Awards
Drs. Zachary Warner, Rodrigo Alvarez, Juan Gallegos-Orozco, and Echo Warner presented a poster titled Financial Incentives Associated With Hepatitis B Misinformation on Instagram at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting & Postgraduate Course and received two awards – Best Poster Presentation and Newsworthy Abstract.
Christopher Stucky, Dean Marla De Jong, and Yuliang Liu presented a poster titled Surgical Team Performance: The Impact of Familiarity and Team Size in Military Surgical Teams at the Army Nurse Corps Association Convention and received the second place award in the nursing science category.
Presentations
Dr. Kara Dassel presentedCare Across the Dementia Trajectory to 30 dementia caregivers at the Tooele Department of Health.
Dr. Sara Hart led a panel presentation titled Community Engagement at Academic Health Systems: Recent Challenges and Preparing for the Future at the 2022 Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Annual Conference, The Essential Role of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. During the interactive session, Jennifer Elliott, Melissa Yack, Joseph Allen, Logan Vetrovec, and David Line highlighted several of the community-engaged partnerships shared in the Community Engagement at Academic Health Centers themed issue of Metropolitan Universities that Joseph Allen, Melissa Yack, and Dr. Sara Hart guest-edited.
University of Notre Dame Australia’s National School of Nursing, Midwifery, Health Sciences & Physiotherapy and National School of Medicine jointly sponsor a weekly Research Seminar Series. Dr. Lisa Taylor-Swanson delivered a talk titled Theory and Patient-Informed Development of an Integrative Group Medical Visit for the Menopausal Transition.
Faculty, students, and alumni will present at the American Public Health Association’s 2022 Annual Meeting & Expo and 150th anniversary celebration on November 6-9, 2022, in Boston, MA.
- Dr. Teresa Garrett, Kimberley Shoaf, Kristine Snyder, Mary Hill, and Linda Bogdanow will present a poster titled Academic-Local Public Health Partnership to Control COVID-19.
- Dr. Sara Hart and Kyle Turner will present a poster titled Interprofessional Education Simulation to Address Complex Health and Social Needs.
- Dr. Sara Hart and Kathryn Sexson will present a poster titled Consortium to Advance Family Caregiving Competencies in Nursing Education.
- Jacqueline Kent-Marvick, Dr. Kristin Cloyes, Dr. Paula Meek, and Dr. Sara Simonsen will present a poster titled Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Postpartum Weight Retention Requires Multi-Domain, Multi-Level Intersectional Approaches.
- Dr. Shinduk Lee, Matthew Lee Smith, Dr. Nancy Allen, Gang Han, Chung Lin Kew, and Marcia Ory will present a poster titled Diabetes Self-Care Activities among People Living with Dementia and Diabetes: Proxy Responses from Caregivers.
- Kristine Snyder, Kimberly Shoaf, and Dr. Teresa Garrett will deliver an oral presentation titled Active Symptom Monitoring Prevents Hundreds of COVID-19 Cases on the University of Utah Campus.
- Dr. Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Paula Gardiner, Julie Fritz, Kari Denae Stoddard, and Nancy Fugate Woods will deliver an oral presentation titled Women’s Interest in the Development of an Integrative Group Medical Visit for the Menopausal Transition.
- Dr. Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Katherine Taromina, Craig Mitchell, Daniel Altschuler, and Lisa Conboy will deliver an oral presentation titled Chinese Herbal Medicine Telehealth Outcomes for Symptoms Possibly Related to COVID-19.
- Dr. Lisa Taylor-Swanson and Mary Koithan will present a poster titled Developing an Explanatory Middle Range Theory of Midlife Women’s Health and Wellness.
- Dr. Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Athena Sdrales,Rana Ali, Belinda Anderson, Lisa Conboy, Melissa Cortez, Dr. Xiaoming Sheng, Cynthia Price, Nancy Fugate Woods, Julie Fritz, and Paula Gardiner will present a poster titled A Systematic Review of the Effects of Traditional East Asian Medicine on Symptom Clusters during the Menopausal Transition and Early Post-Menopause.
Faculty organized and led special interest group meetings at the Gerontological Society of America 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.
- Dr. Sara Bybee – Rainbow Research Group
- Dr. Katarina Felsted – Fitness, Exercise, and Wellness
- Dr. Gail Towsley – Hospice, Palliative, and End-of-Life Care
In the Media
Dr. Deanna Kepka’s research and policy work focuses on improving the quality of primary health care services for cancer prevention and control among underserved populations, locally and globally. A health services researcher with expertise in HPV vaccination, HPV-related cancer prevention, and health equity research; and founder and director of the Intermountain West HPV Vaccination Coalition, Dr. Kepka has been working to improve HPV vaccination rates. Recent, HPV vaccination rates for adolescents who live in Utah have increased markedly. Members of the media interviewed and quoted Dr. Kepka in the following news stories:
- CDC data suggests attitudes are shifting about the HPV vaccine: Utah vaccine rates among teens increased more than 16%
- Here’s a vaccine Utahns have heartily embraced
- HPV vaccine rate for Utah teens increasing
Qiological features podcast discussions that reveal and examine the landscape of East Asian medicine as it unfolds in modern days. When interviewed for a podcast titled Interoceptive Awareness, Dr. Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell, and Nick Lowe discussed the ability to attend to bodily sensations, and use cutting-edge technologies to track clinical outcomes in practice settings.
Professional Service
Dean Marla De Jong was invited to Co-Chair the American Academy of Nursing Fellow Selection Committee. She will serve as Co-Chair in 2023, Chair in 2024, and Advisor in 2025.