Fellowship: FAANP

  • Catherine Ling

    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. […]

  • Elizabeth Sloand

    Elizabeth Sloand

    Nurse educator, scholar, and health care provider Elizabeth Sloand focused on uninsured and underinsured children and youth in Baltimore, Haiti, and internationally. Her clinical leadership in primary care and public health enabled SON students to provide episodic direct primary and preventive health care to impoverished families of rural southwest Haiti as part of their training. […]

  • JoAnne Silbert-Flagg

    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, […]

  • Vinciya Pandian

    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 […]

  • Kimberly McIltrot

    Kimberly McIltrot

    Kimberly McIltrot’s contributions to nursing span clinical practice, advocacy, research, and international education. Her 30-year nursing career began in the Army, specializing in maternal-child health. As a lead nurse practitioner in pediatric surgery and wound, ostomy, and continence care at the Johns Hopkins Hospital for 18 years, Dr. McIltrot developed and implemented innovative practice programs […]

  • Rita Ferrari D’Aoust

    Rita Ferrari D’Aoust

    Rita Ferrari D’Aoust is an expert in interprofessional education, community service, and providing access to care for vulnerable populations. Dr. D’Aoust has long made her mark where the business of education and health care intersect. She has led advances in curriculum and classroom technology to enhance the philosophy of education and a mastery of financial […]

  • Valerie Cotter

    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 […]

  • Deborah Busch

    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 […]