Publications, Presentations, and Other News October 2019

Publications

• Abigail Felix ’17, PhD student; and Rita Marie John ’05, DNP, were the authors of “Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome,” published in The Nurse Practitioner.
• Kristine Kulage, MPH; and Elaine Larson, PhD, were the authors of “The Benefits of Internal Grant Reviews Can Extend Beyond Positively Impacting Research Funding Success Rates Without Incurring Additional Costs,” published as a Letter to the Editor in The Journal of Pediatrics.
• Kristine Kulage, MPH; and Elaine Larson, PhD, were among the authors of “Promoting Nursing Research Globally: The Writing to Improve Nursing Science (WINS) Program,” published in the International Nursing Review.
• Kristine Kulage, MPH; Arlene Smaldone ’03, PhD; and Patricia Stone, PhD and were the authors of “Supporting Dissertation Work through a Nursing PhD Program Federal Grant Writing Workshop,” published in the Journal of Professional Nursing.
• Nancy Reame, PhD, was the author of “Menopausal Night Sweats: More Evidence for Long-Term Repercussions of Childhood Abuse on Women’s Health,” published in Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society.
• Jingjing Shang, PhD; Ashley Chastain, DrPH, project manager; Meghan Murray ’16, PhD student; and Patricia Stone, PhD; were among the authors of “Measuring Quality in Home Healthcare,” published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
• Arlene Smaldone ’03, PhD; Kasey Jackman ’05 ’10 ’17, PhD; Judith Kelson, MSW; and Kyungmi Joanne Woo ’18, PhD, were among the authors of “Dissemination of PhD Dissertation Research by Dissertation Format: A Retrospective Cohort Study,” published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
• Maxim Topaz, PhD, was among the authors of “Patient-Centered Care via Health Information Technology: A Qualitative Study with Experts from Israel and the U.S.,” published in Informatics for Health and Social Care.
• Moka Yoo-Jeong, PhD, was among the authors of “Correlates of Loneliness in Older Persons Living with HIV,” published in AIDS Care.
• Katherine Zheng, PhD student; Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD; and Arlene Smaldone ’03, PhD, were the authors of “Illness Acceptance in Adolescents: A Concept Analysis,” published in Nurse Forum.

Presentations

• Adriana Arcia, PhD; Suzanne Bakken, PhD; and Niurka Suero-Tejeda, MS, project director, presented “Development of Pictograms for an Interactive Web Application to Help Hispanic Caregivers Learn About the Functional Stages of Dementia,” at MedInfo 2019 in Lyon, France.
• Susan Delisle ’06, MS; and Audrey C. Kleet, MS, presented “Integrating Palliative Care into Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs: When to Start and How to Begin,” at the Heart Failure Society of America 2019 Scientific Meeting, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Rita Marie John ’05, DNP; and Deanna Schneider ’10, DNP, presented “Diagnostic Labs and Radiology Review for the PNP,” at the Regional National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Conference, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Kathleen Mullen, DNP, presented “Implementing Serial Virtual and Hi-Fidelity Patient Safety Simulations to New Nursing Students,” at the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) 2019 International Forum, in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Rebecca Schnall ’09, PhD; and Nancy Reame, PhD, presented “Ecological Momentary Assessment of HIV Versus Reproductive Health Symptoms in Women of Differing Reproductive Stages Living with HIV,” at the North American Menopause Society 2019 Annual Meeting, in Chicago, Illinois.
• Cindy Veldhuis, PhD, presented “Your Research Is Brilliant. But Is It Pretty? Branding and Designing Research-Related Products for Maximal Engagement,” at the 37th Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality (GLMA) Annual Conference on LGBTQ Health, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Cindy Veldhuis, PhD, presented “’It’s a Fact of My Life That I Am Black. It’s Now a Fact of Her Life That She is in a Relationship With a Black Person’: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Stress in Queer Women’s Interracial/Interethnic Couple Relationships,” at the Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality (GMLA) Nursing Summit and the 37th GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ Health, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Awards and Honors

• Laura Britton ’14 ’16, PhD, is the recipient of the Hillman Advancing Early Research Opportunities (AERO) Grant from the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation, for the study, “Understanding the Reproductive Health Information Needs and Communication Preferences of Black Women with Type 2 Diabetes.” The grant is funded for $5,000.
• Tonda Hughes, PhD, is the recipient of a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) grant for her study, “Stress, Hazardous Drinking, and Intimate Partner Aggression in a Diverse Sample of Women and Their Partners.” This five-year R01 study, funded for $2.75 million, will extend the minority stress model to include the relational (couple-level) context of sexual minority stress, as well as the I³ (I-Cubed) theoretical perspective on intimate partner aggression. 
• Ana Kelly, PhD, is the recipient of a 2019‒2020 School of Nursing Global Development Fund Research Pilot Grant for her study titled, “Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV Knowledge and Case-Based Training Outcomes among Peer Educators in Maula and Kachere Prisons in Lilongwe, Malawi: A Quasi-Experimental Study.” The study was funded for $4,000.
• Wanda Montalvo ’15, PhD, was awarded Nurse of the Year by the National Hispanic Nurses Association New York Chapter.
• Jingjing Shang, PhD; and Patricia Stone, PhD, are the recipients of a supplemental award from the National Institute of Nursing Research for their study, “Infection Prevention in Home Health Care (InHOME).” This supplemental award, funded for $450,000, allows the InHOME study to continue to address the issue of advanced illness and infections due to Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias.
• Laura Starbird, PhD, was selected as an awardee for the NIH Loan Repayment Program in Clinical Research by the National Institute of Nursing Research.
• Mary Tresgallo ’92 ‘08, DNP; and Marie Garcon, DNP, are the recipients of a 2019‒2020 School of Nursing Global Development Fund Grant for Scholarly Activities for their project titled, “Palliative Care Initiative in Haiti.” Funded for $12,800, this project will provide expert support in curriculum development and future in-person collaborative workshops in palliative care in Haiti.
• Cindy Veldhuis, PhD, was appointed to the Science Committee of Division 44, the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, of the American Psychological Association.
• Judy Wolfe, EdD, is the recipient of a Health Resources and Services Administration and U.S. Department of Education grant through their Nursing Student Loan Program. The grant, funded for $150,000, allows the university to offer low-interest loans to graduate students who historically have been environmentally or economically disadvantaged.

Briefs and Other News

• Jennifer Dohrn ’85 ’05, DNP, led a delegation of nurses with expertise in global response to pandemics to conduct 39 oral histories in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Monrovia, Liberia, with nurses and midwives who were active in the response to the Ebola outbreak (2014‒2016). Those interviewed included chief nursing and midwifery officers of the Ministries of Health; the nursing and midwifery boards and associations; nursing educators; and clinicians who provided care in Ebola Treatment Units. Among the nurses and midwives interviewed were a number who themselves had been infected and survived.
• Allison A. Norful ’17, PhD, was elected to the advisory board (Member-at-Large) of AcademyHealth’s Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues.
• Andrea Sonenberg ’07, PhD, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the New York State Public Health Association.
• Edwidge Thomas ’93 ’05, DNP, was presented the Healthcare Innovation Award by the Community Healthcare Network.

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