Registration is now open for the Psychological Association (CPA) 33rd Annual Convention. The conference will be held on October 25, 2019 in Riverhouse at Goodspeed Station, Haddam CT 06438.
People who are interested to represent an existing poster to facilitate networking need to send email with existing abstract or a PDF of the poster to the CPA administrator: tricia@grassrootsct.com.
School of Nursing and Center for Advancement in Managing Pain had a booth in Mansfield event on September 21st to introduce the ongoing studies to the public population. Professors and students talked about the studies with interested people. Participation of school of nursing highlighted the the closeness of the research aims with the common problems in the general population.
Congratulations to Jie Chen, MSN, RN, our PhD student who has received a $25,000 grant award from the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) for his proposal Phenotyping and Biomarkers of Pain in Older Adults with Heart Failure. Jie Chen, his Major Advisor, Dr. Xiaomei Cong, and Co-Investigators, Dr. Angela Starkweather, Dr. Ming-hui Chen, Dr. Kendra Maas and Dr. Paula McCauley, will use the National Institute of Health Symptom Science Model (NIH-SSM) as conceptual framework. Their study will focus on phenotyping sex-specific pain by exploring the relationships among pain, symptom burdens, and quality of life in older adults with heart failure; and identifying biomarkers by differentiating patterns of gut microbiota and inflammatory cytokines between heart failure patients with and those without pain.
We will be hosting the Annual Pain Symposium on November 1st 2019 at UConn Student Union Room 331, Storrs, CT. Registration is now open.
Congratulations to Zahra Amirkhanzadeh Barandouzi, our PhD student, and her committee members; Dr. Xiaomei Cong, Dr. Angela Starkweather and Dr. Wendy Henderson; on their grant award from American Nurses Foundation (ANF) for the proposal titled“Biomarkers of Emotional Distress in IBS Patients”.
The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the role of the brain-gut microbiome axis in comorbidity between emotional distress and Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
The outcome of this study will shed light on the underlying pathophysiology of this comorbidity and translate the findings into innovative clinical strategies to improve treatment outcomes in IBS patients.