Who We Are

Who We Are
Breanna Hetland, PhD, RN, CCRN-K
Chair, Early Career Special Interest Group
Assistant Professor – University of Nebraska Medical Center
Research Interest: Improving the patient and family experience with critical illness by engaging patients and their family caregivers in integrative therapies for the self-management of distressing symptoms in the intensive care unit.
CANS Service: Communications Task Force


Windy Alonso, PhD, RN


Incoming Chair, Early Career Special Interest Group
Post-doctoral Research Associate – University of Nebraska Medical Center
Research Interest: Enhancing symptom self-management strategies for individuals with heart failure by understanding the influence of multiple chronic conditions on the heart failure symptom experience.
Professional Profile: https://app1.unmc.edu/nursing/conweb/view_profile_new.cfm?lev1=facstf&lev2=fac&lev3=facwindy.alonso&PubStat=(none)&web=pub
CANS Service: Early Career Member, Program Committee, Student Member, Planning Committee, 2016 State of the Science Congress

Allison Lewinski,
PhD, RN

Incoming Chair, Early Career Special Interest Group
Postdoctoral Fellow – Durham Veterans Affairs
Health System
Research Interest: Self-management; ehealth; psychosocial aspects of chronic illness
Professional Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-lewinski-4067a3126/
CANS Service: State of the Science 2018 Planning Committee




 


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Marti Rice, PhD, RN, FAAN

Senior Mentor, Early Career Special Interest Group, Immediate Past Chair – CANS
 Professor – University of Alabama Birmingham
Research Interest: Preschool and school-age children; chronic stress in children and effect on blood pressure; anger in children and effect on blood pressure; social, psychological and biological determinants of health in children; biobehavioral research; prevention of disease in children; parent and child factors influencing health in children; cognitive-behavioral and physical activity interventions
CANS Service: Chair-Elect, Chair, Member of Program Planning Committees for Advanced Methods and State of Science Congresses, Past Chair of Awards Committee, Member of Organizational Structure Task Force, Member of Abstract Review Subcommittee