Biography
Beth Tigges, PhD, RN, PCPNP-BC, FAAN, is a Regents' Professor at The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing. She teaches in the PhD in Nursing program with an emphasis on dissertation work and quantitative methods. She helped to start and taught in the Family Nurse Practitioner and Nurse-Midwifery concentrations for over 17 years. Tigges is a past president (2017-2019) of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) and was on the Sigma Board for over ten years. She has given over 20 presentations around the world about the application of team science research to leadership in nursing.
Tigges has been funded as a co-investigator or principal investigator on multiple U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiatives, including the U.S. National Children's Study. She serves as the Director of Evaluation for four NIH grants including: (1) As the founding director and member of the Executive Leadership Committee for the UNM Clinical and Translational Science Center since 2010; (2) Two NIGMS-funded COBREs to develop the UNM Center for Brain Recovery and Repair, and the Center for Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism. She is the past Director for the Evaluation Core for the Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Infrastructure Network to support clinical and translational research at 13 universities across 7 western US states. She was co-chair of Program Evaluators' Group for the U.S. NIH Clinical and Translational Science Consortium. In addition, she was a Co-Investigator on the NIGMS-funded project: Effectiveness of Innovative Research Mentor Interventions among Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the Southwest.
Tigges' major areas of interest and research are evaluation of research centers; measurement of team science, and organizational mentoring climate; and testing of interventions to improve mentoring. She has expertise in instrument development and psychometrics. She co-developed and led psychometric-testing of the first set of scales to measure organizational mentoring climate, and the first rubric to measure mentor-mentee behavioral interactions. Her past clinical research focused on adolescent risk behaviors, health behavior models, and provider behavior. Her methodology expertise includes quantitative designs and methods, psychometric/instrument development, survey research and the mixed-methods evaluation of research centers.
She earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Public Health and Social Psychology from Columbia University, her Master of Science in Nursing degree as a pediatric nurse practitioner from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Areas of Specialty
International/Global Health | Leadership/Leadership Development | Maternal and Child Health | Psychometrics/Questionnaire Development | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Education
PhD, Columbia University, 1994 (Sociomedical Sciences: Public Health, Social Psychology)
MSN, Yale University, 1984 (Pediatric Nurse Practitioner)
BSN, Pennsylvania State University, 1980 (Nursing)
Certifications
RN: Registered Nurse
PCPNP-BC: Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Board Certified
Achievements & Awards
2022: Distinguished Alumni Award, Yale University School of Nursing
2021: Fellow Ad Eundem, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
2021: FAAN: Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
Sigma Theta Tau International Honors Society Member
UNM Regents' Lectureship, 2004-2007
UNM Regents' Professorship, 2007-2010
Key Publications
Journal Article
Tigges, Elizabeth, Sood, Akshay, Dominguez, Nora, Kurka, Jonathan, Myers, Orrin, Helitzer, Deborah, 2020 Measuring Organizational Mentoring Climate: Importance and Availability Scales Journal of Clinical and Translational Science https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/E23D040C0242857469B7639860C68323/S2059866120005476a.pdf/measuring_organizational_mentoring_climate_importance_and_availability_scales.pdf
Journal Article
Tigges, Beth, B Miller, Doriane, Dudding, Katherine, M Balls-Berry, Joyce, E Borawski, Elaine, A Dave, Gaurav, Hafer, Nathaniel, S Kimminau, Kim, S Kost, Rhonda, G Littlefield, Kimberly, Shannon, Jackilen, Menon, Usha, 2019 Measuring Quality and Outcomes of Research Collaborations: An Integrative Review Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, vol. 3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813516/
Journal Article
Tigges, Beth, B. Myers, Orrin, Mickel , Natasha, Dominguez, Nora, Helitzer, Deborah, Sood, Akshay, 2023 Inter-Rater Reliability of the Mentor Behavioral Interaction Rubric [Special Issue 16]. The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching, vol. 7, Issue 1, 466-471
Journal Article
Myers, Orrin, Sood, Akshay, Dominguez, Nora, Helitzer, Deborah, Tigges, Beth, B. 2022 Organizations’ Mentoring Culture is Associated with Mentoring Climate and Involvemen The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching, vol. 6, Issue 15, 599-604
Journal Article
Tigges, Beth, B. Karr, J., L. Erbstein, N., Silberman, P., Winseck, K., Lopez-Class, M., Burbacher, T., M. 2017 Effectiveness of community outreach and engagement in recruitment success for a pre-birth cohort Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, vol. 1
Gender
Female
Courses Taught
Graduate:
N612 Health Care Outcomes
N606 Quantitative Research Methods
Biomedical 556 Research Design (Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research Program)
N605 Advanced Health Statistics
N595 Advanced Field Work for Family Nurse Practitioner Students
N594 Advanced Nursing Practice Role Seminar
N554 Advanced Family Nurse Practitioner Seminar
N551 Newborn Primary Care
N547/549 Primary Health Care Concepts
N546 Pediatric Primary Care
N542 Well Child Care
N540 Advanced Health Assessment
Interdisciplinary Problem Based Seminar