Leading the educational mission.

I lead the educational mission of the University of Washington School of Nursing, spanning strategy and operations across academic and student affairs. That work runs from recruitment and admissions through advising, financial aid, instructional design, simulation, clinical placement, student conduct, and academic policy, with accreditation and regulatory compliance across the Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma campuses.

Strategy & operations

UW School of Nursing
5
Degree programs
BSN · ABSN · MS-CIPCT · DNP · PhD
$5.2M
Operating budget
40 staff across four divisions
$3M
Student financial aid administered annually
600
Active affiliation agreements
300–600 placements per quarter
2024–
Administration

Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs

  • Strategy. Member of the School's executive team, responsible for enrollment strategy across five degree programs and leading two of eight school-wide strategic initiatives under the 2025–2030 plan: academic accessibility and innovation, and student success.
  • Accreditation. Led the 10-year DNP accreditation with concurrent CCNE and Washington State Board of Nursing site visits. Ten years approved, no compliance concerns.
  • Simulation. The Simulation Center secured INACSL endorsement in December 2025. Healthcare Simulation Standards Endorsement awarded in full on first submission.
  • Program delivery. Leading DNP 3.0, converting eight specialty tracks and 70 courses to an online-plus-intensive model on a single per-credit tuition rate. Removed the part-time cost penalty and residency differential.
  • Clinical capacity. 600 active affiliation agreements supporting 300 to 600 placements per quarter, built with UW Medicine, Harborview, Seattle Children's, and community partners.
  • Policy. Built the School's first unified student policy framework, replacing a legacy memorandum system with 27 policies across academic, clinical, and conduct standards.
  • Organization. Led the 2024 reorganization of the Office of Student and Academic Affairs, including job reclassification and a benchmarked salary equity analysis.
2022–23
Administration

Interim Graduate Program Director

  • Led the PhD and DNP programs through the pandemic and successive leadership transitions, supervising track leads across DNP specialty tracks.
  • Digital health innovation. Led the visioning for the School's digital health innovation hub and chaired the search that appointed its founding director.
2011–21
Program leadership

Track Lead, Advanced Practice Pediatric Nursing

Directed the pediatric advanced practice tracks, the only PNP program serving the WWAMI region.

  • Program launch. Launched the PNP acute care track, a new program developed from curriculum design through state and national regulatory approval.
  • Program expansion. Expanded to five academic pathways, including reopening the pediatric CNS track. Tripled the pediatric APRN graduating cohort.
  • Partnership. Founded and chaired the Advanced Practice Pediatric Nursing Advisory Board with Seattle Children's Hospital.
National leadership programs
2026
Executive education

UCSF Executive Leadership in Academic Health Centers — Cohort 3

Leadership Institute combining immersive intensives and executive coaching to prepare nursing school leaders for the distinct challenges of academic health center environments.

2022
Fellowship

AACN Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing (ELAN) Fellow

Year-long AACN fellowship developing executive leadership for nursing academic units, through immersive coaching, advanced simulations, expert workshops, and a peer learning community.

Curricular leadership

UW & national
2022–25
National standards

National competencies · NONPF

Chaired the revision of the national pediatric nurse practitioner competencies.

2024–
Curriculum revision

Tri-campus BSN and ABSN revision

Led the tri-campus BSN revision, the University's first jointly developed tri-campus program curriculum, built through cross-campus governance and faculty partnership and aligned to the AACN Essentials and competency-based education. Now leading implementation at UW Seattle across the ABSN and BSN programs.

2022–
Curriculum revision

DNP 3.0

Leading the transition to an online-plus-intensive model across eight specialty tracks and 70 courses, revised to the 2021 AACN Essentials and 2022 National Task Force standards. Secured provost approval consolidating all tracks onto a single per-credit tuition rate.

2022–
CBE implementation

Competency-based education

Designed and implemented the School's CBE adoption plan, spanning faculty workshops, a CBE champions consultation structure, and progressive rollout across the ABSN, BSN, and DNP programs.

2014–16
Curriculum revision

Specialty track revision

Launched the PNP acute care track and led the PNP and PCNS curriculum revision and new course development, carried through state and national regulatory approval.

Mentorship & workforce development

PhD · DNP · HRSA
$6.97M
Federal training grant funding disbursed since 2022
Project Director · four HRSA programs
289
Students funded since 2022
NFLP · SPAAN · ANEW · PPC
122
Graduate supervisory committees
PhD · DNP · MN

I have served on 122 graduate supervisory committees across the PhD, DNP, and MN programs. Former mentees hold postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia and UW, faculty appointments at Pacific Lutheran University, San Diego State University, and Oman College of Health Sciences, and program leadership roles at UW and the University of Utah.

PhD

Research scientist development.

Chair or member of 11 PhD committees (5 in progress) across nursing science, public health, and epidemiology. Primary mentor for students working in family informatics, pediatric chronic disease, and nursing workforce.

11 committees
DNP

Advanced practice leadership.

Co-chaired 42 of 96 DNP supervisory committees. Led DNP students through clinical scholarship projects spanning asthma, CF, sleep, behavioral health, and immunization, many with HRSA trainee funding support.

96 DNP
ANEW · 2023 — 2027

Advanced Nursing Education Workforce.

Project Director on HRSA T94HP49367, expanding the advanced practice nursing workforce for rural and medically underserved Washington communities (ANEW-WA). $650,000 annual direct costs.

Project Director · Rural & underserved
NFLP · 2023 —

Nurse Faculty Loan Program.

Project Director on HRSA E01HP25850 overseeing the UW School of Nursing program, reducing debt burden for nurses entering academic teaching careers. $1.66M total direct costs since 2023.

Project Director · Faculty pipeline
SPAAN · 2022 — 2025

Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students.

Project Director on HRSA T08HP39296, supporting primary care students across adult-gerontology, family, pediatric, midwifery, and psychiatric mental health tracks through UW's SPAAN program. $2.9M total direct costs since 2022.

Project Director · Equity
PPC · 2016 — 2026

Pediatric Pulmonary Center.

Nursing faculty lead, then Project Co-Director, on the UW Pediatric Pulmonary Center, a HRSA Maternal Child Health Bureau interprofessional training grant. Led the 2025 competitive renewal. Mentored trainees in medicine, social work, nutrition, psychology, and nursing, including 31 PNP trainees, all now practicing clinicians.

Project Co-Director · Interprofessional
I co-design solutions with people, not for them.

Competency-based curricula with faculty, clinical placement capacity with our partners, an operations division with the staff who run it.

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