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Margaret Heitkemper

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heit@uw.edu

Chair and Professor

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics

Profile
Margaret McLean Heitkemper, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Professor and Chairperson, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, Adjunct Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, and Director, Center for Research on Management of Sleep Disturbances at the University of Washington. She received her BSN from Seattle University, Masters’ degree in nursing from University of Washington, and PhD in Physiology and Biophysics from University of Illinois, Chicago. She leads an interdisciplinary team focused on the study of the pathophysiology and non-pharmacological management of individuals with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). At this time, her team is studying the interaction of stress, sleep, genetics, and symptoms (e.g., pain) in women with IBS. This work has been substantially funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health.
Classes
  • NMETH 584: Methods: Physiologic Measures
  • NURS 540: SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSIOLOGICAL NURSING
Grants
  • Biomarkers of Pain in Children with Recurrent Abdominal Pain, Baylor College of Medicine
  • , National Institute of Nursing Research
  • The relationship of carbohydrate intake with fecal short chain fatty acids in persons with IBS and healthy controls, National Institutes of Health
  • Sleep-Wake Cycles of Individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, National Institutes of Health
  • Sleep-Wake Cycles of Individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Western Institute of Nursing
  • , Baylor College of Medicine
  • , National Institutes of Health
  • , Western Institute of Nursing
  • Interdisciplinary Nurse Scientist Training in Multilevel Approaches: Biology to Society, National Institute of Nursing Research
  • , National Institutes of Health