Hilaire J ThompsonPhD, RN, ARNP, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
she/her/they
Dean, School of Nursing
Executive Dean, School of Nursing
Associate Vice Provost, Office of Academic Personnel
Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics
Centers for Research Excellence
- Center for Innovation in Sleep Self-Management
- de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging
Profile
Injuries as a leading cause of death and disability in adults. There are substantive inequities in both the risk for and recovery following injury among individuals. My program of research has focused on both preventing and improving outcomes from traumatic injury, with a particular emphasis on older adults. I am presently conducting research to evaluate how the immune response to traumatic brain injury is influenced by age and its relationship to outcomes following traumatic brain injury. Together with collaborators at the University of Washington and elsewhere, I am seeking to identify how social determinants of health, system and structural factors and health promotion activities influence recovery from injury. I use a variety of approaches in my research, including basic science techniques, clinical epidemiology, as well as qualitative and mixed methods. I am actively involved in professional organizations such as the Gerontological Society of America and the National Neurotrauma Society.
Areas of Interest
- Research Interests: traumatic brain injury, geriatric trauma, falls, reducing disparities in outcome following injury
- Clinical Interests: neurosciences, trauma
Degrees & Education
- Ph.D., The University of Pennsylvania, 2003
- Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate, Boise State University, 2016
- M.S., University of Washington, 2008
- Post-Master's Nurse Practitioner Certificate, Adult Acute Care, Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, 1998
- M.S., Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, 1996
- B.S.N., The Catholic University of America, 1992
- B.Sc., Mary Washington College, 1991
Professional Licensures & Certifications
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner-Adult Gerontology, 2017
- Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, 2016
- Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner-NP, 2005, Washington
- Registered Nurse, 2004, Washington
- Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse, 2004
- Registered Nurse (inactive), 1998, Pennsylvania
- Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (inactive), 1998, Pennsylvania
- Registered Nurse (inactive), 1992, Virginia
- Clinical Nurse Specialist, Neuroscience (inactive), 1992, Virginia
- Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (inactive), 1992, Virginia
Awards, Honors, & Badges
- NIH/Johns Hopkins University Mixed Method Training Program , 2022/09, NIH/Johns Hopkins University
- Nominee, Marsha Landolt Graduate Mentor Award, 2022/09, University of Washington
- Nominee, Distinguished Teaching Award, 2021/09, University of Washington
- Inducted, Western Academy of Nursing , 2019/09, Western Academy of Nursing
- Lillian Sholtis Brunner Alumni Award for Innovation, 2019/09, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
- Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing, 2019/09, National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Excellence
- Regional Geriatric Nursing Education Award , 2019/09, Western Institute of Nursing
- Inducted as Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences , 2018/09, Washington State Academy of Sciences
- Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Researcher Hall of Fame Inductee , 2018/09, Sigma Theta Tau International
- Excellence in Neuroscience Education, 2018/09, American Association of Neuroscience Nursing
- Selected for Leadership Excellence Program, 2018/09, University of Washington
- Visiting Professor, 2018/09, School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei Taiwan
- Visiting Professor, 2017/09, School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei Taiwan
- Named Joanne Montgomery Endowed Professor (2017-2022) , 2017/09,
- Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, 2016/09, University of Washington School of Nursing
- Sandy Eyres Faculty Appreciation Award, 2015/09, UW School of Nursing Staff Advisory Council
- Protégée Award , 2014/09, Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research
- Elected as Fellow , 2014/09, Gerontological Society of America
- Visiting Research Scholar, 2014/09, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing Center for Biobehavioral Research
- Selected as “Visionary Leader”, 2013/09, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing
- “In Search of Excellence” Award , 2013/09, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
- William and Evelyn Griffin Visiting Scholar, 2012/09, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston School of Nursing
- Abstract selected for Presidential Session, 2012/09, American Geriatrics Society
- Recipient, 2012/09, Celebrating UW Women Recognition
- IOM Committee on Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury, 2011/09, Institute of Medicine (IOM)
- Writing Award for Research , 2010/09, Journal of Trauma Nursing
- Policy Leadership Fellow, 2009/09, Gerontological Society of America
- Inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing , 2008/09, American Academy of Nursing
- Abstract of Distinction, 2008/09, CANS State of the Science Congress
- Writing Excellence Award, 2007/09, Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
- Invited Co-chair, Aging and Neurotrauma Panel, 2007/09, National Neurotrauma Symposium, St. Louis, MO
- Health Sciences Section Research Award Honorable Mention, 2007/09, Geriatric Society of America
- Biological Nursing Research Award, 2006/09, Western Institute of Nursing
- Recertification Grant Recipient , 2006/09, Neuroscience Nursing Foundation
- Dean’s Award, 2004/09, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
- Travel Grant Recipient, 2003/09, Graduate Student Activities Council, University of Pennsylvania
- Travel Grant Recipient, 2003/09, Neuroscience Nursing Foundation
- Teaching Assistant Award, 2002/09, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
- Sigma Theta Tau Leadership Award, 2001/09, University of Pennsylvania
- Neuroscience Nursing Foundation Scholarship Recipient , 2000/09, Neuroscience Nursing Foundation
- RN Excellence in Practice, 1998/09, Neuroscience Nursing Department, MCV Hospitals
- RN Excellence in Education, 1996/09, Neuroscience Nursing Department, MCV Hospitals
- Magna Cum Laude Graduate, 1992/09, The Catholic University of America
- Sigma Theta Tau, inducted Kappa Chapter, 1992/09, Sigma Theta Tau
- Chi Beta Phi Honor Society, 1990/09, Mary Washington College.
- Alpha Phi Sigma Honor Society, 1990/09, Mary Washington College
Journal Articles
- 2024. "The Perceived Meaning of Traumatic Brain Injury for Older Adults: A Longitudinal-Multiple Case Study." Rehabilitation Nursing 49. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health): 14-23.
https://openalex.org/W4390398104 - 2024. "Race and Ethnicity Are Social Constructs and Do Not Underpin Pathophysiologic Processes." Journal of Neurotrauma 41. Mary Ann Liebert Inc: 1005-1006.
https://openalex.org/W4390016209 - 2024. "Fatigue, Toll-Like Receptor 4, and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Adults With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A 6-Month Longitudinal Study." Biological research for nursing 26. 192-201.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37788710/ - 2024. "Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in Long-Term Care: A Scoping Review." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 25. 105026.
- 2024. "Comparative analysis of financial toxicity between SARS-CoV-2 infection and common comorbidities." PloS one 19. e0309116.
- 2023. "Chronic Oxidative Stress as a Marker of Long-term Radiation-Induced Cardiovascular Outcomes in Breast Cancer." Journal of cardiovascular translational research 16. 403-413.
- 2023. "Interrelationships among workload, illness severity, and function on return to work following acute respiratory distress syndrome." Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses 36. 247-253.
- 2023. "Nursing and Institutional Responsibilities for In-Hospital Stroke." Stroke 54. 2926-2934.
- 2023. "Integrating Neuroimaging Measures in Nursing Research." Biological research for nursing 25. 341-352.
- 2023. "Virtual Reality Meditation for Fatigue in Persons With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Mixed Methods Pilot Study." JMIR formative research 7. e46209.
- 2023. "Kidney Donor Perspectives on Acute Postoperative Pain Management." Clinical nursing research 32. 1124-1133.
- 2023. "Telomere Length Associates With Symptom Severity After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Older Adults." Neurotrauma reports 4. 350-358.
- 2022. "Inflammatory, Oxidative Stress, and Cardiac Damage Biomarkers and Radiation-Induced Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors." Biological research for nursing 24. 472-483.
- 2022. "Sleep Disturbance and Self-management in Adults With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Qualitative Study." Clinical nursing research 31. 632-638.
- 2022. "Perceptions of and Experiences with Consumer Sleep Technologies That Use Artificial Intelligence." Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 22.
- 2022. "Association of imbalance between job workload and functional ability with return to work in ARDS survivors." Thorax 77. 123-128.
- 2022. "Frailty measurements in hospitalised orthopaedic populations age 65 and older: A scoping review." Journal of clinical nursing 31. 1149-1163.
- 2022. "Improving Asthma Care Together (IMPACT) mobile health intervention for school-age children with asthma and their parents: a pilot randomised controlled trial study protocol." BMJ open 12. e059791.
- 2022. "A Systematic Review of Virtual Reality Therapeutics for Acute Pain Management." Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses 23. 672-681.
- 2022. "Social integration: A concept analysis." Nursing forum 57. 1551-1558.
- 2022. "Improving Asthma Care Together (IMPACT) mobile health intervention for school-age children with asthma and their parents: A pilot randomised controlled trial study protocol." BMJ Open 12. e059791.
https://openalex.org/W4211146752 - 2021. "Association of Job Characteristics and Functional Impairments on Return to Work After ARDS." Chest 160. 509-518.
- 2021. "Factors Associated with the Development of Persistent Pain after mTBI." Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses 22. 592-598.
- 2021. "Internet-of-Things Smart Home Technology to Support Aging-in-Place: Older Adults' Perceptions and Attitudes." Journal of gerontological nursing 47. 15-21.
- 2021. "Association Between Target Temperature Variability and Neurologic Outcomes for Patients Receiving Targeted Temperature Management at 36°C After Cardiac Arrest: A Retrospective Cohort Study." Therapeutic hypothermia and temperature management 11. 103-109.
- 2021. "Innovations in Ph.D. education to prepare nurse scientists for the future." Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing 37. 212-215.
- 2021. "Evaluation of pharmaceutical pictograms by older "turkers": A cross-sectional crowdsourced study." Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP 17. 1079-1090.
- 2020. "Falls and Cognitive Training 2 (FaCT2) study protocol: a randomised controlled trial exploring cognitive training to reduce risk of falls in at-risk older adults." Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention 26. 370-377.
- 2020. "Use of individual development plans for nurse scientist training." Nursing outlook 68. 284-292.
- 2020. "Corrigendum to Precision health: Advancing symptom and self-management science." Nursing outlook 68. 139-140.
- 2020. "Methods for Estimating Energy Expenditure in Critically Ill Adults." AACN advanced critical care 31. 254-264.
- 2020. "Energy Expenditure and Shivering Severity During Targeted Temperature Management at 36°C After Cardiac Arrest: A Case Series." Critical care nursing quarterly 43. 286-293.
- 2020. "Use of an Internet-of-Things Smart Home System for Healthy Aging in Older Adults in Residential Settings: Pilot Feasibility Study." JMIR aging 3. e21964.
- 2020. "Sleep intervention for children with asthma and their parents (SKIP Study): A novel web-based shared management pilot study." Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 16. American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM): 925-936.
https://openalex.org/W3006453144 - 2019. "Precision health: Advancing symptom and self-management science." Nursing outlook 67. 462-475.
- 2019. "A Systematic Review of Health Dialog Systems." Methods of information in medicine 58. 179-193.
- 2018. "Comfort and Attitudes Towards Robots Among Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study." Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 50. 623-633.
- 2018. "Smartphone Applications to Support Sleep Self-Management: Review and Evaluation." Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 14. 1783-1790.
- 2007. "The novel antiepileptic agent RWJ-333369-A, but not its analog RWJ-333369, reduces regional cerebral edema without affecting neurobehavioral outcome or cell death following experimental traumatic brain injury." Restorative neurology and neuroscience 25. 77-90.
- 2007. "Cognitive outcome following brain injury and treatment with an inhibitor of Nogo-A in association with an attenuated downregulation of hippocampal growth-associated protein-43 expression." Journal of neurosurgery 107. 844-53.
- 2006. "Acute, transient hemorrhagic hypotension does not aggravate structural damage or neurologic motor deficits but delays the long-term cognitive recovery following mild to moderate traumatic brain injury." Critical care medicine 34. 492-501.
- 2006. "Cognitive evaluation of traumatically brain-injured rats using serial testing in the Morris water maze." Restorative neurology and neuroscience 24. 109-14.
- 2006. "Tissue sparing and functional recovery following experimental traumatic brain injury is provided by treatment with an anti-myelin-associated glycoprotein antibody." The European journal of neuroscience 24. 3063-72.
- 2006. "From bedside to bench and back again: research issues in animal models of human disease." Biological research for nursing 8. 78-88.
- 2006. "A feasibility study of methodological issues and short-term outcomes in seriously injured older adults." American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 15. 158-65.
- 2005. "Lateral fluid percussion brain injury: a 15-year review and evaluation." Journal of neurotrauma 22. 42-75.
- 2005. "Development of posttraumatic hyperthermia after traumatic brain injury in rats is associated with increased periventricular inflammation." Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 25. 163-76.
- 2004. "Differential effects of the anticonvulsant topiramate on neurobehavioral and histological outcomes following traumatic brain injury in rats." Journal of neurotrauma 21. 501-12.
- 2003. "Hyperthermia following traumatic brain injury: a critical evaluation." Neurobiology of disease 12. 163-73.
- "Associations of Health-Related Quality of Life and Sleep Disturbance With Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Survivors." Cancer nursing 46. E355-E364.
- "Lipidomics, Acute Ischemic Stroke, Symptoms, and Outcomes: Observational Study Protocol." Nursing research 72. 326-333.
- "The Perceived Meaning of Traumatic Brain Injury for Older Adults: A Longitudinal-Multiple Case Study." Rehabilitation nursing : the official journal of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses 49. 14-23.
Classes
- NMETH 499: Undergraduate Research
- NMETH 610: Research Practicum
- NMETH 801: Practice Doctorate Project
- NURS 540: Special Topics in Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics
- NURS 596: Colloquium, Scientific Conduct, and Dissertation Seminar
- NURS 599: Selected Readings in Nursing Science
- NURS 610: Teaching Practicum
- UCONJ 599: Selected Readings in Interdisciplinary Clinical Research
Grants
- Institute of Translational Health Sciences, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- EVALUATION OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS MOUSE STOOL FOR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE INFECTION, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- UW Psychiatry Fellowship Program for Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Premera Blue Cross