Terry Lennie PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Senior Associate Dean and Marion E. McKenna Professor in Nursing Leadership
Terry Lennie holds a joint PhD in nursing and psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in neurobehavior at the University of Michigan. He came to UK in 2003 from The Ohio State University, where he was an associate professor of nursing. He currently serves as co-director of the RICH Heart Program and senior associate dean at the College of Nursing.
Dr. Lennie’s program of research focuses on the development of interventions to promote self-management of prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease with a particular interest in optimizing nutritional intake. Current lines of research include (1) determining the psychological, social, biological, and environmental factors that influence food choice; (2) identifying the ideal diet for patients with heart failure, including appropriate level of dietary sodium and (3) helping people use new technology to increase their ability to self-manage cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment.
Dr. Lennie received a Heart Failure Society of America Nursing Research Finalist Award in 2003. The American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing awarded him the Arteriosclerosis/Heart Failure Research Prize in 2004, the Research Article of the Year Award in 2006, the Best Abstract Award in 2007, and Clinical Article of the Year Award in 2014. In 2014 Dr. Lennie was also awarded the Best Oral Abstract Presentation by the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professionals, European Society of Cardiology and the Distinguished Achievement Award by the University of Wisconsin’s School of Nursing Alumni Organization. In 2016, he was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. He is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Nursing.
Contact Information
Phone: (859) 323-6631
Fax: (859) 323-1057
Email: terry.lennie@uky.edu
Office: 202-A COLLEGE OF NURSING
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988
BSN, Marquette University, 1981
Interests
Self-management of cardiovascular disease; biopsychosocial and nutritional aspects of self-management of cardiovascular disease