Last names starting with R
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Sally Rankin RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Emerita and Associate Dean, Global Health & International Programs sally.rankin@nursing.ucsf.edu  |
Research Program: HIV/AIDS in Africa with emphasis on religious organizations and their influence on HIV prevention and AIDS care; integrated primary health care models. Interventions (e.g., cardiac rehab, peer advisor social support models, self-efficacy) to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations with heart disease and diabetes (women, elderly, and medically underserved individuals). Theoretical Focus: Family, chronicity, and lifespan development theory; social support and social learning theory. Current Projects: Malawi Christians and Muslims: HIV Prevention and AIDS Care. |
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Roberta Rehm RN, PhD, FAAN Associate Professor roberta.rehm@nursing.ucsf.edu  |
Family Health Care Nursing |
Research Program: Family management of children's chronic conditions, parenting with a chronic condition. Community-Based Participatory Research to facilitate collaborations among families, schools, and community resources, particularly at the transition to adulthood. Theoretical Focus: Field studies/ethnography in the Symbolic Interaction tradition and CBPR, the intersection of health and development in children's chronic conditions, family and child development across the lifespan, family normalization. Current Projects: Planning for the transition to adulthood by families, educators, and health care providers for youth with complex chronic conditions; Pilot testing of an intervention to facilitate the transfer of services for youth with chronic conditions and disabilities from pediatric to adult care systems at the transition to adulthood; Transition to Home from the NICU for infants with complex needs. |
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Dorothy P. Rice BA, ScD (Hon) Professor Emerita dorothy.rice@ucsf.edu  |
Institute for Health & Aging |
Research Program: Health statistics, aging and long-term care, disability, domestic violence, cost of illness methodology and estimation, chronic illness, and economics of tobacco use; chronic illness and disability measurement; human capital approach to cost of illness. Theoretical Focus: Chronic illness and disability measurement; human capital approach to cost of illness. Current Projects: The Cost of Breast Cancer in California; A Dynamic Model of Smoking and Healthcare Expenditures in California. |
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Susan Robinson RN, PhD, ANP Assistant Adjunct Professor susan.robinson@nursing.ucsf.edu  |
Physiological Nursing |
Research Program: Health services and outcomes research. Quality improvement approach on population-based disease management programs with a focus on self-management. Methodologies are primarily quantitative and include socio-demographic variables. Theoretical Focus: Systems theory, physiological/psychological theories, behavioral change theory, chronic illness model, and self-management. Current Projects: To collect and classify the factors (types) and failures (causes) of outpatient medication errors from the patient’s perspective using Root Cause Analysis. |