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Faculty with Graduate Status and Their Research Interests/Areas of Expertise

* Carolyn A. Williams, professor and dean; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1969. Evaluation of community-based health services, nursing contributions to primary care, and public health nursing practice.

* Debra Anderson, associate professor; Ph.D., Oregon Health Sciences University, 1993. Homelessness in women and families, domestic violence, health of truck drivers.

* Sharon J. Barton, associate professor, Ph.D.., Loyola University, Chicago, 1995. Infants and mothers, infant feeding, families, qualitative research.

* Dorothy Y. Brockopp, professor and assistant dean for undergraduate studies; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1981. Quality of life among individuals with chronic illness.

* Patricia Burkhart, assistant professor; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1996. Child asthma self-management; adherence to treatment; peak flow monitoring.

* Norma J. Christman, associate professor emeritus; Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1980. Cognitive processes and health-related behavior; stress and coping; uncertainty in illness; self-regulation theory; psychosocial oncology.

** Mary C. DeLetter, assistant professor; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1991. Quality of life, chronic disease, and chronic airflow limitation.

* Susan Frazier, associate professor; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1996. Cardiopulmonary functioning.

** Teresa A. Free, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1988. Effects of maternal substance abuse on infants and children.

* Ellen J. Hahn, professor; D.N.S., Indiana University, 1992. School and home-based health promotion research; alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention with families and young children; tobacco policy research.

* Lynne A. Hall, Marcia A. Dake Professor of Nursing Science and assistant dean for research and the Ph.D. program; Dr.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983. Social support, stress, and depression in vulnerable populations; single-parent families; the effect of mothers' mental health on child outcomes, women’s health.

** Margaret J. Hickman, associate professor; Ed.D., Ball State University, 1982. Long-term home health care for adults in rural areas, community strategies for health promotion.

* Patricia B. Howard, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1992. Family caregiving, persistent mental illness, advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing.

* Terry A. Lennie, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993. Appetite, nutrition and inflammation in patients with advanced heart failure.

** Sharon E. Lock, associate professor; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1990. Communications about sexual risk behavior among adolescents; prevention of sexual risk behavior; prevention of teen pregnancy.

* Debra K. Moser, professor and Linda C. Gill Chair in Nursing; D.N.Sc., University of California at Los Angeles, 1992. Quality of life in people with coronary heart disease.

* Ann R. Peden, professor; D.S.N., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1991. Depression in women, women's mental health.

** Mary Kay Rayens, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1993. Tobacco policy; women’s mental health; biostatistics.

* Deborah B. Reed, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1996. Agricultural health and injury prevention, occupational health issues of women, health care issues of older adults.

* Juliann G. Sebastian, professor and assistant dean for advanced practice nursing; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1994. Community health nursing administration, care delivery systems and outcomes, academic nurse-managed centers.

* Sharon L. Sheahan, associate professor; Ph.D., C.F.N.P., University of Kentucky, 1990. Substance use/abuse across the lifespan.

* Marcia K. Stanhope, Good Samaritan Professor and Chair in Community Health Nursing and associate dean; D.S.N., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1981. Nursing care for the homeless, resource use in home care, academic nurse-managed centers.

** Ruth Staten, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1996. Alcohol and tobacco use prevention in college students.

** Sherry Warden, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1990. Psychosocial issues in the management of pain, spirituality, healing and alternative/complimentary medicine.

Diana Weaver, associate professor; D.N.S., Indiana University, 1984. Leadership, organizational management, patient care delivery models.

* full graduate status
** associate graduate status
† teaching in the graduate program


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