2020 Betty Irene Moore Fellows

Fellowship project: Place-based determinants of violence among Black young women in Baltimore

Self-selected mentor: Karin E. Tobin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Program-appointed mentor (2020-2022): Peggy L. Chinn, R.N., Ph.D., DS.c.(Hon), F.A.A.N., Professor Emerita of Nursing, University of Connecticut

Program-appointed mentor: Carolyn M. West, Ph.D., Professor of Social, Behavioral and Human Sciences, at the University of Washington, Tacoma

Fellowship project: Stroke counseling for risk reduction in young African American men

Self-selected mentor: Laura Salazar, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program, Georgia State University School of Public Health 

Program-appointed mentor: J Taylor Harden, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., F.G.S.A., Visiting Professor, University of Texas Austin School of Nursing (Fellowship National Advisory Council member)

Fellowship project: Characterization of stress and resilience in African American/Black dementia family caregivers

Self-selected mentor: Ladson Hinton, M.D., Professor and Director of Geriatric Psychiatry, UC Davis Health

Program-appointed mentor: Donna Benton, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology

Fellowship project: Therapeutic relational connection and telehealth

Self-selected mentor: Rachel Jones, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Associate Professor, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Northeastern University

Program-appointed mentor: Gail Powell-Cope, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Director Emerita, Center of Innovation on Disability and Rehab Research and Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Center of Excellence, Veterans Administration (Fellowship National Advisory Council member)

Fellowship project: Machine learning, multimorbidity, and symptom science: mobile app intervention development

Self-selected mentor: Keela Herr, Ph.D., R.N., A.G.S.F., F.G.S.A., F.A.A.N., Kelting Professor in Nursing, Associate Dean for Faculty, Co-Director of the Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence, University of Iowa, College of Nursing

Program-appointed mentor: Holly Jimison, Ph.D., Joint Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University

Fellowship project: Uncovering trajectories of illness for children with sepsis

Self-selected mentor: Joseph Randall Moorman, M.D., Professor, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Program-appointed mentor: Misha Pavel, Ph.D., Joint Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University (Fellowship National Advisory Council member)

Fellowship project: SAFE-T system: sustaining and scaling nurse-led sexual assault care

Self-selected mentor: James Pietropaolo, M.B.A., Associate Director of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Commercialization, Penn State

Program-appointed mentor (2020-2021): Antonia Villarruel, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Professor and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Fellowship National Advisory Council member)

Program-appointed mentor (2021-Present): Connie Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Director of the Center for Family Health, California Department of Public Health

Fellowship project: Home health discharge decision support (HEADS-UP)

Self-selected mentor: Kathryn Bowles, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., F.A.C.M.I., Professor of Nursing and van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Program-appointed mentor: Doug Busch, Chairman of the Board, Blue Shield of California

Fellowship project: Implicit bias teaching protocol

Self-selected mentors: Butch de Castro, Ph.D., M.S.N./M.P.H., R.N., F.A.A.N., Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, University of Washington School of Nursing and Kenya Beard, Ed.D., C.N.E., A.G.A.C.N.P.-B.C., A.N.E.F., F.A.A.N., President, K. Beard and Associates, LLC

Program-appointed mentor: Michelle van Ryn, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., M.P.H., Professor, Oregon Health and Science University, School of Nursing

Fellowship project: Implementing caregiver support in United States Cancer Centers

Self-selected mentor: Marie Bakitas, D.N.Sc., C.R.N.P., N.P.-C., A.O.C.N., A.C.H.P.N., F.A.A.N., F.P.C.N., Professor and Associate Dean, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Program-appointed mentor: Susan Reinhard, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Senior Vice President and Director, AARP Public Policy Institute (Fellowship National Advisory Council member)

Fellowship project: A nurse-led, family-based mobile application to promote health among Black male adolescents and young adults

Self-selected mentor: Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, Ph.D., R.N., M.P.H., C.P.H., F.A.A.N., Associate Professor and Faculty Lead, Population Health Research, Duke University, (Fellowship National Advisory Council member)

Program-appointed mentor: Christi Zuber, Ph.D., R.N., Founder, Aspen Labs, Adjunct Faculty, Northwestern University