In her 11 years at the UA College of Nursing, Dr. Reel has been the principal investigator on multiple grants totaling more than 18 million. She also serves as the director of the Arizona Area Health Education Centers program, which focuses on enhancing access to quality health care, particularly primary and preventive care, by improving the supply and distribution of health-care professionals through academic-community educational partnerships in rural and urban medically underserved Arizona communities.