Decker Nursing Faculty

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Brittany Burns, PhD

Clinical Instructor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Prisoner re-entry
  • Addressing mental health and substance needs of the formerly incarcerated
  • Qualitative research
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Carey Cadieux, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RYT, FAAN

Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Medical cannabis education
  • Adverse childhood events of nursing students, nurses and faculty
  • Caring curriculum outcomes
  • Psychoneuroimmunology and stress resilience
  • Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory
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Jun Ryan Carreon, MSN, MHA, RN-BC

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Parsesciencing
  • Qualitative research on universal humanuniverse living experiences
  • Internationally educated nurses
  • Comparative international health policy
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Rosemary Collier, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Addiction behaviors
  • Tobacco use and cessation
  • Research and nursing education
  • Qualitative research
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Brian Coveleskie, RN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Psychiatric nursing
  • Simulation in nursing education
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Nannette Cowen, PhD, APRN-BC, FNP

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Diabetes prevention
  • Wellness and health promotion
  • Physical activity
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Telehealth
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Donna Cutting, PhD, RN

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Empathy in nursing
  • Telehealth/telenursing
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Mi Jin Doe, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Parsesciencing
  • Qualitative study with universal humanuniverse living experiences
  • Mental health
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Shelley Dugas-Thomas, MS, RN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Psychological safety training and its effect on stress levels during simulation
  • The impact of in-hospital preceptorship and externship programs on self-efficacy and transition shock in graduate/novice nurses
  • Impact of adverse childhood experiences on academic resilience self-determined learning and professional engagement
  • Community health cultural immersion and its effects on implicit and explicit bias in nursing students
  • Art-based teaching practices and their impact on personal and professional self-concept
  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction and its impact on student self-efficacy
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Alison Dura, EdD, MS, RN, CNE

Clinical Assistant Professor; Assistant Director, Undergraduate Programs

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • New approaches to undergraduate nursing education
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Heidi Ewen, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE

Nursing Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Aging
  • Aging and environment
  • Home and community-based services
  • Stress and adaptation
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Anne Fish, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN

Nursing Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Cardiovascular health
  • Health promotion
  • Diabetes
  • International research collaboration
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Ann Fronczek, PhD, RN

Associate Professor and Director UG and PhD Programs

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Telehealth and mHealth
  • King's Dynamic Interacting Systems Framework and Theory of Goal Attainment
  • Nursing workforce development: telehealth
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Joshua Garrett, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Endothelial barrier function
  • Angiogenesis
  • Inflammation
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Dellazon Gilbert, MSN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Simulation
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Susan Glodstein, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC

Program Coordinator of Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Suicide prevention
  • Attitudes towards suicide
  • Language promoting mental health
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Barbara Hogan, MSN, RN-BC

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Medication safety with elderly patients
  • Health literacy
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Celeste Keefe, MSN

Clinical Lecturer

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Obstetrics
  • Women's health
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Rachel Kimani, DNP, CHNP, FNP, RN

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Health equity
  • Care ethics
  • Allostatic load
  • Global health
  • Translational science
  • Artificial intelligence in health
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Jolene Kittle, PhD, RN, ACCNS-AG

Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Trauma and critical care nursing
  • Social determinants of health
  • Contemporary nursing and innovation
  • Well-being
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Andin Kovarik Roeber, DNP, FNP

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Community health
  • Women's health
  • Sexual health
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William Larsen, DNP, MS, FNP-BC, CDCES

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
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Samantha Lewis PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Personality disorders
  • Trauma
  • Human trafficking
  • Developmental disabilities (particularly intellectual disabilities and autism)
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Laura Lunger, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Implementation science
  • Inclusion of waist circumference measurement as a vital sign
  • Obesity screening and cardiometabolic risk assessment
  • Preventive health screening
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Matthew Lunn, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Director of the Forensic Health Program

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Use of force
  • Policy and program evaluation
  • Crisis leadership
     
  • Qualitative research
     
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Wendy Moore, PhD, RN-C, CNE

Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Nursing education
  • Innovative teaching and assessment practices
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Karen Nichols, PhD, RN, CWOCN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Ostomy/wound education for undergraduate nursing students
  • Online education for undergraduate nursing programs
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Danielle Ongondo, PhD, RN

PRODiG+ Postdoctoral Fellow in Nursing

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Resilience among adults living with Sickle Cell Disease
  • Health equity and disparities in Sickle Cell Disease
  • Adaptation and resilience frameworks in nursing science
  • Multilevel interventions to improve health outcomes
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Bridget Oppong-Darko, DNP, FNP-C, RN

Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Vulnerable populations
  • Global health
  • Health education and promotion
  • Substance use disorders
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Mario Ortiz, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, FNP-C, FNAP, FAAN

Dean; Professor; Decker Endowed Chair in Community Health Nursing

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Qualitative research
  • Living experiences of health
  • Nursing theory-guided research
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Deborah Palmer, MS, RN, COS-C

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Simulation in nursing education
  • Students perceptions of vulnerable populations
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Asit Panja, MD, AGAF, ABAARM

Clinical Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Translational bio-medical collaborative research
  • Mucosal immunity
  • Chronic inflammatory diseases and disorders
  • Gastrointestinal stem and epithelial cell
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Pre-clinical drug discovery and development
  • Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
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Rosemarie Parse, PhD, RN, FAAN

Visiting Scholar and Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Sciencing as coming to know
  • Parsesciencing
  • Qualitative research with universal humanuniverse living experiences
  • Investigative phenomena: dignity, reverence, awe, betrayal, shame
  • Community change concepts
  • Teaching-learning and leading-following
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Kathleen Payne, MSN, RN

Clinical Lecturer

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Pediatrics
  • Simulation
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Betsy Perry, MS, RN, FNP-C

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Postpartum depression/anxiety
  • Trauma-informed care
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Jennifer Puchalski, MSN, RN

Clinical Instructor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
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Judith Quaranta, PhD, RN, CPN, AE-C

Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Childhood asthma
  • Pediatric well-being
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Alma Rood, MSN, RN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • End-of-life care
  • Hospice and palliative care
  • Students' perceptions of end-of-life care
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Nicole Rouhana, PhD, FACNM, FNP-BC

Associate Professor/ Director of Graduate Programs

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • HPV vaccinations
  • Interprofessional education
  • Supporting international graduate nursing students
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Megan Seevers

Clinical Instructor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
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Tristan Sharratt, FNP MPH

Clinical Lecturer

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Rural health disparity mitigation
  • Novel economic interventions to optimize population health outcomes
  • Universal healthcare system design, implementation and evaluation
  • Harm reduction/community-based substance use disorder treatment
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Lori Sprague PhD, RN CHSE

Assistant Director of Innovative Simulation and Practice / Clinical Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Tobacco research and education
  • The effectiveness of simulation on student perceptions, empathy and knowledge
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Aline (Allie) Stabler, MSN, FNP-C, BSN, RN

Assistant Clinical Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Emergency nursing
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Jodi Sutherland, PhD, RN, ACRN, CNE

Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Primary and secondary prevention of HIV/AIDS
  • Community health education
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Melissa Sutherland, PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN

Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Interpersonal violence
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • Health behaviors
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Nicholas Terela, MS, RN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Emergency nursing
  • Disaster nursing
  • Emergency preparedness
  • Psychological flexibility
  • Resilience in nursing
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Molly Welch, MSN, RN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Active learning strategies
  • Technology and online learning
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Bartle Professors

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Serdar Atav, PhD

Bartle Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Vulnerable populations
  • Opioid use and misuse
  • Medicaid
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Health applications of system dynamics modeling
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Rosa Darling, PhD, RNC-NIC

Bartle Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Simulation
  • Neonatal care
  • Maternal child health
  • Population health
  • Obesity
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Pamela Stewart Fahs, PhD, RN, FAAN

Bartle Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Cardiovascular risk reduction
  • Rural populations
  • Knowledge of cardiovascular risks
  • Heart attack and stroke in rural women
  • Rural nursing theory
  • Roy Adaptation model
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Mary Muscari, PhD, MSCr, CPNP, PMHCNS-BC, AFN-BC

Bartle Associate Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Children and adolescents as victims/perpetrators of violence
  • Sexual offending
  • Mass violence
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