Faculty with Aging-Related Interests

Faculty	Position	Interests	Email
Jonathan Auld, PhD, MAT, RN	Assistant Professor, BNHI	Heart failure, health-related quality of life, self-care, symptoms	auldja@uw.edu
Basia Belza, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA	Professor, BNHI; Director, de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging	Healthy brain, healthy aging, evidence-based health promotion programs, physical activity, public health interventions and policy.	basiab@uw.edu
Donna Berry PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN	Professor BNHI	Human response to cancer; specifically, but not exclusively, in genitourinary (GU) malignancies. Multi-method investigator. Led a large interdisciplinary team to develop and test the Personal Patient Profile-Prostate (P3P).	donnalb@uw.edu
Eeeseung Byun, PhD, RN	Assistant Professor, BNHI	Symptom Management, specifically sleep disturbance, fatigue and impaired cognition, and underlying mechanisms of these symptoms in persons with chronic illness.	ebyun@uw.edu
Chieh (Sunny) Cheng, RN, PhD	Assistant Professor, UW Tacoma	Early identification and intervention for mental health conditions, Mental health promotion for school youth, Technology based intervention for supporting family caregivers	ccsunny@uw.edu
Kristen Childress, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC, CWCN-AP	Associate Teaching Professor, CFPHN	Geriatrics/internal medicine, wound care, dialysis rounding, home care, and urgent care/emergency medicine.	kmchild@uw.edu
Barbara Cochrane, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA	Professor, CFPHN	Older women’s health, healthy aging, symptoms and symptom management, menopausal hormone therapy, living with chronic illness.	barbc@uw.edu
Cynthia Dougherty, ARNP, PhD, FAHA, FAAN	Professor, BNHI	Development of knowledge related to human responses to sudden cardiac arrest and cardiac arrhythmias, both for survivors and their family members.	cindyd@uw.edu
Maya Elías, PhD, MA, RN	Assistant Professor, BNHI	Healthy aging research, including serving as the PI on the project, “Sleep Quality and Cognitive Function in Hospitalized Older Adult Survivors of Critical Illness.”	mnelias@uw.edu
Azita Emami, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, FAAN	The Robert G. and Jean A. Reid Dean of Nursing; Professor, BNHI	Gerontology and health of older adults, transcultural nursing care. Music and memory	emamia@uw.edu
Margaret Heitkemper, PhD, RN, FAAN	Professor	Gastrointestinal physiology, enteral nutrition, geriatrics. Leads an interdisciplinary team focused on the study of the pathophysiology and non-pharmacological management of individuals with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).	heit@uw.edu
Chiyoung Lee, PhD, RN	Assistant Professor, UW Bothell	Health disparities research for vulnerable and minority populations with a diverse set of statistical tools and analytic techniques for exploring health disparities; methodological and theoretical foundation in disparities research, particularly among older adults; and national health surveys, lifespan developmental research, systematic review, and experimental design on reporting health disparities.	clee33@uw.edu
Frances Lewis RN, MN, PhD, FAAN	Professor, CFPHN, The UW Medical Center Endowed Professor in Nursing	Behavioral interventions to enhance the well-being of patients, caregivers, and the dependent children in families.	fmlewis@uw.edu
Susan McCurry, PhD	Research Professor Emeritus, CFPHN	Sleep disturbances in Alzheimer’s disease; behavioral treatments for dementia patients and caregivers; cross-cultural differences in dementia onset and progression; successful aging	smcurry@uw.edu
Janet Primomo, PhD, RN	Associate Professor Emeritus, UW Tacoma	One of the three founding faculty members of UW Tacoma Nursing. Scholarly work focuses on community/public health, environmental health, and chronic illness care.	jprimomo@uw.edu
Kerryn Reding PhD, MPH, RN	Associate Professor, BNHI	Biobehavioral and health disparities research, focus on health promotion and breast cancer survival. In the context of health promotion, impact of lifestyle interventions (primarily focused on improving nutrition and physical activity habits) on obesity-related biomarkers relevant to cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention, with a particular focus on underserved communities.	kreding@uw.edu
David Reyes, DNP, MN/MPH, RN, PHNA-BC	Associate Professor, UW Tacoma	Primary interests are in addressing the root causes of health inequity and disparities, building community capacity to improve health, and population health systems. His research uses community-based participatory approaches that focus on equitable relationships with diverse communities to improve health outcomes.	djreyes@uw.edu
Tatiana Sadak, PhD, PMHNP, RN, FAAN	Rasmussen, Marilee Endowed Associate Professor, BNHI	Study of geriatric multi-morbidity and neurodegenerative disorders, informing the design of a new component of health care delivery for PWD and their CG by generating evidence, creating measurement tools and developing interventions aimed to support clinicians and CG working together to prevent avoidable health crises of both CG and PWD and to enable CG to manage the health of their care recipients without sacrificing their own health and wellness	sadakt@uw.edu
Anita Souza, PhD	Clinical Associate Professor, CFPHN	Care and support of older adults across the cognitive continuum, including those in the early stages of memory loss, focusing on the psychosocial and health care needs of those with cognitive decline who live alone and reside in the community. Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methods. Study of cognitively impaired individuals who have experienced homelessness, aiming to better understand the needs and challenges of providing care to homeless older adults with cognitive impairment by examining social network factors (mobility, housing, family and friend networks) that contribute to health care access in older homeless adults, and the associations with chronic disease and cognitive health.	asouza@uw.edu
Megan Streur PhD, RN, FNP-C	Assistant Professor, BNHI	Understanding the biological and behavioral mechanisms underlying inter- and intra-individual variability in symptoms and patient centered outcomes in adults with cardiovascular disease, with a primary focus on atrial fibrillation.	mstreur@uw.edu
Hsin-Yi (Jean) Tang, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC, APRN	Associate Professor, BNHI	Brainwave entrainment for the management of hyper-arousal related health conditions such as insomnia and hypertension. Non-pharmacological approaches that empower self-regulation for health promotion.	jeantang@uw.edu
Linda Teri, PhD	Professor Emerita, CFPHN	Epidemiological and longitudinal studies of dementia and normal aging; assessment and treatment of behavioral problems in dementia; clinical outcome trials; caregiving interventions. Development, implementation and evaluation of assessment and treatment approaches to reducing the disability inherent among older adults with significant cognitive disorders	lteri@uw.edu
Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN	Joanne Montgomery Endowed Professor, BNHI	Traumatic brain injury; geriatric trauma; biomarkers; gerontechnology; health services research; evidence-based practice	hilairet@uw.edu
Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN	Professor and Dean Emerita, BNHI	Women’s health, menstrual cycle, menopause transition, healthy aging in women	nfwoods@uw.edu
Weichao Yuwen, Ph.D., RN	Assistant Professor, UW Tacoma	Research in developing, testing, and disseminating technology-enabled health solutions for people with chronic conditions and their family caregivers	wyuwen@uw.edu
Oleg Zaslavsky, PhD, MHA, RN	Associate Professor, BNHI	Prevention and improving clinical outcomes in older persons with frailty, specifically to identify factors that are associated with individuals’ transitions between levels of health along a positive-normative-frail continuum of aging.	ozasl@uw.edu
Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN	Professor, BNHI	Health systems and patient outcomes; interprofessional education, practice and research; prevention and management of deep vein thrombosis. Improving collaborative practice in an accountable care organization so that health care teams can co-produce health services with patients and families to meet their goals/needs.	brendaz@uw.edu