GRANTSGALORE

Meet the researchers who helped make Columbia Nursing

#1 in NIH funding—and their projects:

Suzanne Bakken, PhD

Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Bioinformatics

• Reaching Communities through the Design of Information Visualizations (ReDIVis) toolbox for return of COVID-19 results. (with Adriana Arcia, PhD, of the University of San Diego)

Lauren Bochicchio, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

• Understanding the individual and combined impact of childhood sexual abuse and minority stress on hazardous drinking among sexual minority women: Is emotion dysregulation a key factor?

Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD

Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology (in Nursing)

• Translating an evidence-based urban asthma program for rural adolescents: Testing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness and understanding factors associated with implementation

• The efficacy of CAMP Air, a web-based asthma intervention, among urban adolescents with uncontrolled asthma

Billy Caceres, PhD

Assistant Professor of Nursing

• Examining associations of sexual identity, life experiences, and cardiovascular disease risk in sisters

Kylie Dougherty

PhD Student

• Leveraging informatics to enhance the obstetrics emergency supply chain in Amhara, Ethiopia

Leah Estrada

PhD Student

• Racial/ethnic differences in palliative care services and potentially avoidable hospitalizations at end-of-life in nursing homes nationwide

Maureen George, PhD

Professor of Nursing

The names in the headings are those of the grants’ contact principal investigator (PI). On grants with multiple PIs, the names of co-PIs are noted in parentheses.

• Contextualizing asthma self-management with measures of indoor air quality for Black adults with uncontrolled asthma

• Development and pilot testing of a caregiver-child shared decision-making intervention to improve asthma in urban youth (with Jean-Marie Bruzzese)

• BREATHE: An efficacy-implementation trial of a brief shared decision-making intervention among Black adults with uncontrolled Asthma in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)

Tonda Hughes, PhD

Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of International Nursing

• Stress, hazardous drinking, and intimate partner aggression in a diverse sample of women and their partners

Jung (Chloe) Kang

PhD Student

• Health disparities in timely goals of care discussions and hospitalizations due to infections in nursing home residents

Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, PhD

Associate Professor of Health Sciences Research (in Nursing)

• Preparing for pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation in Central-Eastern European countries with low access to biomedical prevention (with John Pachankis, PhD, of Yale University)

• Building mobile HIV prevention and mental health support in low-resource settings (with John Pachankis)

• Ending the HIV Epidemic with Equity: an all-facility intervention to reduce structural racism and discrimination and its impact on patient and healthcare staff wellbeing (with Felicia Browne, ScD, of RTI International)

Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD Professor of Nursing

• Randomized comparison of the clinical outcome of single versus multiple arterial grafts: Cognition — two grants: a parent award and a supplement (with Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD, of Weill Cornell Medical College, and Richard Swartz, MD, PhD, of the University of Toronto)

• Improve the Meaning of Patient Reported Outcomes to Evaluate Effectiveness for Cardiac Care (IMPROVE-Cardiac Care)

Lusine Poghosyan, PhD

Stone Foundation and Elise D. Fish Professor of Nursing and Professor of Health Policy and Management

• Home-based primary care for persons living with dementia: Nurse practitioner teams and outcomes (with Zainab Osakwe, PhD, of Adelphi University College of Nursing)

• Care for persons with dementia in nurse practitioner practices and racial and ethnic health disparities — two grants: a parent award and a supplement

Rebecca Schnall, PhD’09

Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (in Nursing) and Professor of Population and Family Health

• CHAMPS: A randomized trial of a community health worker intervention for persons living with HIV in two high priority settings (with Scott Batey, PhD, of Tulane University School of Social Work)

• Examining social, ecological, and network factors to assess epidemiological risk in a large national cohort of cisgender women (with Amy Johnson, PhD, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Mirjam-Colette Kempf, PhD, of the University of Alabama)

• Reducing health disparities through informatics (with Suzanne Bakken)

• MyPEEPS Mobile LITE: Limited interaction efficacy trial of MyPEEPS Mobile to reduce HIV incidence and better understand the epidemiology of HIV among YMSM (with Dustin Duncan, ScD, associate professor of epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and Robert Garofalo, MD, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)

• Development and testing of MyPEEPS Mobile for young transgender men (with Robert Garofalo)

• mLab app for improving uptake of rapid HIV self-testing and linking youth to care (with Robert Garofalo)

• Development and pilot testing of a just-in-time mobile smoking cessation intervention for persons living with HIV (with Ming-Chun Huang, PhD, of Case Western Reserve School of Engineering)

• Mentoring and research in self-management for health promotion and disease prevention

Jingjing Shang, PhD Professor of Nursing

• Impact of COVID-19 on care transitions and health outcomes for vulnerable populations in nursing homes and home healthcare agencies (with Patricia Stone, PhD, Centennial Professor of Health Policy)

• Infection prevention in home health care (with Patricia Stone)

Katherine South PhD Student

• Expectations and outcomes of healthcare transition in adolescents and young adults with cystic fibrosis

Patricia Stone, PhD

Centennial Professor of Health Policy

• Center for Improving Palliative Care for Vulnerable Adults with MCC (CIPC) (with Jingjing Shang)

• Comparative and Cost-Effectiveness Research Training for Nurse Scientists (with Lusine Poghosyan)

Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD’18

Assistant Professor of Nursing

• Data-driven shared decision-making to reduce symptom burden in atrial fibrillation

Sarah Zollweg PhD Student

• Influence of multilevel minority stress on hazardous drinking among sexual minority women