Our websites may use cookies to personalize and enhance your experience. By continuing without changing your cookie settings, you agree to this collection. For more information, please see our University Websites Privacy Notice.

Anna Bourgault

DNP, RN, MSN, CCRC

Associate Clinical Professor

She/Her/Hers

Research/Scholarship Interests

Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for adolescents
Adolescent Mental Wellness
Evidence-Based Practice in the delivery of optimal health care
Adult Intensive Care
Health Care Organization Efficiency and Management

Education

Doctorate of Nursing Practice, Sacred Heart University, 2020
MSN, University of Phoenix, Nursing Administration, 2008
BSN, San Francisco State University, Nursing, 1984

Honors & Awards

Certified Clinical Research Coordinator – Therapeutic areas are Adult Intensive Care and Orthopedic Studies
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society
CPR/AED Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers
Licensed as a Registered Nurse in Connecticut and California
Provost Excellence in Teaching – 2016 University of Connecticut
Outstanding Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project – 2021 Sacred Heart University

Selected Publications

Publications on PubMed

McCauley, P. & Starkweather, A.(2020). Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: A case-based approach. In Spear, H.L. & Bourgault, A.M. (Eds.), Psychosocial Health: Diagnosis and Management (Chapter 6)Wolters Kluwer

A portrait of assistant clinical professor Anna Bourgault.

Email	anna.bourgault@uconn.edu
Office Location	SH 321
Campus	Storrs

Feb 27 InCHIP Lecture Series: Cardiovascular Disease and Depression 12:30pm

InCHIP Lecture Series: Cardiovascular Disease and Depression

Thursday, February 27th, 2025

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Virtual

In Recognition of Heart Health Month
Kenneth E. Freedland, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Topic: Cardiovascular Disease and Depression
February 27, 2025 | 12:30 PM | WebEx
RSVP
Dr. Freedland is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Most of his research has focused on depression in patients with heart failure or coronary heart disease. He has also conducted studies of other psychiatric comorbidities, behavioral problems such as poor self-care, and social determinants of health in patients with heart failure. He has been the principal investigator or a co-investigator on both single-site and multicenter trials of interventions for depression in cardiac patients and has served on clinical trial review committees for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). He also has expertise in behavioral trial methodology. Dr. Freedland is the founder of the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Cardiovascular Disease Special Interest Group and of the Behavioral Medicine Research Council, and a fellow of multiple organizations including the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He was the Program Director of the annual NIH Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials from 2020 to 2024. He has been a member of the Summer Institute faculty since 2007 and the faculty of the NIH-funded ORBIT Institute on Developing Behavioral Treatments to Improve Health since 2022. He has also served as an Associate Editor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Health Psychology.

Contact Information:
lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu

More