Resilience and Impact on Behavior and Outcomes
Wednesday, Feb. 21
3 - 4:30 p.m.
UMSON, Room 245, or Online
Join us for the Placebo Beyond Opinions organized research center guest lecture, presented by Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP.
Attend in person in UMSON Room 240 or virtually on Zoom.
More about Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology
University of Maryland School of Nursing
Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, obtained her BSN from the University of Connecticut, her MSN from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD from the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON). She is currently a professor, the associate dean for research, and the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology at UMSON.
She has over 40 years of clinical experience as a nurse practitioner across all settings of care. Her research program is focused on optimizing function and physical activity among older adults, exploring resilience and genetics on function and physical activity, and testing dissemination and implementation of interventions in real-world settings. She currently has several R01s, with one focused on optimizing physical activity among hospitalized older adults living with dementia and the other testing the implementation of a Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline in Nursing Homes. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Health Care Quality, and foundations such as the Helen and Leonard Stulman Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Resnick has over 300 published articles, numerous chapters in nursing and medical textbooks, and books on restorative care and resilience. She is the current co-editor of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, past editor of Geriatric Nursing, and an associate editor and on editorial boards for numerous other journals. She has held leadership positions in multiple aging and interdisciplinary organizations including the American Geriatrics Society and the Gerontological Society of America and the American Medical Directors Association.
She has been recognized with numerous national awards, the most recent of which include the 2017 David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award, the 2018 Johns Hopkins Leader in Aging Award, the 2018 Loretta Ford Award, the 2019 Lawton Powell Award, the 2020 Dodd Award, the 2022 University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Award, the 2022 University System of Maryland Elkins Professorship, and the 2023 Lamy Lecturer for the American Society for Consultant Pharmacists.