Research Day 2023 Keynote: Bitten by the Bug: The Joys and Impact of Nursing Research
Presenter: Bridgette M. (Brawner) Rice, PhD, MDiv, APRN, FAAN
Date: April 14, 2023
Link: YouTube recording Slides
Dr. Rice is the Richard and Marianne Kreider Endowed Professor in Nursing for Vulnerable Populations in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University. She began her nursing career in neonatal intensive care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She has since expanded her work to community-based practice. Her methodological advances have been applied to address multiple health inequities (e.g., youth mental health service utilization, cardiovascular disease risk among young Black men, gun violence) where she uses novel approaches including mixed methods research and GIS mapping. Cognizant of the role of geography in health, her spatially-based research explicates and intervenes in factors such as neighborhood disadvantage to prevent disease and promote health equity. Dr. Rice is a staunch justice advocate who believes that research can be leveraged as an advocacy tool to ensure all individuals have an opportunity to achieve their full health potential. Her work has been featured through multiple media outlets, and she has received numerous honors and awards, including the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Protégée Award in 2015 and the International Society of Psychiatric Nurses Diversity and Equity Award in 2020.
Research Day 2022 Keynote: 'Technology, Informatics and Data Analytics’ in an Era of Chronic Disease – Why?
Presenter: Kathleen Potempta
Date: April 8, 2022
Link: YouTube recording
Description: Our keynote speaker is Kathleen Potempa, BA, MS, PhD, RN, FAAN, an internationally recognized leader in nursing, education, and science. She is the former dean of the University of Michigan School of Nursing and current professor at the University of Michigan. Her research program focuses on the benefits of exercise on fatigue, cardiovascular fitness and cognition in physically impaired populations and the elderly. She is currently funded by NIH/Fogarty to train post-doctoral fellows in non-communicable disease research in Thailand, by the NIH/NIA for studies related to the cognitive and behavioral benefits of using computer-based video conversation in the elderly with mild cognitive impairment, and by the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services through Michigan Department of HHS and the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to evaluate healthy aging interventions in people over fifty years of age.
Research Day 2021 Keynote: Care and Caregiving in a Complex World
Presenter: J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, PhD, APRN, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN
Date: April 16, 2021
Link: YouTube recording
Description: Our keynote speaker is J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, PhD, APRN, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN, an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Co-Director of Caregiver and Bereavement Support Services in the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care and UAB Hospital. His keynote presentation is entitlted, Identifying Strategies to Develop Support for Family Caregivers of those with Serious Illness. Dr. Dionne-Odom's program of research focuses on the development and clinical trials testing of early palliative care, lay navigator-led interventions to enhance the coping and decision-making skills of family caregivers of persons with serious illness, particularly advanced cancer and heart failure. Dr. Dionne-Odom is the 2020 recipient of the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Protégé Award and was recently named one of 10 inaugural Betty Irene Moore Fellows, a national program to develop the next generation of nurse leaders and innovators.
Research Day 2018 Keynote: Innovation through Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Date: April 6, 2018
Link: YouTube Recording
Description: Our keynote speaker is Jessica Gill, PhD, RN who will present Biomarkers of Traumatic Brain Injuries and Concussions. She is an investigator at the National Institutes of Health and Co-Director of the Clinical Biomarkers Core for the Center for Neurosciences and Regenerative Medicine. Her work examines biological mechanisms of traumatic brain injury and related co-morbidities including post-traumatic stress disorder, post-concussive disorder, depression and neurological deficits (YouTube). Her research focus is to use biomarkers to better understand the mechanisms that contribute to poor recovery from brain injuries and to design novel interventions to improve recovery. Dr. Gill is a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar at the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and leads biomarker studies across the country to improve the health and well being of athletes, military personnel and civilians who sustain brain injuries.
Research Day 2017 Keynote: Precision Health and Nursing - from Genetics to Improving Health Outcomes
Date: April 28, 2017
Link: YouTube Recording and PowerPoints
Description: Our keynote speaker is Cindy Anderson, PhD, CRNP, ANEF, FNAP, FAHA, FAAN who will present on Epigenetics and Heritable Risk for Preeclampsia and Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Anderson is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Educational Innovation in the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University and a women's health nurse practitioner. From her early findings in animal studies through her clinical studies in pregnant women, her goals are to improve health outcomes of women and their children through early screening and identification of individuals at risk for preeclampsia across the lifespan.
Research Day 2016 Keynote: Transforming Healthcare through Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Date: April 22, 2016
Link: YouTube Recording and slides
Description: Our keynote speaker is Kathleen R. Stevens, EdD, MS, RN, ANEF, FAAN who will present Paving the Future of Nursing and Healthcare through Improvement Science. Dr. Stevens is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Director of the Improvement Science Network. She served as founding director of ACE-Center for Advancing Clinical Excellence 2000-2015, leading interprofessional efforts to advance evidence-based quality improvement and patient safety. Her federally funded activities emphasize healthcare transformation through scholarly work in the national Improvement Science Research Network, AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange, Institute of Medicine's report Preventing Medication Errors, and team performance improvement. Her achievements have been recognized with many honors including the Sigma Theta Episteme Laureate Award and induction into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.