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Contact Information
Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Epilepsy Society
PhD, Indiana University
MSN (Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist), Indiana University
Predoctoral T32 Fellowship, Indiana University
BSN, Indiana University
Research Areas
Quality of Life & Chronic Condition Management
Managing Chronic Conditions
Epilepsy
Medication Management
Quality of Life
Self-management
Awards and Honors
Indiana University Bicentennial President's Medal for Research Excellence
IUPUI Translational Scholar Award
IUPUI Trailblazer Award
Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
Fellow, American Epilepsy Society
Biography
Dr. Trueblood Miller’s independent program of research is focused on generating knowledge that will advance the state of the science in the area of chronic disease self-management, with particular emphasis on the population of adults with epilepsy. Specifically, she focuses on improving the quality of life of people with epilepsy via patient-centered interventions. Her research program consists of an interdisciplinary team involving researchers from nursing, public health, informatics, law, and medicine. Trueblood Miller has a specific interest in complex systems analysis of social media data. She is director of the Social Network Health Research Lab at the IU School of Nursing where she oversees interdisciplinary projects that focus on capturing patient voice. Dr. Trueblood Miller is also experienced in tool development. She is co-director of the IU School of Nursing's T32 Fellowship Program.
External Funding
2018-2020. (R01M012832). “*myAURA: Personalized Web Service for Epilepsy Self-Management.” (MPI). National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, $1.5 million.
(T32 NR018407). “Advanced Training in Self-Management Interventions for Serious Chronic Conditions.” (MPI). National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, $1.5 million.
“Patient-Centered Self-Management in Early Epilepsy Management.” (PI). UCB Pharma, $84,000.
Publications
Description of the video:
[Music] It's very difficult to find any person who has not interacted with a nurse, but what has been kind of invisible to the public is nursing scientists and nurse researchers. I am Wendy Trueblood Miller, professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing. So when I was a practicing nurse right after I finished my bachelor's degree, I started having questions about people's health and how we could improve people's health. And one of my professors, Dr. Janice Buelow, said you should really consider a PhD because did you know you can actually get prepared to do this research? And as soon as I finished my master's, I started the PhD program, and that is when I got so interested in research, and it became my passion. My main area of research focuses on epilepsy self-management in adults, and not just self-management, but also management in the context of the society that people have to get their healthcare in. The other thing that I do a lot is big data and AI research to capture the patient's voice. So using large social media data sets to find out what people are talking about amongst themselves about their health to then turn that into interventions targeting those questions that they have. So if you join the IU School of Nursing as a faculty member who's research intensive, you will find a very committed group and supportive group of fellow researchers who work very collaboratively and are always cheering for you and helping you. We have lots of supports in place for researchers at the IU School of Nursing in the Office of Research Support, from writing groups to research retreats, pre- and post-award to handle all the administrative parts of your grant, so it's a very supportive environment, and we have a lot of fun too.