Program of Research:
Kangaroo Care; Physiologic Responses to Skin-to-Skin Care; Infant Stimulation; and Early Development Issues
Research Projects:
Principal Investigator, "Effect of Skin Contact on Electrophysiologic Sleep in Preterm Infants," National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Nursing Research, 5 RO1 NR04926, 2000-2005.
Principal Investigator, "Kangaroo Care to Blunt Pain in Premature Infants," National Institute of Health and National Institute of Nursing Research, RO3 NR08587, 2003-2005.
Principal Investigator, "Antenatal Lactation Education for High-Risk African American Mothers and Mother's Milk," RIG, 2003-2004. Training Projects: Core Faculty, "Childbearing, Childrearing, Caregiving Research Training," May Wykle, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute of Health, T32 NR07108. Core Faculty, "Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Advanced Education Program," Donna Dowling, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, HP-00263-01, 2001-2004. Education Interests: Neonatal Nursing; Maternal-Child Health; and Nurse-Midwifery Educational Background: BS, Cell Biology, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara, CA BS, Nursing, University of California at San Francisco, CA MS, Maternal-Child Health, University of California at San Francisco, CA PhD, Nursing/Child Development, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX Certificate, Nurse Midwife, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY |
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