Carol A Landis
Professor Emeritus
Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics
Profile
Throughout my career at the UW, I have served as a PI or Co-Investigator on interdisciplinary research projects investigating physiological, neuroendocrine and immune biomarkers of sleep disturbance in women with chronic conditions such as fibromyalgia, insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome and more recently in children with arthritis. I have investigated the consequences of sleep loss on thermoregulation, wound healing and innate immune function in preclinical laboratory based studies. For 15 years I co-directed a NINR funded pre- and post-doctoral training grant that prepared 51 PhD students and post-doctoral scholars to begin or to advance knowledge of biobehavioral health. I lecture on sleep both to undergraduate and graduate students, have taught courses both in the PhD program in nursing science and the DNP program, led interdisciplinary seminars on research ethnics and responsible conduct of research, have served as chair of both the PhD and DNP program coordinating committees and the faculty council in the School of Nursing, and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics. I am a past member of the Nursing Science Adult and Older Adult NIH Study Section and served on the Nursing Clinical Research Study Section for NIH/CSR. She is a former deputy editor for the SLEEP.