Leigh Small - ASU College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation

Phone: (602) 496-0910
Fax: (602) 496-0986
E-mail: Leigh.Small@asu.edu

Address:
College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation
Arizona State University
500 N 3rd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004-0698

Small, L. (2007). Assessment of the Gastrointestinal System. In Niederhauser, V.P. (Eds.) Core Curriculum for Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. New York: Mosby.
Small, L. (2007). Common Illnesses of the Gastrointestinal System. In Niederhauser, V.P. (Eds.) Core Review for Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. New York: Mosby.
Melnyk, B.M., Small, L., Morrison-Beedy, D., Strasser, A., Spath, L., Kreipe, R., Crean, H., Jacobson, D., Kelly, S., and O'Haver, J. (2007). The COPE healthy lifestyles TEEN program: Feasibility, preliminary efficacy and lessons learned from an after school group intervention with overweight adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Health Care.
Small, L., Melnyk, B.M., & Anderson, D. (2007). Prevention and early treatment of overweight and obesity in young children: A critical review and appraisal of the evidence with practice and research implications. Pediatric Nursing, 33(2); 149-52, 155-61, 127.
Small, L., Melnyk, B.M., & Strasser, A. (2007). Preventing obesity in young children: Where theory meets practice. Advance for Nurse Practitioners, 15(3), 35-40.

Parent Directed Child Portion Education: The Beary Healthy Plate! Funded by The Center for Improving Health Outcomes in Children, Teens and Families ($10,000).
Healthy Children at Phoenix Day Child and Family Learning Center: A Single Group Replication Program with Preschoolers and Their Parents (Co-principal Investigator). Funded by Catholic Healthcare West ($25,000).
Parents Lead Active Youth (PLAY): A Healthy Weight Primary Intervention Program to Avert Childhood Obesity (Principal Investigator). (R 15) (Priority score 199) Assigned: National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive and Kidney Diseases; National Institute of Child and Human Development; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, submitted, Feb. 2006.
COPE/Healthy Children: An Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles, and Enhanced Mental Health in Overweight/At-Risk Preschool Children and their Parents – a Replication Study (Principal Investigator). Funded by Arizona State University, December, 2004-present ($20,000).
COPE/Healthy Children: An Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles, and Enhanced Mental Health in Overweight/At-Risk Preschool Children and their Parents (Principal Investigator). Funded by New York State Nurses Association Rita C. Kopf Memorial Research Grant, 2004. ($2,900)

The Center for Improving Health Outcomes in Children, Teens, and Families Grant Award, 2006
Maternal Child Health Leadership Academy sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau International and Johnson and Johnson, 2005.
Sigma Theta Tau International Graduate Student Scholarship, 2001.
The Outstanding Large Chapter Award, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners (awarded during chapter Presidency), 1999.
Clinical Excellence Award, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners, Upstate New York chapter, 1998.