Janet Pierce, PhD, APRN, CCRN, FAAN

Dr. Janet Pierce is the Christine A. Hartley Centennial Endowed Professor of Nursing, a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and the Department of Cardiology, and a University of Kansas Distinguished Professor. Recently, Dr. Pierce received the Research Trailblazer Award from the Kansas Chapter of American College of Cardiology. She has received the outstanding undergraduate teaching by the School of Nursing students for two consecutive years, Kemper Teaching Fellowship Award, Phyllis Keeney Lawrence Teaching Award, and was presented the University of Kansas Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Classroom Teacher. Dr. Pierce’s is teaching in both the DNP and PhD programs. She currently teaches courses such as precision health, symptom science, biomarkers, and advanced pathophysiology to graduate students. Dr. Pierce also spent several months as a Visiting Professor at the University of Canberra. Dr. Pierce completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma, her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her postdoctoral training at the Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to her academic responsibilities at the School of Nursing, Dr. Pierce retired after 25 years as a United States Navy Captain.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Pierce has been studying antioxidants in various diseases to determine the effects on the diaphragm, lungs, myocardium, brain and kidneys. Dr. Pierce has had continuous research funding at KUMC for over 30 years. She recently completed a randomized double blinded clinical trial funded by National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging to study the effects of ubiquinol (active form of Coenzyme Q10) and D-ribose in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The purpose of this study was to determine if these two supplements can improve the bioenergetics of the myocardium and reduce symptom burden. She is currently investigating pathophysiology and symptoms of post-COVID-19 syndrome. Dr. Pierce was recently been funded by DOD, TSNRP to study the prevalence of post-COVID-19 syndrome in active duty military personnel.

538: EFFECTS OF UBIQUINOL ON REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES AND CELLULAR INJURY IN RATS FOLLOWING HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK AND FLUID RESUSCITATION

A pilot study exploring the effects of ubiquinol on brain genomics after traumatic brain injury

Differences in end-tidal carbon dioxide and breathing patterns in ventilator-dependent patients using pressure support ventilation.

Differences in leukocyte transcriptomes of morbidly obese patients with high output heart failure: A descriptive study.

Dopamine alleviation of diaphragm contractile dysfunction and reduction of deoxyribonucleic acid damage in rats.

Effects of three controlled mechanical ventilation modes on rat lung hydrogen peroxide and apoptosis during hemorrhagic shock

Effects of ubiquinol and/or D-ribose in patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Effects of ubiquinol with fluid resuscitation following haemorrhagic shock on rat lungs, diaphragm, heart and kidneys.

Evaluation of evolving sepsis criteria in discriminating sepsis and mortality among adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit.

Impaired Myocardial Bioenergetics in HFpEF and the Role of Antioxidants

Myocardial energetics and ubiquinol in diastolic heart failure.

Obesity-related high-Output heart failure: An integrative review.

Ovarian cancer symptom clusters: What can the NIH symptom science model reveal for precision in prompt symptom recognition and management?

Post-COVID-19 syndrome.

Post-COVID-19 Syndrome.

Potential Use of Ubiquinol and D-ribose in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Study protocol, Randomized controlled trial: Reducing symptom burden in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction using ubiquinol and/or d-ribose.

The role of microbiota in epithelial ovarian cancer: A scoping review.

Ubiquinol treatment for TBI in male rats: Effects on mitochondrial integrity, injury severity, and neurometabolism.

Coenzyme Q10: A New Treatment for Hemorrhagic Shock

Coenzyme Q10: A New Treatment for Hemorrhagic Shock

Diaphragm Fatigue: Mechanisms of Treatment by Dopamine

Direct Measurement of Diaphragm Fatigue

Dopamine Alleviation of ROS Mediated Diaphragm Fatigue

Effects of Dobutamine on Diaphragm Fatigue

Effects of Three Modes of Mechanical Ventilation.

Effects of Ubiquinol in Rats with Diastolic Heart Failure

Effects of Ubiquinol in Rats with Diastolic Heart Failure

Reducing Cellular Damage in Traumatic Brain Injury Using Ubiquinol

Reducing Symptom Burden in Patients with Heart Failure