Research Articles

In the 37th Helen Nahm Research Lecture, nurse-researcher Kathleen Puntillo reflects on a career dedicated to reducing suffering in the ICU.

A School of Nursing program aims to reduce young children’s exposure to pesticides.

Depression among U.S. women represents a significant public health concern. Interim Dean Sandra Weiss leads a number of studies to address depression’s potential effects on women and their children.

Doctoral student Kimberly Pyke-Grimm looks at how adolescents and young adults make decisions about cancer treatment.

In part three of this series, genomic researcher and educator Elena Flowers explores her risk for Alzheimer’s disease and takes part in the open and active debate at UCSF about the societal and ethical questions that surround direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

After pioneering evidence-based, trauma-informed care for women with HIV, UCSF School of Nursing faculty members affiliated with the UCSF Women’s HIV Program are bringing their successes to other health care settings.

As direct-to-consumer genomic testing grows, UCSF experts wrestle with helping the health care system and individual providers respond.

In the second “chapter” of this series, Elena Flowers – a genomics researcher and professor at UCSF School of Nursing – receives the results of having her entire genome sequenced and begins to explore what having those results means for patients, providers and the broader society.

A collaboration between the UCSF School of Nursing and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco to validate an assessment tool may help nurses better predict which children are at risk for falling while in the hospital.

Researcher Annesa Flentje is examining how stress in LGBT people and other sexual minorities affects gene expression and health.

Nurse scientist Elena Flowers gets her genome profiled in the dawning era of accessible, affordable precision medicine.