Dr. Taylor is an Assistant Professor at the Yale University School of Nursing. Her career has focused on addressing health disparities in hypertension among African Americans, an interest she developed from research experiences early in her career and from clinical practice. As an undergraduate nursing student she worked as a research assistant in a physiology laboratory examining the effects of various drugs on vascular smooth muscle cells for the treatment of hypertension. In 2001, she completed the Summer Genetics Institute at National Institute for Nursing Research. As she continued her graduate work for the Ph.D., she practiced as a pediatric nurse practitioner for the School Mobile Health Center at Children's Hospital of Michigan. These research and clinical experiences led her to study the genetic and environmental influences on blood pressure. Her work has been funded by several NIH agencies and her current study as a Nurse Faculty Scholar examines the interaction between genome-wide association and social environmental factors related to blood pressure among African-American hypertensive parents and early risks for high blood pressure among their untreated children. Her long-term goals are to develop nursing interventions to prevent and reduce gene-environment risks associated with hypertension.