Message from the Dean: New Faculty Appointments

I am very pleased to announce four new faculty appointments.  Our recent Tenure Track faculty search ended with the successful recruitment of three new faculty members.  Drs. Tara Albrecht, Mariam Kayle and Marta Mulawa will join DUSON’s faculty on July 1, 2019.  Our Faculty Search Committee committed a tremendous amount of time and effort to this recruitment and I thank each member for a job well done.   And, following an impressive interview day and presentation, Dr. Staci Reynolds will become a member of our full time regular rank faculty effective May 1, 2019.  

 

Please join me in welcoming each of these talented individuals to DUSON.  Read more about their experiences and expertise below and feel free to personally reach out to them at the email addresses provided.      

 

Tara Albrecht PhD, ACNP-BC, RN, will be a member of the Healthcare in Adult Populations Division (2).  She comes to DUSON from Virginia Commonwealth University where she is an assistant professor and the Susan White Holsworth Palliative Care Scholar in the School of Medicine and Massey Cancer Center.  Her research is focused on understanding the symptom experience of patients with hematological cancers such as acute leukemia and improving the quality of life of these individuals and their family members through personalized supportive care interventions.   She has been successful in obtaining internal and external funding for her program of research, and has received regional and international awards recognizing the progress and impact that her research has begun to make in advancing the science and clinical care for individuals in this understudied population of oncology.  Dr. Albrecht also maintains a clinical practice as a nurse practitioner in the Massey Cancer Center’s Supportive/ Palliative Care Clinic.  Dr. Albrecht earned a PhD from the University of Virginia School of Nursing in 2011 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Interdisciplinary Training of Nurse Scientists in Cancer Survivorship Research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in 2013.  Tara can be reached at taa219@gmail.com.

 

Mariam Kayle, PhD, RN, CCNS, will be a member of the Clinical Health Systems & Analytics Division (3).  She is now completing postdoctoral studies in the Integrated Fellowship in Health Services and Outcomes Research at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Her research focuses on improving health outcomes among adolescent and young adults with childhood-onset chronic conditions during transition from pediatric to adult care. She has used both qualitative and quantitative methods in her research, including the use of longitudinal databases to examine population trends and subgroup differences in health outcomes among patients with sickle cell disease.  Dr. Kayle earned her PhD and MS at DUSON and her BSN from American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Mariam’s email is mariam.kayle@northwestern.edu.

 

Marta Mulawa, MHS, PHD, will be a member of Division 2, Healthcare in Adult Populations.  Dr.  Mulawa is a behavioral scientist whose research focuses on improving population health by examining and addressing social and behavioral determinants of HIV treatment and prevention outcomes in global settings. As a current postdoctoral scholar in the Duke Global Health Institute, funded through Duke's T32 Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in AIDS, she has contributed to research implementing and evaluating social and behavioral HIV treatment and prevention interventions in South Africa and Tanzania. Dr. Mulawa’s research also aims to improve our understanding of how social networks influence HIV-related behaviors in these contexts. Notably, Dr. Mulawa is engaged in a new research collaboration in Cape Town, South Africa to collect and analyze social network data among a cohort of perinatally HIV-infected adolescents and she has received a Bass Connections award to customize a software tool to collect these complex network data among participants in this setting. Her most recent line of research is focused on the use of mobile health (mHealth) interventions for HIV treatment and prevention in both global and domestic settings. She is interested in developing innovative mHealth interventions that engage social networks to improve HIV-related outcomes.  Dr. Mulawa received her PhD in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MHS in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  Marta can be reached at marta.mulawa@duke.edu .   

 

Staci Reynolds, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CNRN, SCRN, will also be a member of the Healthcare of Adult Populations Division.  Many of us know Dr. Reynolds from her teaching in our ABSN and DNP programs, her outstanding work as the Coordinator of the Duke Advancement of Nursing, Center of Excellence (DANCE) academic-practice partnership, and as a CNS at Duke Hospital.  As a member of the regular rank faculty, she will continue as DANCE Coordinator and will also split her time as a CNS in the DUH Infection Prevention Department.  Before coming to Duke in 2016, Dr. Reynolds was a neuro critical care nurse and a neuroscience Clinical Nurse Specialist at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital.  She received a baccalaureate degree in nursing science from Indiana University (IU), earned a Master’s degree as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at IU in 2011, and completed her PhD at IU in May 2016.  Staci’s email is unchanged at staci.reynolds@duke.edu.

 

Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Ruby Wilson Professor of Nursing, Duke University School of Nursing
Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, Duke University
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs for Nursing, Duke University Health System