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Terry A Badger

Interim Associate Dean for Research
Endowed Chair, Eleanor Bauwens - Nursing
Professor, Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor, Psychiatry
Professor, Public Health

Dr. Terry Badger's research focuses on symptom management, including reducing psychological distress, for cancer survivors and their caregivers.  Her contributions to science include documenting the effectiveness of telephone delivered psychosocial interventions in improving symptom management and quality of life.   Her second contribution has been the investigation of telephone delivered psychosocial interventions that reduce health disparities for English-speaking and Spanish-speaking cancer survivors and their caregivers.  Lastly, Dr. Badger dyadic analytic methods to document the critical influence of members of the survivors' social networks or caregivers have on cancer recovery.  Dr. Badger currently has NIH funded R01s as well as CHERC funding from the American Cancer Society. 

Additional Links: Publications on My NCBI

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Nursing, University of Texas, 1986
  • M.S. Nursing, Arizona State University, 1979
  • B.S.N. Nursing, Arizona State University, 1975

Research Interests

cancer survivors; caregivers; symptom management; psychological distress