Cindy Anderson, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.

Cindy Anderson is an Associate Professor at the College of Nursing, University of North Dakota. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Salem State College (MA), a Master of Science degree in Parent-Child Nursing and a PhD in physiology from the University of North Dakota. Dr. Anderson is board certified as a women’s health nurse practitioner. The focus of her research is on the study of future cardiovascular consequences in mothers who experience hypertension during pregnancy and in their children. Dr. Anderson investigates how changes in nutrition during pregnancy can influence the maternal development of preeclampsia and how the maternal nutritional environment can influence the developing fetus, leading to future cardiovascular. Cindy Anderson has been recognized for her teaching excellence as a faculty member at the University of North Dakota. She was selected as the 2005 American Nurse Foundation/Midwest Nursing Research Society Scholar and most recently received the New Faculty Scholar Award from the University of North Dakota and the 2008 Harriet Werley New Investigator Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society. Her most recent publications are in the Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN), the Journal of Nutrition and Biological Research in Nursing.