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Joy Buck, RN, PhD

Associate Professor, Health Promotion, School of Nursing
Principal Nursing Investigator

Education:

Post Doctoral Fellowship:  Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania.
PhD:  University of Virginia
MSN:  George Mason University
BA:  Shepherd University
ADN: Davis and Elkins College

Specialty Areas: 

Community-based chronic care/end-of-life care; HIV/AIDS prevention and care; health policy, history and qualitative research methods.

Research Interests: 

Health-related quality of life; health disparities; integrated palliative care; community-based participatory research; policy; history.

Research: 

System, provider and individual variables that influence health-related quality of life in chronically ill rural/semi-rural populations.

Currently funded research:

1st Principal Investigator:  Patient and Caregiver Perspectives of Quality of Life. West Virginia University Foundation, 2008-2010

2nd Principal Investigator:  Professional perceptions of barriers to integrated palliative care in Appalachia.  West Virginia University Research Corporation, 2008-2010

Completed funded research: 

Principal Investigator:  “Nursing the borderlands of life”: Reconstructing care for the dying, 1945-2006. Center for Nursing History Inquiry, 2007-2009.
Setting the standard for specialization in hospice and palliative nursing, 1985-2006.  American Nurses Foundation, Anne Zimmerman Scholar, 2006-2007. 

Principal Investigator:  “Reweaving a tapestry of care”: A history of hospice, Medicare and the translation of an ideal.”  Post doctoral fellowship, National Institute for Nursing Research, advanced training in health outcomes research at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania (T32-NR-007104), 2005-2007.

Principal Investigator:  “Rights of passage”: Reforming care for the dying, 1945-1986.  Individual National Research Service Award, National Institute for Nursing Research, pre doctoral research fellow, University of Virginia (F31-NR08301-01), 2002-2004. 

Principal Investigator:  Home health versus home hospice:  cooperation, competition and co-optation.  American Association for the History of Nursing, 2003-2004.

Principal Investigator:  Community-based care for the dying, 1945-1978.  Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-2003.

Honors: 

Phyllis J. Verhonick Distinguished Research Award, University of Virginia, 2005.          
                                                           
Award for Outstanding Achievements and Excellence in End-of-Life Nursing Education, American Association of Colleges of Nursing: End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, 2003.

Alice Fisher Society Summer Fellow, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2002. 

Phone:  304-596-6314 (Martinsburg)
             304-293-1389 (Morgantown)

Fax:  304-264-9042 (Martinsburg)

E-mail:  buckj@wvuh.com

Links to: School of Nursing-Charleston · School of Nursing-Morgantown

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