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VA Nurse Investigator List

VA Nursing Research >> Nurse Investigator List

Members listed possess a research doctorate. Investigator name links to biographical information if available.

           Name            Funded *VISN Facility VA Position Primary Research area
Alt-White, Anna 
email 		 Yes CO Office of Nursing Services Program Director
  1. Implementation and Management Science
  2. Nursing Sensitive Indicators
Anderson, Jane
email 		 Yes 16 Houston Associate Director Stroke Center
  1. Informatics
  2. Chronic Disease Management
  3. QUERI Implementation Projects
Baharestani, Mona
email		 Yes 09 Mountain Home Wound Care Specialist- Education & Research
  1. DTI; Pressure Ulcers; Wound Healing; Clin trials
  2. Progressive Mobility in Critical Care
Barks, Lee
email		 Yes 08 Tampa Post-doctoral Fellow
  1. Long Term Care and Aging
  2. Mobility, Activity, and function
  3. Patient Safety
Bormann, Jill 

email		 Yes 22 San Diego HCS Nurse Researcher
  1. Complementary Alternative Therapies
  2. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  3. Mental Health
Boyd, Andrea
email		 Yes 07 Augusta Research Health Scientist
  1. Cardiovascular
  2. Mobility, Activity, and Function
  3. Genomics
Broyles, Lauren M
email		 Yes 04 Pittsburgh HCS-Highland Drive Research Health Scientist
  1. Health Services
  2. Substance Abuse
Collins, Eileen
email 		 Yes 12 Hines Research Career Scientist
  1. Rehabilitation
  2. Mobility, Activity, and function
  3. Quality of Life
Corvera-Tindel, Teresita
email		 Yes 22 Greater Los Angeles HCS Nurse Researcher
  1. Cardiovascular
  2. Quality of Life
  3. Rehabilitation
Dellefield, Mary
email		 Yes 22 San Diego HCS Research Scientist
  1. Long Term Care and Aging
  2. Implementation and Management Science
  3. QUERI Implementation Projects
Ellstrom, Kathleen
email		 Yes 22 Loma Linda VAMC Clinical Nurse Specialist
  1. Chronic Disease Management
  2. Symptom Management
  3. Nursing evidence-based practice, critical care
Engstrom, Christine
email		 Yes CO   Program Manager
  1. Oncology/Hematology
  2. Quality of Life
Epstein, Dana
email		 Yes 18 Phoenix ACNS/Research
  1. insomnia
  2. Mental Health
  3. Traumatic Brain Injury
Ersek, Mary
email		 Yes 4 Philadelphia Director, PROMISE Center
  1. Palliative care
  2. Nursing homes
  3. Pain
  4. Outcomes measurement
Fasoli, DiJon
email		 Yes 01 Bedford, MA Research Health Scientist
  1. Health Services
  2. Implementation and Management Science
  3. Patient Care Delivery
Finnell, Deborah
email		 Yes 02 Upstate New York HCS Nurse Researcher
  1. Mental Health
  2. Substance Use Disorders
Gerlock, April
email		 Yes 20 American Lake Nurse Practitioner
  1. Mental Health
  2. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  3. Intimate Partner Violence
Haddock, K. Sue
email		 Yes 07 Columbia SC ACOS/Research
  1. Patient and Organizational Outcomes Related to Nurse Staffing
  2. CNL Outcomes
  3. Self-Management Strategies in Diabetes
Hagle, Mary
email		 Yes 12 Milwaukee WI Nurse Researcher
  1. Patient Safety
  2. Nursing Sensitive Indicators
  3. Staff Education
Hansen, Deborah
email		 Yes 15 St Louis-John Cochran Infection Prevention/Research
  1. Genomics
  2. Deployment health
  3. environmental exposures
Hendrix, Cristina
email		 Yes 06 Durham Nurse Researcher
  1. Chronic Disease Management
  2. Patient Education
Hill, Elizabeth E
email		 Yes 21 Sierra Nevada HCS ACOS Research
  1. Women's health
  2. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  3. Symptom Management
Horvath, Kathy
email		 Yes 01 Bedford GRECC Associate Director, Education and Evaluation
  1. Long Term Care and Aging
  2. Patient Safety
  3. Implementation and Management Science
Jackson-Malik, Pamela
email		 Yes 04 Philadelphia ACNS/Research
  1. Chronic Disease Management
  2. Workforce Development
  3. Health Services
Kasper, Christine
email		 Yes CO Office of Nursing Services Faculty USUHS
  1. Traumatic Brain Injury
  2. cell biology:skeletal muscle
  3. Heavy metal genotoxicity
Kostovich, Carol
email		 Yes 12 Hines Post-doctoral Fellow
  1. Nursing Presence
  2. Nursing Sensitive Indicators
  3. Patient Care Delivery
Krein, Sarah
email		 Yes 11 Ann Arbor HCS Research Health Scientist
  1. Chronic Disease Management
  2. Patient Safety
  3. Implementation and Management Science
Li, Yu-Fang
email		 Yes 20 Seattle Health Science Specialist
  1. Health Services
  2. Nursing Sensitive Indicators
  3. Patient Safety
Maeve, M.Katherine
email		 Yes 07 Augusta Nurse Researcher
  1. Criminal Behaviors & Health
  2. Healthcare Disparities
  3. Social Justice
Maiocco, Gina
email		 Yes 04 Clarksburg Nurse Researcher
  1. Patient Care Delivery
  2. Cardiovascular
  3. Critical Care
Oka, Roberta
email		 Yes 21 Palo Alto ACNS/Research
  1. Cardiovascular
  2. Chronic Disease Management
  3. Symptom Management
Olney, Christine
email		 Yes 08 Tampa Post-doctoral Fellow
  1. Disease Prevention and Control
  2. Spinal Cord Injury
  3. Patient Safety
Pope, Charlene
email		 Yes 07 Charleston Health Service Research Scientist & ACNS/Research
  1. Healthcare Disparities
  2. Provider-Patient Communication
  3. Chronic Disease Management
Pope, Diana
email		 Yes 20 Portland Epidemiologist, Acting Director Nursing Research
  1. speech intelligibility in hospital noise
  2. therapeutic sound interventions
  3. Methods to measure hospital sound
Powell-Cope, Gail
email		 Yes 08 Tampa Chief Nursing Research
  1. Patient Safety
  2. Rehabilitation
  3. Long Term Care and Aging
Priefer, Beverly
email		 Yes 12 Madison WI EBP/Research/Magnet Manager
  1. Dysphagia
  2. Symptom Management
Pugh, Mary Jo
email		 Yes 17 San Antonio, TX Research Health Scientist
  1. Health Services
  2. Quality of Care
  3. Post-Deployment Health
Quigley, Patricia
email		 Yes 08 Tampa ACNS/Research
  1. Patient Safety
  2. Rehabilitation
  3. Mobility, Activity, and function
Reinke, Lynn
email		 Yes 20 Seattle Post-doctoral Fellow
  1. End-of-Life Communication
  2. Symptom Management
  3. COPD
Rowe, Meredeth
email		 Yes 08 Tampa Research Scientist
  1. Dementia and caregivers
  2. Chronic Disease Management
  3. Long Term Care and Aging
Rugen, Kathryn
email		 Yes 12 Jesse Brown VAMC - Chicago HCS ACNS/Research & Education
  1. Health Promotion
  2. Staff Education
Saban, Karen
email		 Yes 12 Hines Post-doctoral Fellow
  1. Traumatic Brain Injury
  2. Quality of Life
  3. Healthcare Disparities
Skaggs, Brenda
email		 Yes 16 Oklahoma City ACNS/Research & Education
  1. Cardiovascular
Soban, Lynn
email		 Yes 22 Greater Los Angeles HCS Research Health Scientist
  1. Nursing Sensitive Indicators
  2. Organizational Culture
  3. Implementation and Management Science
St Pierre, Cathy
email		 Yes 01   ACNS/Research
  1. Complementary Alternative Therapies
  2. Health Promotion
  3. Disease Prevention and Control
Sullivan, Sheila
email		 Yes 16 Central AR. Veterans HCS LR ACNS/Research
  1. Sleep
  2. Cardiovascular
  3. Workforce Development
Taylor, Melissa
email		 Yes 04 Pittsburgh HCS-Univ Dr Nursing Research Program Leader
  1. Mental Health
  2. Comorbid depression & medical disorders
  3. Chronic Disease Management
Taylor-Young, Patricia
email		 Yes 20 Portland Post-doctoral Fellow
  1. Chronic Disease Management
  2. Complementary Alternative Therapies
Uphold, Connie
email		 Yes 08 North Florida/South Georgia HCS-Gainesville Research Health Scientist
  1. QUERI Implementation Projects
  2. Patient Education
  3. Community Health
Valente, Sharon
email		 Yes 22 Greater Los Angeles HCS ACNS/Research & Education
  1. Mental Health
  2. Oncology/Hematology
  3. Staff Education
Wakefield, Bonnie
email		 Yes 15 Columbia MO Research Scientist
  1. Health Services
  2. Chronic Disease Management
  3. Telehealth

* Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN)