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Selected as one of just 15 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars this year, Janice Goodman of the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions is using her grant to provide early intervention to encourage healthy mother/infant bonding for first time mothers who are at high risk of developing postpartum depression. The goal is to reduce postpartum depression and its negative effects on child development.

Angela Hudson of the University of California, Los Angeles is using her Nurse Faculty Scholar grant to conduct research on HIV and pregnancy prevention strategies among youth in foster care. Her goal is to identify ways to give at-risk kids a better start, and provide them with the knowledge they need to make the best decisions for themselves.

Eric Hodges will focus his Nurse Faculty Scholar research on parental feeding patterns to determine how they influence infant and child eating patterns later in life. Using home visits and data collection, he will examine other environmental and social factors that could contribute to childhood obesity. Hodges is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Nursing.

Nurse Faculty Scholar Ruth Taylor-Piliae will use her grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the health effects of tai chi in stroke survivors. She will develop a tai chi exercise program for stroke survivors and compare the results with those from other types of rehabilitation care. Taylor-Piliae is an assistant professor at the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona.