Faculty Research Interests

Research Interests: Pediatric Trauma, Mental health care in healthcare settings, Technology-enhanced interventions, Community engaged research, Dissemination and implementation of Evidence-Based Practices, Access to care

Research Interests: Symptom science/self-management, Technology enhanced interventions

Geriatrics, skin temperature self-monitoring, chronic venous disease, social genomics, cryotherapy, leg and foot ulcer prevention, wound healing.

Research Interests: Health Services Research

Quantitative methods, healthcare workforce improvement, quality and patient safety, implementation science, and organizational change.

Research Interests: Symptom science/self-management, Technology enhanced interventions

Health disparities in asthma & COPD, perception of dyspnea, psychophysiology, complex neuropathologies & impaired airway defense, mechanisms, psychological comorbidities in chronic respiratory diseases, telehealth in asthma & COPD.

Research Interests: Health Services Research

Data management and data quality control, bioinformatics, biostatistics, neural network methodology in predicting outcomes, development of applications for decision support in the care of premature infants using machine learning algorithms.

Research Interests: Symptom science/self-management, Community/patient engagement

Spinal cord injury rehabilitation, peer navigation & peer mentoring, community participation, independent living, disability-related health disparities, biopsychosocial model of disability, community-engaged research, intervention development and testing.

Research Interests: Symptom science/self-management, Behavioral Health, Technology enhanced interventions, Community/patient engagement

Global health disparities (emphasis on Low-and Middle Income Countries), self-management of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) (diabetes, stroke, hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and asthma), qualitative and mixed methodological approaches, ethics, community-engaged research.

Research Interests: Symptom science/self-management, Technology enhanced interventions

Individuals with complex chronic conditions, particularly children, adolescents, and young adults with sickle cell disease and their families, self-management and symptom management, quality of life, healthcare utilization, access to care, disparities in underserved populations, rural disparities, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions and guideline-based care for individuals with sickle cell disease and their families.

Research Interests: Community/patient engagement

Global health and global communities with specific interest in low and middle income countries, Palliative Care, cancer biology, biochemistry and pathophysiology of chronic diseases, advancing nursing and community research through telehealth applications, access to care for underserved communities.

Research Interests: Symptom science/self-management, Health Services Research, Behavioral Health, Technology enhanced interventions

Pediatric trauma, child and caregiver mental health, enhancing service access and quality, traumatic stress, mental health intervention delivery in healthcare settings.

Research Interests: Symptom science/self-management, Health Services Research, Behavioral Health, Technology enhanced interventions

Technology-based interventions to improve access and quality of health care, traumatic injury/stress, self-management interventions, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, children and families, equity in mental health care.