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Faculty Research Activities 2008-09

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Faculty Name, Title, Email	Dept.	Research Program, Theoretical Focus, Current Projects, Active Grants
Adelson, Joel MD, PhD, MPH Adjunct Professor Joel.Adelson@ucsf.edu	IHA	*Research Program:* Public health, health policy, and studies on the improvement of the quality of medical interventions. *Theoretical Focus:* MD, pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology; public health. *Current Projects:* Bioterrorism Planning Response-Solano County; Influenza and Pneumonia Prevention in Long-Term Care; California Asthma among School Aged Children Project; Integrating Medicine and Public Health.
Alkon, Abbey RN, PhD Associate Professor Abbey.Alkon@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Psychobiologic reactivity in young children; Child care health; Injuries; Violence prevention; Family and environmental stressors; Children's social and emotional development; culture. *Theoretical Focus:* Interplay between children's physiology and their environments; Mental and physical health of young children. *Current Projects:* Seven year cohort study of pesticide exposure on children's autonomic nervous system and health; Randomized control studies of nutrition and physical activity in child care; Consultation on health and safety issues in child care; Environmental health in child care.
Aouizerat, Brad PhD Assistant Professor Brad.Aouizerat@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* The genetic dissection of heritable human disorders, primarily in the fields of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and symptoms in the setting of chronic disease (i.e. pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and depression). *Theoretical Focus:* Identification of genomic determinants of common complex traits using a combination of whole genome search, molecular genetic and functional analysis of candidate genes, and gene expression profiling. These complementary approaches are used to identify emergent properties of biological processes and is termed a systems biology approach. *Current Projects:* Genome-wide association of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; Genetics of Pain and Lymphedema; Genetic and Environmental Interactions Associated with Depressive Symptoms; Genetic Epidemiology of Metabolic Disorders; Genomics; Relevance to Nursing Practice and Research.
Arai, Shoshana R. RN, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Shoshana.Arai@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Symptom assessment of acutely ill ICU patients; concordance of surrogate symptom reports; symptom management of mechanically ventilated sedated ICU patients. Asian immigrant healthcare treatment outcomes; acculturation and medication adherence. *Theoretical Focus:* Symptom management; epidemiology. *Current Projects:* Project Director, Assessing and Treating Symptoms of Critically Ill Patients in ICU at UCSF.
Benner, Patricia E. RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Patricia.Benner@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Skill acquisition and clinical knowledge development in nursing education and practice. Ethics in nursing education and health care. Current research on undergraduate nursing education focuses on teaching and learning strategies used in nursing education. This project takes up the particular pedagogical demands of learning a practice, and cross-professional comparisons between clergy, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing. *Theoretical Focus:* Practice based ethics in nursing and ethical decision making in nursing education and practice. Skill acquisition, the nature of clinical knowledge, and ethical expertise in advanced clinical practice. *Current Projects:* Director of Carnegie Commission for the National Study of Nursing Education; National Council of State Boards of Nursing Project to develop a taxonomy of nursing error and a database on nursing errors reported to the State Boards of Nursing; Clinical knowledge development of nurses in an operational environment, sponsored by the Federal Nursing Research Program.
Beyene, Yewoubdar PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Yewoubdar.Beyene@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Biocultural anthropology, women's reproductive health, fertility, human development and aging, menopause and osteoporosis, minority aging, chronic illness, immigrant and refugee health, and health care beliefs and practices of traditional cultures. *Theoretical Focus:* Medical anthropologist; biocultural anthropologist. *Current Projects:* Ideas for Community Input for Effective HIV Prevention; Gender, Age, Ethnicity in Chronic Illness Management.
Blegen, Mary A. RN, PhD, FAAN Professor & Director, Center for Patient Safety Mary.Blegen@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Nurse staffing and the quality and safety of patient care. Medication safety, work environments, and working conditions in hospital and nursing homes. *Theoretical Focus:* Organizations and systems in healthcare, Conditions Affecting Human Error. *Current Projects:* Nurse Staffing and the Quality of Patient Care (NINR); Assessment of the Validity of Quality Indicators in Long Term Care (AHRQ), and Nurses' Workforce Conditions: Effects on Medication Safety (AHRQ). Quality Care in Acute Inpatient Units (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). In addition, a project addressing patient safety in three San Francisco Bay hospitals funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Carrieri-Kohlman, Virginia L. RN, DNSc, FAAN Professor Ginger.Carrieri@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Dyspnea across different illnesses. Correlates of dyspnea. Treatments to affect dyspnea in acute, chronic and palliative care settings. Exercise as a treatment for dyspnea. Self-management programs with focus on internet based programs. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological/psychological theories, especially behavioral change theory, self-care theoretical focus; desensitization; guided mastery. Methods: Quantitative and qualitative. Designs are descriptive, correlational, and randomized clinical trial. Instrument development as needed. *Current Projects:* NIH funded research comparing the effect of a new internet dyspnea self-management program to a proven efficacious face to face self-management program in patients with COPD. Primary outcomes are dyspnea with ADL, exercise performance, and multivariate outcomes, such as HRQL, and psychosocial outcomes.
Cataldo, Janine RN, PhD, APRN-BC Assistant Adjunct Professor Janine.Cataldo@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Role of stigma and blame in the smoking behaviors of older adults with tobacco addiction and symptom management in lung cancer patients. *Theoretical Focus:* Gero-psychiatry; Psycho-social oncology; Geriatric oncology; Stigma and self-blame; Symptom management in lung cancer patients. *Current Projects:* Investigation of the relationships among perception of stigma, self-blame, anxiety, depression, and symptom severity in lung cancer patients; impact of tobacco industry activity on health care for older adults with tobacco addiction; Meta-analysis of smoking as a risk factor for Alzheimer's Disease; Education interventions for graduate psychiatric nurses to increase tobacco control interventions; Clinical trial for smoking cessation intervention in an inpatient psychiatric unit with a focus on age related issues.
Chafetz, Linda RN, DNSc Professor Linda.Chafetz@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Studies on mentally ill adults including course of illness research, studies of families of the severely mentally ill, research on treatment for high-risk groups including those with alcohol/drug related and medical co-morbidities. *Theoretical Focus:* Stress and vulnerability factors in severe mental illness, social and community support, wellness models for mentally ill adults, outcomes of psychosocial interventions. *Current Projects:* Clinical trial of a wellness model adapted to the needs of mentally ill adults, ongoing research on primary care needs and service utilization among mentally ill adults, evaluation of an MS program combining psychiatric and primary care competencies.
Chan, Garrett K. APRN, BC, PhD, CEN Assistant Clinical Professor Garrett.Chan@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* End-of-life care in emergency departments, ethical and clinical decision-making of clinicians, advanced practice nursing education and competency. *Theoretical Focus:* Clinical and ethical decision-making in nursing education and practice, the nature of knowledge, health policy in acute care and professional practice, and expertise in advanced practice nursing. Methods: qualitative and quantitative methodologies. *Current Projects:* End-of-life care in the emergency department, multiculturalism and end-of-life care, investigation of the practice of advanced practice nursing.
Chapman, Susan RN, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor schapman@thecenter.ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Studies of the health professions. Focus on allied health professionals, long term care. *Theoretical Focus:* Organizational theory, health care economics; sociology of professions, work, and occupations. *Current Projects:* Diversity in allied health professions, EMS providers, workload standards development, mental health workforce.
Chen, Jyu-Lin RN, PhD Assistant Professor Jyu-Lin.Chen@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Chinese and Chinese-American children's health; childhood obesity; effects of acculturation; behavior modification in weight control. *Theoretical Focus:* Family and development theory; Social-Cognitive Theory; Ecological model; culture. *Current Projects:* Active Balance Childhood (ABC Study): a randomized clinical trial for health weight management; Individualized educational intervention in childhood obesity prevention for Chinese-Americans; individual-tailored and Internet-based behavioral intervention (E-health study).
Chesla, Catherine RN, DNSc Professor Kit.Chesla@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Understanding and influencing family relationships that affect the management of chronic illness. *Theoretical Focus:* Family and feminist theory; interpretive phenomenology, narrative understanding of chronic illness, culturally diverse family processes. *Current Projects:* Interpretive narrative study of illness understandings, acculturation factors and family responses to type 2 diabetes in immigrant and U.S. born Chinese Americans. Continuing interpretive and model testing investigations of African-American, Anglo, Chinese-American, and Latino families adapting to type 2 diabetes. Developing family nursing interventions for disease management with type 2 diabetes.
Cho, Maria RN, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Maria.Cho@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Cancer patients experiencing sleep disturbance, fatigue, and depression. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological/pathophysiological models. *Current Projects:* Sleep Disturbance in Head and Neck Cancer.
Clarke, Adele PhD Professor, SBS Adjunct Professor, History of Health Sciences Adele.Clarke@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Historical and contemporary studies in women's health; sociology of science, medicine, and technology. *Theoretical Focus:* Symbolic interactionism; feminist and critical theories; discourse analysis; sociology of knowledge; postmodernism/poststructuralism; meso-level analytic frameworks. *Current Projects:* U.S. women's health movements since c1960; qualitative research with situational analysis; biomedicalization studies; medicines and globalizations.
Cuenco, Doranne M. RN, MS, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Dyspnea@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Non-pharmacological interventions for management of dyspnea in patients with chronic lung disease. *Theoretical Focus:* Social-cognitive theory; adherence to the intervention; functional status. *Current Projects:* Project Director for NIH-funded research related to internet-based interventions for dyspnea self-management; writing an R21 for transitioning yoga into the home as a treatment for dyspnea in patients with COPD.
Davies, Elizabeth (Betty) RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Betty.Davies@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Care of children and families with life-threatening or life-limiting illness, child and family bereavement, and hospice/palliative care. *Theoretical Focus:* Description and assessment of the experiences of children in hospice/palliative care and of their families; development of clinical interventions which will aid in the prevention of negative consequences, and assist in the treatment of the unavoidable consequences, of coping with advanced disease and death. *Current Projects:* Experiences of Chinese and Latino families with pediatric palliative care; Experiences of fathers with pediatric end-of-life care; Caregiving Parents of Children with Life-Limiting Illnesses: Beyond stress & Coping to Growth; Pediatric Palliative Care at UCSF Children's Hospital; Families' experiences with transition into a children's hospice program; Fatigue in children with cancer.
Dawson-Rose, Carol RN, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor cdawson@psg.ucsf.edu	CHS, CAPS, AIDS Res. Inst.	*Research Program:* Integrating HIV Prevention into HIV Care, Structural Factors and HIV Prevention, Harm Reduction and Quality of Care. *Theoretical Focus:* Community Health Environment, Health Care Access, Harm Reduction. *Current Projects:* HIV prevention intervention for HIV care providers; HRSA Special Projects of National Significance: Integrating Prevention into HIV Care. HIV care for incarcerated populations. The Effects of Care Not Cash Policy on Injection Drug Users Risk for HIV Infection in San Francisco.
Dibble, Suzanne L. RN, DNSc Adjunct Professor Sue.Dibble@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Chronic illness, Symptom Management. *Theoretical Focus:* Usual methods include randomized clinical trials, cross-sectional studies, and longitudinal studies. The above quantitative methods are used to explore and test aspects of self-care theory. *Current Projects: Treating Chemotherapy Induced Nausea with Cannabinoids; Treating Chemotherapy Induced Nausea with Acupressure; Smoking Relapse among Lesbians*.
Dodd, Marylin J. RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Marylin.Dodd@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Clinical trials that focus on the investigation, prevention, and management of symptoms and side effects of cancer treatment. Nursing interventions to facilitate self-care practices of patients with cancer and their families, thereby decreasing treatment morbidity. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological/pathophysiological theories. Testing of physiological mechanisms in the interventions. Self-care theory (Orem). *Current Projects:* 1) Measuring and testing women who have had breast cancer treatment to determine the impact of lymphedema on local and overall functioning. 2) Testing an innovative mouthwash agent as part of a self-care intervention to see whether it will prevent or decrease treatment-related mucositis in people with head and neck cancer. 3) Director, Research Center for Symptom Management.
Donaldson, Nancy RN, DNSc, FAAN Clinical Professor Director, Center for Research & Innovation in Patient Care Nancy.Donaldson@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Director, UCSF Center for Research & Innovation in Patient Care. Program focuses on nursing quality measurement and benchmarking; exploring links between nurse staffing effectiveness and patient safety and outcomes; translating research into practice; innovation diffusion; clinical process/performance improvement; building capacity for Evidence-based Practice. *Theoretical Focus:* Translation Science and Innovation diffusion; knowledge utilization; performance improvement; quality/outcomes measurement. *Current Projects:* N. Donaldson, Co-PI, *California Nursing Outcomes Coalition Database Project, 1996-present; N. Donaldson, PI, A. Nichols, Co-Investigator, and J. Sullivan, Co-Investigator, Medication Administration Accuracy Pre/Post Implementation Study*, Lucille Salter Packard Children's Hospital Pediatrics Research Fund, 2006-2007.
Dowling, Glenna A. RN, PhD, FAAN Professor and Chair Department of Physiological Nursing Director, Institute on Aging Research Center Glenna.Dowling@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Focuses on the effects of chronic progressive neurological diseases on circadian and rest-activity rhythm function in older adults and symptom management of these disturbances. Methodologies are primarily quantitative and include measurement of physiological and psychosocial variables. *Theoretical Focus:* Biological rhythmicity (circadian and ultradian), rest-activity cycle. *Current Projects:* 1) Clinical trial examining light therapy and melatonin as management strategies for rest-activity disruption in institutionalized patients with Alzheimer's disease. 2) Exploratory study of rest-activity rhythms in community-dwelling patients with frontotemporal dementia and their caregivers.
Dracup, Kathleen RN, DNS, FNP, FAAN Professor & Dean Kathy.Dracup@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Studies related to the care of patients with heart disease and the effects of this disease on family members. Testing a variety of interventions designed to reduce the emotional distress experienced by cardiac patients and their family members and to reduce morbidity and mortality from sudden cardiac death. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological/psychological theories; self regulation; family theory. Methods: Quantitative and qualitative. Designs are descriptive, correlational, and randomized clinical trial. *Current Projects:* 1) A clinical trial to reduce myocardial infarction; 2) A clinical trial to facilitate self management of heart failure in rural patients; 3) Home-based exercise for patients with advanced heart failure - effect on clinical outcomes, immunological status, and quality of life.
Drew, Barbara RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Barbara.Drew@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Population of Interest: individuals treated in hospital or pre-hospital settings with acute coronary syndromes or cardiac arrhythmias. Studies related to novel strategies to improve the efficacy of continuous ECG monitoring for better detection and diagnosis of myocardial ischemia and cardiac arrhythmias. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological/pathophysiological theories. Quantitative Methods. *Current Projects:* 1) IMMEDIATE AIM Study (Ischemia Monitoring and Mapping in the Emergency Department in Appropriate Triage and Evaluation of Acute Ischemic Myocardium): Clinical trial testing a novel electrocardiographic strategy to improve detection of acute myocardial ischemia in patients presenting to the emergency department with possible myocardial infarction; 2) Synthesized Twelve-lead ST Monitoring and Real-time Tele-electrocardiography (ST SMART Study): Randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of pre-hospital cell phone transmission of reduced lead 12-lead ECG to emergency department of receiving hospital and its effect on time to thrombolytic therapy or coronary angioplasty and long-term patient outcomes; 3) QTIP Study: QT in Practice. Value of automated QT interval monitoring for the detection of drug-induced prolonged QT for the prevention of torsades de pointes in hospital settings; and 4) PULSE Study: Practical Use of the Latest Standards in Electrocardiography. Development of internet-based educational intervention for hospital critical care and telemetry nurses to implement the newly-published practice standard. *Selected Active Grants:* B.J. Drew, PI, *Tele-electrocardiography in Emergency Cardiac Care, NIH/NINR, 9/2003-6/2009. Philips Medical Systems, Inc. 4/2007 - 3/2009. Implementation of Practice Standards for ECG Monitoring*, NIH/NHLBI, 4/2008-6/2013.
Engler, Marguerite M. RN, MS, PhD Professor Marguerite.Engler@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease with nutritional interventions. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological. Quantitative and experimental methods. *Current Projects:* EARLY Trial (Endothelial Assessment of Risk from Lipids in Youth): Randomized clinical trial designed to determine the effects of nutritional interventions on vascular endothelial function, lipids, immune function, and oxidative stress in children with hypercholesterolemia.
Engler, Mary B. RN, MS, PhD Professor Mary.Engler@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Nutritional interventions in cardiovascular disease. Interest in clinical cardiovascular studies with physiological and molecular biology/genomic measurements. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological, Molecular Biology. Quantitative and experimental methods. Assessment of Vasoreactivity/Endothelial Function by Brachial Artery Ultrasound, Oxidative Stress measurements, Genomic methodologies. *Current Projects:* 1) Phospholipid Transfer Protein Mutations in Dyslipidermias. 2) Diet, Endothelial Function and Pediatric Hyperlipidemia. 3) Effects of Flavonoid-rich foods, such as dark chocolate, on oxidative stress and endothelial function.
Estes, Carroll PhD Professor Emerita carrollestes@earthlink.net	SBS/IHA	*Research Program:* Medical sociology, complex organizations, political sociology, sociology of aging, older women, health policy, and evaluation research. *Theoretical Focus:* Political economy, contemporary theory, feminist theory, sociology of health and illness; critical theory. *Current Projects:* Mental health and substance abuse services for the elderly, evaluation of the effectiveness of Long Term Care Ombudsman program; long-term care; politics of entitlement reform and social security and Medicare privatization.
Eversley, Rani PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Rani.Eversley@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Women's access to health care; patient self-care; women and HIV/AIDS. *Theoretical Focus:* Feminist Theory; self in relation theory; health care access theory; survey research methods. *Current Projects:* Women's access to HIV care; developing measures to assess knowledge regarding HIV care; access to mental health care among HIV-infected women.
Fillmore, Kaye PhD Adjunct Professor Kaye.Fillmore@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Alcohol use across the life course - cross-cultural and cross-temporal findings; alcohol and the work place; alcohol and sex roles; situational and contextual factors in drinking; alcohol and mortality risk. *Theoretical Focus:* Alcohol related research. *Current Projects:* Alcohol and coronary heart disease mortality risk.
Fox, Patrick PhD Professor in Residence, IHA/SBS Co-Director, IHA Pat.Fox@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Medical sociology, health policy, sociology of aging, long-term care, evaluation of social and health interventions, health policy, disease-based social movements, economic costs of illness, and health promotion. *Current Projects:* Best Practices in Childhood Asthma; Epidemiology and Maternal Child Health Evaluation Research Project; Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Program Development; School Health Connections; California Center for Physical Activity; California Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program; Preventive Health Care for the Aged; Continuing Professional Education Training Program; Tobacco Control Evaluation Project; California Arthritis Partnership Project (CAPP); California Obesity Prevention Initiative; Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program; Evaluation of Alzheimer's Research Center of California, Frontotemporal Dementia Project: Genes, Images, and Emotions -- Data and Biostatistics core; Refugee Health-Special Unit for Technical Assistance; Human Stem Cell Research Project.
Froelicher, Erika S. RN, MA, MPH, PhD, FAAN Professor Erika.Froelicher@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Primary, secondary, and tertiary (rehabilitation) prevention through nursing interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors (exercise, blood pressure, lipid, obesity, smoking cessation, and relapse prevention) as well as depression and social isolation. A strong interest in physiological, psychosocial, and economic issues relevant to women at risk for CVD. Methods and Design. Epidemiologic studies related to Occupational health and HIV/AIDS populations. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological theories-Exercise physiology; Physiology of addiction. Social learning theory - by Albert Bandura. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-by Aron Beck and Judith Beck. Advanced quantitative research methods using nursing, epidemiological, public health, and statistical models to address physiological, psychological, behavioral, social, and economic questions. Symptom Management: Chest pain, depression, social isolation, and nicotine cravings. *Current Projects: International work related to tobacco use and smoking cessation. Assessment of quality of life in a long-term follow-up study of cardiovascular disease populations. Gender differences with exertional chest pain. Health disparities, poverty, Race/Ethnic and Gender Differences with respect to health outcomes. Randomized Clinical Trial: 1) Smoking cessation and relapse prevention in women with CAD (WINS). 2) Multicenter National Study of efficacy of a depression and Social Support Intervention in CAD pts after a myocardial infarction. ENRICHD Enhanced Recover of CHD patients. Women's Health*. Heart Disease Prevention and Treatment in European, Arabic populations in the Middle East and Immigrant Arabs, as well as African American, Asian Populations, and CVD Outcomes Research.
Golding, Jacqueline PhD Adjunct Professor jgolding@gmail.com	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Traumatic stress; women's health and mental health. *Theoretical Focus:* Health psychology; psychiatric epidemiology; Clinical Psychology. *Current Projects:* Men who buy women in prostitution.
Harrington, Charlene RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Charlene.Harrington@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Health care financing, nursing homes, home and community based services, policy analysis, regulation and planning, and quality outcomes. *Theoretical Focus:* Political economy and medical sociology, organizational theory, sociology of professions. *Current Projects:* Nursing home quality of care, access, and cost; long term care regulatory policies; nurse staffing in nursing homes; home and community based programs. *Selected Active Grants:* C. Harrington, PI, *Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service Waivers, Kaiser Family Foundation, 9/2007-8/2008. C. Harrington, PI, California Nursing Home Search, California HealthCare Foundation, 2/2008-1/2009. C. Harrington, S. Kaye, M. LaPlante, and R. Newcomer, PIs, National Center for Personal Assistance Services*, NIH National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 2003-2008.
Holzemer, William L. RN, PhD, FAAN Professor, Associate Dean, International Programs Bill.Holzemer@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* HIV/AIDS and living well with HIV; 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:* Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa; HIV/AIDS and health disparities; Efficacy of a Self-Care Symptom Management Manual. Participating in international training and capacity development for nurses in HIV.
Hong, Oisaeng RN, PhD Associate Professor Oisaeng.Hong@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Health and safety in working population, noise exposure and hearing loss, vulnerable population, worksite and community based health behavioral interventions using information technology and tailoring, global network in occupational and environmental health. *Theoretical Focus:* Health promotion model, Transtheoretical Model of Change (Stages of Changes), Randomized clinical trial, Tailored intervention, Epidemiological study, Vulnerable population. *Current Projects:* Computer-based tailored interventions to prevent hearing loss in noise exposed workers, Developing expert system, Prevalence and risk factors of hearing loss in minority population, International comparative occupational health nurse job delineation study.
Humphreys, Janice C. RN, PhD, PNP, FAAN Associate Professor Janice.Humphreys@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Battered women and their children; resilience, violence prevention interventions, lifetime trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder, chronic stress and telomere length. Nurse-managed clinical practice: advanced nursing practice, interventions directed toward leading pediatric health indicators. *Theoretical Focus:* Symptom management model; maternal-child interaction models. *Current Projects:* Intimate partner violence, lifetime trauma exposure, PTSD & women's symptoms, monitoring and intervening to improve pediatric health in nurse-managed settings, telomere shortening in formerly abused women. Cross-country research on violence and trauma.
Janson, Susan RN, DNSc, FAAN Professor, CHS Adjunct Professor, Medicine Susan.Janson@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Biological and Clinical Outcomes of Asthma Self-Management Training. Improving Adherence to Anti-Inflammatory Asthma Therapy. System-based approaches to Chronic Illness Care. *Theoretical Focus:* Clinical symptom management; Self-management of Chronic Illness; Behavior Change and Treatment Adherence. *Current Projects:* Individualized Asthma Self-Management Education and Airway Inflammation; Age and Illness Management in Later Life; Adult Asthma: Biology, Society and Environment; Teaching Interdisciplinary Chronic Illness Management in Primary Care.
Justice, Judith PhD, MPH Associate Adjunct Professor Judith.Justice@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* International health and development; health policy analysis; health systems analysis; socio-cultural dimensions of health; emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases including TB, leprosy, and HIV/AIDS; reproductive and child health; immunization and new vaccines; aging in developing countries; health disparities. *Theoretical Focus:* Medical Anthropology; policy analysis; analysis of international development and health; qualitative research. *Current Projects:* Evaluation of the Global Alliance for Elimination of Leprosy; Assessment of International regional operations; study of AIDS prevention in labor unions in South Africa; long-term research project and book preparation on the Fit Between International Health Policies and Local Realities; assessments of health and development; aging in developing countries.
Kang, Taewoon PhD Assistant Researcher Taewoon.Kang@ucsf.edu	SBS/IHA	*Research Program:* Disability Studies, Rehabilitation Services, Personal Assistance and Long Term Care Services. *Theoretical Focus:* Studies of the demography and epidemiology of disability, cost of disability, employment, health services. *Current Projects:* California Nursing Home Search. National Center for Personal Assistance Services. A study of Developmental Disability Service Utilization and Expenditures in California. Evaluation of payments to parent and spouse caregivers, advance pay, and restaurant vouchers, under California's IHSS Plus Waiver Program.
Kaufman, Sharon PhD Professor in Residence, IHA/SBS Adjunct Professor, Med Anthro Sharon.Kaufman@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Aging; culture of medicine; anthropology of "life itself;" intersections of biotechnologies, subjectification, and the body. *Theoretical Focus:* Qualitative, ethnographic, and phenomenological approaches; uses of the life history; the culture of medicine. *Current Projects:* The Politics of the End of Life; Technologies of Life Extension; Ethical Issues in Geriatrics; Informed Consent in Medical Research; Old Age, Life Extension and Geriatrics; Longevity and Medical Treatment in Old Age.
Kaye, Stephen PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Steve.Kaye@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Demography and epidemiology of disability; cost of disability, employment, health services, AIDS-related disability, assistive technology, rehabilitation services, and long term care services. *Current Projects:* Increasing Mammography among Latinas with Disabilities; Demand-Side Employment Placement Models; Community Research for Assistive Technology; Disability and Health Partnership; Pacific ADA Center.
Kennedy, Christine RN, PNP, PhD, FAAN Professor Christine.Kennedy@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Early development (0-8 years); impact of life events on development and behavior. Reduction in child health risk behaviors. Testing of interventions for use in primary care, family and community settings. *Theoretical Focus:* Developmental model within a family framework; Motivation and self-regulation. Transactional processes. *Current Projects:* Risk taking and daring behavior in children; cultural context of health behaviors (across many ethnicities); effect of television/media on health behaviors. Physical activity and healthy weight status.
Kennedy, Holly CNM, PhD Associate Professor Holly.Kennedy@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Exploration of the midwifery model of care to link specific care processes with outcomes. *Theoretical Focus:* Feminist and critical frameworks to explore issues central in the health care of women. *Current Projects:* Qualitative research aimed at understanding the processes of midwifery care and their specific linkages to women's, mother's, and infant's health outcomes; metasynthesis of midwifery care; video data collection and analysis in ethnography; Optimality Index-US; Evaluating Group Prenatal Care in the Military Health Care Setting (funded by the TriService Nursing Research Program).
Kools, Susan E. RN, PhD Associate Professor Susan.Kools@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Adolescent development and mental health; impact of foster care children and adolescents; developmental transitions of adolescents with chronic illness. *Theoretical Focus:* Child and adolescent developmental theory. *Current Projects:* Improving health and mental health outcomes for adolescents in foster care.
LaPlante, Mitch PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Mitch.LaPlante@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Conceptual and definitional issues in health and disability, the demography and epidemiology of health and disability, and health and disability policy. *Theoretical Focus:* Sociology of chronic illness and disability. *Current Projects:* Developing Statistical Indicators on the Economic, Epidemiologic, and Social Status of People with Disabilities; Center for Personal Assistance Services.
Lee, Kathryn A. RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Kathy.Lee@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Childbearing and perimenopausal women experiencing fatigue and sleep disturbances; circadian rhythms. *Theoretical Focus:* Influence of hormones on wake-sleep cycles during maternal adaptation or menopausal transition. *Current Projects:* Fatigue and sleep patterns in childbearing families and perimenopausal women; effects of shift work on women's health; sleep disturbance and fatigue in women with cancer or HIV.
Lyndon, Audrey RNC, PhD, CNS Assistant Professor Audrey.Lyndon@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Patient safety in perinatal care. *Theoretical Focus:* Symbolic Interactionism, High Reliability Organization Theory. *Current Projects:* Qualitative research into nurse, physician, and certified-nurse midwife individual and collective agency for safety (willingness to take a stand on an issue of concern) in community hospital perinatal settings. Investigation of determinants of clinician willingness to speak up about concerns (instrument development and testing).
Macera, Elizabeth V. RN, PhD, FNP, ANP Assistant Clinical Professor Liz.Macera@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Psycho-social development in late life; Geriatric Rehabilitation, Intimacy, Gay and Lesbian Elders. *Theoretical Focus:* Co-morbidity. *Current Projects:* Intimacy in older adults in assisted living; hip fracture rehabilitation in people with dementia.
Malone, Ruth E. RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Ruth.Malone@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Tobacco control issues, corporate social responsibility, globalization, marginalized populations. How health policy problems and trends are defined and changed; roles of media and multinational corporations in shaping health policy issues and health advocacy; policy and media advocacy. *Theoretical Focus:* Policy theory; public relations/communication theory; marginalization; community action/participation; critical public health. *Current Projects:* Tobacco industry corporate social responsibility initiatives and implications for public health; tobacco industry targeting of marginalized groups, including seniors; tobacco and the military; environmental policy issues related to tobacco; supply side tobacco control policy development.
Max, Wendy PhD Professor in Residence, IHA/SBS Co-Director, IHA Wendy.Max@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Cost of illness methodology; economic aspects of Alzheimer's disease; cost of injury and cost-effectiveness of injury prevention strategies; economics of tobacco control. *Theoretical Focus:* Measurement of cost of illness and disability; health economics. *Current Projects:* The Economic Burden of Secondhand Smoke in the U.S. and for Communities of Color in California.
McDaniel, Patricia PhD Assistant Researcher Patricia.McDaniel@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Tobacco control policy and the role of industry and the media in health policymaking. *Theoretical Focus:* Policy theory; public relations/communication theory. *Current Projects:* Tobacco industry corporate social responsibility efforts, their implications for the industry's ability to maintain a tobacco-favorable social and regulatory environment, and their implications for tobacco control efforts.
Miaskowski, Christine A. RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Chris.Miaskowski@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Clinical investigations in pain and symptom management. *Theoretical Focus:* Clinical Studies - acute and cancer-related pain; pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management of pain; multiple symptoms and symptom clusters in oncology patients and their family caregivers, and the genetics of symptoms. *Current Projects:* 1) Study to examine the patterns of pain, fatigue and sleep disturbances in oncology patients who are receiving radiation therapy. 2) Study of neuropathic pain and lymphedema following breast cancer surgery. 3) Study of the genetics of neuropathic pain and lymphedema. 4) Study of the dose response of a psychoeducational intervention to improve cancer pain management. 5) Study of symptom clusters in pediatric oncology patients.
Mietus-Snyder, Michele MD, PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Michele.Mietus-Snyder@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Implementation research for heart health promotion with a focus on inner city minority children at highest risk for obesity, insulin resistance, and associated cardiovascular comorbidities; parallel work on hereditary and nutritional determinants of risk. *Theoretical Focus:* Pediatric preventive cardiology; understanding the mind-body connections that motivate behavior. *Current Projects:* 1) With American Heart Association funding through the Center for Health and Community - a lifestyle intervention for pediatric weight management that aims to delineate the role of stress in the manifestation of insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome in children. 2) With NIH Health Disparities funding in collaboration with Bruce Ames at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute - evaluation of the paradoxical malnutrition of caloric overnutrition that is prevalent in inner city children in effort to both understand the metabolic impact of micronutrient deficiencies and to identify the most effective nutritional approaches to reverse them. 3) Ongoing clinical and genomic analyses to identify environmental and hereditary risk factors for the metabolic syndrome, a toxic constellation of inflammatory changes that differentially complicate the phenotype of obesity in many, but not all persons.
Miller, Robert PhD Associate Professor of Health Economics Robert.Miller@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Health economics; economics of electronic medical records and e-prescribing in physician practices; organizational innovation in physician practices; the effects of managed care. *Theoretical Focus:* Health economics; social/organizational informatics; organizational innovation for quality improvement. *Current Projects:* Lessons: Three Regional Health Information Organizations; Impact of Health Information Technology on Clinical Care; Effective Data Use in Community Health Centers; OCHIN Business Model and the Business Case for Electronic Health Records in Multnoma County; Electronic Health Record Capabilities and Quality Improvement.
Mullan, Joseph T. PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Joseph.Mullan@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Chronic stressors and physical and psychosocial adaptation; caregiving and chronic illness; the experiences of disability. *Theoretical Focus:* The social-psychology of the life course; stress and coping theory; statistical methods in the study of human development (e.g., structural equation and multilevel models). *Current Projects:* Adaptation among patients with type 2 diabetes and their spouses; daily experiences of people with disabilities; stigma among people living with HIV and their nurses.
Nachtigall, Robert MD, BSEE Adjunct Professor Robert.Nachtigall@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Social and emotional aspects of infertility with particular emphasis on the medical, ethical, and psychological issues involved in the practice of gamete donation. *Theoretical Focus:* Obstetrics and gynecology; reproductive endocrinology and infertility. *Current Projects:* The Disclosure Decision After the Use of Donor Gametes; Disposition Decisions by Couples with Frozen Embryos; Infertility in Low-Income Latinos.
Newcomer, Robert PhD Professor, SBS Robert.Newcomer@ucsf.edu	SBS/IHA	*Research Program:* Health and long term care costs and utilization; assisted living and living arrangements, personal assistance workforce and occupational injury. *Theoretical Focus:* Systems analysis; research design for surveys, data collection, demonstration evaluation, clinical trials. *Current Projects:* C. Harrington, PI, R. Newcomer, Co-PI, *Center for Personal Assistance Services, Department of Education, NIDRR, 2003-2007. Evaluation of Payments to Parent and Spouse Caregivers, Advance Pay, and Restaurant Vouchers, under California's IHSS Plus Waiver Program. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health & Human Services, #05-312-0208826, 2005-2007. Occupational Injury among Personal Assistance Workers*, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, 2007-2009.
Newman, Jeff MD, MPH Adjunct Professor NewmanJM@sutterhealth.org	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of diabetes and other chronic disease; health policy and managed care; clinical information systems and their alignment with medical and nursing workflow. *Theoretical Focus:* Clinical epidemiology; health services research and policy; preventive medicine. *Current Projects:* Evaluation of ambulatory and inpatient electronic health records, palliative care, and development of the AHRQ designated UCSF/Sutter Health ACTION Network.
Oka, Roberta ANP, DNSc Assistant Professor Roberta.Oka@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Clinical translational studies to improve functional capacity in chronic diseases with a focus on cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Interventions include multifactor risk reduction using self-management. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological theory: Vascular cell biology and exercise physiology. Primary and secondary disease prevention, Behavioral change theory, Adherence, Quality of life, self-management. *Current Projects:* NINR funded R01 to look at the effects of multifactor risk reduction to improve functional capacity, quality of life and vascular function in patients with peripheral arterial disease. Pilot study to examine the efficacy of Resveratrol on insulin resistance. Pilot study to develop alternate methods to measure endothelial function.
Olesen, Virginia PhD Professor Emerita Virginia.Olesen@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Women's participation in health/healing systems formal and informal; social construction of health, illness. *Theoretical Focus:* Symbolic interactionism; Social psychology of health and illness, including body and emotions; Feminist standpoint theory. *Current Projects:* Reflexivity in qualitative research, including feminist research.
Otero-Sabogal, Regina PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Regina.Otero-Sabogal@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Breast and cervical cancer control interventions in vulnerable populations, minority health-related issues, women's issues, affirmative action, tailoring educational messages and materials, and communications. *Theoretical Focus:* Developing, implementing, and evaluating primary and secondary cancer prevention strategies for multiethnic populations. *Current Projects:* Breast Cancer Early Detection Evaluation Project; Improving Measurement of HIV-Risk among Latino Adolescents; STD Risks and Latino Adolescents Sexual Networks; Behavioral Constructs and Culture in Cancer Screening; Cross Cultural Communication and Colorectal Screening; Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN).
Padilla, Geraldine V. PhD Professor and Associate Dean for Research Geri.Padilla@ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Disease, treatment, and care predictors of quality of life in persons with cancer and other chronic illnesses. *Theoretical Focus:* Appraisal and adaptation, culture and environment, self-care, and symptom management. *Current Projects:* Quality of life in long term cancer survivors; nursing research on cancer and HIV/AIDS health disparities; cancer prevention in the Philippines; and smoking cessation. M. Dodd, PI, G. Padilla, Co-Investigator, *Management of Mucositis with GM-CSF, NIH/NCI, 9/2003-8/2008. C. Miaskowski, PI, G. Padilla, Co-Investigator, Symptom Management after Breast Cancer Surgery, NIH/NCI, 9/2003-8/2008. G. Padilla, PI, Hepatitis B Vaccination of Newborn Filipinos*, Fulbright Scholar, January to April, 2007.
Phoenix, Beth RN, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor Beth.Phoenix@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*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.
Pinderhughes, Howard PhD Associate Professor Howard.Pinderhughes@ucsf.edu	SBS/IHA	*Research Program:* Sociological theory; youth violence and adolescent health; race, ethnicity, and health inequality; social change. *Theoretical Focus:* Qualitative methods; race, class, and gender dynamics; race theory; Inequality; Oppression. *Current* *Projects:* How inner city youth experience, construct, and understand violence in their lives; Comprehensive violence prevention policy in San Francisco and Alameda County; Center on Culture, Immigration, and Violence Prevention.
Portillo, Carmen RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Carmen.Portillo@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* HIV/AIDS; symptom assessment and management; medication adherence; Hispanic women's health care; effects of acculturation; stigma, community-based assessment and interventions with ethnic minority populations; grief/bereavement. *Theoretical Focus:* Systems theory; quality of care; cultural theory; community-based theories; grief/bereavement. *Current Projects:* HIV symptoms in Hispanic women; demonstration trial of a symptom management manual for people with HIV/AIDS; community-based cancer reduction physical activity trial; biomarkers of insomnia and fatigue in HIV/AIDS; international training and capacity development for nurses in HIV (Malawi, Namibia, India).
Pullinger, Clive R. PhD Associate Adjunct Professor, PN Associate Research Biochemist, CVRI clive.pullinger@ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Identification of the genetic determinants of heart and peripheral vascular disease, with a focus on atherosclerosis and aberrant lipid metabolism. *Theoretical Focus:* Molecular biology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics. *Current Projects:* Using the candidate gene approach to examine gene loci involved in dyslipidemias, utilizing the UCSF Genomic Resource in Arteriosclerosis (GRA). The GRA has over 25,000 DNA and plasma samples collected form numerous UCSF departments, notably the UCSF Lipid Clinic, and from other collaborating centers. It includes 2000 healthy elderly control subjects. A database contains pedigrees, family histories, clinical and biochemical data. Cohorts include coronary stenosis, calcification, MI, arrhythmias, and phenotypes of abnormal lipoprotein metabolism. Current main focus is on the contribution of a number of genes (APOA5, GPIHBP1, LMF1, APOC2, and LPL) to the etiology of severe idiopathic hypertriglyceridemia, a widespread disorder now recognized as an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease. Our group has recently discovered the first human incidence of LMF1 deficiency, which causes severe hypertriglyceridemia. We have shown that a common polymorphism in the APOA5 gene, among subjects of Asian ancestry, has a profound adverse effect on plasma levels of triglycerides. We have also found numerous mutations in the APOA5 and GPIHBP1 genes.
Puntillo, Kathleen A. RN, DNSc, FAAN Professor Kathleen.Puntillo@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Assessment and management of pain in critically ill ICU patients and patients with acute illnesses and injuries; post-operative pain; procedural pain; symptom assessment and management of ICU patients at end-of-life. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological theories; symptom management. Validity and reliability of measures to assess pain and symptom management. Designs: descriptive, correlational, experimental randomized trials. *Current Projects:* Procedural pain in acutely/critically ill patients. Proxy and objective measures of pain. Pain and symptom assessment and management (palliative care) in ICU patients at end-of-life.
Rankin, Sally H. RN, PhD, FNP, FAAN Professor Sally.Rankin@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* HIV/AIDS in Africa with emphasis on religious organizations and their influence on HIV prevention and AIDS care. Interventions (e.g., cardiac rehab, peer advisor social support models, self-efficacy) to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations with heart disease and diabetes (women, elderly, and medically underserved individuals). Family primary care; women and families. *Theoretical Focus:* Family, chronicity, and lifespan development theory; social support and social learning theory; caregiver/care-recipient relationships and gender influences. *Current Projects:* Malawi Christians and Muslims: HIV Prevention and AIDS Care. Improving health outcomes for elderly, unpartnered MI and CABG patients.
Rehm, Roberta S. RN, PhD Associate Professor Roberta.Rehm@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Family management of children's chronic conditions, parenting with a chronic condition. Interactions among families, schools, and community resources *Theoretical Focus:* Field studies/ethnography in the Symbolic Interaction tradition, the intersection of health and development in children's chronic conditions, family and child development across the lifespan, family normalization. *Current Projects:* Planning for the transition to adulthood by families, educators, and health care providers for youth with complex chronic conditions; Transition to Home from the NICU for infants with complex needs; Barriers to School Attendance for Children who are Medically Fragile and Developmentally Delayed; The Intersection of Health and Education for Families.
Rice, Dorothy P. BA, ScD (Hon) Professor Emerita in Residence Dorothy.Rice@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Health statistics, aging and long term care, disability, domestic violence, cost of illness methodology and estimation, chronic illness, and economics of tobacco use. *Theoretical Focus:* Chronic illness and disability measurement; human capital approach to cost of illness. *Current Projects:* The Cost of Breast Cancer in California; a Dynamic Model of Smoking and Healthcare Expenditures in California.
Robinson, Susan RN, ANP, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Susan.Robinson@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Population-based quality of care outcomes. Health services research. Quality improvement approach on population-based disease management programs. Methodologies are primarily quantitative and include socio-demographic variables. *Theoretical Focus:* Systems theory, physiological/psychological theories, behavioral change theory, and self-management. *Current Projects:* Factors affecting medication error in the heart failure outpatient population.
Scherzer, Teresa PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Teresa.Scherzer@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Community-based research and program evaluation, work environment and health; carework, health, and social inequalities; mixed-methods research. *Theoretical Focus:* Feminist and critical theory, intersectionality theory. *Current Projects:* Personal care ("homecare") workers and occupational hazards, injury, and access to care; program evaluation(s) in the School of Nursing.
Scott, Mary B. RN, PhD Associate Clinical Professor Mary.Scott@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Last research project focused on the perceptions of significant others concerning end-of-life experiences and withdrawal of treatment in the hemodialysis patient. Previous research has dealt with the work conducted by family members on behalf of the hemodialysis patient. *Theoretical Focus:* Illness trajectory. *Current Projects:* Rapid Response Team (RRT) Initiative Project; Focus of the project is a qualitative approach to evaluating RRT effects on Registered Nurses patient care management and job satisfaction. This project also evaluates the best practices and barriers to the implementation of RRT. Great awarded: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Seago, Jean Ann RN, PhD Associate Professor Jean.Ann.Seago@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*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:* Central Valley Nursing Workforce Diversity Initiative, Distributional Effects of Minimum Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, 2006 Survey and Analysis of California Registered Nurses.
Shim, Janet PhD Assistant Professor Janet.Shim@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Social inequalities in health, particularly heart disease; expert and lay knowledge of disease causation; biomedical and population health knowledge production; uses of medical technologies in late life. *Theoretical Focus:* Sociology of health and illness; sociology of science, technology, and medicine; theories of racial, class, and gender inequality; social constructionism; symbolic interactionism. *Current Projects:* Qualitative research on: the uses of racial, socioeconomic, and gender categories in epidemiological research; disciplinary theories and practices in epidemiology aimed at addressing multilevel disease causation and health disparities; the role of cultural health capital in health care interactions.
Slaughter, Robert PhD Lecturer Rob.Slaughter@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Psychometrics, research methodology, computer assisted nursing education, evaluation. *Theoretical Focus:* Quantitative research, Information Technology. *Current Projects:* Quantitative research and analysis, Information technology, Distance learning technologies.
Smith, David MD Adjunct Professor dsmith@hafci.org	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Addiction Medicine & Clinical Toxicology. *Theoretical Focus:* Addiction is a brain disease and as such can be medically treated. *Current Projects:* Founder and Medical Director, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, San Francisco; Medical Director, California Collaborative Center for Substance Abuse Policy Research; Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment.
Smith, Elizabeth PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Libby.Smith@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Tobacco control issues; marginalized populations; roles of media and multinational corporations in shaping health policy issues and health advocacy; policy and media advocacy. *Theoretical Focus:* Policy theory; public relations/communication theory; marginalization; history. *Current Projects:* Tobacco industry use of diet and obesity issues; tobacco influence on tobacco control efforts and policies within the U.S. military; tobacco industry targeting of gays and lesbians; how tobacco industry responds to public health efforts; tobacco industry corporate social responsibility campaigns.
Sommargren, Claire E. RN, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Claire.Sommargren@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Current Projects:* B. Drew, PI, C. Sommargren, Project Director, *Tele-Electrocardiography in Emergency Cardiac Care* (ST SMART Study).
Spetz, Joanne PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Joanne.Spetz@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Nursing labor markets, quality of hospital care, hospital information systems, maternal-child health, cost-effectiveness analysis, econometrics. *Theoretical Focus:* Economics, evaluation methods, econometrics and statistics, 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, cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis prevention in jails, cost-effectiveness of breast cancer screening. *Selected Active Grants:* J. Spetz, PI, *Distributional Effects of Minimum Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, California HealthCare Foundation, 3/2006-8/2007. J. Spetz, PI, Surveys and Analyses of the California RN Workforce, California Board of Registered Nursing, 12/2005 - 6/2007. J. Spetz, PI, The Effects of an Information Technology System on Nurses and Patients in the Veterans Health Administration*, California HealthCare Foundation and Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, 11/2004-10/2006.
Stewart, Anita PhD Professor in Residence Anita.Stewart@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Conducting community-based interventions to improve health behaviors in ethnically diverse adults and older adults, measurement and methodological issues in conducting research in health and health care disparities, and quality of interpersonal processes of care in minority and disadvantaged populations. *Theoretical Focus:* Social psychology; health psychology; social ecology; community-based participatory research. *Current Projects:* Physical activity and diet to reduce disparities in diabetes, understanding and measuring interpersonal processes of care in diverse populations.
Stotts, Nancy A. RN, EdD Professor Nancy.Stotts@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Acute and chronic illness in adults; wound healing and recovery; pressure ulcers; nutrition and recovery; gerontologic nursing. *Theoretical Focus:* Impact of illness on the individual; physiological theory. *Current Projects:* Factors affecting rate of repair of wounds; effects of oxygen, hydration, and nutrition on healing; prevention of pressure ulcers in surgical patients; recovery in older adults; measurement of healing; cognition and functional status changes with illness and recovery in older adults.
Strawbridge, William PhD Adjunct Professor Bill.Strawbridge@ucsf.edu	IHA	*Research Program:* Gerontology with particular focus on older persons' adaptations to the challenges of aging. *Theoretical Focus:* Beneficial and detrimental adaptations to aging. Extent to which spouses impact the health and well-being of their partners. *Current Projects:* Completing analyses from the Alameda County Study involving spouse influences on partner health and well being. Consequences of hearing impairment and impediments to seeking treatment.
Sung, Hai-Yen PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Hai-Yen.Sung@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Economics of tobacco control, cervical cancer screening and outcomes, evaluation of HMO quality of care, medical utilization and cost, econometric modeling, statistical programming, and time-series forecasting. *Theoretical Focus:* Economics of tobacco control and policy, cancer screening and outcomes, and economic costs of illness and smoking. *Current Projects:* The Disproportionate Cost of Smoking for Communities of Color; Smoking Cessation and Medical Care Use/Costs in a Large HMO; The Cost of Breast Cancer in California; Tobacco Control Policy Analysis & Intervention Evaluation in China; A Dynamic Model of Smoking and Healthcare Expenditures in California.
Sutphen, Mary (Molly) PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Mary.Sutphen@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Issues in nursing education; underrepresented minorities in healthcare; history of nursing education; bioethics; health workforce policy; policy and education; history of public health. *Theoretical Focus:* History; sociology of knowledge; scholarship of teaching and learning. *Current Projects:* Teaching and learning in nursing education; faculty development in nursing education; nursing ethics; role of the liberal arts in professional education.
Wallhagen, Margaret I. RN, CS, PhD, GNP Professor Meg.Wallhagen@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Area: Gerontology/Geriatrics. Theory development: sense of control; cross-cultural issues related to caregiving and sense of control; successful aging. Populations: Informal caregivers, Dyads dealing with age related changes and chronic conditions. Health conditions and symptoms: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; sensory alterations, especially hearing loss. *Theoretical Focus:* Sense of control; person-environment transaction/person-environment fit; stress and adaptation; psychoneurophysiology; and dyadic relationships. *Research Methods:* Qualitative: Grounded Theory, Constant-Comparative techniques. Quantitative: Path Analytic techniques/multiple regression. Additional analyses have included the use of physiologic data (e.g., urinary measures of cortisol and catecholamines to assess a stress response and HgbA1c to access level of diabetes metabolic control). *Current Projects:* Ongoing analyses of a study of family conflict and coping among spouse caregivers; an intervention study on diabetes education and perceived control in older Black Americans with Type 2 DM and their caregivers/diabetes helpers: a study of successful aging in a large community sample using both quantitative survey and qualitative in-depth interviews; and the relationship of symptom experience to psychosocial outcomes. Current major project: Longitudinal study of the impact of hearing impairment on older individuals and their partners/significant others.
Waters, Catherine RN, PhD Associate Professor Catherine.Waters@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Interventions that help people solve problems related to the long-term maintenance of health promoting lifestyle behaviors within their social context, taking into account individual and public/private community partnerships and resources. *Theoretical Focus:* Social cognitive theory, culture, socioecology, community-based participatory research, and the principles of diplomacy and democracy. Current Projects: NuFIT: Nutrition and Fitness for Life Cancer Prevention Study.
Weinberg, Joanna JD, LLM Associate Adjunct Professor Joanna.Weinberg@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Public benefit policies across the life course, ethical policy and legal issues in the provision of health care, policy and clinical practice issues for older adults with HIV/AIDS, and conflict resolution in health care settings. *Theoretical Focus:* Interaction of legal and social policy mechanisms and modes of analysis; ethical issues in health care, institutional/administrative structures. *Current Projects:* Health Services Research Training Program; SAFER-California Healthcare; Elder Abuse, Neglect and Injury in California: Systems, Procedures, and Utilization.
Weiss, Sandra RN, PhD, DNSc, FAAN Professor Sandra.Weiss@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*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	CHS	*Research Program:* Correctional health care, Infection control and infectious disease; tuberculosis and HIV among jail inmates, substance abuse in prisoners. *Theoretical Focus:* Epidemiology. *Current Projects:* Clinical trial of rifampin vs. INH for latent TB in jail; clinical trial of directly observed vs. self-administered therapy for HIV in jail inmates; methamphetamine use in prisoners; predictors of recidivism in HIV-infected inmates.
Wong, Candice C. MD, MPH, PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Candice.Wong@ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Health disparities, cross cultural health care, access to appropriate health services, and health outcomes among vulnerable populations. *Theoretical Focus:* Health services outcome research; community-based epidemiological research; cultural competent health care services. *Current Projects:* 1) *Chinese Community Smoking Cessation Project* - a prospective, randomized clinical trial to test the efficacy of a culturally and linguistically tailored, nurse managed, smoking cessation and relapse prevention intervention among Chinese smokers with chronic medical conditions, such as cardiovascular, pulmonary, cancer, renal, and DM related illnesses. 2) *Bio-behavioral Aspects of Nicotine Dependence among Chinese Smokers* - a study that built on the Chinese Community Smoking Cessation project to identify the role of genetic variants and environmental factors that may contribute to inter-individual differences in nicotine addiction.
Yerger, Valerie MA, ND Assistant Researcher Valerie.Yerger@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Tobacco control issues among marginalized populations; health promotion; qualitative research. *Theoretical Focus:* Health policy theory; marginalization; community-based participatory research. *Current Projects:* Focus group study exploring cultural barriers to smoking cessation.