PhD Student and Faculty Research
Our PhD students and faculty researchers lead research that improves health and lives across our community and the world. Learn more below about our student and faculty research and recognition.
PhD Candidates Research
Taylor Flatt
I am a PhD student and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in pediatric psychiatry. My research interest is in child and adolescent experiences with psychedelics, the impact of psychedelic-assisted therapy on family systems and ethical, legal and policy implications of pediatric applications of psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Chih Yu Wang
I am a PhD student with two years of clinical experience in a surgical intensive care unit. I hold a master's degree in gerontological and community health, and my research focuses on older adults and their caregivers, exploring issues such as dementia, ageism, loneliness, depression and the use of technological interventions.
Hyeryeong Lee
I am a PhD student with five years of work experience in pediatric critical care. My research interests include nursing resources and their impact on patient and nurse outcomes in pediatric settings.
Ricardo Zamarripa Ortega
I am a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner with an additional background as a mechanical engineer. My research interests are finding methods to improve the diagnosis of mental health disorders and using various modalities to lessen the impact of these disorders.
Megan Hawk-Knerr
I am a PhD student and primary care nurse practitioner interested in preventing non-communicable diseases in our community early in life by improving health literacy and nutrition education in children and adolescents.
Gift Wandee
I am a PhD student and an emergency nurse practitioner working at a tertiary hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. My research focuses on patients with palliative and end-of-life care needs in emergency department settings, specifically on recognizing their characteristics, developing a screening tool and improving access to specialized care.
Nate Albright
I am a PhD student and infectious diseases nurse practitioner with over a decade of experience caring for patients with critical and complex illness. I am passionate about prevention science, engaging those most impacted in the research process, and advocating for evidence-based structural changes to improve the health of our communities. My dissertation research seeks to examine the converging and diverging perspectives of primary care clinicians and sexual and gender minority patients when implementing same-day preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) in the primary care setting.
Maggie Fitzpatrick
I am a PhD student and registered nurse focused on mitigating mental health disparities and adversity among medically under-resourced pediatric populations. Her dissertation explores the patterns of adversity among youth experiencing homelessness, their relationships with psychological distress and physiologic stress and the role of social support as a potential buffer.
Taylor Mullin
I am a PhD student and current nursing faculty here at The Ohio State University. I have been an oncology nurse for six years and have been at the James Cancer Center for the past eight years. My dissertation work revolves around HPV vaccination uptake and the association of social determinants of health on adolescents.
Audrey Brockman
I am a PhD student and a nurse with 13 years of bedside experience in the critical care setting. My research focuses on using implementation science to enhance the adoption of evidence-based practices in the adult ICU. In my dissertation study, I am employing a mixed methods design to explore early mobility implementation and identify its causal factors.
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