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College Welcomes New Faculty Members
As the URI College of Nursing continues to grow and expand, the college has welcomed several new faculty members over the last year, including Kimberly Arcoleo, Elizabeth Hutson, Dahianna Lopez, Kristin Corey Magan and Susan Desanto-Madeya, who fills the Miriam Weyker Chair. Read on for more about the newest professors
Kimberly Arcoleo, Research Professor
Education: Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Master’s degree in Public Health, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; Bachelor’s degree in Biology, University of Buffalo.
Recent Experience: Principal Investigator, Research Institute, Nationwide Children’s Hospital; Associate Dean for Research, Associate Professor, University of Rochester School of Nursing; Associate Dean for Research, Ohio State University College of Nursing; Director of Master’s in Clinical Research Management Program, Arizona State University.
Research focus: Dr. Arcoleo’s focus is on closing the health disparity gap for low-income children with asthma. She comes to URI with a $2.77 million NIH grant to evaluate a program she’s been working on for several years with her clinical collaborators at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Read more about the SchoolBased Asthma Therapy (SBAT) program at uri.edu/ nursing/news
As a public health and statistics expert, Arcoleo expects to teach classes around research design and ethics, and statistics.
Future plans: “Lots of grant writing,” Arcoleo said.
Arcoleo Serves on NIH Scientific Review Group
In July, URI Research Professor Kim Arcoleo began a two-year term as a standing member of the National Institutes of Health’s Health Disparities & Equity Promotion study section.
This panel reviews project applications with the aim to “address, reduce or eliminate health disparities and improve equity related to access to care, treatment, or healthcare outcomes.” Arcoleo served as an ad hoc reviewer for four years before becoming a standing member of the important review panel this year.
“As the COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the health disparities for under-served individuals and families, I feel that my work on this panel is one important contribution I can make as a health services researcher focusing on health disparities for underserved children with asthma,” Arcoleo said. “Serving on an NIH study section also benefits the College because we gain insights into key aspects reviewers are focusing on, helping strengthen our applications, hopefully leading to a fundable score.”
Talented faculty are in high demand, and philanthropy is now essential to recruit and retain noteworthy faculty like Dr. Desanto-Madeya, who benefits from the Miriam Weyker Chair, and Dr. Rambur, whose work is supported by the Routhier Chair for Nursing Practice.
Iam thrilled to join the URI College of Nursing as the Miriam Weyker Chair. This position provides me with an opportunity to build an interdisciplinary palliative care program and expand my research to improve the quality of life for persons, families, and communities living with serious illness.
— Dr. Susan DeSanto-Madeyar
Weyker Chair Filled by Associate Professor Susan Desanto-Madeya
Education: Ph.D. and M.S. in Nursing, Widener University, Chester, Penn.; B.S. in Nursing, East Stroudsburg University.
Recent
Experience: Clinical Associate Professor, Boston College Connell School of Nursing; Nurse Scientist, Susan Desanto-Madeya Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Sojourn Leader Scholar, Cambia Health Foundation.
Research focus: Dr. Desanto-Madeya’s research focuses on palliative and end-of-life care, with the goal of improving quality of life and quality of care. She studies inequities in health care, especially toward the end of life, and improving a patient’s final days by changing or eliminating prescriptions. “Unnecessary medications to treat a condition may not be necessary anymore, and can impact quality of life. The idea is for the patient to concentrate on what’s important instead of managing medications,” she said.
Teaching focus: Desanto-Madeya teaches courses in thanatology and palliative care.
Future plans: Desanto-Madeya hopes to develop a palliative care minor curriculum that is inclusive of living with a serious illness and improving quality of life, along with the study of end of life.
Kristen Corey Magan, Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D. in Nursing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; M.S. in Nursing with a concentration in adult gerontology primary care, University of Pennsylvania; B.S. in Nursing, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH.
Recent
Experience: Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Pennsylvania; Nurse Practitioner, MedOptions, Old Lyme, CT; Beacon Hospice, Fall River, MA; Genesis Physician Services in Kennett Square, PA. Staff nurse at Miriam Hospital in Providence, Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Research focus: Magan is focused on looking at the experience of family caregivers of people with dementia, especially after the death of the care recipient. Magan’s research is partially supported by a grant from Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Read more about her study at uri.edu/ nursing/news.
Teaching focus: Magan is teaching Thanatology 270, “Loss Across the Lifespan,” which focuses on how human beings experience and cope with loss. She plans to teach more courses in the College’s Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program, while continuing to focus on her research.
Future plans at URI: Magan plans to continue developing and expanding her research, which will likely present opportunities for students to assist on the project.
Dahianna Lopez, Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D. in Health Policy, Harvard University; M.S.N., University of California, Los Angeles; M.P.H in Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
Recent Experience: Senior Public Health Epidemiologist, RI Department of Health; Data and Evaluation Manager, Health Communities Office, City of Providence.
Research focus: Lopez’s research focus is on injury prevention, especially unintentional injuries sustained in transportation accidents, including car and bicycle crashes, and those from accidental poisonings. She examines injury prevention at the macro-public health level, looking at all aspects of an injury-causing event, not just the injury outcome. Read more about her research at uri.edu/nursing/news.
Teaching focus: Lopez will be teaching undergraduate community health nursing.
Future plans: Continue her research into injury prevention and possibly work toward creating a course on the subject of her research.
Elizabeth Hutson, Clinical Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D. in Nursing, Ohio State University; M.S.N (Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner), Ohio State; B.S. in Nursing, Kent State University; B.A. in Psychology, Ohio State.
Recent Experience: Faculty member, Ohio State University College of Nursing; Nurse Practitioner, Columbus Springs Adolescent Partial Hospital Program, Dublin, OH, and Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH; Research Associate, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Center for Innovations in Pediatric Practice.
Research focus: Hutson focuses on adolescent and young adult mental health, stress and anxiety, including bullying intervention. She plans to bring to URI her Mindstrong to Combat Bullying Program, a 7-session cognitive-behavioral skills building program adapted from the COPE intervention for adolescents, ages 12-17, who have experienced bullying with mental health symptoms. She is also interested in studying innovative online teaching methods, which can be particularly helpful in the era of COVID-19.
Teaching focus: Hutson will teach Neuro-psychopharmacology, child and adolescent psychotherapy and clinical NP classes in the Psychiatric Mental Health NP program. In the spring 2021 semester, she will begin teaching psychotherapy to undergrad students.
Future plans: Implement the Mindstrong program in Rhode Island, and help “create the number one psychiatric mental health NP program in the country.”
Dr. Betty Rambur will help analyze key issues affecting Medicare
Nursing Professor Dr. Betty Rambur
has been appointed as a commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which holds a powerful role in advising Congress on Medicare policy.
Dr. Rambur, the College’s Routhier Chair for Practice and Professor of Nursing, joins Harvard Medical School Professor of Health Care Policy Michael Chernew, and State University of New York President Wayne Riley on the commission, which analyzes and advises Congress on access to care, cost and quality of care, and other key issues affecting Medicare.
Rambur has been a national leader in health policy and health reform for 25 years. She is a recognized leader in the area of workforce redesign within alternative payment models and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She served as the only nurse on Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board, which regulates health care in Vermont and provides oversight of the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care. Her focus is population health, reducing disparities and overtreatment, cost containment and reconceptualized models of care, including primary care nursing and e-connected/virtual care.
Dr. Coppa is Latest AAN Fellow
Associate Professor
Denise Coppa has been selected to receive one of the greatest recognitions of accomplishment in the nursing profession, induction as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Coppa is the latest College professor to achieve the honor, joining nine others.
Coppa’s interests are focused on the care of medically underserved clients. Her research interests have been in the areas of homebased primary care and social determinants of health.
Among her many projects is the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program, which places nurse practitioner students in community health centers to provide primary care and behavioral health services, under the supervision of professionals in the centers. It is federally funded by a $2.7 million HRSA grant.
Invitation to fellowship recognizes a nursing leader’s accomplishments in the profession. It is bestowed upon only about 2,400 nursing leaders in education, administration, practice and research. Coppa will be inducted during a virtual ceremony in October.
“This is an important acknowledgment of her outstanding contributions and impact on nursing and health,” Dean Barbara Wolfe said. “Dr. Coppa has had an enormous influence in shaping the full scope of practice for nurse practitioners in R.I., and transforming the state’s APRN workforce to enhance education in primary care for the medically underserved.”
Dr. Marcella Thompson Retirement
The College wishes bon voyage to Research Assistant Professor Marcella Thompson, who announced her retirement after 16 years with the College of Nursing.
During her time at URI, Dr. Thompson was known for mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in public health, leadership and environmental health research. Her research has focused on environment health, including chemical exposures to lead, mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls among childbearing-aged women.
Among her most impactful projects involves her work with the Narragansett Indian Tribe helping identify contaminated fish in local ponds. In 2015, she launched a multi-year, multi-phased study of environmental contamination in fish called The Namaus (All Things Fish) Project, along with co-investigators Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, assistant professor of American Studies at Brown University, and Dr. Dinalyn Spears, director of Community Planning and Natural Resources for the Narragansett Indian Tribe.
Thompson also created the Thompson Endowed Scholarship for Native Students, which, when fully funded, will award about $1,000 annually to a Narragansett Tribe member who majors in nursing at URI. She remains an adjunct faculty member for URI and an environmental health consultant with the tribe.
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