I am an Edmond J. Safra Nurse Faculty Scholar at the Parkinson’s Foundation (PF) and
am involved in three Parkinson’s disease-related research projects (2 through OSP
at Louisiana Tech with Dr. Tara Haskins and 1 as a collaborator with PF/Towson/Virginia
CommonwealthU). Funding from these projects comes from the Parkinson’s Foundation.
I am also part of a collaboration between Nursing and Entrepreneurship funded by Living
Well Foundation: AI to Reduce AED Response Time (Hood, Sweitzer, McFadden). I have
a certificate in Qualitative Research from The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill School of Nursing. I am PI for Perkins Basic Grant for the Division of Nursing.
Additional research interests relate to developing empathy and technology skills in
nursing students
