Dr. Ramey joined the Adult and Gerontology faculty in 2006, after serving as an Assistant Professor at Marquette University for 3 years. Dr. Ramey's program of research investigates the relationships among Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk factors and CVD morbidity in large law enforcements cohorts. Her work has extended to nine Midwestern states and currently is located within the Milwaukee Police Department where she studies inflammatory markers of stress as well. While health promotion has primarily been the focus of Dr. Ramey's work, other interests include extending her work to the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, OK, exploring contributing factors to the prevalence of CVD and risk in the Native American population. Dr. Ramey was selected by the American Nurses Association to represent nursing at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention-American Medical Association Readiness Conference held in Washington, DC, July 2004. Most recently she served as a reviewer for the National Nurse Emergency Preparedness Initiative, supported by Homeland Security and AACN. Dr. Ramey has a secondary appointment in the College of Public Health at The University of Iowa and works with multidisciplinary graduate students in the Occupational Health Nursing Program. PhD, Iowa State University MSN, University of Iowa BS, St. Francis
Articles
The effect of work shift and sleep duration on various aspects of police officers' health (with Yelena Perkhounkova, M. Moon, L. Budde, H. C. Tseng, and M. Kathleen Clark), Workplace Health & Safety (2012)
Police officers are prone to cardiovascular disease, overweight, and obesity. Because night-shift work affects sleep,...
Body mass index misclassification of obesity among community police officers (with M. H. Alasagheirin, M. Kathleen Clark, and E. F. Grueskin), AAOHN Journal (2011)
Occupational health nurses are at the forefront of obesity assessment and intervention and must be...
Relationship of cardiovascular disease to stress and vital exhaustion in an urban, midwestern police department (with Yelena Perkhounkova, Nancy R. Downing, and Kennith Culp), AAOHN Journal (2011)
This study explored risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) among 336 officers of a Midwestern...
Preventing heat-related illness among Hispanic farmworkers (with Kennith Culp, S. Tonelli, K. Donham, and L. Fuortes), AAOHN Journal (2011)
Hispanic and Latino farmworkers are at risk for negative occupational health and safety outcomes due...
Relationships among stress measures, risk factors and inflammatory biomarkers in law enforcement officers (with Nancy R. Downing, W. D. Franke, Yelena Perkhounkova, and M. H. Alasagheirin), Biological Research for Nursing (2011)
Law enforcement officers suffer higher morbidity and mortality rates from all causes than the general...