Rachel Hawn was inspired to pursue a PhD in nursing from her personal and clinical experience with cancer and cancer survivorship. Now she’s bringing that experience into her research to improve the quality of life among survivors of adolescent and young adult cancers.
Symptom Science & Palliative Care
Dr. Wan-chin Kuo Receives Grant to Study Exercise Forecasting and Motivation Strategies for Truckers
Wan-chin Kuo, PhD, RN, was awarded a Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety Education and Research Center award to support the project: Defy The Odds: Exercise Forecasting and Motivation Strategies for Truck Drivers.
Driving Toward Heart-Healthy Change
Dr. Wan-Chin Kuo investigates social determinants of health to improve truck drivers’ well-being.
Dr. Megan Miller Wins Grant to Study Spiritual Well-Being in Adults with Cancer
The primary goals of this project are to examine changes in spiritual well-being and cancer-related symptoms over time among adults with cancer.
Dr. Kitty Mongomery Wins Grant to Study Child and Caregiver Perspectives of Cancer Symptom Management
The study team will engage with a childhood cancer advisory panel to determine the acceptability of a proactive approach to symptom management in children with advanced cancer.
Dr. Maichou Lor Wins Grant to Study Equity in Hearing Health Care
The primary goal of the project is to enhance innovative Hmong word recognition tests by developing and evaluating an AI-automated scoring approach to support hearing evaluations and assess the feasibility of implementing this innovation in a simulated audiology clinic.
A New Type of Translation
For UW–Madison School of Nursing alum and professor Dr. Maichou Lor, creating tools to address culturally-appropriate care and improve clinical practice means patients’ symptoms are no longer lost in translation.
MS Information student Jinghao Zhou leads pioneering research at interdisciplinary School of Nursing lab
Jinghao Zhou MSx’26 talks about his work as a graduate research assistant with Dr. Wan-Chin Kuo in the Metabolic Environment Targeting Age Reversal (METAR) lab.
Dr. Kitty Montgomery Wins Grant to Study Advanced Cancer in Children
Dr. Kitty Montgomery was awarded a one-year Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation (MMCF) Research Grant funded by the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses to support the study Risk-Stratified Approaches to Symptom Management for Children with Advanced Cancer.
Dr. Kitty Montgomery Wins JOPHON Writing Award
Selected by the Editorial Board of The Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing, the recipient of this award is a first author of a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal in the last year and who has had three or more manuscripts published previously.