Abdallah, Lisa
| Outcomes of geriatric nurse practitioners; DRINC Project (Dehydration Reduction in Nursing Home Residents by Caregivers); BDN project (Bring Diversity to Nursing) |
| Aruda, Mary | Health promotion over the lifespan; Adolescent Health; Reproductive Health; Children with special health care needs; Lupus |
Brewin, Dorothy
| Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes, adolescent pregnancy, life course models of care, continuity of care, contextual factors and their relationship to birth outcomes
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Dowling, Jacqueline
| Child health, stress and coping, and humor; Bring Diversity to Nursing (BDN) Pre-entry recruitment, retention, and mentor-mentee relationships; Human simulation technology integration in nursing education
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Dodge, Lea
| End-stage renal disease and diabetes among American Indians/Alaska Natives, dialysis outcomes, immunization compliance, wound care, and health promotion |
| Fantasia, Heidi | Reproductive and sexual health, sexual decision making, negotiation of sexual consent, impact of partner violence on contraception use, reproductive coercion, personal and partner-mediated sexual risk behaviors, sexual safety. |
| Fasoli, Dijon | Nursing Systems Research (i.e., evaluation of the impact of nursing and interdisciplinary health care delivery systems on health care quality and outcomes): Implementation research, focused on evidence-based nursing practice; Health policy for vulnerable populations (safety net providers and public health system research) |
Futrell, May
Professor Emeritus
| Health behaviors among older adults including physical activity; cultural differences in health behaviors of older adults (phenomenological method); Alzheimer's research; dementia and wandering; nursing historical research including the Lowell Nursing Archives; DRINC project
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Gautam, Ramraj | Social gerontology, more specifically late life intergenerational relationships, intergenerational programs, social support, caregiving, and mental health of older adults; Long-term care; Global aging and health |
Houde, Susan
| Family care-giving of functionally impaired elders; Interventions to support family caregivers; Family care-giving in the Cambodian community; health promotion in older adults; prevention of age-related macular degeneration; strategies to promote active living in the older adult |
King, Valerie
| International service learning experiences and nursing students, qualitative research
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Knight, Peggy
| Negative effects of psychotropic medication; nursing interventions for acute psychiatric inpatients; mental health problems in older adults (anxiety, dementia, delirium, depression); impact of mental health problems on functional outcomes (IADL's, ADL's); influence of depressive symptoms, low mood and anxiety on health outcomes (pain, respiratory status, illness or surgical recovery etc.)
Koren, Ainat Family planning, men's reproductive health; Health and safety of health care workers; Integration of technology into clinical practice; childhood obesity
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Mawn, Barbara
| Health promotion behavior across the lifespan; health disparities; occupational health and safety adaptation to chronic illness; pediatric HIV infection; epidemiology; qualitative and quantitative methodologies |
| McCarron, Amy | Health promotion, the role of the advance practice nurse, and chronic illnesses |
McDonough, Annette
| Cardiac/implanted cardiac defibrillators sudden cardiac arrest in young adults/pediatrics; psycho/social issues in young adult cardiac patients, qualitative and mixed method |
Melillo, Karen
| Investigating alternative primary care models for the aged from Medicare data; Development and pilot testing of a transitional care dedicated education unit; DNPs caring for the underserved in Massachusetts after health care reform; Physical activity and exercise among older adults; Gerontological nurse practitioner intervention outcomes research; promoting healthy and safe employment in healthcare PHASE project case study team co-coordinator and long term care team leader; DRINC project - Dehydration Reduction in Community-dwelling Older Adults; Bring Diversity to Nursing - pre-entry recruitment and retention of minority and economically disadvantaged students; Human Simulation Technology integration in nursing education (Sim-Man) |
Morgan, Betty
| Substance abuse and pain management - nursing staff interactions; pain prevalence among the chronically mental ill; health behaviors in those with chronic illness, End of life care/psychosocial issues in HIV; Palliative care in HIV and mental illness |
Mote, Sandra | Teaching Undergraduate and Graduate students to design and lead therapeutic groups. Mental health care promotion |
Phillips McEnany, Geoffry
| Behavioral sleep medicine, sleep and women's Health; Sleep dysregulation in psychiatric disease
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| Reece, Susan Professor Emeritus | Health behaviors including self-efficacy and social support during life transitions; perimenopausal health self-efficacy; cultural interpretations of illness using Kleinman's explanatory model; pediatric overweight; parenting |
Simons, Shellie
| Horizontal (lateral) violence, workplace bullying, workplace retention; enteral feeding; critical thinking in nursing education; pre-entry recruitment and retention of minority and economically disadvantaged students
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Shellman, Juliette
| Use of community-based participatory research methods to develop and test peer reminiscence interventions to decrease depressive symptoms in older Black adults. Investigating the effects of the CARELINK Model of Care on older adult health outcomes and student cultural self-efficacy in caring for older adults
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Soroken, Laurie
| Role of DNR in ICU settings, health promotion
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Tremblay, Celeste
| Technology and the effect it has on nursing medication errors; Simulation
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Wilber, Jennifer
| Health Promotion
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