Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
Jana
M. Mossey, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.N Jana M. Mossey
received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, her M.P.H. and Ph.D. in
epidemiology from the University of North Carolina and her MSN in psychiatric
nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as a public health
nurse with Spanish-speaking immigrants in New York City before pursuing
her graduate studies in epidemiology. Prior to joining the faculty of
the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1986, she held faculty positions
at the University of Manitoba in Canada and Temple University in Philadelphia.
While at these universities, she developed several important research
initiatives related to the psychosocial health of older individuals. Her
initial studies of the relationship of self-rated health and mortality
in older Manitobans produced the seminal paper on this topic, “The
Manitoba longitudinal study on aging: description and methods,” Mossey
et al., Gerontologist (1981), that has stimulated many national and international
studies and has provided the focus for the work of many other researchers.
Likewise, her groundbreaking study of the psychosocial determinants of
recovery from hip fracture, a study conducted in Philadelphia, has provided
the basis for the work of a substantial number of other researchers. Having
received her MSN in Psychiatric Nursing in 1993, her research has focused
more directly on mental health issues that affect both elderly and younger
populations. Her clinical trial of a treatment program for sub-threshold
depression in the elderly has provided the scientific basis for the implementation
of comparable treatment programs with older individuals who suffer such
levels of depression. Dr. Mossey has taught public health and epidemiology
courses in schools of public health, medicine, and nursing. She joined
the faculty of the School of Public Health during the School’s planning
stages and developed the School’s initial curricula for epidemiology
and biostatistics. She currently serves as the Director of the Center
for Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her current research includes studies
of the meaning of self-rated health among elders, the relationship and
consequences of pain and mood, and the factors affecting the quality of
life of elders. She is the Principal Investigator of two studies funded
by the National Institute of Aging and serves on the scientific advisory
committee for the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s Uniform Outcomes
Measures Project which is creating a data registry that will have the
capacity to monitor clinical practice and evaluate best practice models
for the care of pain medicine patients. Dr. Mossey is a member of the
editorial board of the journals Pain Medicine and Behavioral Medicine,
and contributes to the epidemiology of aging initiative within the Gerontological
Society of America.
Zekarias Berhane received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Addis Ababa University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. He worked as a Post Doctoral Associate on the development of a Generalized Model for Post Transplant Survival and collaborative work on analyzing Medicare Database focusing on ICU deaths in the Medicare population at the University of Pittsburgh. As a graduate student researcher, he worked in developing an Innovative Statistical Approaches to Modeling Multiple Outcome Data from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Breast Cancer Prevention Trial (BCPT) and also in the analysis of Traffic Safety Data Project. Some of his areas of research interest include modeling time to event data with single and multiple outcomes, mixed effect models and regression diagnostics.
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