Department: School of Nursing 

Areas of expertise:

• Cardiovascular disease in rural women
• Self-care post-heart disease invasive interventions
• Social determinants of health
• Cross-cultural experiential learning
• Design thinking 

Choshi is an assistant professor of nursing in the College of Health and Behavioral Studies, School of Nursing where she teaches Population Health in the Community, Health Equity (the design thinking approach) and Research Designs and Methods. 

Choshi’s research focuses on self-care behaviors of rural women with cardiovascular disease, and the impact of social determinants of health on equitable health care service access, delivery and utilization. She has a passion for health equity and teaches students to approach patients with empathy, as people, not as their conditions or illnesses. 

Choshi earned a diploma in nursing (midwifery, community health and psychiatry) at Lebone College of Nursing, in Pretoria, South Africa; a bachelor of science in nursing degree at the University of Phoenix, Tucson, Arizona, and a doctorate in nursing philosophy at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She spent 22 years as a cardiovascular critical care and cardiac catheterization nurse.

Contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu.