Mary Lou Adams, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing
1700 Red River Street
Austin, TX 78701-1499
NUR 5.144 (office location)
512 471-9091 (office phone)
512 471-3688 (Fax)
Biography
Dr. Mary Lou Adams is an associate professor of clinical nursing at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. The health promoting behaviors of women, particularly of minority women, who often are part of underserved populations is the primary focus of her research and interventions. Grants from the state, local foundations, and other sources support her research.
As Project Director, she led a statewide initiative funded by the Texas Cancer Council to develop a community-based model for breast cancer screening outreach and case management for African American women. The center of this work was the development and refinement of a community-based model for outreach and community engagement to improve cancer screening. The project, designed to increase the numbers of African American women screened for breast cancer in Texas especially those that are poor and underserved, was very successful and 8,000 women were screened.
Dr. Adams has given a broad range of considerable service to the profession of nursing that includes providing direct primary care as a family nurse practitioner, serving on numerous boards and state and national health-related organizations with leadership roles, and participating on national scientific review panels.