Research Day 2025: Bridging the Gap: Empowering Innovative Nursing Research, Education and Policy for Better Health Outcomes
Presenter: Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Date: April 11, 2025
Link: YouTube recording
Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos was our keynote speaker. He is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Solutions and the Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. He is also the founding director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos is a nurse practitioner dually licensed in adult health and psychiatric-mental health nursing. Widely regarded as a scholar and leader in the social determinants of health and developing, evaluating, and translating nurse-driven, community-based interventions, his research has been funded for two decades by NIH, CDC, and various federal agencies. His work has been published in leading scientific journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Nature Medicine, and the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos was a member of the ad hoc NASEM Committee on Unequal Treatment Revisited: The Current State of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, the NASEM Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society, and the Board of UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino focused civil rights organization. He also serves on the Latino Commission on AIDS Board of Directors as vice chair and the chair of the board of directors, Power to Decide.
Research Day 2024: Nursing Research: A Catalyst for Health Equity
Presenter: Heather M. Young
Date: April 12, 2024
Link: YouTube recording
The University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing hosted the 2024 Nursing Research Day conference on Friday, April 12. This year's theme is Nursing Research: A Catalyst for Health Equity. The event is free; Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education credits will be offered. Throughout the day, faculty, community partners and students will lead concurrent podium and poster presentation sessions that showcase findings from innovative research and evidence-based projects that improve health and quality care.
A nurse leader, educator, scientist and nationally recognized expert in gerontological nursing and rural health care, Heather M. Young is national director of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship Program for Nurse Leaders and Innovators, professor, and dean emerita for the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. Young researches healthy aging with a particular focus on the interface between individuals, family and formal health care systems. She co-leads the Healthy Aging in a Digital World initiative at UC Davis Health and co-directs the Family Caregiving Institute and is a Senior Policy Fellow with the AARP Public Policy Institute focusing on policy and systems supports for family caregivers. Her research has played an instrumental role in shaping long-term care policies in Washington state and beyond and she conducted several longitudinal studies of family caregiving in the context of cognitive and functional decline associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. Her systems research includes use of technology, such as telehealth, and community-based strategies to promote healthy aging and management of chronic conditions. As founding dean and Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing for UC Davis Health, Young led the establishment of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. Young’s nursing practice included critical care and as a geriatric nurse practitioner in community-based long-term care. Previously, she directed the John A. Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Oregon Health and Science University and, prior to that, she held a joint appointment on faculty at the University of Washington School of Nursing and as the chief operations officer of a retirement community company, designing and managing an array of residential and skilled nursing programs.
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
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
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
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
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
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.