Staja Booker, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
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About Staja Booker
Teaching Dr. Booker’s teaches in the PhD program as well as mentoring undergraduate and graduate nursing and health science students.
Research Dr. Booker is an accomplished nurse scientist who conducts community-engaged research and passionately studies ways to understand and reduce chronic pain in older adults. Her work has advanced our understanding of the mechanisms that drive osteoarthritis pain and is testing innovative ways to measure movement-evoked pain and manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. She uses mixed methods to chronicle the lived experience of chronic pain in older African Americans/Blacks. Her research spans the continuum of pain science: mechanisms, models, measurement, and management. In terms of translational research, significant contributions include developing the first nursing clinical practice recommendations and a model for pain assessment and pain measurement in older African Americans (Geriatr Nurs; 2015:36(1), 67-74).
Service Dr. Booker is active in several national pain, nursing, and gerontology organizations, and is an immediate past member on the Board of Directors for the United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP). She is the current Chair for the DEIB cmte and a member on research committee for the American Society for Pain Management Nursing. She serves several editorial boards: the Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Research in Gerontological Nursing, Journal of Pain, Pain Management Nursing, and Pain Research Forum.
Accepting PhD Students: On a rolling basis Accepting Postdoctoral Fellows: On a rolling basis
Accomplishments
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
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NUR3168 – Lead and Inspire 2: Research and Evidence-Based Nursing
College of Nursing
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NGR7970L – Adv Nursing Project
College of Nursing
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DEN5221 – Oral Hlth Manage
College of Dentistry
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NGR7124 – Theory Development in Nursing
College of Nursing
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NGR7709 – Nurse Scientist and Scholar I
College of Nursing
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NUR4905 – Individual Study
College of Nursing
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NGR6905 – Individual Study
College of Nursing
Research Profile
Dr. Booker’s areas of expertise are aging, pain assessment and management, pain disparities and health equity.
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Publications
Academic Articles
Grants
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Partners for Pain & Wellbeing Equity: A Randomized Trial of Community Supported Complementary and Integrative Health Self Management for Back Pain
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- UNIV OF MINNESOTA via NATL CTR FOR COMPLEM AND INTEGRATIVE HLT
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Testing the Pain Relief of musculOskeletal conditions and Arthritis using Culturally Tailored InterVentions for Black Elders (PROACTIVE) Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Active
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- NATL INST OF HLTH NINR
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Investigating Movement-evoked Pain in osteoArthritic Conditions (IMPACT): An Observational Study to Inform Culturally-Tailored Intervention Development
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding:
- NATL INST OF HLTH NIAMS
Education
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship Dentistry (IMPART/Pain & Aging)
University of Florida
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PhD Nursing (Gerontology)
University of Iowa
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MS Nursing (Gerontology/Adult Health)
Pennsylvania State University
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Magna Cum Laude)
Grambling State University
Contact Details
- Business:
- (352) 273-6351
- Business:
- bookers@ufl.edu
- Business Mailing:
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PO Box 100197
GAINESVILLE FL 32610