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Angela Frederick Amar
Assistant Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
BSN, Louisiana State University
MN. Louisiana State University
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Effects of trauma and violence; mental health responses to traumatic experiences; forensic nursing; dating and domestic violence; help seeking behaviors. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Forensic Nursing.
617-552-0180
angela.amar.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/amar.html
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Ann Wolbert Burgess
Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
the impact of trauma on victims; forensic nursing; cyberstalking; Internet sex crimes; abuse in nursing homes; serial offenders; links between child abuse, juvenile delinquency and later criminal activity. Prof. Burgess is an internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse.
617.552.6133
ann.wolbertburgess.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/burgess.html
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Rosanna DeMarco
Associate Professor, Community Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S. Northeastern University
M.S. Boston College
Ph.D. Wayne State University
Women of color living with HIV/AIDS; gender and cultural issues affecting health behavior; health intervention for vulnerable populations; community health; palliative care; nurses in the workplace. Prof. DeMarco is a board certified public/community health clinical nurse specialist with additional certification as an AIDS care registered nurse from the national Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC). A fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Winner of the Mass. Association of Registered Nurses Nursing Research Award. Co-producer of the prevention education film Women's Voices, Women's Lives, which has been translated in Vietnamese and Spanish.
617.552.8718
rosanna.demarco.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/demarco.html
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Pamela Grace
Associate Professor, Adult Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
BSN, MSN, West Virginia University
PhD University of Tennessee
Medical ethics; nursing ethics, justice and advocacy in healthcare.Prof. Grace is a critical care nurse and a primary care nurse practitioner. She is a nurse scientist at the Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also serves on the Human Research and Investigation Committee of Newton-Wellesley Hospital and on Beacon Hospice's Ethics Committee. Recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholarship grant.
617-552-1246
gracepa@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/grace.html
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Katherine Gregory
Assistant Professor, Maternal/Child Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
BS State University of New York, Binghamton Univesity
MS University of Pennsylvania
PhD Boston College
Preterm infant health, nutrition, growth and development; maternal-infant interaction; necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants; neonatal intensive care. She is a Nurse Scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
617-552-4886
katherine.gregory.2@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/gregory.html
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Joellen Hawkins
Professor Emeritus, Maternal/Child Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S.N. Northwestern University
M.S. Boston College
Ph.D. Boston College
Women's health issues; domestic violence; community coalition building to address violence; outcomes of nurse-managed models of prenatal care delivery; women's self-care and abuse during pregnancy; the role of the nurse practitioner; nursing history; oral history of women's health nurse practitioners. Editor-in-chief of Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners: The International Journal of NPACE. Course focus includes nursing theory and advanced practice role; Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Theory and Practice.
617.552.4252
joellen.hawkins.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/hawkins.html
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June Andrews Horowitz
Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S. Boston College
M.S. Rutgers University
Ph.D. New York University
Postpartum depression; symptoms and risk factors for postpartum depression; the mothering experience; parenting; coping/support networks in single-parent versus two-parent households; family health; issues facing interfaith couples. Registered nurse. Co-author of the book Parenting Reassessed: A Nursing Perspective. Author of the articles "Postpartum Depression: Issues in Clinical Assessment"; "Identification of Risk Factors and Symptoms of Postpartum Depression: Linking Research to Practice," and "A Conceptualization of Parenting: Examining the Single Parent Family." Principal investigator for March of Dimes Foundation on "Promoting Healthy Responsiveness between Depressed Mothers and their Infants." Courses include: "Advanced Practice and Theory in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing."
617.552.4258
june.horowitz.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/horowitz.html
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Ronna Krozy
Associate Professor, Community Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S., M.S. Boston College
Ed.D. Boston University
Community nursing; visiting nurses programs; need for home health care; sex education; sexuality and older adults; sexuality and aging; AIDS risk factors for health care professionals; AIDS risk assessment training for health care professionals; health care and education needs in Latin America, especially in Nicaragua and Ecuador. A registered nurse. Courses include: community health nursing.
617.552.8816
ronna.krozy.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/krozy.html
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Joyce Pulcini
Associate Professor, Maternal Child Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
BS, St. Anselm College
MS, Boston University
PhD, Brandeis University
School nurses; effect of postpartum depression on child development; asthma/allergies in children. Prof. Pulcini is a certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She has led nursing students on service trips to Nicaragua.
617-552-3232
pulcinjo@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/pulcini.html
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Judith Shindul-Rothschild
Associate Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S. Boston College
M.S.N Yale University
Ph.D. Boston College
Health care policy and finance; nursing labor issues; staffing and quality of care; managed care; use of unlicensed assistive personnel in hospitals; nurses' job security under managed competition; restructuring and redesigning the role of nurses; rationing of health care under managed competition; consumers' health care rights; health care reform. Registered nurse and author or co-author of numerous articles and opinion pieces on managed care and health care reform. Served on several committees on health care financing for the Massachusetts Nurses Association and American Nurses Association. Conducted a survey of Massachusetts registered nurses which indicated a decrease in the quality of care in hospitals from 1989 to 1994, under managed care financing. Recipient of the 1999 Excellence in Academic Nursing Education Award, District V, Massachusetts Nurses Association. Appointed member of the American Nurses Association's expert panel on Principles for Staffing in Acute Care Hospitals. Courses have included: "Systems of Psychotherapy"; "Advanced Psychopharmacology."
617.552.4270
judith.shindul-rothschild@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/shindulrothschild.html
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Patricia Tabloski
Associate Dean, Graduate Programs and Associate Professor
Connell School of Nursing
PhD, University of Rochester
MS, Seton Hall University
BS, Purdue University
An expert in the sleep and care of the elderly; gerontology; normal changes of aging and common diseases of aging; agitation in the elderly; nursing homes; end of life care. Author of Gerontological Nursing. She is certified as an advanced practice gerontological nurse and is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America.
617-552-4065
tabloski@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/tabloski.html
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Judith A. Vessey
Carroll Professor
Connell School of Nursing
B.S.N. Goshen College
M.S.N. and Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
M.B.A. Johns Hopkins University
Bullying and teasing, particularly among middle school-aged children; cyber bulling; childhood pain; children with chronic conditions; economics and business practices of health care. Prof. Vessey is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and a lead ing nurse researcher in the field of developmental pediatrics with a specialty in childhood pain. She co-developed CATS, Child-Adolescent Teasing Scale, to identify targets of chronic bullying.
617.552.8817
vessey@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/carroll/
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Barbara Wolfe
Professor, Psychiatric/Mental Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
B.S.N. Syracuse University
M.S.N. Yale University
Ph.D. Boston College
Symptoms, risk factors for, and psychobiology of eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa). She is co-author of the article "Caring for the hospitalized patient with an eating disorder." She has been published in Neuropsychopharmacology and International Journal of Eating Disorders.
617.552.1804
barbara.wolfe.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/wolfe.html
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Robin Wood
Associate Professor, Adult Health Department
Connell School of Nursing
Breast cancer screening and early detection: intervention programs with high-risk populations (older women); new media technology: computer video applications; Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR); consulting practice. Wood developed breast health kits for women over 60 to encourage breast self-exams and mammogram screenings. President of HealthWood, a health education consulting organization.
robin.wood@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/wood.html
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