Associate professor leads in epilepsy research field

Janice Buelow, associate professor in the IU School of Nursing’s Department of Adult Health, received the Clinical Nurse Specialist Researcher of the Year award from the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.

She is being recognized for her leadership in epilepsy research that “focuses on understand self-management in adults and children with epilepsy and their families,” according to an IU press release.

Her research team examines and tests a parent-centered intervention for children who have normal to borderline IQs and epilepsy. The team is one of few in the country that do this, according to the release.

“Janice has a profound commitment to the education and development of future research scholars and clinical nurse specialists,” NACNS president Melanie Duffy said in the release. “At the same time, she has also provided outstanding leadership in research and evidence-based improvement of care. She is a superb role model of a researcher who is truly making a difference.”

Buelow worked for 10 years with people with epilepsy at the Rush Epilepsy Center in Chicago and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at IU.

She currently has funding to study an intervention for families through the National Institutes of Health.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist Researcher of the Year award recognizes an NACNS member for “outstanding professional achievement as a clinical nurse specialist who has conducted original nursing research that has significantly enhanced the science of autonomous nursing practice, patient and family outcomes, and/or health care systems,” according to the release.

— Lindsey Erdody