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Faculty Research Activities

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Faculty Name, Title, Email	Department	Research Program, Theoretical Focus, Current Projects, Active Grants
Linda Chafetz RN, DNSc Professor linda.chafetz@nursing.ucsf.edu	Community Health Systems	Research Program: Studies on severely mentally ill adults and their families including treatment outcome studies, course of illness research, and effects of major co-morbidities affecting this clinical population including concurrent medical, substance use, and psychiatric diagnoses. Theoretical Focus: Social cognitive theory of health behavior change, behavioral and cognitive behavioral theories for psychosocial interventions, stress diathesis models of severe mental disorder, and impact of environment on course of illness. Current Projects: Studies of clinical populations treated in a faculty practice in residential care settings; intervention research to reduce medical risk among mentally ill adults receiving community based services.
Garrett K. Chan RN, PhD, CEN, CNS, FAAN Associate Adjunct Professor garrett.chan@nursing.ucsf.edu	Physiological Nursing	Research Program: Palliative and end-of-life care in emergency care, ethical and clinical decision-making of clinicians, advanced practice nursing education and competency. Theoretical Focus: Clinical and ethical decision-making in nursing education and practice, the nature of knowledge, health policy in acute care and professional practice, and expertise in advanced practice nursing, and genomics of symptom clusters. Methods: qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Current Projects: Palliative and end-of-life care in emergency care specifically around dyspnea crisis management and ethical issues in disaster situations, multiculturalism and end-of-life care, investigation of the practice of advanced practice nursing.
Susan Chapman RN, PhD Associate Professor, Director of Health Policy Nursing Specialty susan.chapman@ucsf.edu	Social and Behavioral Sciences	Research Program: Studies of the health professions. Focus on allied health professionals, long term care. Theoretical Focus: Organizational theory, health care economics; sociology of professions, work, and occupations. Current Projects: Diversity in allied health professions, EMS providers, workload standards development, mental health workforce.
Jyu-Lin Chen RN, PhD, CNS Associate Professor jyu-lin.chen@nursing.ucsf.edu	Family Health Care Nursing	Research Program: Chinese and Chinese-American children's health; childhood obesity; effects of acculturation; behavior modification in weight control. Theoretical Focus: Family and development theory; Social-Cognitive Theory; Ecological model; culture. Current Projects: Active Balance Childhood (ABC Study): a randomized clinical trial for health weight management; Individualized educational intervention in childhood obesity prevention for Chinese-Americans; individual-tailored and Internet-based behavioral intervention (E-health study).
Catherine Chesla RN, DNSc, FAAN Professor and Shobe Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality kit.chesla@nursing.ucsf.edu	Family Health Care Nursing	Research Program: Understanding and influencing family relationships that affect the management of chronic illness. Theoretical Focus: Family and feminist theory; interpretive phenomenology, narrative understanding of chronic illness, culturally diverse family processes. Current Projects: Interpretive narrative study of illness understandings, acculturation factors and family responses to type 2 diabetes in immigrant and U.S. born Chinese-Americans. Continuing interpretive and model testing investigations of African-American, Anglo, Chinese-American, and Latino families adapting to type 2 diabetes. Community Based Participatory Research to test a behavioral intervention for type 2 diabetes in Chinese immigrants.
Adele E. Clarke PhD Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of History of Health Sciences adele.clarke@ucsf.edu	Social and Behavioral Sciences	Research Program: Historical and contemporary studies in women's health; sociology of science, medicine, and technology; qualitative research methods, especially situational analysis. Theoretical Focus: Symbolic interactionism; feminist and critical theories; discourse analysis; sociology of knowledge; postmodernism/poststructuralism; meso-level analytic frameworks. Current Projects: Qualitative research methods, developing situational analysis; biomedicalization studies, especially in relation to the “affective turn”; historical development of animal models in reproductive sciences; medicines and globalizations.
Carol S. Dawson Rose RN, PhD Associate Professor carol.dawson-rose@ucsf.edu	Community Health Systems	Research Program: Integrating HIV Prevention into HIV Care, Structural Factors and HIV Prevention, Harm Reduction and Quality of Care. Theoretical Focus: Community Health Environment, Health Care Access, Harm Reduction. Current Projects: HIV Prevention Intervention for HIV Care Providers; HRSA Special Projects of National Significance: Integrating Prevention into HIV Care. HIV Care for Incarcerated Populations. The Effects of Care Not Cash Policy on Injection Drug Users Risk for HIV Infection in San Francisco.
Suzanne L. Dibble RN, DNSc Professor Emerita sue.dibble@ucsf.edu	Institute for Health & Aging	Research Program: Chronic illness, women’s health issues, lesbian health care, breast cancer, research methods, and clinical trials. Theoretical Focus: Usual methods include randomized clinical trials, cross-sectional studies, and longitudinal studies. The above quantitative methods are used to explore and test aspects of self-care theory. Current Projects: Validation of the Revised COJAC Screening Tool for Coexisting Disorders.
Nancy E. Donaldson RN, DNSc, FAAN Professor Emerita nancy.donaldson@nursing.ucsf.edu	Physiological Nursing	Research Program: Director, UCSF Center for Nursing Research & Innovation. Program focuses on nursing quality measurement and benchmarking; exploring links between nurse staffing effectiveness and patient safety and outcomes; education administration accuracy; translating research into practice; innovation diffusion; clinical process/performance improvement; building capacity for Evidence-based Practice. Director, proposed UCSF School of Nursing Joanna Briggs Institute Affiliated Center. Theoretical Focus: Translation Science and Innovation diffusion; knowledge utilization; performance improvement; quality/outcomes measurement. Current Projects: Co-PI, Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC) Database Project (1996-present). PI, Impact of Medical Surgical Acute Care Microsystem Nurse Characteristics and Practices on Patient Outcomes, Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2008-2010). PI, Systematic Review, Impact of California Ratios on Patient Care Quality/Outcomes, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2010).
DorAnne Donesky RN, PhD, ANP-BC Assistant Adjunct Professor doranne.donesky@nursing.ucsf.edu	Physiological Nursing	Research Program: Non-pharmacological interventions for management of dyspnea in patients with chronic lung disease. Theoretical Focus: Social-cognitive theory; adherence to the intervention; functional status. Current Projects: Project Director for NIH-funded research related to internet-based interventions for dyspnea self-management; pending R01 for using videoconferencing and internet technology to provide a yoga class in the home as a treatment for dyspnea in patients with COPD; intramural project evaluating long-term outcomes of patients who attend pulmonary rehabilitation programs.