Area of Excellence: Quality Improvement
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Kathryn Taylor
Kathryn Taylor’s research integrates health care quality and equity concepts to improve outcomes for people living with end-stage kidney disease. Dr. Taylor is a PhD graduate from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Previously, she was corporate vice president of quality at Fresenius Kidney Care, a large dialysis organization with over 2,500 outpatient facilities across North […]
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Marjorie Everson
Marjorie Everson is the Director of the DNP Nurse Anesthesia Track in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has previous experience as a program director and faculty member. Dr. Everson’s clinical experiences include cardiac, trauma, and general outpatient cases. Research interests include the impact of disasters on nurse anesthesiology practice and/or education; production pressure; […]
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Jessica Dean (JD) Murphy
Jessica Dean (JD) Murphy is a pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplant nurse practitioner at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She obtained her BSN from Stevenson University in 2008 and began her nursing career as a pediatric oncology RN before obtaining her MSN in pediatric acute care advanced practice nursing from the University of Maryland in […]
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Leigh Montejo
Leigh Montejo is a nurse educator with experience in distance education and incorporation of innovation, simulation, and technology to promote student engagement and improve learning outcomes in remote learning environments. As a nationally certified family nurse practitioner since 2011, Dr Montejo has been committed to improving care access through clinical practice in federally qualified health […]
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Jihane Frangieh
Jihane Frangieh is track coordinator of the MSN Healthcare Organizational Leadership program. A seasoned nurse (20 years’ experience) with a clinical focus in neonatal nursing, she is an emerging health services researcher focusing on work environment and health care quality assessment and improvement. Her research looks at the behaviors of the health care workforce—specifically on […]
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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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Lisa Grubb
Dr. Lisa Grubb is a proven nursing executive renown for building strong cohesive leadership teams and moving complex organizations to sustained operational excellence in quality, operations, financial and growth arenas. Her experience spans nearly every area of health care operation in both non-profit and for-profit sectors. She has held senior level management positions in single […]
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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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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 […]