Connell School of Nursing

Susan Gennaro, RN, DSN, FAAN

dean and professor

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Office

Cushing Hall 203 E
617-552-1710
susan.gennaro@bc.edu



Educational History

  • DSN University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • MS Pace University
  • BA Lemoyne College

Recent Publications

Data Based Publications
  • Amar, A. F., & Gennaro, S. (2005). Dating violence in college women: Associated physical injury, healthcare usage, and mental health symptoms. Nursing Research, 54, 235-242.
  • Logsdon, MC & Gennaro, S. (2005). Bioecological model for guiding social support research and interventions with pregnant adolescents. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 26, 327-339
  • Gennaro, S. & Rosen, J. (2005). Postpartum health in mothers of term and preterm infants. Women and Health. 41, 99-112.
  • Bream, K. & Gennaro, S., Kafulafula, U., Mbweza, E., Hehir, D.. (2005). Barriers and facilitators to neonatal resuscitation in Malawi, Africa. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. 4, 117-126.
  • Nirattharadorn, M. Phancharoenworakul, K., Gennaro, S., Vorapongsathorn, T., & Sithimongkil, Y. (2005). Self-esteem, social support and depression in Thai adolescent mothers. Thai Journal of Nursing Research. 1, 63-75.
  • Bhutani, V., Schowoebel, A., Gennaro, S. (2006). A systems approach for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in term and near-term newborn. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing. 35, 444-455.
  • Gennaro, S. , Deatrick, J., Dobal, M., Jemmott, L., Ball, K. (2007) An alternative model of postdoctoral education for nurses engaged in research with potentially vulnerable populations. Nursing Outlook. 55, 275-281,
  • Gennaro, S., Raftery, N., Campbell, D., Shults, J. (2008). Cervical and vaginal cytokine determinations in pregnant women: Methodologic issues. Biological Research in Nursing. 9, 215-222.
  • Stringer, L., Gennaro, S., Deatrick, J., Slade, S. (2008). Symptoms described by African American women evaluated for preterm labor. JOGNN, 37, 196-202.
  • Gennaro, S., Shults, J., Garry, D. (in press). Stress and preterm labor and birth in Black women. JOGNN.

Non Data Based Publications
  • Gennaro, S. (2005). Overview of current state of research in pregnancy outomes in minority populations. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 192. S3-10.
  • Schwoebel A. and Gennaro S. (2006). Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing. 20,103-7.
  • Gennaro, S., Mayberry, L., Kafulafula, U. (2007) The evidence supporting management of labor. JOGNN.. 36, 598-604.
  • Gennaro, S. Naidoo, S, Berthold, P. (2008). Oral health and HIV/AIDS. MCN. 33, 50-57.
  • Desanayke, A., Gennaro, S., Hendriks-Munoz, K., Nok, C. (2008) Maternal periodontal disease pregnancy and neonatal complications. MCN.33, 45-49.

Book Chapters
  • Hutchinson, M. K., Davis, B., Jemmott, L., Gennaro, S., Tulman, L., Montgomery, A., & Servonsky, J. (2007). Promoting research partnerships to reduce health disparities among vulnerable populations: Sharing expertise between majority institutions and historically black universities. In In J. Fitzpatrick, A. Nyamathi & D. Koniak Griffin (Eds.), Annual Review of Nursing Research: Vulnerable Populations 25, 119 – 143.
  • Biesecker, B., Gennaro, S., Douglas, S.D. (In press). Immunologic Disorders. In Gleicher, N. Principles and practice of medical therapy in pregnancy. Norwalk, CT. Appleton & Lang.

Editorials
  • Gennaro, S. (2005). Safety and satisfaction: the state of our health care system. AWHONN Lifelines. 9, 152-4.
  • Vessey, J. & Gennaro, S. (2005). The Gardner: A tribute to Florence Downs. Nursing
  • Research. 54, 374-5.
  • Gennaro, S. (2007). Hello. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 39. 249
  • Gennaro, S. (2007). Advancing knowledge that improves world health. 39, 289.
  • Gennaro, S. (2008). The shadow of your smile. MCN. 33. 6.
  • Gennaro, S. (2008). Celebrating 40 years of disseminating knowledge that improves global health. 40. 1-2.
  • Gennaro, S. (2008). Sing of significance. 40,99.

Susan Gennaro RN, DSN, FAAN was named Dean and Professor at the William F. Connell School of Nursing July 1, 2008. Dr. Gennaro was previously the Florence and William Downs professor of nursing research at the College of Nursing, New York University and has also served on the faculty of the schools of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Alabama in Birmingham and Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Gennaro is an internationally known perinatal nurse researcher who has helped changed perinatal nursing practice based on her work on the antecedents and consequences of stress in families with preterm infants. This work has been funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, the Office of Women’s Health Research, Sigma Theta Tau International. Dr. Gennaro’s research has been conducted in Malawi and Uganda as well as in the United States. Dean Gennaro has served as a grant reviewer for Sigma Theta Tau International, the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and was a member of the permanent study section in nursing at NIH. Currently, Dean Gennaro is the editor of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, which is the journal of nursing’s honor society Sigma Theta Tau and which is read in over 100 countries by over 130,000 nurses. Dean Gennaro is herself a prolific author and has been involved in the dissemination of nursing research through extensive activities as an editorial board member and manuscript reviewer the Journal of Nursing Scholarship as well as many other premier research journals. Dr. Gennaro is active as a member of the National Nursing Advisory Committee for the March of Dimes and is also an active member of Sigma Theta Tau, and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. Dr. Gennaro has won two awards from AWHONN the Outstanding Nurse Researcher award and the highest honor given by AWHONN, the Distinguished Service Award. ASPO/LAMAZE presented Dean Gennaro an award in recognition of her service in advancing perinatal education. Additionally, Dr. Gennaro has also won Distinguished Alumni awards from the University of Alabama in Birmingham and from Pace University. In recognition of her contributions to global women’s health Dr. Gennaro also received the Lenore Rowe Williams Award from the University of Pennsylvania.



Research Interests

Perinatal nursing practice; perinatal education; stress in families with preterm infants; global women’s health



Appointments and Awards

  • 2007 McClure Scholar, New York University Medical Center
  • 2005 Lenore Williams Award from Penn Women’s Professional Network
  • 2004 Fellow in AACN Helene Fuld Academic Leadership Program
  • 2002-03 Yingling Visiting Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • 2002 Kimball Visiting Professor, Brigham Young University, 2002 (first nurse ever to be named as a Kimball scholar)
  • 2002 Distinguished Alumna Award, University of Alabama in Birmingham
  • 2001 Distinguished Service Award, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses