Dr.
Brigham Young University
Corinna Trujillo Tanner is a clinician-scientist who joined the Brigham Young University College of Nursing as an Assistant Professor in 2019, after completing her PhD and a two-year National Institutes of Health Research Fellowship in cancer, aging and end of life. She is a Registered Nurse and holds post master's certificates in Gerontology, Adult Nurse Practitioner training and an International Certificate in Caring and Healing. Corinna is devoted to patient-centered care and maintains an ongoing clinical practice at the University of Utah Moran Eye Center, where she has worked for 9 years, creating curriculum designed to help older adults with vision loss maintain their independence and quality of life. Corinna is also interested in vision rehabilitation, globally, and has worked as part of a multidisciplinary team, developing vision rehabilitation interventions in the Carribean. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of vision loss and on identifying patterns associated with positive outcomes accruing from the experience of vision loss. In the future, she hopes to develop interventions which foster late life potential, and thriving among older adults with sensory impairments. She is passionate about guiding students in honoring and fostering late life potential and creating an age-inclusive, and ability - inclusive culture. Corinna and her husband have four children, ages 6-26 and enjoy the outdoors, theater, and collegiate sports.
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