Devon Noonan

Dorothy L. Powell Term Chair of Nursing
Devon Noonan
Devon Noonan

Overview

Dr. Noonan is a nurse scientist, certified addictions nurse and an Associate Professor in the Duke School of Nursing. She received her BSN at Boston College, her MS in Nursing at Georgetown University, her MPH and PhD at the University of Virginia and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Dr. Noonan’s research is focused on using community-engaged approaches to develop innovative health behavior change interventions, including digital interventions, with the goal of reducing risk for chronic diseases including cancer and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Noonan’s work has a strong focus on rural and medically underserved populations. Much of her work also focuses on tobacco cessation. She has been continuously funded by NCI for the past 5 years to examine text-based intervention approaches for tobacco cessation in rural and medically underserved populations. Dr. Noonan teaches and mentors students across all programs at DUSON and is the Co-Director of the Duke National Clinician Scholars Program.

Positions

Dorothy L. Powell Term Chair of Nursing in the School of Nursing

2021 School of Nursing

Associate Professor in the School of Nursing in the School of Nursing

2021 School of Nursing

Member of the Duke Cancer Institute in the School of Medicine

2013 School of Medicine

Education

M.P.H. 2008

2008 University of Virginia

Ph.D. 2010

2010 University of Virginia

Publications, Grants & Awards