Faculty Highlights
Meet Kaitlin Brooks! Licensed and Certified Speech Language Pathologist
Kaitlin Brooks, Assistant Professor, is a licensed and certified speech language pathologist with over 15 years of experience working with adults and caregivers of individuals with communication and swallowing disorders. Throughout her clinical and academic career, she has worked collaboratively with healthcare professionals and experienced the positive impact that a team approach can have on the lives of our clients. This experience, combined with her previous scholarly publications, has inspired several current research projects involving interprofessional collaboration. Kaitlin is currently working with first responders both nationally and internationally to educate the public on aphasia, a language disorder that commonly occurs after a stroke. A stroke can also result in impaired swallowing, or dysphagia. She is currently working with a Molloy SONHS team to develop a badge to provide nurses with additional knowledge and skills in the area of dysphagia management. Kaitlin continues to work with multidisciplinary teams of healthcare professionals at both Mercy University and Molloy University.
Kaitlin Brooks
"I am proud of our recently funded grant to develop the Hispanic Mothers of New York Research Training Center (HiMNY-RTC). As a PI on this grant, I am working with a team of researchers (Occupational Therapy and Psychology) to develop a center to train students to conduct research in the area of maternal mental health. This will improve access to mental health services and provide evidence-based solutions for Hispanic mothers in the surrounding communities. I am proud and excited to represent Molloy while working on such an important initiative."
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Ann Marie Paraszczuk for being chosen for the 2023 Faculty Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award (FRSCA).
This award recognizes the exceptional scholarly achievements of full-time faculty, as evidenced by
publications, grant proposals, copyrighted documents, the development of innovative technology or
practice, performances, exhibits, and/or other scholarly activities in any academic field of study. Ann Marie is the first recipient of this award.
Ann Marie Paraszczuk
"During my career, I have conducted many nursing research projects. When one is complete, I feel driven to start another because I want to expand the evidence needed to continually improve nursing practice. My research interests, child and family centered care and lactation management developed from working as a nurse and lactation consultant in maternal child health. In the published literature and in practice, I see the concept of family centered care being interpreted differently leading to inconsistency in implementation. This, I believe, further research can improve. I also recognize how important research is to identifying best practices in lactation care to increase breastfeeding duration rates so more mothers and infants can reap the numerous benefits that human milk feeding is known to provide. I believe improving the health of our nation is very important and can be best accomplished when we direct attention on the younger members of our society. To that end, I will continue my research program to advance nursing practice toward the goal of improving health for all."