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Faculty Interests

Faculty Member Research Interests
Brantlee Broome, Ph.D., RN
  • Symptom science/self-management
  • Technology enhanced interventions
  • Community/patient engagement
  • Health disparities in food allergy
  • Psychosocial impact of food allergy on caregivers and families
  • Food insecurity related to food allergy
  • Policy change related to social determinants of health
Kenneth Catchpole, Ph.D.
Clinical Practice and Human Factors Endowed Chair, S.C. SmartState
  • Human factors
  • Patient safety
  • Human error
  • Quality improvement
  • Human-centered systems design
  • Teamwork & communication
  • Trauma care
  • Robotic surgery
Tatiana M. Davidson, Ph.D.
  • Mental health care disparities
  • Technology-based treatment delivery
  • Cultural-modification of evidence based treatments
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Depression
Catherine (Cathy) O. Durham, DNP, APRN, FNP, FAAN
Dean, College of Nursing
  • Improving the culture of health in vulnerable populations
  • Educational outcomes in DNP APRN education
Hannah Espeleta, Ph.D.
  • Trauma, maltreatment, and abuse
  • Prevention and health promotion
  • Implementation science for evidence-based mental health treatments
  • Community-based research methods
  • Child welfare practice and policy
  • Technology-enhanced interventions
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Terri Fowler, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
  • Interprofessional education and practice
  • Chronic disease management
  • Health disparities
  • Quality Improvement
Emily Johnson, Ph.D.
  • Implementation science
  • Bariatric surgery
  • Disparities
  • Big data analysis
Teresa Kelechi, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research and Ph.D. Studies
  • Geriatrics
  • Skin temperature self monitoring
  • Chronic venous disease
  • Biometrics
  • Cryotherapy
  • Leg ulcer prevention
  • Wound healing
Diana Layne, Ph.D., RN
  • Quantitative methods
  • Healthcare workforce improvement
  • Workplace violence
  • Quality and patient safety
  • Implementation science
  • Organizational change
Kathleen Lindell, Ph.D., RN, ATSF, FAAN
  • Quality of Life
  • Palliative care
  • Advanced Lung Disease
  • Caregivers
  • Self-Management
Sarah Miller, Ph.D., RN
  • Symptom Science
  • Health Services Research in Asthma & COPD
  • Rural COPD
  • Telehealth and mHealth Interventions
  • Respiratory Muscle Strength Training
  • Respiratory Neurophysiology and Psychophysiology
  • Perception of Dyspnea
  • Impaired Airway Defense Mechanisms
Shannon M. Phillips, Ph.D., RN
  • Children with Medical Complexity
  • Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease
  • Health Care Utilization
  • Access to Care
  • Rural Disparities
  • Community Health
  • Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions
Leigh Ridings, Ph.D.
  • Pediatric trauma
  • Child and caregiver mental health
  • Technology-enhanced interventions
  • Enhancing service access and quality
  • Traumatic stress
  • Delivery of mental health interventions in healthcare settings
Ken Ruggiero, Ph.D.
SmartState Endowed Chair of the Technology Applications Center for Healthful Lifestyles (TACHL)
  • Technology applications in health care
  • Health promotion and disease prevention
  • Health and mental health disparities
  • Children and families
  • Traumatic stress
  • Disaster response and recovery
  • Self-management interventions
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Depression
Tracy Stecker, Ph.D.
  • Suicide
  • Stigma
  • Help seeking
  • Mental health
  • Loneliness
  • Addiction
  • Substance Abuse
Martha Sylvia, Ph.D., MBA, RN
  • Population health strategy, design, methods, implementation, management, and evaluation
  • Health services, translational, outcomes, and feasibility research
  • Quality improvement
  • Data analysis, structure, definitions, design, and management
Janelle Wagner, Ph.D.
  • Epilepsy
  • Pediatric psychology
  • Psychosocial adjustment to pediatric chronic illness
  • Evidence-based psychosocial intervention
  • Self-Management
Amy Williams, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC
  • Early Childhood Development
  • Primary Healthcare of Children in Immigrant Families
  • School Preparedness
  • Evidenced-based parenting support