CURRICULUM VITAE

ELLEN J. HAHN, PhD, RN, FAAN

OFFICE: / BREATHE, College of Nursing / PHONE: / (859) 257-2358
University of Kentucky (UK) / FAX: / (859) 323-1057
2265 Harrodsburg Rd., Ste. 202 / E-MAIL: /
Lexington, KY 40504
HOME: / 1844 Blairmore Court / PHONE: / (859) 421-6948
Lexington, KY 40502

NURSE REGISTRATION: 1073102 (KY)

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EDUCATION

DATE / DEGREE / INSTITUTION
1992 / Ph.D. / Indiana University (Health Policy)
1991 / M.S.N. / Indiana University (Public Health)
1977 / M.A. / Ohio State University (Health Educ)
1975 / B.S.N. / Case Western Reserve University
1970-72 / Allegheny College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DATE / TITLE / INSTITUTION
2014-present
2005-present / Director
Professor (UK Alumni Professor, 2007-2017) / BREATHE (Bridging Research Efforts & Advocacy toward Healthy Environments)
UK College of Nursing (CON) and College of Public Health
1996-present / Director / UK CON Tobacco Policy Research Program
1998-2005 / Associate Professor / UK College of Public Health
1998-present / Member / UK Markey Cancer Center
1993-present / Associate / UK Center on Drug & Alcohol Research
1993-1998 / Assistant Professor / UK College of Nursing
1992-1993 / Assistant Professor, Community Health (part-time) / Indiana University School of Nursing
1991-1992 / Predoctoral Fellow NRSA #NR06794-01 / Indiana University School of Nursing
1990-1991 / Predoctoral Trainee NRSA #32 NR07066-01 / Indiana University School of Nursing
1991 / Health Policy Intern Alcohol and Other Drug Projects / Marion County, IN Prosecutor's Office
1989-1990 / Research Assistant USDHHS Trainee / Indiana University School of Nursing
1988-1989 / Research Assistant Healthy Cities Indiana / Indiana University School of Nursing
1982-1988 / Assistant Professor Community Health / Ball State University School of Nursing Muncie, IN
1981-1982 / Instructor Personal Health / Ball State University Physiology & Health Science
1978-1981 / Instructor Community Health / Ball State University School of Nursing
1976-1978 / Instructor Fundamentals of Nursing / Grant Hospital School of Nursing Columbus, OH
Instructor Critical Care Nursing / Riverside Hospital School of Nursing Columbus, OH
1975-1977 / Staff Nurse / Children's Hospital Columbus, OH

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY

Funded research grants

2012-2017
2014-2016
2012-2014
2012-2013
2010-2013 / Principal Investigator, “FRESH: Dual Home Screening for Lung Cancer Prevention,” R01ES021502, grant funded by National Institute of Environmental Health Science (M.K. Rayens, E. Tovar, K. Butler, J. Studts, Co-Investigators) ($2.1 million total costs).
Co-Investigator, “Kentucky Lung Cancer Survivorship Program,” grant funded by Bristol Myers Squibb (J. Studts, PI) ($8.5M total costs)
Principal Investigator, “Radon, Secondhand Smoke, and Lung Cancer in Southeastern Kentucky,” W81XWH-11-1-0781, pilot grant funded by the Department of the Defense to UK Markey Cancer Center (S. Arnold Principal Investigator) ($50,000 total pilot costs).
Principal Investigator, “Use, Perceived Risk, and Marketing of Electronic Cigarettes and Smoke-Free Laws,” UK CCTS Pilot Program (M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigator) ($25, 068 total costs).
Principal Investigator, “COPD and Strength of Smoke-free Laws,” grant funded by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (M.K. Rayens, S. Frazier, D. Mannino, Co-Investigators) ($325,500 total cost)
2011-2015 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health ($456,000 total cost)
2007-2013 / Principal Investigator, “An Intervention for Promoting Smoke-free Policy in Rural Kentucky,” R01HL086450, grant funded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (M.K. Rayens, C. Riker, K. Lee, B. Casey, Co-Investigators) ($3.17 million total cost)
2007-2012 / Co-Director, “Center for Biobehavioral Research in Self-Management of Cardiopulmonary Disease,” grant funded by National Center for Nursing Research (D. Moser, Principal Investigator and Director) ($1.2 million total cost)
2009-2011 / Principal Investigator, “An Intervention for Promoting Smoke-free Policy in Rural Kentucky: Administrative Supplement,” grant funded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (M.K. Rayens, C. Riker, K. Lee, B. Casey, Co-Investigators) ($276,884 total cost)
2009-2011 / Co-Investigator, “The Impact of Smoke-Free Policy on Quitline Utilization and Smoking Outcomes,” 1R03CA144721-01, grant funded by National Cancer Institute (A. Fernander, Principal Investigator, M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigator) ($148,500 total cost)
2010-2011 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens,Co-Investigator) ($150,000 total cost)
2010-2011 / Principal Investigator, “Rural Media Tobacco Prevention Project: Year 2 Evaluation,” contract with Kentucky Youth Advocates (through grant from American Legacy Foundation) ($9,700)
2010-2011 / Principal Investigator, “Test Your Home and Win: A Radon Reduction and Community Mobilization Project,” contract with Kentucky Radon Program (through grant from Environmental Protection Agency) ($50,000)
2009-2011 / Co-Investigator, “Community Action Smoking Cessation Intervention for High-Risk Women in Appalachia,” grant funded by National Cancer Institute (K. Ashford, PI) ($150,000 annual cost)
2009-2010 / Principal Investigator, “An Intervention for Promoting Smoke-free Policy in Rural Kentucky: Administrative Supplement,” grant funded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (M.K. Rayens, C. Riker, K. Lee, B. Casey, Co-Investigators) ($19,780 total cost)
2009-2010 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens,Co-Investigator) ($135,000 total cost)
2009-2010 / Co-investigator, Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Polytobacco Use at the University of Kentucky, grant funded by UK Research Grants Program (E. Cohen, PI) ($19,994 total cost)
2008-2010 / Principal Investigator, “Rural Media Tobacco Prevention Project,” contract with Kentucky Youth Advocates (through grant from American Legacy Foundation) ($13,740)
2008-2009 / Principal Investigator, Reaching Low Income Smokers through a Collaboration with County Extension Agents,” grant funded by College of Public Health HEEL Program, (K. Butler, Co-PI; M.K. Rayens, Co-I) ($74,861) (October 1, 2008-December 31, 2009)
2008-2009 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens,Co-Investigator) ($189,850 total cost)
2007-2008 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens,Co-Investigator) ($140,000 total cost)
2004-2007 / Principal Investigator, “Reducing Secondhand Tobacco Smoke: Cardiac and Asthma Outcomes,” grant funded by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (D. Moser, P. Burkhart, and M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigators) ($324,562 total cost)
2006-2007 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens,Co-Investigator) ($110,000 total cost)
2005-2006 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens,Co-Investigator) ($110,000 total cost)
2004-2006 / Principal Investigator, “Smoke-free Laws and Employee Turnover,” grant funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (M.K. Rayens, College of Nursing; E. Thompson, G. Bloomquist, J. Garen, D. Mullineaux, UK College of Business, Co-Investigators) ($241,790 total cost)
2004-2005 / Principal Investigator, “Kentucky Center for Clean Indoor Air Policy,” grant funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, ($150,000 total cost)
2004-2005 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens,Co-Investigator) ($156,217 total cost)
2004-2005 / Co-Investigator, “Mental Health and Smoking During and After Pregnancy,” grant funded by UK Internal Research Funding (GotGrants) (A. Peden, Principal Investigator) ($18,100 total cost)
2004-2006 / Principal Investigator, “Differential Economic Impact of Smoke-free Laws,” grant funded by UK Internal Research Funding (GotGrants) (D. Mullineaux, Co-Investigator) ($20,000 total cost)
2003-2004 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigator) ($156,217 total cost)
2003-2005 / Principal Investigator, “Secondhand Smoke Exposure Among Restaurant and Bar Workers,” grant funded by UK Prevention Research Center ($35,000 total cost)
2002-2005 / Principal Investigator, “The Impact of Purchase, Use, and Possession Laws on Social Sources of Tobacco Products,” grant funded by ALERT Regional Prevention Center (C. Riker, Co-Investigator) ($26,000 total cost)
2002-2003 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigator) ($161,425 total cost)
2001-2003 / Co-investigator, “Tobacco Prevention and Cessation with Home Health Patients,” grant funded by UK Prevention Research Center, UK College of Nursing, and Appalachian Cancer Network (M. Wimmer, Principal Investigator) ($6,410 total cost)
2001-2003 / Principal Investigator, “Testing the Effect of a Multi-component, Statewide Tobacco Cessation Contest,” grant funded by American Legacy Foundation and UK Markey Cancer Center (M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigator) ($157,810 total cost)
2000-2003 / Principal Investigator, “Developing Leadership in Tobacco Control Policy Research,” fellowship funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($75,000 total cost)
2001-2002 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigator) ($236,647 total cost)
2000-2001 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Kentucky Department for Public Health (M.K Rayens, Co-Investigator) ($245,070 total cost)
2000-2001 / Principal Investigator, “Training and Implementation Fidelity of the Life Skills Training Program in Kentucky,” grant funded by the Kentucky Department of Education (M. Noland & M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigators) ($30,519 total cost)
1999-2000 / Principal Investigator, “Training and Implementation Fidelity of the Life Skills Training Program in Kentucky,” grant funded by the UK Medical Center Research Fund, (L. Hall, M. Noland, & M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigators) ($15,000 total cost)
1999-2000 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Lexington Fayette County Health Department ($70,051 total cost)
1998-1999 / Principal Investigator, “Community Partnerships for Tobacco Use Prevention and Reduction,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contract with Lexington Fayette County Health Department ($24,500 total cost)
1997-2000 / Principal Investigator, "School/Home-based Drug Prevention with Families at Risk," grant funded by NINR/NIH #R15 NR04216-01A1 (L. Hall & M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigators) ($102,130 total cost)
1997-1999 / Principal Investigator, “Tobacco Policy Study,” grant funded by Robert Wood Johnson Smokeless States Program and the Coalition for Health and Agricultural Development (M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigator) ($121,978 total cost)
1997 / Principal Investigator, “Smoking Cessation in Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities: Program and Policy Evaluation,” grant funded by Centers for Disease Control, contract with Lexington Fayette County Health Department ($6,451 total cost)
1996-1997 / Principal Investigator, "Kentucky Legislators' Views on Tobacco," grant funded by American Lung Association of Kentucky ($15,050 total cost)
1994-1995 / Principal Investigator, "Effects of a Parent-Child Drug Prevention Program on Family/Child Risk Factors," grant funded by the UK Medical Center Research Fund (L. Hall Co-investigator) ($15,000 total cost)
1994-1995 / Principal Investigator, "Enhancing Parent Involvement in an Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program," grant funded by the University of Kentucky/University of Louisville Joint Center for Study of Educational Policy ($8,595 total cost)
1993-1994 / Principal Investigator, "African American Parents' Perceptions of Parent Involvement in a Head Start Drug Prevention Program," Indiana University School of Nursing Research Investment Fund ($3,000 total cost)
1991-1992 / Principal Investigator, "Predictors of Parent Involvement in Drug Prevention," partially funded by NINR/NIH (NRSA #NR06794-01) ($23,600 total cost), and Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Chapter ($1,000 total cost)
1990-1991 / Principal Investigator, "Parental Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviors Related to Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention with Preschool Children," partially funded by NINR Institutional training grant, Indiana University School of Nursing
1987-1989 / Principal Investigator, "Parent Participation and Preschool Substance Abuse Programs," funded by Sigma Theta Tau International ($2,985) and the Indiana Nurses' Foundation ($1,000)
1986-1987 / Co-investigator, "Development of Parent and Preschooler Attitude Instruments for Substance Use/Abuse Constructs," funded by Ball State University Foundation ($1,000), Sigma Theta Tau Beta Rho Chapter ($400), Ball State University Office of Research ($300), and University of Evansville Institute for Alcohol and Drug Studies ($100)

Non-sponsored research projects

2010 / Principal Investigator, “FRESH: Freedom from Radon and Smoking in the Home,” internally funded pilot study (S. Kercsmar, M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigators)
2009-2010 / Principal Investigator, “Test and Win: Increasing Radon Awareness,” supported in part with funds from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (see ‘Other Funding’ below) (S. Kercsmar, M.K. Rayens, Co-Investigators)
2002-2003 / Principal Investigator, “Alcohol and Tobacco Policy in Daviess County, Kentucky,” non-sponsored research in collaboration with the Green River District Health Department and River Valley Regional Prevention Center
2001-2002 / Principal Investigator, “Alcohol and Tobacco Policy in Fayette County,” non-sponsored research in collaboration with the Bluegrass Regional Prevention Center and the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department
1995-1997 / Co-Investigator, “Essentials of Community-based Nursing Practice: An Agency Perspective,” non-sponsored research (K. Robinson, R. Bryant, A. Peden, Co-Investigators)
1995-1996 / Principal Investigator, "Reducing Youth Access to Tobacco Products in Kentucky," secondary data analysis of Kentucky ACTION community survey project.
1991-1992 / Co-investigator, "Attitudes Toward Legalization of Drugs: Instrument Development," as part ofminor study in Social Psychology, Ball State University
1991 / Principal Investigator, "Incidence of Subsequent Arrests among Diversion Participants with Alcohol or Marijuana Possession Charges," as part of Health Policy Internship, Marion county Prosecutor's Office, Indianapolis
1990 / Co-investigator, "Development of the Committee Effectiveness Inventory," funded by Healthy Cities Indiana (W.K. Kellogg Foundation), Indiana University School of Nursing
1989-1990 / Data analyst, Community Partners in Prenatal Care Project, funded by Indiana Department of Health and March of Dimes, Indiana University School of Nursing

INSTRUCTIONAL GRANTS

1998-2005 / Project Faculty, "Research Training in Drug Abuse Behavior," Institutional NRSA funded by NIH/NIDA ($745,727) (Thomas Garrity, Prinicipal Investigator)
1996-1997 / Co-Project Director, “Collaborative Work Technology via the Internet,” grant funded by McFACTS Instructional Technology Faculty Small Grants Program ($975) (P. Hickman Co-Director)
1995-1996 / Project Director, "Using Collaborative Work Technology in Community Health Nursing Instruction," grant funded by McFACTS Instructional Technology Faculty Small Grants Program ($1,476) (P. Hickman and C. Riker Co-Directors)

OTHER FUNDING

2013-2018 / Project Director, “Promoting Responsive Smoke- and Tobacco-free Policy Adoption and Implementation,” grant funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky ($250,000)
2014-2015
2007-2012 / Project Director, “Prescription for Radon,” contract funded by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Environmental Management Branch, Frankfort, KY ($54,300).
Project Director, “Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy,” advocacy grant funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky ($250,000)
2010-2012 / Project Director, “Secondhand Smoke and Radon,” contract funded by Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Environmental Management Branch, Frankfort, KY ($95,300).
2009-2010 / Project Director, “Secondhand Smoke and Radon,” contract funded by Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Environmental Management Branch, Frankfort, KY ($41,364)
2008-2009 / Project Director, “Northern Kentucky Clean Indoor Air Collaborative for Healthy Communities,” 18-month planning grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tobacco Policy Change Program ($225,000); an additional $150,000 raised in required match.
2008-2009 / Project Director, “Northern Kentucky Clean Indoor Air Collaborative for Healthy Communities,” matching grant from Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky ($50,000)
2008-2009 / Project Director, “Secondhand Smoke and Radon,” contract funded by Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Environmental Management Branch, Frankfort, KY ($45,500)
2008 / Project Director, “Northern Kentucky Clean Indoor Air Collaborative for Healthy Communities,” 6-month planning grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tobacco Policy Change Program ($50,000)
2007-2008 / Project Director, “Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy: Northern Kentucky Kentucky Initiative,” grant funded by the Humana Foundation, Louisville, KY ($25,000)
2007-2008 / Project Director, “Secondhand Smoke and Radon,” contract funded by Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Environmental Management Branch, Frankfort, KY ($30,000)
2007-2008 / Project Director, “Clean Indoor Air Partnership,” Commonwealth Collaborative, University of Kentucky ($10,000)
2006-2007 / Project Director, “Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Project Community Grants,” contract funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, Louisville, KY ($30,000)
2006-2007 / Project Director, “Secondhand Smoke and Radon,” contract funded by Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Environmental Management Branch, Frankfort, KY ($50,000)
2005-2006 / Project Director, “Secondhand Smoke and Radon,” contract funded by Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Environmental Management Branch, Frankfort, KY ($37,000)
2005-2006 / Project Director, “Quit and Win 2005,” contract funded by the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, Lexington, KY ($1,100)
2005 / Project Director, “Smoke-free Community Campaigns,” contract funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, Louisville, KY ($27,000)
2003-2004 / Project Director, “Health Promotion Programs for City Workers,” contract funded by Kentucky League of Cities, Lexington, KY ($13,150)
2003 / Project Director, “Community Organization for Clean Indoor Air,” contract funded by Kentucky ACTION, Louisville, KY ($4,500)
2003 / Project Director, “Implementation of the Smoke-free Lexington Campaign,” Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, Lexington, KY ($10,000)
1997-1998 / Project Director, “Drug Prevention with Families and Young Children,” grant funded by Levi Strauss Foundation ($10,000) and Target Stores ($300), August 1997
1995-1996 / Project Director, "Beginning Alcohol and Addictions Basic Education Studies (BABES):Training for Service Providers of High Risk Youth and Families," grant funded by Cralle Foundation ($14,041)
1994-1995 / Project Coordinator, "Beginning Alcohol and Addictions Basic Education Studies (BABES): Training for Fayette County School Nurses," grant funded by JC Penney, Inc., Fayette Mall, Lexington ($1,000)

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Data-Based Publications

Butler, K.M., Rayens, M.K., Wiggins, A.T., Rademacher, K.B., Hahn, E.J. (in press). Smoking in the home, perceived risk, and lung cancer worry.Oncology Nursing Forum.

Hahn, E.J., Hooper, M., Riker, C., Butler, K.M., Begley, K., Wiggins, A., Rayens, M.K. (in press). Lung cancer worry and home screening for radon and secondhand smoke in renters.Journal of Environmental Health.