M.S. in 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.
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Maternal child health, global health mission trips, intraprofessional education. Research: Gestational diabetes, global health mission trips, and student experiences
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Health work environments; how the work environment impacts patient outcomes
Assistant Professor and RN/BS Program Director
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.
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
Associate Professor
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
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
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
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
Graduate Program Chair, 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
Clinical Coordination Manager
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Hospital medicine; critical care; hospital discharges against medical advice; opioid use disorder
Graduate Simulation Center Coordinator
Undergraduate Simulation Coordinator/Instructor
Areas of Interest: Pediatric critical care, pediatric school-based health, pediatric home care, simulation (land, AR, VR), experiential learning in healthcare education, gamification of learning
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
Learning Resource Center Coordinator
Associate 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
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: New nurse hospital orientation and preceptorship
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Pediatric cardiac critical care
