Dwight Hampton

Yale-Howard Scholar '04

Dwight Hampton worked with Dr. Deborah Chyun, Director of the Adult Advanced Practice Nursing Specialty at YSN, to investigate racial and gender differences in heart abnormalities in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Dwight's research project was designed to look at the unique experience of African Americans in the development of heart disease so that screening criteria could be improved for this population.

As a member of the U.S. military, Dwight has traveled extensively and has visited Australia, the Philippines and Kenya, as well as having been assigned to the Middle East on active duty during the 1991 Gulf War. He says "This has given me the opportunity to look at healthcare from an international perspective. I feel that nursing research provides a way to do the job of healthcare delivery better." He adds, "I've learned that research that looks at data across racial lines for example can help to introduce new techniques and procedures to benefit people everywhere," not just where the procedure is developed or within the population with whom it is first implemented.

Dwight intends to apply to YSN to further his education and says, "Putting theory and application together during my Yale-Howard experience has enlightened me, and I would like to continue this type of study. The experience I've had here has been priceless."

Yale-Howard Scholars 2006

• LeSabre Bowens
• Sharita Liser
• Foluke Oladeinde
• Oluseyi Sofoluwe

Yale-Howard Scholars 2005

• Katherine San Gabriel
• Nightingale Gacheru
• Richard Phillips
• Jessica Holmes

Yale-Howard Scholars 2004

• Stella Akintomide
• Gilberto Andino
• Eric Foster
• Dwignt Hampton
• Olivia Pessima

Yale-Howard Scholars 2003

• Tracy Brewington
• Krystal Perkins
• Jessica Campbell-Hamilton
• Graciella Rodriguez-Santos
• Chinenye Udemezue

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