Dr. Sadie Hutson

Dr. Sadie Hutson is an Assistant Professor in Family/Community Nursing.  Her instruction duties include teaching women’s health in the FNP program and quantitative methods in the DSN program. She is also an active researcher.  Her research falls primarily under the broad trajectory of psychosocial oncology. Her current open protocols focus on the utilization of stem cell transplantation among patients with Fanconi’s Anemia, treatment decision making for breast and prostate cancer through perspectives from physicians and patients, Appalachian women’s perceptions about the relationship between HPV and cervical cancer, and the experience of women from hereditary breast and ovarian cancer families who test negative for the BRCA mutation. 

The BRCA negative project is recently completed. Dr. Hutson is in the process of analyzing data for the SCT survey; and the HPV study is just beginning and undergoing IRB review. The cancer treatment decision making study is in the initial phases of recruitment and data collection.

Dr. Hutson currently has one manuscript in press (Oncology Nursing Forum) and one manuscript submitted for publication (Cancer).  Her research is funded by the Intramural program of the National Cancer Institute, an ACTRID grant, and an RDC grant.  In the future, Dr. Hutson’s goal is to try to make connections between all of her studies in order to comprehensively look at psychosocial consequences of inherited cancers on a larger scale with extramural funding.  For more information contact her at: hutsons@etsu.edu.

Publications and Presentations

2007 January. The mountains hold things in: the use of community research review workgroups to explore cancer disparities in southern Appalachia. Oncology Nursing Forum, 34(1), 180-180.

2006. The Experiences of Siblings of Patients with Fanconi's Anemia. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. In press. PR, ID