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Geraldine V. Padilla, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research, School of Nursing, and
Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing
2 Koret Way, #N-339
San Francisco, CA 94143-0604
Telephone: 415-476-1763 Fax: 415-476-9707
Email: geraldine.padilla@nursing.ucsf.edu
Dr. Geraldine Padilla's research has focused on psychosocial predictors and distress/quality of life (QOL) outcomes associated with disease, its medical treatment, and nursing care interventions in patients with chronic disease, particularly cancer, arthritis and HIV/AIDS. Concepts of appraisal, adaptation, culture, health disparities, environment, self-care and symptom management characterize the research.
Recent studies with Dr. Linda Sarna and other colleagues described the QOL of long-term survivors of lung cancer. Risk factors for poorer QOL are strongly linked to distressed mood, a potential target for intervention. The study also supported the importance of optimism in psychosocial well being. A study of women and lung cancer has been completed.
Another important area of research on QOL addresses culture and ethnicity. Dr. Padilla collaborated with a number of investigators across several studies to develop a brief, reliable and valid QOL instrument in English and Spanish to measure well-being in women with arthritis, to develop a reliable and valid Tagalog version of the RAND 36-item Health Survey; and to examine the impact of diabetes and the meaning of health-related QOL in a sample of Korean men and women. Current collaboration with Ashing-Giwa focuses on African-American, Asian American, Latino and white survivors of breast and cervical cancer.
Dr. Padilla's future research direction will examine differences in adaptive processes that lead to the maintenance or improvement of QOL in different genders and ethnicities. Future collaboration with Drs. Miaskowski, Dodd and Lee will focus on quality of life as an outcome of symptom management in persons with Cancer and HIV/AIDS; while collaboration with Drs. Holzemer and Portillo and investigators from the University of Puerto Rico focuses on HIV/AIDS health disparities and research career building among nursing faculty in that minority serving institution.
Dr. Padilla has taught courses in research methods, measurement of research outcomes, ethical and responsible conduct of research, quality of life as an outcome of disease, and research proposal development. In the past, she was Principal Investigator of an Institutional National Research Service Award training grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research in the area of quality of life research. The grant supported pre and post doctoral fellows for eight years.
Dr. Padilla is Associate Editor of the journal Quality of Life Research; is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Nursing Measurement and Arthritis Care and Research; and provides referee services for five additional journals. She recently served on the Scientific Advisory Panel for Ovarian Cancer for the Department of Defense, Co-chaired the Quality of Life Task Force for the Kidney/Bladder Progress Review Group for the National Cancer Institute; and currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, the Scientific Review Group of the National Institute for Nursing Research and is a member of the Quality of Life subcommittee of the Radiation Treatment Oncology Group. She also provides scientific consultation for a number ongoing research projects in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Most recently, Dr. Padilla was honored with special recognition from the American Academy of Nursing, as an Honorary Member of the Multinational Center of Quality of Life Research, St. Petersburg, Russia, as a Visiting Professor at Rush University, and as a University of San Diego Visiting Professor for the 2001-2002 academic year.
BA, History; Assumption College, Manila, Philippines
MA, Psychology; Ateneo University, Manila, Philippines
PhD, Psychology, minor Public Health; University of California, Los Angeles
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(2002) Sarna L., Padilla, G., Holmes, C., Tashkin, D., Brecht, M.L., Evangelista, L. Quality of Life of Long term Survivors of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2002; 20(13): 2920-2909.
(2003) Ashing, K.T., Padilla, G., Tejero, J., Kagawa-Singer M. Understanding the breast cancer experience of Asian American women. Psycho-Oncology 2003 December 2003; 12(1): 38-58.
(2003) Evangelista, L.S., Sarna, L., Brecht, M.L., Padilla, G., Chen, J. Health perceptions and risk behaviors of lung cancer survivors. Heart Lung 2003; 32: 131-139.
(2003) Maliski, S.L., Sarna, L., Evangelista, L., Padilla, G. The aftermath of lung cancer: Balancing the good and bad. Cancer Nursing 2003; 26: 237-244.
(2003) Padilla, G.V. and Kagawa-Singer, M. Quality of Life and Culture. In King, C. and Hinds P. (eds.) Quality of Life: From Nursing and Patient Perspectives. (2nd ed.) Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 2003, pp. 117-141.
(2004) Padilla, G.V., Frank-Stromborg, M., Koresawa, S. Single instruments for measuring quality of life. In Frank-Stromborg, M., Olsen, S. (eds.) Instruments for Clinical Health-Care Research. (3rd ed.) Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 2004, pp 128 -149.
(In Press) Ashing-Giwa, K.T., Padilla, G., Tejero, J., Kramer, J., Wright, K., Coscarelli, A., Clayton, S., Williams, I., Hills, D. Understanding the Breast Cancer Experience of Women: A Qualitative Study of African American, Asian American, Latina and Caucasian Cancer Survivors. Psycho-Oncology. In Press.
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