Join the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing for the latest installment of the College’s Distinguished Lecture series. Dr. Nancy Redeker, director of the Yale University School of Nursing Center for Biobehavioral Health Research, will deliver the address: “Advancing Nursing Science Through Precision Health.”

The lecture, scheduled for March 10 at 5 p.m., will be delivered virtually via Webex due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Please register for the lecture here.

Dr. Redeker is a nursing professor and director of the Biobehavioral Center at Yale. Her research focuses on sleep health, the health-related consequences of sleep deficiency, and translating efficacious sleep promotion interventions into clinical and community settings. She focuses on improving sleep deficiency in people across the trajectory of acute and chronic conditions, and racially and ethnically diverse individuals and families who may be at risk for negative health outcomes due to sleep deficiency.

Dr. Redeker is the editor-in-chief of Heart & Lung, the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Health, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and serves as chair-elect of the Council for Advancement of Nursing Science. She was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researchers Hall of Fame in 2017 and received the Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society.

This nursing continuing professional development activity has been submitted to the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.