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Veronica Bernacchi

  • Assistant Professor

Education:

  • Public Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University
  • PhD, Nursing, University of Virginia
  • BSN, Nursing, James Madison University

Funding:

04/15/2024- 04/30/2025 (PI)
Feasibility and limited efficacy of a family-based, 6-week online intervention for tracheostomy and feeding tube support for head and neck cancer patients
Funder: Michigan State University Trifecta Award
co-Is: Barbara Given, College of Nursing; Eric Adjei Boakye, Epidemiology Biostatistics; Jeffrey Searl, Communication Science Disorders; Samantha Tam, Surgery

 

05/23/2022 – 06/30/2023 (PI)
Social determinant clusters impacting quality of life in cancer survivors and their family caregivers.
Funder: The Pennsylvania State University Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

 

06/2020 – 06/2022 (PI)
Identify facilitators and barriers to resilience for rural cancer survivors and their family caregivers.
funder: Rural Nursing Organization

 

Honors & Awards:

  • 2023   Nomination, Oncology Nursing Foundation Victoria Mock New Investigator Award
    2023   Nomination, Midwest Nursing Research Society Harriet H. Werley New Investigator Award
    2022   Award Recipient, Pennsylvania State Cancer Institute CRETC Travel Award
    2019   Award Recipient, Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center Conference
    2019   Award Recipient, Virginia Rural Health Association Conference
    2018   Nurse of the Year, C4-1, Georgetown University Hospital
    2017   Nomination, Nurse Leader of the Year, Georgetown University Hospital
    2017   Nomination, Magnet Nurse of the Year, Georgetown University Hospital
    2014   Cum Laude, James Madison University
    2015   Daisy Award, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
    2011 - 2012           President's List, James Madison University