Pain and its associated symptoms are common and often devastating to patients.

UI College of Nursing faculty are leaders in understanding and developing interventions to manage the biological, psychological, and behavioral aspects of illness symptoms that inhibit quality of life, including pain, fatigue, depression, insomnia and chronic wounds.

Funded Centers/Projects

  • Center for Advancing Multimorbidity Science: Profiling risk and symptom expression to develop customized therapies for adults with multiple chronic conditions (P20NR018081). MPI: Gardner/Rakel
  • Advancing symptom science using hidden symptoms and chronic conditions in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (Pilot grant, P20NR018081). PI: Chae
  • Multimorbidity in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Association with Pain and Health Care Utilization: A Big Data Approach (Supplement, P20NR018081). PI: Chi
  • Gastrointestinal microbiome, obesity, and chemotherapy: Influences on symptom burden in women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy (Pilot grant, P20NR018081). PI: Cherwin
  • Evaluating Symptom Variability in Multimorbidity and Advanced Cancer (Pilot grant, P20NR018081). PI: Gilbertson-White
  • Understanding Symptom Variability in Sepsis Survivors with and without Multimorbidity (Pilot grant, P20NR018081). PI: Krupp
  • Predictive MCC Combinations on Alzheimer’s Pathology and Symptoms (Pilot grant, P20NR018081). PI: Moon
  • The Effects of Immunovascular Biomechanisms of Arginine Vasopression (AVP) Hypersecretion in Preeclampsia (PreE) Prediction (Pilot grant, P20NR018081). PI: Vignato
  • Sociocultural Stressors, Resilience Factors, and Arterial Stiffness in Perimenopausal Latinas (R56HL167745). PI: Cortes
  • GeriatricPain.Org Sustainability (Mayday Foundation). PI: Herr
  • Preventing Persistent Post-Surgical Pain and Dysfunction in At-Risk Veterans: Effect of a Brief Behavioral Intervention (R01NR017610). MPI: Rakel/Dindo
  • College of Nursing donor supported grants
    • Lila M. Johnson Fund
Heather Bair

Heather Bair, DNP, ARNP, CRNA, CHSE, FAANA

Title/Position
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Associate Director, Anesthesia Nursing Program
Karen Dunn Lopez

Karen Dunn Lopez, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness
Sue Gardner

Sue Gardner, PhD, RN, FAAN

Title/Position
Professor
Co-Director, Center for Advancing Multimorbidity Science
Mila Grady

Mila Grady, MSN, RN

Title/Position
Instructional Track Lecturer
Ruth Grossmann

Ruth Grossmann, PhD, RN

Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Kirsten Hanrahan

Kirsten Hanrahan, DNP, ARNP, CPNP-PC, FAAN

Title/Position
Director, Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice at UI Hospitals & Clinics
Keela Herr

Keela Herr, PhD, RN, AGSF, FGSA, FAAN

Title/Position
Kelting Professor in Nursing Emerita
Associate Dean for Faculty
Co-Director, Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence
Chooza Moon

Chooza Moon, PhD, RN

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Cormac O'Sullivan

Cormac O'Sullivan, PhD, CRNA, ARNP, FAANA

Title/Position
Professor (Clinical)
Director, Anesthesia Nursing Program
Senior Advisor, SIM-IA Program
Barb Rakel

Barbara Rakel, PhD, RN, FAAN

Title/Position
Professor, Rita and David Frantz Endowed Professorship in Nursing
Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship
Co-Director, Center for Advancing Multimorbidity Science
Julie Stanik-Hutt

Julie Stanik-Hutt, PhD, ACNP/GNP-BC, CCNS, FAAN

Title/Position
Professor (Clinical)
Director, AG-ACNP Program