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ummer has been anything but quiet down in the ONR, with proposals going out the door and awards coming right back in! Please take a few minutes to read about these diverse and exciting new awards – and our wonderful faculty who received them. I know our entire school is proud of their efforts and their success. What is especially fun to see is the range of awards, from two spectacular HRSA grants (Amar, Clevenger) to support our students to two awards for investigating epigenetic contributions to adverse cardiac (Butts) and maternal-fetal (Dunlop) outcomes. And in between, studies of cognitive behavioral therapy and insomnia (Routledge), smoking and RAGE in mice (Downs), and statistical modeling of dynamic changes in protein structure, which may sound confusing but is our
School’s first award to analyze big data (Paul). Also, please welcome our School’s new postdoc, Dr. Irene Yang, joining us from the University of Louisville, and the ONR’s new post-award specialist, So Yung Wilson, joining us from the School of Medicine. We are very happy to have them both on board. Welcome also to all of our new faculty. Please stop down to the ONR anytime, grab a cup of coffee, and chat about budding ideas you may have, or firm plans you have, for submitting proposals in the fall or spring. We thrive on talk and action in the ONR, and look forward to doing both! Betsy and the ONR team
EMORY | nursing Also Inside: ONR WELCOMES | STATISTICAL VIEWS VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 3 | JULY 2014
RESEARCH AWARDS & SPONSORED PROJECTS Brittany Butts, RN received an award from the Heart Failure Society of America. Effects of Exercise on Epigenetic Pathways in Persons with Heart Failure will examine the effects of aerobic exercise (AEX) on changes in ASC (apoptosis-associated spec-like protein containing a caspase recruitment domain) methylation and whether this initiates a downsteam change in pro-inflammatory cytokines, tumor necrosis alpha know to worsen outcomes in persons with heart failure. Dr. Faye Routledge, RN, PhD received an award from the American Heart Association.
to Affect Lung Fluid Balance will delineate the critical signaling events which cigarette smoke activates the receptor for advanced glycation Dr. Carolyn Clevenger, end-products to impact lung fluid PhD received an award balance. Models in which the RAGE from the Health Resourc- gene is absent will be used to asceres and Services Adminis- tain the role of this protein in the tration. development of altered lung fluid balance that contributes to the developAdvanced Practice Primary Care for ment of smoking related lung disease. the Underserved will recruit, enroll, retain, and educate culturally diverse Dr. Bonnie Jennings, APN students to become culturally PhD, RN, FAAN received competent providers of primary care an award from the focused on underserved populations. Geneva Foundation. Students will complete a program of study that leads to a Master of SciEmbracing the Past, ence in Nursing (MSN) or a post-MSN Informing the Future: Military certificate at the Nell Hodgson Wood- Nurses’ Wartime Experiences will ruff School of Nursing. help to better explain what it means to be a military nurse during wartime Dr. Anne Dunlop, MD, by exploring the narratives, letters, MPH received an award and photographs of Army, Navy, and from the National InstiAir Force nurses who deployed to a tutes of Health. war zone from WWII to the present. underserved populations and who can make a difference in local communities.
Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia will examine the feasibility of recruitment, retention, assessment procedures and implementation of the online CBT-I Epigenetic and intervention (N=30) and attention Biobehavioral Determinants of control (N=30) in untreated individu- Preterm Birth in Black Women als with insomnia and PreHTN/HTB. will investigate whether specific biobehavioral factors linked to PTB Dr. Angela Amar, PhD, influence the epigenetic regulation RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN of genes to promote PTB in African received an award from American women. the Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Charles Downs, PhD received a collaborative Building Nursing’s Diverse Leaders award from the University at Emory strives to prepare nursing Research Committee and students from disadvantaged and unthe Atlanta Clinical derrepresented backgrounds to enter & Translational Science the public health nursing workforce Institute. as leaders who provide care to Cigarette Smoke Activates RAGE 2
Dr. Sudeshna Paul, PhD received an award from the Emory University Research Committee. Dynamic Statistical Modeling of Small Angle Scattering Images of Proteins aims to utilize the output images from this technology and implement a spatial and temporal method for analyzing dynamic image frames of protein molecules in solution. This will help estimate shape and structural characteristics of molecules and provide a crude method of identification.
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ONR W E LCO M E S
J. So Yung Wilson has joined the Office of Nursing Research as our Post-Award Specialist where she will be responsible for all post award activities, including monthly expenditure reports, award setup, salary distribution and effort reporting.
So Yung comes to us highly recommended from the Department of Medicine Research Administrative Service (RAS) Unit where she did post award management. Previous to that she worked in sponsored programs (pre and post award) administration in the Department of Endocrinology and the Department of Anthropology
here at Emory. Prior to coming to Emory, So Yung worked at the University of North Carolina and at the Ohio State University. So Yung has a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Malone University. Dr. Irene Yang PhD, received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Louisville. Her experience as a maternal newborn nurse in Kentucky was the impetus for her interest in the health behaviors of low-income pregnant and postpartum women. Her dissertation examined factors influencing the relationship between socioeconomic status and prenatal smoking with
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ur 2nd Annual Spring Fling was held on Friday, May 16, 2014. The Office of Nursing Research recognized the hard work and dedication of all the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing researchers who received new grant awards. We celebrated by giving out seasonal plants. Awardees included: Dr. Charles Downs, Dr. Ken Hepburn, Dr. Ursla Kelly, Dr. Lisa Muirhead, Dr. Sudeshna Paul, and Dr. Julie Zuniga. Congratulations to all!
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a focus on the role of psychosocial mediators or moderators of that relationship. Dr. Yang began her postdoctoral work on the T32 training grant in July of this year under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Corwin. Her work at Emory will expand her current research focus to include other prenatal risk behaviors as well biological and physiological links between those behaviors and prenatal outcomes. Her long term goal is to contribute to knowledge and interventions that will improve the health and well-being of socioeconomically vulnerable women and their newborns.
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2014 Students & Fellows Scholars’Day T
he SON Research Committee hosted a research event to showcase the scholarly work of our students and post-docs. There was a great turn out, very interesting science, and an eager and well prepared group of post-doctoral fellows and students. Prizes were awarded to the top 3 posters. Please join us in congratulating the excellent work of these students and trainees: Jessica Holmes,
Screening and Follow-Up Patterns for Cervical and Anal Cancers in HIV-infected individuals; Brittany Butts, Caregiver Stress and Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Female Family Caregivers of Persons with Heart Failure; Sara Tomaso, Characteristics of Physical and Psychological Status in Family Care.
Statistical VIEWS Where Can I Find Stats Help? Data, data everywhere and not a statistician in sight! Need statistics help? There are numerous resources on campus and on the Internet that are only a mouse click away. Please review these resources for potential help when a statistician is not readily available. At Emory: Did you know that there are FREE classes on Statistics software (SPSS and Epi Info) as well as on other helpful resources (Endnote, PubMed, and CINAHL) provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library? • For a complete list, see http://health.library.emory.edu/ training/index.html, click on the “Workshops and Classes Description” and view their workshops calendar for upcoming courses. • There are also FREE courses available through Lynda. com which can be accessed in the WHSC Library’s Specialized Software Lab, http://health.library.emory.edu/ training/lynda.html. These Lynda.com courses include over 1500 courses including numerous data processing 4
and statistical software packages (Excel, SPSS, MATLAB, and R). Statistics Resources on the Internet: • UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education’s Statistics Website: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/ • Andy Field’s Statistics Lectures and Tutorials on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ProfAndyField • Links to a number of online power calculators: http://www.gpower.hhu.de/en.html http://statpages.org/#Power • Choosing a statistical test: http://bama.ua.edu/~jleeper/627/choosestat.html • FREE SAS University Edition: For information on the application, see http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/ university-edition.html and for a quick tutorial see, http:// support.sas.com/training/tutorial/studio/get-started.html Article Authors: Melinda Higgins, PhD Associate Professor, Research Senior Biostatistician Sudeshna Paul, PhD Assistant Professor, Research Senior Biostatistician
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