Susan Sullivan-Bolyai DNSc, CNS, RN, FAAN is a Professor in Nursing and Pediatrics and the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the Graduate School of Nursing at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Her research focuses on children with T1D and their families, specifically on the day-to-day management of the chronic condition. She has developed and implemented numerous family-nurse driven interventions that include booster education and peer mentoring for both the youth and their parents. She and her colleague Dr. Carol Bova recently developed a peer mentor support measure to capture the value of working with a peer mentor on diabetes self-management, a unique concept compared to general social support. She and her interprofessional colleagues are also developing developmentally scaffolded diabetes education materials that are interactive and visual (RO1 submission, Feb. 2020, NINR). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Family Nursing and the Journal of Pediatric Nursing. She continues to mentor PhD nursing students in intervention (including the MOST design) and qualitative descriptive research methods. She was awarded the ENRS Suzanne Feetham Nurse Scientist Family Research Award in 2015.
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