40 faculty and 40 courses in Nursing at University of Iowa.
- Kathleen Buckwalter, Professor Emeritus h-index 39
Notable: “The Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice to Promote Quality Care” (2001) · 590 citations
- Harleah Buck, Professor h-index 33
Es on developing non-pharmacological solutions for the “wicked problems” older adults face in the community. Her research experience includes contributing to 15 funded studies totaling 13 million dollars. Her most recently funded study is D
Notable: “Self‐Care for the Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke” (2017) · 608 citations
- Karen Dunn Lopez, Professor h-index 28
Ed on advancing the design, implementation, and evaluation of health information technologies. Her research, funded by NINR, NCI, AHRQ and ARPA-H spans a wide range of methodologies, including human factors engineering, human-centered desig
Notable: “Evidence for the existing American Nurses Association-recognized standardized nursing terminologies: A systematic review” (2013) · 203 citations
- Gloria Bulechek, Professor Emeritus h-index 18
Notable: “Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)” (1992) · 1,134 citations
- Nai-Ching Chi, Associate Professor h-index 18
Notable: “A systematic review of telehealth tools and interventions to support family caregivers” (2014) · 425 citations
- Amany Farag, Associate Professor h-index 14
Group and the Rogers Endowed Lectureship Award from Mississippi Medical Center. In 2020, she was appointed co-director of the VA Quality Scholars Program (VAQS), Iowa City site.
Notable: “Nurses’ perception of their manager’s leadership style and unit climate: are there generational differences?” (2008) · 40 citations
- Sena Chae, Assistant Professor h-index 13
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Notable: “Effectiveness of Nursing Interventions using Standardized Nursing Terminologies: An Integrative Review” (2020) · 40 citations
- Jacinda Bunch, Assistant Professor (Clinical) h-index 11
Acute Care Administration and Leadership Nursing Education / Simulation Science Rural Healthcare
Notable: “Quality metrics for the evaluation of Rapid Response Systems: Proceedings from the third international consensus conference on Rapid Response Systems” (2019) · 95 citations
- Alaa AlBashayreh, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Es on developing and evaluating digital health and clinical decision support tools that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze patients' electronic health records, particularly unstructured clinical notes. His work aims
Notable: “Nursing Work Environment, Turnover Intention, Job Burnout, and Quality of Care: The Moderating Role of Job Satisfaction” (2019) · 279 citations
- Brianne Bakken, Associate Professor (Clinical) h-index 9
Worker health and well-being, work systems, organizational culture, health systems, ambulatory care, pharmacy practice advancement, leadership, pharmacy education, and residency training.
Notable: “Clinician burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic before vaccine administration” (2021) · 45 citations
- Natany Ferreira Oberfrank, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Biobehavioral Interventions Cardiovascular Health Health Informatics Symptom Science
Notable: “Development and validation of an informative manual on venous thromboembolism for the lay population” (2020) · 37 citations
- Mary Dirks, Professor (Clinical) h-index 6
Global Health Healthcare Workforce Pediatric Care Advanced Practice Nursing
Notable: “White Paper: Critical Shortage of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Predicted” (2019) · 48 citations
- Lorraine Femino, Assistant Professor of Instruction h-index 5
Notable: “Disparities in Donor Human Milk Supplementation Among Well Newborns” (2019) · 23 citations
- Heather Bair, Associate Professor (Clinical) h-index 5
Advanced Practice Nursing Anesthesia / Anesthesiology Innovation Nursing Education / Simulation Science
Notable: “Is Exhaustion More Sensitive Than Disengagement to Burnout in Academic Anesthesia? A Study Using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory” (2019) · 25 citations
- Kelly Casler, Visiting Associate Professor h-index 4
Family Nursing Nursing Education / Simulation Science
Notable: “The paradigm shift from NAFLD to MAFLD: A global primary care viewpoint” (2022) · 19 citations
- Kimberly Bergen-Jackson, Associate Professor (Clinical) h-index 3
Older adults, long-term services and supports, nursing leadership, quality improvement, pain management, dementia care, chronic disease, and public health. Dr. Bergen-Jackson currently serves as Director of the Iowa Nursing Home Qua
Notable: “The Relationships among Pain, Nonpain Symptoms, and Quality of Life Measures in Older Adults with Cancer Receiving Hospice Care” (2011) · 56 citations
- Leslie Arends, Assistant Professor (Clinical) h-index 2
Nursing Education / Simulation Science Palliative Care and Hospice Pediatric Care Primary Care
Notable: “Decreasing Nursing Student Workload and Stress: An Innovative Method to Reform Clinical Assignments Across the Curriculum” (2020) · 5 citations
- Andrea Achenbach, Assistant Professor (Clinical) h-index 1
Advanced Practice Nursing Community Care Global Health Primary Care
Notable: “The role of the dually certified primary care/psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in treating high-needs/high-cost patients” (2023) · 3 citations
- Alison R. Anderson, Assistant Professor
- Daniel J. Crawford, Professor (Clinical)
Child and Adolescent Health Health Policy Nursing Education / Simulation Science Advanced Practice Nursing
- Emily Ford, Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Advanced Practice Nursing Anesthesia / Anesthesiology Nursing Education / Simulation Science Pharmacology
- Hannah Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Instruction
Community Care Health Systems / Implementation Science Innovation Nursing Education / Simulation Science
- Heather Dunn, Associate Professor (Clinical)
Of Dr. Heather Dunn include chronic critical illness, prolonged mechanical ventilation, and rehabilitation of the chronically critically ill. Her research interests are the direct result of her clinical practice as the first hospital-based
- Jannet Eastman, Assistant Professor of Instruction
- Jennifer Birlson, Assistant Professor of Practice (Instructional)
- Jessica Ashlock, Assistant Professor of Practice (Instructional)
Nursing Education / Simulation Science
- Katherine Carroll Britt, Assistant Professor
Alzheimer's Disease / Dementias Biobehavioral Interventions Gerontological / Geriatric Care Health Systems / Implementation Science
- Kathleen Fear, Assistant Professor of Instruction
Acute Care Advanced Practice Nursing Anesthesia / Anesthesiology Pain
- Katie Buchheit, Assistant Professor of Practice (Instructional)
Acute Care Advanced Practice Nursing Cardiovascular Health Nursing Education / Simulation Science
- Kerri Chapman, Associate Professor of Practice
Early-career nurse educators, simulation-based education, innovative teaching strategies, and improving access to care for disabled veterans, with a particular focus on women’s health. Before transitioning into academia, Kerri
- Krista Ford, Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Chronic Care / Long-term care / Rehabilitation Nursing Education / Simulation Science Palliative Care and Hospice Primary Care
- Kristin Foster, Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Advanced Practice Nursing Child and Adolescent Health Mental Health Oncology
- Kyrsten Ahrens, Assistant Professor of Practice (Instructional)
Nursing Education / Simulation Science
- Nicole Connelly, Assistant Professor of Practice (Instructional)
- Olivia Croskey, Assistant Professor (Clinical)
- Sandra Daack-Hirsch, Professor
- Stephan Arndt, Professor Emeritus
- Theresa Bechtel, Associate Professor of Instruction
- Yamnia Cortes, Associate Professor
Biobehavioral Interventions Cardiovascular Health Public Health Women's health
- Young-Eun Cho, Assistant Professor
Ed on cardiovascular physiology. She obtained her master’s and PhD in vascular physiology related to hypertension and diabetes. In order to expand her research area into the clinical field, she started obesity-related biomarker research at
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.