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For 15 years, nurse-researchers at UCSF’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health have helped build an evidence-based platform for increasing access to comprehensive reproductive health.
The final installment of Professor Elena Flowers’ genomics journey.
Depression among U.S. women represents a significant public health concern. Interim Dean Sandra Weiss leads a number of studies to address depression’s potential effects on women and their children.
Doctoral student Kimberly Pyke-Grimm looks at how adolescents and young adults make decisions about cancer treatment.
In part three of this series, genomic researcher and educator Elena Flowers explores her risk for Alzheimer’s disease and takes part in the open and active debate at UCSF about the societal and ethical questions that surround direct-to-consumer genetic testing.
After pioneering evidence-based, trauma-informed care for women with HIV, UCSF School of Nursing faculty members affiliated with the UCSF Women’s HIV Program are bringing their successes to other health care settings.
As direct-to-consumer genomic testing grows, UCSF experts wrestle with helping the health care system and individual providers respond.
In the second “chapter” of this series, Elena Flowers – a genomics researcher and professor at UCSF School of Nursing – receives the results of having her entire genome sequenced and begins to explore what having those results means for patients, providers and the broader society.
A collaboration between the UCSF School of Nursing and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco to validate an assessment tool may help nurses better predict which children are at risk for falling while in the hospital.
Researcher Annesa Flentje is examining how stress in LGBT people and other sexual minorities affects gene expression and health.
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The UCSF School of Nursing is expanding its Doctor of Nursing Practice program, creating new pathways that will take registered nurses directly to a DNP degree in under four years. At the same time, the School’s PhD program continues to develop innovative nurse scientists whose research will improve care and services for those in critical need.
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