Rate My Professor Tracie Harrison

Prior to her current position, Harrison was Professor and holder of the Alice An Loh Sun Endowed Chair in Geriatric Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She spent 18 years as tenured faculty in the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Austin, including seven years as founding director of the Center for Excellence in Aging Services and Long-term Care. Additionally, she served as a Health & Aging Policy Fellow with the Administration on Aging and Office on Disability. Harrison's key publications include 'Exercise, functional limitations, and quality of life: A longitudinal study of persons with multiple sclerosis' (Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2006), 'Managing ethical problems in qualitative research involving vulnerable populations, using a pilot study' (International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2013), 'Marriage, impairment, and acceptance in persons with multiple sclerosis' (Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2004), 'Mental health literacy and postpartum depression: A qualitative description of views of lower income women' (Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2014), 'An explanatory model of health promotion and quality of life for persons with post-polio syndrome' (Social Science & Medicine, 2005), and 'Health promotion for persons with disabilities: what does the literature reveal?' (Family & Community Health, 2006).