Professor Emerita
Contact
University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482
Interests
Health promotion
Risk reduction
Adolescent health promotion
Family interventions
Community health nursing
Dr. Loveland-Cherry’s teaching, practice, professional and scholarly work have been in the field of health promotion and risk reduction. More specifically, she has focused on risk reduction in families with children from preterm infants to adolescents. Her research - funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR) - focuses on the development and testing of theory-based interventions for adolescents, parents, and families. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Loveland-Cherry served as a member of the US Preventive Service Task Force, an interdisciplinary group charged with developing evidence-based recommendations for health promotion and risk reduction.
Teaching
At the University of Michigan School of Nursing, Dr. Loveland-Cherry taught in the undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral programs in the areas of community health nursing, families and health, health promotion and risk reduction, research methods, and intervention research. In addition to serving in the classroom, she served as Director of the Division of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction Programs, the Director of the Doctoral Program, and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and was instrumental in establishing the Family Nurse Practitioner and the Second Career Program. She served at the Primary Investigator/Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) funded T32 in Health Promotion and Risk Reduction.
Affilliations/Service
Member, Midwest Nursing Research Society, 1976-present
Member, American Academy of Nursing,1993-present
Member, International Family Nursing Association, 2010-present
Member, Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, 2000-present
Member, American Nurses Association, 1965- present
Member, Sigma Theta Tau, 1963-present
Notable Awards/Honors
Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 1993
Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, University of Michigan, 2008
Member, US Preventive Services Task Force, 2003-2008
Distinguished Contributions to Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau, Rho Chapter, 2010
Education
PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1982
MPH, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1974
BSN, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1964