Senior Associate Dean of Research and Professor
Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, PhD is the senior associate dean for Research and a professor of nursing, with courtesy appointments in the nutrition science department and School of Biomedical Engineering. She is a geriatric nurse scientist and her continuously funded interdisciplinary program of research focuses on integrating nutrition and novel technologies to improve health outcomes and quality of life for older adults with acute (e.g., cardiac surgery) and chronic (e.g., heart failure, chronic wounds, dementia) conditions across the care continuum. Recognizing the need to improve the measurement of nutritional intake, DiMaria-Ghalili led a team of engineers on the research and development of a patented wireless device to track and monitor fluid intake. DiMaria-Ghalili serves as the principal investigator of the Cell2Society Aging Research Network (Cell2Society), a Drexel Area of Research Excellence (DARE) initiative, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of 30 faculty across ten colleges at Drexel University to create a novel ecosystem for the pursuit of use-inspired aging research. As part of the administrative core for CNHP’s AgeWell Collaboratory she participates in developing evidence-based programs, science, policy and educational offerings to facilitate healthy aging.
DiMaria-Ghalili was a 2007-2009 Claire M. Fagin Fellow in the John A. Hartford Foundation’s Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity program. Prior to joining the faculty at Drexel University in 2009, DiMaria-Ghalili was a tenured associate professor at West Virginia University School of Nursing where she received the Faculty Award for Excellence, Innovative Teaching Award and Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award. In her early career she practiced at Jacobi Medical Center of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation as a surgical nurse caring for critically ill adults with trauma and burn injuries and coordinated an interdisciplinary nutrition support team as a nutrition support clinical nurse specialist.
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Sunday, November 6, 2022
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