Area of Excellence: Aging
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Brenda Douglass
Brenda Douglass, a nursing leader with over 30 years of experience, began her career at the bedside specializing in emergency nursing. She brings forth a unique perspective as a faculty educator and clinician with a robust career trajectory assimilating academic, clinical, leadership, and administrative roles. Among her previous experience in academia, she launched administrative roles…
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Deborah Paone
Dr. Deborah Paone is an independent researcher and President of Paone & Associates, LLC, a firm she founded in 2002 (Minneapolis). Deborah has conducted several multi-year, multi-site implementation evaluations of evidence-based or model programs for older adults and caregivers, examining implementation barriers and facilitators as the programs are translated or disseminated in urban, suburban and…
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Marianne Fingerhood
Marianne Fingerhood has been a nurse practitioner in adult primary care since 1999 and began serving as clinical preceptor beginning in 2001. She began her teaching journey with pre-licensure students in 1990 and joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 2012 teaching in the MSN NP program and finally as the…
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Emma Mangano
Emma Mangano is a family psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner with more than 10 years of clinical experience. Dr. Mangano’s areas of expertise include inpatient and emergency psychiatry, dual diagnosis, and geriatric behavioral health. Her clinical focus while working in the emergency department has been on the care of boarding patients and advocating for…
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Jessica Peters
Jessica Peters has served as an acute care nurse practitioner within the Weinberg Critical Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital unit since 2009. Prior to this position she worked in trauma critical care nursing since 2003. She received her doctoral of nursing practice and post masters nurse educator certificate in 2015 from Johns Hopkins and…
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Sarah Allgood
Sarah Allgood’s research focuses on the role of pain and other symptoms in clinical outcomes among individuals with cystic fibrosis. Her long-term research goals include the development of interventions to help manage symptoms, especially in those with advanced lung disease. Dr. Allgood earned her PhD in Nursing from Johns Hopkins and completed a two-year research…
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Melissa Hladek
Melissa deCardi Hladek PhD, CRNP, FNP-BC is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and a researcher-clinician focusing on how stress, self-efficacy, and sociocultural factors influence the biology of aging, chronic disease and frailty. Her research goals are to further understand the role of stress, coping and social determinants of health in…
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Binu Koirala
Binu Koirala’s research expertise includes cardiovascular disease, multimorbidity, palliative care, and global health. She earned the 2021 Dean’s Award- Outstanding Nurse Researcher- from the Johns Hopkins Nursing Alumni Association. Dr. Koirala has funded research projects to develop and test care coordination and symptom management interventions for patients living with multimorbidity, including those with cardiovascular diseases.…
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Junxin Li
Junxin Li works to promote health and well-being of older adults, particularly by understanding how physical activity and sleep affect cognitive function. Research interests include the associations between daytime activities, sleep, and cognitive function; the biological mechanisms for these associations; the short- and long-term impacts of daytime napping on cognitive functions; and testing individually tailored…
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Rebecca J. Wright
Rebecca Wright has worked in health care since 2004. Her program of research focuses on principles of justice and equity within palliative care, and development and application of qualitative, participatory methodologies within a diverse range of settings and with vulnerable populations. She was a nurse at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London and a research assistant…