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Devita Stallings, Ph.D., RN

Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Pre-licensure Nursing Education; Associate Professor

Education

  • Ph.D., Nursing, Saint Louis University, 2012
  • M.S.N., University of Southern Mississippi. 2003
  • B.S.N., Mississippi University for Women, 2000
  • A.S.N., Mississippi University for Women, 1998

Research Interests

Stallings' research focuses on understanding and improving self-management behaviors (i.e., diet, exercise, sleep, medication adherence, and stress management) of hypertension in African Americans. Her goal is to conduct community-based interventions to improve hypertension self-management in underserved populations. She is developing a hypertension self-management mobile health app called Pressure Points to assist with hypertension self-management and to improve hypertension disparities. 

Publications and Media Placements

Honors and Awards

  • Inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing, (AAN), 2023
  • St. Louis Magazine’s Excellence in Nursing Award -  Leadership Category, Winner, 2022 
  • Exceptional Junior Faculty Publications for the SON, Scholarly Works Awards Recognition Ceremony, Nominee 2018
  • St. Louis Magazine’s Excellence in Nursing - Educator Category, Finalist, 2018
  • March of Dimes Nurse of the Year Award - Case Management/Public Health, Finalist, 2016
  • St. Louis Mission Impact Award, Power to End Stroke Honoree for the American Heart Association, 2015
  • Bronze Ambassador, Power to End Stroke Ambassador Achievement Award.  American Heart Association, 2014
  • Marion Bender Scholarship Award. Saint Louis University, 2007 - 2011
  • Oral Comprehensive Exams Passed with Distinction. Saint Louis University, 2010
     
     

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • Invited Position, National Committee Member-At-Large, Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee, American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, 2018 - present
  • Elected Position, Regional Coordinator for Region 5, Sigma (formerly Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nursing), 2023 - present
  • Invited Mentor, National Institute of Health, 2023 National Institute of Aging’s Healthy Aging Start-Up Challenge and Entrepreneurial Bootcamp, 2023 - present
  • Board Member, IFM Community Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2022 - present
  • Member of the Board of Directors, Zeta Charitable Foundation for Xi Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., St. Louis, MO, 2015 - present