Shannon Halloway, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA
Associate Professor
Heung Soo & Mi Ja Kim Endowed Faculty Scholar
Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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About
Shannon Halloway, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA, is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Heung Soo and the Mi Ja Kim Endowed Faculty Scholar at University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing. She earned her BSN from Pacific Lutheran University and her PhD from Rush University College of Nursing. Dr. Halloway is considered a leader for her focus on practical, scalable behavioral strategies to optimize cardiovascular and cognitive health for older adult populations. As principal investigator, Dr. Halloway has led interdisciplinary teams in eight grants totaling nearly $3 million and four grants as co-investigator totaling over $75 million. Currently, Dr. Halloway leads a NINR-funded R01 trial to test MindMoves, a combined physical activity and cognitive training intervention to prevent cognitive decline in older women with cardiovascular disease, a population particularly vulnerable for cognitive decline. Another funded line of research established that realistic, moderate changes in lifestyle health behaviors over time can prevent cognitive decline, which informed a pending R01 grant that will result in the very first harmonized dataset of U.S. lifestyle trials for cognitive health. Dr. Halloway publishes in high-impact multi-disciplinary journals while additionally publishing advocacy publications in prominent media outlets with an estimated outreach of over 200 million readers/listeners. Her excellence in research has been recognized by the Midwest Nursing Research Society Harriet H. Werley New Investigator Award and a Society of Behavioral Medicine Leadership Fellowship. She was named a Fellow of American Heart Association and Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Selected Grants
NIH/NINR, Lifestyle Physical Activity and Cognitive Training Interventions: Preventing Memory Loss in Older Women with Cardiovascular Disease, PI
NIH/NIA, Impact of COVID-19 on AD Occurrence: A Biracial Intergenerational Population Study, Co-I
Rush University President's Collaborative Research Award, Health Behavior Profiles and Cognitive Health in Older Adults: A Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Approach to Tailor Sustainable Lifestyle Interventions, MPI
Selected Publications
Halloway, S., Volgman, A. S., Barnes, L. L, Schoeny, M. E., Wilbur, J., Pressler, S. J., Laddu, D., Phillips, S., Vispute, S., Hall, G., Shamaya, S., Goodyke, M., Auguer, C., Cagin, K., Borgia, J. A., & Arvanitakis, Z. A. (in press). The MindMoves trial: Cross-sectional analyses of baseline vascular risk and cognition in older women with cardiovascular disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Lange-Maia B. S., Wagner M., Rogers C. A., Mehta R. I., Bennett D. A., Tangney C., Schoeny M. E., Halloway S, & Arvanitakis Z. (in press). Profiles of lifestyle health behaviors and postmortem dementia-related neuropathology. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.
Halloway, S., Evans, D. A., Desai, P., Dhana, K., Beck, T., & Rajan, K. B. (2024). Serum total tau, neurofilament light, and glial fibrillary acidic protein are associated with mortality in a population study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 72(1), 149–159. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18632
Halloway, S., Wagner, M., Tangney, C., Lange-Maia, B. S., Bennett, D. A., Arvanitakis, Z., & Schoeny, M. E. (2024). Profiles of lifestyle health behaviors and cognitive decline in older adults. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, 20(1), 472–482. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13459
Desai, P., Halloway, S., Krueger, K., Rajan, K. B., & Evans, D. (2023). Temporal patterns of change in physical and cognitive performance. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, glad274. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glad274
Yang, T.-C., Kim, S., Choi, S. E., Halloway, S., Mitchell, U., & Shaw, B. A. (2023). Neighborhood features and cognitive function: Moderating roles of individual socioeconomic status. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2023.10.012
Halloway, S., Volgman, A. S., Schoeny, M. E., Arvanitakis, Z., Barnes, L. L., Pressler, S. J., Vispute, S., Braun, L. T., Tafini, S., Williams, M., & Wilbur, J. (2023). Overcoming pandemic-related challenges in recruitment and screening: Strategies and representation of older women with cardiovascular disease for a multidomain lifestyle trial to prevent cognitive decline. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1097/JCN.0000000000001000
Halloway, S., Buchholz, S. W., Odiaga, J. A., Bavis, M. P., Lemke, S., Cygan, H. R., Kalensky, M., Pelt, P. P., Braun, L. T., Tafini, S., Opdycke, A., Knudson, K. A., Daniel, M., & Wilbur, J. (2023). DNP-PhD collaboration in NINR-funded physical activity trials: A series of case studies. Western Journal of Nursing Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/01939459231168699
Halloway, S., Desai, P., Beck, T., Aggarwal, N., Agarwal, P., Evans, D., Rajan, K., & Chicago Health and Aging Project. (2022). Association of neurofilament light with the development and severity of Parkinson’s Disease. Neurology, https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200338
Dhana, K., Barnes, L. L., Liu, X., Agarwal, P., Desai, P., Krueger, K. R., Holland, T. M., Halloway, S., Aggarwal, N. T., Evans, D. A., & Rajan, K. B. (2022). Genetic risk, adherence to a healthy lifestyle, and cognitive decline in African Americans and European Americans. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 18(4), 572–580. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12435
Halloway, S., Dhana, K., Desai, P., Agarwal, P., Holland, T., Aggarwal, N. T., Evers, J., Sacks, F. M., Carey, V. J., & Barnes, L. L. (2021). Free-living standing activity as assessed by seismic accelerometers and cognitive function in community-dwelling older adults: The MIND trial. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 76(11), 1981–1987. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glab106