Faculty and Student Research
Push the Boundaries of Scholarship
At the College of Health Professions, as either an undergraduate or a graduate student, you'll have opportunities to engage in your own independent research or faculty-led research projects.
Faculty Research Topics
Take a look at just a sample of CHP faculty members who have published studies within their areas of research.
- Adult ADHD Is Underdiagnosed: Here’s What Pharmacists Need to Know. (Jean Covino, DHSc and Jennifer Hofmann, DMSc)
- Reproductive and sexual health matters in gender minority patients. (Elijah Salzer, DMSc)
- Developing self-compassion and well-being with a hybrid mindfulness-based intervention: Lessons learned from health professions students, faculty, and staff. (Sophie Kaufman, PhD, John Damiao, PhD, Esma Paljevic, EdD, and Christine Amendola, MS)
- Bringing greater research fluency into our educational vision: A Qualitative Research Study on Improving East Asian Medicine Research Education. (Belinda Anderson, PhD)
- Attitudes of Registered Nurses Caring for Adults with Intellectual and Development Disabilities (Marie Lourdes Charles, EdD)
- JBI Evidence Summary. Heart failure: Sodium restriction. (Jason Slyer, DNP)
- Awareness of Disease Status among Patients with Cancer. (Catherine Finlayson, PhD)
- Cognitive-communication impairments in a woman with right hemisphere disorder. (Scott Youmans, PhD)
- COVID-19 vaccine beliefs and intentions, and the practice of prevention behaviors among college students: In search of an integrative model of determinants in an evolving pandemic (Erica Gollub, DrPH, and Joshua Mendelsohn, PhD)
- Effect of a Robotic Pet on Social and Physical Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. (Lin Drury, PhD and Sharon Wexler, PhD)
- How do children learn to speak? A study on public opinion (Sethu Karthikeyan, PhD)
- Learning from healthcare professionals’ experience providing care for minorities during COVID-19: A pilot study (Ana Amaya, DrPH, Tiffany Henley, and Kyomi Gregory Martin, PhD)
- Mobile applications for promoting and evaluating visual perceptual skills in preschool children with special needs (Supawadee Lee, PhD)
- The effects of training on the quality of complex information dissemination to a naïve audience (Scott Youmans, PhD)
- Using Systems Thinking to Build Sustainable Food Systems for Seniors. (Denise Tahara, PhD)
Student Research
Study Abroad
CHP students have the opportunity to study and engage in experiential learning in more than twelve countries. For available programs, visit Pace University Study Abroad.
Take a look at photos from our students' trip to Costa Rica.
Graduate Assistants
Master’s and doctoral level students may be eligible to work with faculty teaching, conducting research, and on special projects.
Apply online at the Graduate Assistantship Application.
Annual Scholarship Day
On CHP Annual Scholarship Day, all CHP students are invited to present posters and digital representations of their scholarly projects. Faculty, staff, and members of the community are invited to learn more about the breath of projects undertaken by students representing the different health professions. Additionally, the Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing students present their research at PhD in Nursing Milestone Day.
Some examples of student research include:
Kathryn Persico, Elyza Andino, Nicole Simone, Maria Soares, and Brooklyn Allen
Nursing, BS
Synthesis of Evidence: Music therapy implementation improves depression/depressive symptoms
Health M. Greco, AGACNP, FNP and Sharon Wexler, PhD, RN, FNGNA
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing, PhD
The impact of cardiac rehabilitation on health failure self-care maintenance.
Grace Ramey, Bria Kudryk
Communication Sciences and Disorders, MS
Caregiver experience: A survey study on the caretakers of people with dementia.
Alyssa Wengrofsky
Nutrition and Dietetics, MS
The management of IBS through diet modification.
Mikayla Iezzoni
Health Science
The Cognitive Effects of Botulinum Toxin (Botox) Injections.
Julianna Garlatti, Jasleen Molina, Caity Ullmer
Occupational Therapy, MS
Investigating Occupational Engagement through an OT-based intervention among children living in a domestic violence shelter.
Grants
Top Research Funding Priorities
- Geriatric Health Care
- Chronic Disease Management
- Regulatory Policy/Access to Care and Role of Nurse Practitioner & Health Services Research
- Disease Prevention
- Pediatric Health Promotion
- Global Health
Top Programmatic Funding Priorities
- Student Scholarships (all levels)
- Student Study Abroad Scholarships
- Student Retention Initiatives (all levels)
- Technology Resources for Students
- Building Expansion for CHP Growth