Our Researchers
Jean Anthony, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
jean.anthony@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Health inequities
- Transcultural nursing
- Depression in African Americans and other minority populations
- Health care decision-making
- Mental health issues
Seong-Yi Baik, PhD, MS, RN
Associate Professor
seongyi.baik@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Depression
- Comorbidities
Tamilyn Bakas, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Professor and Jane E. Procter Endowed Chair
tamilyn.bakas@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Family Caregiving
- Stroke
- Chronic Conditions
- Older Adults
- Telehealth
Bonnie Brehm, PhD, RD, LD
Professor
bonnie.brehm@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Obesity and weight loss diets
- Obesity and energy balance (i.e. energy intake and energy expenditure)
- Interprofessional education
Angela Clark, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
angela.clark@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Addiction
- Harm reduction strategies
Gordon L. Gillespie, PhD, DNP, RN, CEN, CNE, CPEN, PHCNS-BC, FAEN, FAAN
Associate Professor
gordon.gillespie@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Workplace violence (patients, visitors, coworkers)
- Emergency nursing
- Active learning strategies
Greer Glazer, PhD, RN, CNP, FAAN
Dean, Schmidlapp Professor of Nursing, & Associate Vice President for Health Affairs
greer.glazer@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Academic service partnerships
- Domestic violence
- Women's health
Denise Gormley, PhD, RN
Professor & Interim Sr. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
denise.gormley@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Organizational systems
- Work climate
- Commitment/job satisfaction
- Nursing shortage – retention and turnover
- Faculty work issues
- Nursing education – online/DL
Cheedy Jaja, PhD, MPH, MN, MSN, PMHNP-BC, RN
Associate Professor
cheedy.jaja@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Pharmacogenetics of analgesic medication
- Sickle cell disease pain management
- Chronic pain and psycho-social wellbeing
Kimberly D. Johnson, PhD, RN, CEN
Assistant Professor
johns4kb@ucmail.uc.edu
Research Interests:
- Emergency nursing
- Triage Interruptions
- Improvement science
- Quality and Safety in Nursing Care
Holly Jones, PhD, RN, CFNP, RNFA
Assistant Professor
joneshj@ucmail.uc.edu
Research interests:
- Women's Health and Mid-Life Women
- Perceived Stress
- Symptoms Management
- Preventive Health
Rebecca Lee, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, CTN-A
Assistant Professor
lee2rc@ucmail.uc.edu
Research interests:
- Homelessness
- Vulnerable Populations
- Culturally-Tailored Health Promotion
- Transcultural Nursing
- Public Health Nursing
- Interprofessional Education & Practice, Public Health
- Qualitative & Mixed Methods Research
Elaine T. Miller, PhD, RN, CRRN, FAAN, FAHA
Professor
millerel@ucmail.uc.edu
Research interests:
- Informal and formal caregiving relationships of severely physically impaired adults and their primary caregiver
- Brief educational interventions to reduce modifable stroke risk factors in adults
Caroline Morrison, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
caroline.morrison@uc.edu
Research Interests:
- Stem cell transplant/Oncology
- Symptom management
- Self-management
- Medication adherence
- Behavioral intervention
Robin Osterman, PhD, RNC-OB, CNS
Associate Professor
robin.osterman@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Alcohol/Substance use
- Pregnancy
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Behavior change and behavioral interventions
- Motivational interviewing
- Post-Traumatic Sress Disorder (PTSD) and trauma-informed interventions
Joseph Perazzo, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
joseph.perazzo@uc.edu
Research Interests:
- Optimizing care transitions among individuals receiving new diagnoses
- HIV self-management across the lifespan
- Development of clinically translatable interventions to promote health behaviors that compliment medical therapies for chronic disease
Tracy Pritchard, PhD
Assistant Professor
tracy.pritchard@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Transition to college
- Access to education for diverse populations
- Genetics and cardiovascular disease
Brittany Punches, PhD, RN, CEN
Assistant Professor
brittany.punches@uc.edu
Research Interests:
- Emergency Care
- Patient/Provider Perceptions
- Iatrogenic Addiction - Opioid
- Reproductive Health
Susan Reutman, PhD, MPH, RN
Assistant Professor
susan.reutman@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Occupational health epidemiology focused on vulnerable worker sub-populations
Mary Risinger, PhD
Assistant Professor - Research
mary.risinger@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Hereditary hemolytic anemias including red blood cell membrane disorders and Sickle Cell Disease
- Genetic modifiers of Sickle Cell Disease
- Red blood cell volume regulation
Donna Shambley-Ebron, PhD, RN, CTN-A
Associate Professor
donna.shambley-ebron@uc.edu
Research interests:
- HIV/AIDS prevention
- African American women and girls
- Ethnography
- Health disparities
- Transcultural nursing
- Community based participatory research
Carolyn Smith, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
carolyn.smith@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Teens and workplace aggression
- Teens and dating violence
Ashley Weber, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
ashley.weber@uc.edu
Research interests:
- Effects of family-centered care interventions on pre-term infant brain development in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
- Translating family-centered care interventions into NICU clinical practice
- Reducing premature infant stress in the NICU
- Minimizing maternal-infant separating in the NICU