ASU Names Colleen Keller First Foundation Professor in Women’s Health
Director of College of Nursing & Health Innovation Geriatric Centers Recognized
PHOENIX, March 4, 2008 – Colleen Keller, PhD, RN-C, FNP and professor, College of Nursing & Health Innovation, has been appointed ASU’s first Foundation Professor in Women’s Health.
Dr. Keller has more than 20 years of research and practice devoted to the care of women, cardiovascular risk reduction in women, focusing on diverse and underserved women. Director of the new Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (HCGNE) in the ASU College of Nursing & Health Innovation, one of nine such centers in the United States, Professor Keller also is director of the Center for Improving Healthy Outcomes in Aging, a research center of excellence in the college.
Dr. Keller has on-going research studies for women’s health. She is principal investigator on a NIH/NINR study to implement a social support intervention for older Hispanic women that impacts weight management and co-investigator for Creando Posibilidades, a NIH/NINR RO1 funded grant with Dr. Karen Stein, University of Michigan, a study that examines risk factors for disordered behavior in Hispanic college women.
Dr. Keller joined ASU in 2005 from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where she was co-director of the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and held an endowed professorship. She previously served on the ASU nursing faculty from 1988 to 1994 and started her career in Phoenix as a critical care nurse at the Arizona Heart Institute.
A graduate of ASU with a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing, Dr. Keller received a PhD in Community Health Education from the University of New Mexico and a MS in Nursing (medical-surgical) from Ohio State University. She holds certifications as Advanced Practice Nurse, Family Nurse Practitioner, and Critical Care Nurse. Dr. Keller has received numerous nursing educational and research awards in her career.
The ASU College of Nursing & Health Innovation is ranked in the top eight percent of graduate college of nursing programs by the 2008 U.S. News & World Report College Rankings.
