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UMass Sesquicentennial

Faculty Research Interests

Genevieve E. Chandler - How to interrupt the affect Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) have on health risk behaviors, hard-to-treat symptoms and chronic disease conditions. 

Helene Cunningham - Is an expert in training nurse educators, staff nurses and students in technology. With the help of nurses, she developed and implemented more than 50 clinical simulations regarding patient safety issues in both academic and hospital settings.

Jean E. DeMartinis - Cardiology and Secondary Prevention—Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) and activity planning for safe and doable exercising.

Kimberly Dion - Substance use and nursing education.

Katharine Green - The history of higher education of women in the United States, baccalaureate curricular development related to women’s health and the health of midlife advanced practice nurses.

Elizabeth Henneman - Nurses’ role in medical error recovery, nurse-physician collaboration/teamwork, transfusion medicine.

Mary Ann Hogan - Adult health, clinical competence, fitness for entry level nursing practice, new graduate role transition, patient safety, and simulation.

Cynthia Jacelon - Promoting dignity, function, self-management of chronic health problems, and independence in older adults.

Karen Kalmakis - Childhood adversity, stress, and women’s health.

Maud Low - Self-nurturing, Women’s Health

Joan Roche - Human Patient Simulation, healthcare systems and patient safety.

Barbara Stanley - Nurses Perception of the Cultural Sensitivity of their Practice Environments.

Donna M. Zucker - Current research is focused on decreasing the disparity between available screening and treatment for HIV and HCV, and access by high risk persons who are homeless, incarcerated and actively recovering. She and her collaborators hope to provide an innovative, cost effective, multi test point of care screening device to reduce barriers to access to treatment and wellness. Ongoing work continues in measuring biomarkers for stress response in offenders before and after participating in labyrinth walking, and measuring differences in outdoor and indoor labyrinth walking.

Jeungok Choi - Pictograph-based health care communication, web-based education, decision support systems, discharge instructions for older adults with low literacy skills.