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Nancy Jo Handy, RN, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor

The University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing
411 S Nedderman Drive
UTA Box 19407
Arlington, TX 76019-0407

Telephone: (817) 272-2776
FAX: (817) 272-5006

Office: 516, Pickard Hall
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My E-Mail address: nhandy@uta.edu

 

Research Interests

  • Mechanisms of Disease Processes
  • Nutrition in Health and Disease
  • Alternative/Complimentary Therapies
  • Dissertation (1992) “The Combined Effect of Dietary Protein Quality and Energy Restriction on Chemical Carcinogenesis and the Conjugating Enzyme System”

 

Special Achievements

  • Nomination for Provost Teaching Award at UTA SON 2002, 2003, and 2004
  • Nomination for President’s Award for Excellence in Distance Education Teaching at UTA 2002
  • Award for Outstanding Research Presentation, The American Oil Chemists' Society, Chicago, IL. Radcliffe, J. Handy, N., and Ashby, J., (1991) “Use of Transplantable Rodent Tumors to Assess the Effect of Protein Quality on Tumor Growth and Development of Cachexia”, International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials, American Oil Chemists’ Society, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1991.
  • Scholastic Achievement by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Texas Woman’s University 1990

 

Teaching Experience (Past and/or Present)

  • Advanced Pathophysiology (graduate)
  • Pathophysiology  (undergraduate)
  • Health Promotion and Illness Prevention (Clinical)
  • Lecture & clinical teaching areas: medical-surgical nursing and acute care (ER, CCU, ICU)

 

Teaching and Community Activities (Past and/or Present)
  • Nutritional Consultant (Dallas Teen Magazine, Channel 5-WBAP 820 Talk Radio, Dallas Morning News), faculty and students
  • Nursing Facility Administration Advisory Committee (State committee appointed by Governor Rick Perry, 2002-2007)
  • Featured article NLN website “Great Moments in Teaching” Spring 2006

 

Education

  • PhD (Nutrition), Texas Woman's University, 1992
  • MS, Texas Woman's University, 1976 (Major: nursing - specialty, cardiovascular nursing)
  • BSN, Baylor University, 1967

 

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