RESEARCH INTERESTS
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.

BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Susan Kelly-Weeder is a family nurse practitioner and an Assistant Professor in Nursing in the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College. She has over twenty years of clinical and teaching experience in nursing with a particular interest in family health issues. Dr. Kelly-Weeder received her PhD in Nursing and Health Promotion from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2004 where her dissertation examined risk factors for infertility in women. Her current areas of research include predictors of fertility impairment in African-American women, the psychosocial aspects of an infertility diagnosis, and risk reduction strategies for women.

SELECTED APPOINTMENTS & AWARDS

• 2011 - Distinguished Practitioner, National Acadamies of Practice
• 2010 - Excellence in Nursing Education, Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses
• 2010 - Research Award, Boston College Connell School of Nursing
• 2007 Boston College Faculty Fellowship Award
• 2005 National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) New Researcher’s Award: Predictors of Impaired Fertility in African-American Women

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Kelly-Weeder, S.S. (2011). Impaired fertility in African American women: Analysis of the National Survey of Family Growth. Journal of the National Black Nurses Association, 21, 9-15.
• Kelly-Weeder, S.S., & Edwards, E. (2011). Co-occurring Binge Eating and Binge Drinking in College Women. Journal of Nurse Practitioners, 7, 207-213.
• Smith, A.T., Kelly-Weeder, S.S., Engel, J., McGowan, K.A., Anderson, B., & Wolfe, B.E. (2011). Quality of Eating Disorders Websites: What Adolescents and Their Families Need to Know. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 24(1), 33-37.
• Kelly-Weeder, S.S., Phillips, K., & Rounseville, S. (2011). Effectiveness of Public Health Programs for Decreasing Alcohol Consumption. Journal of Patient Intelligence, 2011(3), 39-38.
  
• Kelly-Weeder, S. (2011). Binge Drinking and Disordered Eating in College Students. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 31(1), 53-41.

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