Master’s Student’s Research Recognized at Midwest Nursing Research Society Conference

Terese Cook’s work placed second overall out of more than one hundred poster entries.

Terese Cook, a master’s student at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, had her research presented at this year’s Midwest Nursing Research Society’s annual conference. Not only was her work selected for display, but Terese was awarded second place overall for best graduate research poster out of the more than one hundred posters at the conference. The poster was entitled “Decisional Conflict and Family Communication in Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer” and presented a secondary data analysis. Her primary advisor in this research is Dr. Maria Katapodi whose own program of research centers on developing a family communication and decision-support intervention for women with breast and ovarian cancer linked to BRCA1/2 gene mutations.