Certification: APRN
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Jessica Peters
Jessica Peters has served as an acute care nurse practitioner within the Weinberg Critical Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital unit since 2009. Prior to this position she worked in trauma critical care nursing since 2003. She received her doctoral of nursing practice and post masters nurse educator certificate in 2015 from Johns Hopkins and…
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Nancy Gentry Russell
Nancy Gentry Russell has been an RN since 2009 and a family nurse practitioner (FNP) since 2013, providing comprehensive, primary health care for families across the lifespan in rural North Carolina and for college and university students in Washington, DC and Baltimore. She also served as director of outreach and engagement at the Georgetown University…
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Melissa Hunter
Melissa Hunter is a forward-thinking advanced-practice nurse with 25 years of experience in bedside nursing, nursing education, and professional development within the health care field. Dr. Hunter has experience implementing innovative, evidence-based practice projects and current trends within a health care organization and has taught nursing students in the clinical area and nurses at the bedside as an…
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Laura Lucas
Laura Lucas is an advanced practice nurse, clinical faculty member, and coordinator of the Birth Companions program that offers nursing students the opportunity to provide labor support and advocacy services to mothers from various backgrounds. She most recently worked as a clinical nurse specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital while serving as adjunct clinical faculty in…
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Erin Wright
Erin Wright is passionate about helping students understand and develop excellence for nursing in women’s health areas. She is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and a board-certified Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse. Dr. Wright provides clinical care to patients in Baltimore City. Her clinical areas of expertise include mind-body medicine, Centering Pregnancy, labor support, breastfeeding, adolescent pregnancy, and…
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Brigit VanGraafeiland
Brigit VanGraafeiland has been a pediatric nurse practitioner for over 30 years and a nursing educator for over 20 years in undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. She is the associate director for the DNP Executive program. She has practiced extensively in both rural and urban primary care settings and currently practices in a clinic in…
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Sarah L. Szanton
Sarah Szanton is the fifth dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Dr. Szanton holds a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Under Dr. Szanton’s leadership, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is ranked No.…
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Nancy Sullivan
Prior to beginning her work at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Nancy Sullivan had a wide variety of nursing experiences that included ED/trauma/critical care of both adult and pediatric patients, nursing management, a nurse educator role working with new graduate nurses, and a clinical nurse specialist role focusing on care coordination and readmission reduction.…
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Tammy Slater
Tammy Slater is the track coordinator for the DNP Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is an acute care nurse practitioner, and her clinical expertise focuses on the assessment and management of acutely and critically ill adults with cardiovascular disease and complex comorbidities. In 2017 and 2021…
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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,…