UCLA Nursing at the 2025 WIN Conference
April 8-11 | Spokane, WA
The Western Institute of Nursing (WIN) is one of four regional nursing research organizations in the U.S. Each year at it's annual conference, nurse scientists, clinicians, educators, and students present their latest innovations and research. The 2025 WIN Conference: Redesigning Nursing for New Frontiers in Health, features work from UCLA Nursing researchers, students, and educators. See more about their contributions below.
Podium Presentations
Lisa Diaz, RN, MSN, CDCES, PhD (in progress)
PhD Student, UCLA School of Nursing
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 10:45 – 12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session 1: Leveraging Technology in the Evolution of Digital Health
New Frontiers in Health Education: An Analysis and Quality Assessment of CRC on Tiktok
Co-Author: Paula Cox-North
Dante Anthony Tolentino, PhD, RN, NI-BC, FAMIA
Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 10:45 – 12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session 1: Leveraging Technology in the Evolution of Digital Health
To Chat or Not to Chat: A Comparative Analysis of ChatGPT and a Statistical Program
Co-Authors: Paul Boy, Sorina Neang Long, Annika Daphne Bilog, Elizabeth Kohout, Kia Skrine Jeffers, Hafifa Shabaik
Mayumi Saiki, NP, MSN
PhD Student, UCLA School of Nursing
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 3:30 – 5 p.m.
Concurrent Session 2: Beyond the Diagnosis: Chronic Illness and Life’s Complexities
Will Work-Family Conflict Have Adverse Effects on Lipids? Evidence from a US Study
Co-Author: Jian Li
Yi-Ping Wen, MSN, RN, FNP-C
PhD Student, UCLA School of Nursing
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 3:30 – 5 p.m.
Concurrent Session 2: Beyond the Diagnosis: Chronic Illness and Life’s Complexities
Cancer Care Coordination Determinants of Depression in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors
Co-Authors: Kristen Choi, Eden Brauer
Holli DeVon, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA
Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Moderator: Navigating Critical Care and Serious Illness
Concurrent Session 3
Lauren Clark, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
President, Western Institute of Nursing
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Moderator: Symposium - The Odyssey of PhD Education: Autoethnographic Accounts of Diverse Students
Concurrent Session 3
Yuriko Matsuo, MSN, PMHNP-BC, APRN
PhD Student, UCLA School of Nursing
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session 3: Symposium -The Odyssey of PhD Education: Autoethnographic Accounts of Diverse Students
Where Do I Belong? Autoethnography of the Experience of an Immigrant Nursing PhD Student
Cherisse Watts, RN, PHN
PhD Student, UCLA School of Nursing
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session 3: Symposium -The Odyssey of PhD Education: Autoethnographic Accounts of Diverse Students
A Long Time Coming: My Journey to and through the Nursing PhD
Paul Boy, MSN, MPH, AGACNP-BC, AGNP-C, PCCN, RN, PHN
PhD Student, UCLA School of Nursing
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session 3: Symposium -The Odyssey of PhD Education: Autoethnographic Accounts of Diverse Students
A Nurse Practitioner’s Journey through the PhD Experience
Karen Nelson, MSN, RN
PhD Student, UCLA School of Nursing
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session 3: Symposium -The Odyssey of PhD Education: Autoethnographic Accounts of Diverse Students
My PhD Education in Post-Work Life: Developmental, Spiritual, and Search for Belonging
Also presenting:
Friday, April 11, 2025 | 10:15 - 11:15 a.m.
Concurrent Session 5: Theoretical Approaches to Advance Nursing
Developing Death Literacy: A Conceptual Framework
Co-Authors: Eden R. Brauer, Mary-Lynn Brecht, Denice Economou, Barbara Bates-Jensen
Marianne Gutierrez, BSN, RN
PhD Student, UCLA School of Nursing
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session 3: Symposium -The Odyssey of PhD Education: Autoethnographic Accounts of Diverse Students
Navigating Nepantla: Identity, Belonging, & Community as a Latina Nursing PhD Student
Poster Presentations
Poster Session 1
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Live presentations from 9:45 – 10:45am
WIN PEER-REVIEWED POSTERS
The Healthy Beginnings Intervention for Unhoused Women: A Mixed Methods Study Protocol
Benissa E. Salem, Adey Nyamathi, Barbara Riegel, Lillian Gelberg, Melissa Y. Wei, Nicholas Jackson, Dana Rose Garfin, Stephanie S. Covington, Jackie Barrios, Arianne Daw, Christina Abdishoo
Beyond the Policy: Exploring Paid Parental Leave Use Among New Mothers in Connecticut
Emily Diep, Dana C. Beck, Channelle Ndagire, Lucinda Canty, Kortney Floyd James
Poster Session 3
Thursday, April 10, 2025
8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Live presentations from 9:15 – 10:15am
WIN PEER-REVIEWED POSTERS
Cancer Fatigue Experiences Among American Indian Men
Paul Boy, Megan Guardiano, Yuriko Matsuo, Mayumi Saiki, Felicia Hodge
Carcinogenic Metal(loid)s in Drinking Water in a Uranium Mining Impacted Area
Christine Samuel-Nakamura
Poster Session 4
Thursday, April 10, 2025
1 - 5 p.m.
Live presentations from 2:15 – 3:15pm
WIN PEER-REVIEWED POSTERS
AI or Human? Message Humanness Predicts Perceiving AI As Human
Haruno Suzuki, Jingwen Zhang, Diane Dagyong Kim, Kenji Sagae, Holli DeVon, Yoshimi Fukuoka
Moral Distress in Nursing: Analyzing Nathaniel’s Theory with an Intersectional Lens
Elizabeth Kohout
RESEARCH & INFORMATION EXCHANGE POSTERS
Pilot Implementation of Mindfulness Meditation with Esketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Jennifer Tustison, Eden Brauer, Charlene Niemi, and Kristen Choi
Taste in Coronary Heart Disease: Interactions with Sex, BMI and Salt Intake
Rosario Jaime-Lara, Stephanie Burrison, Nancy Green, Meaghan Steck, Rosangele Hall, Chiquita West, Paule Joseph, and Kathleen E. Bainbridge
Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Lung Biopsies
Esperanza Magana, Carol Pavlish, Paul Macey, Ramin Salehi-Rad, and Thomas Elizabeth
Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Non-Insulin-Treated Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Retrospective Chart Review
Nahid Karimi, Anthony Tolentino
Aging Process of Individuals with Down Syndrome and Their Family Members in Japan
Yuriko Matsuo
A Critical Review of Instruments Evaluating Feeding Difficulties in Autistic Children
Sarah Moreau and Kristy K. Westphaln
Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Disorders of Consciousness
Lauren H. Furtick and Martin M. Monti
Systematic Review of the Literature: Tertiary Prevention in Leukemia Patients
Nikita Manyak
Poster Session 5
Friday, April 11, 2025
8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Live presentations from 9:15 – 10:15am
WIN PEER-REVIEWED POSTERS
Cost-Related Maladaptive Coping and Diabetes Distress Among Adults with Diabetes
Chunyu Wang, Minal R. Patel, Dante Anthony Tolentino
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