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Center for Genetics
POST DOC IN GENETICS NURSING RESEARCH
A grant funded by the National Institutes of Health to The University of Iowa College of Nursing 2 T32 NR07110-06 Years 2001 - 2011
Co-Project Directors :
Janet Williams, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, College of Nursing
Toni Tripp-Reimer, PhD, RN, FAAN - Professor, College of Nursing
Trudy Burns, PhD, Professor - College of Public Health
Overview
The Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Genetics Research is intended to prepare fellows for academic careers in genetic nursing, enabling them to conduct research on genetic health care topics for individuals, families, and communities.
The Clinical Genetics Research Fellowship is an interdisciplinary program in which fellows are matched with faculty from nursing or related disciplines that meet the student's fellowship research goals. There are four general nursing research concentrations:
- psychosocial aspects of genetic testing
- biobehavioral genetic research
- population-based surveillance and genetic issues
- ethics and minority population use of genetic health services.
Fellowships are for two years. Fellows receive tuition, stipend, health insurance, and travel allowance. Research training activities include coursework, research seminars, ongoing faculty research, journal clubs, and national conferences. Fellows will also conduct research and collaborate on manuscript preparation with faculty.
The University of Iowa was the first institution in the United States to offer a nursing postdoctoral fellowship program focusing on genetics. The University of Iowa's strong history of interdisciplinary scholarship between nurses and health science researchers makes the fellowship an especially appealing opportunity for scholars who want to become genetics nursing researchers and scholars.
With more than 40 University of Iowa faculty in the Colleges of Nursing, Public Health, Medicine, and Liberal Arts and Sciences available to serve as mentors in research methods and genetics, well-established collaborative relationships exist.
Because many of The University of Iowa's most prominent genetics experts are involved in the program as faculty and mentors, fellows also will gain opportunities to be involved in research linking genetic characteristics with specific symptoms or in population based studies to identify groups at risk for various genetic illnesses. Fellows may gain insight into how to work with individuals to anticipate and possibly prevent health problems related to their genetic makeup.
More on Genetic Nursing: What is Needed?
Discoveries and breakthroughs in the field of genetics are staggering. Almost daily there is new information about the impact of human genetics on all aspects of human health. These discoveries are translating into dramatic changes in how nurses care for patients, families and communities and at the same time providing a wealth of opportunities for nurses who have an interest in genetics as a nursing specialty.
How does this translate into day-to-day nursing practice and what are the opportunities in this arena? Here are just a few examples:
- Conducting research on genetic aspects of health problems in individuals, families and communities
- Developing genetic educational and practice models for nurses and other health professions
- Helping individuals and families manage genetic-related health problems
- Investigating strategies to use recognition of genetic factors to reduce risk for disease and to promote health
- Developing interventions to help individuals, families, care providers, and policy makers deal with issues raised by genetic testing
- Understanding how individuals use genetic information to make health and behavioral decisions
- Developing strategies to manage genetic information for clinical and research purposes.
Contact Us to learn more about the exciting opportunities in genetics nursing research at Iowa.
janet-williams@uiowa.edu
