• Women's Health
• Chronic and Behavioral Health
• Health Systems and Quality Patient Outcomes
• Strategies for Educating Nurses

Women's Health

Faculty research in women’s health includes focus areas of pregnancy and childbirth, labor support, violence against women, osteoporosis, labor support, relational boundaries in mothers and babies, breastfeeding, premenstrual syndrome, and menopause.

• Aboul-Enein, Faisal, MSN, MPH, RN, NP, BC, Assistant Clinical Professor, Health Policy Affecting Women in Nursing
• Arnold, Carol, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Centering Pregnancy in Texas, American Indian Health (Maternal-Child)
• Britt, Robin, EdD, RNC, WHCNP, Professor, Bone Density and Contraception, Depotmedroxy Progesterone Acetate (DMPA)
• Carter, Sherry, PhD, WHNP, RN, Associate Professor, Gynecological Assessment, Neuro-Psychological Aspects of Health and Behavior, Learning Styles, Instructional Technology
• Cesario, Sandra, PhD, RNC, Associate Professor, PhD Program Director, 2^nd Stage Labor Management and Newborn Abandonment
• Cho, Michelle, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Breast Cancer, History of Nursing
• Edwards, Joan, MN, CNS, RNC, Assistant Clinical Professor, Perinatal Nursing, Birth Practices and Beliefs of the Acehnese
• Grassley, Jane, Ph.D., RN, IBLC, Assistant Professor, Lactation, Grandmothers, Breastfeeding Confidence, Qualitative Research, Women's Studies
• Hawkins, Chris, PhD, RN, Associate Professor Emeritus, Medical-Moral-Legal Issues and Adolescent Pregnancy
• Hutchinson, Shirley, DrPH, MPH, RN, Associate Professor, African American Infant Mortality
• Kyle, Anita, MS, RNC, CNS-MCH, Associate Professor, Pregnancy Fitness and Infant Massage
• Malecha, Ann, PhD, RN, CNE, Associate Professor, Research Director, Intimate Partner Violence
• Mancuso, Peggy, PhD, CNM, RN, Associate Professor, Timing of Birth, Onset and Assessment of Labor
• McFarlane, Judith, DrPH, RN, Parry Chair in Health Promotion, Partner Violence, Biobehavioral and Translational Research
• Montgomery, Diane, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Barriers to STD Testing in High Risk Adolescents
• Pancho, Zeneida, MA, RNC, Associate Clinical Professor, Breast Cancer
• Sauls, Donna, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Intrapartum Care, Adolescent Childbirth
• St. Germain, Ann, MS, RN, ANP, WHNP, Menopause and Osteoporosis
• Stephenson, Charlotte, DSN, RN, Clinical Professor, Perinatal Loss
• Stiles, Anne, Associate Dean, Attachment in Adolescent Mother-Infant Dyads, Personal Space Boundaries
• Symes, Lene, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Biobehavioral
• Tapler, Deborah, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Women’s Health Promotion
• Walsh, Teresa, PhD, RNC, Assistant Professor, Reminiscence and Community Dwelling Older Women

Chronic and Behavioral Health

Health and Safety Interventions, Pain Management, Quality of Life, Genetics and Information Sharing, HIV-AIDS

• Aboul-Enein, Faisal, MSN, MPH, RN, NP, BC, Assistant Clinical Professor, Diabetes, Hypertension and Congestive Heart Failure
• Asel, Jeane, MS, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor, Obesity
• Binder, Brenda, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Adolescent Health, Obesity, Transaction and Therapeutic Reminiscence with Older Adults
• Chaney, Susan, EdD, FNP, RN, Professor, Family Violence, Diabetes Mellitus, Smoking Cessation
• Davis, Gail C., Ed.D., Professor, Instrumentation, Chronic Pain, Pain Management, Older Adults, Arthritis, Osteoperosis, and Chronic Conditions
• Foster, Jan, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, Assistant Professor, Acute and Critical Care
• Gray, Barbara, PhD, PNP, RN, Resiliency in Children and Adolescents
• Haile, Brenda, DrPH, MPH, RN, ACRN, Associate Professor, HIV/AIDS
• Holden-Huchton, Patricia A., RN, DSN, ACRN, Dean, HIV Disease, Aging
• Hutchinson, Shirley, DrPH, MPH, RN, Associate Professor, Adaptation of Elders to Long Term Care Facilities
• Kernicki, Jeanette, PhD, RN, Clinical Professor, Critical Care Nursing
• Malecha, Ann, PhD, RN, CNE, Associate Professor, Research Director, Workplace Violence
• Mobley, Caryl, PhD, CPNP, RN, Professor, Associate Dean - Dallas, Health and Safety of Preschoolers, Student-Preceptor Relationships
• Montgomery, Diane, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Prevention in Children and Adolescents and Health Status of Children in Foster Care
• Sheriff, Susan, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Smoking Cessation, Weekend Nursing Education
• Stephenson, Charlotte, DSN, RN, Clinical Professor, Families with Critically Ill Infants, Death and Dying
• Symes, Lene, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Psychological and Emotional Recovery from Childhood Sexual Assault
• Toms, Robin, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC, Complementary Therapies
• Young, Anne, EdD, RN, Professor, End of Life and Ethical Issues
• Ziegler, Vicki, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Chronic illness in children, Cardiac Rhythm Disorders in Children, Effects of Genetic Disease in Families

Health Systems and Quality Patient Outcomes

Nurse Staffing, Nurse Satisfaction, Health Policy, Global Health, History of Nursing, Weekend Hospital Risk, Quality of Birth and Death Certificate Data

• Aboul-Enein, Faisal, MSN, MPH, RN, NP, BC, Assistant Clinical Professor, Health Policy and International Health (Middle East Region)
• Ayers, Constance, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Patient Safety, Nursing History and Florence Nightingale
• Baudler, Barb, MSN, RN, Assistant Clinical Professor, Patient Education
• Cesario, Sandra, PhD, RNC, Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, Design of Healthcare Environments
• DelloStritto, Rita, PhD, RN, CNS, ENP, Assistant Professor, Emergency Care Outcomes and Disaster Management
• Haile, Brenda, DrPH, MPH, RN, BC, Associate Professor, Qualitative Research
• Kernicki, Jeanette, PhD, RN, Clinical Professor, Outcomes Research
• Krepper, Rebecca, PhD, MBA, RN, Professor and Associate Dean - Houston, Staffing Methodologies and Program Evaluation
• Langford, Rae, EdD, RN, Associate Professor, Research Process and Statistical Analysis
• Landrum, Peggy, PhD, RN, Associate Clinical Professor, Nurse Recruitment and Retention-Incentives
• Manuel, Bradley, MSN, RN, CNOR(E), Visiting Associate Clinical Professor, Surgery and OR Management Standards and Professional Associates
• McFarlane, Judith, DrPH, RN, Parry Chair in Health Promotion, Access Redesign
• Symes, Lene, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Retention of Registered Nurses
• Toms, Robin, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC, Nursing Administration

Strategies for Educating Nurses

Student Retention, HESI Exam Predictive Validity, Educational Simulations, Web-Based Learning, computerized Testing, Effective Mentoring, Length of Clinical Rotations, International Student Exchange

• Aboul-Enein, Faisal, MSN, MPH, RN, NP, BC, Assistant Clinical Professor, Hospital-Academic Partnerships and Simulation Modules
• Bailey, Catherine, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Simulation of Clinical Lab Skills, Nursing Education
• Binder, Brenda, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students and Reliability and Validation of NP HESI
• Britt, Robin, EdD, RNC, WHCNP, Professor, Stress and Nursing Students and Nursing Licensure Outcome Prediction
• Byrd, Gloria, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Nursing Student Success
• Cesario, Sandra, PhD, RNC, Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, Stress and Nursing Students
• DelloStritto, Rita, PhD, RN, CNS, ENP, Assistant Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Emerson, Michele, MS, RN, CNM, Stress and Nursing Students
• Foster, Jan, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, Assistant Professor, Nursing Education
• Haile, Brenda, DrPH, MPH, RN, BC, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Hawkins, Chris, PhD, RN, Associate Professor Emeritus, Mentoring Faculty and Students
• Henderson, Betty, MN, RN, Assistant Professor, Academic Achievement of Disadvantaged Students and Stressors and Student Nurse Success
• Hueske, Cathy, PhD, MS, RN, CNS, P/MH, FNP, Associate Clinical Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Hutchinson, Shirley, DrPH, MPH, RN, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Landrum, Peggy, PhD, RN, Associate Clinical Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Malecha, Ann, PhD, RN, CNE, Associate Professor and Research Director, Stress and Nursing Students
• Montgomery, Diane, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Newsom, Teri, MS, RN, ANP-C, Nursing Education
• Pancho, Zeneida, MA, RNC, Associate Clinical Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Schultz, Rochelle, MSN, CPNP, Assistant Clinical Professor, High Risk Students
• St. Germain, Ann, MS, RN, ANP, WHNP, Stress and Nursing Students
• Symes, Lene, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• VanSell, Sharon, EdD, RN, Professor, Simulation in Nursing Education, Pneumatics Medical Imaging
• Walsh, Teresa, PhD, RNC, Assistant Professor, Stress and Nursing Students
• Young, Anne, EdD, RN, Professor, Stress and Nursing Students and HESI Testing