Karen Farchaus Stein, PhD, RN, FAAN is a top researcher in the nursing field in the areas of health risk behavior in adolescent and young adult females. She has received numerous recognitions for her work, including the American Psychiatric Nurses Association’s Award for Excellence in Research. Her most recent research has been to develop and test a smart-phone-delivered, culture-specific healthy eating intervention for Mexican immigrant farmworker women. She is the Brody Endowed Professor at the University of Rochester School of Nursing.