MU Sinclair School of Nursing

Recently Funded Research,

Training and Public Service

Grants and Contracts

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Greg Alexander

Assistant Professor of Nursing

• Mentored Clinical Scientist Development - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, $518,782, 2007-2012
• Pilot Project 1: Developing Interfaces to Provide Range of Motion Feedback to Elderly People Using Exercise Equipment – RAND Corporation, $40,000, 2007-2008
• IT Sophistication in Nursing Homes - Research Council, $4,568, 2006-2007
• Measuring IT Sophistication in Nursing Homes - Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, $12,950, 2006
• Mentoring Grant - Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center , $1,500, 2006-2007

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Jane Armer

Professor of Nursing

• Long-Term Breast Cancer Treatment Effects: Limb Changes - National Institutes of Health, $2,255,597, 2006-2010
• Long-term Breast Cancer Treatment Effects: Limb Changes - MU PRIME, $193,222, 2006-2010
• Breast Cancer Lymphedema: Studying Feasibility of a Preventive Intervention - Lance Armstrong Foundation, $247,500, 2006-2008
• Breast Cancer Lymphedema: Studying Feasibility of a Preventive Intervention - MU PRIME, $52,672, 2006-2008
• Prospective Nursing Study of Breast Cancer Lymphedema - (R01) National Institutes of Health, $1,602,409, 2001-2006
• Prospective Nursing Study of Breast Cancer Lymphedema - MU PRIME, $317,000, 2001-2006
• Prospective Nursing Study of Breast Cancer Lymphedema - (Minority Supplement) National Institutes of Health, $26,188, 2004-2007

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Myra Aud

Associate Professor of Nursing

• Nursing Home Administrator Attrition in Missouri : Why Administrators Make the Career Altering Decision to Leave the Profession - MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging, $8,000, 2007-2008

• Caregiving Stresses as Experienced by Nursing Staff in Dementia Special Care Units - Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Iota Chapter, $1,000, 2007-2008

   

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JoAnne Banks-Wallace

Associate Professor of Nursing

• Stories Mean More… and Less… Than We Think - Mizzou Alumni Association, $1,606, 2007-2008
• Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research: subcontract with Saint Louis University - National Institutes of Health, $20,841, 2003-2006

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Constance Brooks

Adjunct Associate Professor

• Continuous Quality Improvement Program - Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, $78,472, 2006-2007

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Linda Bullock

Professor of Nursing

• Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program (DOVE): subcontract with Johns Hopkins University - National Institutes of Health, $1,001,422, 2006-2011
• Missouri Model for Brief Smoking Cessation Training Award to Schools of Medicine & Nursing - Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, $20,000, 2006
• Nursing Support: Better Infant Outcomes in Violent Homes - (R01) National Institutes of Health, $1,977,879, 2005-2009
• Nursing Smoking Cessation Intervention During Pregnancy - (R01) National Institutes of Health, $1,942,148, 2001-2006

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Jane Cochran

• An Emailed Exercise Intervention In Type 2 Diabetes - National Institutes of Health, $58,058, 2003-2006

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Vicki Conn

Associate Dean of Research

• Chronic Illness Exercise Interventions: A Meta-Analysis - (R01) National Institutes of Health, $895,930, 2002-2007
• Chronic Illness Exercise Interventions: A Meta-Analysis - (Minority Supplement) National Institutes of Health, $80,661, 2003-2007
• Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Increase Exercise/Physical Activity – (R01) National Institutes of Health, $1,687,439, 2006-2010

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Shirley Farrah

Assistant Dean, Nursing Outreach and Distance Education ( NODE ) and
Assistant Teaching Professor

• National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program - Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, $18,687, 2007-2008

• MU Leadership Development Academy for Registered Nurses in Long Term Care - Health Resources & Services Administration, $726,499, 2007-2010

• Center for Emergency Response/Terrorism - Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, $4,950, 2006-2007

• Project Director, School Nurse Achievement Program (SNAP), Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, October 22, 2004, September 30, 2005.
• Project Director, Maternal Child Health Institute, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, November 1, 2004 – April 30, 2005.
• Project Director, Breastfeeding Training for Home Visitors and Prenatal Case Managers, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, May 17, 2004  – June 30, 2004. 
• Project Director, Transferring Geriatric Research into Practice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, September 30, 2003 - September 29, 2004.. 
• Project Director, Breastfeeding Educator Workshop #2, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, July 8, 2003 – December 31, 2003. (Subcontract with Louise Miller PhD, RN; MSHSS Contract AOC03380017 Amendment 2 Lactation Management Curriculum-Phase 2/Miller)
• Project Director, Women’s Health Conference, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, January 1, 2003 – July 1, 2003.
• Project Director, Breastfeeding Educator Workshop #1, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, October 1, 2002 – April 30, 2003. (Subcontract with Louise Miller PhD, RN)
• Project Director, Domestic Violence:  Understanding the Effects on Children and Families, Missouri Department of               Health, January 1, 2002 – June 30, 2002. 
• Project Director, Excellence in School Nurse Continuing Education, Missouri Department of Health, October 1, 2001 – June 30, 2002.
• Project Director, MU Sinclair School of Nursing RN to BSN Multimethod Outreach Program, Department of Health and Human Services (D10 NU40441-03), July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002. 
• Project Director, Domestic Violence: A Health Care Imperative Conference, Missouri Department of Health, January 1, 2001 - June 15, 2001.
• Project Director, Statewide Infant Mortality Symposium, Missouri Department of Health, December 1, 2000 – July 31, 2001. 
• Project Director, Excellence in School Nurse Continuing Education, Missouri Department of Health, August 1, 2000 – June 30, 2001.
• Project Director, MU Sinclair School of Nursing RN to BSN Multimethod Outreach Program, Department of Health and Human Services (D10 NU40441-02), July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2001. 
• Project Director, Domestic Violence: A Health Care Imperative Conference, Missouri Department of Health, March 1, 2000 - September 15, 2000.
• Project Director, Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training (N-CAST),  Missouri Department of Health, December 1, 1999 - February 25, 2000.
• Project Director, Excellence in School Nursing Continuing Education, Missouri Department of Health, November 1, 1999 - September 30, 2000.
• Project Director, MU Sinclair School of Nursing RN to BSN Multimethod Outreach Program, Department of Health and Human Services (D10 NU40441-01), July 1, 1999 - June 30, 2000.

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Deb Finfgeld Connett

Associate Professor of Nursing

• Web-based Treatment Program for Female Problem Drinkers – (R15 AREA) National Institutes of Health, $220,500, 2005-2007

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Debra Gayer

Associate Teaching Professor and
Coordinator of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program

• Academic Transformation Grant - MU ET@MO, $5,000, 2006-2007

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Rebecca Johnson

Millsap Professor of Gerontological Nursing and Public Policy

• Ask the Community: Barriers & Facilitators of Physical Activity and Exercise - Missouri Foundation for Health, $36,400, 2007-2008

• Dog Pals: Easing Elder's Relocation Transitions - Research Council, $7,500, 2005-2006

• University of Missouri-Columbia Research Council Grant study of Testing a Dog Visit Protocol with Newly Admitted Nursing Home Residents ($7,500) 
• Missouri Foundation for health study on Walking for Healthy Hearts, a.k.a. "Dog Walk" ($134,000)
• Comprehensive Cancer Center Key Group Leaders Seed Program Study on Hand & Paw Study: Animal Assisted Therapy and Anxiety among Radiation Therapy Patients - An MU Interdisciplinary Randomized, Clinical Trial ($50,000)
• National Institutes of Health Study on Relocation of Ethnic Elders: Decisions and Sequelae ($504,125)
• Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center Study on Ethnic Elders, Pet Attachment, Health and Well-Being ($7,933)
• VPI Skeeter Foundation Study on Neuroenocrine effects of Human Animal Interaction ($130,000)

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Alice Kuehn

Associate Professor Emerita

• Collaborative Learning Across Borders: Partnering Students, Faculty and Community - U.S. Department of Education, $230,000, 2002-2006

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Roxanne McDaniel

Associate Dean of Undergraduate and Master's Programs

• HRSA Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship 2007-2008 - Health Resources & Services Administration, $49,724, 2007-2008

• HRSA Professional Nurse Traineeship Program - Health Resources & Services Administration, $53,362, 2006-2007

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Kristin Metcalf-Wilson

Instructor of Nursing

• Academic Transformation Grant – MU ET@MO, $5,000, 2006-2007

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Louise Miller

Associate Teaching Professor

• Academic Transformation Incentive Funds - MU ET@MO, $5,000, 2006-2007
• Community Nursing: Utilizing Information in Practice - National Library of Medicine, $453,337, 2006-2009
• Nurses' Information Literacy: Implementing the Electronic Health Record (EHR) in Nursing Education - American Nurses Foundation, $3,500, 2005-2006

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Lorraine Phillips

Assistant Professor of Nursing

• 2006-2007 Phillips, L., Principal Investigator, The Influence of Psychosocial Factors on the Disablement Process in Women with Multiple Sclerosis and Women with Fibromyalgia Syndrome .
• 2004-2005 Phillips, L., Principal Investigator, The Personal Impact of Parkinson's Disease , supported in part by NIH, T32 NR 07107.
• 2004-2005 Stuifbergen, A., Principal Investigator, Phillips, L., Co-Investigator, Hammock, R., Co-Investigator, Voelmeck, W., Co-Investigator, Illness Perceptions of Women with Fibromyalgia .
• 2004-2005 Phillips, L., Principal Investigator, Hammock, R., Co-Investigator, Predictors of Self-Rated Health Among Texas Residents.

 

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Lori Popejoy

Assistant Professor of Nursing

• Geriatric Nursing Education Project: Enhancing Gerontological/Geriatric Nursing Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia , Karen Marek (PI) AACN,$90,000, MU PRIME match, $22,500, October 1, 2001 to September 30, 2004. Role: Co-Investigator 10%.
• Pre-doctoral Geriatric Nursing Scholar Award, John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Scholars Program, $100,000.00.
• Why minimum care residents stay in long-term care. University of Missouri System, Research Board Grant. Primary Investigator, Victoria Grando. Funded December 8, 1997 to December 8, 1998, $30,000. Role: Co-Investigator 2%.
• Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment Practices in Long Term Care Facilities. Convatec Nursing Research Scholarship, Deidre Wipke-Tevis (PI), $2,500, Role: Co-Investigator 5%.

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Eileen Porter

Professor of Nursing

• Old Homebound Women's Intention of Reaching Help Quickly – (R01) National Institutes of Health $856,785, 2003-2007

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Marilyn Rantz

Professor of Nursing

• Dementia Educational Training - Alzheimer's Association Mid-Missouri Chapter, fee for service, 2007-2008

• Quality Improvement Program for Missouri 2007-2008 - Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, $260,000, 2007-2008

• Primaris Nursing Home Quality Improvement Consulting Services – Primaris, $130,200, 2007-2008

• Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers - Rand Health, $200,000, 2006-2008

• Primaris Nursing Home Quality Improvement Consulting Services - Primaris, $125,196, 2006-2007
• Multilevel Intervention to Improve Nursing Home Outcomes – (R01) National Institutes of Health, $2,834,286, 2005-2010
• Quality Improvement Program for Missouri 2006-2007 - Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, $230,000, 2006-2007
• Technology to Enhance Aging in Place at Tiger Place - Administration on Aging, $979,104, 2005-2007
• Technology to Enhance Aging in Place at Tiger Place - MU PRIME, $150,000, 2005-2007

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Cynthia Russell

Associate Professor of Nursing

• Increasing Medication Adherence in Renal Transplant Recipients – MU Research Board, $36,000, 2008-2008

• An Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence in Older Renal Transplant Recipients: A Pilot Study - MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging, $8,000, 2008-2008

• Medication Compliance in Older Renal Transplant Recipients - American Academy of Nurses , $120,000, 2005-2007

• Medication Noncompliance in Renal Transplant Recipients - (R15 AREA) National Institutes of Health, $220,500, 2005-2008
• Noncompliance in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients-Funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research $150,000
  
• Noncompliance in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients-Funded by the University of Missouri-Columbia Research Council $7,500
  
• A Description of the Patterns, Predictors and Outcomes of Medication Noncompliance in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients-Funded by the American Nurses Foundation/Sigma Theta Tau $7,500
  
• A Description of the Patterns, Predictors and Outcomes of Medication Noncompliance in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients-Funded by the National Kidney Foundation $20,000
  
• A Comparison of Medication Taking Beliefs Between Younger and Older Adult Renal Transplant Recipients-Funded by the Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center and the Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence $4000

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Patricia Schnitzer

Assistant Professor of Nursing

• HURT! (Helping Understand Risks to Toddlers) - Research Board, $34,764, 2006-2007

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Jill Scott-Cawiezell

Associate Professor of Nursing

• Phoenix Alliance Project with the Republic of Liberia - Global Media Data, Inc., fee for service, 2007

• Technology to Improve Medication Safety in Nursing Homes - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, $940,545, 2003-2006

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Amy Vogelsmeier

Clinical Research Faculty

• Hartford Pre-Doctoral Scholar - American Academy of Nurses , $76,719, 2005-2007
• Nursing Home Consulting/Speaker/Lecturer Agreement – Primaris, $37,011, 2006-2007

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Deidre Wipke-Tevis

Associate Professor of Nursing

• Seasonal Variation of Hematocrit, Nitric Oxide & Fatigue in Young & Older Men - Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Iota Chapter, $1,000, 2005-2006
• Seasonal Variation of Hematocrit, Nitric Oxide & Fatigue in Young & Older Men - Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, $15,000, 2005-2007
• Venous Ulcers: Testing Effects of Compression & Position - (R01) National Institutes of Health, $995,898, 2001-2007

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