Cynthia L. Russell

PhD, RN, APRN, BC

Associate Professor
S423 MU Sinclair School of Nursing
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
E-Mail: RussellC@missouri.edu
Phone: (573) 884-9541
Fax: (573) 884-4544

Research Description: Adherence in Adult and Aging Dialysis and Renal Transplant Recipients.

Nursing Specialty: Adult chronic care; aging adults

Interest Area: Health behavior change

Cynthia Russell is an associate professor at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing. She completed her PhD at Saint Louis University in 2000. Her program of research is focused on adherence to treatment of adult and aging renal transplant recipients and dialysis patients. She currently is conducting an NIH funded study to examine patterns of medication nonadherence in adult renal transplant recipients, varying lengths of time since transplant, and the extent to which medication nonadherence is associated with the patient outcomes of creatinine, infection, acute and chronic rejection, graft loss and death.

• Research Director, International Transplant Nurses Society

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Press Releases:

Some Kidney Transplant Recipients Not Taking Anti-Rejection Medicine

 

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