Past Events

[Symposium] Biomarkers and Biobehavioral Methods for Symptom Science - Thursday, October 1, 2015 
Speakers: Margaret Heitkemper, PhD, RN, FAAN, chairs the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems and directs the Center for Research on Management of Sleep Disturbances at the University of Washington; Mary Woo, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Researcher at the UCLA School of Nursing.
Panel: Bei Wu, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE, Pauline Gratz Professor of Nursing, Director of International Research and Director, Methods Core, ADAPT Center, Duke School of Nursing (moderator); Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory School of Nursing; Julia Walker, PhD, Associate Professor, Duke School of Nursing; Virginia Neelon, RN, MSN, PhD, Associate Professor Emerita, UNC-CH; Manju Bhat, MVSc, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology, Winston-Salem State University

[Research Seminar] Patient Trajectories of Recovery after an Atrial Fibrillation Ablation - Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Speaker: Kathy Wood, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University

[Journal Club] Trajectories of Affective/Cognitive Changes and Oral Health in Older Adults - Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Speaker: Bei Wu, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE, Pauline Gratz Professor of Nursing, Director for International Research and Director, Methods Core, ADAPT Center, DUSON

[Research Seminar] Chronic Pain: New Insights into a Potential Role for the Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptor Truncated trkB.T1 - Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Speaker: Susan G. Dorsey, PhD, RN, FAAN, Chair, Dept of Pain and Translational Symptom Science Co-Director, UM Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore

[Journal Club] The Role of Oxytocin in Parent-Infant Interactions - Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Speaker: Hudson Santos, PhD, RN, Postdoctoral Fellow, DUSON

[Research Seminar] Biomarkers in Geriatric Research - Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Speaker: Carl Pieper, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Duke University

[8th Annual Dorothy Powell Global Health Lecture co-sponsored by ADAPT Center] The 100 Nation War: What will it take to win the global fight against HIV/AIDS - Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Speaker: Dawn Averitt, Founder and Emeritus Board Member of the Well Project and member of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS

[Journal Club] Estrogens and Memory - Rodent Models and Aging - Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Speaker: Christina Williams, PhD, Professor, Dept of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University

[Research Seminar] Safety of an Emergency Department, High Dose, Nurse Initiated, Opioid Protocol for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease Experiencing a Vaso-occlusive Crisis - Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Speaker: Paula Tanabe, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, DUSON

[Journal Club] Theory of Symptom Management: Its Development and Evolution - Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Speaker: Janice C. Humphreys, PhD, RN, FAAN

[Journal Club] The Role of Autobiographical Memory in the Diagnosis and Maintenance of PTSD and Other Disorders - Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Speaker: David Rubin, PhD, Juanita M. Kreps Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Article: Autobiographical memory for stressful events: The role of autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder
Article: The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Autobiographical Memory: Neural Correlates of Recall, Emotional Intensity, and Reliving
Article: Twins dispute memory ownership: A new false memory phenomenon

[Research Seminar] Treatment Adherence in HIV/AIDS - Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Speaker: Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, NINR Center for Neurocognitive Studies, Emory University

[Symposium] Rethinking Health Disparities: Inclusivity in Research Design - Thursday, October 2, 2014
Speakers: James S. Jackson, PhD, Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, and Director and Research Professor of the Institute for Social Research - all at the University of Michigan; and Shirley M. Moore, PhD, RN, Edwards J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Research, Frances Payne Bolton School of Social Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Director of a National Institutes of Health-funded Center of Excellence in Self-Management Research
Panel: Sharron L. Docherty, PhD, PNP-BC, FAAN, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the ADAPT Center, Duke University School of Nursing (moderator); Stephanie T. Dance-Barnes, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Winston-Salem State University Department of Biological Sciences, Director of WSSU Women in Science Program; Linda K. George, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University; and Keith E. Whitfield, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Duke University, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Research Professor of Medicine, Co-Director, Center of Biobehavioral Research on Health Disparities

[Research Seminar] Digital Health Technologies for Healthcare and Symptom Science - Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Speaker: Ryan J. Shaw, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor at the Duke University School of Nursing

[Journal Club] The Neurobehavioral Assessment of Depression: Design and Analysis Considerations - Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Speaker: Susan Silva, PhD

[Research Seminar] Multilevel and Structural Approaches to Growth Curve Analysis - Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Speaker: Wei Pan, PhD, Associate Professor, Duke University School of Nursing

[Research Seminar] Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive and Affective Control Process in the Human Brain - Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Speaker: Tobias Egner, PhD, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University

[Research Seminar] Adaptive Challenges of Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease and Their Parents - Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Speaker: Mariam Kayle, PhD Student, Duke University School of Nursing

[Research Seminar] Moving from Efficacy, Effectiveness to Implementation: Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes - Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Speaker: Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

[Research Seminar] Mixed-Methods Research and the Binary that Continues to Bind - Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Speaker: Margarete J. Sandelowski, PhD, RN, FAAN, UNC-CH School of Nursing
Article: On Quantitizing
Article: Unmixing mixed-methods research

[Research Seminar] Illness Trajectories and Factors Influencing Care Decisions for Children with Life-Threatening Conditions Who Subsequently Die - Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Speakers: Debra Brandon, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN, Associate Professor, Director PhD and Postdoctoral Programs, Duke University School of Nursing; Sharron L. Docherty, PhD, PNP-BC, FAAN, Associate Professor, Co-Director, ADAPT Center, Duke University School of Nursing

[Journal Club] Dyadic Interventions - Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Speaker: Laura Porter, PhD
Article: Appropriate research designs for evaluating community-level alcohol interventions: what next?

[Journal Club] Innovative Intervention Design - Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Article: Caregiver-assisted coping skills training for lung cancer: results of randomized clinical trial
Article: Partner-assisted emotional disclosure for patients with gastrointestinal cancer: results from a randomized controlled trial

[Symposium] Clipp Symposium on Trajectory Science - Wednesday, October 9, 2013

[Journal Club] Time Varying Relationships - Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Speaker: Janet Levy, PhD
Article: A time-varying effect model for intensive longitudinal data

[Research Seminar] Adaptive Health Practice: A Novel Framework for Patient Engagement - Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Speaker: Marcus Thygeson, MD, MPH

[Journal Club] Writing a Pilot Study - Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Speaker: Kenneth Schmader, MD

[Journal Club] Adaptive Leadership Framework in Clinical Care and Research - Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Authors and Speakers: Ruth Anderson, PhD, Sharron Docherty, PhD, and Chip Bailey, PhD

[Journal Club] Association between Major Depressive Disorder and Neurocognitive Function - Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Author and Speaker: Shawn M. McClintock, PhD
Article: Evaluation of the Effects of Severe Depression on Global Cognitive Function and Memory

[Journal Club] Adaptively Modeling Electronically Monitored Medication Adherence Data - Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Author and Speaker: George Knafl, PhD

[Journal Club] Adaptive Leadership Illustrated through Time Series - Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Authors and Speakers: Janet Levy, PhD and Robin Knobel, PhD
Article: The promise of the state space approach to time series analysis for nursing research

[Journal Club] Adaptive Leadership: A Novel Approach for Family Decision Making - Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Author and Speaker: Judith Adams, MSN, RN, PhD Candidate
Article: Adaptive leadership: a novel approach for family decision making

ADAPT Center Open House - Tuesday, January 29, 2013