Faculty Expertise and Interests

• Jan Cooper, PhD, RN - Associate Professor and Clinical Simulation Center director Research interests: Nursing education, clinical; simulation in nursing education; bullying in nursing education; and health disparities.
• Kate Fouquier, PhD, RN, CNM - Assistant Professor
  Research interests: Psychosocial adaptions in pregnancy and birth; maternal-infant attachment; and health-care disparities in maternal nursing.
• Kristi Henderson, DNP, RN, CFNP - Associate Professor
  Research interests: Telemedicine; HIV testing in the emergency department; and the impact of nurse practitioners in an academic emergency department.
• Laree Hiser, PhD - Associate Professor
  Research interests: Demyelinating disorders; multiple sclerosis; chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy; drug resistance; biomarkers and drug targets.
• Kim W. Hoover, PhD, RN - Professor and Dean
  Research interests: Health systems; patient safety and quality improvement; health-related workforce.
• Deborah Konkle-Parker, PhD, RN, FNP - Associate Professor
  Research interests: Adherence to HIV treatment; HIV prevention; linkage to care and behavioral research.
• Sharon Lobert, PhD, RN - Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Practice and Evaluation
  Research interests: Drug resistance to chemotherapy; tubulin and microtubules; antimiotic agents (Vinca Alkaloids and Taxanes); intracellular-signaling mechanisms; cell cycle and apoptosis.
• Jennifer C. Robinson, PhD, RN - Associate Professor
  Research interests: Physical activity; health behavior; cardiovascular health disparities; neighborhood context; the built environment; social epidemiology; social and environmental determinants of health and health behaviors.
• Mary W. Stewart, PhD, RN - Professor and Special Assistant to the Dean, Director of Ph.D. Program
  Research interests: Access to health care for elders; transitions; control and self-esteem; gerontology education; nursing administration; perianethesia nursing.
• Karen Winters, PhD, RN - Professor
  Research interests: Health-care access and utilization; racial disparities in health and health care; health insurance status; cardiovascular care and analyzing data from large data sets.
• Sharon B. Wyatt, PhD, RN, CS, CANP, FAAN - Harriet Williamson Professor
  Research interests: Health disparities; hypertension; sociocultural influences; research participation; cardiovascular disease; chronic kidney disease; community-based participatory research; Heideggerian Hermeneutics.