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: Cortés
• 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