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HEALTH EXPERTS
Animals And Disease
Lawrence T. Glickman
Professor, veterinary epidemiology and environmental health
(765) 494-6301
[email protected]
http://www.vet.purdue.edu/depts/vad/cae/larry.htm
* Co-initiator of animal welfare curriculum at Purdue. Has published more than 100 articles on diseases of animals that can be transmitted to people, including rabies. Chaired a National Academy of Sciences committee that reviewed how pet animals can serve as sentinels to detect environmental health hazards.
Behavior
Kenneth F. Ferraro
Professor, sociology
Director, gerontology program
(765) 494-4707/494-4668
[email protected]
http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~geron/Bios/ferrar.html
* Has published on topics such as "Does Religion Influence Adult Health?" "Assessing the Impacts of Community-based Health Care Policies and Programs for Older Adults," and "Are Black Older Adults Health Pessimistic?" Has produced book chapters on "Widowhood and Health" and "Health Needs and Services for Older Adults: Evaluating Policies for an Aging Society."
Roger W. Seehafer
Associate professor, health promotion
Director, Health Promotion Services, Student Health Center
(765) 494-3159
[email protected]
* Expertise is in health promotion in worksite settings and health behavior change. Studied effects of alcohol on driving and behavior. Developed and analyzed college alcohol/substance abuse prevention programs with funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Marlene K. Tappe
Associate professor, health education
(765) 494-9112
[email protected]
* Tries to explain and predict health-related behavior based on the theory of personal investment as a motivational factor. As a behavioral scientist in the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, was lead author of the CDC's "Guidelines for School and Community Programs to Promote Physical Activity Among Young People." Also contributed to the first Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health. Teaches a course on death and dying and one on sexuality and health.
Cardiovascular Health
Jo A. Brooks
Professor, nursing
(765) 494-4004
[email protected]
* Has expertise in lifestyle interventions to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease. Has extensive experience in cholesterol testing, the role of nursing centers in providing health services for well populations, and worksite health promotion programs. Can speak about nonpharmacological approaches to reducing cardiovascular risk; the role of professional nursing in health-care reform; and nursing centers as a model for primary care. Also can address role of nurse-managed centers in meeting health care needs in rural settings.
Children's Health
Janet Purath
Associate professor, nursing
(765) 494-4028
[email protected]
* Has written articles on such topics as pediatric hypertension, cardiac risk identification in children, and headache pain. Has given presentations on health screening for low-income children, diet and cholesterol, women's health care and wellness, and cardiac education and risk identification in children. Is a member of the American Nurses Association, Indiana State Nurses Association and Nurse Practitioner Council of American Nurses Association. Is certified as an adult nurse practitioner.
Marlene K. Tappe
* For biography, see "Behavior"
Disease, Infection Control
Pamela M. Aaltonen
Associate professor, public health nursing
Assistant head, undergraduate studies
(765) 494-4014
>[email protected]
* Was a public health nurse in three states, including director of nursing of an Illinois public health district. Can discuss communicable diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis.
Geriatrics
R. Colleen DeTurk
Associate professor, nursing
(765) 494-4012
[email protected]
* Certified gerontological specialist. Expert on Medicare and other health care delivery systems for the elderly. Studies depression in the elderly, especially those in the home, and has expertise on the "oldest old," people 85 and older. Also studies elderly in the community. Appointed to governor's board for CHOICE, a program to help keep the elderly independent and living in their own homes. Has given presentations on U.S. health care, the old-old, and alcoholism and the aged. Is a member of the American Nurses Association, Association of Gerontology in Higher Education and "Who's Who in American Nursing." Is a registered nurse in Indiana.
Kenneth F. Ferraro
* For biography, see "Behavior"
Gerald C. Hyner
Professor, health education
(765) 494-3151
[email protected]
* Investigates modifying chronic disease risk factors, particularly among employees in work settings. Studied the effects of comprehensive health appraisal and debriefing on the health behaviors of elderly men and women. Promotes the use of noninvasive techniques to assess personal health risks, such as computer assessments. Expert on risk factors for premature disease.
Roseann M. Lyle
Associate professor, health/foods and nutrition
(765) 494-3158
[email protected]
* Researches ways for the aging to maintain functional ability and independent living. Also studies ways to prevent hypertension; the effect of exercise on bone mass in women; and how exercise and activity affect health in women and the elderly.
Health Communications
Austin S. Babrow
Associate professor, communication
(765) 494-8294
[email protected]
* Primary interest is health communication, particularly with regard to difficult medical conditions and decisions. Also studies persuasion, including interpersonal influences and campaigns. Has conducted research and teaching on the motives underlying audience exposure to mass communication, such as health campaigns, news and entertainment. Has published on the topic of end-of-life decision making and the implications in campaigns aimed at stopping smoking.
Kimberly N. Kline
Assistant professor, communication
(765) 494-3305
[email protected]
* Research focuses on ways that health professionals and their clients, journalists, and politicians contribute to the creation of health issues. Also studies the promotion of health activities and how these issues are reflected in magazines, newspapers, television, pamphlets and other printed material. Is concerned with improving health-care campaigns by better understanding the communication needs of all relevant publics. Emphasis has been on women's health issues, with particular interest in breast self-examination and drug use during pregnancy.
Women's Health
Ann H. Hunt
Associate professor, nursing
(765) 494-4023
[email protected]
* Has expertise in prevention of osteoporosis. Was a National Institutes of Health Fellow at Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology. Has been quoted in the media about the health benefits of humor as well as about osteoporosis. Has done media interviews on the topic of skin care in winter.
Kimberly N. Kline
* For biography, see "Health Communications"
Roseann M. Lyle
* For biography, see "Geriatrics"
Ruth N. Wukasch
Assistant professor, nursing
Clinical specialist psychiatric/mental health nursing
(765) 494-4019
[email protected]
* Is a member of Midwest Nursing Research Society and Indiana State Nurses Association's Council on Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Practice. Has expertise in women's health, especially post-hysterectomy. Studies factors in sexuality as people age, made presentations on stress and coping, diets and body image.
Worksite Health
Gerald C. Hyner
* For biography, see "Geriatrics"
Roger W. Seehafer
* For biography, see "Behavior"
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