Associate Professor of Nursing
University of Alabama at Birmingham
I am an Associate Professor and the Doreen C. Harper Endowed Chair of Nursing in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Director of Caregiver and Bereavement Support Services in the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care. I am board-certified in hospice and palliative care advanced practice nursing with over 10 years clinical experience in critical care and 10 years in telehealth palliative care coaching. For over 10 years, my program of research has focused broadly on the development, testing, and implementation of early palliative care, telehealth, and lay coach-led interventions for family caregivers of patients affected by advanced cancer, particularly for persons from historically under-resourced populations. My methodological expertise includes intervention development and clinical trial design, the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), factorial and SMART trial design, qualitative research, mixed methods, survey research, and community engagement. I have been involved in over 25 federally and foundationally funded grants as a PI or co-investigator that have involved intervention development and clinical trials testing, including numerous supportive care intervention trials specifically for historically under-resourced family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer. I currently have two ongoing NCI-funded R01 clinical trials testing interventions for advanced cancer family caregivers (R37CA252868 and R01CA262039). I have also served as mentor to nearly 50 individuals, including undergraduate and graduate students, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty, at both at UAB and beyond. Their disciplines have ranged widely and included nursing, psychology, medicine, health services, and sociology.
6-Month Cancer Family Caregiver Results from the ENABLE Cornerstone Randomized Clinical Trial
Saturday, March 7, 2026
10:20am - 10:40am PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose