Undergraduate Program, Department of Nursing, Cyprus University of Technology

• Evidence Based Practice (3rd year)
• Fundamentals of Nursing III (2nd year)
• Fundamentals of Nursing ΙΙ (1st year)
• Communication Skills in Nursing (1st year)

Postgraduate Studies, Department of Nursing, Cyprus University of Technology: “Advanced Nursing Practice”

• Evidence Based Practice
• Empowerment and Communication in Health Care

Postgraduate Studies, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

• Nursing care of patients with cancer and complex problems

Research programmes

• National Coordinator (Greece) for the International nursing study EUROPAIN. The study was funded by the European Society of Critical Care Medicine. Principal Investigator is Kathleen Puntillo, RN, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, from UCSF and Co-investigator is Elie Azoulay, MD, from Hospital Saint Louis Paris, France. The focus of the study is on “Procedural Pain during common procedures” in 33 countries. Each national coordinator recruits 15 ICUs from his/her country, coordinates data collection at a national level and participates in analysis and publication of results with Principal Investigators, 2009 to 2011.
• Research member in a Nursing Study funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH), investigating “Multiple symptoms in oncology patients undergoing chemotherapy”, 2010 to 2011.
• Research member in the NIH funded nursing study: “Palliative of Thirst in Intensive Care Unit Patients”. The study’s main aim is to test a nursing intervention for thirst in critically ill patients, 2009 to 2011.
• Research member in the NIH funded nursing study «SPIRIT- Examining symptom experiences of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients at high risk of dying», 2004-2007.
• Member of the Research Team “BRIDGES”, Papageorgiou Hospital. Translation and validation of the “Distress Thermometer” by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN, USA), 2012 to present.
• Principal Investigator of the European Union funded Grant on “Educating Educators”, Center for Professional Education, Papageorgiou General Hospital, 2003 (300 hours).
• Principal Investigator of the European Union funded Grant on: “Clinical Educators”, Center for Professional Education, Papageorgiou Hospital, 300 hours, 2004, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• “Daisy Project:  Nurses contributing to medical student’s education”.  Research Coordinator for the project in collaboration with the Medical School of Aristotle University and the Nursing Department of Papageorgiou Hospital.  Undergraduate medical students were receiving training from experienced nurses regarding clinical skills, communication with patients and clinical research in order to cover gaps of their undergaduate curriculum, 2002 to 2004.·Data Manager of European Union’s funded project BIOMED 2 titled ‘Autonomy, Privacy, and Informed Consent during Nursing Interventions” with the collaboration of 5 countries (Finland, Germany, Greece, Spain, Great Britain), University of Athens, Department of Nursing, 1999 to 2001.

Publications

1. Marianna Kyranou, Kathleen Puntillo, Bradley E. Aouizerat, Steven M. Paul, Bruce A. Cooper, Claudia West, Marylin Dodd, Christine Miaskowski, Laura B. Dunn and Charles Elboim. Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Women Prior to and for 6 Months After Breast Cancer Surgery. Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research 2014; 19:79-105.
2. Kyranou M, Puntillo K, Dunn LB, Aouizerat BE, Paul SM, Cooper BA, Neuhaus J, West C, Dodd M, Miaskowski C. Predictors of initial levels and trajectories of anxiety in women before and for 6 months after breast cancer surgery. Cancer Nursing 2014; 37:406-17.
3. Maria Kyranou, Steven M.Paul, Laura B. Dunn, Kathleen Puntillo, Bradley E. Aouizerat, Gary Abrams, Deborah Hamolsky, Claudia West, John Neuhaus, Bruce Cooper, Christine Miaskowski. Differences in depression, anxiety, and quality of life between women with and without breast pain prior to breast cancer surgery. European Journal of Oncology Nursing 2013; 17:190-195.
4. Puntillo KA, Max A, Timsit JF, Vignoud L, Chanques G, Robleda G, Roche-Campo F, Mancebo J, Divatia JV, Soares M, Ionescu DC, Grintescu IM, Vasiliu IL, Maggiore SM, Rusinova K, Owczuk R, Egerod I,Papathanassoglou ED, Kyranou M, Joynt GM, Burghi G, Freebairn RC, Ho KM, Kaarlola A, Gerritsen RT, Kesecioglu J, Sulaj MM, Norrenberg M, Benoit DD, Seha MS, Hennein A, Periera FJ, Benbenishty JS,Abroug F, Aquilina A, Monte JR, An Y, Azoulay E. Determinants of procedural pain intensity in the intensive care unit. The Europain® study. American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine. 2014; 189:39-47.
5. Maria Kyranou, Kathleen Puntillo. The Transition from Acute to Chronic Pain: Might Intensive Care Unit Patients be at Risk? Annals of Intensive Care 2012; 2:36.