Nursing Faculty and Staff
Fisher faculty are dedicated, highly credentialed professionals who consistently make the advancement of scholarship in their respective fields a top priority.
Dean | Tricia K. Gatlin
Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Program Evaluation | Caroline Critchlow
Assistant Dean of Online Education | Damien Duchamp
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs | Lori Dambaugh
Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs | Colleen Dwyer Donegan
Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program | Alison Simpson
Chair, Graduate Affairs | Tara Sacco
Program Director, Online Nursing Program RN to BSN | Pam Herendeen
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Maternal child health, global health mission trips, intraprofessional education. Research: Gestational diabetes, global health mission trips, and student experiences
Simulation Educational Technology Specialist
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Health work environments; how the work environment impacts patient outcomes
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Nursing education and professional development; Improving health equity for individuals with disabilities
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Acute care/vascular surgery and in-home health care (clinical); quality metrics (research), Alzheimer's disease, and the promotion of leadership/scholarship in nursing
Executive Director, Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing
Simulation Educational Technology Specialist
Areas of Interest: Technology-based education, virtual and mixed reality education, and applied and behavioral science.
Senior Advisor and Fellowship Director, Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing
Areas of Interest: Collaboration and coordination; health care teams
Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Program Evaluation
Areas of Interest: Gender equity; issues impacting children's health and education; educational administration/leadership
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
Areas of Interest: Care of the obese patient in acute care, the role of the APRN in transitional care, chronic conditions, nursing advancement
Director of Experiential Learning/Instructor
Visiting Instructor
Areas of Interest: Psychiatric nursing; neurodevelopmental disability nursing; community and public health nursing; population health advocacy
Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs
Areas of Interest: Adult/gerontology care, palliative and hospice care, cardiology
Assistant Dean for Online Education
Areas of Interest: Online Pedagogy; tourism entrepreneurship; patient experience; beverage education; marketing; alternative foods; Metaverse/Web3; fashion tourism
Graduate Resource Lab Coordinator
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Adult and pediatric trauma; disaster response and management; acute and critical care medicine; education and curriculum design; simulation
Dean, Wegmans School of Nursing
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Adult/Older Adult, Medicine in Psychiatry, Global Medicine, Functional Medicine
Visiting Instructor
Areas of Interest: Acute care; hospital medicine
Program Director, RN to BSN Online
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Pediatric and perinatal palliative and hospice care; pediatric and neonatal critical care; community health
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Areas of Interest: Quality Improvement
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Higher education; administration; preventative care for the underserved populations
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Identifying and addressing needs, gaps, and barriers in how we provide health care for people with complex, pediatric-onset conditions
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Wound care, care of patients with intellectual or developmental disability, nursing leadership, surgical oncology
DNP, Nurse Anesthesia
Areas of Interest: Simulation Education, Obstetric Anesthesia
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Machine Learning & Data Science; advanced practice nurse-led community-based models of care; care transitions; heart failure care; impact of social determinants of health; lateral violence in nursing
Office:School of Business
Email:kledwin@sjf.edu
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Prevention of unintentional injuries in children, concussion, factors that influence incidence of concussion and recovery, concussion and anxiety, return to school after concussion
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Acute care/hospital medicine nurse practitioner; global health and short-term medical missions; preparing nurses to take part in medical missions
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Child and adolescent mental health; suicide prevention and intervention; mental health in the IDD population
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Maternal and child health epidemiology; nutrition and weight control during pregnancy; pregnancy complications; subclinical eating disorders
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Physical assessment, diagnostics, evidence-based practice
Visiting Instructor
Areas of Interest: Hospital medicine; critical care; hospital discharges against medical advice; opioid use disorder
Graduate Simulation Center Coordinator
Administrative Assistant, Graduate Programs
Phone:(585) 385-5271
Email:tpittman@sjf.edu
Simulation Center Instructor/Coordinator
Chair of Graduate Affairs
Areas of Interest: Clinical nurse specialist education; compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue; healthy work environments; burn, trauma, and neurologic critical care; nursing workforce
Visiting Instructor/Learning Resource Center Coordinator
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Maternal and child health; substance use disorders in pregnancy; gynecologic oncology; public health and epidemiology
Assistant Professor and Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program
Areas of Interest: Maternal and child health specifically related to diet and physical activity
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Neonatal abstinence syndrome, Trauma-informed care, Infant safe sleep
Part-Time Faculty
Areas of Interest: Nursing education; evidence-based education; educational design; competency assessment; nursing professional development; nursing leadership; program and project management; online learning
Administrative Assistant - Institute of Developmental Disability Nursing
Email:sysmith@sjf.edu
Student Success Facilitator
Assistant Director, Nurse Anesthesia DNP
Areas of Interest: Preoperative Assessment, Trauma Anesthesia, Neurosurgical Anesthesia-complex spine surgery
Undergraduate Clinical Coordinator
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: New nurse hospital orientation and preceptorship
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Pediatric cardiac critical care
