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 Student Names

Start Year

 Area(s) of Interest

 Funding

 Email

Carol Vincent

1994

HIV, Family, Chronic Illness

 

carolvin@nursing.upenn.edu

Nancy Ho

2006

Relationship between mental and physical health, specifically how metabolic changes associated with diabetes alters the brain and increases vulnerability to comorbid depression.

F31 NRSA

nancyho@nursing.upenn.edu

Linda Hermann

2006

Recovery of older adults following traumatic brain injury, Transitions in care following hospital discharge of older adults, Following acute neurological injury, Nurse-Physician collaboration models, Development of neurological programs, History of technology in Nursing/Medicine

John A. Hartford Foundation BAGNC Predoctoral Scholar (2007-2009). Sigma Theta Tau, Xi Chapter Research Award (2010).

lherm@nursing.upenn.edu

 Amy Witkoski

2007

 Staff RN fatigue, Sleep, Outcomes, Patient safety

NIOSH: Graduate Eduaction in Occupational Health Nursing

amywit@nursing.upenn.edu

 Elaine Siow

2007

Nursing care, Critical care, Continuity of care, Patient outcomes

UPenn SoN

siow@nursing.upenn.edu

Sarah Al Sawah

2007

Relationship between Vitamin D status and, inflammatory cytokines, and glycemic control in children and adolescents with Type I Diabetes Mellitus.

PhD Mentored Research Award by SoN Research Committee and the Office for Nursing Research; Pediatric Endocrine Nursing Society Award

ssawah@nursing.upenn.edu

Janine Everett

2007

Color, Skin biomechanics, Health equity

Individual NRSA

janinee@nursing.upenn.edu

Canhua Xiao

2007

Cancer symptom clusters

Phd Mentored Research Awards from UPenn SoN

canhuax@nursing.upenn.edu

Kamila Alexander

2008

Health sexuality, Prevention of sexually-related health compromising conditions, Feminist research methods

Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Pre-Doctoral Fellow Research on Vulnerable Women, Children & Families. T32NR007100

kamilaa@nursing.upenn.edu

Susan Lysaght

 

Geriatrics, Palliative care

John A. Hartford, BAGNC Scholar

 

Kim Mooney-Doyle

2008

Pediatric palliative care, Parenting, Family, Qualitative, Health equity

NRSA

kemooney@nursing.upenn.edu

Melissa O'Connor

2008

Health services research, Home health care

T32 Pre-Doctoral Fellow (2008-2010), Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Award Predoctoral Fellowship (2010-2012), John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Scholar (2010-2012)

omelissa@nursing.upenn.edu

Aditi Rao

2009

Leadership and management in long term care

T32 Pre-Doctoral in the NewCourtland Centers for Transitions and Health

aditirao@nursing.upenn.edu

Christina Slota

2009

Bioethics, End-of-Life, Palliative care, Genetics

 NIH-NINR Fellow, Graduate Partnership Program (GPP)

cslota@nursing.upenn.edu 

Sara Jacoby

2009

Socio-cultural determinants of injury racial/ethnicity-based biases in trauma care, International health policy and management

 

sfjacoby@nursing.upenn.edu

Elizabeth Froh 

2009

Breastfeeding the infant born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, Grounded Theory

Teaching Assistant 

frohe@nursing.upenn.edu

 Jessica Rearden

2009

Organizational factors influencing cancer clinical trial accrual

 

genewskij@nursing.upenn.edu

Matthew Lucas

2009

Bioethics, Neuroethics, Childhood cancer, History and philosophy of science

Graduate Scholarship in Cancer Nursing, American Cancer Society GSCNP-09-236-01 (2009-2010).  Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, NIH-NINR, 2T32NR007100 (2009-2011).  Doctoral Scholarship in Cancer Nursing, American Cancer Society, DSCN-10-089-01 (2010-2014).

malucas@nursing.upenn.edu

 Lauren Massimo

2009

Neuropsychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease

T32- Individualized Care for At-Risk Older Adults

lmassimo@nursing.upenn.edu 

Sherry Greenberg

2009

Fear of falling among high-risk urban, community-dwelling older adults

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA), Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) Individualized Care for at-risk older adults, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health and the Center for Integrative Science in Aging NIH/NINR T32-NR009356 (2009-2011).

sherryg@nursing.upenn.edu 

Deena Kelly

2009

Critical care health outcomes, National and international healthcare delivery systems and nursing workforce

T32 Pre-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research with Dr. Linda Aiken

deenak@nursing.upenn.edu

Amanda Mahoney

2009

History of nursing education, The image of the nurse, Textual analysis, Oral history

 

amandalm@nursing.upenn.edu

Ruth Masterson Creber

2010

Cardiac and metabolic diseases epidemiology

UPenn SoN

rumaster@nursing.upenn.edu

 Susan Kohl Malone

2010

Abdominal adiposity and sleep duration in school age children

 

malones@nursing.upenn.edu

Meredith MacKenzie

2010

Depression and excessive daytime sleepiness in congestive heart failure, Pain management in older adults, Nurse workload and safety

T12 Gero Scholar

mmac@nursing.upenn.edu

Kathleen Mary Nishida

2010

Nursing history, Midwifery history, Complimentary and alternative medicine

 

knishida@nursing.upenn.edu

Lisa Quinn

2010

 

T32

quinnl@nursing.upenn.edu

Russ Lynn

2010

Fatigue and its impact on cognitive function

Jonas Foundation

ruslynn@nursing.upenn.edu