Jeannie Rodriguez
About
Dr. Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor, clinical track, and pediatric nurse practitioner. She graduated from Georgia Baptist College of Nursing in 1996 with her BSN and worked as a staff nurse in a specialty unit focused on caring for the ventilated child at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta before obtaining her MSN from Emory University in 2000. She has worked as a PNP in pediatric primary care. She obtained her PhD in 2015 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Areas of Expertise
Biological Behavioral/omics
Child and Adolescent Health
Environmental Health
Health Disparities
Obesity
Vulnerable Populations
Publications
Rodriguez, J., Affuso, O., Azuero, A., Downs, C., Turner-Henson, A., Rice. M. (in press). Infant feeding practices and weight gain in toddlers born very preterm: A pilot study. Journal of Pediatric Nursing.
Rodriguez, J., Jordan, S., Mutic, A., & Thul, T. (2017). The neonatal microbiome: Implications for the NICU nurse. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 42(6), 332-337.
Jordan, S., Baker, B., Dunn, A., Edwards, S., Ferranti, E. Mutic, A., Yang, I., & Rodriguez, J. (2017). Maternal-child microbiome: Collection, storage, and implications for research and practice. Nursing Research, 66(2), 175-183.
Rodriguez, J., Huntington-Moskos, L., Johnson, A., Williams, S., Gulledge, E., Feeley, C., & Rice, M. (2016). Collecting biological measures for research with children and adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, Doi 10.1016/j.pedhc.2015.12.007.
Rice, M., Turner-Henson, A., Park, N., Azuero A., Amiri, A., Feeley, C., Johnson, A., Lam, T., Huntington-Moskos, L., Rodriguez, J., & Williams, S. (2016). Child and maternal factors that influence child blood pressure in preschool children: An exploratory study. Applied Nursing Research. Doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2016.01.008.
Teaching
My teaching experience is in the area of pediatric nursing.
Research
My long-term professional goal is to develop an independently funded research program to investigate interactions among exposures, the gut microbiome, metabolic pathways, and disease development in young children.
