Joan Valas
Director of Post-Licensure Nursing, School of Nursing and Professor
Disciplines
- Medicine and Health Sciences
- Nursing
Research Interests
- health disparities
- vulnerable populations
- health policy
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Janice Smolowitz
Dean, School of Nursing
Disciplines
- Nursing
Research Interests
- Movement disorder neurology
- Chronic illness management
Courtney Reinisch
Associate Professor & Undergraduate Program Director, Nursing
Disciplines
- Nursing
Research Interests
- Expertise in education and provision of direct care for persons who require treatment of complex-comorbid health conditions across the health illness continuum in the context of family and community.
Rachel Lyons
Associate Professor, Nursing
Disciplines
- Medicine and Health Sciences
- Nursing
Research Interests
- pediatric access to health care, injury prevention and nursing education
- adolescent gun violence
- urban green space
Sarah Kelly
Associate Professor, Nursing
Disciplines
- Medicine and Health Sciences
- Nursing
Research Interests
- vulnerable youth exposure to community and gang violence
- the affect exposure to violence and the consequences of exposure to violence has on their health and health related quality of life
- professional development of students as they transition to nurses
Yanick Joseph
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Disciplines
- Medicine and Health Sciences
- Nursing
Marybeth Duffy
Associate Professor, Nursing
Disciplines
- Medicine and Health Sciences
- Nursing
- Critical Care Nursing
Research Interests
- improving outcomes by expanding nurse practitioner scope of practice in acute cardiac settings
Nastassia Davis
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Disciplines
- Nursing
- Other Medicine and Health Sciences
- Public Health
Research Interests
- implicit bias/racism in healthcare
- breastfeeding in the black community
- obstetrical violence