Assistant Professor
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island, United States
Amy D’Agata, PhD, MS, RN is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing. She has over 20 years of nursing experience as a NICU staff nurse, nurse manager, and nurse consultant. Her nursing degrees were earned from the University of Saint Joseph (BSN) and the University of Connecticut (MS and PhD). Concern about longterm outcomes for preterm infants who experience repeated and prolonged stress and pain in the NICU was her inspiration to pursue a research doctorate. Recognizing clinicians and parents lacked language to describe the trauma some infants endure, she published “Infant Medical Trauma in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (IMTN): A Proposed Concept for Science and Practice”. Her doctoral dissertation was titled Infant Exposure to Potentially Traumatic Events in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Each of her subsequent studies were aimed at improving our understanding of the molecular impacts from early life stress exposure. As faculty at the University of Rhode Island, Amy pivoted her research towards adult survivors of preterm birth. She is an NIH R01 Co-Investigator examining allostatic load and epigenetic mechanisms in 30 year old former preterm infants. This is the 10th follow up study in the only U.S.-based longitudinal study that has been continuously following participants from birth into adulthood.
I have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Friday, September 16, 2022
10:35 AM – 10:55 AM PDT