Nursing Science Faculty (SON-U)

Nursing Science Faculty

 Barberio, Judy, PhD, APN, ANP-BC, GNP-BC, PMGT-BC
Clinical Associate Professor
Pain management, addictions, palliative care, with geriatric and PLHIV; Research: Improving or maintaining function and Independence with complex chronic illness.

Birnbaum, Shira, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
Qualitative research methods, doctoral nursing education, educational theory 

Btoush, Rula, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, PhD Program Director
Research, health disparities, health promotion, access to health care services

Chao, Ying-Yu, PhD, RN, GNP-BC
Clinical Associate Professor
Gerontology, health disparities, health promotion, help-seeking, mental health, cognitive impairment, caregiving

Chen, Helen, PhD, FNP
Assistant Professor
Virtual care, mHealth, health disparities, implementation of health information technology, diabetes health service research, self-management support, population health informatics.

Cox, Jill, PhD, RN, APN-c, CWOCN, FAAN
Clinical Professor
Wound, ostomy, continence advanced practice nurse; Research: Pressure injury risk detection in critically ill adults

Crincoli, Suzanne, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Nursing Leadership; Critical Care/Emergency Nursing - Topics of interest: Chronotype, Occupational fatigue, shift work, shift worker safety, work environment, organizational outcomes, nurse and patient safety

D'Alonzo, Karen, PhD, RN, APN-c, FAAN
Associate Professor
Health promotion, particularly exercise, prevention/management of obesity and cardiovascular risk reduction in diverse groups of women, immigrant health, community-based participatory research

de Cordova, Pamela, PhD, RN-BC
Associate Professor, Faculty Researcher for NJCCN
Nursing workforce, staffing, policy evaluations. nurse well-being and burnout

George, Login, PhD
Assistant Professor
Intersection of psycho-social processes and healthcare utilization to identify mechanisms that can be leveraged to improve patient outcomes.

Holly, Cheryl
EdD, RN, ANEF
Professor, Co-Director Northeast Institute for Evidence Synthesis and Translation
Acute delirium, Firearm prevention, Scoping review, Umbrella review, Systematic review

Holzemer, William, PhD, RN, FAAN
Distinguished Professor
Academic Nursing, HIV, Publishing

Iwu, Emilia, PhD, RN, APNC, FWACN, FAAN
Clinical Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for the Center for Global Health,
Global health/HIV nursing, adolescent HIV diagnosis disclosure and caregiving, emerging health workforce models in low and middle-income countries

Jadotte, Yuri, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor, Assistant Director of Education, Northeast Institute for Evidence Synthesis and Translation
Promoting well-being and preventing burnout in nursing students and practicing nurses

Jarrin Montaner, Olga, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, Hunterdon Endowed Professor of Nursing Research
Gerontology, nursing outcomes, health services research, comparative effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research, community health, home health care, health disparities, health policy

 Johansen, Mary, PhD, RN, NE-BC, FAAN
Clinical Professor
Health services research, conflict management, healthy work environments, healthcare workforce issues focusing on improving quality of care and patient outcomes, and standard of care.

Kim, Min Hee, PhD, MA, MSW
Assistant Professor
Modifiable structural drivers of health inequities (including neighborhood social and built environment factors and education), Dementia prevention, diagnosis and care, Home and Community-based long-term care and support, Causal inference, Policy analysis  

Lin, Haiqun, PhD, MD
Professor, Director, Center for Health Equity and Systems Research
Quantitative inference regarding population vs. individual perspective in data that arise from health and nursing research, social behavior sciences, health disparity, mental health, and aging research.

Maynard, Frances, PhD, RN, FNP, MBE
Associate Professor
Clinical ethics, research ethics, palliative care

Nelson, John, PhD, CNS, CPNP, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, François-Xavier Bagnoud Endowed Chair in Community and Family Centered Care
Pediatrics, adolescent/young adult healthcare, HIV, LGBTIA+, sexually transmitted STIs, social determinants, harm reduction

Qureshi, Rubab, MBBS, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Social determinants of health, systematic review, sexual and gender minorities health, health inequities, cultural competence, immigrant health

Roach, Keesha, PhD, RN, FAAN
Assistant Professor
Complexities of acute and chronic pain in individuals with sickle cell disease, with a focus on neuropathic pain, self-management strategies and neurocognitive dysfunction, and the importance of personalized, culturally sensitive approaches that address unique individual needs in urban and rural environments. Sickle Cell Disease, Pain science, Genomics, Epigenetics, Proteomics, Precision health, Global Health

 Salmond, Susan, EdD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Professor, Executive Director of Accreditation and Special Projects and Professor
Individual and organizational strategies to facilitate to decrease burnout, and advance well-being, and resilience in the nursing workforce. Population health and health disparities. Evidence synthesis with a focus on qualitative evidence synthesis, evidence transfer and evidence implementation.

Savage, Beth, PhD, RN, CPNP, CPON
Assistant Professor
Pediatric and Family-Centered Care, Childhood Cancer, Sickle Cell Disease, Health Equity, Pediatric Population Health

Shrader, Cho-Hee, PhD, MPH, MSN
Assistant Professor
Substance use and HIV-related outcomes among sexual and gender minorities, with a focus on achieving health equity among racially minoritized groups.

Starkweather, Angela, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Professor, Dean
Pain and symptom management, self-management science, team science, implementation science, community-engaged participatory research, genomics, epigenetics, omics, precision health 

Thomas-Hawkins, Charlotte, PhD, RN, FAAN, FADLN
Associate Professor, Associate Dean Nursing Science

Nephrology nursing workforce, patient safety, disparities in health care service use, and health policy

Zha, Peijia, PhD, MA
Associate Professor, Director, Center for Technology and Chronic Disease Self-Management
Social determinants of health, social epidemiology, statistical modeling, and program evaluation.