Faculty
About the Hartford Center Faculty
The distinguished faculty who are selected to teach, advise students and serve on committees all have a geriatric nursing, gerontology, or specialized research interest that supports students' academic success. Students are paired with an advisor whose interests most closely align with their own, and are encouraged to develop academic and mentor/mentee relationships with other faculty.
Leadership
Ginette A. Pepper PhD, RN, FAAN
Research Specialty: Adverse drug effects on the functional status of elderly adults and medication administration safety
Patricia Berry PhD, APRN, ACHPN, FAAN
Research Specialty: End of life care for nursing home and assisted living residents, and the prevelance of pain
Faculty Members
Susan Beck PhD, APRN, FAAN
Research Specialty: Management of symptoms in cancer patients and organizational interventions to improve care
Cherie Brunker MD
Research Specialty: Geriatric primary care
Michael Caserta PhD, FGSA
Research Specialty: Spousal bereavement, Family caregiving, Health promotion and self-care
Lauren Clark PhD, RN, FAAN
Research Specialty: Health research primarily with Latino populations and persons with disabilities
Kristin Gates Cloyes
Research Specialty:
Margaret Clayton PhD, RN, FNP-CS
Research Specialty: Cancer surviviorship, patient/provider communication influence on well-being
Alexa Doig PhD, RN, MS
Research Specialty: Human factors approach to patient monitoring and the development of novel monitoring techniques
Lee Ellington PhD
Research Specialty: Interpersonal health communication, expression of emotion in medical settings
Linda Edelman RN, PhD
Research Specialty: Injury risk and outcomes, socioeconomic status, geographic patterns of injury risk in older adults
Anita Kinney, PhD, APRN
Research Specialty: Cancer prevention and screening
Kathi Mooney PhD, RN, FAAN, AOCN
Research Specialty: Cancer symptom management, outcomes of supportive care
Janice Morse PhD, RN, FAAN
Research Specialty: Theoretical basis of nursing and the development of evidence based theory
Patricia Murphy, DrPH, APRN, CNM, FACNM
Research Specialty: Management of women's health needs
Donna Richards PhD, RN
Research Specialty: Exercise in older adults
Mark Supiano MD
Research Specialty: Geriatric hypertension
Gail Towsley PhD, NHA
Research Specialty: Long term care
Charlene Weir PhD, RN
Research Specialty: Adverse drug effects, Informatics
Scott Wright PhD
Research Specialty: Retirement migration patterns