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HCGNE Leadership Team


Elaine Souder, PhD, RN
Phone: (501) 296-1893  Fax: (501) 296-1765 

 Email: SouderElaine@uams.edu

Titles: Education Coordinator, UAMS Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence; Professor, UAMS College of Nursing; Education Core Leader, UAMS Alzheimer's Disease Center; Project Director, Southern Gerontological Nursing Certificate Program (SGNCP)
Department: Nursing Science
PhD From: Boston College at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Office: UAMS Campus, College of Nursing, College of Public Health Building (EDIII), 5th floor, Room 5262, Mail Slot 529
Teaching Specialty: Interdisciplinary Aging/Dementia Research
Research Interests:
  • Dementia/Alzheimer's Disease
  • Mental Status/Cognitive Status
  • ADL's/IADL's
Recent Awards   or Honors: 2004 Medsurg Nursing Nurse Competence in Aging Writer's Award for the article "Care of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease in the New Millennium" (Elaine Souder, C. G. Rapp, Gwynn Davis, Cornelia Beck, and P. H. Liem authors)
Research Grants:
  • Core Leader, Alzheimer's Disease Center Grant.  C. Beck, PI.  Funded by NIA, 7/01 -  6/06, $4,753,364  
  • Education Coordinator, Grant for UAMS CON Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. C. Beverly, PI. Funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, 1/01 - 12/05, $1,332,936 
  • Director, Southern Geriatric Nursing Certificate Program. Funded by HRSA 3/1/02-2/28/05, $884,000  

  • Education Specialist, Arkansas Geriatric Education Center (AGEC), R. Chernoff, PhD, PI.  Health Resources and Services Administration, 6/00 - 6/02,  $438,000
  • Director, A Geropsychiatric Initiative for Arkansas' Advanced Practice Nurses.  AACN/ Hartford Foundation, 1/02-12/04;  $90,000

Recent Publications:
  • Souder, E., Rapp, C.G., Davis, G.V., Beck, C., & Liem, P.H. (2004). Care of individuals with Alzheimer's disease in the new millennium. MEDSUG Nursing, The Journal of Adult Health, 13 (1), 22-31.

  • Souder, E., Terry, T.L., & Mrak, R.E. (2003). Autopsy 101. Geriatric Nursing, 24, 330-336.

  • Souder, E., O'Sullivan, P. (2003). Disruptive behaviors of older adults in an institutional setting: staff time required to manage disruptions. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 29 (8), 31-36.

  • Souder, E. & Terry, T. (2003, November). Alzheimer’s disease: what you can do about it. Aging Arkansas, p.3, 21.

  • Richards, K., Nagel, C., & Souder, E. (2003). Informal caregiving: Some nights we don’t get any sleep at all. The Gerontologist, 43 (special issue 1), 335-336.



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