- Immigrant health
- Adolescent health
- Bone health
- Symptom measurement and management in movement disorders
- Symptom interventions for individuals with disabilities.
- Patients/providers communication pattern to improve patient outcomes
- Quality of life issues for individuals with disabilities.
- Prevention of impairments and limitation in disabled population.
- Overlapping pain syndrome in neurological disabilities.
- Use of mobile and web-based health interventions/apps and technology for promoting health self-management
- Symptom management of chronic conditions in adults and older adults
- Fecal/dual incontinence, associated skin problems (dermatitis, pressure injury)
- Health disparities
- APN utilization in new models of health care delivery
- Family adjustment after international adoption
- Parent-child attachment/relationship
- Neurobiological, cognitive, social, and emotional effects of early childhood deprivation (hospitalization or orphanage care)
- Translational research for personalized health management
- Machine learning and knowledge discovery
- Treatment modeling and simulation
- Family-based health promotion in community settings
- Child/adolescent obesity prevention through family meals at home
- Research methodology, evaluation, measurement and instrument development
- Problem-solving therapy to treat post-stroke depression
- Use of fMRI to determine neuron connectivity in stroke survivors following problem-solving therapy
- Interventions for fatigue and related symptoms in children with cancer
- Physical performance and exercise in children with cancer
- Measurement of symptoms and quality of life in children with chronic illness
- Nursing interventions: older adults with late-life depression
- Advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing
- Caregiver training about late-stage dementia
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction to improve health outcomes
- Integrative care model to manage women with eating disorders
- Meditative movement and health outcomes of older adults
- Complexity compression: factors influencing the nursing work environment
- Education interventions to improve nursing student learning outcomes including use of simulations
- Quality of long-term care delivered to elders
- Family health care nursing
- Quality of life among children and youth with special health care needs
- Care coordination for children with medical complexity
- Preparing process of expectant parents after fetal diagnoses
- Adaptive work of parents caring for children born with complex health needs
- Promoting lifestyle behaviors among older adults
- Mobile health (mHealth) technology to enhance motivation for physical activity
- Interventions to promote motivation for engagement in fall-reducing physical activity
- Prevention of risky health behaviors in adolescence
- Promotion of health among vulnerable populations
- Program evaluation, research methods and complex statistical modeling
- Clinical Practice Guideline mitigation using AI to develop treatment plans for multi-morbid patients
- Shared decision making
- Therapy compliance
- Home visiting intervention effectiveness research
- Standardized terminology data research
- Data mining, data visualization and machine learning methods
- Quality of care in nursing homes
- Long-term care nursing leadership
- Geriatric nursing education
- Nurse staffing and nursing practice models in long-term care
- Pediatric pain and palliative care
- Spiritual care
- Web-based education for adolescents with cancer
- Qualitative methods
- Family/provider communication at end of life in ICUs
- Family end-of-life decision making
- Psychiatric and mental health problems in children/adolescents
- Interprofessional graduate education; integrative psychiatric mental health
- Trauma-related nightmares and post-traumatic stress in youth
- Promoting healthy physical and emotional trajectories into adulthood
- Trans-disciplinary eco-health research to advance global health
- Use of mHealth and photovoice strategies in health promotion
- Partnership-based health care and interprofessional practice
- Diversity and inclusivity
- Design thinking and innovation
- Refugee trauma, stress and coping
- Community-based coping intervention research
- Eco-health strategies in central/eastern Africa
- Adolescent sexual risk behavior
- American Indian health promotion
- Confidence for physiologic birth
- Cardiovascular disease and cardiac rehabilitation
- Interventions to increase physical activity, improve sleep and enhance quality of life
- Mobile health and integrative therapies for health promotion and disease prevention
- Promoting health and healthy development among vulnerable populations of young people
- Preventing risky sexual behaviors, violence and school dropout among adolescents
- Improving adolescent health services
- Preventing excess disability and frailty in older adults
- Nursing rehabilitation of older adults
- Preventing and managing urinary incontinence in older adults
- Symptom management in critically ill patients
- Innovative interventions to improve the care of critically ill and mechanically ventilated patients
- Complementary therapies
- Outcomes of exercise training in patients with peripheral artery disease
- Quality of life assessment and measurement
- Early detection and management of peripheral artery disease
- Urinary incontinence
- Fall prevention and exercise in the elderly
- Exercise in older adults with chronic disease
Connie Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
Professor and Dean
Professor and Dean
612-624-5959
delaney@umn.edu
Eunice M. Areba, PhD, RN, PHN
Clinical Assistant Professor
Clinical Assistant Professor
612-624-9605
areba002@umn.edu
Melissa D. Avery, PhD, APRN, CNM, FACN
Professor
Professor
612-624-5933
avery003@umn.edu
Barbara Beacham, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
612-624-6658
bbeacham@umn.edu
Mary M. Benbenek, PhD, MS, RN, FNP, PN
Clinical Professor
Clinical Professor
612-626-5236
benbe001@umn.edu
Rozina H. Bhimani, PhD, DNP, APRN-CNP, CNE
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
612-625-1497
bhim0001@umn.edu
Donna Z. Bliss, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA
Professor
Professor
612-624-1425
bliss@umn.edu
Mary L. Chesney, PhD, APRN, CPNP, FAA
Clinical Professor Distinguished University Teaching Professor
Clinical Professor Distinguished University Teaching Professor
612-625-1601
chesn009@umn.edu
Chih-Lin Chi, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-624-5113
cchi@umn.edu
Jayne A. Fulkerson, PhD
Professor
Professor
612-624-4823
fulke001@umn.edu
Niloufar N. Hadidi, PhD, APRN, CNS-BC, FAHA
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-626-8901
hadi0001@umn.edu
Casey C. Hooke, PhD, RN, PCNS, CPON
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-624-2972
hook0035@umn.edu
Merrie J. Kaas, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Professor
Professor
612-626-3781
kaasx002@umn.edu
Laura N. Kirk, PhD, RN
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Associate Professor
612-625-4593
kirk0013@umn.edu
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• Long-term Care
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director
Director
612-625-3977
kreit003@umn.edu
Kathleen E. Krichbaum, PhD, RN, FGSA, ANEF,
Professor
Professor
612-624-2489
krich001@umn.edu
Wendy S. Looman, PhD, RN, CNP
Professor
Professor
612-624-6604
looma003@umn.edu
Anne Chevalier McKechnie, PhD, RN, IBCLC
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
612-624-6491
acmckech@umn.edu
Siobhan K. McMahon, PhD, MPH, RN, GNP-BC
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-625-3225
skmcmaho@umn.edu
Barbara J. McMorris, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-624-9909
mcmo0023@umn.edu
Martin Michalowski, PhD
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
612-625-0992
martinm@umn.edu
Karen A. Monsen, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FAAN
Professor
Professor
612-624-0490
mons0122@umn.edu
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Christine A. Mueller, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN
Professor and Sr. Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Professor and Sr. Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs
612-626-4922
cmueller@umn.edu
Susan K. O'Conner-Von, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-624-6647
ocon0025@umn.edu
Cynthia J. Peden-McAlpine, PhD, ACNS, BC
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-624-0449
peden001@umn.edu
Barbara L. Peterson, PhD, RN, CNS
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Associate Professor
612-624-0440
pete1389@umn.edu
Carolyn M. Porta, PhD, MPH, RN SANE-A, FAAN
Professor, Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs
Professor, Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs
612-624-6179
porta@umn.edu
Teddie M. Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Associate Professor
612-626-2881
tmpotter@umn.edu
Cheryl L. Robertson, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Professor
Professor
612-626-6450
rober007@umn.edu
Melissa A. Saftner, PhD, APRN, CNM, FACNM
Clinical Professor, Child and Family Health Cooperative
Clinical Professor, Child and Family Health Cooperative
218-726-8934
msaftner@umn.edu
Erica Schorr, PhD, BSBA, RN
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-624-6406
scho0828@umn.edu
Renee E. Sieving, PhD, RN, FAAN, FSAHM
Professor
Professor
612-626-4527
sievi001@umn.edu
Kristine M. Talley, PhD, RN, GNP-BC
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-624-9412
carl0106@umn.edu
Mary F. Tracy, PhD, APRN, CNS, FAAN
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
612-273-6417
tracy005@umn.edu
Diane J. Treat-Jacobson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
612-624-7613
treat001@umn.edu
Jean Wyman, PhD, RN, APRN, GNP-B
Professor
Professor
612-624-2132
wyman002@umn.edu