Speakers

Confirmed speakers for the ACRA 2009 Meeting include:

Dr. Alexander Clark
University of Alberta, Canada

Dr. Alexander Clark is an Associate Professor, Alberta Heritage Population Health Investigator and CIHR New Investigator. He joined the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta in 2003. His research focuses on psychosocial, behavioural and contextual aspects of coronary heart disease, heart health services, systematic review and complex evaluation. His current research interests are in understanding outcomes of heart health interventions, promoting risk factor change in vulnerable populations and enhancing health services access and effectiveness. Research grants have been awarded by CIHR, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, the British Heart Foundation, The Chief Scientist Office (Scotland) and the Scottish Executive.

Dr. Cheryl Dennison
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, USA

Cheryl R. Dennison, RN, ANP, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with joint appointment in the School of Medicine Department of Health Sciences Informatics. She is Affiliated Faculty in the Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. Dr. Dennison is a 2008-2010 John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing. As a clinician and researcher, Dr. Dennison is committed to developing and testing interdisciplinary approaches to improve the quality of cardiovascular care across the care continuum to reduce cardiovascular risk for high risk, underserved populations.

Her current research is focused on reducing system and provider barriers to heart failure (HF) guideline implementation in the acute care setting. She is developing and testing an innovative, interactive, Web-based clinical decision support system to improve nurse and physician implementation of national evidence-based guidelines and thereby improve quality of care among HF patients. Dr. Dennison has experience in developing and testing interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk among high risk populations in the acute care and community settings. Dr. Dennison is co-investigator on two NIH-funded randomized controlled trials to test the effectiveness of community-based cardiovascular risk intervention programs targeting high risk urban populations. In addition, she is co-investigator on an NIH Fogarty Center funded study assessing total cardiovascular risk and barriers to high blood pressure care among black South Africans.

Her research interests include heart failure care and self management, cardiovascular risk management, hypertension, chronic illness management, quality of care, interdisciplinary teamwork, and provider behavior. Dr. Dennison earned a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master’s degree in Advanced Practice Nursing- Adult Nurse Practitioner from Johns Hopkins, and a Bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Texas Woman’s University.

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