Linda. J. Cowan
Research Health Scientist
Center of Innovation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research
United States
Biography
Linda Cowan, PhD, FNP-BC, CWS, is a Research Health Scientist for the CIDRR8 at NF/SG VHS and holds a Courtesy Associate Professor faculty position with College of Nursing, University of Florida. She completed a three year nursing diploma program at Jackson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in the early 1980's. She obtained her masters' degree in Nursing in 2004, and doctorate in Nursing Sciences in 2010. She holds a minor in Epidemiology and completed a Public Health Certificate in 2008. She is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner, and is a wound & ostomy specialist. She currently serves as Liaison to the VA Evidence Based Practice & Research Council, and is an active member of AMSUS (Society of Federal Health Agencies), Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (as a board member), American Board of Wound Management, the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society, Wound Healing Society (four years as a member of the Education Committee), VA Nursing Research Advisory Council, Southern Nursing Research Society, Improvement Science Research Network (ISRN), and Sigma Theta Tau. In addition to speaking nationally on wound, research, ostomy, and evidence-based practice topics, she has been the PI on several research studies such as an industry-funded research study, "Disruption of Dynamic Reciprocity by Bacterial Biofilms and Proteomic Analysis," a VA QUERI-funded study, "Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk in VHA Facilities," and VA funded projects such as investigating curvilinear relationship between BMI and pressure ulcers and exploring agreement between Braden sub-score assessment of nutrition and other nutritional assessments. In addition, she has been a part of a research team investigating microbial biofilm in chronic wounds and antibiofilm strategies such as larval (maggot) debridement therapy. Her research interests include: wound healing, antibiofilm strategies, larval therapy, pressure ulcer prevention and management, predictive modeling and improving patient outcomes/safety.
Research Interest
Nursing and its Line