SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

Derek Moore is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. He graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from the College of William and Mary. Following that, he completed a Master in Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. After graduation, Mr. Moore worked as an epidemiologist and faculty member in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. He worked extensively with Native American and Hmong populations during this time. Mr. Moore returned to the University of Minnesota to complete a Master of Nursing degree before entering the PhD program. He is a previous Minnesota Hartford Geriatric Nursing Education Scholar and has participated in the Facilitated Learning to Advanced Geriatrics (FLAG) program. He has worked on studies on how to measure and improve incontinence episodes in older women. Currently, he is working as an intern in the University of Minnesota’s Community Health Initiative focusing on health education and promotion in north Minneapolis. For his dissertation, Mr. Moore will analyze the effect of sleep on functional ability in older women. Following graduation, Mr. Moore would like to continue researching functional ability in older adults as a post-doctoral fellow and teach gerontology and public health nursing.

Maria Moreno-Chow is an established nursing professional with over 20 years of nursing experience. She is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner pursing her Doctor of Nursing Practice at University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Nursing (UHMSON). Moreno-Chow attended Hawaii Loa College, graduated in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing. Earned a bachelor’s degree in Premedical Studies from Hawaii Pacific University, 1999 and a Master’s degree in Nursing, UHMSON, 2005. Moreno-Chow practices as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse at Waimanalo Health Center, Waimanalo, Hawaii and as Commander, US Navy Reserves. Additionally, as staff in the Emergency Department, Castle Medical Center, Kailua, Hawaii. She is a Certified Emergency Nurse and Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse. Besides clinical positions, she instructs and facilitates the Emergency Nurses Pediatric and Trauma Nursing Care Course, Pediatric and Advanced Cardiac Life Support. Moreno-Chow was commissioned as an ensign in the US Navy Nurse Corps, Reserve Component in 1994. She has been recalled to active duty and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) and aboard the United States Naval Ship (USNS) Comfort T-AH 20 and USNS Mercy T-AH 19 for humanitarian missions. Moreno-Chow is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International-Gamma Psi, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the Navy Nurse Corps Association, the Association of Military Surgeons United States, and the Emergency Nurses Association. Moreno-Chow’s scholarly focus is from her own personal experience as an OEF combat veteran, improving the coordination of care for Hawaii-based Navy Reservist.

I will be attending the University of Pittsburgh as a PhD student in the fall of 2014. I graduated from nursing school in 2007 and then for four years worked as a staff nurse on a busy telemetry unit caring for high acuity med/surge, cardiac, and respiratory patients. For the last three years I have been working on that same unit as an Assistant Nurse Manager. As a staff nurse, I took on leadership roles through the shared governance structure developed for our Magnet journey as chair of nursing quality and then coordinating council. While working I obtained my BSN at Penn state University. Many of the patients on my unit cope with chronic illness. I understand nurses have a critical role in helping them stay out of the hospital and live more fully. I hope through research to understand the complex interaction between patients and the healthcare system so that we can continue to help them improve their lives and stay outside the hospital.

Caroline Morrison is a doctoral student in the PhD program at the University of Cincinnati. She has a MSN from Xavier University and the Clinical Nurse Leader certification. Ms.Morrison has seven years clinical experience in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Her dissertation research topic is on how adolescents and young adults manage their care and psychosocial wellbeing after discharge from the hospital following a stem cell transplant. She has also completed a research project on pediatric stem cell transplant nurses’ experiences and caring practices. Ms. Morrison is a member of several professional organizations and has served on the national research committee and the chapter board as a member-at-large and chair of the advocacy committee for the Society of Pediatric Nurses.

Karen O. Moss, MSN, RN, CNL Karen Moss is a BSN-PhD student at the University of Virginia. She completed an Associate Degree in Nursing from the College of the Bahamas where she received the Hilda Bowen Nursing Award. She later graduated with honors from the RN-BSN program at Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences. She completed the Clinical Nurse Leader RN-Entry Masters Degree program at the University of Virginia. Her research will investigate end-of-life decision making for African American older adults with dementia by their family caregivers. Ms. Moss is an adult critical care nurse generalist and has received several awards for excellence in patient care. In addition to developing a program of research, Ms. Moss is focused on a career in academia. She works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, completed the prestigious Tomorrow’s Professor Today teaching program at the University of Virginia and was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in 2014. Ms. Moss is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She leads the BSN-PhD Peer Mentor Group at her University and serves as School Liaison for the Graduate Nursing Student Academy. Ms. Moss is committed to a research career in nursing focused on improving end of life for African American older adults and is certified in several end-of-life education programs. She is an active volunteer serving in the community at various health and end-of-life education events.

I’m currently enrolled in the DNP program at WVU SON. I teach for WVU SON and work as a Family Nurse Practitioner at WVUH in pre admission testing. I have worked at WVUH since 2000 where I started out as a pediatric nurse and then in 2004 started working in pre admission as a family nurse practitioner and WVU SON since 2004. My clinical practice interest is working with surgical patients with uncontrolled diabetes and working to decrease glucose levels prior to surgical intervention. I graduated with my BSN from WVU in 2000 and MSN from WVU in 2004.

I am entering my second year of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program of Upstate Medical University. My clinical interests are the care of the psychiatric mental health client across the age span, transitional care of the psychiatric client, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the development of nurse practitioner residency models. I am the past President of Syracuse Area Psychiatric Nurses (2005-2009) and am currently in a leadership role as the Assistant Director of Nursing for Advanced Practice Services, representing and having administrative oversight for advanced practice providers at University Hospital.