Degree: PhD
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Jihane Frangieh
Jihane Frangieh is track coordinator of the MSN Healthcare Organizational Leadership program. A seasoned nurse (20 years’ experience) with a clinical focus in neonatal nursing, she is an emerging health services researcher focusing on work environment and health care quality assessment and improvement. Her research looks at the behaviors of the health care workforce—specifically on…
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Hailey Miller
Hailey Miller’s research focuses on leveraging digital technologies to improve disparities in cardiovascular health and clinical trial participation. She currently collaborates on several projects that use digital behavioral health interventions to improve cardiovascular disease risk factors, including hypertension and obesity. Recently, she was the recipient of the Society of Behavioral Medicine Cardiovascular Disease Trainee Award.…
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Katherine Ornstein
Katherine Ornstein, an epidemiologist by training, is director of the Center for Equity in Aging. Her program of research focuses on older individuals with serious illness and their families and includes work on the downstream effects of health care on families and caregivers; the epidemiology of the homebound population; burden and cost in dementia caregiving…
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Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins has spent most of his career working to improve the health and well-being of marginalized children and families living in distressed neighborhoods. Early in his career, he worked as a school nurse at East Camden (NJ) Middle School and cofounded the Camden STARR Program, a nonprofit development program dedicated to improving the life chances…
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Erin Spaulding
Erin Spaulding’s research expertise includes primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, implementing digital health interventions (DHIs) for chronic disease management, assessing user engagement with DHIs, improving digital literacy among older adults, promoting health and digital equity, and human-centered design methodology. Dr. Spaulding is currently a co-investigator in the Center for Mobile Technologies to Achieve…
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Anna Beeber
An international research leader in gerontological nursing and health services, Anna Beeber is committed to improving the quality and safety of long-term care for older adults and the quality of their everyday lives. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America, a research fellow with the Cecil…
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Michelle Kahn-John
Michelle Kahn-John is an Indigenous nurse scientist who leads and advocates for culturally safe, respectful, and collaborative research partnerships in Native American communities. She’s a transformative advanced practice nurse, has provided leadership in health systems for over 25 years, and continues to offer clinical (psychiatric) and administrative support to hospitals and clinics serving the Navajo Nation. With clinical expertise…
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Bonnielin Swenor
Bonnielin K. Swenor is founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center (DHRC). An associate professor at Johns Hopkins University since June 2019, Dr. Swenor holds joint faculty appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, at the Wilmer Eye…
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Elaine Stashinko
Elaine Stashinko’s clinical practice and research focus on child health nursing, particularly the epidemiology of brain injury, health-related quality of life, and treatment of movement disorders in children with cerebral palsy. As part of the Carter Center for Brain Research in Holoprosencephaly and Related Malformations, she collaborated with a national network of researchers studying holoprosencephaly (HPE),…
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Jessica Gill
Jessica Gill is a national leader in research on the biological mechanisms of traumatic brain injuries (TBI). She has spent decades investigating differential responses in military personnel, athletes, and other patients who have experienced TBIs and the mechanisms underlying these divergent responses. Specifically, Dr. Gill looks for ways to use biomarkers to identify which patients are…