Certification: CRNP
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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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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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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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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, […]
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Vinciya Pandian
Vinciya Pandian is internationally known for her clinical expertise in improving critically ill patients’ care, safety, and quality of life. Her scientific work, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (R01NR017433), focuses on identifying signs and symptoms of laryngeal injury post-extubation in the intensive care unit. She is also funded by Agency for Healthcare […]
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Valerie Cotter
Valerie T. Cotter, DrNP, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University with a joint appointment in the School of Nursing and School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She brings four decades of experience specializing in gerontology and conducts ongoing research in aging, dementia, gerontology and palliative care. Passionate […]
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Deborah Busch
Deborah Busch is a national leader in breastfeeding and lactation care, as well as pediatric primary and acute care. Her innovative Tri-Core Breastfeeding Model was adopted by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners as a standard of practice, refining healthcare providers’ approaches to lactation-consult support and maternal self-efficacy. Currently, Dr. Busch is implementing this […]
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Kristen Brown
Kristen Brown is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) and the Simulation Strategic Projects Lead for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. In her faculty role, Dr. Brown develops simulation curriculum, plans innovative, immersive training events, and studies the use of simulation as a teaching method. Prior to joining the […]
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Janelle Akomah
Janelle Akomah, a board-certified family nurse practitioner, is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society. She earned her bachelor’s degree in molecular biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics with a minor in chemistry at Towson University. She then earned her master’s in nursing from University of Maryland Baltimore. […]