Faculty with Graduate Status and Their Research
Interests/Areas of Expertise
* Debra Anderson, associate professor; Ph.D., Oregon
Health Sciences University, 1993. Homelessness in women and
families, foster children, domestic violence, and workplace
violence and injury.
* Dorothy Y. Brockopp, professor and associate dean for
academic affairs; Ph.D., State University of New York at
Buffalo, 1981. Quality of life among individuals with chronic
illness.
* Patricia Burkhart, associate professor and director of
the undergraduate program; Ph.D.,
University of Pittsburgh, 1996. Pediatric asthma: child asthma self-management;
adherence to treatment; peak flow monitoring for asthma
management; health-related quality of life for children and
adolescents with asthma; and health outcomes related to
pediatric asthma treatment interventions.
** 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. Heart-lung interactions, consequences of
mechanical ventilation, weaning from mechanical ventilation,
hemodynamics, critical care nursing practice.
** 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 associate dean for research and scholarship; 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 and director of
the M.S.N. and D.N.P. programs; Ph.D.,
University of Kentucky, 1992. Family caregiving, persistent mental
illness, advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nursing.
* Jane M. Kirschling, professor and dean;
D.N.S., Indiana University, 1984.
Nursing workforce, family care giving for persons with terminal
illness, grief.
* Terry A. Lennie, associate professor and director of the
Ph.D. Program; 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. Improving
outcomes in patients with cardiac disease with an emphasis on
heart failure. Psychosocial, behavioral and physiologic
interactions in heart failure patients.
* 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.
** Leslie K. Scott, instructor, Ph.D.,
University of Kentucky, 2004. Overweight and insulin resistance
in children and risk of Type 2 diabetes.
* 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; 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/complementary medicine.
* Carolyn A. Williams, professor; 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.
* full graduate status
** associate graduate status
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