Mary Hunter, PhD, RN
Asst Clinical Professor-VOL
Physiological Nursing
School of Nursing

With a focus on women's health, my current research activities address factors that impact the health of older adults. These factors include societal values and corporate influence, such as the promotion of long-term hormone therapy to resist aging and prevent disease and the promotion of benzodiazepine drugs as second-line therapy for anxiety and insomnia.

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Recently released:

Hunter, M (Ed). Women's Health and Corporate Marketing: Our Bodies, Their Business. Routledge Press, Oxford, UK.

Book description and supplementary resources:

womenshealthandcorporatemarketing.org

Awards

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• National Research Service Award (F31), NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research, 2016-2018

Education & Training

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• PhD Nursing Research UCSF School of Nursing 12/2018
• Adult Nurse Practitioner Certification UCSF School of Nursing 12/2011
• MN Community Health Nursing University of Washington 12/1986
• OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner Certification UT Health Science Center 06/1982
• BSN Nursing UCSF School of Nursing 1980

Grants and Projects

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• Hormone Therapy Decision Making in Older Women, NIH, 2015-2018

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
Self ConceptQuality of LifeEstradiolVaginal DiseasesSexual Dysfunctions, PsychologicalAmbulatory CarePostmenopauseAgingEstrogen Replacement TherapyBody ImageCultureEstrogensSymptom AssessmentActivities of Daily LivingEmotions

• Prescription of estrogen therapy and sedating medications in older women in a national ambulatory care sample.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Hunter MM, Lisha NE, Huang AJ
• "I'm going to stay young":  Belief in anti-aging efficacy of menopausal hormone therapy drives prolonged use despite medical risks.
  PloS one 2020 Hunter MM, Huang AJ, Wallhagen MI
• Convergent-Divergent Validity and Correlates of the Day-to-Day Impact of Vaginal Aging Domain Scales in the MsFLASH Vaginal Health Trial.
  The journal of sexual medicine 2019 Hunter MM, Guthrie KA, Larson JC, Reed SD, Mitchell CM, Diem SJ, LaCroix AZ, Huang AJ
• Hormone Therapy Decision Making in Older Women
  Hormone Therapy Decision Making in Older Women 2018 Mary M Hunter
• Predictors of impact of vaginal symptoms in postmenopausal women.
  Menopause (New York, N.Y.) 2016 Hunter MM, Nakagawa S, Van Den Eeden SK, Kuppermann M, Huang AJ
• E-cigarette marketing and older smokers: road to renormalization.
  American journal of health behavior 2015 Cataldo JK, Petersen AB, Hunter M, Wang J, Sheon N
• Positive and instructive anti-smoking messages speak to older smokers: a focus group study.
  Tobacco induced diseases 2015 Cataldo JK, Hunter M, Petersen AB, Sheon N