Lucinda Graven, PhD, APRN, FAHA, FAAN

Lucinda J. Graven, PhD, APRN, FAHA, FAAN (she/her) is a family nurse practitioner whose research focuses on improving heart failure self-care and symptom management through the development and testing of cognitive-behavioral interventions at both the individual, dyad, and family levels. Dr. Graven has developed and tested a promising telehealth intervention, the Coping in Heart Failure (COPE-HF) Partnership, targeting heart failure self-care and symptom management problems in the home. Her current work focuses on the development of web-based problem-solving interventions to improve heart failure self-care and symptom management. Her research in coping and heart failure has produced several publications examining the effect of social support and problem-solving, as coping resources, on heart failure disease management. Recognizing the importance of family care partners in helping heart failure patients maintain optimal disease and symptom management, Dr. Graven’s research also involves family-level research. Dr. Graven has examined predictors of adverse outcomes in heart failure caregivers and the development of interventions to improve caregiver contribution to heart failure self-care in the home. Combined with her patient research, findings from her caregiver work have been instrumental in the development of an innovative telehealth intervention for rural heart failure dyads to improve heart failure self-care and symptom management. Dr. Graven also has expertise in rural and diverse population-based research, with several publications examining the effects of social determinants of health on heart failure disease management.