Speakers

Karen Jagiello, PhD, RN, CNE
Assistant Professor and Coordinator RN-BSN Program
James Madison University

Dr. Karen Jagiello is an Assistant Professor and the Coordinator of the RN-BSN Program at the James Madison University School of Nursing. She earned her PhD from West Virginia University and holds certification as a nurse educator. Dr. Jagiello has 42 years of experience in nursing, including 17 years in nursing education. Dr. Jagiello’s nursing career is centered on women’s health with a focus on marginalized persons seeking care, intimate partner violence, and gender-related power imbalances. She is committed to providing nursing education that focuses on inclusivity, and to that end, is assessing gaps in her school’s BSN curriculum. Dr. Jagiello teaches students in both traditional BSN and online RN to BSN programs. She is experienced in curriculum and instructional desig n, course development, and curriculum evaluation. She has 17 years of experience educating nurses returning to complete a BSN degree in face-to-face, hybrid, and virtual platforms. She is a Quality Matters Certified Peer Reviewer and course developer.

Jamie Robinson, PhD, RN, CNL
Associate Professor and Director for Undergraduate Programs
James Madison University

Dr. Jamie Robinson is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director for Undergraduate Programs at the James Madison University School of Nursing. She earned her PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds certification as a Clinical Nurse Leader. Dr. Robinson has 25 years of experience in nursing, including 18 in nursing education. Dr. Robinson's nursing career has focused on serving rural communities. She is passionate about improving access to care in rural healthcare deserts by leveraging registered nurse expertise to bridge care gaps and assist with navigating compl ex healthcare systems. She is active in health policy, advocating at the state and federal level for policies that better serve rural communities. In nursing education, she teaches in the traditional BSN and online RN to BSN programs, both of which focus on entry-level nursing competency. She has extensive experience in curriculum design, evaluation and planning, course development, and instructional design. She has 10 years of experience teaching in the online RN to BSN program and is a Quality Matters Certified Peer Reviewer and course developer. She was a team member of the HRSA NEPQR-funded Undergraduate Primary Care and Rural Education (UPCARE) project, where her role was to develop curricula to support primary care and rural healthcare education and to create longitudinal rural clinical experiences for BSN students.

Speakers

Maja Djukic, PhD, RN, FAAN
Assistant Dean for Research
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Maja Djukic joined the Cizik School of Nursing on Sept. 1, 2020, as the John P. McGovern Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of Research. She is a widely published nurse scientist who has pioneered national research of new graduate nurses to identify key gaps in quality and safety competencies essential for high-value patient care. The more than $7 million in extramural funding she has secured in the past decade includes three current studies on which she serves as primary investigator that examine various issues affecting the nursing workforce.

Earlier in her career, Djukic received two prestigious career development awards – the Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholar Award and the Josiah Macy Junior Foundation Faculty Scholar Award. She was elected co -chair of the Interdisciplinary Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) at Academy Health and is currently an Associate Editor for the Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice journal.

Prior to joining Cizik School of Nursing, Djukic was an associate professor at New York University College of Nursing, where she earned a PhD in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing Education. She began her nursing career Oklahoma, receiving an Associate Degree in Nursing from Tulsa Community College and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from North Eastern State University

Speakers

Mary K. Fey, PhD, RN, CHSE-A, ANEF, FAAN
Principal and Managing Partner, Transformative Teaching, LLC
Principal Faculty, Center for Medical Simulation

Dr. Mary Fey has been a nurse educator for over 30 years. She received a PhD & Certificate in Teaching from the University of Maryland. Her initial work as an educator took place in a large academic medical center, where she had oversight of the new nurse transition to practice programs for 10 years. She has held a number of academic appointments in both community colleges and universities. Dr. Fey’s expertise is in faculty development, experiential and reflective learning, and the importance of the teacher-learner relationship. She regularly publishes and presents on these topics. Currently, Dr. Fey is Principal Faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, MA, and is a founding partner in the academic consulting firm Transfor mative Teaching.

Kate J. Morse, PhD, RN, AGACNP- Ret., CHSE, FAAN
Assistant Dean Innovation and Experiential Learning
Drexel University

Dr. Kate Morse obtained her BSN from the University of Calgary, Alberta; her MSN as a clinical nurse specialist in critical care from San Diego State University; her Post- masters certificate as an Adult Nurse Practitioner from California State University, Long Beach and her PhD from Villanova University. She is a retired Adult and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Certified as a Simulation Educator (CHSE). She is a past Jonas Scholar and National League of Nursing Sim Leader. She served as the VP of Membership for INASCL (International Nursing Association in Simulation and Clinical Learning) from 2016 – 2018. Dr. Morse held the positions of Assistant and Associate Director of the Center for Educational Leadership and International Programs Medical Simulation in Boston 2015 – 2019. Dr. Morse is currently the Assist ant Dean for Experiential Learning and Innovation in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Associate Clinical Professor and principal faculty for the Center for Medical Simulation.

Speakers

Calvin Chou, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of California at San Francisco

Calvin Chou is Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, and staff physician at the Veterans Affairs Health Care System in San Francisco. As Senior Faculty Advisor for External Education with the Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH), he is recognized internationally for leading workshops in relationship-centered communication, feedback, conflict, and remediation in health professions education. He is co-editor of the books Remediation in Medical Education: A Midcourse Correction, and Communication Rx: Transforming Healthcare Through Relationship-Centered Communication.

Kara Myers, CNM
Clinical Professor
University of California San Francisco

Kara Myers has been practicing nurse-midwifery since 2000, when she completed graduate training at UCSF. She is currently Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of OB, Gyn, and Reproductive Sciences. Her clinical practice sites are Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG) and Mission Neighborhood Health Center. Additionally, she is a member of the leadership council for the nurse-midwifery faculty practice at ZSFG and serves as a Senior Faculty Advisor for the Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH).

Kara co-directs the Relationship Centered Communication program at ZSFG and was a founding co-director of the Relationship Centered Communication Facilitators program for ACH. Within the UCSF community and nationally, as faculty of ACH, she regularly facilitates workshops in relationship centered communication, conflict, and feedback. In collaboration with colleagues, she has designed and implemented workshops focusing on the application of relationship centered communication to the promotion of equity in health care and health professions education.

Speakers

Mary Jo Vetter, DNP, RN
Director, Doctor of Nursing Practice Program and Clinical Associate Professor
New York University

Mary Jo Vetter is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the DNP Program at NYU Meyers College of Nursing. Dr. Vetter co-led the integration of Design Thinking in the undergraduate curriculum at Meyers. As a nurse entrepreneur, she engages in clinical practice as the founder of VetterAPN Consulting promoting clinical and care management strategies to support successful aging in place. Dr. Vetter focuses her scholarship on evidence-based quality improvement, designing and implementing cutting-edge, NP led, primary care services in the community, and virtual care delivery. She has a proven track record of innovation in practice and education that focuses on promoting the nurse practitioner as leader and has received awards and accolades for her contributions to clinical academic partnerships, advancing and leading the profession, and transforming advanced practice nursing.

Karyn Boyar, DNP, RN
Director, Master of Science, Clinical Research Program and Clinical Assistant Professor
New York University

Karyn Boyar is an Assistant Clinical Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, the director for the Master in Clinical Nursing Research Program, Interim FNP Program Director, as well as a Certified Nurse Educator. As an educator and family nurse practitioner specializing in neurology and long-term care, she teaches both didactic and clinical courses and simulation. She has over 25 years of experience in healthcare and over ten years of experience in the clinical care and management of patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dystonia. Before joining the faculty at NYU, Boyar was the clinical specialty coordinato r at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the designated outreach coordinator for the National Parkinson Center of Excellence at the Robert and John M. Benheim Center for Movement Disorders. Boyar earned her DNP from Pace University and MS and BS in nursing science from Pace University. Currently, she serves on the board of directors of the IARCN (International Association of Clinical Research Nurses) as a member-at-large. Her current scholarship focus; bringing Design Thinking Models to life for undergraduate students in the large classroom. She has presented her work on Design Thinking on the local, national and international levels and has contributed several book chapters disseminating this innovation in teaching.

Stacen Keating, PhD, RN
Clinical Associate Professor
New York University

Stacen A. Keating is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU's Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Dr. Keating tea ches across programs in both the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral departments (DNP). She has established competencies in Instructional Design as well as Design Thinking (DT). Design Thinking is a means of teaching nurses a framework of creative thinking and innovation and has established a process for utilizing this framework within her public health classes. Her areas of scholarship interest are further focused on global public health. She has written numerous publications related to both educator and student needs. A key focus has been to assist nurse educators and students attain access to the most evidenced based resources to achieve excellence within professional nursing practice. Dr. Keating is on the Nursing Advisory Board for Nurses International, a 501c3 organization devoted to providing excellence in global nursing education, especially in countries with limited resources. Dr. Keating has developed educational products in collaboration with colleagues at Nurses International which are open access resources and are readily available at Nurses international's main website. Key courses relate to: oncology nursing, fundamentals of nursing and medical surgical nursing. Add itional courses taught at NYU include: Community/Public Health Nursing (UG), Applied Epidemiology (DNP), Environment and the Health of Populations (G) and Psych Nursing (UG, simulation).

Emerson E. Ea, PhD, DNP, APRN, FAAN
Dean, Clinical and Adjunct Faculty Affairs
New York University

Dr. Emerson Ea is the associate dean and a clinical associate professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. His scholarship interest areas include nursing education and innovation, immigrant health and well-being, and cardiovascular health. He has published peer-reviewed articles and authored/co-authored books and several book chapters on topics that relate to work and personal-related outcomes among internationally educated nurses, Filipino immigrant health, gerontologic nursing, and nursing education and practice. Dr. Ea was part of the inaugural cohort of the American Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholars working with the Cultural Competence and Health Equity Expert Panel (2014–2016). Dr. Ea is a Fellow of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Leadership in Academic Nursing Program, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Nursing. He is also chair of the Kalusugan Coalition, a community organization that aims to promote cardiovascular health among Filipino Americans in the New York metropolitan area, and chair of the Education Committee of the Philippine Nurses Association of America. Dr. Ea earned a PhD in nursing from Duquesne University, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Case Western Reserve University, MS in adult health from Long Island University, and BSN from the University of St. La Salle, Philippines.