Salimah H Meghani, PhD, MBE, CRNP, RN
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Contact Information
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Room 337 Fagin Hall
418 Curie Blvd.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4217
UNITED STATES
tel: (215) 573-7128
email: meghanis@nursing.upenn.edu
Dr. Meghani was conferred a BSN equivalent degree by The Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. She went on to earn her MSN in Adult Acute Care, MBE in Biomedical Ethics, and PhD in Nursing/Health Disparities at the University of Pennsylvania. She also completed a Postdoctoral training at the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing. She joined Penn Nursing faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Biobehavioral and Health Sciences Division.
Research
Dr. Meghani's current research focuses on racial and ethnic disparities in cancer pain treatment. More specifically, her current work includes an exploration of the patient-level factors affecting negotiation of treatment for cancer pain among African Americans. Through her research, she has sought to identify the factors that shape analgesic preference for cancer pain and analgesia-related belief structures among subsets of minorities. In addition, Dr. Meghani's research interests include understanding inequities in opioid availability for pain relief between developed and developing nations; a component of this work includes efforts to understand the policy-level impediments underlying these international disparities.
Dr. Meghani has received competitive research funding from the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, the Oncology Nursing Society Foundation/Purdue Pharma, and Sigma Theta Tau Xi Chapter. She was also a recipient of an unrestricted educational grant from Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, titled, Racial and ethnic disparities in pain treatment: converting research to policy.
• Currently Funded Grants
• NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health
Honors/Credentials
In 2007, Dr. Meghani was selected as a Fellow of the National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health Minority Investigators' Workshop in Behavioral Methodologies, which provides intensive research methods training to promising early to mid-level career investigators. She was also appointed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health Patients Life Sustaining Wishes Advisory Committee. In 2005, she was appointed to and continues to serve on the state-level 'Task Force for Quality at the End of Life: Improving End-of-Life Experiences for Pennsylvanians' by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging.
Dr. Meghani is an author of many articles in refereed journals. She has also served as a peer-reviewer for high-impact journals including Pain Medicine, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Journal of Palliative Care, and Journal of Nursing Scholarship. Dr. Meghani is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International, the Gerontological Society of America, and the American Pain Society.
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