| | University of California, San Francisco | About UCSF | Search UCSF | UCSF Medical Center | | |
RESEARCH · SCHOOL OF NURSING · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
The Alzheimer's Disease Program provides services to persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders and their families through the Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers of California. In addition, research funding is provided to scientists engaged in the study of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders through the Alzheimer's Disease Research Fund.
In 1984, legislation was enacted which established the California Alzheimer's Disease Program. The mission of the Program is to reduce the human burden and economic cost associated with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, and to assist in ultimately discovering the cause and cure of these diseases. To accomplish their mission, the Alzheimer's Disease Program has established and administers ten Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers of California (ARCCs) at university medical centers throughout California. These Centers are dedicated to improving the quality of life of persons affected with Alzheimer's disease and their families.
http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/iha/alzheimr.htm
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at University of California, San Francisco -
Telephone: (415) 476-6880
RESEARCH · SCHOOL OF NURSING · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Anita Stewart, PhD, Principal Investigator
The mission of the Center for Healthy and Active Aging is to enable, support, and enhance the health, well-being, and independence of older persons in California through a program of applied gerontology research and community-level interventions that focuses on the critical importance of maintaining physical activity in late life.
Regular physical activity contributes greatly to the fitness, health, functioning, and quality of life of older adults. The Center for Healthy and Active Aging was established within the Institute for Heath & Aging (IHA), University of California, San Francisco as a central resource for the study and advocacy of physical activity in late life.
The Center was founded by Anita L. Stewart, PhD, and honors the values that Professor Stewart has championed throughout her career: commitment to optimize the quality of life of seniors; special concern for the health and well-being of minority and disadvantaged populations; and conviction to put research results into practice by building effective community-level health and activity promotion interventions.
The Center is funded in part by the George and Katherine Dick Fund.
The Center's research activities focus on methodological studies and applied research in public health. An important goal of the research program is to understand the pathways to optimal physical functioning so that effective interventions can be implemented. In addition, the Center is interested in building upon current gerontology and phenomenology theory, to formulate a conceptual model of successful aging that emphasizes people's individual, subjective understandings of age and well-being. Areas of interest include:
The Center sponsors and promotes accessible, practical, and client-centered physical activity programs for older adults and their families in many California counties. Programs include exercise and activity promotion classes, seminars, workshops, support groups, counseling services, and community resource referrals. Activity programs focus on helping seniors overcome physical and psychological obstacles to increasing their level of activity.
RESEARCH · SCHOOL OF NURSING · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Director: Jeanie Kayser-Jones, RN, PhD, FAAN
The UCSF/John A. Hartford Center of Nursing Excellence is one of five Centers in the United States funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, New York. The major goal of the UCSF Center is to prepare an exceptional cadre of nurse scientists who will provide the critically necessary academic leadership in teaching, research, and practice in Geriatric Nursing.
http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/hcgne.htm
The UCSF/John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence is one of five centers funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation at Schools of Nursing in the United States. Centers were established in January 2001 at the University of California San Francisco, Oregon Health Sciences University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Iowa, and the University of Pennsylvania. For links to other centers and programs, please visit http://www.gerontologicalnursing.info.
In addition to funding the five centers, the John A. Hartford Foundation, under the leadership of Dr. Claire Fagin and the American Academy of Nursing (link: http://www.geriatricnursing.org), is providing ten pre-doctoral scholarships and ten postdoctoral fellowships per year, at the level of $50,000 per annum for two years.
UCSF/Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
UCSF School of Nursing, Box 0610
Two Koret Way, #N-631
San Francisco, CA 94143-0610
Phone: (415) 514-2935
Email: Hartford.CGNE@nursing.ucsf.edu
RESEARCH · SCHOOL OF NURSING · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Susan Janson, DNSc, RN, ANP, FAAN, Director and Principal Investigator
Homer A. Boushey, MD, Co-Investigator
The asthma research lab serves as the site for ongoing research on the clinical and biological markers of asthma severity and asthma control. Our studies are focused on studying interventions to improve self-management skills of adults with moderate or severe asthma and on the study of biological markers that detect changes in disease control.
Through a series of funded research projects we found that the impact of asthma self-management education can be detected in biological as well as clinical outcomes. We have developed and tested the efficacy of a 30-minute intervention that fits the context of a medical appointment. The intervention significantly improves medication adherence, perceived control of asthma, quality of life, and reduces inflammatory cells in airway secretions.
R01 HL64586-07, NIH, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Janson S, Hardie G, Fahy JV, Boushey HA. Use of biological markers of airway inflammation to detect the efficacy of nurse-delivered asthma education. Heart and Lung, 2001; 30:39-46.
Woodruff PG, Khashayar R, Lazarus SC, Janson S, Boushey HA, Segal M, and Fahy JV. Relationship between airway inflammation, airway hyperresponsiveness, and obstruction in asthma. J of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2001 108:753-8.
Janson S, Fahy JV, Covington JK, Gold W, Boushey HA. Impact of individual self-management education on clinical biological and adherence outcomes in asthma. Am. J of Medicine, 2003 (in press).
Susan Janson, DNSc, RN, ANP, FAAN, Principal Investigator
Jack Covington, RRT, CPFT, Research Coordinator
Maria Elena Alioto, BS, Research Assistant
Jane Liu, Senior Research Associate
Homer A. Boushey, MD, Co-investigator
John Fahy, MD, Consultant
Susan Janson, DNSc, RN, ANP, FAAN
UCSF Dept. of Community Health Systems, Box 0608
San Francisco, CA 94143-0608
Telephone: (415) 476-5282 Fax: 476-6042
Research phone: 502-8082
Email: susan.janson@nursing.ucsf.edu
RESEARCH · SCHOOL OF NURSING · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
The mission of the California Arthritis Partnership Program (CAPP) is to promote awareness of arthritis as a major cause of disability and to empower persons with risk factors for arthritis, as well as persons living with arthritis, to take appropriate actions to maximize their health and well being.
Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States and estimates indicate that approximately six million Californians have some form of arthritis. The California Arthritis Partnership Program, administered in partnership with the California Department of Health Services, works to involve public health, arthritis, and other organizations at state and local levels in the creation and implementation of a public health approach to arthritis.
CAPP collects, analyzes, and disseminates epidemiologic and cost information and provides technical assistance to local health departments and community-based organizations in program development, implementation, and evaluation. Our constituents and partners include the California Medical Association Foundation, the Older Women's League, the National Osteoporosis Foundation, the Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education, the National Asian Women's Health Organization, local health jurisdictions, academic institutions, health care providers, and health care purchasers.
http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/iha/CAPP.htm
California Arthritis Partnership Program, Institute for Health and Aging
UCSF School of Nursing, Box 0646
3333 California Street, Suite 340
San Francisco, CA 94118
Telephone: 415-502-5200 Fax: 415-476-3915
Email: mariechristine.yue@ucsf.edu
RESEARCH · SCHOOL OF NURSING · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director and Principal Investigator
The mission of the National Center for Personal Assistance Services is to promote research, training, technical assistance and dissemination about personal assistance services.
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,
July 1, 2003 – June 30, 2008.
Robert Newcomer, PhD
Mitch LaPlante, PHD
Steve Kaye, PhD
Martin Kitchener, PhD
Taewoon Kang, PhD
Susan Chapman, PhD
Joe Mullan, PhD
Rani Eversley, PhD
Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor
UCSF Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences
San Francisco, CA 94143-0612
Phone: 415-455-0612
Email: Charlene.Harrington@nursing.ucsf.edu
RESEARCH · SCHOOL OF NURSING · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
A Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
The Disability Statistics Center (DSC) produces and disseminates policy-relevant statistical information on the demographics and status of people with disabilities in American society. The Center's work focuses on how that status is changing over time with regard to employment, access to technology, health care, community-based services, and other aspects of independent living and participation in society. The Disability Statistics Center is a national Rehabilitation Research and Training Center funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
The Center performs statistical analysis of national surveys and other datasets that include disability-relevant data, with ongoing research projects on personal assistance services, the employment status of people with disabilities, computer and Internet use, and developing new measures of disability based on the experiences of people with disabilities.
The Center's Information Service assists users with questions about disability statistics and disseminates Center publications, including Disability Statistics Reports (a series of detailed research reports) and Disability Statistics Abstracts, a series of short research briefs. The Center also maintains a mailing list of about 4,000 organizations and libraries to which reports and abstracts are sent. In addition, the Center offers internships and fellowships to undergraduate and graduate-level students at UCSF and UC-Berkeley, and faculty are actively involved in teaching courses, conducting guest lectures, and offering training sessions for researchers, policymakers, and consumers.
Each year, the Center hosts a National Disability Statistics and Policy Forum on a specific topic, attended by policymakers, researchers, consumers, advocates, and others interested in the implications of current disability statistics research for public policy.
Disability Statistics Center, Institute for Health and Aging
UCSF Box 0646
3333 California Street, Suite 340
San Francisco, CA 94118
Telephone: 415/502-5210
TDD: 415/502-5205
Fax: 415/502-5208
Email: distats@itsa.ucsf.edu
RESEARCH · SCHOOL OF NURSING · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Patricia Painter, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Mission
The program's mission is to study the physiology of exercise and effects of exercise rehabilitation in patients with end stage renal disease treated with dialysis and transplant and in recipients of liver or pancreas/kidney transplants. We also are involved in exercise testing of patients with other chronic diseases through the UCSF General Clinical Research Center.
Our laboratory is established as a part of the UCSF General Clinical Research Center and has extensive testing capabilities for exercise testing, muscle function testing, body composition assessment, muscle blood flow (plethysmography), and non-invasive cardiac output measurements using acetylene washing methods.
Painter, P.L., A.L. Stewart, and S. Carey, Physical Functioning: Definitions, measurement, and expectations. Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, 1999. 6(2): p. 110-123.
Painter, P.L., et al., Physical Functioning and Health Related Quality of Life Changes with Exercise Training in Hemodialysis Patients. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2000. 35(3): p. 482-492.
Painter, P.L., et al., Low Functioning Patients Improve with Exercise Training. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2000. 36(3): p. 600-608.
Painter, P., et al., Physical Activity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Liver Transplant Recipients. Liver Transplantation, 2001. 7(3): p. 213-219.
Painter, P.L., et al., The Effects of Exercise Training plus Normalization of Hematocrit on Exercise Capacity and Health-Related Quality of Life. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2002. 39: p. 257-265.
Painter, P.L., et al., A Randomized Trial of Exercise Training Following Renal Transplantation. Transplantation, 2002. 74(12): p. 42-48.
Painter, P.L., Exercise in Chronic Disease: The Responsibility of the Primary Care Physician. Current Sports Medicine, 2003. 2(3): p. 173-180.
Painter, P.L., et al., Health-Related Fitness and Quality of Life with Steroid Elimination Following Renal Transplantation. Kidney International, 2003. 63(6): p. 2309-2316.
Painter, P., et al., Exercise Capacity and Muscle Structure in Kidney Recipient and Twin Donor. Clinical Transplantation, 2003. 17(3): p. 225-230.
Joanne B. Kransoff, M.S., Exercise Physiologist
John Duda, R.N.
Patricia Painter, Ph.D
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dept of Physiological Nursing
UCSF Box 0610
San Francisco, CA 94143-0610
Telephone: 415-476-6108
Email: painter@itsa.ucsf.edu
UCSF School of Nursing Home Page | UCSF Home Page | About UCSF | Search UCSF | UCSF Medical Center Home Page
For more information, contact info@nursing.ucsf.edu
Revised: Aug. 2003
© Copyright 2003 University of California Regents, All Rights Reserved.
