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Faculty Research Activities 2009-10

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Faculty Name, Title, Email	Dept.	Research Program, Theoretical Focus, Current Projects, Active Grants
Adelson, Joel W. MD, PhD, MPH Adjunct Professor Joel.Adelson@ucsf.edu	IHA	*Research Program:* Public health, health policy, studies for improving the quality of medical interventions, hospital and academic administration and leadership, clinical medicine and pediatrics, and the basic medical sciences. *Theoretical Focus:* MD, pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology; public health. *Current Projects:* Dr. Adelson is the Chief of the Integrating Medicine and Public Health ("IMAP") Program at the Institute for Health & Aging and the California Department of Health Services.
Alkon, Abbey RN, PhD, PNP 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 and integrated pest management in child care. *International Activities:* Fulbright Specialist; teaching at Oslo University College, Norway.
Aouizerat, Brad PhD Associate Professor Brad.Aouizerat@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* The genetic dissection of human disorders, primarily in the area of symptoms (i.e., fatigue, pain, sleep disturbance, depression) in the setting of chronic disease (i.e., cancer, HIV). The role of inflammation in these processes is of central interest to my laboratory. Other chronic disease models resulting from inflammation (i.e., nonalcoholic fatty liver disease) are also a focus of our investigations. *Theoretical Focus:* Identification of genomic determinants of complex traits using a combination of whole genome search, molecular genetics, and functional analysis (i.e., gene expression, protein analyses) of candidate genes and the integration of these data to identify emergent properties of biological processes (termed "systems biology"). *Current Projects:* Symptoms Clusters in Oncology Patients Receiving Chemotherapy (including a genome-wide scan), Genetics of Pain and Lymphedema in Breast Cancer; Systems Biology Approach in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; 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; introduction and delirium assessment in ICU patients; symptom management of mechanically ventilated sedated ICU patients. Asian immigrant healthcare research: alternatives to the biomedical treatment model. *Theoretical Focus:* Symptom management; epidemiology. *Current Projects:* Co-Investigator, Pilot Study - ICU Patient and Family Comfort Study at UCSF.
Bakerjian, Debra RN, PhD, FNP Assistant Adjunct Professor	SBS	*Research Program:* Nurse practitioners improving quality in nursing homes; nursing home quality of care; continuous quality improvement; pressure Ulcers, pain management, outcomes in long term care. *Theoretical Focus:* Quantitative methods; Donabedian's conceptual framework; organizational theories.
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:* Aging and the life course, biocultural anthropology, chronic illness, women's reproductive health and aging, breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, and health of ethnic minorities, menopause and osteoporosis, minority aging, immigrant and refugee health, health care beliefs, and practices in traditional cultures. *Theoretical Focus:* Medical anthropologist; biocultural anthropologist. *Current Projects:* Gender, Age, and 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:* Research focuses on the symptom of dyspnea and the affective response, correlates of dyspnea, and treatments to affect dyspnea in acute, chronic, and palliative care settings. Primary focus is on internet based symptom self-management programs, including education and exercise. *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 trials. *Current Projects:* NIH funded study comparing the effect of a new internet dyspnea self-management program to a face to face self-management program in patients with COPD. Primary outcomes are dyspnea with ADL and multivariate outcomes, such as HRQL, and psychosocial outcomes. Writing a grant that will study the effects of a home yoga program for people with COPD. *International Activities:* Consulted with faculty and students in Sydney, Australia and at the University of Jordan, School of Nursing on clinical research.
Cataldo, Janine RN, PhD, APRN-BC Assistant Professor Janine.Cataldo@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Role of stigma and self-blame in the smoking behaviors of older adults with tobacco addiction and smoking cessation interventions and symptom management for lung cancer patients and older cancer survivors. *Theoretical Focus:* Gero-psychiatry; psycho-social oncology; geriatric oncology; 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; clinical trial for a smoking cessation intervention for newly diagnosed lung cancer patients; development of a Lung Cancer Stigma Scale.
Chafetz, Linda RN, DNSc Professor Linda.Chafetz@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Studies on severely mentally ill adults and their families including treatment outcome studies, course of illness research, and effects of major co-morbidities affecting this clinical population including concurrent medical, substance use, and psychiatric diagnoses. *Theoretical Focus:* Social cognitive theory of health behavior change, behavioral and cognitive behavioral theories for psychosocial interventions, stress diathesis models of severe mental disorder, and impact of environment on course of illness. *Current Projects:* Studies of clinical populations treated in a faculty practice in residential care settings; intervention research to reduce medical risk among mentally ill adults receiving community based services. *International Activities:* Collaboration with colleagues in North Africa.
Chan, GarrettK. RN, PhD, CNS 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 Associate 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.
Chaufan, Claudia PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor	IHA	*Research Program:* Social and political determinants of the epidemics of diabetes and obesity; sociology of human genetic research; sociology of disease-based social movements; comparative health care systems; public health in Palestine/Israel; health and human rights; diabetes, obesity, chronic disease management.
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, FAAN 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. Community Based Participatory Research to test a behavioral intervention for type 2 diabetes in Chinese immigrants.
Cho, Maria RN, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Maria.Cho@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Cancer patients experiencing sleep disturbance, fatigue, and depression. Symptom clusters in cancer patients receiving cancer treatments. *Theoretical Focus:* Physiological/pathophysiological models. Symptom Management Model. *Current Projects:* Project Coordinator, Management of Radiation Therapy Induced Oral Mucositis with GMCSF Mouthwash in Head and Neck Cancer Patients.
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; qualitative research methods, especially situational analysis. *Theoretical Focus:* Symbolic interactionism; feminist and critical theories; discourse analysis; sociology of knowledge; postmodernism/poststructuralism; meso-level analytic frameworks. *Current Projects:* Qualitative research methods, developing situational analysis; biomedicalization studies, especially in relation to the "affective turn"; historical development of animal models in reproductive sciences; medicines and globalizations. *International Activities:* EASTS: East Asian Science and Technology Studies Journal, Member of Western Editorial Board (2006-present). Workshop on Situational Analysis, 2-day event for doctoral students largely from Scandinavia, Department of Communications, Roskilde University, Denmark (October 2008). International Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia (July 2009). Workshop on Situational Analysis, 2-day event for Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia (July 2009).
Cuenco, Doranne M. RN, PhD, NP 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 R01 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. *International Activities:* Research projects in Canada funded by Canadian Institutes of Research: Co-Investigator, Transitions in Pediatric Palliative and End-of-Life Care (2004-2009). Co-Applicant, Charting the Territory: Determining and Documenting Trajectories for Families Where a Child Has a Life-Threatening Condition (2008-2013). Co-Investigator, Caregiving Parents of Children with Life-Limiting Illnesses: Beyond Stress and Coping to Growth (2006-2009). Co-Investigator, Identfication of Research Priorities in Pediatric Palliative Care: Moving Forward (2008). Teaching at Trauerbegleitung bei Kindern und Jugendlichen (Grief and Bereavement in Children). Vestische Kinder und Jugendklinik Datteln, Univeristat Witten.Herdecke, Hannover, Germany (2008).
Dawson-Rose, Carol RN, PhD Associate 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. *International Activities:* Twinning Partnership with community health clinics in rural Mozambique. Goal of the project is to integrate HIV prevention into clinical settings.
Dibble, Suzanne L. RN, DNSc Adjunct Professor Emerita Sue.Dibble@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Chronic illness, women's health issues, lesbian health care, breast cancer, research methods, and clinical trials. *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:* Validation of the Revised COJAC Screening Tool for Coexisting Disorders.
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. *International Activities:* External reviewer, doctoral dissertation committee, Nongluck Suwisith, Symptom clusters and their influence on functional status of women with breast cancer, Thailand (2006-2008). External reviewer, doctoral dissertation committee, Bualuang Sumdaengrit, The symptom experience of women who have cervical cancer, Thailand (2006-2008).
Donaldson, Nancy RN, DNSc, FAAN Clinical Professor Director, Center for Nrsg. Research & Innovation Nancy.Donaldson@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Director, UCSF Center for Nursing Research & Innovation. 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:* Co-PI, Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC) Database Project (1996-present). PI, Medication Administration Accuracy Pre/Post Implementation Study, Lucille Salter Packard Children's Hospital Pediatrics Research Fund (2006-2007). PI, Impact of Medical Surgical Acute Care Microsystem Nurse Characteristics and Practices on Patient Outcomes, Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2008-2010). *International Activities:* Facilitating emerging CALNOC international studies and pilot projects in six foreign countries.
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:* Research focuses on the effects of chronic progressive neurologic disorders on circadian functioning and the sleep-wake cycle. Serve as PI on large multi-site studies funded by the National Institutes of Health investigating "low tech" easily accessible methods (e.g., bright light) in an effort to decrease the significant sleep problems that people with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease experience. First to receive NIH funding, in partnership with Red Hill Studio, to adapt the Nintendo Wii platform for functional rehabilitation. Other ongoing research involves characterizing rest-activity rhythms in patients with frontotemporal dementia and their primary caregivers. *Theoretical Focus:* Biological rhythmicity (circadian and ultradian), rest-activity cycle, functional rehabilitation. *Current Projects:* 1) Characterizing rest-activity rhythms in community-dwelling patients across the spectrum of frontotemporal dementias and their caregivers. 2) Examining the effects of a computer-based training program on gait and balance in people with Parkinson's disease.
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, particularly heart failure, and the effects of this disease on family members. Testing a variety of interventions designed to reduce the emotional and physical 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 facilitate self management of heart failure in rural patients; 2) Communication about palliative care in heart failure; 3) A clinical trial to reduce pre-hospital delay in patients with symptoms of acute coronary syndrome. *International Activities:* Consultation with the following universities: University of Technology, Syndey, Australia; Curtain University, Australia; Institute of Nursing Studies, Basel, Switzerland.
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 theories. Quantitative Methods. *Current Projects:* 1) Synthesized Twelve-lead ST Monitoring and Real-time Tele-electrocardiography (ST SMART Study): Randomized clinical trial of pre-hospital cell phone transmission of ECG to emergency department of receiving hospital and its effect on time to treatment and mortality in acute MI; 2) 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 3) PULSE Study: Practical Use of the Latest Standards for Electrocardiography. Multi-center randomized clinical trial to determine effect of implementing practice standards for ECG monitoring on nurses' knowledge and skills and patient outcomes. *Selected Active Grants:* PI, Tele-electrocardiography in Emergency Cardiac Care, NIH/NINR (9/2003-6/2009), Philips Healthcare (4/2007 - 3/2009). Implementation of Practice Standards for ECG Monitoring, NIH/NHLBI (4/2008-6/2013). *International Activities:* Board of Directors, International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology.
Dworkin, Shari L. PhD, MS Associate Professor Shari.dworkin@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Social inequalities and health; gender relations and HIV/AIDS prevention; structural interventions; masculinities and health; global HIV/AIDS prevention policies; media, culture, bodies, and health. *Theoretical Focus:* Intersectionality; feminist theory; gender and power, masculinities theory; sexualities; critical public health. *Current Projects:* Masculinities and HIV/AIDS prevention in South Africa; intersection of economic empowerment and HIV/AIDS prevention for at-risk women; sexual relationship power among MSM; impact of threats to masculinity on sexual risk behavior among Puerto Rican men in New York City; critical analysis of domestic and global HIV/AIDS prevention among heterosexually-active men; gender-specific HIV/AIDS prevention policy in the Middle East/North Africa region; critical analysis of masculinities and HIV/AIDS prevention domestically and globally. *International Activities:* Research Advisory Board member, Sonke Gender Justice, South Africa. Research on impact of gender transformative HIV/AIDS prevention with heterosexually active men in South Africa. HIV/AIDS prevention policy in the Middle East/North Africa region Graduate Group, Global Health Sciences.
Engler, Marguerite M. RN, PhD, FAAN 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, PhD, FAAN 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 L. PhD, FAAN Professor Emerita carrollestes@earthlink.net	SBS/IHA	*Research Program:* Medical sociology, political sociology, complex organizations, and sociology of aging issues relating to older women, health policy, and evaluation research. *Theoretical Focus:* Political economy, contemporary theory, feminist theory, sociology of health and illness; critical theory. *Current Projects:* Studies in long-term care, mental health services and aging, older women, Social Security, and Medicare; Scholars in Health Policy Research Program; Elder Women's Initiative/Older Women's Project.
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:* Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Data Management and Biostatistics Core; Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Project; California Arthritis Partnership Program; California Asthma Public Health Initiative; California Center for Physical Activity; California Birth Defects; California Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program (CHDSP); Continuing Professional Education Training Program; Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Project; Evaluation of Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers of California (ARCCs); Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images, and Emotions; GIS Viewer; Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Program: Public Health Research Model; Preconception Health and Health Care Program; Physical Activity and Health Initiative; Special Unit for Technical Assistance; Stem Cell Research Unit; Safe Routes to School Program; Tobacco Control Evaluation Project.
Froelicher, Erika S. RN, 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 Director of Doctoral Health Policy Program Professor Emerita Charlene.Harrington@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Health care financing, legislation, 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, access, and cost; long term care regulatory policies; home and community based services access, costs, and quality. *Selected Active Grants:* PI, Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service Programs, Kaiser Family Foundation (9/2008-8/2009). PI, California Senior Care Services Website, California HealthCare Foundation (3/2009-2/2010). C. Harrington, Steve Kaye, Mitch LaPlante, and Robert Newcomer, PIs, Personal Assistance Services for the 21^st Century, NIH National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (2008-2013).
Hollister, Brooke PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor	IHA	*Research Program:* Sociology of aging, aging and health policy, long-term care, political economy of health and health care. *Current Projects:* Systems Advocacy and the Local Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, which evaluated factors related to effectiveness in conducting systems advocacy for California, New York, and Georgia local Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs. Currently, Dr. Hollister is the Co-PI on a project which evaluates the current and future functioning of the California State Every Woman Counts Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer Screening Program.
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, chronic pain, 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 (i.e. chronic pain, depression), monitoring and intervening to improve pediatric health in nurse-managed settings, telomere shortening in formerly abused women. *International Activities:* Correlational study of the number, type, and timing of trauma exposures and symptoms in community-based samples of women in the United States, Colombia, and Hong Kong.
Janson, Susan RN, DNSc, FAAN Professor 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. *International Activities:* Consulted (along with Ginger Carrieri-Kohlman) with faculty and doctoral students on clinical research, University of Jordan, School of Nursing.
Jessup, Marty RN, PhD, CNS Associate Adjunct Professor	IHA	*Research Program:* Substance use disorders, access to substance abuse treatment, dissemination and adoption of evidence-based practices for treatment enhancement, alcohol/drug dependent women including the medical, legal, and ethical issues related to perinatal substance use disorders. *Current Projects:* Validation of the Revised COJAC Screening Tool for Co-Occurring Disorders of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, which will determine the reliability and validity of this tool. State Medical Director on Substance Abuse, a consultancy to the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs on aspects of providing alcohol and other drug services, best practices, and identifying emerging health issues related to substance use disorders.
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:* Data analysis, management and consulting, disability and the status of people with disabilities in American society, 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, Medical Anthropology Sharon.Kaufman@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Aging; culture of medicine; anthropology of "life itself;" intersections of biotechnologies, subjectification, and the body. She has several lines of inquiry: identity and subjectivity and how they are produced, contested, and negotiated; the culture of medicine; the ways in which cultural narratives and rhetoric - about individualism, dignity and suffering for example - can be used to think about the boundaries of the moral and practical in medicine; and the anthropology of "life itself." *Theoretical Focus:* Qualitative, ethnographic, and phenomenological approaches; uses of the life history; the culture of medicine. *Current Projects:* Current primary area of research (supported by NIH/NIA) centers on the kind of people we are becoming in an aging society in which medical technique plays a central and powerful role. 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:* Demand-Side Employment Placement Models; Understanding Employer Disability Practices; Survey of Disability Access Services of California Health Plans; Telecommunications Needs Assessment for Californians with Diabetes.
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. *International Activities:* External Consultant, Hong Kong Institute of Education; member, Doctoral Research Committee, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; reviewer, International Nursing Review (ICN, Switzerland); reviewer, Academy of Nursing Science (Japan).
Kools, Susan E. RN, PhD, FAAN 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 theories. *Current Projects:* Improving health and mental health outcomes for adolescents in foster care. HIV prevention in adolescents in Malawi, Africa. *International Activities:* Co-Investigator, Malawi Christians and Muslims: HIV Prevention and Care (2006-2009). Consultant, 2007 Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, consulted on HIV prevention strategies for adolescents in Malawi, Africa. Principal Investigator, Community Participatory Action Approach to the Prevention of HIV in Very Young Adolescents in Rural Malawi (2008-2009). Consultant, 2008 Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, consulted on child and adolescent development in HIV prevention in Africa.
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:* Co-PI of the Center for Personal Assistance Services, http://www.pascenter.org, which conducts national statistical studies on disability and personal assistance needs and is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). California Disability and Health Surveillance Project.
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 RN, 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 Associate 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. *International Activities:* Taught gerontological nursing at University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban, South Africa. Wrote and scored exams for first master's program in gerontological nursing on the continent. (April 2008 and July 2008).
Malone, Ruth E. RN, PhD, FAAN Vice Chair; Director, Doctoral Health Policy Program Professor Ruth.Malone@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Tobacco control policy issues, 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. *Current Projects:* Tobacco industry corporate social responsibility initiatives and their strategic implications for global tobacco control efforts; targeting of marginalized groups; tobacco industry intelligence organizations; tobacco control policy in the military; environmental policy issues related to tobacco. *International Activities:* WHO Temporary Adviser, Expert Committee on Tobacco Industry Interference with Tobacco Control, World Health Organization, Tobacco Free Initiative (2007-2009). Consultant on development, Global nursing network planning initiative (Jennifer Percival, RCN, UK)( 2008). Member, WHO delegation, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (global U.N. tobacco control treaty implementation sessions). Conference of Parties-Durban, South Africa (November 2008). Co-Director, Bloomberg/Gates Foundation initiative to increase participation of low and middle income countries in international journal, Tobacco Control (2008-2009).
Max, Wendy PhD Professor in Residence, IHA/SBS Co-Director, IHA Wendy.Max@ucsf.edu	IHA/SBS	*Research Program:* Measurement of cost of illness and disability; health economics; economic aspects of Alzheimer's disease; cost of injury and cost-effectiveness of injury prevention strategies; economics of tobacco control; conceptual and definitional issues in health and disability; demography and epidemiology of health and disability; health and disability policy. *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; US Center of Excellence on Secondhand Smoke. *International Activities:* Developing a health systems program for strengthening health services in the rural Zomba district in Malawi (with Sally Rankin, PI) on subcontract to GAIA, William Rankin, PI.
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. 6) Study of symptom clusters in oncology patients. *International Activities:* Ongoing research and teaching collaboration with Professor Tone Rustøen in Oslo, Norway. Ongoing research collaboration with Professor Patsy Yates, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Mietus-Snyder, Michele MD, PhD Associate Adjunct Professor Michele.Mietus-Snyder@nursing.ucsf.edu	PN	*Research Program:* Implementation research for heart health promotion focused on inner city minority children at high 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 AHA funding through the Center for Health and Community - a lifestyle intervention for pediatric weight management evaluating the role played by stress in insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome in overweight inner city children. 2) With NIH Health Disparities funding in collaboration with Bruce Ames at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute - evaluation of the metabolic impact of micronutrient deficiencies prevalent in caloric overnutrition, and development of nutritional approaches to reverse restore healthy metabolism. 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.
Miller, Robert PhD Professor in Residence 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:* Clinical Information Systems and the Adoption of the Chronic Care Model: Use, Benefits, and Barriers in Six Community Health Centers.
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:* Interventions to improve self-care and adaptation among patients with type 2 diabetes; the changing experiences of caregivers and care recipients of people with disabilities.
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:* Dr. Nachtigall is currently involved in a NIH-sponsored qualitative research project that will describe the process that parents of children conceived with donor gametes engage in as they address the "disclosure decision." His other ongoing NIH-sponsored research studies include (a) the investigation of how infertile couples who have undergone in-vitro fertilization decide what to do with their surplus frozen embryos and (b) an ethnographic qualitative description of the infertility experiences of low-income Latino women.
Newcomer, Robert PhD Professor Robert.Newcomer@ucsf.edu	SBS/IHA	*Research Program:* Social gerontology and community long term care service systems planning and evaluation; health and long-term care costs and utilization; assisted living and living arrangements; personal assistance workforce; and occupational injury; systems analysis; research design for surveys, data collection, demonstration evaluation, clinical trials. *Theoretical Focus:* Systems analysis; research design for surveys, data collection, demonstration evaluation, clinical trials. *Current Projects:* Occupational Injury among Personal Assistance Workers.
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; clinical epidemiology; health services research and policy; preventive medicine. *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 Associate 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, developing culturally specific educational messages and materials, and communications. *Theoretical Focus:* Developing, implementing, and evaluating primary and secondary cancer prevention strategies for multiethnic populations. *Current Projects:* Improving Chronic Disease Self-Management among Ethnically Diverse Patients. *International Activities:* UCSF-Cuba Research Program in Health Diplomacy and Medical Education. Three-year research program funded by UCSF Institute of Global Health and Atlantic Philanthropies. Collaboration with Sabana and Andes University, Bogota, Colombia to teach graduate students and to conduct trans-cultural research on Chronic Disease management and cancer screening. Health Initiative of the Americas. Collaborate with consulates to conduct Bi-national Health Week, to train community health workers, to evaluate collaborative programs, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Padilla, Geraldine V. PhD Professor Emerita 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. Co-Investigator, Management of Mucositis with GM-CSF, NIH/NCI (9/2003-8/2008). Co-Investigator, Symptom Management after Breast Cancer Surgery, NIH/NCI (9/2003-8/2008). PI, Hepatitis B Vaccination of Newborn Filipinos, Fulbright Scholar (1/2007-1/2009). *International Activities:* Consultant, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, School of Nursing to assist with conceptualizations of the doctoral program, faculty research development, and doctoral student research (6/2007-12/2008). Collaboration with Philippine Cancer Society on Hepatitis B inoculation of infants.
Phoenix, Beth RN, PhD Associate 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. *International Activities:* Lectures and consultation about advanced practice psychiatric nursing roles, Aichi Prefecture College of Nursing. Nagoya, Japan (8/2008). Lectures and consultation about advanced practice psychiatric nursing roles, National Taipei College of Nursing, Republic of China (1/2009).
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 vulnerable populations. *Theoretical Focus:* Systems theory; quality of care; cultural theory; community-based theories. *Current Projects:* HIV symptoms in Hispanic women; biomarkers of insomnia and fatigue in HIV/AIDS; stigma measurement and development. *International Activities:* Twinning partnerships in Tanzania and South Africa. Goals of the project are to develop capacity in HIV/AIDS and leadership. Role as a nurse advisor to the International Training & Education Center on HIV in over 15 countries.
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:* Studies of genes causing dyslipidemias, using the UCSF Genomic Resource in Arteriosclerosis (GRA). Current focus is on APOA5, GPIHBPI, LMF1, APOC2, and LPL and severe idiopathic hypertriglyceridemia, an independent risk factor for CHD. We recently discovered the first case of LMF1 deficiency. A common polymorphism in the APOA5 gene, among individuals of Asian ancestry, has a profound adverse effect on plasma levels of triglycerides. The GRA has over 27,000 DNA and plasma samples collected from numerous UCSF departments, and from collaborating centers. It includes 3200 healthy elderly participants. Family histories, clinical and biochemical data are stored. Cohorts include coronary stenosis and calcification, MI, diabetes, and abnormal lipoprotein phenotypes. *International Activities:* Department of Cardiovascular Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Eric J. Sijbrands).
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. *International Activities:* Visiting Professor, taught masters and doctoral students; consulted with faculty and doctoral students on proposals and manuscripts. University of Basel, Institute of Nursing Studies, Basel, Switzerland (September-October 2008). PI, Malawi Muslims and Christians: HIV Prevention and AIDS Care, conducted research with research team of seven UCSF faculty and doctoral students and 12 Malawi researchers (July 2008). Co-Investigator on Doris Duke Charitable Foundation planning grant for Integrated Primary Care and Workforce Training in Zomba District, Malawi (2008-2009). Visiting Professor, taught masters and doctoral students; consulted on manuscripts. University of Tampere, School of Nursing, Tampere, Finland (October 2008).
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; chronic illness and disability measurement; human capital approach to cost of illness. *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:* Health services and outcomes 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:* Outpatient factors in medication safety.
Scherzer, Teresa PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor Teresa.Scherzer@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Work environment and health; health and social inequalities; community-based research and evaluation; educational evaluation, mixed-methods research. *Theoretical Focus:* Feminist and critical theory, emphasis on intersecting inequalities. *Current Projects:* Low-wage workers and occupational hazards, injury, and access to care; educational evaluation in 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 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:* Disparities in health status and health care; social production of health; analysis of the science of health disparities. *Theoretical Focus:* Sociology of health and illness; theories of race, class, and gender inequality; social studies of science, technology, and medicine. *Current Projects:* Sociological analysis of the discipline of epidemiology, recent developments in the study of health disparities, and the etiology of complex diseases; investigation of health care interactions and the role of social and cultural factors. Pilot study, The Role of Cultural Capital in Health Care Interactions," project seeks to develop the concept of "cultural health capital" (CHC) - a set of cultural skills, dispositions, and resources that are critical to the ability to obtain health care services, effectively engage with clinical providers, and other factors important in disease management. This pilot study will focus on interactions between health care providers and individuals with coronary heart disease or Type 2 diabetes. Understandings and Consequences of Race and Ethnicity in Gene-Environment Interaction Studies, qualitative study which focuses on US-based gene-environment interaction (GEI) studies that investigate complex disease etiology.
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, PhD 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 Associate 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:* 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:* PI, Distributional Effects of Minimum Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, California HealthCare Foundation (3/2006-8/2007). PI, Surveys and Analyses of the California RN Workforce, California Board of Registered Nursing (12/2005-6/2007). 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). *International Activities:* Consultant on study by Linda McGillis Hall (University of Toronto) on Canadian RNs working in the United States (2008-2010).
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; physical activity promotion in seniors, measurement and methodological issues in conducting research in health and health care disparities; quality of interpersonal processes of care in minority and disadvantaged populations; social psychology; health psychology; social ecology; community-based participatory research. *Theoretical Focus:* Social psychology; health psychology; social ecology; community-based participatory research. *Current Projects:* Physical Activity and Diet to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes Risk.
Stotts, Nancy A. RN, EdD, FAAN 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:* Health planning and health research. Gerontology with particular focus on older persons' adaptations to the challenges of aging; Gerontology, focusing on older persons' adaptations to the challenges of aging; beneficial and detrimental adaptations to aging; impact of spouses on health and well-being of partners. *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; economic costs of illness and smoking. *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.
Thompson, Lisa M. RN, MSN, PhD, FNP-C Assistant Professor Lisa.Thompson@nursing.ucsf.edu	FHCN	*Research Program:* Environmental factors that contribute to low birth weight and adverse perinatal outcomes. Social, economic and institutional forces that drive environmental health disparities, both globally, and among Latino immigrant populations in California. *Theoretical Focus:* Exposure-disease-stress model for environmental health disparities, quantitative statistical methods. *Current Projects:* Work with UC Berkeley team on child longitudinal cohort studies RESPIRE (Randomized Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects) and CRECER (Chronic Respiratory Effects of Early Childhood Exposure to Respirable Particulate Matter) in Guatemala. *International Activities:* Member of the UCSF Global Health Sciences faculty, environmental health curricula and sanitation training programs for nurses, traditional birth attendants and community health worker in Latin America and Africa.
Wallhagen, Margaret I. RN, CS, PhD, GNP, FAAN 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; dyadic relationships. *Research Methods:* Qualitative: Grounded Theory, Constant-Comparative techniques. Quantitative: Path Analytic techniques/multiple regression. Physiological: HbA1c; Pure-tone hearing assessments. *Current Projects:* The impact of hearing impairment on older individuals and their families. Influence of the built environment on outcomes of residents in nursing homes. *International Activities:* Consultant (especially related to issues in the analysis phase) on study entitled "SpaitexPlus", a community-based research project in Switzerland, involving advanced practice nurses who are doing assessments on individuals 80 and over with a planned randomized intervention that includes a participant focused plan of action.
Waters, Catherine RN, PhD Professor Catherine.Waters@nursing.ucsf.edu	CHS	*Research Program:* Health promoting lifestyle interventions in collaboration with public and private community partnerships. *Theoretical Focus:* Social cognitive theory, culture, socio-ecology, and community-based participatory research, diplomacy and democracy. *Current Projects:* NuFIT: Nutrition and Fitness for Life Cancer Prevention Trial.
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; interaction of legal and social policy mechanisms and modes of analysis; ethical issues in health care, institutional/administrative structures. *Theoretical Focus:* Interaction of legal and social policy mechanisms and modes of analysis; ethical issues in health care, institutional/administrative structures. *Current Projects:* SGER: Cell Cultures, Institutional Cultures.
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, FAAN 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.
Yerger, Valerie MA, ND Assistant Adjunct Professor Valerie.Yerger@ucsf.edu	SBS	*Research Program:* Culturally appropriate interventions for tobacco cessation and relapse prevention among African Americans. *Theoretical Focus:* Policy theory; marginalization; community-based participatory approach. *Current Projects:* Focus group study exploring cultural barriers to smoking cessation and the use of alternative medicine as cessation aids *International Activities:* Participation at the International World Conferences on Tobacco or Health.

References, Web Links

UCSF School of Nursing web site

Institute for Health & Aging web site
Social and Behavioral Sciences web site