LCON Research
Faculty at LCON are committed to generating and advancing nursing knowledge through discovery, application, and integration. Our faculty have a diverse research/scholarship background and areas of research/scholarship has focused on:
- Achieving Health Equity (e.g., improving health behaviors, reducing health disparities, clinical management of chronic conditions, quality of life across lifespan, nursing interventions for the vulnerable, health equity for the LGBTQ, building a culture of health for urban children and families, equitable healthcare policies)
- Genomic Research (e.g., conducting scientific research to understand pathway of unfolded protein response.
- Education (e.g., educational strategies to retain minority students, building nursing workforce, accelerated nursing education, diversity in higher education, simulation in education).
- Methodology (e.g., Instrument Development, evaluation research design).
Recent Awards
June 2019
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded Dr. Anita Boykins a $2.7M
+ grant for the FNP-Health, Education and Access for Rural Tennesseans (FNP-HEART)
program.
June 2019
Drs. Shirleatha Lee, Jill Dapremont and Sheila Bouie (Southwest Community College)
were awarded a $24K TBR Student Engagement, Retention & Success (SERS) grant.
May 2019
Dr. Genae Strong received a $400,000+ grant for a lactation support program through
Project Diabetes.
February 2018
Dr. Y'Esha Williams received a $1,862.65 grant from Sigma Theta Tau.
December 2017
Dr. Marcy Purnell received a Pink Ribbon Open BCEI Initiative Grant for $5,000.
Current Research
Building a Culture of Health for Urban Children and Families - The Urban Child Institute in Memphis has funded $1.17M (2016-2019) for this project with two major initiatives: 1) systematically integrate knowledge of adverse children experiences across nursing curriculum and 2) implement the Pediatric Asthma Management Program across Shelby County Schools. The Project PI - Dr. Lin Zhan; Co-PIs - Drs. Marie Gill and Hoi Chung with team of researchers - Drs. Judith Rosenberg, Joy Hoffman, Leigh Ann Breckenridge, Beverly Cross (College of Education Chair of Excellence), Debra Bartelli (School of Public Health), and Prof. Betsy Moore (Multiculturalism).