Ph.D. Students/Graduates
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Gwen Hayes, predoctoral
fellow with the University of Kentucky Rural Cancer Control
Training Program, won first place in the student poster
contest at the Southern Nursing Research Society conference
for her poster, GIS Mapping: Tobacco Smoke, Radon, and
Lung Cancer. |
Gwen Hayes
Ph.D. student |
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Jia-Rong (Angela) Wu
(Ph.D. 2007) received
a $10,000 Clinical Outcomes Grant from the American
Association of Critical-Care Nurses for her research,
"Effect of a Theory-Based Medication-taking Behavior
Feedback Intervention on Medication Adherence and Outcomes
in Patients with Heart Failure. " She received a two-year $95,000 postdoctoral fellowship to work with the
RICH Heart Group on a grant funded by the National Heart
Lung and Blood Institute (#1R01HL083176).
A
paper based on her dissertation, "Predictors of Medication Adherence Using a
Multidimensional Adherence Model in Patients with Heart
Failure," was a finalist in the Nursing Research Award
competition at the Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure
Society of America. She was also a finalist for the Martha
Hill New Investigator Award at the American Heart
Association Scientific Sessions. |
Angela Wu
Postdoctoral fellow |
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Jessica Wilson was awarded
$25,000 from the Southeast Center for Agricultural Health
and Injury Prevention for her
dissertation research,
"Characteristics of All-Terrain Vehicles and Their Operators
on Kentucky Farms." |
Jessica Wilson
Ph.D. student |
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Brooke
Bentley, 2006 Ph.D. graduate, won second place in the research presentation
competition at the American Association of Heart Failure
Nurses conference for her paper,
"Dietary Sodium Intervention in Heart Failure Patients."
Rebecca Dekker was awarded
third place for
her paper, "Depressive Symptoms Do Not Predict Physical
Activity Levels in Patients with Heart Failure." |
Rebecca Dekker
Ph.D. student |
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Jan Odom-Forren received
the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in
the Critical Care category. Her book is titled, Practical
Guide to Moderate Sedation/Analgesia, second edition, by
Jan Odom-Forren and Donna Watson, St. Louis: Mosby. She also
received an award for best published paper of the year from
the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses. |
Jan Odom-Forren
Ph.D. candidate |
Connie Lamb received a $12,500 grant from the
Christopher Reeve Foundation for her
dissertation research,
“Living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Measuring Quality
of Life.”
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Connie Lamb
Ph.D. student |
Judy Schreiber was awarded a $30,000
Doctoral Degree Scholarship from the American Cancer
Society. The topic of her
dissertation research is,
"Spiritual Belief Systems Expectations: Impact on
Anxiety and Depression." She and fellow students
Susan Hedgecock and Gwen Hayes were selected as predoctoral fellows in
the Kentucky Cancer Prevention and Control Training
Program, based in the
Center for Prevention Research.
In July 2006 she was chosen to attend an invitational
program at the National Institutes of Health, consisting
of an intensive course on the Principles and Practice of
Cancer Prevention offered by the National Cancer
Institute.
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Judy Schreiber
Ph.D. candidate |
Susan Matthews was named Kentucky
Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the American Academy
of Nurse Practitioners. She was recognized for this
honor during the annual conference of the Kentucky
Coalition of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives at
Covington, Ky., in April 2006. She received national
recognition at the AANP national conference in
Grapevine, Texas, in June 2006.
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Susan Matthews
Ph.D. candidate |
Karen Heaton received a
prestigious National Research Service Award Predoctoral
Fellowship from the National Institute of Nursing
Research, National Institutes of Health. She will use the
award for her dissertation research.
In addition
to an institutional allowance for her tuition and books,
Karen received a stipend of $20,000 per year for the
40-month award.
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Karen Heaton
Ph.D. 2007 |
