Melanie Hardin-Pierce, D.N.P., R.N.
Principal Investigator

Project Title: "Inflammation, Cardiovascular Function and Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation"
Co-investigator: Susan Frazier, Ph.D.
Project Period: 5/1/08 - 4/30/09
Total Award: $10,000
Sponsor: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Ellen Hahn, D.N.S., R.N.
Principal Investigator

Project Title: "Northern Kentucky Clean Indoor Air Collaborative for Healthy Communities"
Project Period: 1/1/08 - 6/30/08
Total Award: $50,000
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Project Title: "An Intervention for Promoting Smoke-Free Policy in Rural Kentucky"
Co-investigators: Mary Kay Rayens, Ph.D., Carol Riker, M.S.N., Kiyoung Lee, Sc.D., Baretta Casey, M.D., Nancy York, Ph.D.
Project Period: 9/30/07 - 6/30/12
Total Award: $1,285,376
Sponsor: NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research

Project Title: "Community Partnership for Tobacco Prevention and Cessation"
Project Period: 7/1/07 - 6/30/08
Total Award: $140,000
Sponsor: Kentucky Department of Public Health

Darlene Welsh, Ph.D., R.N.
Principal Investigator

Project Title: "Low Sodium Diet Self-Management Intervention in Heart Failure"
Project Period: 9/30/07 - 9/29/09
Total Award: $114,751
Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research
Grant #1P20 NR010679

Debra Moser, D.N.Sc., R.N.
Principal Investigator

Project Title: "Center for Biobehavioral Research in Self-Management of Cardiopulmonary Disease."
Co-investigators: Ellen Hahn, D.N.S.; Terry Lennie, Ph.D.; Susan Frazier, Ph.D.; Lynne Hall, Dr.P.H.; Mary Kay Rayens, Ph.D.
Project Period:  9/29/2007 - 6/30/2012
Total Award: $1,285,376
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research
Grant #1P20 NR010679

Project Title: "Improving Self Care Behavior and Outcomes in Rural Patients with Heart Failure"
(Site-PI)
Project Period: 8/1/06 - 4/30/11
Total Award: $1,032,175 (subcontract from University of California San Francisco)
Sponsor: NIH/National Heart Lung & Blood Institute

Project Title: "Predicting CHD Events in Black and White Women"
(Site-PI)
Project Period: 7/1/2005 - 1/31/2010
Total Award: $307,055 (subcontract from University of Arkansas)
Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research/National Institutes of Health

Project Title: "Biobehavioral Intervention in Heart Failure."
Co-investigators: Ann Peden, D.N.S.; Mary Kay Rayens, Ph.D.
Project Period:  6/1/2004 - 2/28/2009
Total Award: $1,591,935
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research

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Deborah Reed, R.N.C., M.S.P.H., Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Project Title: "Refinement and Enhancement of Agricultural Safety Curricula for Children"
Co-investigator: Nancye McCrary, Ph.D.
Project Period: 8/1/07 - 7/31/10
Total Award: $1,071,036
Sponsor: CDC/NIOSH
Grant #1R01OH009197-01

Project Title: "Nurses' Agricultural Education Phase II"
Project Period: 7/1/06 - 6/30/11
Total Award: $238,786
Sponsor: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Grant # 1U50 OH07547-01

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Misook Chung, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Project Title: "Impact of Family Distress and Burden on Patients’ Outcomes in Heart Failure"
Project Period: 7/1/2006 - 6/31/2009
Total Award: $280,961
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research,
Grant # 1 K23 NR010011-01

Terry Lennie, Ph.D., R.N.
Principal Investigator

Project Title: "BMI, Nutrition, Inflammation and Heart Failure Outcomes"
Co-investigators: Debra Moser, D.N.Sc., R.N.; Mary Kay Rayens, Ph.D.; Thomas Whayne, M.D., Ph.D.; John Novak, B.D.S., L.D.S., Ph.D.
Project Period: 9/1/2005 - 5/31-2008
Total Award: $1,532,797
Sponsor: National Institute of Nursing Research

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