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CENTER DIRECTOR:
Jean Wyman, PhD, APRN-BC, GNP, FAAN
MISSION:
To develop and test innovative
interventions that help individuals
and families create optimal pathways
to health.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jean Wyman, Professor
Phone: 612-626-9443
E-mail: chtr@umn.edu
www.nursing.umn.edu/CHTR
minnesota center for
health trajectory research
Visiting scholar
Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, PhD, RN, FAAN,
dean of the School of Nursing at the
University of Pittsburgh, served as the
center’s visiting scholar on April 10–11,
2008. She presented two research
seminars to faculty, students, and staff.
The first focused on adherence strategies
and measurement in clinical trials. The
second explored retention issues and
strategies in longitudinal studies. Dunbar-Jacob also consulted with the center’s
executive committee on the continued development of the scientific theme.
In addition, Dunbar-Jacob delivered the keynote address to more than 350 faculty,
students, and community partners at the School of Nursing’s Annual Nursing Research
Day on April 11. Her presentation was entitled, “Developing a Program of Research:
Building Knowledge on Patient Adherence.”
The Minnesota Center for Health Trajectory
Research was established in 2005 with a
$1.5 million grant from the National Institute of
Nursing Research. The center is developing and
testing innovative interventions that will help
individuals and families create optimal pathways
to health. Center researchers are exploring the
interrelationships among the many biological,
behavioral, psychosocial, and environmental
factors responsible for health or illness and how
to manage them over time.
Learn more
Please check out our Web site at
www.nursing.umn.edu/CHTR for
links to seminars and presentations
conducted by the center.
One-year pilot studies
The center provides funding to faculty to conduct one-year pilot
studies. Projects funded for 2008–09 year are:
• Exercise for American Indian Women with Gestational Diabetes:
A Pilot Study. Principal Investigator: Melissa Avery, associate
professor and chair, Child and Family Health Cooperative
• Correlates of Quality of Life for Rural and Urban Families
of Children with Velocardiofacial Syndrome (VCFS).
Principal Investigator: Wendy Looman, assistant professor
• Pilot of a Coping Intervention Developed for Latina Adolescent
Females. Principal Investigator: Carolyn Garcia, assistant professor
L–R, Melissa Avery, Wendy Looman, Carolyn Garcia
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