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    Robin Whittemore, APRN, FAAN

    Professor Emeritus of Nursing
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    Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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    Professor Emeritus of Nursing

    Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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    Robin Whittemore is a Professor at Yale School of Nursing, Director of the PhD program, and the Co-Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale. Dr. Whittemore’s research focus is on lifestyle change to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes as well as the psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness. Initially her work focused on adults with type 2 diabetes, specifically in translating theory-based interventions with established efficacy into a new setting, such as modifying the Diabetes Prevention Program for delivery by nurse practitioners in primary care and by visiting nurses and community health workers (CHWs) in subsidized housing. She has modified behavioral interventions for adults and adolescents to a technology platform. She has translated an in-person coping skills training program and an obesity prevention program for youth to the internet and has used text messaging to provide a positive psychology intervention for adolescents with type 1 diabetes, Currently, she is developing an internet program for parents of adolescents with type 1 diabetes, and modifying a group-based program for adults of low socioeconomic status with T2D in Mexico that includes a theory-based mHealth component.

    Activities:

    • Teens with type 1 diabetes, (South Central University, Changsha China). Collaboration with Dr. Jia Guo to adapt and evaluate a coping skills training program for tees with type 1 diabetes in China.
    • Gestational diabetes, (South Central University, Changsha China). Collaboration with Dr. Jia Guo to evaluate a lifestyle change program for rural women in China with a history of gestational diabetes
    • Adults with type 2 diabetes, (Iberoamerica University, Mexico City, Mexico). Collaboration with Dr. Rafael Perez Escamilla, Dr. Vilar Compte, and Ana Bertha Perez to evaluate a self-management program plus mHealth for adults with type 2 diabetes in Seguro Popular Clinics.
    Last Updated on October 08, 2024.

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    Teens with type 1 diabetes

    (South Central University, Changsha China)

    Collaboration with Dr. Jia Guo to adapt and evaluate a coping skills training program for teens with type 1 diabetes in China.

    Gestational diabetes

    (South Central University, Changsha China)

    Collaboration with Dr. Jia Guo to evaluate a lifestyle change program for rural women in China with a history of gestational diabetes

    Adults with type 2 diabetes

    (Iberoamerica University, Mexico City, Mexico)

    Collaboration with Dr. Rafael Perez Escamilla, Dr. Mireya Vilar Compte, and Ana Bertha Perez to evaluate a self-management program plus mHealth for adults with type 2 diabetes in Seguro Popular clinics.

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    Frequent collaborators of Robin Whittemore's published research.

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