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Email: assumpta.ude@nih.gov
Biography
Dr. Assumpta Ude is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with more than 25 years of professional nursing experience. She obtained dual Masters of Nursing from the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. She earned her Ph.D. in Public Health with specialization in Community Health Education in 2019.
She co-designed a diabetes prevention program while in graduate school and completed doctoral research that examined the hypertension experience of African immigrant women living in the United States.
Dr. Ude is currently the Clinical Nurse Specialist for Metabolic, Endocrine, Liver, Pulmonary/Lung disease program, and Diabetes Service. She currently provides qualitative research design oversight for a community-based study exploring dietary behavior intervention in African-Americans at risk for cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Ude is a member of the Global Network of Public Health Nursing Council involved in editorial, conference planning, and budgeting. She founded a non-profit community health outreach collaborating with local and international universities in developing education, training programs to support the best community health practice.
She has published in peer-reviewed journals. She is a recipient of several awards that include “National Institutes of Health Clinical Center CEO Patient safety and Innovation Award” Excellent at writing policies, procedures, reviewing and identifying gaps in clinical trials and protocols.
Dr. Ude's research interest includes examining social health determinants and sustainable community-centered interventions to improve diabetes, cardiovascular health disparities in underserved ethnic minority populations.
Clinical Focus: Endocrine, Cardiovascular and Community Health Nursing
Certifications:
ANCC, Certified Family Nurse Practitioner.
RN, Maryland and compact states.
Basic Life Support, American Heart Association.
Service:
- Nursing Practice Council
- Clinical Practice Council
- Point of Care Testing Steering Committee
- Surgical Administrative Committee
- Radiation safety Committee
- Nursing Information Systems Committee
- Nursing Research Participant Education Committee
Select Teaching and Mentoring Projects:
- CCND Immunology & Endocrinology Nursing Course
- DNP Capstone Evidence-Based Project Mentor, "Impact of Purposeful Hourly Rounding on Fall Incidence in a Subacute Unit,” Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona.
- MSN Graduate Student Capstone Project Mentor, “Caring for Homebound Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients on Tele-Health,” Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona./li>
Teaching and Mentoring Focus:
- Graduate Nursing Student Research and Project Supervision- Fall 2018
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse interview and orientation
- Clinical Research RN mentorship
- Select Immunology Nursing Case Studies
- Endocrinology Nursing Course
Select Honors and Awards:
- NIH CCND Award for Commitment to Professional Growth, 2020.
- CEO Award for Patient Safety Champion, National Institutes of Health/Clinical Center, 2018 & 2019
- CEO Award for Innovation, National Institutes of Health/Clinical Center, 2019
- Leadership and Success Scholar, Walden University, 2018
Current Research Projects:
- Associate Investigator-Exploring a Dietary Behavior Intervention in African-Americans at risk for Cardiovascular Disease: A Community Acceptability and Feasibility Study.
- Protocol Concept Development Reviewer: COVID-19, Chronic Adaptation and Response to Exercise (COVID-CARE). A Randomized Trial.
- Integrative Review of Literature: The psychological and sociocultural determinants of health affecting adherence to prescribed care regimen in youths/adolescents with T2DM transitioning to adult diabetes care.
Select Presentations and Publications:
Ude, A.O., Lin, F.I., Pacak, K & Demissie, E. (2020). Inoperable, Metastatic Pheochromocytoma & Paraganglioma Tumor Size Reduction after Lu-177-DOTATATE (Lutathera®) Treatment Trial: The Role of Nursing. Journal of the Endocrine Society.
Ude, A. (2019). Hypertension Health Disparities in Foreign-Born African Immigrant Women: Health Care Service Utilization and Evidence-based Practice Initiative. Research presented at Shenandoah University nursing research and evidence-based conference
Ude, A., Thomas, C., Ezeakolam, V. (2019). Use of Strategic Communication and Nurse Championed Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Reduce Glucose Management Events. Poster presented at INOVA nursing research and evidence-based conference
Saidkhodjaeva, L., Evans, K., Myers, M., Ude, A (2019). Patients on Radiation Isolation for I-131 Treatment: Nursing Consideration. Poster Presented at Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses
Warrick, A., Varadarajan, S & Ude, A.O (2017). Healthy Eating for Diabetes Management (Podium and Poster presentation at Bowie State University, Food Day Symposium).
Ude, A. O., Hardie, S & Scott, S (2018). A Multidisciplinary Unit-based Nursing Education Intervention to Achieve Optimal Blood Glucose in Patients with Diabetes Undergoing 18FDG PET/CT Scan(Poster presentation at INOVA nursing research symposium).
Ude, A.O, & Mayhew, M.S. (2013). Diabetes detour: act now to diagnose prediabetes in at-risk patients. Adv NPs PAs. 4(4):27–28.