Faculty with Research Expertise in Reducing Risks and Promoting Health in Vulnerable Populations

Research Areas:

• Current research focus is on sleep, cognition and behavior in school-aged children.
  

• The effects of continuous positive airway pressure therapy on cognition as assessed by fMRI.
  

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Research Areas:

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

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Research Areas:

• Mexican American elders' use of community health services; family caregiving; community partnerships and community-based interventions; aging; vulnerable populations; health disparities; cultural competence; gerontological nursing
  

• Qualitative research; participatory action research; transcultural nursing research
  

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:

• Design and evaluation of clinical information displays
  

• Human-computer interaction
  

• Impact of organizational and unit characteristics on staff and patient outcomes
  

• E-learning
  

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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:

• Outcomes following neurovascular injuries, such as ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, and subarachnoid hemorrhage
  

• Genetic influences on outcomes following neurovascular injury.
  

• Mediators of cerebral vasospasm following aneursymal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
  

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
  

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Research Areas:

• Deafness/hearing loss
  

• Health Behavior Change
  

• Family Health esp childbearing families
  

Research Areas:

• Explication of patterns in health/illness in chronically ill populations.
  

• Indicators of HIV Wasting Syndrome
  

• HIV/AIDS Population Management Delivery Models
  

• Patterns of health/illness and healing responses to complementary and holistic therapies
  

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:

• Risk perception, risk communication, risk-control behaviors
  

• Behavioral issues related to genetic predisposition to cancer
  

• Cancer prevention and control
  

• Skin cancer (melanoma and nonmelanoma, breast/ovarian cancer
  

Research Areas:

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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
  

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Research Areas:

• Breast cancer metastasis and vascular injury
  

• Stress and altered health, particularly prolonged wound healing
  

• Development of biological models to study clinically-relevant problems
  

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:

• Central Nervous System Toxicity of Cancer Therapy
  

• Biological and Behavioral Interventions to Improve CNS outcomes in Children with Leukemia
  

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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
  

Research Areas:

• Caregiving, knowledge production, ways of knowing, spirituality, and well-being in end-of-life contexts
  

Research Areas:

• Rural health
  

• Primary Care; interprofessional education and practice
  

• Drug-drug interactions
  

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Research Areas:

• My research focuses on the mechanisms of injury after stroke (cerebral ischemia and reperfusion).
  

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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:

• Geriatrics, Nursing Homes, Pain, Stress (Cortisol)
  

Research Areas:

• Health care delivery systems and outcomes
  

• Cost-effective interventions
  

• Culturally sensitive interventions for Latinos with type 2 diabetes.
  

• Diabetes Prevention
  

Research Areas:

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

Research Areas:

• My program of research focuses on factors that affect cardiovascular health outcomes.
  

• My current funded research (NIH RO1 NR05329) is directed toward the development of sensitive and reliable methods to enhance early diagnosis and management of patients with acute coronary syndromes, especially in patients with acute posterior MI.
  

• Another area of interest is to determine presenting symptoms of acute myocardial infarction in women, minorities, and elderly, who have long delay in seeking care during acute myocardial infarction.
  

• I am very interested in cardiovascular risk management as well as clinical gentics of cardiovascular diseases.
  

• My clinical interests focus on cardiovascular risk management, including diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, and how pharmacogenetics play a role in managing these multifactorial genetic conditions.
  

• I also have research and clinical expertise in electrocardiology, including detection of acute myocardial ischemia and arrhythmias.