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Associate Professor School of Nursing and the Graduate School of
Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh has provided over
20 years of service and has had an active program of research for
fourteen years in diabetes. She is a pediatric diabetes clinical
nurse specialist and a pediatric nurse practitioner. Her work has
included national diabetes activities, such as editorial board member
and associate editor of Diabetes Care, editorial board member of
the Diabetes Spectrum, and selected as a member of both the Health
Care and Education Advisory Group of the ADA Executive Committee
and the ADA’s 2002 Scientific Session Meeting Committee. In
addition, she has served as Chairperson of AADE’s Research
Committee and is a current member of ADA’s Research &
Grant Review Committee. Her own research emphasis is in theory-based
studies identifying cognitive/psychosocial predictors of health
behavior changes in children and adolescents with diabetes. She
has conducted several funded projects in the area of instrumentation,
program development and evaluation, and survey designs. Most recently,
her emphasis is on computer-based education-counseling intervention
studies: reproductive health and preconception counseling in adolescents
with diabetes; and determination and notification of genetic risk
of diabetes in children. She has numerous presentations and publications
in these areas.
She is currently involved with two studies. The first, Reproductive
Health Program for Teen Girls with Diabetes: An Intervention Study
(funded by the ADA), is a study which utilizes CD ROMs to deliver
preconception counseling to adolescent girls with diabetes in an
effort prevent unplanned pregnancies, empower teens to make informed
choices and potentially improve their reproductive health and the
health of their future children. The second, Genetic Information
for Testing –Diabetes (GIFT-D) (funded by the DOD), is aimed
at providing children and their parents genetic education/counseling,
testing, and assessment of the child’s risk for developing
type 1 diabetes via a web-based program. The long-term goal of this
project is world wide web-based genetic counseling that provides
information while minimizing stress.
BACKGROUND:
| Education |
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| BSN |
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Nursing |
| MSN |
Boston College, Chestnut
Hill, MA
Maternal Child Health |
| PhD |
University of Michigan, School of Public Health,
Ann Arbor, MI
Health Behavior/Health Education |
| PostDoc Fellow |
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
and WPIC , Pittsburgh , PA
Childhood Psychology |
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