Brief Bio

Dr. Peace joined the DUSON faculty in August 2010 as a specialist in nursing informatics. She earned her BSN and MSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner with experience in primary care, college health, and women’s health.

Dr. Peace obtained a PhD in Nursing with a minor in Computer Sciences in 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied in Dr. Patti Brennan’s interdisciplinary Health Systems Lab. Dr. Peace’s doctoral research explored representing nursing knowledge in health information systems, focusing on creating patient-centered representations of family and family health history. Prior to joining DUSON, Dr. Peace was a postdoctoral fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill in the School of Nursing and the Center for Genomics and Society, where she studied ethical, social, and legal issues related to family health history information and genetic research for nontraditional families. Her research continues to explore the electronic representation of information about family and family health history for nontraditional families.

Academic Program Affiliations

Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
Master of Science in Nursing Program

Education

PhD	University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing
MSN	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing
BSN	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing

Professional Certifications

FNP	Family Nurse Practitioner

Research Interests

Dr. Peace's area of research interest within nursing informatics is the representation of nursing knowledge in computer systems to support nursing practice and knowledge building. The focus of her research has been the representation of nursing knowledge about family and family health history, incorporating a person-centered, diverse definition of family into computer representation of family health history.

Awards and Honors

• 2008 Nominee, Mary L. Keller Memorial Research Award

• 2003 Helen Denne Schulte Research Assistantship, The University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 1988 James M. Johnston Graduate Scholarship, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• 1986 Inducted, Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Alpha Chapter

• 1984 James M. Johnston Undergraduate Scholarship, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Areas of Expertise

• Family Health
• Genetics/Genomics
• Informatics

Areas of Interest

• Nursing informatics
• Knowledge representation
• Access to information
• Primary care
• Health promotion and disease prevention
• Genomic health care
• Family health history
• Nontraditional families
• Ethical, legal, and social issues related to informatics
• Qualitative and multiple methods research

Representative Publications

• 2012 -- Pubmed # 21915045 Peace, J., Valdez, R. S., Lutz, K. F. Data-based considerations for electronic family health history applications. Comput Inform Nurs. January, 2012; 30(1); 37-45

• 2011 -- Pubmed # 22128698 Peace, J. Nurses and health information technology: working with and around computers. N C Med J. December 29, 2011; 72(4); 317-9

• 2011 -- Pubmed # 20974068 Kossman, S., Hsieh, Y., Peace, J., Valdez, R., Severtson, L., Burke, L., Brennan, P. F. A theory-based problem-solving approach to recruitment challenges in a large randomized field trial. Appl Nurs Res. August, 2011; 24(3); 179-87

• 2011 -- Peace, J. Electronic health record and family health information. In Encyclopedia of Family Health (Ed. M. Craft-Rosenberg). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., edited by Craft-Rosenberg, M. and Pehler, S. 2011; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc..

• 2010 -- Peace, J., Scheibel, P. Informatics: Technology for advancing practice. In Advanced practice nursing (4th ed.), edited by Jansen, M. P. and Zwygart-Stauffacher, M. 2010; pp. 241-264. New York: Springer.

• 2009 -- Pubmed # 19150266 Peace, J., Lutz, K. F. Nursing conceptualizations of research and practice. Nurs Outlook. May, 2009; 57(1); 42-9 PMCID: PMC2660885

• 2009 -- Pubmed # 19592863 Peace, J., Brennan, P. F. Formalizing nursing knowledge: from theories and models to ontologies. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009; 146 347-351

• 2007 -- Hsieh, Y., Peace, J., Brennan, P. F. Informatics, genomic health & nursing: Challenge and opportunities at the intersection. In nurseAdvance Collection on Genomics in Nursing and Healthcare (E-Text), edited by Jenkins, J. 2007; Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International.

• 2006 -- Pubmed # 17102298 Peace, J., Brennan, P. F. Making the procedure manual come alive: A prototype relational database and dynamic website model for the management of nursing information. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2006; 122(1); 450-4

Grant Funding (selected)

• Feasibility of Testing Family Health History Computer Applications with Nontraditional Families  
  DUSON Office of Research Affairs Small Research Grant
  06/2011-06/2012
  Project Goal: Evaluate feasibility of methods and recruitment strategy; Obtain pilot data for NIH grant application.

• Experiences and Perspectives of Adoptive Parents of Children with Fragile X Syndrome  
  UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Genomics and Society, UNC-CH (funded by National Human Genome Research Institute)
  01/2011-12/2011
  Role: Co-Investigator
  

• Interventions for Preventing and Managing Chronic Illness  
  National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research
  5T32-NR007091
  08/2009-08/2010
  Role: Postdoctoral trainee
  Project Goal: Postdoctoral training; advanced training in qualitative research methods; exploration of the ethical, legal and social issues associated with genomic research in nursing. The institutional training grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supports postdoctoral research training in nursing intervention research for the prevention and management of chronic illness.

• Wisconsin Technology Enhanced Collaborative Nursing Education  
  Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA)
  U1-KHP07714
  09/2008-08/2009
  Role: UW-Madison site leader
  WI-TECNE: HRSA funded program to train faculty and expand the nursing informatics content in the undergraduate nursing curriculum, The University of Wisconsin. Goals of the program: Infuse informatics into the curriculum across the five degree-awarding campuses in the state; develop faculty e-portfolios; develop five different technologies and provide training to faculty; develop a repository of resources for faculty.

• Nurse Practitioner Access to Genetic Health Literature  
  National Library of Medicine Individual Informatics Research Fellowship
  F37LM008636
  07/2004-06/2008
  Role: Trainee and co-PI
  Project Goal: Predoctoral training; support incorporation of genomic knowledge into nursing knowledge and practice.