Meet the 2024 Winner: Joanna L. Morris PhD, RN
The primary goal of Dr. Morris' research program is to generate knowledge to improve the care and clinical outcomes of women with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Her projects have focused on the multifactorial influences of gender and sex-specific differences that affect women's OSA symptom presentation and success with CPAP adherence. She is also interested in sex differences in night-to-night variability in sleep and respiratory parameters in untreated OSA and its impact on next-day function and mood. Her publications have addressed sex differences in symptom clusters and the psychometric properties of sleep and OSA screening questionnaires. She is currently funded by the American Academy of Medicine to test a patient-to-patient peer support intervention to promote CPAP adherence in women. Dr. Morris earned her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing and conducted her postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sleep and Circadian Science, Department of Psychiatry.
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This award is given in recognition of outstanding achievement and highest rated abstract submitted by a nurse to a Nursing Assembly category.