I lead the educational mission of the University of Washington School of Nursing, spanning strategy and operations across academic and student affairs. That work runs from recruitment and admissions through advising, financial aid, instructional design, simulation, clinical placement, student conduct, and academic policy, leading accreditation and regulatory compliance at UW Seattle and coordinating it across the Bothell and Tacoma campuses.
Directed the pediatric advanced practice tracks, the only PNP program serving the WWAMI region.
Leadership Institute combining immersive intensives and executive coaching to prepare nursing school leaders for the distinct challenges of academic health center environments.
Year-long AACN fellowship developing executive leadership for nursing academic units, through immersive coaching, advanced simulations, expert workshops, and a peer learning community.
Since 2011 I have taught didactic, clinical, laboratory, and methods courses across the DNP and PhD programs, and I continue to guest lecture across the School and beyond it, including dentistry and public health.
Chaired the revision of the national pediatric nurse practitioner competencies.
Led the tri-campus BSN revision, the University's first jointly developed tri-campus program curriculum, built through cross-campus governance and faculty partnership and aligned to the AACN Essentials and competency-based education. Now leading implementation at UW Seattle across the ABSN and BSN programs.
Leading the transition to an online-plus-intensive model across eight specialty tracks and 70 courses, revised to the 2021 AACN Essentials and 2022 National Task Force standards. Secured provost approval consolidating all tracks onto a single per-credit tuition rate.
Designed and implemented the School's CBE adoption plan, spanning faculty workshops, a CBE champions consultation structure, and progressive rollout across the ABSN, BSN, and DNP programs.
Launched the acute care PNP track.
Led the PNP and PCNS curriculum revision and new course development, carried through state and national regulatory approval.
I have served on 126 graduate supervisory committees across the PhD, DNP, and MN programs and mentored three postdoctoral fellows. Former mentees hold postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia and UW, faculty appointments at Pacific Lutheran University, San Diego State University, and Oman College of Health Sciences, and program leadership roles at UW and the University of Utah.
Member of 14 PhD committees, chairing six across nursing science, public health, and epidemiology. Primary mentor for students working in family informatics, pediatric chronic disease, and nursing workforce. Over three years in the PhD theory course, mentees advanced their own theory scholarship to four publications and six presentations.
11 committeesChaired or co-chaired 42 of 97 DNP supervisory committees. Led DNP students through clinical scholarship projects spanning asthma, CF, sleep, behavioral health, and immunization, many with HRSA trainee funding support.
96 DNPAwarded September 2026, $3,002,995 in total direct costs. Recruits experienced health care workers into baccalaureate nursing education and trains them through a competency-based ambulatory curriculum delivered in community-based clinical settings, realigning nursing education with where care is now delivered. Prelicensure-focused, extending the portfolio beyond graduate education.
Scholarships for primary care students across adult-gerontology, family, pediatric, midwifery, and psychiatric mental health tracks. Awarded September 2026, $3,500,750 in total direct costs.
Reducing debt burden for nurses entering academic teaching careers. Awarded annually through competitive submission. Total direct costs by award:
Expanding the advanced practice nursing workforce for rural and medically underserved Washington communities (ANEW-WA). $2,600,000 in total direct costs.
The first SPAAN award, supporting primary care students across adult-gerontology, family, pediatric, midwifery, and psychiatric mental health tracks. $2,900,492 in total direct costs, including three supplements dedicated to nurse midwifery funding.
Nursing faculty lead, then Project Co-Director, on UW's interprofessional training grant for children with complex pulmonary conditions. Led the 2025 competitive renewal, $1,700,000 in total direct costs. Mentored trainees in medicine, social work, nutrition, psychology, and nursing, including 31 PNP trainees, all now practicing clinicians. The program was discontinued early due to availability of appropriated funds.
I co-design solutions with people, not for them.
Competency-based curricula with faculty, clinical placement capacity with our partners, an operations office with the staff who run it.