Department of Nursing Faculty and Staff

Name

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Email

Name

Michael Abajian, M.D., M.P.H.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Lecturer

  • Vermont Department of Health Internship: Creation of Vermont State Health Plan

Email

Michael.Abajian@med.uvm.edu

Name

Sarah Abrams, Ph.D., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Associate Professor Emeritus

  • Development of cultural competency and outcome measurement for cultural competency
  • Health status and infrastructure in developing countries
  • Nursing history

Email

Name

Christina Adamczak

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Administrative Support

Email

Christina.Adamczak@uvm.edu

Name

Margaret Aitken, M.S., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Adult Primary Care

Email

Margaret.Aitken@med.uvm.edu

Name

Jennifer Allaire, M.S., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Adult Primary Care
  • Palliative Care

Email

Jennifer.Allaire@med.uvm.edu

Name

Jean Beatson, Ed.D., RN

Jean Beatson, Ed.D., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Professor Emeritus

  • Family-centered practice
  • Cross-cultural health care
  • Integration of health and education

Email

Jean.Beatson@med.uvm.edu

Name

Marcia Bosek, D.N.Sc., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Associate Professor

  • Ethical decision-making
  • Qualitative methods
  • Simulation learning

Email

Marcia.Bosek@med.uvm.edu

Name

Brandon Brown, M.S., RN, CNL

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Medical Surgical Nursing
  • Nursing Education

Email

Brandon.Brown@med.uvm.edu

Name

Carol Buck-Rolland, Ed.D., APRN

Carol Buck-Rolland, Ed.D., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Professor/Vice-Chair, Graduate Nursing Program

  • Development of cultural competency
  • Pediatric Care

Email

Carol.Buck-Rolland@med.uvm.edu

Name

Tara Burnham, M.S., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Clinical Care

Email

Tara.Burnham@med.uvm.edu

Name

Teresa Cahill-Griffin, M.S., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

Email

Teresa.Cahill-Griffin@uvm.edu

Name

Jeanine Carr, Ph.D., RN

Jeanine Carr, Ph.D., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Associate Professor Emeritus

  • Qualitative research methods
  • Nursing regulation
  • Ethics
  • Leadership

Email

Jeanine.Carr@med.uvm.edu

Name

Beatriz (Bea) Cobeo

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Administrative Support

Email

Beatriz.Cobeo.1@uvm.edu

Name

Rosemary L. Dale, Ed.D., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Professor, Chair

  • Administration and Management
  • Congestive heart failure
  • Hypertension

Email

Rosemary.Dale@med.uvm.edu

Name

Patricia Donehower, M.S.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Lecturer

Email

Patricia.Donehower@med.uvm.edu

Name

Elizabeth Ellis-Kempner, M.S.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Visiting Clinical Instructor

  • Dance/movement
  • Maternal-child, family and urgent care nursing
     

Email

Elizabeth.Ellis-Kempner@uvm.edu

Name

Kate FitzPatrick, D.N.P., RN, ACNP, NEA-BC, FAAN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Associate Dean, Academic-Practice Integration; Chief Nursing Officer, UVM Medical Center

  • Health care quality and patient safety
  • Administrative nursing practice/acute care leadership
  • Professional nurse peer review
  • Clinical practice: emergency, trauma

Email

Name

Jason Garbarino, D.N.P., RN-BC, CNL

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Assistant Professor

  • Gerontological Nursing
  • Medical-Surgical Nursing

Email

Jason.Garbarino@uvm.edu

Name

Mary Alice Giannoni, M.S., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Maternal Child Health

Email

Mary.Giannoni@med.uvm.edu

Name

Kathleen Goodwin, M.S., NP

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

Email

Kathleen.Goodwin@med.uvm.edu

Name

Brenda Hamel-Bissell, Ed.D., RN

Brenda Hamel-Bissell, Ed.D., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Professor

  • Mental Health
  • Psychiatric Illness
  • Substance Use
  • Assessment and Treatment

Email

Brenda.Hamel-Bissell@med.uvm.edu

Name

Christina Harlow, D.N.P., FNP-BC, APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Assistant Professor

  • Primary care
  • Integrative medicine
  • Depression and anxiety in primary care

Email

Christina.Harlow@med.uvm.edu

Name

Jennifer Laurent, Ph.D., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Assistant Professor

  • Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
  • Addictive Disorders
  • Eating Behaviors in Obese Adolescents
  • Food Environment

Email

Jennifer.Laurent@med.uvm.edu

Name

Nancy LeMieux, M.S.N., RN, CHSE

Nancy Lemieux, M.S., RN, CHSE

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Clinical Simulation
  • Interprofessional Education
  • Emergency Nursing

Email

Nancy.LeMieux@med.uvm.edu

Name

Laura Lewis

Laura Foran Lewis, Ph.D., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Assistant Professor

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Qualitative Research Methods

Email

Laura.Lewis@uvm.edu

Name

Ellen Long-Middleton, Ph.D., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Associate Professor

  • HIV prevention in adolescent young women
  • Delivery of interprofessional primary care services
  • The role of nurse practitioners in national and international communities
     

Email

Ellen.Long-Middleton@med.uvm.edu

Name

Islane Raymond Louis

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Health care systems leadership

Email

Islane.Louis@uvm.edu

Name

Hendrika Maltby, Ph.D., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Professor

  • Cultural competency across nursing programs
  • Community-based issues
  • Development of cultural immersion model

Email

Hendrika.Maltby@med.uvm.edu

Name

Loretta G. McManus, M.S., RN, LNHA

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Acute care hospital settings
  • Long term care complex environment
  • Gerontology

Email

Loretta.McManus@med.uvm.edu

Name

Genell Mikkalson, M.S., CNM, APRN, RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Visiting Instructor

  • Midwifery
  • Incivility and unkindness in the healthcare workplace
  • Sex Therapy

Email

Genell.Mikkalson@uvm.edu

Name

Kathleen Monforte, M.S., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

Email

Name

Rebecca Nagle, M.S., PNP, RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Pediatrics

Email

Rebecca.Nagle@med.uvm.edu

Name

Sarah Narkewicz, M.S., RN, CDE

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Visiting Instructor

  • Community Health Improvement
  • Diabetes Education
  • Quality Improvement
  • Chronic Disease Self-Management
  • Care Coordination
  • Community Health Needs Assessment
  • Pediatric Nursing
  • Asthma Management
  • Grants Management

Email

Sarah.Narkewicz@med.uvm.edu

Name

Deb Norton, Ed.D., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Educator

Email

Deborah.Norton@med.uvm.edu

Name

Amy M. O'Meara, Dr.N.P., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Assistant Professor

  • Reproductive health care
  • Adult Gerontology
  • Maternal Child Nursing

Email

Amy.OMeara@med.uvm.edu

Name

Mary Val Palumbo, D.N.P., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Professor

  • Interprofessional education
  • Nursing workforce
  • Alzheimer's disease

Email

Mary.Palumbo@med.uvm.edu

Name

Kerry S. Prendergast

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Gerontology
  • Wound care

Email

Kerry.Prendergast@uvm.edu

Name

Mischka Rizzo

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Administrative Assistant

Email

Mischka.Rizzo@uvm.edu

Name

Sarah Pinard Rogers, M.S., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Maternal/Newborn Care
  • Surgical/Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing

Email

Sarah.PinardRogers@med.uvm.edu

Name

Abilene A. Smith, M.S., M.H.A., RN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Nurse case management
  • Utilization review
  • Acute care rehabilitation
  • Stroke management

Email

Abilene.Smith@med.uvm.edu

Name

Deborah Wachtel

Deborah Wachtel, D.N.P., M.P.H., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Assistant Professor/Clinical Faculty

  • Endocrinology with a focus on diabetes and obesity
  • Health care reform/ Health policy
  • Harm reduction

Email

dwachtel@uvm.edu

Name

Ellen Watson, M.S., APRN

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Instructor

  • Health Behavior Change
  • Behavioral Health in Primary Care

Email

Ellen.C.Watson@med.uvm.edu

Name

Stuart L. Whitney, Ed.D., RN

Stuart L. Whitney, Ed.D., RN, CNL

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Clinical Professor and Vice-Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program

  • Clinical Practice
  • Curricular/ Nursing Education
  • Educational Leadership & Policy

Email

Stuart.Whitney@med.uvm.edu