Expertise

Dr. Kawi specializes in chronic pain management, for diseases such as fibromyalgia and arthritis. She also researches the biomedical and socioeconomic risk factors related to chronic pain illnesses.

Classes Taught

She teaches primarily in the graduate programs with backgrounds in primary care, cardiovascular, post-anesthesia, and medical-surgical nursing.

Education Background

Dr. Kawi is an alumna of the MSN/FNP program at UNLV. She completed her doctoral degree in nursing at University of Colorado Denver, a top graduate and research-intensive nursing program.

Research or Scholarship

Her program of research focuses on chronic pain, opioids, and biobehavioral factors affecting pain including self-management, self-management support, pain care disparities, and biomarkers. Currently, she has an R56 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research entitled “Pilot Testing A Theory-Driven Self-Management Intervention for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain” in collaboration with Johns Hopkins. She has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented at regional, national, and international conferences. She received several awards for her nursing contributions.

Awards, recognitions, or group affiliations

Dr. Kawi is the recipient of the Outstanding Scholarship Award, earned in both 2014 and 2022, the 2018 Nurse of the Year in Specialty Services, Pain Management from March of Dimes, the 2018 Service Award from the Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association, the 2017 Nevada Nurses Foundation 50 under 50 Future of Nursing in Nevada Award, and the 2016 March of Dimes Nurse of the Year in Research Award. She also received Congressional and Senatorial Recognition in 2012, 2014, and 2015.