Area of Excellence: Mental Health
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Patty Wilson
Patty Wilson’s clinical practice and research focus on improving the lives of those who have experienced trauma and working to create community-based interventions that address social determinants of health and promote health equity in BIPOC communities. She teaches pre-licensure MEN students and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) students. For her faculty practice, Dr. Wilson…
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Lucine Francis
Lucine Francis is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and a steering committee faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions. Dr. Francis’ research focuses on health promotion and innovation in child-serving organizations, centering on childhood obesity prevention, childhood nutrition and active play, and school success. She uses…
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Melissa Hladek
Melissa deCardi Hladek PhD, CRNP, FNP-BC is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and a researcher-clinician focusing on how stress, self-efficacy, and sociocultural factors influence the biology of aging, chronic disease and frailty. Her research goals are to further understand the role of stress, coping and social determinants of health in…
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Eric Slade
Eric Slade is a health economist with expertise in public insurance programs, serious mental illness, preventive interventions, and advanced econometric methods for causal inference. His research uses surveys and large administrative datasets to assess how health care financing systems and policies influence service use, costs, and health outcomes. Dr. Slade has received research funding from…
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Catherine Ling
Catherine Ling’s scholarship is focused on improving primary care for vulnerable populations. Her more than 25 years as a family nurse practitioner have centered on providing functional access to ambulatory care in community settings. As an educator, she provides innovative and rigorous curriculum and course design and delivery for quality learning and practice outcomes. Dr.…
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JoAnne Silbert-Flagg
JoAnne Silbert-Flagg’s scholarship focuses on promoting breastfeeding from pregnancy through weaning via direct patient care and the education of health care professionals. Dr. Silbert-Flagg is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Human Lactation. She is editor of the textbook Maternal and Child Health Nursing (8th ed.), 2017, Wolters Kluwer, authoring five chapters,…
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Tamar Rodney
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a formidable opponent. Tamar Rodney believes the key to beating PTSD is acting quickly to identify the syndrome and giving the science time to catch up. Dr. Rodney is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner who has worked in trauma and psychiatry. Her PhD research looked at biomarkers for PTSD in veterans with a traumatic brain injury.…
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Nancy Reynolds
Nancy R. Reynolds is the associate dean of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; director, Center for Global Initiatives; co-director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Information, Knowledge Management; and co-secretary general, Global Network of the WHO Collaborating Centers of Nursing and Midwifery. Formerly the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing at Yale…
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Natalie G. Regier
Natalie G. Regier is a clinical psychologist with a geriatrics specialty focused on improving the care and well-being of persons living with dementia and that of their caregivers. A primary arm of this work involves developing and evaluating nonpharmacological interventions for behaviors (neuropsychiatric symptoms) associated with dementia. Dr. Regier is currently funded through a grant…
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Victoria Hughes
Victoria Hughes has served in various clinical, educational, and leadership positions over the past 31 years. She retired as a colonel after 27 years of service within the United States Air Force. Her mental health clinical background includes working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient programs. Dr. Hughes obtained the…