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Translational Sciences
Lynn Doering, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Professor; Section Chair, Translational Sciences
Research: Depression and immune dysfunction in cardiac patients, care of patients with ischemic heart disease, including transplantation; emphasis on biological outcomes of behavioral interventions, and screening and treatment of depression.
Clinical: Critical care and cardiopulmonary nursing
E-mail: ldoering@sonnet.ucla.edu
Dong Sung An, PhD, MD
Associate Professor
Research: Developing hematopoietic stem cell based gene therapy strategies for treating HIV infected patients. Research team investigates efficient introduction of protective genes against HIV into target cells and offer protection against HIV. My research aims to bring basic science findings to the clinic.
Clinical: Immunology
E-mail: dan@sonnet.ucla.edu
Catherine Carpenter, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
E-mail: ccarpenter@sonnet.ucla.edu
Leah FitzGerald, PhD, APRN-BC, FNP
Assistant Professor
Research: Assess the association between pro-inflammatory cytokine genotype and production and the responsiveness in human disease, as well as the interaction between the neuroendocrine system and cytokines. Integrates psychological, physiological processes and gene expression dynamics to understand the basis for IL-6 "super-producer" phenotype that has recently been established as a risk factor for several forms of cancer.
Clinical: Family Nurse Practitioner
E-mail: lfitzger@sonnet.ucla.edu
Karen Gylys, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
E-mail: Kgylys@sonnet.ucla.edu
Nalo Hamilton, PhD, MSN, APRN-BC
Assistant Professor
Research: Breast cancer development. Currently, she is investing the regulatory affects of the insulin like growth factor-II (IGF-2) on gene expression in estrogen receptor negative (ER-) breast cancer cell lines and tumors.
Clinical: Obstetrics and Primary Care; Certified women's health and adult health nurse practitioner
E-mail: nhamilton@sonnet.ucla.edu
Paul Macey, PhD
Assistant Professor In-Residence
Research: The brain in people with sleep disordered breathing. The neural regulation of body functions such breathing and cardiovascular control, and of psychological factors such as depression and anxiety are affected in people with obstructive sleep apnea. Uses brain MRI scanning to look at brain structure and function, and relate brain changes to performance on physiologic tests of blood pressure and breathing, as well as measurements of mood and cognitive capacity. As well as adults with obstructive sleep apnea, looking at similar questions in heart failure, and in the pediatric condition of congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. Regularly collaborates with faculty outside UCLA on a variety of brain imaging projects.
Clinical: Biomedical engineering
E-mail: pmacey@ucla.edu
Sally Maliski, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Research: Symptom experience and management among low-income populations; currently men with prostate cancer and their partners. Primarily qualitative methods (grounded theory, narrative, ethnomethodology) and mixed methods designs.
Clinical: Oncology, hospice, and free clinic primary care
E-mail: smaliski@sonnet.ucla.edu
Karabi Nandy, PhD
Assistant Professor
E-mail: knandy@sonnet.ucla.edu
Huibrie Pieters, PhD, DPhil, RN
Assistant Professor
Research: Healthcare decision making among women 70 years and above who had recently been treated for breast cancer.
Clinical: Psychiatric mental health nursing; hospice, oncology
E-mail: hpieters@sonnet.ucla.edu
Wendie Robbins, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor
E-mail: wrobbins@sonnet.ucla.edu
Christian Roberts, PhD, FACSM, CSCS
Assistant Research Professor
Research: Role of physical activity and diet in the prevention and treatment of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. To understand how genetic factors and environmental exposures interact in individuals to alter normal biological function and to affect the risk of disease development. Investigate the role of nutrition and exercise in the development and prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Goals are to 1) utilize a population to molecule approach to gain insight into disease mechanisms, and 2) individualize diet and exercise prescription based on genomics. Received a Beginning Grant-in-Aid from the American Heart Association, Western States Affiliate to investigate the effects of resistance training on cardiovascular risk. These studies incorporate the use of randomized clinical trial study design and measurement techniques such as dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), human monocyte isolation, oral glucose tolerance testing, tissue biopsy microarrays and tonometry to determine arterial stiffness.
Clinical: Sports medicine
E-mail: croberts@ucla.edu
Linda Sarna, PhD, FAAN, AOCN
Chair of the Faculty, Professor and Lulu Wolf-Hassenplug Endowed Chair in Nursing
Research: Internationally recognized for work with promoting nursing involvement in tobacco control and in oncology nursing research focused on quality of life and symptoms of patients with lung cancer. As the Principal Investigator for the Tobacco Free Nurses (TFN) initiative, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she initiated first national program to help nurses quit smoking and to promote the role of nurses in tobacco control -- inaugurating the award-winning TFN website (www.tobaccofreenurses.org). Lead investigator on an analysis of 27-year smoking trends of participants in the Nurses' Health Study and led a team of investigators in the examination of national smoking trends among health care professions. Leading a R18 translational research project to increase nursing interventions to treat tobacco dependence among hospitalized patients in 3 states using a web-based educational program and resources. Collaborated with national and international nursing organizations on policies related to nurses and tobacco control. Expanding into tobacco control educational programs for nurses in China and in the Czech Republic.
Clinical: Oncology nursing, tobacco control and nurses
E-mail: lsarna@sonnet.ucla.edu
Sophie Sokolow, PhD, Mpharm
Assistant Professor
Research: Calcium signaling pathways involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Special focus on the identification of novel targets for pharmacological intervention in Alzheimer's Disease.
Clinical: Pharmacist, pharmacovigilance and pharmacosurveillance.
E-mail: ssokolow@sonnet.ucla.edu
Elizabeth Anne Thomas, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, COHN-S, CNL
Assistant Professor
Research: Dr. Thomas's research focuses on type 2 diabetes in older working adults. She has conducted grounded-theory qualitative studies on diabetes self-management at work and quantitative work on type 2 diabetes, hearing loss and work-related exposures (noise and chemicals) in older Mexican Americans. Current studies include an extension of grounded-theory qualitative studies on diabetes self-management at work and a quantitative study of self-efficacy for diabetes self-management, self-management behaviors, and work productivity in older adults.
E-mail: ethomas@sonnet.ucla.edu
Dorothy Wiley, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Research: Men's and women's health as it relates to sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases; HIV infection, including risk factors for disease progression; HPV infection, including population surveillance for cervical, oropharyngeal and anal cancer screening activities, vaccine efficacy, and molecular biomarkers and risk factors for infection. Uses basic science and epidemiological methods to identify health- and disease- patterns in human populations.
Clinical: Adolescent females and adult women, adult men, community/public health prevention strategies, vulnerable populations.
E-mail: dwiley@ucla.edu
Mary Woo, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Professor
Research: Heart rate variability and sudden death; autonomic-cardiac interactions; heart failure; brain-heart interactions in sudden death; sleep; brain MRI.
Clinical: Critical care
E-mail: mwoo@sonnet.ucla.edu
