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.
Directed the pediatric advanced practice tracks, the only PNP program serving the WWAMI region.
Leadership Institute combining immersive intensives and executive coaching to prepare nursing school leaders for the distinct challenges of academic health center environments.
Year-long AACN fellowship developing executive leadership for nursing academic units, through immersive coaching, advanced simulations, expert workshops, and a peer learning community.
Chaired the revision of the national pediatric nurse practitioner competencies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 DNPProject 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, 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 · EquityNursing 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 · InterprofessionalI 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.