Moya C. Peterson, PhD, RN, APRN, FNP-BC

Professional Background

Dr Peterson has been a faculty member of the School of Nursing andamp; the School of Medicine for over 25 years. She has a robust clinical practice in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In 2009 she established the Adults with Down Syndrome Specialty Clinic and has provided care to hundreds of adults with Down syndrome. She also takes care of many adults with special needs. Transitional care between the worlds of specialized pediatric practices and the adult care for special needs adults have become another emphasis in her practice. She is active in the national Down syndrome Medical Interest Group-USA and is involved in the national committee of experts that established and published health care guidelines for adults with Down syndrome. She is a member of KSNA, KANP, ANA, the American Association of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry and the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN). She also has a practice at a local group home organization providing primary care to those clients at that location.
She is faculty in the advanced practice graduate program. She has taught a variety of classes in the core curriculum, in the family nurse practitioner program and has offered electives such as genetics in primary care, disability in the mass media and historical research methodology.
Prior to her coming to KU she completed her BSN at Olivet Nazarene University, her Masters in Nursing at the University of Iowa, her post masters at Wichita State University and her PhD at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She has previously worked as a faculty in a BSN completion program at Briar Cliff College in Sioux City, IA and was director of nursing at Good Samaritan Longterm care facilities in Lyons, KS and Dodge City KS.

• BSN, Nursing, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, , IL
• Other, Family Nursing, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
• Other, Pediactric Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• Other, Family Nursing, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

• Advanced Practice Nurse (Family), Kansas State Board of Nursing
• Certified Nurse Practicioner, American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Registered Nurse, Kansas Board of Nursing

• American Association for the History of Nursing, Member, 2019 - Present
• Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group, Membership Committee, Member, 2017 - Present
• Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group, Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group, Member, 2011 - Present
• American Nurses’ Association , Member, 1981 - Present

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Research

Overview

Dr Peterson is primarily a clinical faculty but is currently involved in two major research projects. She is the primary investigator of the Life-DSR project that is a joint effort between the Alzheimers Association and the LUMind group. It is studying the relationship and trajectory of adults with Down syndrome and the development of dementia. She is also involved in another project that involves determining how to encourage families to become in the national Down syndrome registry. She has also been involved with multiple quality assurance studies with honors baccalaureate students in her clinic, adults with Down syndrome specialty clinic. She also completed a poster and was a contributing author summing up several posters, on diabetes in the adult Down syndrome population.
Her other area of interest is in historical research as it applies to nursing in Kansas. She has produced a DVD highlighted a qualitative study completed with the nurses of the Evacuation Hospital # 77 that was sponsored by the University of Kansas Medical Center during WW2. She also has completed a fellowship with the History of Medicine Department at the Medical Center on the history of nursing in WW1- and highlighted the unit that had been deployed from Kansas to France. She speaks often to community groups and classes on these little known contributions.

• Longitudinal Investigation for Enhancing Down Syndrome Research (LIFE-DSR), LuMind
• Down Syndrome determined study, PCORNET

• Capone, George, Chicoine, Brian, Bulova, Peter, Stephens, Mary, Hart, Sarah, Crissman, Blythe, Videlesky, Andrea, Myers, Katherine, Roizen, Nancy, Esbensen, Anna, Peterson, Moya, Santoro, Stephanie, Woodward, Jason, Martin, Barry, Smith, David. 2017. Co-occurring medical conditions in adults with Down Syndrome: A systematic review toward the development of health care guidelines Journal: American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. American Journal of Genetics, 176 (1)
• Capone, George, Stephens, Mary, Santoro, Stephanie, Chicoine, Brian, Bulova, Peter, Peterson, Moya, Jaisen, Joan, Smith, Anna., Jo, Down syndrome Medical Interest Group adult health workgroup. 2020. Co‐occurring medical conditions in adults with Down syndrome: A systematic review toward the development of health care guidelines. Part II. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 182 (7), 1832-1845. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.61604