As co-director, Doran will support BBAL-related research activities and ideas among graduate and undergraduate students and faculty.
The University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) has appointed Kelly Doran, PhD ’11, MS ’08, RN, FAAN, associate professor, as co-director of its Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan (BBAL) Organized Research Center.
BBAL is one of UMSON’s five research Centers of Excellence. BBAL’s extramurally funded investigators investigate the management of disease and optimization of health as well as the ways biological findings can influence disease prevalence and progression. As a center for shared thinking — within UMSON and across the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) — members pool resources and collaborate on ideas and interventions that promote and sustain health for people of all ages. BBAL members also support, encourage, and facilitate research and researchers in these areas and provide leadership within UMSON that guides research-related activities within biology and behavior across the lifespan.
Doran, a BBAL member since 2012, will serve alongside co-director Nicole “Jennifer” J. Klinedinst, PhD, MPH, RN, FAHA, associate professor. She succeeds Barbara Resnick, PhD ’96, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor, Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, and UMB Distinguished University Professor, who was appointed associate dean for research. As co-director, Doran will support BBAL-related research activities and ideas among graduate and undergraduate students and faculty. This will include advocating for the research of BBAL members and the growth and deepening of research across UMSON and assisting with the acquisition of new faculty.