Maithe Enriquez, APRN, PhD, FAAN is a nurse researcher with an active clinical practice as an adult nurse practitioner. She has expertise in participatory research methods and serves as the Coordinator of the Participatory Health Research Graduate Certificate program at the University of Missouri-Sinclair School of Nursing. She is Editor-in-Chief for Hispanic Health Care International, official journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses.
Dr. Enriquez completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill focused on the prevention and management of chronic health conditions. Her research and clinical endeavors have focused on global and domestic projects that aim to enhance health outcomes for under-resourced populations. Her work has included the prevention and management of infectious diseases, such as HIV and COVID, and the prevention and management of chronic health conditions, such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus. She has mentored undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of research and clinical endeavors that use a participatory, or collaborative, approach.
- Viviendo Bien: Development of a Community-Partnered Research Agenda with Under-Resourced Hispanic Communities in Two Missouri Counties – Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (Wash Univ ICTS) Clinical & Translational Sciences Research Funding Program, (Enriquez, PI), 03/01/2025 – 02/28/2026
- Disfrutando la Vida con Diabetes: Development and pilot testing of a community-partnered intervention to enhance health outcomes for Hispanic adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – The Research Foundation, (Enriquez, PI), 2023-2024
- Feasibility, acceptability and pilot of a real-time electronic adherence monitoring intervention for antiretroviral therapy – NIH/NIAID/R34 (Dworkin, PI; Enriquez, Consultant), 2023 – 2026
- A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Remdesivir (GS-5734) Treatment of COVID-19 in an Outpatient Setting – Gilead Sciences (VanHise/Metro Infectious Disease Consultants, PI; Enriquez, Sub-investigator/Site PI), 2020-2021
- Automated version of the Centers for Disease Control’s COVID-19 test, a polymerase chain reaction or PCR-based test which detects the genetic material for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 – Stowers Institute for Medical Research and MRIGlobal – 1287975 (Gerton/Stowers Institute, PI; Enriquez, Sub-investigator/Site PI, Research Medical Center), 2020-2021
- Jonas Global Fellows in the Dominican Republic, (Enriquez, PI), Jonas Philanthropies, 2016-2019
- Addressing hypertension in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic, (Enriquez, PI), Jonas Philanthropies, 2016-2018
- Peers Keep It Real: Reaching 100% Adherence to HIV Treatment, (Enriquez, PI), NIH/National Institute Nursing Research K01, 2013-2017
- Potter-Brinton Distinguished Professor of Nursing, 2024
- Outstanding PhD Faculty Award, Sinclair School of Nursing Graduate Students, 2020
- Editor, Hispanic Health Care International, 2018-Present
- Barbara Kleist Distinguished Alumni Award, St. Luke’s College of Nursing, 2017
- Inducted as Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2013
- *Traylor, D. O., Enriquez, M., Thompson-Robinson, M., Yu, M., Bloom, T., & Bullock, L. (August 14, 2024). Barriers and Facilitators That Influence HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)-Prescribing Behaviors Among Primary Care Providers in the Southern United States. Cureus, 16(8): e66868 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.66868
- *Rabbitte, M, Enriquez M (2024) Factors that Impact Assigned Female Sexual Minority Individuals Health Care Experiences: A Qualitative Descriptive Study. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 19(1): 97-120.
- *Molina R & Enriquez M (2023). Enhancing diabetes health outcomes among Haitian migrants living in Dominica bateyes. Science of Diabetes Self-Care Management, 49(4):281-290.
- *Glenn LE, Thurlow CB, Enriquez M (2022). The ‘ups and downs’ of living with type 2 diabetes mellitus among working adults in the rural south. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 13:21501319221143715.
- *Emezue CN, Dougherty DS, Enriquez M, Bullock L, & Bloom TL (2022). Perceptions of risk for dating violence among rural adolescent males. American Journal of Men’s Health 16(5).
- *Conley P, Ohnuotka D, & Enriquez M (2022). Perception of gratitude among new nurse graduates: a mixed-methods study. Nursing Management, 53(7): 36-42.
- *Shaw AR, Enriquez M, Bloom T, Berkley-Patton J, VIdoni ED (2022). We are our sister’s keeper: the experience of Black female clergy responding to intimate partner violence. Journal Interpersonal Violence.
- McKinsey DS, McKinsey JP, Hampson NB, Enriquez M. (2022) COVID and the Tenth Amendment Response. Missouri Medicine. 119(4):336
- *McKinsey DS, McKinsey JP, Hampson NB & Enriquez M (2022). COVID-19 in Missouri: Perspective on origins, spread and controversies Part I. Missouri Medicine 119 (2): 98-105.
- *McKinsey DS, McKinsey JP, Hampson NB, & Enriquez M (2022). COVID-19 in Missouri 2021-2021: A perspective on origins, spread and controversies Part II. Missouri Medicine 119 (3): 176-184.
- *McKinsey DS, Enriquez M (2022). Reactivation histoplasmosis manifested by lymphocutaneous fistula with cervical drainage of stones. Private Practice Infectious Disease, www.ppidjournal.com.
- Emezue, C. N., Enriquez, M., Dougherty, D. S., Bullock, L. F., & Bloom, T. L. (2021). Rural young males’ acceptance & receptiveness to technology-based interventions for dating violence prevention: A qualitative descriptive study. Journal of Adolescence, 92, 137-151.
- Lambert, C. C., Galland, B., Enriquez, M., & Reynolds, N. R. (2021). A systematic review of nurse-led antiretroviral medication adherence intervention trials: How nurses have advanced the science. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 32(3), 347-372.
- Enriquez, M., Remy, L., & Dickson, E. (2021). Two years in: The COVID-19 pandemic and hispanic health. Hispanic Health Care International, 19(4), 210-211.
- Teti, M., Koegler, E., Schatz, E., & Enriquez, M. (2020). HIV medication adherence amid multiple inequities: Detailing the lived challenges of the most at risk people with HIV. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 19(1), 23-41.
- Glenn, L. E., Nichols, M., Enriquez, M., & Jenkins, C. (2020). Impact of a community‐based approach to patient engagement in rural, low‐income adults with type 2 diabetes. Public Health Nursing, 37(2), 178-187.
- O’Connor, J. J., Enriquez, M., & Wipke-Tevis, D. D. (2020). Foot health assessment and problem identification in a Dominican batey community: A descriptive study. Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing, 47(4), 397-402.
- Remy, L. M., Majee, W., Teti, M., & Enriquez, M. (2020). Perceptions of black men who have sex with men about accessing and taking PrEP: A qualitative study. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 19(4), 263-282.
- Shaw, A. R., Enriquez, M., Bloom, T., Berkley-Patton, J., & Vidoni, E. D. (2020). We are our sister’s keeper: The experience of black female clergy responding to intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260520918574.
- Enriquez, M., Miller, E., Ruppar, T., Pickering, R. Editor’s Panel, Midwest Nursing Research Society (2023). Des Moines, Iowa.
- Enriquez, M. Building COVID-19 vaccine confidence: perceptions of an unvaccinated Latinx community (2022). Invited Speaker, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
- Enriquez, M. Long COVID (2021). Podcast, National Clinical Training Center for Family Planning.
- Enriquez, M. Moving a Project to Publication (2021). Invited Speaker, Midwest Nursing Research Society MNRS). March 2021(virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
- Enriquez, M. Post COVID-19 syndrome. Invited Speaker, National Clinical Training Center for Family Planning. March 2021 (virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
- Enriquez, M. Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections (2021). Invited Speaker, Annual conference of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH). November 2020 (virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
- McKinsey, D. and Enriquez, M. COVID-19: The Path Forward (May, 2020). Invited Speaker, Webinar. Missouri Nurses Association
- *Ong, D., Cheng, A., Oyewusi, C., Molina, R. & Enriquez, M. (2020). Addressing hypertension in 11 bateyes in the Dominican Republic. NAHN annual conference (postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), San Juan Puerto Rico. Oral Abstract.
