Grants, Faculty Publications, and Other News September 2015
Grants
Dawn Dowding, PhD, professor, received a four-year subcontract of $30,000 from SUNY Downstate for “Finding the Safer Way: Novel Interaction Design Approaches to Health IT Safety,” funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality.
Haomiao Jia, PhD, associate professor in biostatistics, received a two-year subcontract of $59,000 from West Virginia University for “Poisoning, Coroners and Differential Suicide Undercounting: Evidence from Suicide Notes Research,” funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cliff Roberson, DNP, Nurse Anesthesia program director, received a one-year grant of $3,900 from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for “Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship.”
Rebecca Schnall, PhD, assistant professor, received a five-year grant of $2,332,000 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) for “Video Information Provider for HIV-Associated Non-AIDS (VIP-HANA) Symptoms.”
Jingjing Shang, PhD, assistant professor, received an intramural pilot grant of $9,500 for “Infection Related Socioeconomic Disparities in Home Health Care.”
Publications
Rita John, EdD, DNP, Pediatric Primary Care program director, was an author of “A Review of Knee Pain in Adolescent Females,” published in The Nurse Practitioner.
Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, associate professor, was the lead author of "Transition Networks in a Cohort of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure,” published in Applied Clinical Informatics.
Arlene Smaldone, PhD, assistant dean, was an author of “Phenotype and Adverse Quality of Life in Boys with Klinefelter Syndrome," published in the Journal of Pediatrics. She was also an author of “Quality of Primary Care by Advanced Practice Nurses: A Systematic review,” published in International Journal for Quality in Health Care. Elaine Larson, PhD, associate dean for research, was also an author. In addition, she was an author of “Adopting the Sensemaking Perspective for Chronic Disease Self-Management,” published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Suzanne Bakken, PhD, Alumni Professor of the School of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, was also an author.
Honors and Presentations
Walter Bockting, PhD, professor of medical psychology, was a member of a task force that wrote new guidelines for the American Psychological Association for working with Transgender, Gender Nonconforming people.
Mary Byrne, PhD, Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor of Health Care for the Underserved, was part of the team that wrote guidelines for the implementation of mother-child units in Canadian correctional facilities.
Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow, presented "Motivational Interviewing to improve self-care for patients with chronic heart failure: MITI-HF randomized controlled trial" at the 19th Annual Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Dohrn, DNP, director of the Office of Global Initiatives, presented “Building a Sustainable Clinical Nursing and Midwifery Research Network to Improve Health Outcomes in Southern and Eastern African Countries” at Sigma Theta Tau International's 26th International Nursing Research Congress, in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sunmoo Yoon, PhD, postdoctoral research scientist, presented “Data Mining of Social Media,” at TCRSS Summer Workshop Series on Informatics and Technologic Interventions Presentation at The University of Texas at Austin.
Kathleen Hickey, EdD, associate professor, was named a National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) ambassador.
The following faculty members were elected as Fellows of the NY Academy of Medicine: Kenrick Cato, PhD, associate research scientist, Stephen Ferrara, DNP, associate dean of clinical affairs, Kathleen Hickey, EdD, associate professor, and Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, assistant professor.
Rebecca Schnall, PhD, assistant professor, presented “Trust, Perceived Risk, Perceived Ease of Use and Perceived Usefulness as Factors Related to mHealth Technology Use,” at MEDINFO 2015 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Briefs
Helene Demontreux Houston ’68, co-authored The Other Couch: Discovering Women’s Wisdom in Therapy.
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