Area of Excellence: Mental Health and Behavioral Interventions
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Brenda Nettles
Brenda Smith Nettles is a board certified acute care nurse practitioner with over 20 years of nursing experience. She is an expert in providing care for patients confronted with the life-altering diagnosis of cancer. She played an integral role in the development of several cancer treatment programs, while also establishing the standards for evidenced based…
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Elaine Stashinko
Elaine Stashinko’s clinical practice and research focus on child health nursing, particularly the epidemiology of brain injury, health-related quality of life, and treatment of movement disorders in children with cerebral palsy. As part of the Carter Center for Brain Research in Holoprosencephaly and Related Malformations, she collaborated with a national network of researchers studying holoprosencephaly (HPE),…
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Brenda Douglass
Brenda Douglass, a nursing leader with over 30 years of experience, began her career at the bedside specializing in emergency nursing. She brings forth a unique perspective as a faculty educator and clinician with a robust career trajectory assimilating academic, clinical, leadership, and administrative roles. Among her previous experience in academia, she launched administrative roles…
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S. Atdjian
Dr. Atdjian holds a joint appointment with the School of Medicine and is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She is board certified in psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. Dr. Atdjian’s areas of specialty are education; prevention of the use of seclusion and restraints; implementation of trauma-informed practices; psychotherapy of co-occurring trauma-related and substance…
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Eliana Perrin
Eliana Perrin, a nationally recognized leader in patient-oriented primary care, childhood obesity, and health disparities research, is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with appointments at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing and Medicine (Department of Pediatrics). Dr. Perrin has developed, tested, and disseminated many tools to help pediatricians prevent and treat obesity. Her research focuses on…
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Jessica Gill
Jessica Gill is a national leader in research on the biological mechanisms of traumatic brain injuries (TBI). She has spent decades investigating differential responses in military personnel, athletes, and other patients who have experienced TBIs and the mechanisms underlying these divergent responses. Specifically, Dr. Gill looks for ways to use biomarkers to identify which patients are…
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Angela Capello
Angela Capello came to Johns Hopkins after serving as a system nursing professional development (SNPD) educator for the largest health care system in Louisiana. During doctoral studies in curriculum and instruction at Louisiana State University, Dr. Capello’s research centered upon under-represented nursing student populations and the social and cultural differences leading to unsuccessful completion of…
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Marianne Fingerhood
Marianne Fingerhood has been a nurse practitioner in adult primary care since 1999 and began serving as clinical preceptor beginning in 2001. She began her teaching journey with pre-licensure students in 1990 and joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 2012 teaching in the MSN NP program and finally as the…
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Emma Mangano
Emma Mangano is a family psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner with more than 10 years of clinical experience. Dr. Mangano’s areas of expertise include inpatient and emergency psychiatry, dual diagnosis, and geriatric behavioral health. Her clinical focus while working in the emergency department has been on the care of boarding patients and advocating for…
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Andrew Benson
Andrew Benson is the assistant program director of the DNP Nurse Anesthesia Track at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the former chief CRNA at Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH). Dr. Benson has immense experience in anesthesiology, clinical practice, and team leadership. He led a team of more than 100 CRNAs at JHH and provided…