Faculty with Research Expertise in Managing Consequences of Aging or Chronic Illness

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Research Areas:

• Depression and Chronic Illness, Behavioral Interventions with cancer survivors and partners
  

Research Areas:

• Systems approach to improving the nutritional status and quality of life of older adults living in nursing homes.
  

• Caregiving needs of community-dwelling Mexican-American Elders
  

Research Areas:

• Integrated Biobehavioral Approaches, Such as Genetics, Physiological, and Psychological Factors in Health Promotion amd Disease Prevention.
  

• Adherence to Exercise and Physical Activity to Prevent and Treat Illnesses
  

• Reducing Risks of Disease and Promoting Health through Healthy Lifestyles and Behavior Changes
  

• Self Management of Diseases, Symptoms, and Functional Status to Improve Quality of Life
  

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Research Areas:

• Pediatric diabetes; Cardiovascular risks in youth with diabetes; Exercise interventions for youth with diabetes or who are at risk for diabetes
  

Research Areas:

• Biobehavioral approaches to investigating cognitive function including associations to aging (cognitive aging), illness (particularly in cardiovascular disease) and treatment.
  

• Changes in cognitive processes associated with development.
  

• Interventions to enhance self management in chronic illness.
  

• The Effects of Treatment on Cognitive Function
  

Research Areas:

• Quality of life
  

• Oncology symptom management
  

• Oncology care: adults through geriatrics
  

• Symptom perception and measurement
  

• Chronic Illness and perception of impact on life functioning
  

Research Areas:

• Palliative care in the adult oncology population
  

• Palliative care education in developing countries
  

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Research Areas:

• Culturally relevant community-based health care delivery systems and client outcomes
  

• Developing culturally relevant community-based interventions for decreasing diabetes health disparities in Mexican American adults in the U.S.-Mexico border region
  

• Decreasing Hispanic health disparities in the U.S.-Mexico border region
  

Research Areas:

• Community as intervention and community-based intervention
  

• Spontaneous or natural language words used to appraise health and symptoms
  

• Symptom self-management
  

• Chronic conditions
  

• Approaches to nursing care delivery: storytelling, use of humor, biofeedback and therapeutic use of self
  

• Vulnerable populations, including rural populations
  

• Tucson Holistic Healing Initiative for Nurses
  

Research Areas:

• Leadership and Management
  

• Diabetes in Hmong and Latino Communities
  

• Border Health Care
  

• Breast Cancer and Prevention in Latina and Hmong Communities
  

• Depression and Exercise in Hmong Women
  

• Diabetes Prevention in Adolescent Latinas
  

• Community Health and Public Housing Residents
  

• Transcultural Nursing
  

• Maternal Child Health and Pediatrics
  

• Hmong and Latino Diabetic Group Visits
  

• Hmong Women and Support Groups for optimal mental health
  

• Special Poulations and Vulnerable Populations
  

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Research Areas:

• Cancer-Related Fatigue
  

• Fatigue Measurement
  

• Underlying Mechanisms of Fatigue
  

• Translation of NCCN Evidence-Based Guidelines
  

• Symptom Clusters (Fatigue, Pain, Depression, Insomnia)
  

• Decreased Functional Status
  

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Research Areas:

• cardiovascular disease prevention and risk factor reduction
  

• Tai Chi exercise
  

• physical activity among diverse groups of adults
  

Research Areas:

• Psychiatric-Mental Health: mood disorders & chronic pain syndromes.