My research interests include: men in nursing; diversity in the nursing profession; interprofessional education; and collaboration
Faculty Research Interests
My research interest is in the area of radiation vasculopathy. We recently completed our retrospective research study on head and neck cancer patients who received radiation therapy to the head and neck. After analyzing our medical records, the majority of patients were at high risk of cardiovascular events. More information on this work: "Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Measurement Promises to Improve Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation in Head and Neck Cancer Patients." Our future plan in this field to explore biomarkers of atherosclerosis in setting of radiation therapy among head and neck cancer patients.
Impact of climate change on health and vulnerable communities
Disaster Preparedness
Student Success
My research interest is in the power of the nursing profession, the influence of nurses, and their roles in leadership and board governance.
My research interests pertain to the ways that nurses build knowledge during their formal education journey and throughout their nursing career.
My research interests include polypharmacy, older adults/older adult healthcare, nursing education, and anorexia in adolescents.
My scholarship focuses on transcultural nursing and cultural competence, with the objective of contributing to the development of theoretically based transcultural nursing research, the advancement of transcultural nursing practice and the education of culturally competent healthcare professionals. Transcultural nursing is the means of describing, understanding, and explaining health beliefs and practices across cultures; it is compassionate and situated within a framework of social justice.
As a Public Health and Transcultural Nurse, I work to reduce health inequities by studying the health beliefs and practices of vulnerable populations. I aim to use my research to advance our understanding of the determinants of health, with the goal of developing specialized, culturally appropriate interventions that address health inequities amongst the most vulnerable, and to educate health care professionals on providing holistic, culturally competent care.
My current research is focused on understanding the determinants of human trafficking to contribute to the science of this critical, but neglected, area of nursing research.