Denise Charron-Prochownik

Denise Charron-Prochownik, PhD, RN, CPNP, FAAN Professor Nursing and Graduate School of Public Health Chairman Department of Health Promotion and Development School of Nursing. My research emphasis is theory-based intervention studies to enhance cognitive/psychosocial factors that impact health behavior and outcomes in children and adolescents with diabetes. I have conducted several funded projects in the areas of instrumentation, program development and evaluation, and survey designs. I have received funding from NIH, the American Diabetes Association, and Eli Lilly to develop, implement and evaluate online education-counseling intervention studies regarding reproductive health and preconception counseling in adolescent and young adult women with diabetes; and my current funded projects are targeting Latina and American Indian communities. 
 
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