Ramona Chinn
Ramona G. Chinn, PhD, APRN
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall 329
Honolulu, HI 96822
Ph: 808-956-5469, Fax: 808-956-3257
Email: rgchinn@hawaii.edu
BSN, University of Florida, 1995; MS, University of South Florida, 1998; PhD, University of Florida, 2003.
Clinical Area of Focus: mental health, child and adolescent mental health
Dr. Ramona Chinn started as an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, School of Nursing last year. She has been involved in developing a graduate program for nurses in the area of child and adolescent mental health in collaboration with the Hawaii State Department of Health. Previously she has worked in a variety of mental health and primary care settings including inpatient facilities, residential homes, and outpatient clinics.
Her previous research experience includes pharmaceutical research focused on psychiatric diseases across the lifespan, specifically treatments for Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder and Depression. She has also done strength-based research, examining how factors like mentoring and ethnic identity relate to outcomes such as mental health and school violence.
Her current research interest is in the prevention of and early intervention for mental health challenges. She is specifically interested in how ethnic and gender identity development during early adolescence relates to mental health outcomes. She is also interested in interdisciplinary collaboration to develop family and community-based models of care that are culturally relevant and gender specific.
Teaching Topics: Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing; Clinical Psychopharmacology; Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Recent Awards and Publications: Ethnic Identity Development in Adolescence. (Feb. 2006). Presentation at the Pacific Nursing Research Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii; Alumni Fellowship Recipient. (2000-2003). University OF Florida; Evaluation of a Mentoring Program for the Prevention of Aggression, Substance Use, and School Absenteeism: A Pilot Project. (Feb. 2002). Poster presented at the Southern Nursing Research Society conference. San Antonio, Texas.