Service/Scholarship
This faculty is a current member and co-chair of the Global Membership Committee for the International Society of Nurses in Genetics.
Ying Sheng
This faculty member's academic interests include Pediatric Nursing and Legal and ethical accountability in professional nursing practice.
Melissa Lord
This faculty member has 0 kids, 3 white hairs (4 if you count her husband), and 5 cats.
Leanne Boehm
This faculty member was in the Army Nurse Corps for 6 years prior to attending VUSN for grad school.
Shannon Ellrich
From 2003-2011, this faculty member worked with the National Disaster Medical Systems, and has been involved in regional and national disaster responses including Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Michael Gooch
This faculty member loves picking scabs and popping blisters (burn unit nurse)
Ellen Schoen
This member's interests include - cooking/gardening, reading, and floral arranging.
Sarah Gast
This member participates in volunteer work as a recovery room nurse at Clinica Ezell, a surgical clinic located in Montellano, Guatemala.
Lacey Cross
This faculty member is the project lead for a $250,000 Engagement Award for Project on Overcoming Barriers to Patient- and Family-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research.
Ruth Kleinpell
This faculty member's teaching expertise includes - pathophysiology, acute care NP, cardiac, and medical/surgical nursing.
Cate Enstrom
When this faculty member retires, you will find her running and playing tennis as often as possible:)
Courtney Cook
This faculty member is the 42nd (and final granddaughter) of 44 grandchildren on one side of the family.
Sharon Karp
In addition to her teaching role, this faculty member provides psychiatric mental health services to cancer patients at Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center as part of an interdisciplinary Psycho-Oncology team.
Rose Vick
This faculty member reached 20 years of clinical service this year.
Helen Nation
This faculty member has 2 teenagers - one boy and one girl and enjoys spending time with family, baking, walking, and sewing.
Colleen Moss
This faculty member and his family took a trip this weekend to camp and view the synchronous fireflies in the Smoky Mountains.
Travis McCall
This faculty member developed a health and safety curriculum in the Bandung International School for 26 different cultures across grades K-10.
Dean Jeffries
This faculty supervises students on the trauma step-down unit at VUMC.
Lucy Tucker
This faculty member loves to travel all over the world, mountain climbing, sailing, hiking, camping, snowboarding, and being outside.
Courtney Hall
This faculty member maintains a pilot’s license and used to own her own plane.
Mary Dietrich