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Denise Bourassa

DNP, RN, CNL, CNE

Assistant Clinical Professor

Director, Nursing Leader Program

She/Her/Hers

Research/Scholarship Interests

Health care quality improvement
Nursing leadership
Maternal and child health

Honors & Awards

2019 – Mu Chapter Sigma Theta Tau Award
May 2009 – Sacred Heart University: Silver Medal of Academic Excellence
October 2003 – Capital Alliance for Nursing Research Utilization: Excellence in Research Utilization in Nursing Practice Award
May 2001 – Linda Richards-June Long Award for Clinical Excellence and Dedication to Caring

Selected Publications

Curriculum Vitae

A portrait of assistant clinical professor Denise Bourassa.

Email	denise.bourassa@uconn.edu

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
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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:
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