Md Ismail Hossain is IN! Ismail is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at UAB, working with Professor Ragib Hasan at UAB Secure & Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab). His research interests span various security areas, including Smart City Security, Internet of Things (IoT), Metaverse Security, and AI-based coding tool security. He is also a Blazer Graduate Research Fellow at UAB and a Sparkman Fellow of the Sparkman Center for Global Health at UAB.
Pamela Stewart Fahs is IN! Pamela (Pam) Stewart Fahs is Associate Dean and professor and holds the Dr. G. Clifford and Florence B Decker Endowed Chair in Rural Nursing at Binghamton University, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Fahs is the Editor-in-Chief of the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care. Professor Stewart Fahs began her professional nursing career in an Appalachian Regional Miners Hospital in southeastern KY. Stewart Fahs was a KY National Guard and Army Nurse Corp Reserves officer for a decade, holding ranks from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain. With a research focus on Cardiovascular Disease in Rural Populations, she has built a research trajectory combining her expertise in cardiovascular disease, passion for rural health care, and community-based participatory research. She has been published in some of the top journals in her discipline, such as Nursing Research, Annual Review of Nursing Research, and Journal of Nursing Scholarship. Professor Fahs has successfully garnered research support from various sources ranging from local and regional non-profit organizations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 2016, she received the Anna Mae Erickson Nurse Leadership Award from the Rural Nurse Organization. The University of Alabama (UAB) School of Nursing presented her with the Marie L. O’Koren Alumni Award for Innovation in 2017 and recognized her as one of the 70th Anniversary Visionary Leaders in 2021. Pamela Stewart Fahs, PhD, RN, FAAN, was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2022. Dr. Fahs received her DNS in 1991 (converted into a PhD) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She holds a Master of Science degree in Family Nursing, with certifications as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Scientist, from the State University of New York at Binghamton; a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Kentucky; and an Associate Degree in Science, Nursing from Eastern Kentucky University.
Tonya Breaux-Shropshire is IN! Dr. Tonya Breaux-Shropshire is a Clinical Scientist specializing in Hypertension Research and a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also works at the Women’s Infant Center and hosts the Mother Baby Daddy Podcast. Additionally, Dr. Breaux-Shropshire hosts the Hypertension Resistant to Treatment Podcast. A former postdoctoral scholar in the School of Medicine and a VA Quality Scholar, she led critical improvements in hypertension management metrics in primary care clinics. She was also the lead coordinator for the SPRINT Study, the landmark trial that influenced the 2017 hypertension guidelines. Dr. Breaux-Shropshire was the first to study home blood pressure monitoring and medication adherence at UAB. Her doctoral nursing project was entitled “Use of Automated Office Blood Pressure Monitoring.”
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