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Cynthia M. Dougherty

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cindyd@uw.edu

Professor

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics

Profile
Dr. Dougherty’s sustained program of research has focused on the development of knowledge related to human responses to sudden cardiac arrest and cardiac arrhythmias, both for survivors and their family members. This research led to the development and testing of nursing interventions to improve health outcomes after sudden cardiac arrest and advanced heart disease. The results of this research are to enhance physical and psychosocial health and to reduce health care costs in patients and patients’ families. Within the program of research are four foci: intervention models to enhance adjustment, exercise interventions to improve function, cardiovascular disease management interventions, and interventions in end stage or advanced heart disease.
Classes
  • NMETH 801: Practice Doctorate Project/Capstone
  • NURS 540: SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSIOLOGICAL NURSING
  • NURS 595: Synthesis of Nursing Science
Grants
  • Promoting Quality of Life After an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Shock,
  • Promoting Quality of Life After an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Shock,
  • Biobehavioral Intervention to Reduce PTSD Symptoms After an ICD Shock,
  • Frazier F31,
  • Center for Integrated Biological Mechanisms in Symptom Science (CIBSS),
  • Palliative Care Research Training Grant,
  • Omics and Symptom Science Training Program,
  • Sleep and Cognition After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantatation,
  • Symptom Biology After Heart Failure Hospitalization,
  • Enhancing APRNs Workforce Competency: Combatting the Opioid Crisis in Rural and Underserved WA State Correctional Facilities,
  • Omics and Symptom Science Training Program,
  • Sleep and Cognition after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation,
  • Goals of Care Intervention in Advanced Heart Failure,
  • Implementation of Exercise Into Clinical Practice After An Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Implementation of Exercise Into Clinical Practice After An Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Palliative Care Research Training Grant,
  • Palliative Care Research Training Grant,
  • Dougherty NINR IPA,
  • IPA-VA COPD,
  • The Process of Decision-Making for Patients who have Undergone Left-Ventricular Device Implantation for Destination Therapy in Heart Failure,
  • Sleep and Cognition after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation,
  • Omics and Symptom Science Training Program,
  • Improving goals-of-care communication between heart failure patients and providers,
  • Palliative Care Research Training Grant,
  • Discovery to Translation: Cardiac Arrest Survivors and Families,
  • Atrial Fibrillation Symptoms and Biomarkers,
  • Improving goals-of-care communication between heart failure patients and providers,
  • The Effects of Exercise Intervention in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD) for Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death on Angiogenesis Biomarkers (VEGF-A and VEGF-B),
  • AHA Mentor/Mentee,
  • After ICD Shock Self-Management,
  • The Process of Decision-Making for Patients who have Undergone Left-Ventricular Device Implantation for Destination Therapy in Heart Failure,
  • Translation of Exercise Interventions into Practice after an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Pain in older adults with heart failure in the home care setting,
  • Patient and Intimate Partner Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes After an ICD,
  • Patient and Intimate Partner Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes After an ICD,
  • Patient and Intimate Partner Intervention to improve Health Outcomes After an ICD,
  • Anti-Arrhythmic Effects of Exercise After an Implantable Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Patient and Intimate Partner Intervention to Improve Outcome After an ICD,
  • Improving Health Care Through DNP Education - Renewal Grant,
  • Translation of Exercise Interventions into Practice after an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Reducing Health Care Utilization in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Care,
  • Interventions to Improve Quality of Life and Health after an ICD: Patients and Partners,
  • Shared Decision Making in End-State Heart & Lung Disease,
  • Nursing Interventions Following ICD Implantation,
  • [GC1 #146991, 1st Revision] Intimate Partner Adjustment After Sudden Cardiac Arrest,
  • Improving goals-of-care communication between heart failure patients and providers,
  • Patient and Intimate Partner Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes After an ICD,
  • Nursing Interventions Following ICD Implantation,
  • Anti-Arrhythmic Effects of Exercise After an Implantable Defibrillator (ICD,
  • The Effect of Mindfulness-Meditation on IBS and PTSD: A Pilot Study,
  • Improving Quality of Life and Health After an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator: Patients and Partners,
  • Exercise to Improve HRV in Sudden Cardiac Arrest,
  • Interdisciplinary Nurse Scientist Training in Multilevel Approaches: Biology to Society,
  • Sleep and Cognition after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation,
  • Interdisciplinary Nurse Scientist Training in Multilevel Approaches: Biology to Society,
  • Differences in Women and Men with Atrial Fibrillation,
  • Sleep and Cognition after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation,
  • Omics and Symptom Science Training Program,
  • Self-Management Interventions to Prevent PTSD after an ICD Shock,
  • Multidisciplinary Intervention to Optimize Compliance and Outcomes with the Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator Post-MI (OPT-WCD Trial),
  • Goals of Care Intervention in Advanced Heart Failure,
  • Implementation of Exercise into Cardiology Practice After an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Exercise after an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Omics and Symptom Science Training Program,
  • Atrial Fibrillation Symptoms and Biomarkers,
  • Education-Practice Partnership to Improve Advanced Heart Failure (AHF) Training and Outcomes for Rural and Underserved Populations in an Accountable Care Organization (ACO),
  • Palliative Care Research Training Grant,
  • Translation of Exercise Interventions into Practice after an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Pain in older adults with heart failure in the home care setting,
  • Promoting effective self-management after an ICD shock,
  • Self-Management Interventions to Prevent PTSD after an ICD Shock,
  • Dougherty Case Western Reserve University Contract,
  • Reducing Disparities in ICD Implant Rates Across the U.S.,
  • Using wearable technology to test effectiveness of E-ICD in older adults,
  • Symptom Biology After HF Hospitalization,
  • Goals of Care Intervention in Advanced Heart Failure,
  • Cardiovascular Symptom & Biomarker Profiles,
  • Multidisciplinary Intervention to Optimize Compliance and Outcomes with the Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator Post-MI (OPT-WCD Trial),
  • AHA SFRN Dougherty,
  • Palliative Care Research Training Grant,
  • Anti-Arrythmic Effects of Exercise After An Implantable Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Translation of Exercise Interventions into Practice after an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Goals of Care Intervention in Advanced Heart Failure,
  • Discovery to Translation: Cardiac Arrest Survivors and Families,
  • Goals of Care Intervention in Advanced Heart Failure,
  • Promoting effective self-management after an ICD shock,
  • Patient and Partner Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes After an ICD,
  • Anti-Arrythmic Effects of Exercise After an Implantable Defibrillator (ICD),
  • Patient and Intimate Partner Intervention to Improve Outcome After an ICD,
  • Anti-Arrythmic Effects of Exercise After an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD): Biomarkers Supplement,
  • Anti-Arrhythmic Effects of Exercise After an Implantable Defibrillator (ICD),
  • IPA-VA COPD,
  • Center for Self-Management Interventions for Distressing Symptoms in Chronic Conditions (SMIC),
  • Anti-arrhythmic Effects of Exercise After Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator,
  • IPA-VA,
  • Shared Decision-Making in End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease,
  • AWD-020759: Quality Life ICD Shock 08/22/2023 (version 0),
  • AWD-020542: Frazier F31 09/16/2023 (version 0),