Mentorship and academic leadership are as central to my career as the science — across graduate supervision, training grants, curriculum revision, and administrative leadership.
Former mentees have moved into faculty, research, and clinical leadership roles across academic health centers, universities, and practice settings — in the US and internationally.
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 committeesCo-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 DNPMentorship of trainees across nursing, medicine, social work, nutrition, and psychology — through HRSA's Pediatric Pulmonary Center and collaborative research projects across UW schools and departments.
31+ traineesSustained investment from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in the nursing workforce — reducing financial barriers to advanced nursing education.
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 & underservedProject 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 pipelineProject Director on HRSA T08HP39296 — UW's SPAAN program (Scholarships to Promote Access to Advanced Practice Nursing), supporting primary care tracks across adult-gerontology, family, pediatric, midwifery, and psychiatric mental health. $2.9M total direct costs since 2022.
Project Director · EquityCo-Project Director with M. Chen on HRSA 7T72MC00007 — UW's HRSA MCHB (Maternal Child Health Bureau) interprofessional training grant supporting trainees across nursing, medicine, social work, nutrition, and psychology. Focused on unmet needs and barriers to care for children with complex pulmonary conditions. $340,000 annual direct costs.
Co-PD · 2025 renewal$6.6 million disbursed to 245 students since 2022 — across HRSA training grants.
Reducing financial barriers to advanced nursing education shapes who becomes a nurse — and the communities they go on to serve.
My mentorship extends across disciplines — reflecting a research program designed from the outset to be interprofessional.
Through the HRSA Pediatric Pulmonary Center, my research collaborations at UW's Human Centered Design & Engineering department, and the Information School, I have mentored 31+ PNP trainees and supervised graduate students across disciplines — all now practicing clinicians, researchers, or faculty.
Beyond individual mentorship, I have shaped the structures through which nurses are educated — at UW and nationally.
Chair of the DNP 3.0 taskforce that adopted the 2021 AACN (American Association of Colleges of Nursing) New Essentials and 2022 National Task Force standards. Now leading concurrent revision of the ABSN, BSN, and DNP programs, including the DNP transition to an online-plus-intensive modality.
Leading school-wide implementation of competency-based education across undergraduate and DNP programs — including faculty development, instructional design partnerships, progression indicators, and workshop programming. The shift ensures graduates demonstrate measurable competencies before they leave.
Led the tri-campus CIPR for UW School of Nursing prelicensure and Master of Nursing programs — the mid-cycle CCNE (Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education) accreditation review.
Led the 10-year CCNE accreditation on-site visit as Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs — the highest-stakes external review in a nursing school's accreditation cycle. Outcome: 10 years of accreditation approved with no compliance concerns.
Chaired in 2022 and served on the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) taskforce revising national PNP population-focused competencies and educational standards — shaping the framework against which all PNP programs nationwide are designed.
Progressive institutional roles — from track lead to Associate Dean — alongside national organizational leadership and formal executive education.
Leadership Institute combining immersive intensives and executive coaching to prepare nursing school leaders for the distinct challenges of academic health center environments.
Institutional leadership responsibility for the full continuum of student and academic affairs — from recruitment and admissions through advising, financial aid, clinical placements, and program completion — alongside accreditation, compliance, student conduct, learning technologies, and simulation.
Oversaw PhD and DNP graduate program operations — admissions, advising, faculty coordination, and student progression.
Year-long AACN fellowship developing executive leadership for nursing academic units — through immersive coaching, advanced simulations, expert workshops, and a peer learning community.
Ten years of program-level leadership overseeing curriculum, clinical placement, student advising, and faculty coordination for the pediatric nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist specialty tracks — including implementation of a new PNP acute care track.