David R. Garcia, PhD, FNP-BC, NP-C
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Nursing - Assistant Professor
Email: david.garcia07@utrgv.edu
Education
PhD, Research & Theory Development, NYU Rory Meyers College of NursingMS, Advanced Practice Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
BS, Nursing, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
BS, Chemistry, University of Texas Pan American
BIO
David Ray Garcia is an assistant professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Nursing. Dr. Garcia is originally from McAllen, Texas, a city on the Southern US-Mexico border that is predominantly Latino, medically underserved, and increasingly burdened by the HIV epidemic. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the syndemic relationships between substance use, violence, mental health, and HIV risk behaviors among adolescent gay and bisexual men, and the protective factors that mitigate HIV risk.Among his many honors, Dr. Garcia received the Outstanding Dissertation Award (2022) for his PhD dissertation entitled Syndemic Predictors of HIV Risk Behaviors Among Adolescent Gay and Bisexual Men: A Secondary Data Analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey Years 2015-2019. The integrative review conducted for his dissertation has been published in the journal Nursing Research.
Publications
Recent
Garcia DR, Fletcher J, Goldsamt L, Bell DL, Zheng Y, Dunn Navarra AM (2024).
School-based protective factors for HIV prevention in the United States: Secondary analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015-2019
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care [Epub 2024 Sep 12]. doi: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000501.
School-based protective factors for HIV prevention in the United States: Secondary analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015-2019
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care [Epub 2024 Sep 12]. doi: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000501.
Dunn Navarra AM, Gormley M, Liang E, Loughran C, Vorderstrasse A, Garcia DR, Rosenberg MG, Fletcher J, Goldsamt LA (2024).
Developing and testing a web-based platform for antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence support among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living with HIV
PEC Innovation, 4, 100263. doi: 10.1016/j.pecinn.2024.100263. PMCID: PMC10920727.
Developing and testing a web-based platform for antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence support among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living with HIV
PEC Innovation, 4, 100263. doi: 10.1016/j.pecinn.2024.100263. PMCID: PMC10920727.
Garcia DR, Fletcher J, Goldsamt L, Bell DL, Zheng Y, Dunn Navarra AM (2023).
HIV syndemic factor associations among adolescent gay and bisexual men in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015-2019: A secondary data analysis
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 34 (5), 440-458. doi: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000423. PMCID: PMC10528913.
HIV syndemic factor associations among adolescent gay and bisexual men in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015-2019: A secondary data analysis
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 34 (5), 440-458. doi: 10.1097/JNC.0000000000000423. PMCID: PMC10528913.
Garcia DR, Fletcher J, Goldsamt L, Dunn Navarra AM (2023).
Integrative review of methods from Youth Risk Behavior Survey secondary data analyses examining HIV syndemic factors among adolescent gay and bisexual men
Nursing Research, 72 (2), 141-149. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000632.
Integrative review of methods from Youth Risk Behavior Survey secondary data analyses examining HIV syndemic factors among adolescent gay and bisexual men
Nursing Research, 72 (2), 141-149. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000632.