Faculty

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Jennifer Dacey Allen, DSc, MP

Assistant Professor - Community Health

Design and evaluation of community-based interventions; cancer prevention and control in underserved communities; health disparities.

Angela Frederick Amar, PhD, APRN, BC

Assistant Professor - Psych/Mental Health

Traumatic experiences and mental health responses; Intimate partner violence and forced sex; Trauma experiences in women of color;  help seeking behaviors

Mary M. Aruda, PhD, RN, CS-PNP

Assistant Professor - Maternal Child Health

Health promotion, adolescent health, adolescent pregnancy prevention, children with special health care needs

Jane E. Ashley, PhD, RN

Associate Professor - Adult Health

Nursing care of the surgical patient; strategies to improve test performance

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Stacey Hoffman Barone, PhD, RN, CNS

Assistant Clinical Professor - Adult Health

Chronic illness and adaptation

Ann Wolbert Burgess, DNSc, RNCS, FAAN

Professor - Psychiatric/Mental Health

Psychiatric/Mental Health Response patterns of crime victims; internet crimes against children

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Maureen Connolly, RN, APRN, BC

Coordinator of Nursing Simulation Laboratory

Donna L. Cullinan, MS, RN, FNP

Clinical Instructor - Community Health

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Rosanna DeMarco, PhD, APRN, BC, ACRN

Associate Professor - Community Health

Women, marginalization, and health behaviors with special emphasis on the concept and outcome measure of "silencing the self" in chronic illness, families, and workgroups: HIV/AIDS, women living with HIV and community-based  prevention programs for  women; epistemology, instrumentation, and research methods that are gender sensitive and culturally relevant; use of Internet-based technology interventions

Mary E. Duffy, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor Emeritus

Health promotion of adults; functional health of older persons; instrument development; research methods & data analysis

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Laurel A. Eisenhauer, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor Emeritus

Therapeutic decision making and nursing intervention; drug therapy and nursing role; nurse and consumer decision making and problem solving; decision styles; role conflict and role ambiguity

Susan Emery, CRNA, MS

Nurse Anesthesia Program Director

Chemistry and physics of nurse anesthesia practice; pharmacology of anesthetics; anesthesia for geriatrics patients; endocrine and renal physiology and pathophysiology; communication and interpersonal relations in the operating room   

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Nancy J. Fairchild, MS, RN, CAES

Associate Professor - Adult Health

Same day surgery; nursing diagnosis validation; patients' responses to experiencing same day surgery; assessment and interviewing by telephone with same day surgery clients

Jane M. Flanagan, PhD, APRN, BC

Assistant Professor - Adult Health

Integration of nursing theory and aesthetics into nursing care; patient and family experiences during and after hospitalization; spirituality and forgiveness in relation to healing; palliative care

Holly B. Fontenot, RNC, MS

Clinical Instructor - Maternal Child Health

Women's Health, sexual health and safety, forensic nursing

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Stacy Garrity, RNC, MS, WHNP

Clinical Instructor - Maternal/Child Health

Marjory Gordon, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor Emeritus - Adult Health

Nursing diagnosis and diagnostic reasoning

Pamela J. Grace, PhD, RNCS, ANP

Assistant Professor - Adult Health

All aspects of nursing and healthcare ethics especially issues of professional obligation towards individuals and society;  ethical decision making; problem analysis; philosophy of nursing

Katherine Gregory, RN, PhD

Assistant Professor - Maternal Child Health

Preterm infant nutrition and enteral feeding regimens; preterm infant growth and development; necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants; measures of physiologic stability in the NICU; patterns of maternal-infant interaction

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Dianne Chapell Hagen, MA, RN

Clinical Instructor - Adult Health

Lois A. Haggerty, PhD, RNC, WHNP

Associate Professor - Maternal Child Health

Clinical judgment of expert nurses. Intimate partner violence during the childbearing year.

Karen E Hall, MSN, RN

Clinical Instructor - Adult Health

Carol R. Hartman, DNSc, RNCS

Professor Emeritus; Psychiatric/Mental Health

Nursing care of psychotic mothers and their babies; cognitive/behavioral intervention with post myocardial infarction patients; manpower survey of New England regarding psych/mental health nurses; follow-up on study of pornography on children in sex rings; influences of sexual/physical abuse on patterns of behavior of serial rapists, child molesters, juvenile molesters and juvenile murders, stalkers; impact of traumatic events on biological, behavioral, psychological and social interactions

Allyssa Harris, PhD(c), RNC, NP

Clinical Instructor - Maternal Child Health

Urban health, healthcare disparities, women’s knowledge development and decision-making, adolescent health and contraception.

Joellen W. Hawkins, PhD, RNC, FAAN

Professor Emeritus

Abuse during pregnancy; biographies of nursing leaders, history of school nursing; nurse practitoner role development; WHNP role evolution; nurse social worker collaboration, history of women's roles in settlement houses & community health centers, child witness to violence

Barbara Hazard , PhD, RN, FAAN

Dean and Professor

Research methods; statistics; clinical research studies

Loretta P. Higgins, EdD, RN

Associate Professor Emeritus

Nursing history; biographies of nursing leaders; development of coeducation; women's health, specifically decision-making in labor and delivery, hormone-replacement therapy during menopause, and battering during pregnancy

June Andrews Horowitz, PhD, RNCS, FAAN

Professor - Psychiatric/Mental Health

Postpartum depression including mother-child interaction; family mental health research, including children's teasing and bullying experiences, and parenting and couples' interaction and negotiation processes; currently Principal Investigator of CARE Intervention for Depressed Mothers & Their Infants (5R01 NR 008033), and participating as a co-investigator on the Child-Adolescent Teasing Scale (CATS) project

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Dorothy A. Jones, EdD, RNC, ANP, FAAN

Professor - Adult Health

Continued investigation of patient's recovery at home following ambulatory surgery with local and general anesthesia;  future expansion to include other populations responses to early hospital discharge; continued testing and development of psychometric properties of Functional Health Pattern Screening Assessment Tool (FHPSAT) across populations and cultural groups; evaluation of Professional Practice Model and impact of nurse empowerment, decision making and satisfaction; development and testing of a practice model grounded in Margaret Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding consciousness

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Susan Kelly-Weeder, PhD, MS, RNCS, FNP

Assitant Professor - Community Health

Women's experiences with infertility, women's health and health risk reduction in women, disordered eating, binge drinking in college aged women, disordered eating and alcohol use in college aged women.

Ronna E. Krozy, EdD, RN

Associate Professor - Community Health

Sexuality and older adults; AIDS risk assessment training for health professionals; adaptation and testing of Functional Health Pattern Assessment Tools in a Latin American community.

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Margaret Saul Laccetti, PhD, RN, AOCN

Assistant Professor - Adult Health

Investigation and use of expressive writing and language use in selected groups of cancer patients and their families; use of expressive writing with stage 4 breast cancer patients, and how choices of language (or word use) reflect experiences with the disease and quality of life; quality of life in cancer patients and families; using and examining the processes of expressive writing and cognitive restructuring to enhance quality of life and change behaviors in patients and families facing terminal illness; the nursing needs of spouses of patients with prostate cancer; intuition and nursing; and investigating and using the Amherst writing model to explore self silencing and facilitate advocacy behaviors in nursing students and new nurses

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Carrie MacLeod, PhD (c), RN

Clinical Instructor - Adult Health

Ellen K. Mahoney, DNSc, RNCS

Associate Professor - Adult Health

Human responses in chronic illness/disability; patterns of behavior in persons with dementia; nursing interventions to promote functional ability in the elderly; recovery from stroke   

Michelle Mendes, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor - Maternal Child Health

Nursing practice with children and youth with special health care needs and their families, health disparities experienced by AHANA CYSHCN and their families, partnering with  families of CYSHCN

Sandra R. Mott, PhD, RNC

Associate Professor - Maternal Child Health

Discovering the process of parenting the child with complex cardiac disease; concept of 'burden' for family with child who has congenital heart disease; family coping and management of acute, episodic hospitalizations for chronically ill child; parental perceptions of caring for/living with chronically ill child   

Margaret Murphy, PhD, RN

Associate Professor Emeritus

Computer analysis of lung sounds in chronic respiratory problems; Pulmonary care; Use of estrogen replacement therapy for menopausal women

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Anne E. Norris, PhD, APRN BC, FAAN

Associate Professor & Dept. Chair; Psychiatric/Mental Health & Community Health

AIDS risk behavior and condom use; pregnancy risk taking and risk avoidance; PTSD in immigrant groups; quantitative methodologies

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Jean A. O'Neil, EdD, RN

Associate Professor Emeritus

Patient responses to experiences of ambulatory surgery; assessment and intervention by telephone with ambulatory surgery patients; validation of nursing diagnoses; predictive value of selected variables for successful licensing exam performance; effectiveness of interventions in promoting successful licensing exam performance

Rita J. Olivieri, PhD, RN

Associate Professor - Adult Health

Computer applications/nursing; learning styles/teaching styles and impact on learning;  impact of chronic pain on quality of life; nurses' decision making in acute pain;  nurses' and patients' perceptions of their education needs

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Nanci Peters, MSN, RN, PNP

Assistant Clinical Professor - Maternal Child Health

Adele W. Pike, EdD, RN

Clinical Assistant Professor - Community Health

Clinical Practice Change, home care, geriatric home care, falls prevention, medication management, using distance learning methodologies with home care nurses.

Judith S. Pirolli, MS, RN

Adjunct Instructor - Community Health

Joyce Pulcini, PhD, RNCS, PNP, FAAN

Associate Professor - Maternal Child Health

School Nursing, policy analysis of health care services for developmentally disabled individuals, nurse practitioner practice characteristics, prescriptive practices, salary and employee benefits, and global nurse practitioner role development, education and curricula, effect of postpartum depression on child development; asthma in children

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Catherine Yetter Read, PhD, RN

Associate Dean Undergraduate Program & Associate Professor

Health promotion and psychological adaptation in persons with or at risk for genetic disease; genetics in nursing education; genetic counseling as a nursing intervention

Sr. Callista Roy, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor & Nurse Theorist - Adult Health

Involving families in cognitive recovery of patients with mild head injury; Nurse coaching as an intervention for patients after ambulatory surgery; conceptualizing and measuring coping; philosophical basis of adaptation nursing and distinction between veritivity and relativity; emerging nursing knowledge and practice outcomes

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Judith Shindul-Rothschild, PhD, RN, RNCS

Associate Professor - Psychiatric/Mental Health

Female athlete triad, eating disorders, staffing and quality of care, licensure and discipline of registered nurses, and psychopharmacology

Mary Lou Siefert, DNSc, AOCN

Assistant Professor - Adult Health

Nursing impact on quality of life outcomes in ovarian cancer, long term survivors of cervical cancer and minority family caregivers; cognitive function in women with induced menopause; effects of cancer in long term survivors of childhood cancer

Colleen Simonelli, MSN, RN

Clinical Instructor - Maternal Child Health

Lori Solon, RN, MSN, CS

Clinical Instructor - Psych/Mental Health

Sherri St. Pierre, MS, RN, CS-PNP

Clinical Instructor - Maternal Child Health

Jennifer Stockbridge, MS, APRN-BC

Clinical Instructor - Community Health

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Patricia A. Tabloski, PhD, RNC

Associate Dean, Graduate Programs & Associate Professor

Sleep disturbances and non-pharmacologic nursing management of agitation in the elderly; palliative care.

Pamela A. Terreri, MS, APRN, BC

Clinical Instructor - Adult Health

Symptom management in young adults struggling with Anxiety  and Mood Disorders.

Denise Testa, CRNA, MSN

Nurse Anesthesia Assistant Program Director

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Heather Vallent

Clinical Instructor - Adult Health

Judith A. Vessey, PhD, CRNP, MBA, FAAN

Lelia Holden Carroll Endowed Professor

The effect of chronic teasing and bullying on the psychological and physical health of children and adolescents; bullying in the nursing workforce; the development of a practice-based research network as a method for advancing evidence-based practice by school nurses.

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W. Jean Weyman, PhD, RN

Director, Continuing Education

Fatigue in working women; RN refresher/reentry

Danny G. Willis, DNSc, MSN, RN

Assistant Professor - Psych/Mental Health

Men's mental health, healing, marginalizing and/or traumatic human experiences, qualitative methods, and nursing theory/philosophy

Barbara E. Wolfe, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN

Professor - Psych/Mental Health

Psychobiology of eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa), focusing on the role of the neurotransmitter serotonin and its regulation of eating behavior, depression, and impulsivity; examine the extent to which dieting behavior may contribute to altered serotonin-precursor availability as intermittent and / or persistent dieting may have a contributory role to the chronicity and risk for relapse of eating disorder symptoms in vulnerable populations

Robin Y. Wood, EdD, RN

Associate Professor & Lab Coordinator - Adult Health

Breast cancer screening and early detection:  intervention programs with high-risk populations (older and minority women); Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR); Breast Cancer Risk Appraisal - instrument development