Scholarly Interests

NAME

Alison Colbert, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN

colberta@duq.edu
412.396.1511

• Public and community health, criminal justice system, health literacy
• HIV/AIDS/infectious disease, adherence, health promotion and care in vulnerable populations
• Patient engagement
• Nursing, education and disabilities

Laura Crimm, MSN, FNP-BC

crimml@duq.edu
412.396.6458

• Palliative care
• Telehealth
• Family Medicine
• Occupational health
• Online learning

Christine D'Antonio, MSN, RN

dantonioc@duq.edu
412.396.1592

• Strategies for success - clinical focus
• Health Promotion and Illness in Adult and Geriatric populations
• Maternal and Newborn Health
• Innovative teaching and learning opportunities

Michael Deem, PhD

deemm@duq.edu
412.396.1441

• Ethical and conceptual issues in genetic/genomic medicine
• Neonatal and pediatric ethics
• Public health ethics
• Justice in health care and public health
• Catholic bioethics
• Philosophy of biology and medicine

Jessica Devido, PhD, CPNP

devidoj@duq.edu
412.396.1032

• Community-engaged research
• Philosophy of biology and medicine
• Health disparities
• Maternal/child health
• Health promotion
• Mixed methods

Deborah L. Dillon, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, CCRN, CHFN-K

dillond@duq.edu
412.396.5096

• Cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology
• Gastroenterology
• Transition to practice for nurse practitioners

Sister Rosemary Donley, PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN

donleyr@duq.edu
412.396.6555

• Vulnerable populations
• Social justice
• Health policy
• Nursing education
• Chronic illness in adults

Manjulata Evatt, DNP, RN, CMSRN

evattm@duq.edu
412.396.4509

• DNP projects on improved patient outcomes
• Cultural innovations (clinical papers)

Linda Garand, PhD, GCNS-BC

garandl@duq.edu
412.396.6543

• Intervention studies
• Randomized controlled trials
• Feasibility studies
• Prevention research
• Mental health of family caregivers of persons with dementia
• Mental health of family caregivers of veterans with traumatic brain injury
• Geriatric nursing research
• Mental health research

Mary Ellen Glasgow, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

glasgowm@duq.edu
412.396.6553

• Nursing education innovation
• Inter-professional simulation
• Bone marrow donation
• Oncology
• Leadership
• Quality and safety

Rosanna Henry, MSN, RN, CHSE

henryr@duq.edu
412.396.6120

• Debriefing expertise in simulation
• Medication administration simulation

Ergie Pepito Inocian, EdD, MSN, RN, CNOR

inociane@duq.edu
412.396.1513

• Clinical Nursing Education
• Mentorship and Preceptorship
• Perioperative Nursing
• Gerontology
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Clinical Practice Guideline Adaptation
• Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Ruth E. Irwin, PhD, RN

irwinr@duq.edu
412.396.2071

• Simulation
• Leadership
• International education for undergraduate and graduate students
• Staff development

Karen Jakub, PhD, RN

jakubk@duq.edu
412.396.6535

• Chronic heart disease
• Qualitative research methods
• Technology interventions for cardiac arrhythmias
• Genetics in nursing and health
• Policy, legal, and ethical Issues in genetics

Melissa Kalarchian, PhD

kalarchianm@duq.edu
412.396.5204

• Obesity and bariatric surgery
• Behavioral lifestyle intervention
• Psychosocial functioning
• Health behaviors
• Clinical studies

Angela Karakachian, PhD, RN

karakachiana@duq.edu
412.396.5229

• Pediatric Nursing
• Nurses' moral distress
• Nurses' burnout
• Caring for victims of child maltreatment

Susan H. Kelly, EdD, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CME, CHSE

kellys8@duq.edu
412.396.6538

• Using simulation for various teaching initiatives
• Professionalism in nursing

Inah Kim, PhD, RN

kimi@duq.edu
412.396.1459

• Sleep disturbance and physical activity in chronic illness
• Sleep in cancer survivors
• Ecological momentary assessment
• Geriatric nursing research

Ralph Klotzbaugh, PhD, RN, FNP-BC

klotzbaughr@duq.edu

• Equitable health care of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations
• Intersection of sexual and gender minorities within a rural context

Amber Kolesar, MSN, CCRN-K

kolesara@duq.edu
412.396.1386

• Improving clinical judgment
• Service learning abroad
• Providing student feedback

Frank Kosnosky, Jr., DNP, RNC-NIC, CRNP, NNP-BC, FNP-BC, NP-C, CCRN, C-ELBW, CNE

kosnoskyf@duq.edu
412.396.4230

• Neonatal pain
• Neonatal abstinence
• Online learning
• RN-NP Role Transition
• Test Construction/Analysis

Rebecca Kronk, PhD, MSN, CRNP, ANEF, FAAN, CNE

kronkr@duq.edu
412.396.2288

• Genetic Literacy
• Genetic education in nursing students
• Vaccine refusal and the nurse's role
• Health outcomes of nursing students
• Sleep in children with special needs
• Photovoice
• Health care and people with disabilities

Joan Such Lockhart, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN

lockhart@duq.edu
412.396.6540

• Eliminating health disparities in cancer care for vulnerable populations
• Health promotion, prevention, and risk assessment in cancer care
• Culturally appropriate, community-based interventions in health promotion, capacity building, and self-management in cancer care and bystander CPR/AEDs
• Assessment of learning outcomes
• Best practices in nursing education for quality, safe cancer survivor care

Mary Kay Loughran, DNP, MHA, RN

loughranm@duq.edu
412.396.6537

• Leadership
• Organizational leadership
• Evidence-based practice and quality
• Improvement project management
• Development of nurse residency preceptors
• Contemporary nursing Issues
• International education for undergraduate and graduate students
• Interprofessional healthcare education

Denise Lucas, PhD, FNP-BC

lucasd2495@duq.edu
412.396.6542

• Medically underserved
• Working poor women
• Resources (other than money) working poor women utilize
• Poverty
• Chronic illness (especially hypertension and diabetes)
• Antibiotic overuse

Cara Morrill-Stoklosa, DNP, RN

morrillstoklosc@duq.edu
412.396.1009

• Teaching: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Adult and Geriatric Populations

• Care of the patient with Alzheimer's/Dementia

• Improvement of bedside clinical education--Bedside Shift Report, Revision of CAM Assessment Tool, and Standardized VTE Education Tool

Mai-Ly Nguyen Steers, PhD

steersm@duq.edu
412.396.4761

• Social media in relation to health and well-being
• Social media in relation to alcohol use
• Psychosocial factors on alcohol use and substance use
• Brief alcohol interventions
• Cultural influences on health

Noah Potvin, PhD, MT-BC

potvinn@duq.edu
412.396.1786

• Pre-bereavement for informal hospice caregivers
• Dementia and gerontology
• End-of-life and advanced illness care
• Resource-oriented and strengths-based clinical approaches
• Music and spirituality
• Interpretivist research (emphasis in grounded theory)
• Pedagogical approaches and theories among music therapy educators

Cynthia Tomcanin Rost, DNP, RN

rostc@duq.edu
412.396.6459

• Community/population health needs
• Death and dying
• Hypertension in the African American community
• Behavior health needs in the post-hospitalized consumer

Khlood Salman, DrPH, RN, FAAN

salmank@duq.edu
412.396.1509

• Breast cancer and cervical cancer prevention among minority women
• Immigrant and refugee women's health promotion and disease prevention
• Global and international health studies
• Environmental health
• Interfaith dialogue studies

James Schreiber, PhD

schreiberj@duq.edu
412.396.1144

• Motivation and cognition
• Peircean reasoning
• Research methodology
• Statistical analysis and modeling using both Fisherian and Bayesian techniques
• Multi-faceted wellness

Kathleen Sekula, PhD, APRN

sekula@duq.edu
412.396.4865

• Vulnerable populations
• Psychiatric implications in forensic nursing
• Victims of violence
• Domestic violence
• Sexual assault
• Forensic nursing

Elizabeth Skrovanek, BSN

skrovaneke@duq.edu
412.396.6547

• Women's Health
• Reproductive Health
• Genetic Susceptibility
• Breast Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Decision-Making
• Emotion

Marie Smith-East, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC, EMT-B

smithm52@duq.edu

• Geographic Information Systems
• Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
• Access to Mental Healthcare
• Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems

Torrie Snyder, PhD, RN

snydert2@duq.edu
412.396.1449

• Strategies for student success
• Remediation practices
• Student success interventions

Pamela C. Spigelmyer, PhD, RN, CNS

spigelmyerp@duq.edu
412.396.1507

• Family caregivers for people with dementia
• Geriatric nursing
• EPB/research
• Descriptive phenomenology and qualitative research methods
• End-of-life caregiving

Mayra Toney, DNP, RN

toneym@duq.edu
412.396.5227

• Health disparities of vulnerable populations
• Health policy
• Ethnonursing
• Oncology nursing

Melanie Turk, PhD, RN

turkm@duq.edu
412.396.1817

• Behavioral treatment of obesity
• Weight loss and maintenance
• Behavior change for health promotion among vulnerable populations
• Theoretical frameworks for health behavior

Eric Vogelstein, PhD

vogelsteine@duq.edu
412.396.4466

Clinical bioethics and related topics in ethical theory, including:

• The ethics of advanced directives and surrogate decision-making
• The morality of physician-assisted dying, including nurses' participation 
• The moral status of prenatal life 
• Moral expertise and ethics consultants

Yvonne L. Weideman, DNP, MBA, RN

weidemany@duq.edu
412.396.4508

• Photovoice
• Participatory action research
• Ostomy and wounds
• Nursing education/virtual learning

Donna R. White, DNP, CRNP, FNP-BC

whited5@duq.edu
412.396.6548

• Family Practice / Internal Medicine
• Online learning
• Transition of learned skills into clinical practice
• Global health care of underserved populations
• Leadership
• Team development and mentoring
• Resilience and retention

Susan Williams, MSN, RN

williamssue@duq.edu
412.396.4945

• Simulation as a teaching modality for skills
• Use of standardized patients for teaching undergraduate and graduate students
• Debriefing

Rick Zoucha, PhD, APRN-BC, CTN-A, FAAN

zoucha@duq.edu
412.396.6545

• Community-based participatory action research
• Psychiatric nursing
• Transcultural/international nursing
• Cultural competence/Mexican Americans, African Americans, refugee/immigrants and their health needs
• Qualitative research methods