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Elaine Souder, PhD, RN
Phone: (501) 296-1893  Fax: (501) 296-1765
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Nursing Science
PhD From: Boston College at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Office: Plaza West Building, 100 Plaza West, Suite 280, Mail Slot 784
Teaching Specialty: Interdisciplinary Aging/Dementia Research
Research Interests:
  • Dementia/Alzheimer's Disease
  • Mental Status/Cognitive Status
  • ADL's/IADL's
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    Recent Awards or Honors Faculty (peer) Leadership Award (1997)
    Research Grants:
  • Core Leader, Alzheimer's Disease Center Grant.  C. Beck, PI.  Funded by NIA, 7/01 -  6/06 

  • Education Coordinator, Grant for UAMS CON Hartford Center for Excellence in Geriatric Nursing, 1/01 - 12/05.  
     
  • Education Specialist, Arkansas Geriatric Education Center (AGEC), R. Chernoff, PhD, PI.  Health Resources and Services Administration, 6/00 - 6/02.  
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    Recent Publication:
  • Souder, E., & O'Sullivan, P. (In press).  Time to manage disruptive behaviors in institutionalized elders.  Journal of Gerontological Nursing.
     
  • Souder, E., & Beck, C. (In press).  Nursing care of patients with dementia.  In M.F. Weiner & A. Lipton (Eds.), The dementias: Diagnosis, treatment, and research,  3rd edition, Washington, DC: The American Psychiatric Press.    
     
  • Souder, E., O'Sullivan, P., & Pechenik, G. (2000).  Cognitive status in medically hospitalized patients.  Applied Nursing Research, 13(1), 1-9. 
     
  • Beck, C., Coty, M., Souder, E., Zhaing, M., & Small, G.W. (2000).  Dementia diagnostic guidelines: Review of methodologies, results, and implementation costs.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Association, 48, 1195-1203.
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    Presentations:
  • Souder, E., Heestand, D., & Chernoff, R.  "AR-GEMS: Building an Innovative Educational Network for Rural Health Practitioners."  Abstract accepted for presentation at the National AHEC Workshop, April, 2002, Little Rock, AR.

  • Souder, E., O'Sullivan, P., & Lguyen, L.  "Research with the elderly: What's unique in the nursing home setting."  Symposium presentation at the Gerontological Society of America 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting, Washington, DC, November 17-21, 2000.  
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    Consultations:
  • Alzheimer's Disease International, June 2001

  • Specialty Emphasis Panel, NIH Center for Scientific Review, July 1999
     
  • Veterans's Administration Grant Writing Workshop, 1999
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