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Linda P. Riley, PhD, RN, CT
Associate Professor

College of Nursing, NB 326
256-824-2428
linda.riley@.uah.edu
Linda P. Riley
 

Clinical Expertise:

  • Nursing Research
  • Palliative/ Supportive Care_at End of Life
  • Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation

Research Interests:

  • Coping with Terminal Illness
  • Parental Grief
  • Quality of Life lung Cancer Patients and Caregiver

Special Achievements/Honors/Awards:

  • AAHPM/HPNA Mentorship/Travel Award
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship_Vanderbilt University

Current Teaching Responsibilities:

  • NUR 307 - Scholarly Inquiry
  • NUR 450/550 - Issues in Transplantation
  • NUR 415/416 - Honors Students

Education:

  • PhD, Vanderbilt University
  • MSN, Psych Mental Health Nursing, University of Alabama in Birmingham
  • BSN, University of Alabama in Birmingham

Scholarly Activities:

Publications over past five years:

  • Riley, L.P., LaMontagne, L.L., Hepworth, J.T. & Murphy, B. (2007) Poster abstracts of APOS 4th annual conference: New ways of conceptualizing parental grief: Grief and growth. Psycho-Oncology, 16 (3), 541.
  • Riley, L.P., LaMontagne, L.L., Hepworth, J.T. & Murphy, B.(2007) Parental grief responses and personal growth following the death of a child, Death Studies.33,277-299.
  • LaMontagne, L.L., Hepworth, J.T., Salisbury, M.H., & Riley, L.P. (2003). Optimism, anxiety, and coping in parents of children hospitalized for surgery. Applied Nursing Research, 16 (4), 228-235.

Scholarly Endeavors:

  • Posters:
    • Palliative Care Research Society, Oxford University, 2007
    • HPNA National Conference, Salt Lake City, 2007
    • APOS National Conference, Austin Tx, 2007
  • Papers: APOS 2006-Paper presentation Families Living with Lung Cancer, LF, 2006
  • Ad hoc Reviewer Death Studies
  • Oncology Nursing Forum Reviewer

Research in progress:

  • Huntsville Hospital Foundation; Family Caregivers Coping with Advanced Lung Cancer: Pilot Study in Community Treatment Centers, 1/11/07 to 12/31/07
  • Robert J. and Helen H. Kleberg Foundation & Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center Support Grant P30CA068485-09; Families Coping with Lung Cancer: A Pilot Study, 9/1/04 to 12/31/05, continuing data analysis
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