attention of researchers and students across the nation since it opened in 2009, the College is working closely with our colleagues in USF Health and our established community partners on the further development of the College of Nursing Centers of Excellence.

“The USF College of Nursing fosters a research-intensive environment that encourages innovation within the unique interprofessional system of USF Health,” said Kevin Kip, PhD, Executive Director of the Research Center at the USF College of Nursing. “Continued achievement at this level is due not only to our researchers’, but to the expertise, hard work and dilligent efforts of our very skilled and resourceful College of Nursing research support staff.”

The College of Nursing at the University of South Florida is ranked 28th in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding as compared to other schools of nursing nationwide!

USF nursing faculty members attracted more than $1.71 million in NIH funding in 2010 for research in the areas of cancer, palliative, end-of-life care and symptom management, women’s health, stress and immunity. Centers of Excellence and specialized programs at the College of Nursing in these key areas build upon the strengths of the College and meet the changing health care needs of the greater Tampa Bay region.

“Focusing on translational research – moving what is developed in science to patients and the community – our developing Centers of Excellence help change the face of health care here and around the world, and as they do so, they help bring our program to national prominence,” said Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, Dean of the College of Nursing, and Senior Associate Vice President of USF Health.

Drawing on the resources of our state-of-the-art Biobehavioral Laboratory that has been garnering the

University of South Florida NIH Ranking Increase in Nursing Research Continues

Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, Dean of the College of Nursing, and Senior Associate Vice President of USF Health is leading the USF College of Nursing on an effort to increase it’s NIH ranking five places in five years, of “5 in 5.”

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Grants and contracts from federal sources, including NIH, are considered among the most competitive and coveted funding sources. Last year the College began a drive to increase NIH funding five places in five years, or “5 in 5”. The 2010 NIH research rankings show the USF College of Nursing surpassing competitors from last year including the university previously ranked 25th.

In the Center of Excellence in Psychoneruoimmunology, researchers and clinicians will study the interrelationships of the brain, behavior and the immune system and their effect on health and susceptibility to disease to better understand the complex relationships between stress and immunity.

develop a Center of Excellence in Cancer, Palliative Care and Symptom Management. Here nurse scientists will continue their groundbreaking work on symptom management to improve the overall quality of life of patients with cancer, heart disease and other life threatening health issues - such as in the current study providing evidence that a scientific stress reduction program helps breast cancers survivors cope with residual symptoms of the disease