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
Office:WEGNUR 215
Phone:(585) 385-8462
Kylene Abraham
Administrative Assistant for Undergraduate Nursing Program
Office:WEGNUR 201
Phone:(585) 385-8241
Christine Antonini
Visiting Instructor
Office:WEGNUR 155
Phone:(585) 899-3894
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Health work environments; how the work environment impacts patient outcomes
Office:WEGNUR 201C
Phone:(585) 899-3869
Christine Boev
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Nursing education and professional development; Improving health equity for individuals with disabilities
Office:WEGNUR 158
Phone:(585) 899-3859
Melissa Bourne
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
Office:WEGNUR 321
Phone:(585) 385-8397
Desiree Branson
Executive Director, Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing
Office:WEGNUR 156
Phone:(585) 899-3823
Holly Brown
Simulation Educational Technology Specialist
Areas of Interest: Technology-based education, virtual and mixed reality education, and applied and behavioral science.
Office:WEGNUR 117
Phone:(585) 385-8091
Bryan Christian
Senior Advisor and Fellowship Director, Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing
Areas of Interest: Collaboration and coordination; health care teams
Office:WEGNUR 201F
Phone:(585) 385-8472
Dianne Cooney Miner
Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Program Evaluation
Areas of Interest: Gender equity; issues impacting children's health and education; educational administration/leadership
Office:WEGNUR 201-A
Phone:(585) 385-8451
Caroline Critchlow
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
Office:WEGNUR 201L
Phone:(585) 385-8473
Lori Dambaugh
Director of Experiential Learning/Instructor
Office:WEGNUR 253
Phone:(585) 385-8304
Crystal Dobri
Visiting Instructor
Areas of Interest: Psychiatric nursing; neurodevelopmental disability nursing; community and public health nursing; population health advocacy
Office:WEGNUR 309A
Phone:(585) 899-3812
Liz Dollinger
Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs
Areas of Interest: Adult/gerontology care, palliative and hospice care, cardiology
Office:WEGNUR 201K
Phone:(585) 899-3788
Colleen Donegan
Assistant Dean for Online Education
Areas of Interest: Online Pedagogy; tourism entrepreneurship; patient experience; beverage education; marketing; alternative foods; Metaverse/Web3; fashion tourism
Office:WSON 157
Phone:(585) 385-7356
Damien Duchamp
Graduate Resource Lab Coordinator
Office:WEGNUR 305A
Phone:(585) 385-8418
Jennifer Fernaays
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Adult and pediatric trauma; disaster response and management; acute and critical care medicine; education and curriculum design; simulation
Office:WEGNUR 153
Phone:(585) 385-7384
Susan Fredrick
Dean, Wegmans School of Nursing
Office:WEGNUR 201F
Phone:(585) 385-8494
Tricia Gatlin
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Adult/Older Adult, Medicine in Psychiatry, Global Medicine, Functional Medicine
Office:WSON 153
Phone:(585) 385-8116
Katherine Grams
Visiting Instructor
Areas of Interest: Acute care; hospital medicine
Office:WEGNUR 309
Phone:(585) 385-7383
Heather Hamilton
Women’s Health Specialist
Program Director, RN to BSN Online
Office:WEGNUR 219
Phone:(585) 385-7233
Pam Herendeen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Pediatric and perinatal palliative and hospice care; pediatric and neonatal critical care; community health
Office:WEGNUR 309-C
Phone:(585) 899-3839
Joy Hogan
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Areas of Interest: Quality Improvement
Office:WSON 221
Phone:(585) 385-8084
Deborah Hurley
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Higher education; administration; preventative care for the underserved populations
Office:WEGNUR 223
Phone:(585) 576-1144
Corey Jackson
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
Office:WEGNUR 156
Phone:(585) 899-3823
Amy Jerum
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Wound care, care of patients with intellectual or developmental disability, nursing leadership, surgical oncology
Office:WEGNUR 223
Phone:(585) 385-8246
Beth Kiss
Visiting Instructor
Office:WSON 223
Phone:(585) 889-3877
Allison LaPietra
DNP, Nurse Anesthesia
Areas of Interest: Simulation Education, Obstetric Anesthesia
Office:WEGNUR 223
Phone:(585) 385-8471
Eric Ledwin
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
Kathryn Ledwin
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
Office:WEGNUR 212
Phone:(585) 899-3835
Pamela Mapstone
Assistant to the Dean
Office:WEGNUR 201E
Phone:(585) 385-8468
Carolyn Martin
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
Office:WEGNUR 154
Phone:(585) 899-3837
Natalie Masco
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Child and adolescent mental health; suicide prevention and intervention; mental health in the IDD population
Office:WEGNUR 323
Phone:(585) 899-3756
Marcie McMahon
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Maternal and child health epidemiology; nutrition and weight control during pregnancy; pregnancy complications; subclinical eating disorders
Office:WEGNUR 309
Phone:(585) 385-7359
Heather McGrane Minton
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Physical assessment, diagnostics, evidence-based practice
Office:WEGNUR 319
Phone:(585) 899-3785
Henry Moscicki
Clinical Coordinator
Office:WEGNUR 224
Phone:(585) 385-8062
Grace Mroczka
Visiting Instructor
Areas of Interest: Hospital medicine; critical care; hospital discharges against medical advice; opioid use disorder
Office:WEGNUR 220
Phone:(585) 899-3739
Alexis Munding
Visiting Instructor
Office:WSON 223
Phone:(585) 385-8278
Allison Nickel
Graduate Simulation Center Coordinator
Office:WEGNUR 302
Phone:(585) 385-8303
Karen Parker
Visiting Assistant Professor
Phone:(585) 899-3809
Katherine Rowles
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
Office:WEGNUR 152
Phone:(585) 385-8127
Tara Sacco
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Maternal and child health; substance use disorders in pregnancy; gynecologic oncology; public health and epidemiology
Office:WSON 251
Phone:(585) 385-5260
Lindsay Shor
Assistant Professor and Chair, Undergraduate Nursing Program
Areas of Interest: Maternal and child health specifically related to diet and physical activity
Office:WEGNUR 222
Phone:(585) 385-7353
Alison Simpson
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Neonatal abstinence syndrome, Trauma-informed care, Infant safe sleep
Office:WEGNUR 223
Phone:(585) 899-3866
Michelle Slymon
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
Office:WEGNUR 217
Phone:(585) 899-3877
Charlene Smith
Administrative Assistant - Institute of Developmental Disability Nursing
Student Success Facilitator
Office:WEGNUR 309
Phone:(585) 899-3834
Stephanie Smyth
Assistant Program Director-Nurse Anesthesia
Areas of Interest: Preoperative Assessment, Trauma Anesthesia, Neurosurgical Anesthesia-complex spine surgery
Office:WSON211
Phone:(585) 899-3829
Assistant Director, Nurse Anesthesia DNP
Office:WSON 211
Phone:(585) 899-3829
Jennifer Spilberg
Administrative Assistant
Adjunct Faculty
Office:WEGNUR 302
Phone:(585) 385-8278
Donna Tydings
Undergraduate Clinical Coordinator
Office:WEGNUR 220
Phone:(585) 385-7230
Julie Vilinsky
Assistant Professor
Office:WSON 153
Phone:(585) 899-3782
Maria Wheelock
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: New nurse hospital orientation and preceptorship
Office:WEGNUR 216
Phone:(585) 899-3719
Eileen Wilbert
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Pediatric cardiac critical care
Office:WEGNUR 218
Phone:(585) 385-7317
Melinda Zalewski