About

Robin L. Page, PhD, APRN, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M College of Nursing and serves as the Director of the Program of Excellence for Mothers, Children and Families. Her educational background includes a BSN from the University of Kentucky, a MS in Nurse Midwifery from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and a PhD in Nursing from The University of Texas at Austin. She has also been an Intramural Research Fellow at the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, and participated in the Summer Genetics Institute in 2017. Her research interests focus on women's health, pregnancy and postpartum care, maternal mental health and religiosity, intimate partner violence, population health, and health disparities among Latinas and immigrants. Dr. Page has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2023 and the American College of Nurse Midwives in 2021. She has received the Dean's Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2022 and the Best Faculty Research Paper at Texas A&M University College of Nursing in 2020 and 2021. Her professional certifications include being an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and a Certified Nurse Midwife. She actively contributes to professional organizations such as the American Association of Hispanic Nurses, the Brazos Valley Nurse Practitioner Association, and the Southern Nursing Research Society. Dr. Page's work emphasizes improving health outcomes for underserved populations, especially women and immigrant communities, through research, education, and community engagement.

Research topics

• Aerospace engineering
• Mathematics
• Meteorology
• Mechanical engineering
• Physics
• Engineering
• Mechanics

Selected publications

• Jet Impingement: Transport Phenomena

  2023

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  • Aerospace engineering
  • Mechanics
  • Physics

  Significant improvements have been made during the last decade at Texas A&M University in developing innovative Impinging jet nozzles for transporting heat or mass between the jet and the surface material. This progress is reviewed along with a listing of the relevant references and some typical results. Because there is such a large field of applications of jet impingement, this paper focuses upon a discussion of turbulent jets that are of the same or almost the same composition as the surrounding atmosphere. Comparisons are presented of the performance of the new nozzles as compared to standard nozzles of the past.

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• E. coli McbR/YncC

  2014-04-03

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• Development of Steel Clad Aluminum Brake

  SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series · 2013-09-30

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  <div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">Aluminum based brake rotors have been a priority research topic in the DOE 1999 Aluminum Industry Roadmap for the Automobile Market. After fourteen years, no satisfactory technology has been developed to solve the problem of aluminum's low working temperatures except the steel clad aluminum (SCA) brake technology. This technology research started at Michigan Technological University (MTU) in 2001 and has matured recently for commercial productions. The SCA brake rotor has a solid body and replaces the traditional convective cooling of a vented rotor with conductive cooling to a connected aluminum wheel. Much lower temperatures result with the aluminum wheel acting as a great heat sink/radiator. The steel cladding further increases the capability of the SCA rotor to withstand higher surface temperatures. During the road tests of SCA rotors on three cars, significant gas mileage improvement was found; primarily attributed to the unique capability of the SCA rotor on pad drag reduction.</div></div>

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• Crystal structure of filamin-A immunoglobulin-like repeat 21 bound to an N-terminal peptide of CFTR

  2009-08-27

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• Update on antimicrobial susceptibilities of bacterial isolates from canine and feline otitis externa.

  PubMed · 2006-03-01 · 104 citations

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  The in vitro susceptibility of a total of 1819 bacterial isolates from canine and 103 isolates from feline otitis externa cases to 13 antimicrobial drugs over a 5-year period was evaluated. Among topically used drugs, 90% of isolates were susceptible to gentamicin. Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to gentamicin was 85%, and to polymyxin B 100%. For isolates other than the Pseudomonas sp., susceptibility was highest to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid.

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• Transient thermal structure, turbulence, and heat transfer in a reattaching slot jet flow

  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 2004-09-14 · 12 citations

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• Antibiotic resistance among enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli from piglets and calves with diarrhea.

  PubMed · 2004-07-01 · 29 citations

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  In vitro resistance to 8 antimicrobials among enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli from piglets and calves over a 13-year period was evaluated. Least resistance occurred against ceftiofur for all, followed by apramycin and gentamicin for porcine and florfenicol for bovine isolates. No significant differences were found between the first 8 and last 5 years.

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• Antibiotic resistance among enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli from piglets and calves from piglets and calves with diarrhea

  Canadian veterinary journal · 2004-07-01 · 15 citations

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  Diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is one of the most frequent diseases in young piglets and calves. Despite vaccination programs and management measures, treatment with antibiotics may be required in some cases. Although antimicrobial susceptibility testing is recommended, information on drug resistance trends in a geographic area is helpful to veterinarians in drug selection for empirical therapy (1). The drugs suggested against colibacillosis in pigs include apramycin, ceftiofur sodium, gentamicin, neomycin, potentiated sulfa drugs, and enrofloxacin, gentamicin by injection recommended for the scouring piglet (2,3). Currently, drugs recommended for systemic use against septicemia associated with neonatal colibacillosis due to ETEC in calves include trimethoprim-sulfonamide (TMS) combinations and florfenicol. Gentamicin and ampicillin sulbactam are other potential drugs, but residues in kidneys and high costs are limitations of the latter (4,5). In the 1980s and early 1990s, a high percentage of strains were likely to be susceptible to TMS combinations (1,6), but a study in 1989 on isolates from Prince Edward Island (PEI) (7) revealed that up to 50% of ETEC strains from piglets and calves were resistant to TMS. In order to generate objective data to implement prudent use of veterinary antimicrobials in food animals, we conducted a retrospective analysis of ETEC isolates from clinical cases of diarrhea in piglets and calves on PEI during the 13-year period ending in 2002. We also reviewed the records of the Bacteriology Diagnostic Laboratory of the Atlantic Veterinary College to determine the drug susceptibility of all ETEC isolates recovered from the feces or intestines of diarrheic pigs and calves during the period 1990 to 2002. Throughout the study period, it was the practice not to conduct drug susceptibility tests on multiple isolates from the same group of animals. Also, the laboratory specimen submission guidelines required that samples for culture be taken before antimicrobial treatment. The E. coli isolates were classified as ETEC on the basis of their agglutination obtained with antisera pools (source: Dr. J.M. Fairbrother, Universite de Montreal, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec) against the common diarrhea-causing serogroups and fimbrial adhesions of bovine or porcine origin. Pool 1 and K:99 antisera were used for isolates from piglets and calves 0 to 2 wk of age; additionally, K:88 antiserum was used for isolates from piglets. Pool 1 detected O8: K“S16”, O8: K25, O9: K28, O9; K30, O9: K35, O9: K103, O9: K“79-416,” O20: K101, O64: K“V142,” and O8: K+. Pool 2 and K: 88 antisera were used for pigs > 2 to ≤ 10 wk of age. Pool 2 detected O138: K81, O139: K82, O141: K85ab, O141: K85ac, O45ac: K“E65,” O157: K“V17,” O115: K“V165,” O8: K“X105,” O?: K48, and O149: K91. Antimicrobial drug susceptibility testing was done by the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method (8) on Iso-Sensitest agar (Oxoid Canada, Nepean, Ontario), which compares well with Mueller-Hinton agar for testing Enterobacteriaceae (9). Escherichia coli strain ATCC 25922 (American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia, USA), which gave reproducible growth inhibition zones, was used as a susceptible control throughout. During the 13-year study period, 319 to 669 porcine isolates were tested against the following antibiotics: apramycin, ceftiofur, gentamicin, neomycin, oxytetracycline, spectinomycin, and TMS, and 131 to 463 bovine isolates were tested against ceftiofur, florfenicol, gentamicin, neomycin, oxytetracycline, spectinomycin, and TMS (all antibiotic disks were obtained from Oxoid Canada except for ceftiofur, and florfenicol, which were from Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Maryland, USA). The zone diameter interpretive criteria used to classify an isolate as susceptible, intermediate, or resistant were in accordance with the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) for bacteria isolated from animals (10). Because of nonavailability of specific criteria for ceftiofur and florfenicol against E. coli, the zone size chart for gram-negative respiratory pathogens was used to classify a strain as resistant. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine the effect of time period on drug resistance. The percentages of resistance for porcine isolates in ascending order during the first 8-year period (Table 1) were ceftiofur 0%, apramycin 9%, and gentamicin 11%. The rate of resistance to TMS was 35%. A similar trend was also noted for the last 5 y (1998 to 2002); the rates of resistance against ceftiofur, apramycin, gentamicin, and TMS were 2%, 11%, 13%, and 32%, respectively. A low resistance rate to ceftiofur has been documented among E. coli isolates from young pigs in Quebec during the last several years (11,12). An earlier study on 88 ETEC isolates from neonatal pigs for the period of 1986 to 1988 showed a resistance of 36% against TMS (7), a rate almost similar to that obtained in the present study. Neomycin, an antibiotic used for oral treatment of porcine diarrhea due to E. coli (5), was as effective as TMS against ETEC in vitro. The majority of isolates (≥ 62%) were resistant to spectinomycin, a drug that has therapeutic application in pigs (2). A high rate of resistance to oxytetracycline (≥ 81%), as found in this study, has previously been reported in Quebec (11). Table 1 Antimicrobial drug resistance of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli from pigs and calves with diarrhea from 1990 to 2002 The percentages of resistance of the bovine isolates in ascending order in the first 8 y were ceftiofur 4%, gentamicin 6%, spectinomycin 44%, TMS 46%, neomycin 64%, and oxytetracycline 81%. For the last 5-year period, least resistance was seen against ceftiofur, followed by florfenicol, TMS, and tetracycline, the resistance rates being 8%, 11%, 48%, and 75%, respectively. Statistical tests utilizing ANOVA showed no significant changes (P-value ≤ 0.05) in resistance between the first 8 y and the last 5 y for ceftiofur, gentamicin, oxytetracycline, and TMS for isolates of both porcine and bovine origin. It is interesting to note that the resistance rate for TMS was 50% for isolates from PEI during 1986 to 1988 (7), indicating that there had been no apparent increase in resistance to this drug among E. coli from cases of diarrhea in calves in this geographic area. In summary, among the 8 antimicrobial drugs examined in vitro in this study, least resistance (≤ 8%) was seen against ceftiofur among the ETEC isolates tested. The next 2 drugs with least resistance were apramycin and gentamicin for porcine strains, and gentamicin and florfenicol for bovine strains. This information should be considered along with drug concentration at infection site, as a function of route of administration, in order to make knowledge-based drug selection. CVJ

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• An experimental study of fluid mechanics and heat transfer in an impinging slot jet flow

  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 2003-12-17 · 180 citations

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• Visualization of air flow using infrared thermography

  Experiments in Fluids · 2003-02-01 · 21 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• J. Seyed-Yagoobi

  Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  27 shared

• Vinod Narayanan

  18 shared

• A. Joseph Brough

  Imperial Consultants

  13 shared

• C. S. Stulberg

  13 shared

• C. Ostowari

  Texas A&M University

  11 shared

• C. E. G. Przirembel

  Clemson University

  11 shared

• Wolf W. Zuelzer

  10 shared

• D. Jones

  Harvard University

  8 shared

Labs

• Robin L. Page LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Nursing

  Texas A&M University

  2000

• M.S., Nursing

  University of Texas at Austin

  1993

• B.S., Nursing

  University of Texas at Austin

  1989

Awards & honors

• Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2023
• Dean's Faculty Research Excellence Award, 2022
• Best Faculty Research Paper, Texas A&M University College of…
• Fellow, American College of Nurse Midwives, 2021