Nada Lukkahatai received her MS in Critical Care Nursing from Old Dominion University in 1999, and her PhD in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry and nursing research. She has a broad background in nursing, gaining years of experience as a clinical nurse and now as a nurse scientist. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Intramural Research, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her research interests focus on understanding the biological mechanisms of symptom clusters and developing personalized symptom management programs.
Leorey N. Saligan received his BS in Medical Technology from Silliman University, Philippines, and in Nursing from Liceo de Cagayan University, Philippines, and MS and PhD degrees from Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia. He is currently a Senior Tenured Investigator at the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, where he is introducing clinically relevant approaches to phenotype chronic symptoms related to cancer and chronic illness to optimize treatment and management of these conditions. He is a Principal Investigator of several clinical protocols, including clinical trials involving the use of a subanesthetic dose of ketamine to rapidly reduce chronic fatigue and Neurotropin to reverse symptoms related to fibromyalgia. The overall purpose of his research program is to improve functional outcomes for cancer survivors and patients with chronic illnesses by identifying behavioral, social, environmental, and biologic factors that can be used as interventional targets. Dr. Saligan is listed as a top 3 author in cancer-related fatigue (CRF) research with one of his papers as the top 10 most-cited paper in CRF research.
