NURSING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate Dean for Global Initiatives
Jensen, C.E., Heiling, H.M., Beke, K.E., Deal, A.M., Bryant, A.L, Coombs, L.A., Richardson, D.R. (2023). Time spent at home among older adults with acute myeloid leukemia receiving azacitidine- or venetoclax-based regimens. Haematologica. 108(4):1006-1014. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2022.280728.
Job Titles:
- Research Scientist and Science Writer
Dr. Kenyon-Flatt is trained as a research scientist and science writer, with expertise in biological anthropology focusing on primate (including human!) evolution. She has been awarded several grants to support her research and other scientific endeavors. Additionally, she has served as an editor and reviewer for federal grants like the National Science Foundation and academic journals. When not working, she enjoys reading fiction, baking, gardening, and spending time with her husband, Mike, an English professor and poet, and 1-year-old son, Morgan.
Campus Safety has developed a University-wide public safety campaign - Carolina Ready - to help you Be Informed of how UNC communicates emergency information, Be Prepared with creating personal emergency plans, and Take Action when emergencies occur.
Prior to her appointment at Duke, Howard was at the Robert Morris University School of Nursing and Health Sciences where she held numerous faculty and administrator positions, rising from an assistant professor in 2004 to dean of the school and university professor of nursing in 2013. Working closely with the president's office, institutional advancement and others, she helped raise nearly $8 million toward new programs and initiatives, including the construction of Scaife Hall in 2016.
While at RMU, Howard founded the Regional Research and Innovation in Simulation Education Center (RISE), a center of excellence for simulation training largely based on her own research. Howard helped develop the Elsevier Simulation Learning System, one of the first simulation learning systems, which is now used by 400 schools across the country to support faculty and enhance student learning outcomes. The International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation recognized Howard for her work in simulation with its excellence in research award in 2010. She also helped create and disseminate the first set of standards for the use of simulation, which have been adopted by nursing and health care educators across the globe.
In addition, Howard developed partnerships in Nicaragua, Scotland, South Africa and Australia to provide critical international experiences for faculty and students from 2013-2018 and served as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong School of Nursing in 2019. She earned a doctorate in higher education administration and a master of science in nursing education at the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor of science in nursing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Support Associate
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- Interim Associate Dean, PhD Program and Division Sarah Frances Russell Distinguished Professor and Director of the Hillman Scholars Program
- Professor and Director of the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation
Cheryl B. Jones, RN, PhD, FAAN is professor and director of the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation, as well as a Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Dr. Jones' research is aimed at uncovering knowledge related to the organization and delivery of care, and the impacts on the costs, quality and safety of care. She is a recognized leader in nursing health services research, having studied micro- and macro-level nurse workforce issues to improve the work environment, executive practice, and the cost and quality of care delivery. One of Cheryl's most recognized contributions has been the development, testing, and refinement of a method to measure nurse turnover costs.
She has studied other important and related nurse workforce issues, including nurse retention, wage differentials, employment patterns and migration. Currently funded studies focus on developing a longitudinal, concatenated dataset using nursing licensure files to examine nurses' educational and career transitions (NCSBN); and evaluating the business case for nurse residency programs based on her turnover cost model (RWJF).
Prior to joining UNC, Cheryl served as Senior Health Services Researcher at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, where she worked on nursing workforce issues at organizational and public policy levels. She has taught health economics, policy, administration and management at undergraduate and graduate levels, and is co-author (with Finkler and Kovner) of one of the most highly regarded financial management texts for nurse and healthcare leaders, Financial Management for Nurse Managers and Executives. She was a Primary Care Policy Fellow in the U.S. Public Health Service in 1999, and inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2005.
Job Titles:
- Interim Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Levine Family Distinguished Professor of Quality of Life, Health Promotion, and Wellness
Woods-Giscombe, C. L. (Under Review). An innovative program to promote health promotion, quality of life, and wellness for school of nursing faculty, staff, and students: Facilitators, barriers, and opportunities for broad system-level and cultural change.
Hamilton, N., & Woods-Giscombe, C. L. (January 21, 2013). "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Human Capital Blog (One of the top 10 out of 400 most read blogs published on the RWJF Human Capital Blog in 2013). Retrieved from http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/human-capital-blog/2013/01/_of_all_the_formsof.html. (Authors contributed equally to work)
*Woods-Giscombé, C. L. (2008, February). Superwoman Schema: An asset or a vulnerability to health in African American women? [Abstract]. Southern Online Journal of Nursing Research, 8 (4)). Available online at:http://snrs.org/publications/SOJNR_articles2/Vol08Num04W_Z.html#WoodsGiscombe
*Robinson, M., Carthron, D., & Woods-Giscombe, C. (April, 2015). Superwoman schema, stigma, spirituality, and culturally-sensitive providers: Implications for mental health service utilization among African American women (Selected for "Best Poster" Award). Poster presented at the 16 th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.NOTE: First author is a UNC-CH McNair Scholar and Woods-Giscombe's Honors research mentee).
Society for Health Psychology. "Dr. Cheryl Giscombe discusses her research on health disparities and stress." June 23, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zStu1T4OAAU
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina
Dr. Leslie Sharpe is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Nursing. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984 with a BSN and served as a critical care nurse in the United States Air Force at both the Wright-Patterson AFB Medical Center and the United States Air Force Academy Hospital. In 1999, Dr. Sharpe received her MSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Primary Care/Family Nurse Practitioner program. For 13 years she worked in a primary care setting at Pittsboro Family Medicine. In 2013, Dr. Sharpe was recruited to serve on faculty of the UNC-CH School of Nursing to open Sylvan Community Health Center in Snow Camp, North Carolina. She served as the Lead Provider at Sylvan for 6 years. In 2013, she was selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership program. Dr. Sharpe graduated from Duke University with a DNP in 2016.
With a strong desire to improve access to care for medically underserved communities, Dr. Sharpe embraces the opportunity to work with underserved communities and currently works as a volunteer with the UNC School of Nursing Mobile Health Clinic. With 20 years of experience in primary care specializing in the care of patients with complex, co-morbid physical and mental health illnesses, she is committed to educating primary care nurse practitioners to be able to apply behavioral health concepts in primary care. Dr. Sharpe is currently the course co-coordinator for N750 (Advanced Health and Physical Assessment for Advanced Practice Nursing), N752 (Advanced Diagnostic Reasoning) and course coordinator for N810 (Primary Care Management of Adults and Adolescents).
Dr. Sharpe has been actively involved in three large grants advancing the role of the NP in rural NC. From 2016-2019, Dr. Sharpe was the Clinical Team Lead for the HRSA NEPQR Grant "Nurse Practitioners Taking the Lead in North Carolina: Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Integration of Care" (NP Lead-NC: IPEIC, PI: V. Soltis-Jarrett). Dr. Sharpe joined the HRSA ANEW Grant "Partners in Practice, Engagement, & Education in rural NC: Preparing Nurse Practitioners for Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care" (PEER-NC/BHI-PC) (PI: V. Soltis-Jarrett) as the Education Team Lead (2017-2023) and is also a member of the UNC ECHO MAT ABC (Addiction-Behavioral Health Clinic) team. She is also an active member of the HRSA NP-Residency Grant (PI: V. Soltis-Jarrett) entitled "Nurse Practitioner Residency: Behavioral Health Integration in Rural Primary Care using the TANDEM3-PC Model (NPR: BHI-Rural PC/TANDEM3-PC), the first of its kind in NC (2019-2023).
Dr. Sharpe believes strongly in advocacy through education in clinical and professional practice issues, as well as actively participating in state and national professional organizations. Dr. Sharpe is a member of the North Carolina Nurses Association Nurse Practitioner Council and American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She served as the Chairperson for the NCNA NP Council Executive Committee from 2011 - 2014. She served as the AANP State Rep for North Carolina (2019-2021). She received the 2011 NCNA Legislative Nurse of the Year award and the 2014 AANP NC Award for NP Advocacy. She routinely participates in "Advocacy Tuesdays" at the NC General Assembly educate legislators and other stakeholders in healthcare about advanced practice nursing issues. One of her passions is serving as a mentor for NPs in the legislative and advocacy arena; as such, she facilitates a "leadership circle" of local APRNs in the Triangle. She also currently serves as the NP PAC treasurer. Dr. Sharpe served as guest lecturer and project coach for the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership program. She is also a contributing author for the textbook Health Policy and Politics: A Nurse's Guide.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Research Support Center
Jaacks, L., Crandell, J., Mendez, M.A., Lamichhane, A.P., Liu, W., Ji, L., et al. (2015). Dietary patterns associated with HbA1c and LDL-cholesterol among individuals with type 1 diabetes in China. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, 29(3), 343-349.
Lamichhane, A.P., Liese, A.D., Urbina, A.M., Crandell, J.L., Jaacks, L.M., Dabalea, D., et al. (2014). Associations of dietary intake patterns identified using reduced rank regression with markers of arterial stiffness among youth with type 1 diabetes. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 68(12), 1327-1333.
Leak, A., Smith, S.K., Crandell, J., Jenerette, C., Bailey, D.E., Zimmerman, S., et al. (2013). Demographic and disease characteristics associated with non-hodgkin lymphoma survivors' quality of life: does age matter? Oncology Nursing Forum, 40(2), 157-162.
Woods-Giscombe, C.W., Lobel, M., & Crandell, J.L. (2010). The impact of miscarriage and parity on patterns of maternal distress in pregnancy. Research in Nursing and Health, 33(4), 316-328.
Cates, J. R., Diehl, S. J., Crandell, J. L., & Coyne-Beasley, T. (2015, March). Dissemination strategies to promote HPV vaccination among preteen boys: Embracing the transition to adolescence through three-way conversations among provider, parent and preteen. Paper presented at the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine 2015 annual meeting Los Angeles, CA.
Liese, A.D., Crandell, J.L., Tooze, J.A., Merchant, A.T., Bell, R.A., Couch, S., et al. (2013, April). Application of measurement error methodology to the study of sugar-sweetened beverage intake and lipid levels in youth with type 1 diabetes: Findings from the SEARCH Nutrition Ancillary Study. Poster session presented at the European Diabetes Epidemiology Group, Potsdam, Germany.
Porter, L., Mishel, M., Allen, D., Germino, B., Crandell, J., Blyler, D., and Santacroce, S. (2010, April). Cortisol in Caucasian and African American younger breast cancer survivors: Premliminary findings from a psycho-educational intervention. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
Davison, J. (2014, October). Inter-professional service learning to increase students' understanding of migrant Latino health. Workshop presented at the 24th East Coast Migrant Stream Forum, at Pittsburg, PA. http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.ncchca.org/resource/resmgr/East_Coast/web_program.pdf
Davison, J (2013, June). Workshop for faculty on tips for teaching advanced health assessment to nurses. Presentation for the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences University of Sierra Leon at Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director for Communications
Job Titles:
- Professor & Associate Dean, MSN / DNP Division and Programs
Jennifer D'Auria received her PhD in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. She receive her MSN from the University of Colorado at Denver with a major in pediatric ambulatory care (PNP) and a functional minor in teaching and curriculum development. Her research focus is on chronic illness in children.
Job Titles:
- Associate Dean for Research & Professor
- Implementation Scientist
- J. Co - Investigator
- Research Project
Dr. Leeman is an implementation scientist with expertise in the development and evaluation of multi-level strategies to implement and scale-up evidence-based interventions, with a focus on interventions to prevent and manage chronic illness and reduce health disparities. She is principal investigator of the UNC member center in the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN; 2012-2019), an NIH/CDC-funded center that works with seven other centers to advance dissemination and implementation (D&I) science in the area of cancer prevention and control. Dr. Leeman also serves as Co-Principal Investigator on a CDC-funded implementation study of a healthy lifestyle intervention in health departments and Federally Qualified Health Centers.
*Leeman, J., Sandelowski, M., Havill, N., & Knafl, K. (2015). Parent-to-child transition in managing cystic fibrosis: a research synthesis. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 7, 167-183.
*Knafl, K., Leeman, J., Crandell, J., Havill, N., & Sandelowski, M. (2015). Delimiting family in syntheses of research on childhood chronic conditions and family life. Family Process, 54, 173-184.
*†Leeman, J., Moore, A., Teal, R., Barrett, N., Leighton, A,. & Steckler, A. (2013). Promoting community practitioners' use of evidence-based approaches to increase breast cancer screening. Journal of Public Health Nursing, 30, 323-331.
Payne, G. H., Leeman, J., & Farris, R. (2011). News from CDC (summer 2011) - Translating knowledge to program action for nutrition, physical activity, and obesity interventions. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 1, 367-368.
Leeman, J., Sommers, J., Leung, M., & Ammerman, A. (2011). Disseminating evidence from research and practice: A model for selecting evidence to guide obesity prevention. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 17, 133-140.
*Leeman, J., Baernholdt, M., & Sandelowski, M. (2007). Developing a theory-based taxonomy of methods for implementing change in practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 58, 191-200.
*Leeman, J., Jackson, B., & Sandelowski, M. (2006). An evaluation of how well research reports support the use of findings in practice. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 38, 171-177.
Leeman, J., Goeppinger, J., Funk, S., & Roland, J. (2003). An enriched research experience for minority undergraduates - A step towards increasing the number of minority nurse researchers. Nursing Outlook, 51(1), 20-24.
Mason, D., Leeman, J., & Funk, S. (2002). Living with illness: Is nursing care adequately addressing the needs of the chronically ill? (Editorial). American Journal of Nursing, 102(2), 7.
Leeman, J., Co-Investigator. Rethink the Strip: De-adoption of Glucose Monitoring for Non-Insulin Treated Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care, DI-2018C1-10853 (with COVID enhancement), (MPIs: Donahue & Young). PCORI 2/2019 -12/22 $1,349,953 plus $500,000 enhancement 10% time
Leeman, J. Co-Investigator. Feasibility of integrative medical group visits in outpatient setting with a high burden of patients with chronic pain. (PI: Roth). NC TraCS (UNC CTSA), 1/2020-12/2020 $2,000 0% time
Leeman, J., Principal Investigator (Wiecha, J. Co-PI). Developing a tool to assess practitioner capacity to change policies and environments, TraCS (2/2014-1/2015). $50,000. 0% time
Leeman, J., Co-Investigator. Impact of AFIX and Physician-to-Physician engagement on HPV vaccination in primary care: An RCT. (MPIs:Brewer and Gilkey). CDC, 8/2017-12/2018 $1,499,256 10% time
Leeman, J., Co-Investigator. Adolescent AFIX: A multi-state RCT to increase adolescent immunization by facilitating primary care clinics' implementation of best practices, RWJF (PIs: N. Brewer, M. Gilkey, Co-PI, 2013-2016). $350,000 5% Years 1 & 3
Leeman, J., Co-Investigator. Carolina Heart Alliance Networking for Greater Equity (CHANGE). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U48 DP005017, (MPIs: Cykert & Samuel-Hodge), CDC, 2014 - 2019, $1,125,000 Leeman was MPI at 20% time until 10/2016 when switched to 2% Co-I because overfunded
Jones, C.B. (2004).The costs of nursing turnover, part 1: An economic perspective. Journal of Nursing Administration, 34(12), 562-570.
Mark, B.A., Hughes, L.C., & Jones, C.B. (2007). The role of theory in improving patient safety and quality health care. Manuscript selected for inclusion in P.G. Reed, & N.B.C. Shearer's, Perspectives on nursing theory (5th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (Contributed as team member of original manuscript [cited earlier])
Jones, C.B. (1995). Secondary analysis of a national nursing database to model RN wages and turnover behavior. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Southern Nursing Research Society (paper presentation), Lexington KY.
Jones, C.B. (1992). Shared governance: Evaluating the impacts of restructuring the nurse practice environment. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Southern Nursing Research Society (paper presentation), Nashville TN.
Jones, C.B. (March 2006). Working with nursing workforce data in the US: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Invitational Symposium on Quality Worklife Indicators for Nursing Practice Environments in Ontario: Determining the Feasibility of Collecting Indicator Data. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jones, C.B. (March 30, 2011). Where the rubber meets the road: Nursing research at the point-of-care.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean, Office of Student Affairs
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- Professor at the University of North Carolina
Kathleen (Kathy) Knafl is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a sociologist who has spent her entire academic career in nursing with prior faculty appointments at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Yale, University, and Oregon Health Sciences University. Throughout her 50 year career Dr. Knafl has been committed to advancing family health and understanding family response to health-related challenges. As an advocate for and expert in family research her scholarship has encompassed substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions. In collaboration with colleagues Janet Deatrick and Agatha Gallo, she led the development of the Family Management Style Framework, including development of a structured measure of family management (Family Management Measure - FaMM). Both the framework and measure have been used by investigators in multiple countries and the FaMM has been translated into 10 languages. Further information on the development, testing, and scoring of the FaMM can be found at https://nursing.unc.edu/research/support/family-mgmt-measure.
Gallo, A., Patil, C., Knafl, K., Angst, D., Rondelli, D., & Saraf, S. (2019). The experience of adults with sickle cell disease and their HLA-matched adult sibling donors after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75, 2943-2951. doi: 10.1111/jan.14152.
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- Associate Dean for Advancement
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- Associate Dean for Administration
Dr. Fleming has been a registered nurse since 1998, and completed her Masters of Science in Nursing Education from Duke University and her PhD in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked in the hospital setting in critical care and emergency medicine. Dr. Fleming has done research at both Duke University and UNC's schools of nursing concerning parental management of adrenal crisis in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and has developed several educational tools related to adrenal crisis including a training video, a mobile health application, and numerous brochures regarding adrenal crisis prevention and management.
Job Titles:
- Director of Communications
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
Marianne Cockroft, PhD, MNEd, RN is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at UNC-Chapel Hill. A nursing educator for a range of educational contexts (i.e., University professor, community college instructor, hospital community educator), Dr. Cockroft's public and community health nursing, disease prevention, and health and safety promotion work has served populations across the lifespan-from infants to senior citizens-and has mostly addressed high risk behaviors, chronic diseases in aging, and self-care. In her career she has demonstrated a high level of motivation to engage in assessing health needs for individuals and families and to serve special, and often overlooked, populations with unmet health care needs. Dr. Cockroft has experience in conducting community assessments and developing interventions to address community needs, such as her creation of a playgroup for parents and their toddlers as a child abuse prevention strategy.
Her portfolio of accomplishments also includes establishing a nurse-managed mobile health clinic serving individuals and families in Wake County, NC; a wellness center for Durham County, NC seniors; establishing partnerships with school health and occupational health clinical sites; and developing ways for public libraries to provide clinical teaching opportunities. Dr. Cockroft's career in public health nursing has also revolved around forging connections and partnerships-creating and strengthening relationships between parents and their children, between patients and community resources, and between education and service partners. She is currently the Executive Committee Nursing Section Vice Chair of Education at the North Carolina Public Health Association.
Cockroft, M. (1993). The public library as a clinical setting. Nurse Educator, 18(4), 3.
Job Titles:
- Director of Administrative Services
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- Executive Assistant to the Dean
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- Administrative Support Associate
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- Human Resources Specialist
Todd Schwartz holds a primary faculty appointment in Biostatistics in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He holds a joint faculty appointment in the UNC School of Nursing, as well as an adjunct appointment in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.