Gretchel A. Gealogo Brown, PhD, RN, MHR, MSN
Assistant Professor
I am a nurse clinician, educator and scientist with expertise in adult medical-surgical nursing and organizational management. My interdisciplinary collaborations with health sciences professionals across the learning continuum are informed by my clinical, teaching and research experience in hospital inpatient, emergency room and community health settings. My approach to inquiry is employing mixed methods analysis to maximize available qualitative and quantitative data for improving client-centered interventions. I am building a program of science based on the integration of structured with unstructured data in electronic health records to contribute to development and refinement of decision-making algorithms for timely, patient-centered clinical diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.
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Professional Background
Education
- 2022 - Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Data Science - The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX
- 2015 - Doctor of Philosophy - Nursing Science - The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- 2011 - Master of Science in Nursing - Administration in Community and Health Settings (Teaching Minor, High Honors) - The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- 2009 - Bachelor of Science in Nursing - Nursing - The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- 2003 - Master of Arts - Human Relations - The University of Oklahoma
- 1998 - Bachelor of Arts - Government - The University of Texas at Austin
Highlights
Licensure and Certifications
- ACUE (Association of Colleges and University Educators)
- Medical-Surgical Nursing
- Trauma Nursing Core Course
- Pain Management
- RN (Texas)
Honor and Awards
- 2022 Presidential Award, Teaching Excellence-Emerging, UT Health San Antonio
- 2020 UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing Nominee, American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Novice Faculty Teaching Award
Appointments
- 2022 - Assistant Professor - UT Health San Antonio, Department of Neurology
- 2021 - Assistant Professor - UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2018 - Assistant Professor/Clinical - UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2016 - RN Research Coordinator/Postdoctoral Fellow - Seton Dell Medical School Stroke Institute
- 2015 - Educator/Consultan - Network Nursing Education and RN Residency Program, Seton Healthcare Family
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Instruction & Training
- 2023, NURS 4316 Care of the Adult II, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2023, NURS 4320 Leadership & Management, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2021 - present, NURS 3330 Foundations in Clinical Nursing Practice: Theoretical Foundations, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2021, NURS 7305 DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) Project Seminar, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2021, NURS 4230 Leadership and Management: Clinical Application, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2021, NURS 7222 Leadership in Complex Healthcare Systems, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2020, NURS 7111 Advanced Nursing Seminar,, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2019 - Present, NURS 4314 Care of Adult I: Clinical Application, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2019 - Present, NURS 4311 Care of the Adult I: Clinical Application, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2019 - Present, NURS 4420 Transition to Professional Nursing Practice: Clinical Immersion, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2018 - 2020, NURS 4533 Disease Management III: Clinical Application, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2018 , NURS 3309 Pathophysiology, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2018, NURS 6338 Advanced Pathophysiology, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2018 - Present, NURS 3330 Foundations of Nursing Care: Clinical Application, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
- 2018 - Present, NURS 3305 Foundations of Clinical Nursing Practice: Clinical Application, UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
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Research & Grants
Grants
Currently Funded
- 2023 (pending) Sponsor: Advanced TeleSensors Inc. Dollars: $4,000 Title: Confidence Testing of the Cardi/o Remote Cardiac Monitor for Use in Simulated Nursing Home Residents Role: PI (Co-I: James Cleveland, PhD)
- 2021-2023 Sponsor: Texas Department of State Health Services/Lone Star Stroke Consortium Dollars: $132,685 Title: Multicenter Registry of Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke Role: Co-PI (Co-PI: Sujani Bandela, MD; Sub-I: Lee Birnbaum, MD)
- 2020 – 2021, Funder: Nursing Advisory Council, Dollars: $5,000. Title: Acute Stroke Symptom Descriptors and Neuroimaging Congruence: A Retrospective Descriptive Study. Role: PI.
- 2020 – 2021, Funder: Rosemary Kerr McKevitt and Cassandra Smith Endowed Nursing Research Award, Dollars: $2,200, Title: Acute Stroke Symptom Descriptors and Neuroimaging Convergence/ Divergence: A Retrospective Descriptive Study. Role: PI.
- 2020-2021, Funder: Migliorino-Piccione Research Award, Dollars: $4,180. Title: Acute Stroke Symptom Descriptors and Neuroimaging Convergence/ Divergence: A Retrospective Descriptive Study. Role: PI.
Submitted and Not Funded or Unfunded Research/Projects
- 2020-present, Funder: None. Title: Analysis of Hospital Stroke Admission, Treatment and Discharge Trends Before, During and After COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Orders. Role: Co-PI (Co-PIs: Lee Birnbaum, MD; Kal Clark, MD; Adrienne Dula, PhD; Aaisha Mozumder, MD)
- 2020 - 2021, Funder: American Heart Association COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant, Dollars: $100,000. Title: COVID-19 Cerebrovascular Symptom Descriptors and Neuroimaging Congruence.Role: PI.
- 2018-present, Funder: None. Title: Using Web-Based Video and Electronic Data Capture to Improve Student and Faculty Clinical Skills Evaluation.Role: PI.
Completed Research/Projects
- 2017, Funder: None. Title: QDEPS/Qualitative Data Analysis of Patients Admitted with Stroke or Stroke Related Symptoms. Role: Co-I (PI: Steven Warach, MD, PhD).
- 2016-2017, Funder: Lone Star Stroke Consortium, Texas Department of Health and Human Services. Title: Women‘s Imaging of Stroke Hemodynamics Study (WISHeS). Role: Lead Research Coordinator (PI: Adrienne Dula, PhD).
- 2016-2017, Funder: Lone Star Stroke Consortium, Texas Department of Health and Human Services. Title: Efficient Resources Utilization in Patients with Intracranial Hemorrhage (EnRICH). Role: Site Sub-Investigator (PI: Farhaan S. Vahidy, PhD, MBBS, MPH, FAHA).
- 2016-2017, Funder: Bayer AG, Title: Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Double-dummy, Active-comparator, Event-driven, Superiority Phase III Study of Secondary Prevention of Systemic Embolism in Patients with a Recent Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source (ESUS), Comparing Rivaroxaban 15 mg Once Daily with Aspirin 100 mg (Navigate ESUS). Role: Site Sub-Investigator (Site PI: Truman J. Milling, MD).
- 2016-2017, Funder: Portola Pharmaceuticals. Title: Prospective, Open-Label Study of Andexanet Alfa in Patients Who Have Acute Major Bleeding (ANNEXA-4). Role: Site Sub-Investigator (Site PI: Truman J. Milling, MD).
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Service
Institutional
- 2023 UT Health SA, School of Nursing PhD Dissertation Committee (Student: Denise Rios), Member
- 2023 UT Health SA, Graduate School of Search Committee for Assistant/Associate Dean Biomedical Sciences of Student Affairs, Member
- 2023 UT Health SA, School of Nursing Committee on Scholarship, Member
- 2022-2023 UT Health SA NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Implementation Working Group, School of Nursing Representative
- 2022-present UT Health SA, School of Nursing Committee on Undergraduate Studies, Member
- 2021-2022 UT Health SA, School of Nursing DNP Project Chair (Student: Chizurum Epeagba)
- 2021-present UT Health SA Member, LINC (Linking Interprofessional Networks for Practice) Faculty Council Leader, LINC Faculty & Staff Development Initiative
- 2020 - 2021, UT Health SA, School of Nursing, Committee on Simulation and Innovation, Chair
- 2020 - present, UT Health SA, School of Nursing, PhD Dissertation Committee, Member
- 2019-2021, UT Health SA, School of Nursing School of Nursing, Interprofessional Education Task Force, Member
- 2019-2020, UT Health SA, School of Nursing, Committee on Simulation and Innovation, Chair-Elect
- 2019-2020, UT Health SA, School of Nursing, Bylaws Committee, Member
Service to the Profession
- 2023-present Reviewer, International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
- 2023 Invited Panel Member, Unifying Dysphagia Definitions and Guidelines for the Aging Population Consensus Conference
- 2023-present Reviewer, JMIR Research Protocols
- 2021-present Reviewer, Journal of Advanced Nursing
Professional Affiliations (memberships)
- 2023-present Alliance for Camp Health
- 2021-present American Medical Informatics Association
- 2011 - present, Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
- 2009 - present, Sigma Theta Tau, The International Honor Society for Nurses
Community
- 2023-present Secretary Housing and Real Estate Task Force, Prosper West San Antonio
- 2022-present Summer Overnight Camp Camp La Jita, Outdoor Programs, Girl Scouts of Nurse/Health Supervisor Southwest Texas
- 2019 - present, Project Volunteer, City of San Antonio, Office of Historic Preservation, San Antonio, TX
- 2003 - 2017, Member, Schola Cantorum, Saint Mary Cathedral, Austin, TX
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Publications
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*Gealogo Brown G, Farokhi MR, Krolick KA, Moote R, Ratcliffe TA, Zorek JA. A Locally Developed Pilot Writers’ Workshop Encourages Scholarly Dissemination of Interprofessional Education Projects. Health Interprof Pract Educ. 2022 Oct;4(3):p.eP224g. doi: http://doi.org/10.7710/2641-1148.2246
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*Krishnakumar HN, Gealogo GA, Holland T, Martinez M, Hendrix L, Collins M, Donate M, England M, Kumana E, Garcia J, Wilkey A, Akula N, Mai A, Patel DI. Understanding Questions and Concerns Regarding COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Vaccine Among Populations Presenting at a COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Hub: A Qualitative Study. J Prim Care Community Health. 2022 Jan-Dec; 13:21501319221118477. doi: 10.1177/21501319221118477. PMID: 35997326; PMCID: PMC9421215.
- Dula AN, Gealogo Brown G, Aggarwal A, Clark KL. Decrease in stroke diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic: Where did all our stroke patients go? JMIR Aging. 2020 Oct;3(2):e21608. DOI: 10.2196/21608.
- *Gealogo Brown G, Raji M, Braden C. Focused ethnography as a mixed methods approach for building conceptual models in health services research: Person-engaged dementia care in action. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health. 2020.
- *Dula AN, Luby M, King BT, Sheth SA, Magadán A, Davis LA, Gealogo GA, Merino JG, Hsia AW, Latour LL, Warach SJ. Neuroimaging evolution of ischemia in men and women: an observational study. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2019 Mar;6(3):575-585. doi: 10.1002/acn3.733. eCollection 2019 Mar. PubMed PMID: 30911580; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6414486.
- *Vahidy FS, Meyer EG, Bambhroliya AB, Meeks JR, Begley CE, Wu TC, Tyson JE, Miller CC, Bowry R, Ahmed WO, Gealogo GA, McCullough LD, Warach S, Savitz SI. Rationale and Design of a Statewide Cohort to examine efficient resource utilization for patients with Intracerebral hemorrhage (EnRICH). BMC Neurol. 2018 Mar 21;18(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s12883-018-1036-1. PubMed PMID: 29562884; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5863437.
- Ajon Gealogo G. Her name was Lydia. Reflections on Nursing Leadership. 2015 September; 41(3). https://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org/features/more-features/Vol41_3_her-name-was-lydia
- Ajon Gealogo G. Four lessons. Lewy Body Dementia Association. https://www.lbda.org/four-lessons/
- 2021 Farokhi MR, Brown G, Krolick KA, Quinene M, Ratcliffe TA, Zorek JA. Generating momentum for interprofessional education and practice transformation through faculty and staff development programming. Faculty Development Marketplace Short Talk, American Dental Education Association Annual Meeting, March 2022.
- 2020, Using web-based video and electronic data capture to improve student and faculty clinical skills evaluation. Accepted for podium presentation at the 2020 Sigma/NLN Nursing Education Research Conference; 2020 March; Washington, DC, US.
- 2015, "We‘re the ones who pay the price": Developing cost concepts in a person-engaged model for dementia care. 2015 Mixed Methods International Research Association Regional Conference; 2015 August; San Antonio, TX, US.
- 2023 Gealogo Brown G, Lippe M. An Innovative Academic-Clinical Partnership to Support a Regional Girl Scout Camp. Accepted for poster presentation at the 2023 Sigma 47th Biennial Convention, November 2023.
- 2022 Brown G, Farokhi MR, Krolick KA, Moote R, Ratcliffe TA, Zorek JA. Promoting IPE scholarly dissemination through a peer-to-peer based writers’ workshop. National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, 2022 Nexus Summit, September 2022.
- 2022 Krolick KA, Rockne M, Brown G, Farokhi MR, Quinene M, Ratcliffe TA, Zorek JA. A university-wide seed grant program fosters scholarly dissemination of interprofessional education projects. National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, 2022 Nexus Summit, September 2022.
- 2022 Quinene M, Berndt AE, Brown G, Belarmino B, Lemke K, Velasquez ST, Saenz D, Wall C, Zorek JA. A Comparison of Student Outcomes in Online Versus In-Person Interprofessional Education. National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, 2022 Nexus Summit, September 2022.
- 2021 Kaabi A, Mozumder A, Bandela S, Cardentey A, Gealogo Brown G, Choi B, Figueroa J, Garza A, Birnbaum L. Acute stroke patients with low NIHSS did not delay hospital presentation during COVID. Stroke. 2022;53:ATP25. (Poster presentation at the 2022 International Stroke Conference; 2022 February, New Orleans, LA, US.)
- 2021 Brown G, Farokhi MR, Ford LA, Krolick KA, Ratcliffe TA, Chapa I, Cleveland JA, Garcia SE, Gaspard C, Kennedy A, Moote R, Riccio Leach E, Richardson W, Worabo H, Vives M, Zorek JA. All change is local: pilot results from a university-wide peer-to-peer faculty and staff development program. National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, 2021 Virtual Nexus Summit, September 2021.
- 2018, Bambhroliya AB, Meyer EG, Meeks JR, Slaughter KB, Bowry R, Ahmed WO, Gealogo GA, Warach S, McCullough LD, Wu T, Begley CE, Tyson JE, Miller CC, Savitz SI, Vahidy FS. Rehabilitation for patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage is associated with reduced 30-day hospital readmissions. Stroke. 2018 January; 49(Suppl 1):ATMP73. (Poster presentation at the 2018 International Stroke Conference; 2018 January; Long Beach, CA, US.)
- 2018, Slaughter KB, Meyer EG, Meeks JR, Bambhroliya AB, Bowry R, Gealogo GA, Warach S, Tyson JE, Miller CC, McCullough LD, Wu T, Begley CE, Savitz SI, Vahidy FS. Uncertainty-based individual health preferences for patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage. Stroke. 2018 January; 49(Suppl 1):ATP267. (Poster presentation at the 2018 International Stroke Conference; 2018 January; Long Beach, CA, US.)
- 2018, Bambhroliya AB, Meyer EG, Meeks JR, Slaughter KB, Bowry R, Ahmed WO, Gealogo GA, Warach S, Tyson JE, Miller CC, Begley CE, Savitz SI, Vahidy FS. Health-related quality of life indices for patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage. Stroke. 2018 January; 49(Suppl 1):ATP276. (Poster presentation at the 2018 International Stroke Conference; 2018 January; Long Beach, CA, US.)
Peer-reviewed Articles (*indicates data-based)
Non-Peer-reviewed Articles
Peer Reviewed Podium Presentations
Peer Reviewed Poster Presentations
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