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Rosanna DeMarco聽is an advanced practice nurse in community health nursing with additional certification as an AIDS care registered nurse. She received her BS degree from Northeastern University, MS in Community Health from Boston College, and PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Her program of research addresses women, marginalization and health behaviors. She has explicated and tested for over 10 years a gender-sensitive theoretical framework called the Silencing the Self Theory (Jack, 1991) as it relates to nurses in the workplace, nursing students and women living with HIV/AIDS. She has completed funded research that shows evidence of silencing behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes in these groups and the subsequent emotional cost to women in terms of affectivity, self-esteem and satisfaction in their lives and work. She subsequently is involved in intervention research related to these behaviors.

In 2007 DeMarco received the 51茶馆 Alumni Award in Excellence for Health. DeMarco has also been recognized for her research by the ANA Massachusetts affiliate, the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses (MARN) in receiving the Nursing Research Excellence Award in 2004. She is the co-producer of the film Women鈥檚 Voices Women鈥檚 Lives (DeMarco, Norris & Minnich, 2004) an HIV prevention education film used in her intervention work with women in the inner city of Boston.聽 It has recently been translated in Vietnamese language and has been used as an intervention prevention tool with male audiences. Dr. DeMarco is a member of the ANA, MARN, Sigma Theta Tau International, the APHA (American Public Health Association),聽 NACNS (the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists) and ANAC (American Association of Nurses in AIDS Care).