Ansley Grimes Stanfill, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor
Associate Dean of Research
874 Union Ave., Room 120I
Memphis, TN 38163
astanfi4@uthsc.edu
Dr. Ansley Stanfill, Associate Dean of Research for the University of Tennessee (UT) Health Science Center’s College of Nursing, received a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Vanderbilt University, her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Saint Louis University, her PhD in Nursing Science from the UT Health Science Center, and her postdoctoral training in genomics from the University of Pittsburgh.
She holds a joint appointment in the College of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics, and a faculty appointment in the UT Health Science Center’s Neuroscience Institute. Her work is on the influence of genetic and epigenetic factors on long-term outcomes in neurological injury and chronic disease. She served as Principal Investigator (PI) of an NIH/NINR R01 titled “A multivariate predictive model for long-term disability post subarachnoid hemorrhage in Caucasian and African American populations.” She received a supplemental award to this project to investigate genotype and gene expression interactions using the GTEx database. She also serves as a PI for a Department of Defense-funded grant on long-term cognitive sequelae following mild traumatic brain injury. She was a co-investigator on an NIA-funded R01 investigating the potential of miR-21 as a biomarker for vascular dementia.
In addition to her federal support, Dr. Stanfill has received grants from the North American Academy of Neuropsychology, Sigma Theta Tau, the International Society of Nurses in Genetics, and the Southern Nursing Research Society. She has been published many times in basic science and nursing research journals and regularly presents her work at local, regional, national, and international conferences.