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Quick Summary of General Research Areas
for selected CHS faculty.
Scroll down for more detailed listing. |
Mary Blegen --
Quality and safety of patient care |
Beth Phoenix --
Substance abuse in the mentally ill |
Linda Chafetz --
Mentally ill adults |
Carmen Portillo --
Hispanic women's health |
Carol Dawson Rose --
HIV, harm prevention |
Jean Ann Seago --
Nursing workforce |
Bill Holzemer --
Quality of care; HIV/AIDS |
Joanne Spetz --
Nursing labor markets, quality of hospital care |
Oisang Hong --
Worksite Risk Intervention |
Catherine Waters --
Health promotion |
Susan Janson --
Asthma self-management |
Sandra Weiss --
Infant, child mental health |
Roberta Oka --
Cardiovascular risk factor reduction |
Mary White --
Infection control, correctional health |
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Specialty Key: ANP = Adult Nurse Practitioner;
ACHIN = Advanced Community Health & International Nursing;
NHSL = Nursing & Health Systems Leadership OH = Occupational Health;
Psych = Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing;
MEPN = Master's Entry Program in Nursing |
| Faculty Name, Title, E-mail |
Specialty |
Research Program, Theoretical Focus, Current Projects |
Blegen, Mary, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor
mary.blegen@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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NHSL |
Research Program: Quality and Safety of Patient Care. Nurse Staffing in hospitals and nursing homes. Medication Safety. Hospital Unit Safety Climate.
Theoretical Focus: Quality Health Outcomes models. Structure, Process, Outcome, Context.
Current Projects: Triad for Optimal Patient Safety. Quality and Safety in Acute Care. Nurse Staffing associated with safety and quality of hospital care. Quality indicators and nurse staffing in nursing homes. Medication Safety - Working conditions. |
Chafetz, Linda, RN, DNSc
Professor
linda.chafetz@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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Psych |
Research Program: Studies on mentally ill adults and their families including predictors of course of illness, measurement of treatment outcomes, studies with high-risk groups including those with alcohol/drug related and medical co-morbidities, depression management.
Theoretical Focus: Severe mental disorders, social and community support, behavioral and cognitive behavioral therapies, theories of health behavior change, illness management.
Current Projects: Ongoing research on health promotion and primary care for severely mentally ill adults, psychiatric symptom management, service utilization. |
Dawson Rose, Carol, RN, PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor
Co-Director, International Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Clinical Training in Nursing
cdawson@psg.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page |
ACHIN
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Research Programs: Drug Users, Harm Reduction and Quality of Care, Positive Prevention for HIV. Adapting evidence-based PP interventions for international settings.
Theoretical Focus: Community Health Environment, Health Care Access, Harm Reduction.
Current Projects: Intervention for Seropositive Injection Drug Users, Research and Evaluation, HIV care for incarcerated populations; HIV prevention; intervention for HIV care providers. |
Holzemer, William L., RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor, Associate Dean,
International Programs
Director, International Center for
HIV/AIDS Research and Clinical Training in Nursing
bill.holzemer@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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ACHIN |
Research Program: HIV/AIDS; Quality of care, Quality of Life, Symptom assessment, Symptom management,
Medication adherence, Stigma, Health disparities.
Theoretical Focus: Systems theory, variation in practice, quality of life, adherence.
Current Projects: Outpatient adherence intervention for AIDS patients; Web-based study on self-care symptom management in persons living with HIV; Implementing symptom assessment in HIV clinical practice; Self and family symptom management for persons living with HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa; Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa; HIV/AIDS and health disparities. |
Hong, Oisaeng, RN, PhD
Director, OH Program
oisaeng.hong@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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OH |
Research Program: Computer-Based Parent/Adolescent HIV Communication Intervention for Latinos; risk factors for hearing loss in Older Mexican Americans; the prevalence of smoking, alcohol, and depression among construction workers; web-based survey of hearing protection behavior in workers of six power plants in Korea.
Theoretical Focus: Worksite and behavioral interventions using information technology and tailoring, global network in occupational and environmental health. |
Janson, Susan, RN, ANP, DNSc, FAAN
Professor, CHS
Adjunct Professor, Medicine
susan.Janson@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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ANP |
Research Program: Asthma Self-Management. Cueing Patient-Clinician Collaboration to Improve Asthma.
Improving Adherence to Asthma Therapy. Health care delivery system-based approaches to Chronic Illness Care. Asthma Control in Adults with HIV-AIDS.
Theoretical Focus: Clinical Symptom Management; Self-management of Chronic Illness; Medication Adherence,
Chronic Illness Model.
Current Projects: Cueing Patient-Clinician Collaboration to Improve Asthma; Interdisciplinary Chronic Illness
Management in Primary Care. |
Oka, Roberta, RN, ANP, DNSc
Associate Professor
roberta.oka@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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ANP |
Research Program: Translation of cellular/molecular/biologic principles to improve functional capacity and reduce chronic diseases, especially, Cardiovascular disease by the implementation of individual case management and population based approaches to multiple risk factor reduction guided by behavioral theory.
Theoretical Focus: Physiological theory: Vascular cell biology and exercise. Primary and secondary disease
prevention, Behavioral change theory, Adherence, Quality of life, self-management.
Current Projects: Multirisk factor reduction in patients with Peripheral arterial disease. Development of a novel assessment of endothelial function |
Phoenix, Beth, RN, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor
beth.phoenix@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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ANP
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Research Program: Substance abuse treatment; mental health service needs of adults with complex psychiatric and substance abuse disorders; impact of spirituality on mental health and illness.
Theoretical Focus: Health promotion; empowerment. Qualitative methodology.
Current Projects: Clinical trial of medication and structured psychotherapy for cocaine dependence. |
Portillo, Carmen, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor and Chair
Associate Director, International Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Clinical Training in Nursing
carmen.portillo@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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ACHIN |
Research Program: Latina health; HIV/AIDS, medication adherence, symptom management, quality of life; Latina women living with HIV/AIDS; international HIV/AIDS curriculum and faculty training.
Theoretical Focus: Systems theory; quality of care; culture; community-based research.
Current Projects: HIV symptoms in Hispanic women; outpatient adherence intervention for AIDS patients; factors contributing to adherence for TB patients; international training and capacity development for nurses in HIV. |
Seago, Jean Ann, RN, PhD, FAAN
Associate Professor
jean.ann.seago@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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NHSL |
Research Program: Nursing systems, health care systems, and workforce issues as they relate to patient, provider, and system outcomes.
Theoretical Focus: Systems theories, outcomes, organizational behavior.
Current Projects: RN Unions and Patient Outcomes; Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios; Central Valley Nursing
Workforce Diversity Initiative, SB664: Admission Policies and Attrition Rates in California |
Spetz, Joanne, PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor
joanne.spetz@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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NHSL |
Research Program: Nursing labor markets, economics of the hospital industry, hospital information systems, maternal-child health, cost-effectiveness analysis, econometrics.
Theoretical Focus: Economics, public finance, econometrics, cost-effectiveness analysis.
Current Projects: Evaluations of efforts to increase nurse supply, the dynamics of nursing shortages, effects of hospital information technologies on quality of care, minimum nurse-to-patient ratios, effects of hospital unions on staffing and patient outcomes, cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis prevention in jails, cost-effectiveness of breast cancer prevention and treatment, availability of hospital services. |
Waters, Catherine, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
catherine.waters@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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ACHIN |
Research Program: Health promotion and illness prevention; lifestyle behaviors, focusing specifically on physical activity and nutrition, in ethnic minority populations using culturally-focused and community-based interventions.
Theoretical Focus: Sociocultural and socioecological perspectives; social-cognitive-behavioral theory; and community-based, participatory action research.
Current Projects: Heart of a Woman: Community-Based Physical Activity for African American Women; Healthy Ordered Steps for Managing Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans; NuFIT: Nutrition and Fitness for Life. |
Weiss, Sandra, RN, PhD, DNSc, FAAN
Professor
sandra.weiss@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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Psych |
Research Program: Infant and child mental health; childhood trauma; effects of family functioning and early tactile experience on child mental health; the use of videotape as an analytic tool; psycho-biologic measures; instrument development and testing.
Theoretical Focus: Developmental neuroscience; cognitive-behavioral theory; attachment theory; sensory physiology.
Current Projects: Effects of parental caregiving and early tactile experience on brain development and mental health outcomes for high-risk infants; risk and protective factors for mental health of drug exposed children; community-partnered interventions for childhood trauma. |
White, Mary Castle, RN, MPH, PhD
Professor
mary.white@nursing.ucsf.edu
Faculty Profile Page
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ACHIN |
Research Program: Correctional health care, infection control and infectious disease; tuberculosis and HIV among jail inmates.
Theoretical Focus: Epidemiology
Current Projects: Clinical trial of rifampin vs. INH for latent TB in jail; incidence of active tuberculosis in a cohort of inmates diagnosed and treated for latent TB in jail; cancer screening in jail; clinical trial of directly observed vs. self-administered therapy for HIV in jail inmates; quality and outcomes of diabetes care in corrections; knowledge and acceptability of hepatitis C screening and treatment among injection drug users; clinical trial of wellness program vs. usual care in a sample of severely mentally ill adults. |
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