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Debra Moser, D.N.Sc., M.N., R.N., F.A.A.N


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Debra Moser

Professor and Linda C. Gill Chair in Nursing
Faculty Status:
Graduate (Full)
Education:
D.N.Sc., University of California at Los Angeles, 1992
Interests: Improving outcomes in people with cardiac disease
Phone: (859) 323-6687 
E-mail: dmoser@uky.edu

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Debra Moser holds a Master of Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. She came to UK from The Ohio State University College of Nursing, Department of Adult Health and Illness Nursing. Since 1997, she has served as co-editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Moser's distinguished career began with 12 years of critical care nursing. This was just the beginning of a steady, productive journey toward her current program of research: working with and studying patients with coronary heart disease. As the College's Linda C. Gill Chair in Nursing and co-director of the RICH Heart Program, Moser is researching ways to improve outcomes and quality of life in people with heart failure and other cardiac conditions.

Moser directs the Center for Biobehavioral Research in Self-Management of Cardiopulmonary disease at the College of Nursing. She is currently involved with six different NIH-funded research projects, including three collaborative efforts with investigators from other institutions. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, Nursing Research, Social Science and Medicine, the American Heart Journal, the American Journal of Cardiology, and the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Moser has earned numerous honors and awards, the most recent being named the 2007 Distinguished Research Lecturer by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. In recognition of her contributions and achievements in the field of cardiovascular nursing research, she received the 2006 Katharine A. Lembright Award from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. In 2004 she received the Excellence in Research award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. In 2002, she was the recipient of the award for Research Article of the Year from the American Heart Association, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. In 2003 she was selected to receive a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. In connection with this award, she spent four months in 2004 in Sydney, Australia at the University of Western Sydney, the University of Newcastle, University of Technology, St. George Hospital and Royal North Shore Hospital, doing lectures and collaborative research on patient delay in seeking treatment for acute myocardial infarction symptoms, and also on heart failure.

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Recent Publications

Granger, B.B., Moser, D.K., Harrell, J., Sandelowski, M., & Ekman, I. (2007). A practical use of theory to study adherence. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing, 22(3), 152-158.

Riegel, B., Moser, D.K., Rayens, M.K., Carlson, B., Pressler, S.B., Shively, M., Albert, N.M., Armola, R., Evangelista, L., and Sethares, K. (2008). Ethnic differences in quality of life in persons with heart failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 14(1), 41-47.

Frazier, S.K., Moser, D.K., Schlanger, R., Widener, J., Pender, L., & Stone, K.S. (In press). Autonomic tone in medical intensive care patients receiving mechanical ventilation and during a CPAP weaning trial. Biological Research for Nursing.

Moser, D.K. (2007). The rust of life: Impact of anxiety on cardiac patients. American Journal of Critical Care, 16, 361-369.

Heo, S., Moser, D.K., & Widener, J. (2007). Gender differences in the effects of physical and emotional symptoms on health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 6(2), 146-152.

Heo, S., Moser, D.K., Lennie, T.A., Zambroski, C.H., & Chung, M.L. (2007). A comparison of health-related quality of life between older adults with heart failure and healthy older adults. Heart & Lung, 36(1), 16-24.

Moser, D.K., Riegel, B., McKinley, S., Doering, L.V., An, K., & Sheahan, S. (2007). Impact of anxiety and perceived control on in-hospital complications after acute myocardial infarction. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(1), 10-16.

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Research

bullet Center for Biobehavioral Research in Self-Management of Cardiopulmonary Disease
bullet Heart Failure in the Community (V. Roger, PI).
bullet Improving Self Care Behavior and Outcomes in Rural Patients with Heart Failure (K. Dracup, PI).
bullet BMI, Nutrition, Inflammation and Heart Failure Outcomes
bullet Predicting CHD Events in Black and White Women (J. McSweeney, PI)
bullet Nutritional Intake and Proinflammatory Cytokine Activity in Community Dwelling Older Adults 
bullet Biobehavioral Intervention in Heart Failure
bullet Reducing Secondhand Tobacco Smoke: Cardiac and Asthma Outcomes
bullet Physiologic and Behavioral Mechanisms Linking Depression with Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Heart Failure
bullet Effect on Outcomes and Resource Utilization of a Focused Home-based Education Program for Elderly Heart Failure Patients
bullet Reducing Delay in Acute Myocardial Infarction (K. Dracup, PI)
bullet Autonomic Nervous System Tone in Genetically Inherited Sudden Cardiac Death (K. Stone, PI)
bullet Cardiovascular Function During Ventilator Weaning (S.K. Frazier, PI)
bullet Home-Based Education for Elderly Heart Failure Patients
bullet Interventions to Promote Ventilator Weaning (K. Stone, PI)

News Stories:

bullet Moser Earns National American Heart Association Honor
bullet UK College of Nursing Professor Featured in Newsweek Magazine
bullet Fulbright Scholar Studies Heart Failure
bullet UK Researcher's Work Spreads Word About Heart Attack Prevention
bullet Quicker Treatment for Heart Attack Victims
bullet UK College of Nursing Participating in Heart Disease Research Study

 


Read about Moser's research (pp. 4-5)

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