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| Ph.D. Program Home | Admission Information | Distance Learning Option | BS-PhD | Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence PhD Program | Program of Study | Faculty Research Interests |
Below is a list of some of our PhD level faculty members' research interests. When considering PhD programs, finding a faculty member with similar research interests is a very important consideration as you will want a mentor who will be able to guide you through your PhD process. The list below is not exhaustive but will give both current students and prospective students a reference to start looking at potential faculty members to work with during their PhD study. In addition, if you would like to see a list of our currently funded research projects please follow the link below:
| Faculty Name | Key Research Interests and/or Research Skills |
| Beck, Susan | Models of Care, Quality of Life, Research Utilization, Symptom Management, Pain, Organizations, Stomatitis, Music Therapy, Fatigue, Insomnia, Cancer Survivorship |
| Bergstrom, Linda | Midwifery, Women's Health, Qualitative Methods, Analysing video data, conversational analysis, policical violence, Military Nursing |
| Berry, Patricia | Palliative Care, Pain and symptom management, interdisciplinary, geriatrics, long term care/assisted living |
| Brooke, Penny | Clinical Decision-Making, Ethics, Legal Issues, Nursing Education, Health Promotion, Patient/Client Ed., Qual. Imp., Discharge Planning, Staff Education, Stress and Coping, Disease Prevention, Nursing Theory, Caring |
| Caserta, Mike | Spousal Bereavement, Widowhood, Health Promotion, Healthy Aging |
| Christian, Becky | Child and adolescent health, children and adolescents with chronic illness (physiologic status, functional status, and psychosocial adaptation), family adaptation to chronic illness, caregiver functioning, quntitative, qualitative and mixed methods |
| Clark, Lauren | Maternal-infant health, Child feeding, Childhood overweight, Latino health |
| Clayton, Margaret | Health Communication, Patient Provider Interaction, Psycho-oncology, Cancer Communication, Patient-centered Care, Breast Cancer, Uncertainty |
| Cloyes, Kristin | mental health and illness, health disparities, incarceration, discourse analysis, multiple methods, nursing theory |
| Deneris, Ann | Health Promotion, Patient/Client Education, Sexuality, Women’s Health |
| Doig, Alexa | Physiological nursing, biomedical engineering, patient monitoring technologies |
| Duffy, Mary | Diabetes Health Policy, International Health an Education, Culture, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory Methodology |
| Ellington, Lee | Interpersonal health communication, emotional expression, patient-provider interaction, psycho-oncology, clinical genetics communication, genetic counseling, poison control |
| Gassert, Carole | Nursing Informatics |
| Haak, Sandra | simulation, clinical judgement acquisition of expertise, time and motion studies |
| Harald, Elizabeth | Adult Physiological Nursing |
| Hardin, Pamela | women's health, eating disorders, health disparities, qualitative methods, discourse analysis |
| Hutton, Ann | Barriers to health care for severely mentally ill psychiatric patients, NP and primary care for psychiatric patients, Outcome evaluation of psychiatric nursing practice in primary care, Health Promotion, Self-Care, Stress and Coping, Physical Health Needs of Psychiatric Patients |
| Keefe, Maureen | Developmental, Maternal-Infant, Infant State, Maternal-infant sleep, Developmental Psychobiological, Infant State Behavior, Colic, Infant Irritability |
| Kelly, Diane | health care organizations, public health |
| Lund, Dale | Aging, Bereavement, Wodowhood, caregiving, respite services |
| Mansen, Thom | Men’s Health, Nursing Education, Nursing Theory, Organizations, Spirituality, Conceptualization, Instructional Design/Development |
| McCance, Kathy | Disease Prevention, Health Promotion, Women’s Health |
| Moezzi, Shahnaz | Maternal Child |
| Mooney, Kathi | Cancer, Symptom Management, Cancer Outcomes, Cancer communication, Evidence-based Practice |
| Morse, Janice | Suffering, Comforting, Qualitative Methods |
| Murphy, Patricia | Women's Health, Reproductive Health, Contraception and Family Planning, Public Health, Perinatal Research, Epidemiology, Quantitative research study design and methodology |
| Pearce, Patrcia | Physical Activity, Measurement of Physical Activity, Informatics (human-computer interaction, usability design), Qualitative Methods, mixed methods |
| Pepper, Ginny | Gerontology, Medications, Patient Safety |
| Poynton, Mollie | knowledge discovery in databases, data mining, informatics, secondary analysis of clinical data |
| Richards, Donna | Aging, Exercise, functional performance, medical/surgical nursing |
| Richardson, Stephanie | Higher education pedagogy, adult learning, andragogy in higher education, active learning, team-based learning, assessment in higher education, online education, teaching and learning methodologies |
| Rothwell, Erin | Group processes, cancer, recreation therapy, community based/participatory research, psycho- oncology, mixed methods (qualitative/quantitative) |
| Sehy, Yvonne | Caregiving, geriatric care management, elderly medical issues |
| Smith, Jackie | Epidemiology/community Assessment, Progress Planning & Evaluation, Nursing Research |
| Smith, Sandy | Physiologic patterns/responses of sick infants |
| Staggers, Nancy | Nurse computer interaction, Human-computer interaction, usability of clinical systems, human factors, Informatics competencies, health informatics competencies |
| Sward, Kathy | Informatics |
| Thurston, Diana | Complementary healing, Community issues |
| Towsley, Gail | long-term care, ruralality, research with large data sets, mixed methods (qualitative/quantitative), aging |
| Wong, Bob | psoriasis, sleep, fatigue, skin disorders, actigraphy, change over time, growth modeling |
| Wright, Scott | Human development, demographics, environmental hazards |
| Zsohar, Helen | Adult Physiological Nursing, Pharmacology, Teaching/Learning |