Name
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Research Expertise
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Alison Colbert, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN
colberta@duq.edu
412.396.1511
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- 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
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Michael Deem, PhD
deemm@duq.edu
412.396.1441
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- Ethical and conceptual issues in genetic/genomic medicine
- Neonatal and pediatric ethics
- Public health ethics
- Justice in healthcare and public health
- Catholic bioethics
- Philosophy of biology and medicine
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Jessica Devido, PhD, CPNP
devidoj@duq.edu
412.396.1032
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- Community-engaged research
- Philosophy of biology and medicine
- Health disparities
- Maternal/child health
- Health promotion
- Mixed methods
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Sister Rosemary Donley, PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN
donleyr@duq.edu
412.396.6555
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- Vulnerable populations
- Social justice
- Health policy
- Nursing education
- Chronic illness in adults
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Linda Garand, PhD, GCNS-BC
garandl@duq.edu
412.396.6543
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- Intervention studies
- Randomized controlled trails
- 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
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Joris Gielen, PhD
gielenj@duq.edu 412-396-4504
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- End-of-life ethics
- Quality of life
- Spirituality in palliative care
- Research ethics
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Mary Ellen Glasgow, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
glasgowm@duq.edu
412.396.6553
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- Nursing education innovation
- Inter-professional simulation
- Bone marrow donation
- Oncology
- Leadership
- Quality and safety
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Karen Jakub, PhD, RN
jakubk@duq.edu
412.396.6535
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- Chronic heart disease
- Qualitative research methods
- Technology interventions for cardiac arrhythmias
- Genetics in nursing and health
- Policy, legal, and ethical Issues in genetics
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Melissa Kalarchian, PhD
kalarchianm@duq.edu
412.396.5204
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- Obesity and bariatric surgery
- Behavioral lifestyle intervention
- Psychosocial functioning
- Health behaviors
- Clinical studies
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Inah Kim, PhD, RN
kimi@duq.edu 412.396.1459
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- Sleep disturbance and physical activity in chronic illness
- Sleep in cancer survivors
- Ecological momentary assessment
- Geriatric nursing research
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Rebecca Kronk, PhD, MSN, CRNP, ANEF, FAAN, CNE
kronkr@duq.edu
412.396.2288
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- 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
- Healthcare and people with disabilities
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Joan Such Lockhart, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN
lockhart@duq.edu
412.396.6540
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- 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
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Noah Potvin, PhD, MT-BC
potvinn@duq.edu
412.396.1786
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- 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
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Khlood Salman, DrPH, RN, FAAN
salmank@duq.edu
412.396.1509
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- 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
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James Schreiber, PhD
schreiberj@duq.edu
412.396.1144
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- Motivation and cognition
- Peircean reasoning
- Research methodology
- Statistical analysis and modeling using both Fisherian and Bayesian techniques
- Multi-faceted wellness
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Kathleen Sekula, PhD, APRN
sekula@duq.edu
412.396.4865
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- Vulnerable populations
- Psychiatric implications in forensic nursing
- Victims of violence
- Domestic violence
- Sexual assault
- Forensic nursing
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Pamela C. Spigelmyer, PhD, RN, CNS
spigelmyerp@duq.edu
412.396.1507
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- Family caregivers for people with dementia
- Geriatric nursing
- EPB/research
- Descriptive phenomenology and qualitative research methods
- End-of-life caregiving
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Mai-Ly Nguyen Steers, PhD
steersm@duq.edu 412.396.4761
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- 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
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Melanie Turk, PhD, RN
turkm@duq.edu
412.396.1817
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- Behavioral treatment of obesity
- Weight loss and maintenance
- Behavior change for health promotion among vulnerable populations
- Theoretical frameworks for health behavior
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Eric Vogelstein, PhD
vogelsteine@duq.edu
412.396.4466
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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
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Rick Zoucha, PhD, APRN-BC, CTN-A, FAAN
zoucha@duq.edu
412.396.6545
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Community based participatory action research
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
- Transcultural/international nursing
- Cultural competence/Mexican Americans, African Americans, refugee/immigrants and their health needs
Qualitative research methods |