Welcome to 2025! My first guest from America. Dr Kelly Wierenga dives into what inspired her to focus her research on women and their mental health after a major health crisis. As a nurse scientist (not a nurse researcher—you’ll have to listen to find out why) she tells us about her research journey.
Top 3 Takeaways
1) Have a [insert name here] in your research network
2) Research the dark corners of health sciences
3) Is your research building a legacy?
Bio: Dr Wierenga’s research focuses on understanding how depression and anxiety, following an acute illness event, can impact on self-management behaviours needed to improve recovery and prevent new or worsening illnesses. She focuses on survivors of major adverse cardiac events in addition to exploring general population responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Wierenga has developed, refined, and tested a theoretically based novel intervention to improve balancing self-management of emotions with the cardiovascular lifestyle changes to improve maintenance and upkeep of exercise following a major adverse cardiac event.
Find Kelly online:
Website: https://nursing.iu.edu/directory/profiles/wierenga-kelly.html
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kelly-Wierenga
Read Kelly’s Research (her top 4 at time of recording):
1) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5992894/
2) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9116464/
3) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8783925/
4) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6858946/
Further reading: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ik8MTn0AAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1
Kelly is reading: How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
Resources mentioned in the podcast: Book about what normal is: Normal sucks by Jonathan Mooney
Find Dr Rosalynn Austin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin
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The podcast content is the personal opinions and experiences of the researchers (Dr Rosalynn Austin and Associate Professor Kelly Wierenga) and not that of any of their affiliated institutions.
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