Center for Health Promotion
CHP Faculty Research
Barbara Brush
Research Focus: Nursing history, nurse migration, nurse workforce policy, primary care to homeless populations, substance abuse and transitional care.
Key Words: History, immigration
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2006-2008: Imported Care: Foreign Nurse Immigration to US Hospitals;
National Library of Medicine
• 2006-2008: Survey of Registered Nurses in NY State Hospitals; NYSHA
Sonia Duffy
Research Focus: Cancer recurrence and survival, smoking and alcohol cessation, depression, and quality of life, particularly among head and neck cancer patinets care.
Key Words: Cancer, Quality of Life, Smoking, Alcohol Cessation
Currently Funded Projects:
•2005-2009: Effective Care and Management of Diabetes Patients ; National Institutes of Health, Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disorders
•2006-2009: Inpatient Smoking Cessation: Bringing the Program to the Smoker, VA Service Directed Project
•2007-2008: The Prevalence of Alcohol, Smoking, and Depression Among Construction Workers; National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, MICHIN.
•2007-2008: Facility Level Smoking Cessation Intervention in VISN 11, VA Rapid Response Proposal.
Kimberlee A. Gretebeck
Research Focus: Tailored behavioral interventions that promote
physical activity adherence in older adults with congestive heart failure and
type 2 diabetes.
Key Words: Physical activity, randomized controlled trials,
older adults, type 2 diabetes, congestive heart failure
Currently Funded Projects:
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2006-2007: (PI) A Tailored Physical Activity Intervention to Improve Neuropathy
and Mobility in Older Adults with Early Diabetes; Michigan Center for Health
Intervention (MICHIN) pilot grant.
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2006-2009: (PI) A Tailored Intervention to Promote Adoption and Maintenance
of Physical Activity in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes; American Diabetes
Association.
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2006-2008: (Co-PI) Worksite Screening and Education Program to Reduce Hypertension
in Michigan; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation.
– Michigan Road Scholar (MRS) Seed Grants, University of Michigan
Lisa Kane-Low
Research Focus: Care practices during the process of birth
include the role of social support provided by Doulas. Women's self-care and
urinary incontinence.
Key Words: Childbearing, safe motherhood, pelvic floor dysfunction
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2005-2006: Centering Pregnancy Prenatal Care Model for Latinas; Medicaid
Match
• 2005-2007: Doulas Care Outreach to Pregnant Adolescents; Medicaid Match
• 2003-2007: Birth, Muscle Injury, and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction; OWH
• 2005-2009: The Psychobiology of PTSD and Childbearing; NIH, NINR
Maria Katapodi
Research Focus: Perceived risk and cancer prevention, early detection, genetic testing/ genetic screening
decision-making and heuristic thinking
Key Words: Perceived risk, cancer prevention, early detection, heuristic thinking, culture, diversity
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2007-2009: Hereditary cancer risk, family functioning, and decision making, Oncology Nursing Society Foundation.
• 2003-2008: Exploring women’s perceptions of their risk of developing breast cancer, Department of Defense, Breast Cancer Research, Clinical Nurse Research Award.
Carol Loveland-Cherry
Research Focus: Health promotion/risk reduction in families with school age children; interventions with adolescents, parents, families to decrease adolescent substance use and to reduce
Key Words: Families, children and adolescents, vulnerable populations, substance use, health promotion, randomized clinical trials
Currently Funded Projects:
• 1992-2008: Health Promotion/Risk Reduction Interventions Training (T32); NINR.
• 2008-:Testing a Computer-Based Parent/Adolescent HIV Communication Intervention, National Institutes of Health, NINR.
Milisa
Manojlovich Research Focus: Social structures in the hospital work environment
and how these affect various nursing processes that contribute to nursing as
well as patient outcomes.
Key Words: RN/MD communication, practice behaviors, work
environments, quality care
Currently Funded Projects:
• RN/MD Communication as a Potential Strategy to Improve Patient
Safety in Michigan ICUs; BCBSM
Kristy Martyn
Research Focus: Clinical Use of Event History Calendars and
Patient: Provider Communication with adolescent and prenatal patients. Evaluating
effect of context-linked risk and protective factor assessments on prenatal
and adolescent patients' cognitive appraisal, communication with providers,
and health outcomes. Exploring risk avoidance factors and behaviors among adolescents.
Key Words: Adolescent Risk Assessment and Risk Avoidance;
Clinical Use of Event History Calendars; Patient: Provider Communication (Prenatal
and Adolescent patients)
Currently Funded Projects:
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2004-2007, Health Disparities: Leaders, Providers and Patients (Ransom, Co-Investigator),
NIH
Elaine McIntosh
Research Focus: Prenatal care, outreach for survivors of
domestic violence among the Hispanic population.
Key Words: Group prenatal care, Latina women, Medicaid population,
case management for the uninsured population, outreach for survivors of domestic
violence, access to care
Currently Funded Projects:
• Centering Pregnancy: A Nursing Model of Group Prenatal Care – BCBSM Matching
Initiative
• Strengthening the Safety Net – Washtenaw Health Plan
• Increasing Access to Care – City of Ann Arbor
Janis Miller
Research Focus: Pelvic floor disorders including urinary
incontinence and prolapse.
Overactive bladder
Key Words: Pelvic floor disorders,
urinary incontinence, prolapse, neuromuscular injury
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2001-2007: Races Differences in Female UI: Epidemiology and Biology;
NIH
• 2002-2007: Selection Criteria for Pelvic Muscle Therapy in SUI;
NIH
• 2005-2007: Maternal Birth-Related Neuromuscular Injury and Recovery;
NIH
• 2006-2007: Overactive Bladder and Potentially “Irritating” Beverage
Intake: A Randomized Controlled Trial; Pfizer
Laurel Northouse
Research Focus: Outcomes of triaged family care in advanced
cancer.
Key Words: Family care, cancer, intervention research, quality
of life
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2004-2009: Outcomes of Triaged Family Care in Advanced Cancer, NCI
• 2004-2009: Michigan Center for Intervention Research; NINR
• 2002-2007: Survivor QOL and Spouse Satisfaction after Prostate Therap;
NCI
• 2001-2006: Prostate Cancer: Family Care for Patients and Spouses;
NCI
Joanne Pohl
Research Focus: Nurse Managed Centers (NMC), smoking cessation,
outcomes of care in NMCs, family care giving.
Key Words: Nurse Managed Centers, smoking cessation
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2007-2008: Health Literacy in Primary Care, Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
• 2007-2010: A Partnership for Clinician EHR Use and Quality of Care
Carolyn M. Sampselle
Research Focus: Women's self-care and urinary incontinence.
Key
Words: Urinary incontinence, behavior intervention, self-efficacy,
health disparities Currently Funded Projects:
• 2000-2004: Urinary Incontinence Prevention: Reducing Birthing
Risk; NINR (No-cost extension, data collection, writing manuscripts)
• 2000-2006: Promoting Self-Care to Prevent Urinary Incontinence:
A Four-Year Follow-up; NINR (No-cost extension; data collection, writing
manuscripts)
• 2002-2007: MESA Center for Health Disparities; NINR
• 2002-2007: Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health;
NIH/NIAMS
• 2003-2008: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation; NIA/NINR
• 2005-2010: The Michigan Center for Health Intervention; NINR
Julia Seng
Research Focus: Effects of postraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) on women's health and childbearing.
Key Words: Hyperemesis, PTSD, pregnancy, psychosocial intervention
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2005-2009: Psychobiology of PTSD and Adverse Outcomes of Childbearing; NINR
• 2005-2007: PTSD as a Biopsychosocial Etiology of Hyperemesis; GCRC, OVPR, MESA
• 2007-2009: Genetic Polymorphisms as Additional Predictors of PTSD and Preterm Birth; NINR
• 2008-2009: Survivor Moms Companion: A PTSD-specific Intervention for the Childbearing Year; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
Jacquelyn Taylor
Research Focus: Pediatrics, school health, vulnerable
populations (women and children), urban health, genetics, and health across
the lifespan.
Key Words: Hypertension, heredity, vulnerable populations
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2005-2006: Hypertension and Heredity: Genetic Polymorphisms in the Generations
of African American Women; MCUAAAR
• 2006-2007: Hypertension and Heredity Follow-up Study; MICHIN
Antonia M. Villarruel
Research Focus: Health promotion and risk reduction with
Latino and Mexican populations, specifically the development of behavioral
interventions to reduce HIV sexual risk behaviors
Key Words: Latinos, children and adolescents, health disparities,
HIV, randomized clinical trials
Currently Funded Projects:
• 2002-2007: MESA Center for Health Disparities; NINR
• 2002-2007: Promoting Health Lifestyles Among Women; NIDDKD
• 2002-2007: Health Promotion/Risk Reduction Interventions Training
Grant (T32); NINR
• 2004-2007: Health Disparities: Leaders, Providers, and Patients;
NCRR
• 2004-2009: NCEMNA: Nurse Scientist Stimulation; NIGMS
• 2005-2008: Raices Nuevas: A Batterer Prevention Program for
Latino Men; CDC
• 2005-2010: The Michigan Center for Health Intervention; NINR
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