Meet the Expert
A PART OF ORPCS DISCOVERY NEWSLETTER
Meet The Experts –ORPCS’ Academic Nursing and Patient Care Research Team
In this issue of the Discovery Newsletter, Meet the ORPCS’ Academic Nursing and Patient Care Research team experts and learn how you can connect for your future research project! Identify the nurse scientist supporting your service line (below) and submit a consultation request to plan your next project.
Bookmark the Nurse Scientist flyer for easy access to the QR code for the consultation request form and registration for monthly drop-in sessions.
Pictured left to right: Aubrey L. Florom-Smith, PhD, RN, AFASMA, Cassendra A. Munro, PhD, RN, CNOR, Kyung Mi Kim, PhD, RN, CNOR (on screen), Michelle DeCoux Hampton, RN, PhD, MS, Anna Oh, PhD, MPH, RN, Zainab Alzawad, PhD, MANP, M. Ed, RN
Michelle DeCoux Hampton, RN, PhD, MS is the Director of Academic Nursing and Patient Care Research.
Dr. Hampton supports the nurse scientist team in Academic Nursing in the development and implementation of nurse-led research.
She also supports the research interests of the executive and administrative leadership team within Patient Care Services at Stanford Health Care.
Dr. Hampton’s research and service interests are focused on promoting health equity for underserved populations, in part by increasing access to health professional education for members of underrepresented communities, and by educating current students and practicing professionals on health equity.
Serving: Executive and Administrative Leadership
Aubrey Florom-Smith, PhD, RN, AFAsMA is a Nurse Scientist who supports inpatient, acuity adaptable units (AAUs), technology research, and nursing and student research and operational projects at Stanford Health Care-TriValley (STV).
She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a voting member of Stanford University’s Institutional Review Board.
In her role of Nurse Scientist, Dr. Florom-Smith provides expert scientific leadership, education, and guidance to frontline nurses, interprofessional colleagues, educators, managers, and directors.
Serving: Inpatient/AAU/Technology/STV
Dr. Anna Oh,PhD, MPH, RN, is a Nurse Scientist with a clinical background as a hematology/oncology/BMT, neurosciences, research, and public health nurse.
She has advanced training in aging research, implementation science, health services research, quality improvement, and economic analyses.
As a nurse scientist, Dr. Oh supports the hematology/oncology/blood and bone marrow transplant (BMT) service lines and the Health Equity division.
She uses her clinical and research background to support nurses and other healthcare clinicians in the conduct, dissemination, integration, and application of research to improve patient outcomes, organizational systems and processes, and health policies.
Serving: Heme/ONC/BMT/Health Equity
Dr. Zaina Alzawad, PhD, M.Ed, RN, MANP, is a Nurse Scientist whose research focuses on the behavioral and emotional responses of parents experiencing trauma due to their child’s hospitalization in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
Her research interest focuses on helping families who are experiencing the trauma of having a child in the PICU. Her long-term research goals are early identification of parents at the greatest risk for having long-term mental health sequelae and the provision of early intervention for PICU families.
Serving: Critical Care and Emergency Department
Chrystal Lewis, PhD, RN is a Nurse Scientist with a direct care practice background in adult acute care medicine and adult medical and surgical intensive care.
As a nurse scientist assigned to support the Ambulatory Care Clinics, Dr. Lewis provides guidance, education, and mentorship to frontline nurses and ancillary care providers, among other health care professionals who aspire to conduct research with the aim to improve patient outcomes.
Dr. Lewis has a passion for trauma-informed care, palliative care, rare disease awareness and advocacy, and ICU-related stress. Dr. Lewis also is interested in mentoring and facilitating interest in research.
Serving: Ambulatory
Dr. Cassendra Ann Munro, PhD, RN, RNFA, CNOR, is a Nurse Scientist who has been conducting clinical research for over 15 years. She has over 25 years of perioperative nursing experience and served over 20 years in health care and nursing leaderships roles, including Magnet Recognition Programs.
She is the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) liaison to the Board of Directors and Chair of the Collaborating Organization Council for the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP).
She serves on research committees for two professional organizations: AORN and NPIAP. She is the creator of the Munro Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Scale for Perioperative Patients (Munro Scale) and the CMUNRO SCALE curriculum.
Dr. Munro’s role at Stanford Health Care, Office of Research Patient Care Services is to provide support to clinicians to explore care delivery across the Stanford Medicine enterprise.
Serving: Perioperative Services
Dr. Kyung Mi Kim, PhD, RN, CNOR, is a Nurse Scientist with expertise in quantitative methods, including econometrics, analysis of large datasets, and value-based payment policy evaluation.
Dr. Kim is a certified operating room nurse at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she cares for surgical patients to better identify and prioritize real-life problems.
Dr. Kim’s role at Stanford Health Care lies at the intersection of nursing, health services research, and care delivery to improve the value of health care.
At Stanford Health Care, she has committed herself to promoting health quality and equity through original research, teaching, and a close partnership with leaders in a wide array of professions.
Serving: All service lines, as needed
