Research Faculty

Title Assistant Professor

Research Description
Maithe Enriquez is the director of the PhD program at UMKC School of Nursing. She also mentors and guides graduate and undergraduate nursing students in clinical research projects. Her program of research focuses on developing interventions that help vulnerable populations prevent and manage chronic illness and decrease health disparities. Her current research projects include the development of a phone intervention to enhance the health outcomes of Latinas living with HIV and AIDS in the Midwest and a project to implement a curriculum to help prevent violence among Hispanic high school students. Her recent publications include: "Feasibility of an Intervention to Decrease Risk for HIV and IPV in a Missouri Day Care Center”, “Efficacy of an intervention to enhance readiness for HIV treatment adherence” and "Reasons healthcare providers do not screen pregnant women for HIV". Dr. Enriquez is a mentor for the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA)and an editorial board member for the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC). Dr. Enriquez is also an adult nurse practitioner who has a clinical appointment at the UMKC School of Medicine with a practice based in the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Truman Medical Center (TMC) and in addition she volunteers at the Helen Gragg Adult Clinic at Operation Breakthrough.

Email enriquezm@umkc.edu

Office 2464 Charlotte

Office (816) 235-1711

Personal Web Page

CV Enriquez bio 2009.pdf

Degrees

Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, Bachelor of Science, Nursing

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Master of Science, Nursing

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Ph.D., Nursing

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Post Doctoral fellowship, Interventions to Prevent and Manage Chronic Illness

Schools School of Nursing

Research Area Managing chronic illness in vulnerable populations; recruit/retain underrepresented student nurses