Maureen Groer, RN, PhD, FAAN
Maureen Groer is a family nurse practitioner and has a PhD in human physiology. Her work has focused on understanding stress and health in women and infants through the lens of psychoneuroimmunology. She currently runs a large and productive Biobehavioral laboratory at the University of South Florida, College of Nursing in Tampa, Florida, where she holds the Gordon Keller Endowed professorship. She has written three textbooks in Pathophysiology, and has authored over 50 research papers in refereed journals. Dr. Groer has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2001 to study the influence of lactation on postpartum stress and immunity. Dr. Groer teaches pathophysiology and philosophy of science to graduate students and breastfeeding to undergraduate students.
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