Lisa Bauer, RN, PhD, ANP-BC

Address:
UCSF Laurel Heights Campus
3333 California Street, Suite 340
San Francisco, CA  94143

Email:  lisa.bauer [at] nursing.ucsf.edu
Voicemail:  415-476-1106
Fax: 415-476-3915

Curriculum Vitae: [PDF]

Biography: Lisa grew up on a small farm in Wisconsin.  She attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison and completed her undergraduate and master’s degree in nursing.  Lisa’s clinical experience has concentrated on with individuals experiencing health issues related to cardiovascular disease for more than twenty years.  She has functioned as both a staff nurse and nurse practitioner in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings.  Heart failure patients are of particular interest because of the complex nature of the illness.  Research interest in the population has grown because although science has made great strides in understanding the etiology and treatment of heart failure, health care costs related to heart failure continue to rise and heart failure hospitalization rates are among the highest of any chronic illness population.  Further, patients continue to experience a low quality of life.  Finally, in spite of intense education programs, patients continue to have difficulties with disease and symptom management.  These issues motivated Lisa to complete her PhD at the University of Nebraska Medical Center under the supervision of Drs. Bunny Pozehl and Lani Zimmerman.  Her dissertation explored the psychometric properties of a brief neuropsychological battery in a stable heart failure population.  During her T32 post-doctoral fellowship at UCSF, under the supervision of Drs. Kathleen Dracup and Julene Johnson, Lisa has further explored the impact of cognitive impairment on the functional status of older individuals with heart failure.


Research Description:  Lisa was recently awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).  Lisa’s primary research interest is the systematic examination of cognitive impairment within the heart failure population.  The K99 award training plan includes mentoring in clinical trial planning and management, neuropsychological testing, neuroimaging, and biostatistics.  Future research goals include the 1) exploration of the etiologic basis of cognitive impairment in older adults with chronic heart failure; 2) exploration of the contributions of other co-morbid conditions (e.g. diabetes, obesity, chronic lung disease); and 3) development and testing of interventions to help treat or prevent the cognitive impairment in elderly HF patients.


Selected Publications:
In press:

Bauer, LC and Pozehl, BJ.  Measurement of Cognitive Function in Chronic Heart Failure:  A Feasibility Study.  Journal of Applied Nursing Research.

Bauer, LC, Pozehl, BJ, Hertzog, M, Johnson, J, Zimmerman, L, Filipi, M.  A Brief Neuropsychological Battery for Use in the Chronic Heart Failure Population.  European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Bauer, LC, Johnson, JK, Pozehl, BJ.  Cognition in Heart Failure: An Overview of the Concepts and Their Measures.  Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.