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Faculty with Graduate Status and Their Research
Interests/Areas of Expertise
* Carolyn A. Williams, professor and dean; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 1969. Evaluation of community-based health services, nursing contributions to primary
care, and public health nursing practice.
* Debra Anderson, associate professor; Ph.D., Oregon Health Sciences University, 1993.
Homelessness in women and families, domestic violence, health of truck drivers.
* Sharon J. Barton, associate professor, Ph.D.., Loyola University, Chicago, 1995. Infants
and mothers, infant feeding, families, qualitative research.
* Dorothy Y. Brockopp, professor and assistant dean for undergraduate studies; Ph.D., State
University of New York at Buffalo, 1981. Quality of life among individuals with chronic
illness.
* Patricia Burkhart, assistant professor; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1996. Child asthma
self-management; adherence to treatment; peak flow monitoring.
* Norma J. Christman, associate professor emeritus; Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1980.
Cognitive processes and health-related behavior; stress and coping; uncertainty in illness; selfregulation
theory; psychosocial oncology.
** Mary C. DeLetter, assistant professor; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1991. Quality of
life, chronic disease, and chronic airflow limitation.
* Susan Frazier, associate professor; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1996.
Cardiopulmonary functioning.
** Teresa A. Free, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1988. Effects of
maternal substance abuse on infants and children.
* Ellen J. Hahn, professor; D.N.S., Indiana University, 1992. School and home-based health
promotion research; alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention with families and young
children; tobacco policy research.
* Lynne A. Hall, Marcia A. Dake Professor of Nursing Science and assistant dean for research
and the Ph.D. program; Dr.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983. Social
support, stress, and depression in vulnerable populations; single-parent families; the effect of
mothers' mental health on child outcomes, women’s health.
** Margaret J. Hickman, associate professor; Ed.D., Ball State University, 1982. Long-term
home health care for adults in rural areas, community strategies for health promotion.
* Patricia B. Howard, associate professor; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1992. Family