September 28, 2017

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

• Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices

• Optimize design & manufacturing

• Harness 3D printing

• Personalized prescription

• Biomechanics & Human Movement

• Adaptive capacity of human musculoskeletal

system

• Interaction between musculoskeletal system

and devices during walking

Elisa Arch, PhD

RESEARCH

TRAINING

Biomechanics, Orthotics & Prosthetics

COOL TO KNOW

Assistant Professor

KAAP

BSN

MSNFamily Nurse Practitioner

PhDPost-Doc

Assistant Professor

Hilary Barnes, PhD APRN

Program of Research

• Health Services Research• Workforce & Policy• Quantitative Analysis• Longitudinal Analyses• Large Data Sets

• Nurse Practitioners and Healthcare Delivery• Impact of practice regulations on practice• NP employment in ambulatory care• Contributions to care• Future: NPs as an intervention to improve

patient outcomes and healthcare delivery

Utilizing RNAs as Biomarkers for Cancer Diagnosis and to Elucidate Molecular Pathways of Cancer Progression

Mona Batish, PhD

Assistant Professor

Medical Laboratory Sciences

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• Immunohematology

• Hematology

• Immunology

• Statistics

• Research Design

Control of Balance and Locomotion (CoBaL) laboratory

Xiaopeng Ji, PhD, RN

School of Nursing

• Micronutrients, sleep and neurobehavioral function in early adolescents.

• Habitual midday napping, nighttime sleep, and cognitive/psychosocial wellbeing in early adolescents (on-going).

• Physical activity promotion, sleep quality and depressive symptoms among Asian American women: a pilot web-based intervention study(on-going).

• Current interests: sleep/circadian rhythm and daytime functioning; mHealth for effective sleep in community-based samples;

Research Areas/Interests

Neurobehavioral Function

SleepHealth

Behavioral Intervention

Psychological Wellbeing

Nutritional

Correlates

Center for Public Private Partnerships in HealthRichard E. Killingsworth, MPH

Director and Associate Professor

• Background

• Center’s Mission

• Scope of Work

• Type of Partnerships

• Collaboration

Aging

Dementia

stiff arteries

Neurovascular dysfunction

Mechanisms

brain blood flow

MRI

Cognitive Function

Clinical Trials

VIJAY PARASHAR, PhD

Medical Laboratory Sciences

Approach

Biochemistry

Structural Biology

Molecular Genetics

Understand mechanism: One protein at a time

Problem

Antibiotic Resistance

IdeaTarget bad behaviors not life

Addressing the Diabetes Burden Across Primary, Secondary, and

Tertiary Levels of Prevention

Laurie Ruggiero, Ph.D.

Christine SkubiszAssistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition

Theoretical Scope: Health communication, message design and evaluation, risk perception, cognitive processing of health risks

Health Topics: Tobacco control, cancer, medical decision making, violence risk, obesity, chemical exposure, food defense, food labeling, public health campaigns

Research Methods: Quantitative, experiments, surveys

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Understanding the language learning mechanisms used by children

Identifying effective ways to support children at risk for language learning problems

• Typically Developing Dual Language Learners

• Typically Developing Children in Poverty

• Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)• Expressive/receptive communication delay • Specific Language Impairment

Summer science camp3 conditions: vocabulary, grammar, controlStudent training opportunity

Does language therapy improve science learning for pre-k kids with DLD?

Does the delivery mechanism influence the dosage and uptake of the target structure differently for kids w/ DLD and Dual Language Learners?

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Does the distribution of verbs within a sentence frame influence learning & generalization of a novel sentence frame?

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Voice and Motor Learning Lab

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Katherine Verdolini Abbott, Professor CSCDPhD, CCC-SLP, MDiv

• Influences of tissue mobilization on the biology of vocal fold wound healing (in vitro, human, and in silico research tools)

• Personality, biological, and neurological pathways linking emotions and voice (behavioral, EMG, and neuroimaging research tools)

• Exercise physiology and voice in athletic vocal performance, respiratory disease, and vocal fatigue (behavioral and biological research tools)

• Cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms in perceptual-motor learning for voice (behavioral and neuroimaging research tools)

• Physical and cognitive developmental factors in the response to voice therapy for children with vocal fold nodules (high-speed imaging and cognitive research tools)

Beatrice Gaynor, PhD, APRN, FNP-C

College of Health Science

School of Nursing

Bebe Gaynorbgaynor@udel.eduIf you want to get something done, ask someone who is busy.

Beatrice Gaynor, PhD, ARNP, FNP-CResearch

• Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Community Participatory Action Research, Secondary Data Analysis

• Motivate behaviors that promote health and prevent disease in adults & older adults.

• Reframing health perceptions– Weight and BMI vs. Waist circumference

and body composition

– Muscle Challenge

Beatrice Gaynor, PhD, ARNP, FNP-CResearch Collaboration

• 21 years Family Nurse Practitioner – Add medical expertise from proposal to

publication

• 4 IRB Protocols with UD– Enjoy process

• PhD prepared NP in Nurse Manage Primary Care Center– Align research based inclusion and exclusion

criteria with clinical practice guidelines

• Credentialed Nurse Practitioner with Bayhealth Medical Center– Member of Research Council

• The effect of waist circumference measurement and central obesity health risk education on community-based older adults’ perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, and health behaviors.

• Examining the Diffusion of Waist Circumference Measurement in Primary Care: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Study

• Perceptions of Health in an African Methodist Episcopal Church Kent County, Delaware.

• Perceptions of persons with Parkinson’s disease and their family caregivers about partnered dance.

• Diet Quality and Cognitive Function in an Urban Sample: Findings from HANDLS.

September 28, 2017