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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2015 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association

Overview

Barbara Riegel is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and has a strong publication record in the field of medicine, primarily focusing on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work significantly addresses heart failure treatment and management, diabetes management and education, chronic disease management strategies, cardiac health and mental health, nursing care and research, medication adherence and compliance, and geriatric care and nursing homes.

The scientist's research has appeared frequently in several prominent venues, including:

  • Circulation
  • The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • International Journal of Nursing Studies
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Heart & Lung

Barbara Riegel has collaborated closely with several frequent co-authors, such as Ercole Vellone, Tiny Jaarsma, Davide Ausili, Michael A. Stawnychy, and Anna Strömberg, evidencing substantial teamwork in their research endeavors.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Self-care of heart failure patients: practical management recommendations from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, 2020, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Characteristics of self-care interventions for patients with a chronic condition: A scoping review, 2020, International Journal of Nursing Studies
  • The Situation-Specific Theory of Heart Failure Self-care, 2022, The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • Cross-cultural applicability of the Self-Care Self-Efficacy Scale in a multi-national study, 2020, Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Motivational interviewing to improve self-care in heart failure patients (MOTIVATE-HF): a randomized controlled trial, 2020, ESC Heart Failure

Their publication record demonstrates focus on practical interventions and theoretical underpinnings related to self-care in chronic conditions, particularly heart failure.

Barbara Riegel's main fields of study comprise medicine with an emphasis on several subfields:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • General Health Professions
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Epidemiology
  • Pharmacy

They were awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association in 2015, which highlights recognition by a major professional organization in their field.

Best Publications

  • 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

    Clyde W. Yancy;Mariell Jessup;Biykem Bozkurt;Javed Butler

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation): Developed in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society

    Valentin Fuster;Lars E. Rydén;David S. Cannom;Harry J. Crijns

  • ACC/AHA 2005 Practice Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease (Lower Extremity, Renal, Mesenteric, and Abdominal Aortic)

    Alan T. Hirsch;Ziv J. Haskal;Norman R. Hertzer;Curtis W. Bakal

  • 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

    Clyde W. Yancy;Mariell Jessup;Biykem Bozkurt;Javed Butler

  • ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult

    Sharon Ann Hunt;William T. Abraham;Marshall H. Chin

  • 2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM guidelines for the diagnosis and management of patients with thoracic aortic disease: Executive summary: A report of the american college of cardiology foundation/american heart association task force on practice guidelines, american association for thoracic surgery, american college of radiology, american stroke association

    Loren F. Hiratzka;George L. Bakris;Joshua A. Beckman;Robert M. Bersin

  • ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction)...

    Jeffrey L. Anderson;Cynthia D. Adams;Elliott M. Antman;Charles R. Bridges

  • 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society in Collaboration With the Society of Thoracic Surgeons

    Craig T. January;L. Samuel Wann;Hugh Calkins;Lin Y. Chen

  • ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 guideline update for percutaneous coronary intervention--summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/SCAI Writing Committee to update the 2001 Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention).

    Sidney C. Smith;Ted E. Feldman;John W. Hirshfeld;Alice K. Jacobs

  • 1999 update: ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction)

    Thomas J. Ryan;Elliott M. Antman;Neil H. Brooks;Robert M. Califf

  • ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease)

    Robert O. Bonow;Blase A. Carabello;Kanu Chatterjee;Antonio C. de Leon

  • 2007 focused update of the ACC/AHA 2004 guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines.

    Elliott M. Antman;Mary Hand;Paul W. Armstrong;Eric R. Bates

  • ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care for Noncardiac Surgery A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2002 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery)

    Lee A. Fleisher;Joshua A. Beckman;Kenneth A. Brown;Hugh Calkins

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation)

    Valentin Fuster;Lars E. Rydén;David S. Cannom;Harry J. Crijns

  • ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Thomas J. Ryan;Jeffrey L. Anderson;Elliott M. Antman

  • 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

    Donna K. Arnett;Roger S. Blumenthal;Michelle A. Albert

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death

    Douglas P. Zipes;A. John Camm;Martin Borggrefe;Alfred E. Buxton

  • ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult—Summary Article

    Sharon Ann Hunt;William T. Abraham;Marshall H. Chin

  • ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices)

    Andrew E. Epstein;John P. Dimarco;Kenneth A. Ellenbogen;N. A. Mark Estes

  • 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the American College of Chest Physicians, Heart Rhythm Society and International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Endorsed by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation WRITING COMMITTEE MEMBERS*

    Clyde W. Yancy;Mariell Jessup;Biykem Bozkurt

Frequent Co-Authors

Debra K. Moser
Debra K. Moser University of Kentucky
Ercole Vellone
Ercole Vellone University of Rome Tor Vergata
Sidney C. Smith
Sidney C. Smith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tiny Jaarsma
Tiny Jaarsma Linköping University
Sharon A. Hunt
Sharon A. Hunt Stanford University
Kathleen Dracup
Kathleen Dracup University of California, San Francisco
Jonathan L. Halperin
Jonathan L. Halperin Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Elliott M. Antman
Elliott M. Antman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Alice K. Jacobs
Alice K. Jacobs Boston University

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