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Smelko

Cernuska

Blackburn

Kowalski

Stiller

Fields

Education

PhD – University of Pennsylvania
MS – Binghamton University (State University of New York)
BS – Binghamton University (State University of New York)

Select Honors and Awards

2020 Towers Pinnacle Award: American Association of Nurse Practitioners
2018 Cultural Pluralism Award: Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions
2018 Distinguished Alumni Award: State University of New York
2018 Medal of Distinguished Service: Binghamton University Alumni Association
2017 Trailblazer Award: National Black Nurses Association, Inc.
2016 Helen Miramontes Advocacy Award: Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Recent Publications

Alio, A. P., Sibley, C., Ouedraogo, H. S., Wallace, S. E., Wakefield, S., Humes, D. L., Fields. S. D., & Keefer, M. C., (2020). House Ball Community Leaders’ Perceptions of HIV and HIV Vaccine Research. Int. J of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS, 9(1), 136-145. https://doi.org/10.21106/ijma.331

Watson, C.C.; Wilton, L.; Lucas, J.P.; Bryant, L.; Victorianne, G.D.; Aradhya, K.; Fields, S. D.; Wheeler, D.P.; HPTN Black Caucus., (2020). Development of a Black Caucus within the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN): Representing the Perspectives of Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17(3), 871. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030871

Wheeler, D. P., Fields S. D., Magnus, M., Hightow-Weidman, L., Shoptaw, S., et. al., (2019). Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Initiation and Adherence among Black Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in Three U.S. Cities: Results from the HPTN 073 Study. Journal of the International AIDS Society 22 (2), https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25223.

Hightow-Weidman, L., Magnus, M., Beauchamp, G., Hurt, C. B., Shoptaw, S., Emel, L., Piwowar-Manning, E., Mayer, K. H., Nelson, L. E., Wilton, L., Watkins, P., Whitfield, D., Fields, S. D., & Wheeler, D. (2019). Incidence and Correlates of STIs among Black Men who have Sex with Men Participating in the HPTN 073 PrEP Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 69(9), 1597-1604, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy1141

Tankimovich

Research Interests:

Health promotion and disease prevention, improving patient outcomes, and transitions of care challenges

Education:

B.A. in Linguistics, University of California; B.S.N., M.S.N., & D.N.P., University of Texas Health Science Center

Peterson

Education & University

BSN, MSN, & DNP, University of Iowa

Research Interest

Advance care planning, Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POLST), Iowa Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (IPOST)

Bio

Dr. Peterson has been an adult & gerontological primary care nurse practitioner since 2008, with clinical practice experience in long term care, community care, home care and primary care. This includes providing geriatric and primary care to the Meskwaki Nation community (Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa and their employees). She has teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate nursing including master’s and doctorate level, as well as serving as a geriatric nurse practitioner preceptor to numerous students including family medicine residents. Her teaching experience includes lecture, on-line, clinical practicums and simulation; with emphasis on utilizing active learning strategies in the classroom. As an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin and a first-generation college student, she strives to be a supportive resource for underrepresented students in higher education. Her clinical research interest includes advance care planning. Dr. Peterson is a Respecting Choices^R first steps and advanced steps facilitator. Her DNP project involved advance care planning conversations and completion of an Iowa Physician Order for Scope of Treatment (IPOST) when applicable, with nursing home residents in a mid-size town when the medical orders were first available statewide in Iowa. The results of her project found residents and especially family members found this approach very valuable, but more education was needed for the healthcare staff. With social work partners, Dr. Mercedes Bern-Klug PhD, MSW, MA and Jane Dohrmann MSW, LISW, ACHP-SW, this work continued via several presentations and webinars including a Hartford Foundation Change AGEnts Initiative grant project, and working with the National POLST (Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment) Paradigm (as it was known at the time). This team, with the addition of Kandyce Powell, MSN, RN wrote the Nursing Home and Hospice chapters of the POLST Care Continuum toolkit available online (https://polst.org/toolkit/?pro=1).

Daughenbaugh

Hawk

Woodley

Penn State Harrisburg

Forrest Edgar

Peterman

Program: DNP

Advisor: Miyamoto/ Wolgast

Chang

Exten

BIO:

Dr. Exten received her Master of Public Health (MPH) from Emory University and her PhD in Epidemiology from The Ohio State University. She is an infectious disease epidemiologist, with a focus on health disparities affecting sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) populations. Her program of research is focused specifically on disparities related to sexual health (e.g. HIV and sexually transmitted infections) and substance use. She has extensive experience in survey data collection, the application of advanced statistical methods, and working with high-risk populations. She is passionate about the examination of diseases in their entirety, including biological, sociological and epidemiological factors.

EDUCATION:

PhD – The Ohio State University (Epidemiology)

MPH – Emory University (Epidemiology)

BS – East Tennessee State University (Biology and Psychology)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

Rice CE, Vasilenko SA, Fish JN, Lanza ST. Sexual minority health disparities: an examination of age-related trends across adulthood in a national cross-sectional sample. Annals of Epidemiology 2019; 31, 20-25.
Rice CE, Turner AN, Lanza ST. Sexual behavior latent classes among men who have sex with men: Associations with sexually transmitted infections. Journal of Sex Research 2017; 54, 776-783.
Rice CE, Maierhofer C, Fields KS, Ervin M, Lanza S, Turner AN. Beyond anal sex: Sexual practices among MSM and associations with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Journal of Sexual Medicine 2016; 13(3): 374-382. PMID: 26853044.
Fish JN, Rice CE, Lanza ST, Russell ST. Is young adulthood a critical period for suicidal behavior among sexual minorities? Results from a US national sample. Prevention Science 2019; 20(3): 353-365.

Stoy

Raines

Loop

Education

BSN, Liberty University; MSN, University of Virginia; DNP student, American Sentinel University

Interests

Simultaneous Multiple Patient Simulations; Educational Technology; ePortfolios; Academic Cross-cultural Collaborations, Virtual Reality, Integration of Summative & Formative Simulations throughout the BSN curriculum

Committees

Simulation Committee

Courses Taught

NURS 251 Health Assessment, NURS 310 Therapeutic Nursing Care of the Older Adult Client in a Variety of Settings, NURS 480 NCLEX-RN Review Course

Wells

Ward

Voller

Ventura

Vender

Vanderhoff

Unger

Taylor

Swartz

Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Graduate Faculty

Streiff

Sillner

Ritenour

Reedy

Peachey

Patton

Orndorf

Nieves

Nelson

Miner

McCreary

McCombie

Mattern

Lightner

LeSuer

Lacue

Kustenbauder

Education

Graduate of Saint Francis University (Undergraduate)
Indiana University of PA (graduate)
Penn State University (DNP)

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Hawk

Woodley

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Raines

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Voller

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Vender

Vanderhoff

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Miner

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Mattern

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Kertis

Humphrey

Holderman

Higgins

Halbruner

Govere

Gatchell

Ferguson

Evans III

Engeland

Eaton

Dunn

Dillen

Devney

Womeldorf

Cutezo

Yoder

Yohn

Yonushonis

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