• 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

Grubesic, Ruth, DrPH, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor, Nutrition

Grassley, Jane, Ph.D., RN, IBLC, Assistant Professor, Lactation, Grandmothers, Breastfeeding Confidence, Qualitative Research, Women's Studies

Hamilton, Patricia A., Ph.D., Professor, Secondary Analysis of Public Data Sets and Neonatal Mortality

Hawkins, Chris, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, 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

Mastel-Smith, Beth, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Geriatrics and Community Health

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

Adamson, Carolyn, PhD, RN, Professor, Compliance with Health Recommendations and Depersonalization in the Elderly

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

Grubesic, Ruth, DrPH, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor, Obesity and Hypertension

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

Mastel-Smith, Beth, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Depression and Life Review

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

Rodriguez, Tom, DNS, NP-C, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor, Psychological Pain, Hypothyroidism and Adrenal Insufficiency

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

Tart, Kathryn, EdD, RN, CNE, Critical Thinking

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)

Adamson, Carolyn, PhD, RN, Professor, Development of Instruments to Measure Successful Nursing Interventions and Reliability and Validity of Tests of NCLEX Performance

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

Grubesic, Ruth, DrPH, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor, Nutrition and International Health

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

Bancroft, Stacey, MSN, RN, CPN, Clinical Professor, Student Success, Patient and Parent Education and It's Impact on Need for ReAdmission

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

Dorin, Michelle, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Nursing Student Mentors

Emerson, Michele, MS, RN, CNM, Stress and Nursing Students

Foster, Jan, PhD, RN, CNS, CCRN, Assistant Professor, Nursing Education

Grubesic, Ruth, DrPH, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor, Stress and Nursing Students

Haile, Brenda, DrPH, MPH, RN, BC, Associate Professor, Stress and Nursing Students

Hawkins, Chris, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Mentoring Faculty and Students

Henderson, Betty, MN, RN, Assistant Professor, Academic Achievement of Disadvantaged Students and Stressors and Student Nurse Success

Hueske, Cathy, 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

Tart, Kathryn, EdD, RN, CNE, Student Persistence and 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