Decker Nursing Faculty

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Karen Browne, MS, 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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Brittany Burns, MS

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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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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Pamela Stewart Fahs, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associate Dean/Prof./Decker Chair Rural Nsg.

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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Anne Fish, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN

Nursing Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Reducing cardiovascular risk factors
  • Managing chronic illness
  • Examining diabetes education and support in China
  • Examining clinical practices in China
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Ann E. 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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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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Thet Su Htwe, MD

Visiting Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Community health
  • Cultural sensitivity in the healthcare system
  • Violence against women
  • Conflict-related sexual violence
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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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Matthew M. Lunn, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Use of force
  • Policy and program evaluation
  • Crisis leadership
  • Qualitative research
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Mario R. 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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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 Rizzo 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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Nicole A. 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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Lori-Marie 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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Bartle Professors

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Mary E. 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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