LCON Research News

Congratulations to Dr. Jill Dapremont, who serves as the Co-Investigator and UofM Site Director alongside Principal Investigator Shelley White-Means, as they received an NIH R01 award for their groundbreaking project, "Policy Pathways to Breast Health Equity in Racially Segregated Areas with Concentrated Poverty."

Congratulations to Dr. Fatima Alzyoud on her abstract acceptance to the 35th International Nursing Research Congress, Sigma, in Singapore this summer! Her presentation titled "Validating the Disrespect and Abuse (D&A) Scale: A Psychometric Analysis" showcases her outstanding work.

Congratulations to Drs. Sheri Howard and Meghan Taylor on their abstract that was accepted to the 35th International Nursing Research Congress, Sigma, in Singapore this summer. he title of their presentation is  “Evaluating the Virtual Reality Experience for Older Adults: A Feasibility Study to Enhance Patient Education.”

Congratulations to Drs. Dana El Hajj and Dean Linda Haddad who has two peer-review presentation: national Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco entitled “ Tobacco Use of Self-Identified Females and Their Immigrant Status” and the Southern Nursing Research Society conference entitled "Tobacco Use of Self-Identified Females and Their Social Status.”

Congratulations to Drs. Sheri Howard & Leanne Lefler on their abstract acceptance for a poster presentation entitled "Using the Community Action Poverty Simulation to Accelerate Learning About Health Equity"

Congratulations to Dr. Reba Umberger and her team on her abstract acceptance for a poster presentation entitled "Using ICD-10 Codes to Capture Social Determinants of Health within the National Readmission Dataset"

Congratulations to Dr. Fatima Alzyoud and her team on her abstract acceptance for a podium presentation entitled “Nurse Disrespect and Abuse Toward Laboring and Child-Birthing Women. “

Dr. Tracie L. Augusta, the Principal Investigator, and her team have received their first grant award titled "Hypertension Control of African Americans in an Urban Environment." This seed grant is generously provided by the Communities of Research Scholars (CoRS) program at the University of Memphis. Dr. Annapoorna Mary and Fawaz Mzayek are contributing as co-investigators on this project.

Congratulations to Kerri Kitchen and Tiffany Elliott on the acceptance of their abstract "Empathy in Action: Harnessing the Power of Reflection from '5B' in Nursing Education" for the AACN's Diversity Symposium in Feb 2024.

Congradulations to Dr. Gloria Carr on receiving a small grant award from the Tennessee Nurses Foundation Nursing Research Grant Program, entitled SDOH: Work Environment: Implications for Mental Health, Moral Injury & Burnout Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education.

Congratulations to Howard S. and Dr. Leanne Lefler on their recent publication "Using the Community Action Poverty Simulation to Accelerate Learning About Health Equity." J Nurs Pract. [IN PRESS].

Congratulations to 1^st author Viktoriya Pleshkan &  2^nd author Sohye Lee on their manuscript entitled "Facilitating Nursing Students’ Transition to Scholar: Embedded Writing Tutor Project," (JNE-2023-421R1, Syllabus Selection), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Nursing Education. 

Congratulations to Dr. Annapoorna Mary for having her paper was accepted for publication in the journal Research in Nursing and Health. The Article Title: Recommendations to Improve Maternal Health Equity Among Black Women in “The South”: A Position Paper from the SNRS Minority Health Research Interest & Implementation Group.

Congratulations to Dr. Sohye Lee on her recent co-authored publication titled is "Factors Associated College Students' Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination and Preferred Strategies for Catch-Up Vaccine Promotion: A Mixed Methods Study." Her paper is published in Vaccine (Impact Factor, 4.962). Read more here >>

Congratulations Dr. Viktoriya Pleshkan on receiving a small grant award from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners for her project entitled: Phenomenological Study of Preceptors’ Experiences with Preparing Nurse Practitioner Students for Autonomous Practice. 8/23-12/24 Read more here>>

Celebrating Dr. Genae Strong on her recent publication  “Speaking the Same Language: A Call for Standardized Lactation Terminology in the United States” that has just now been published in Volume 39, Issue 1 of Journal of Human Lactation. 

Congratulations to Tiffany Elliot, MSN, RN, CHSE for her manuscript entitled Theory Analysis and Evaluation of Emancipatory Nursing Praxis: A Theory of Social Justice in Nursing accepted for publication in the International Journal of Nursing Knowledge.  

Congratulations to Dr. Candace McGowen for her manuscript entitled Exploring the Clinical Outcomes of Implementing Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support in a Primary Care Practice: A Quality Improvement Project accepted for publication in the Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice.

Congratulations to Dr. Ashanti Coleman for acceptance of her peer-reviewed presentation entitled Stroke Prevention in African American Women Ages 20-40 with Oral Contraceptive Use, to be presented at the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium for July 20-23rd in Keystone, Colorado.

Congratulations to Dr. Sohye Lee on her co-authorship of Effects of Medication Intervention on Self-management in Adult Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis.

Congratulations to Dr. Reba Umberger and Dr. Annapoorna Mary! Presentation acceptance for the 2023 Critical Care Congress by Society of Critical Care Medicine for their abstract entitled Exploring the Role of Social Determinants of Health on Readmissions After Sepsis to be held in San Francisco in January. 

Congratulations to Dr. Reba Umberger for receiving intramural research funding from the Division of Research and Innovation Community of Research Scholars grant entitled Exploring the role of social determinants of health on 90-day sepsis readmissions. 

Congratulations to Drs. Jill Dapremont and Sheri Howard! Presentation acceptance for the 2023 Annual Conference by Southern Nursing Research Society for their abstract entitled Leveraging Health Equity Through Creation of a Learning Community for Minority Nursing Students to be held in Rosen Centre, Orlando, Florida in March.

Congratulations to Drs. Gloria Carr and Genae Strong! Presentation acceptance for the 2023 Annual Conference by Southern Nursing Research Society for their abstract entitled Faculty Navigating COVID-19 – Nursing Education Crisis to be held in Rosen Centre, Orlando, Florida in March.

Congratulations to Dr. Annapoorna Mary! Presentation acceptance for the 2023 Annual Conference by Southern Nursing Research Society for their abstract entitled Building Community Partnerships to Support Population Health through Engagement in Cardiovascular Health Education for Disparate, Inner-City Patients to be held in Rosen Centre, Orlando, Florida in March.

Congratulations to Dr. Sheri Howard and Leanne Lefler for their presentation acceptance for the annual conference by National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties entitled Using the Community Action Poverty Simulation to Change Student’s Attitudes and Beliefs to Support Health Equity in Future Practice to be held in Orlando Florida in April.

Congratulations to Dr. Leanne Lefler, Co-Investigator on the Shelby County Health Department/ School of Public Health (Dr. Ashish Joshi, PI) and LCON collaboration on a $13+ million Public Health Workforce and Infrastructure Grant. This grant was recently funded with an aim to build and revitalize the existing public health infrastructure and help to recruit, retain, and train the current and future public health workforce.

Congratulations to Co-Investigator Dr. Jill Dapremont and the interprofessional research team lead by Dr. White-Means for their grant proposal submitted to the National Institute for Disparities and Minority Health, entitled Policy Pathways to Equity in Racially Segregated Areas with Concentrated Poverty. This research proposal addresses racial and economic resource structure gaps and creates a blueprint on how to reverse patterns of absent breast cancer resources and other services in underserved communities.