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Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing

Director
Julie Fairman, PhD, FAAN, RN

A foremost repository for preserving and documenting the history of nursing, this center draws more than 200 scholars from all over the world each year. Through research, it works to improve the quality and scope of historical scholarship in nursing.

Visit Center website: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/


Center for Biobehavioral Research

Director
Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, RN

Associated Faculty
Ann Rogers, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associated Faculty
Charlene Compher, PhD, RD, FADA, CNSD

Associated Faculty
Stella Volpe, PhD, RD, LD/N, FACSM

Associated Faculty
Ellen Giarelli, EdD, CRNP, CS

Associated Faculty
Rosemary Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associated Faculty
Nancy Tkacs, PhD, RN

Associated Faculty
Karen Badellino, PhD, RN

Associated Faculty
Norma Cuellar, DSN, RN

Associated Faculty
Terri Lipman, PhD, CRNP, FAAN

Associated Faculty
Mary Ann Lafferty-Della Valle, PhD

Associated Faculty
Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH

Associated Faculty
Terri Weaver, PhD, FAAN, RN

Associated Faculty
Linda McCauley, PhD, FAAN, FAAOHN, RN

Center for Biobehavioral Research

Visit Center website: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/bbrc/


Center for Gerontologic Nursing Science

Director
Neville Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associate Director
Lois Evans, PhD, FAAN, RN

Julie Sochalski, PhD, FAAN, RN

This center, working in partnership with the Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence, serves to advance gerontologic nursing and aging research that will improve the quality of life for elders and their caregivers. Researchers design and test models of care that emphasize individualized, patient-centered interventions and demonstrate the unique contributions of advanced practice nurses in the care of at-risk and vulnerable elders and their caregivers.

Visit Center website: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/centers/hcgne/


Center for Health Disparities Research

Director
Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, FAAN, RN

Associate Director
Janet Deatrick, PhD, FAAN, RN

Associate Director
Marilyn (Lynn) Sawyer Sommers, PhD, RN, FAAN

The mission of the Center for Health Disparities Research is to improve health among disempowered, marginalized, vulnerable, and underrepresented populations through research and training, thereby narrowing the gap in health disparities.

Visit Center website: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/healthdisparities/


Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research

Director
Linda Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, RN

Associate Director
Sean Clarke, PhD, CRNP, FAAN

Douglas Sloane, Ph.D.

Eileen Lake, PhD, RN

Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) conducts research on health care and workforce organization, financing, and outcomes, and on public policies that influence nursing and health care delivery in the U.S. and internationally. Researchers monitor trends and evaluate programs and policies that potentially affect patients’ access to and quality of care. CHOPR is administratively located in the School of Nursing and physically housed in the School of Nursing, the Department of Sociology, and the Population Studies Center. Its faculty and students are drawn from nursing, sociology, demography, medicine, health management and policy, and health economics. CHOPR’s research and training programs are interdisciplinary, and well integrated with health services and policy and social science resources throughout the University. CHOPR is the lead for Penn in the social and behavioral sciences in its university-wide NIH Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).

Visit Center website: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/chopr/


NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health

Director
Mary Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN

Associated Faculty
Connie Ulrich, PhD, RN

Associated Faculty
Kathleen McCauley, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, FAHA

Associated Faculty
Barbara Riegel, DNSc, RN, FAAN, FAHA

Associated Faculty
Salimah Meghani, PhD, MBE, CRNP, RN

Associated Faculty
Helene Moriarty, PhD

Associated Faculty
Karen Hirschman, PhD, MSW

Associated Faculty
Kathryn Bowles, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associated Faculty
Arlene Houldin, PhD, APRN, BC

The mission of the Center is to generate, disseminate and translate advances in science related to nursing’s and other health professionals' influence on transitions in health among these individuals and their family caregivers.

Visit Center website: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/ncth/


 

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