Building & Sustaining a Program of Research:
Diabetes Self-Care Management with Mexican Americans
Friday, March 11th, 2005
8:30 – 11:45 am
Arizona Health Sciences Center
Kiewit Auditorium*
Featuring a Keynote Presentation by
Sharon A. Brown, PhD, RN, FAAN
James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor in Nursing
Associate Vice President for Research
The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Brown, an internationally known nurse scientist, has advanced the knowledge base for culturally competent care of Mexican Americans diagnosed with diabetes. Her work has involved the design and testing of diabetes self-management programs with Mexican Americans in Starr County on the Texas-Mexico border. Since 1987 she has received more than $5 million in research funding and has been principal investigator for 16 research studies. She is currently funded by NIH to conduct a 5-year study testing diabetes health promotion interventions. Dr. Brown has served on scientific review panels for a number of institutes at the National Institutes of Health and on the editorial boards for multiple research journals.
This is the first in a series of symposia on border health environments sponsored by
The University of Arizona College of Nursing Systems Division
and HRSA Grant 1 D09HP03116-01-00
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