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Ellen Olshansky, RN, DNSc
Professor and Director, Nursing Science, UC Irvine
Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
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| Current PI funding: NIH (K12), Medicare beneficiaries and high cost pharmaceuticals (2006-2010)
Rand Corporation and University of Pittsburgh, Telemedicine: Kiosks for the Elderly (2007-2008)
Veterans Administration and University of Pittsburgh (IIR 05-281-1), Barriers to antiviral therapy
for veterans with Hepatitis C (2006-2010) |
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| Mentoring: Featured in the 2004 edition of Who's Who in American Education, Dr. Olshansky is serving as faculty mentor on an NIH K12 grant on Medicare beneficiaries and high cost pharmaceuticals. Following her commitment to promoting qualitative research methods, Dr. Olshansky founded an interdisciplinary qualitative research group that grew to about 125 people (faculty and graduate students across the University of Pittsburgh campus) that taught and mentored others in qualitative research methods and provided a community for scholarly exchange. Her trainees include Dr. Geraldine Budd, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Drexel University; and Dr. Carolynn Masters, Dean of the College of Sciences, Engineering and Health Sciences at Gannon University. Dr. Olshansky has mentored 11 trainees, with 2 currently. |
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| Research: Dr. Olshansky is an expert on women's health issues including infertility, depression, and women's experiences of menopausal symptoms. Her translational research studies how people live with and manage their diabetes; the use of tele-health methods for elderly people; how adolescents cope with having a cardiac transplant; and what the barriers are to reporting medication errors by nurses, physicians and pharmacists. Recipient of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Research Award (1992), Dr. Olshansky was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2003. |
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