Current T32 Pre-doctoral Trainees
Research interests include palliative care for patients with chronic conditions, specifically those with renal disease. (MSN, Duke University,2019) Advisor, Dr. Mi-Kyung Song.
Research interests include, reducing breast cancer disparities among African American women. (BSN, Emory University, 2021, MPH, Georgia State University, 2009, BS, Xavier University of Louisiana, 2006) Advisor, Dr. Jill Hamilton.
Research and practice interests’ center around neuro critical care nursing as it pertains to improving stroke outcomes. (BSN, Emory University 2018) Advisor, Dr. Vicki Hertzberg.
Research interests focus on health literacy and symptom management in adult oncology patients from underserved, rural areas. Other interests include financial toxicity and reducing barriers to cancer care in rural populations. (BSN, Emory University, 2017) Advisor, Dr. Kate Yeager
Research interests include heart failure in the acute care and palliative care settings. Other interests include caregiver burden, increasing access to care, and outpatient symptom management for patients diagnosed with heart failure. (MS, Clemson University, 2018) Advisor, Dr. Rebecca Gary
Research interests include interventions for chronic conditions related to self-care, treatment adherence and quality of life. Other interests include mental health well-being and behavior adaptability to long-term conditions in patients. (BSN, Emory University, 2018) Advisor, Dr. Drenna Waldrop
Research interests include conversations in end-of-life care, particularly for patients with advanced chronic illness who have been admitted to the intensive care unit. Other interests include early palliative care, advance care planning, and facilitating a "good death". (BSN, Emory University, 2017) Advisor, Dr. Kenneth Hepburn
Current T32 Post-doctoral Trainees
Research interests focus on the use of omics biomarkers in multimorbid patients with cardiovascular disease to develop risk-stratification models and improve patient outcomes. (PhD University of Illinois Chicago, 2020) Advisor Dr. Rebecca Gary.
Research interests focus on nursing workflow optimization in relationship to care quality and patient/resident outcomes (PhD, University of Minnesota, 2021) Advisor, Dr. Jeannie Cimiotti.
Past Pre-doctoral Trainees
Research interests include conversations in end-of-life care, particularly for patients with advanced chronic illness who have been admitted to the intensive care unit. Other interests include early palliative care, advance care planning, and facilitating a "good death". (BSN, Emory University, 2017) Advisor, Dr. Kenneth Hepburn
Research interests include exercise adherence, cognition, and chronic stress and inflammation in PLWH (people living with HIV). (BSN Emory, 2018N) Advisor, Dr. Rebecca Gary
Roseline Jean Louis was born in Petit Goave, Haiti, and a Ph.D. Candidate at Emory University School of Nursing. As a first-generation Haitian immigrant, she is one of the first in her family to graduate from college and will be the first to obtain a graduate degree. As a labor and delivery nurse who’s worked in multiple hospitals across the southeastern united states, Ms. Jean Louis has first-hand experience with the inequities that people of color face while seeking maternal healthcare. More specifically, she believes that these inequities are rooted in racism and pervasive discrimination within healthcare systems. Her research focuses on investigating modifiable risk factors to prevent adverse maternal health inequities that plague the Black community in the United States. Her dissertation uses a multi-methods approach to; 1) quantitatively examine the impacts of racial discrimination and disrespectful maternity care on severe maternal morbidity among Black women in the United States, and 2) qualitatively explore the lived experiences of women who experienced high rates of racial discrimination and disrespectful care. She has co-authored three peer-reviewed manuscripts and has three first-authored manuscripts pending publication.
Ms. Jean Louis is a current Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Scholar and Birth Equity Research Fellow at the National Birth Equity Collaborative (NBEC) where she provides research and evaluation support for NBEC’s programmatic teams and informs organizational research and evaluation practices that center Black women and decolonized research methodologies. As part of the NBEC fellowship, she leads a data analysis of the Maternal Mortality Review Information Application (MMRIA) data set from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Maternal Mortality Prevention Division of Reproductive Health looking at the impacts of racism on maternal mortality. This work will be submitted as a first author publication by me in the next year and will further elucidate the relationship between racism, respectful care, and maternal morbidity outcomes among Black women. At Emory University, she currently serves in a variety of organizations and committees including, serving as former president of the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Ph.D. Nursing Student Association, Black student representative for Emory University’s Laney Graduate School Student Council, research support representative for Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Divisional Community and Diversity Committee, and serves as clinical faculty in the School of Nursing.
Outside of the academic setting Ms. Jean louis is assisting the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) in developing tools and resources to support state maternal mortality review committees in adopting a consistent approach to determining if discrimination, structural racism, and/or interpersonal racism contributed to a pregnancy-related death. Finally, she currently serves as co-chair of the health committee for the North Fulton National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which strives to ensure the educational, political, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination.
Ms. Jean Louis’ long-term career goal is to be an independent nurse researcher and a leader in research on maternal health disparities among marginalized populations. She aims to develop and implement potential strategies to improve maternal health among these populations.
Research interests include public psychiatry and policies addressing barriers to care. (MSN, University of California San Francisco, 2017). Advisor, Dr. Kylie Smith.
Research interests centered on assisting persons with heart failure with their symposium management and eliminating barriers to care, possibly through emotional health interventions and addressing deficits in patient education. (BSN, Howard University, 2010), Advisor, Dr. Sandra B. Dunbar.
Past Post-doctoral Trainees
Research interests focus on caregiving and quality of life in African American dementia dyads. (PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, 2019) Advisor, Dr. Kenneth Hepburn
Monique BalthazarMy research interested include HIV/AIDS, improving outcomes in chronic disease management, sleep, and self-care. (DNP/PhD, Case Western Reserve University, 2014) Advisor, Dr. Marcia Holstad.