Personnel

Michelle Aebersold

Clinical Professor
Vice Chair for Research SPL, XR Faculty Innovator
Director of Simulation and Educational Innovation

• Simulation, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
• Serious Games
• Innovative Education Methods
• Patient Safety

Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren

• Decision making
• Women’s’ Heart Disease: Disparities and Biases
• Heart failure
• Cognitive dysfunction
• Self-care management

Nadia Charania

Clinical Assistant Professor

• Women’s mental health
• Depression
• Decision making and self-management strategies
• Ways to enhance classroom and clinical teaching and learning

Matt Davis

Associate Professor

• Population health
• Data science
• Health services research
• Healthcare spending and utilization

Ivo Dinov

Professor, SOCR Director, MIDAS Associate Director for Education
Chair, Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership

• Predictive Big Data Analytics
• Data science with biomedical and healthcare applications
• Health and neuroscience informatics
• Teaching with technology and blended instruction
• Mathematical modeling and statistical computing

Karen Harden

Clinical Assistant Professor

• Palliative Care
• Bone marrow transplant
• Oncology
• Nurse Coaching
• Teaching and Support for Students

Patricia Hurn

SoN Dean & Professor

• Biological mechanisms of brain injury
• Stroke in women
• Interdisciplinary biomedical research and innovation

John Knight

Clinical Assistant Professor

• Leadership
• Informatics
• Process excellence
• Quality and safety
• Evidence-based practice

Barb Medvec

Clinical Associate Professor

• Leadership
• Practice environment and implementation
• Quality and safety
• Digital (online) education
• Evidence-based practice

Crystal Patil

• Implementation science
• Reproductive and sexual health
• Food and nutrition
• Pain and chronic conditions
• Global health

Kathleen Potempa

Professor

• Community-based approaches to improving health behavior
• Exercise capacity of post-stroke hemiplegic patients
• Cardiovascular fitness in physically impaired populations

Chas Sloan

Clinical Assistant Professor

• Nursing education
• Healthcare technology
• Palliative care
• End-of-life care of patients and families

Sarah Stoddard

• Adolescent Substance Use
• Future orientation
• Adolescent health
• Risk and resilience
• Prevention Science

Dana Tschannen

• Evidence-based practice and quality improvement
• Frontline nurse engagement
• Team training
• Nurse sensitive indicators (e.g. pressure injury prevention, falls)
• Innovative teaching strategies

Affiliate Faculty

Barbara Kupferschmid

Associate Professor

• Sickness responses
• Cognitive functioning

Rhonda Schoville

Associate Professor
Director of Healthcare Innovation Impact Program (HiiP)
Director of Nurse Executive Fellow Academy (NEFA)

• Informatics
• Technology adoption
• Implementation science
• Innovations and simulations
• Innovative education methods