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Faculty Research Activities

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Faculty Name, Title, Email	Department	Research Program, Theoretical Focus, Current Projects, Active Grants
Howard Pinderhughes PhD Associate Professor howard.pinderhughes@ucsf.edu	Social and Behavioral Sciences	Research Program: Sociological theory; youth violence and adolescent health; race, ethnicity, and health inequality; social change. Theoretical Focus: Qualitative methods; race, class, and gender dynamics; race theory; inequality; oppression. Current Projects: How inner city youth experience, construct, and understand violence in their lives; Comprehensive violence prevention policy in San Francisco and Alameda County; Center on Culture, Immigration, and Violence Prevention.
Carmen J. Portillo RN, PhD, FAAN Professor and Chair carmen.portillo@ucsf.edu	Community Health Systems	Research Program: HIV/AIDS; symptom assessment and management; medication adherence; Hispanic women's health care; effects of acculturation; stigma, community-based assessment and interventions with ethnic vulnerable populations. Theoretical Focus: Systems theory; quality of care; cultural theory; community-based theories. Current Projects: HIV symptoms in Hispanic women; biomarkers of insomnia and fatigue in HIV/AIDS; stigma measurement and development.
Kathleen Puntillo RN, PhD, FAAN, FCCM Professor Emerita kathleen.puntillo@nursing.ucsf.edu	Physiological Nursing	Research Program: Assessment and management of pain in critically ill ICU patients and patients with acute illnesses and injuries; procedural pain; symptom assessment and management of ICU patients at end-of-life management of thirst in ICU patients. Theoretical Focus: Physiological theories; symptom management. Validity and reliability of measures to assess pain and symptom management. Designs: descriptive, correlational, experimental randomized trials. Current Projects: Procedural pain in critically ill patients. Pain and thirst assessment and management (palliative care) in ICU patients at end-of-life.
Sally Rankin RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Emerita and Associate Dean, Global Health & International Programs sally.rankin@nursing.ucsf.edu	Family Health Care Nursing Office of the Dean / Administration	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.
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.
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.
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.
JoAnne M. Saxe RN, ANP, MS, DNP HS Clinical Professor joanne.saxe@nursing.ucsf.edu	Community Health Systems	Current Projects: I regularly consult with various health care and government agencies on regulatory issues/scope of practice concerns related to nurse practitioner practice. My current research projects are: 2009-present Project Director, Faculty Development Project, The Felton Foundation, $10,000 2008-present Co-Project Director, Glide Health Services, Nurse Managed Clinic Grant, Department of Health and Human Services, Nurse Education, Practice and Retention Program, $2,542,708
Jean Ann Seago RN, PhD, FAAN Professor Emerita jean.ann.seago@nursing.ucsf.edu	Community Health Systems	Research Program: Nursing systems, health care systems, and workforce issues as they relate to patient, provider, and system outcomes. Theoretical Focus: Systems theories, safety, outcomes, organizational behavior. Current Projects: Hospital Unions, Staffing, Wages, and Patient Safety; Evaluation of Oregon Staffing Legislation.
Janet Shim PhD Associate Professor janet.shim@ucsf.edu	Institute for Health & Aging Social and Behavioral Sciences	Research Program: Disparities in health status and health care; social production of health; analysis of the science of health disparities. Theoretical Focus: Sociology of health and illness; theories of race, class, and gender inequality; social studies of science, technology, and medicine. Current Projects: Sociological analysis of the discipline of epidemiology, recent developments in the study of health disparities, and the etiology of complex diseases; investigation of health care interactions and the role of social and cultural factors. The Role of Cultural Capital in Health Care Interactions is a pilot project that seeks to develop the concept of “cultural health capital” (CHC)—a set of cultural skills, dispositions, and resources that are critical to the ability to obtain health care services, effectively engage with clinical providers, and other factors important in disease management. This pilot study will focus on interactions between health care providers and individuals with coronary heart disease or Type 2 diabetes. Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity Used in Gene-Environment Interaction Studies is a qualitative study which focuses on genome scientists’ understandings of and research practices around race and ethnicity, in US-based gene-environment interaction (GEI) studies that investigate complex disease etiology.