Stanford Framily & Mental Health Lab
The Framily and Mental Health Lab Envisioning a framily-centered healthcare system where patients, family, and friends are empowered in all levels of care.
Envisioning a framily-centered healthcare system where patients, family, and friends are empowered in all levels of care.
PhD, RN, FPCN, FAHA, FAAN

Harleah Buck

Sally Mathis Hartwig Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Iowa
Director of the Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence

Dr. Buck is the Sally Mathis Hartwig Professor in Gerontological Nursing at the University of Iowa and Director of the Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence. She has over 30 years of clinical and research experience. Her ultimate research goal is to promote personalized health strategies in the palliative science. In Dr. Buck’s 20+ years of clinical practice she cared for older adult patients across the cardiovascular trajectory from Open Heart Recovery to Telemetry to Hospice. Her strong track record of funded research focuses on developing non-pharmacological solutions for community care’s older adult “wicked problems. Specifically, she leads the science in advanced heart failure patient and caregiver dyads; examining the relationships between the dyad’s characteristics and their self-management. 

Accepting Mentees: Yes

Education

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
PhD, University of South Florida
MS, University of South Florida
BS, Columbia University

Research

Palliative care
Non-pharmacological interventions
Dyadic heart failure self-care in older adults

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