Dawn M. Aycock
PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAHA, FAAN
Nursing
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Program Director, Associate Professor
Dr. Aycock is a registered nurse and certified adult health nurse practitioner with experience caring for adults in hospital and community-based settings. Dr. Aycock has spent the majority of her nursing career involved in clinical and nursing research. She has coordinated pharmaceutical-funded analgesic clinical trials, and NIH-funded studies investigating family caregivers of stroke survivors, women with migraines, and mothers of low-birth-weight infants. Dr. Aycock’s focus is advancing and promoting nursing science through research, education and service.
Dr. Aycock’s program of research is cardiovascular disease prevention, specifically primary stroke prevention in African Americans. She focuses on helping individuals improve their understanding of stroke including the personal risk of stroke and promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors (e.g. diet, physical activity, smoking cessation) to reduce stroke risk. Dr. Aycock has received grant support from GSU, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Betty Irene Moore Nurse Fellowship Program for Nurse Leaders and Innovators to develop and test a Stroke COunseling for Risk Reduction (SCORRE) intervention for African Americans aged 20-35 years.
