Tahani ALShammari, RN, MSN, is currently a PhD student at The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, USA. She was previously a lecturer at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. Her research focuses on parents of children with Type 1 diabetes (T1D).  Her research goal is to mitigate these parents’ uncertainty in illness, improve their quality of life and better understand the daily challenges they face related to the management of their child’s chronic condition. In the future, she plans to conduct a pragmatic randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a health education intervention to address uncertainty in illness and improve the overall quality of life in parents of children with T1D.

Tahani is a 2021 recipient of a conference grant from the International Family Nursing Foundation to support her participation at the virtual 15th International Family Nursing Conference (IFNC15).

For more information, contact IFNA member Tahani ALShamarri.

Willyane de Andrade Alvarenga, RN, MN, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Centro Universitário Santo Agostinho, Brazil.  She is also a researcher at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil – Research Group in Nursing Care Provided to Children and Adolescents (GPECCA). She recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship about the family experience of perinatal death in the Centre for Studies and Research on Family Intervention (CERIF) at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Quebec, Canada. Her current program of research focuses on the psycho-socio-spiritual health of vulnerable families, including families living with HIV, childhood chronic health conditions, and grief. Her objective is to improve the health and well-being of families and the care of vulnerable families based on explanatory and intervention models.

Dr. Alvarenga’s online CV is able here: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8256140747283328.

At IFNC14, Dr. Alvarenga participated in a short video featuring her work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrvLag8ASPw

Dr. Willyane de Andrade Alvarenga is a current member of the IFNA Research Committee and the IFNA Education Committee. 

For more information, contact IFNA member  Willyane de Andrade Alvarenga.  

Giulia Gasperini, RN, MSN, is a doctoral student at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a Research Fellow at the Sapienza University of Rome. Her research focuses on the models and theories of family nursing and the implementation of family nursing in Italy. She is interested in supporting the positive development of family nursing in her country to improve people’s health and well-being through primary health care.

Giulia is a 2021 recipient of a conference grant from the International Family Nursing Foundation to support her participation at the virtual 15th International Family Nursing Conference (IFNC15).

For more information, contact IFNA member Giulia Gasperini.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/giuls_gasperini

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/giulia-gasperini-41a34b1a3