Patricia C. Clark, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Nursing
958 Urban Life Building
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404.413.1180
E-mail: nurpcc@langate.gsu.edu
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1998
M.S.N., University of Kentucky, 1983
B.S.N., University of South Alabama, 1980
Diploma in Nursing, Mastin School of Nursing, 1975
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Dr. Clark’s previous professional experience includes serving as Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Adult & Elder Health at Emory University with an adjunct position in the School of Medicine, and faculty positions at Lenoir Rhyne College and the University of Rhode Island. Earlier in her career, Dr. Clark held clinical positions in emergency nursing and staff development in long term care.
Dr. Clark’s program of research is about family caregivers of persons with chronic illness, more specifically stroke, heart failure, and Alzheimer’s disease. She conducted a multi-site study examining family function, stroke recovery, and caregiver outcomes funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and is co-investigator of a national clinical trial for improving upper extremity function using constraint-induced therapy (EXCITE) after stroke. In addition, she has received funding from the Alzheimer’s Association to study dementia symptom recognition in African American caregiving families and is co-investigator of a study funded by NINR to test a family partnership intervention to improve adherence of diet and medications in persons with heart failure. An article describing the intervention published in AACN Clinical Issues received the 2004 Clinical Article of the Year award from the Cardiovascular Nursing Council of the American Heart Association (AHA). Dr. Clark has published her work in prestigious journals such as Nursing Research, Research in Nursing & Health, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing.
Dr. Clark has presented her work at numerous national conferences and was an invited participant for the NINR Research in Informal Caregiving workgroup and the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke Health Disparities in Stroke panel. Dr. Clark has received numerous awards for her research and teaching including the 2005 Hartford Institute Geriatric Nursing Award from the Southern Nurses Research Society, 2005 Jean Thomas Award for Creativity in Teaching from Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, 2003 Eva Tupman Nurse Researcher award from the Georgia League for Nursing, 2002 Georgia Nurse Researcher of the Year from the Georgia Nurses Association, and the 2001 Sigma Theta Tau International Regional Mentor award. She is a Fellow in the American Heart Association will be inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in November 2005.