Class Notes 1990-1999

Debbie Croley, MSN'90, of Smyrna, Tennessee, passed away December 31, 2016.

Sara Duvall, MSN'90, graduated from A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, in June 2017, as a doctor of health sciences.

Jade Van Meter Forlidas, BSN'73, MSN'90, and her daughter, Jessica Van Meter, MSN'07, DNP'15, were profiled in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's VUMC Voice in November 2017.

Mary Lou Cameron Fornehed, MSN'90, is on faculty at the Whitson-Hester School of Nursing at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville (2020).

Joan Gentry, MSN'90, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, passed away September 10, 2021.

Gwen Holder, MSN'90, received the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Adrienne Ames (MSN'75) Transformational Nursing Leader Award in May 2018. She is director of nursing informatics at VUMC.

Teresa Knoop, MSN'90, retired from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in May 2021, where she was assistant director of clinical operations for the clinical trials office. She was elected to the board of directors of the Oncology Nursing Society in March 2020.

Renee Lassinger, MSN'90, is a principal at Advanced Cardiothoracic Consultants in Indianapolis, where she consults about patient care models for various cardiac, lung and cardiovascular populations (2017).

Susie Leming-Lee, MSN'90, DNP'11, was elected to the Tennessee Nurses Association's Nominating Committee in November for 2023-2024. She was promoted to associate professor at VUSN in June 2021 and co-authored "Implementing Screening for Social Determinants of Health Using the Core 5 Screening Tool," published in BMJ Open Quality in September. She received VUSN's DAISY Award for Small Group Facilitator at the DNP Level in June 2020. Susie was guest co-editor for the March 2019 issue of Nursing Clinics, in which she was also published. In 2018, she received the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award for Faculty and the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Quality and Risk Management Nurse of the Year Award. Susie accepted the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award for Faculty and the Dean Colleen Conway-Welch Award from Doctor of Nursing Practice students, both in 2016.

Cindy Lybarger, MSN'90, co-authored "A Mobile App Identifies Momentary Psychosocial and Contextual Factors Related to Mealtime Self-management in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes," published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association in September 2019.

Ginny Moore, MSN'90, is lead author of "Bridging Didactic Learning and the Complexity of Practice through Clinical Immersion: Evaluating the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Trainee Experience," published in the Journal of Forensic Nursing in January 2022, and co-author of "Patient Consent for Student Performed Pelvic Exams," in the February issue of Women's Healthcare. She is lead author of "Development of a Vaginal Simulation Model for Virtual Teaching of Pelvic Health Assessment," and co-author of "Cultural Parallels between Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery and Female Genital Mutilation," published in Women's Healthcare in April. In June, Ginny was promoted to professor at VUSN and co-presented at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conference. Ginny co-presented "Increasing Pelvic Health Assessment Proficiency through Development of a Vaginal Simulation Model for Virtual Teaching," at the Sigma International Nursing Research Congress in July, and, "Trauma Informed Care Practice Strategies," at the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health conference in September. That month she served as moderator for "Trauma and Addiction: Breaking the Cycle for Women," part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. Ginny was appointed to the editorial advisory board of Women's Healthcare: A Clinical Journal for NPs, the official journal of the NPWH, for a two-year term beginning January 2021. She is lead author of "Opioid Use Disorder Screening for Women across the Lifespan," published in Advances in Family Practice Nursing in May, and co-author of "Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: Screening and Treatment," in the same issue. Ginny and three VUSN students co-authored "COVID-19 Update: Navigating Biases against Asian Americans during COVID-19," published in Women's Healthcare in June, appearing as a featured story in Health Leaders and Vanderbilt University Research News. That month, she was one of two recipients of the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award for Faculty. In July, it was announced that Ginny received a $1.5 million Health Resources and Services Administration grant to enhance the Vanderbilt Nursing Education Program–Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners. In October, she co-chaired the NPWH annual conference, where she received the Inspiration in Education Award (she's in the video at 5:40), and co-authored "Increasing Human Papillomavirus Immunization in the Primary Care Setting," published by The Nurse Practitioner. In November, the VUSN Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association selected Ginny to receive its Yu (Philip) Xu Mentoring Award presented at the Emory-AAPINA International Nursing Research Conference. She is lead author of "Generational Learning Preferences," published in December in American Nurse. In February 2020, Ginny co-published "A Case for Cultural Awareness," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, and is lead author of "Sexual Violence Screening for Women across the Lifespan," in Advances in Family Practice Nursing in May. That October, she co-authored "Strategies to Decrease Fat Stigma in Women's Health," published in Women's Healthcare, and "Social Boundaries in Young Adult Females with Down Syndrome as a Foundation for Sexuality Education," in the American Journal of Sexuality Education. Ginny co-authored "Fat Stigma in Women's Health," in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners in February 2019, and co-presented on that topic at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses conference in June. She presented a poster, "Bridging Didactic Learning and the Complexity of Practice through Clinical Immersion: Development and Implementation," that September, which received first place at the International Association of Forensic Nurses conference. She received the Alma Gault Alumni Award for Public Service presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October. Ginny and four students wrote a manuscript, "Successfully Managing Challenging Patient Encounters," published in American Nurse Today in October 2018, and she authored a chapter on preventative care for adult survivors of sexual violence in the 2nd edition of Adult-Gerontology Practice Guidelines, published that December. In 2017, Ginny was a finalist for Nashville's Mary Catherine Strobel Volunteer Award, presented a poster at the International Nursing Research Congress, and received the Women's Health Nurse of the Year Award from the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter. Ginny is a board member of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health and was appointed as the NPWH representative to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Jerita Payne, MSN'90, of Nashville, passed away March 22, 2017.

Laura Hammond Powell, MSN'90, is a family nurse practitioner at Greenville Pediatric Services in North Carolina (2020).

Cathi Reisenberg, MSN'90, PhD'08, is assistant clinical professor and director of the Washington Squared Program at George Washington University School of Nursing in Ashburn, Virginia (2021).

Connie Young Root, MSN'90, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Donna Ruth, BSN'80, MSN'90, is director of education for the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (2022).

Kim Taylor, MSN'90, is a provider at Ocoee Regional Health's Grundy County Primary Health Center in Coalmont, Tennessee (2020).

Laurie Scott Tompkins, BSN'89, MSN'90, joined The Women's Institute for Sexual Health, a division of Urology Associates, in Nashville, as a nurse practitioner, in November 2018.

Vicki Turner, BSN'85, MSN'90, of Brentwood, Tennessee, passed away April 7, 2018.

Sheryl Banak, MSN'91, is on faculty at Baptist Health College in Little Rock, Arkansas, teaching in the licensed practical nurse/paramedic to registered nurse program (2016). 

Nancy Sinclair Brook, MSN'91, is a nurse practitioner and adjunct faculty member at Stanford University in California, where she works with adults and children with benign and metastatic tumors. She was interviewed by KPIX in 2014 about her career and San Jose nursing jobs, and was later appointed to the National Nurses in Business Association business advisory board.

Jill Cash, MSN'91, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Rhonda Clifford Chess, MSN'91, is a neonatal nurse practitioner at University of Louisville Physicians in Kentucky (2019).

Beth Towery Davidson, MSN'91, was named president of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses for 2019-20. She is director of the heart failure disease management program at TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville.

Barb Duffy, BSN'80, MSN'91, PMC'98, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022. She was a panelist for "The Evolving Role of Nursing in Transgender Care," in March 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC that October.

Alison Edie, MSN'91, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in June 2021. She is an assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina.

Mimi Gerber, MSN'91, is a nurse practitioner at East Nashville Family Medicine Clinic (2016).

Patricia Green, MSN'91, is a family nurse practitioner at Providence Medical Group-Glisan in Portland, Oregon (2019).

Sharon Hendrix, MSN'91, was named 2015 Public and Community Health Nurse of the Year by the Tennessee Chapter of the March of Dimes.  

Kathie Krause, MSN'92, was chair of the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter 2018 Nurse of the Year Award Gala Luncheon in Nashville. She presented "Transforming Behavioral Health in Pediatric Acute Care," during that year's Vanderbilt University Medical Center Octoberfest.

Kay Jones, MSN'91, is a nurse practitioner at Nashville Sports Medicine and coordinates all research projects for Nashville Sports Medicine Foundation (2021).

Karen Larimer, BA'86, MSN'91, is principal investigator of a study funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, to develop an "AI-based COVID-19 Decompensation Index Digital Biomarker to Address the Rapid Decline of High-risk COVID-19 Patients." She is director of clinical development for physIQ in Chicago (2020).

Marla Price Moore, MSN'91, is a family nurse practitioner at Cumberland Family Care in Sparta, Tennessee (2020).

Kimberly Troy Sales, MSN'91, is a nurse practitioner at Community Health Care's Hilltop Regional Health Center in Tacoma, Washington (2016).

Rebecca Wingard, MSN'91, received the 2015 American Association of Kidney Patients Medal of Excellence for her work with patients and their families. She is vice president of Fresenius Medical Care North America's innovations group in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she manages clinical trials with academic institutions and supports quality management initiatives for dialysis patient populations. received the 2015 American Association of Kidney Patients Medal of Excellence for her work with patients and their families.

Sharon Yardley, MSN'91, retired from the faculty of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in September 2021, where she was director of health services.

Doris Billhorn, MSN'92, of Chicago, passed away May 7, 2020.

Tom Bush, MSN'92, published "Postgraduate Education Improves Nurse Practitioner's Job Satisfaction," in Clinical Advisor, and presented multiple times at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conference, both in June 2019.

Beverly Maddux Byram, MSN'92, was featured on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's website in its Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight. She is program director of Part D Ryan White at the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic (2018). 

Kappu Deshpande, MSN'92, earned the promotion to emergency medical service assistant chief by the Nashville Fire Department in February 2016.

Laura Sickles Gray, MA'85, MSN'92, authored "Do Parent ADHD Symptoms Influence Sleep and Sleep Habits of Children with ADHD? A Pilot Study," published in Pediatric Nursing in January/February 2020.

Sandy Greeno, MSN'92, DNP'13, is a clinical assistant professor at Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing in Portland (2016).

Nicole Herndon , MSN'92, DNP'13, presented a poster, "Reducing Modifiable Factors that Contribute to Preventable Birth Injury," at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Patient Safety Congress in May 2022. She was elected to two terms as Tennessee state chair of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. She is a member of the American Nurses Association Nursing Scope and Standards advisory council and the American Nurses Association's Workplace Violence and Incivility Professional Issues Panel. Nicole serves as corporate director of women's and pediatric services at Community Health Systems in Nashville where she, among other things, is expert resource in maternal-child, women's health and pediatric/newborn services (2016).

Pam Orebaugh Jones, BSN'81, MSN'92, DNP'13, was a panelist for "COVID Perspectives, Values and Vaccination Hesitancy," presented by the VUSN Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee in January 2022, and appointed in June to the Vanderbilt University task force charged with addressing the impact of Tennessee law and reproductive rights on the campus community. She presented, "Building Organizational Resilience in Turbulent Times," at the DNP Summit hosted by the University of Rochester School of Nursing in October, and co-authored "Promoting Nurse Manager Professional Well-being," published in the December issue of The Journal of Nursing Administration. Pam was featured in Vanderbilt's MyVU for a January 2021 story about her leadership of the university's COVID-19 public health central command center. She co-authored "A Systems Approach to Addressing Covid-19 Health Inequities," published in NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery that month. In April, she became the first recipient of the Vanderbilt Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service and was a panelist for "Women's Leadership in the COVID-19 Era: How Women Responded and Led the Charge to Mitigate the Pandemic," part of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's celebration of Women's History Month. She was promoted to associate vice chancellor for health and wellness at Vanderbilt in September (as noted in the Nashville Post), and was the presenter for "Building Organizational Resilience in Turbulent Times," that month, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She is lead author of "Showcasing Nursing Leadership and Contributions to a University's COVID-19 Student Contact Tracing Process," published in the October/December Nursing Administration Quarterly. In March 2020, Pam was appointed to serve on the Vanderbilt Public Health Advisory Task Force, formed as a resource during the pandemic, and spoke at two town hall meetings in July to share information about COVID-19 with faculty, staff, students and families, as well as about VUSN's leadership in campus contact tracing and educating patients. She was named a Women to Watch by Nashville Medical News in May. Pam moderated the VUSN Alumni Board's annual DNP Know Your Value in January 2019, and was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing that October. In May 2018, she met with Surgeon General Jerome Adams while he visited Vanderbilt, received the Rebecca Culpepper Award from VUMC, and was honored as the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Nursing Administration Nurse of the Year. Pam received the State Advocate Award from American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2015.

Kathie Krause, MSN'92, was interviewed by the Nashville Post in December 2022 regarding her announcement that she is leaving her position as a chief nursing officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She was appointed by Governor Bill Lee to the Tennessee Health Care Modernization Task Force in November 2019. She was chairperson for the 2018 Nurse of the Year event in Nashville and was named to the board of directors of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Nashville in February 2017. As chief nursing officer at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Kathie wrote her reflections on nursing for the hospital's celebration of Nurses Week 2016.

Christy Golden Mars, MSN'92, DNP'15, is an acute care nurse practitioner at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee (2017).

Karen Ramos McCarty, BSN'86, MSN'92, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Brian McKelvy, MSN'92, was interviewed in July 2018 by The Daily Herald regarding his candidacy for county commissioner of Columbia, Tennessee.

Susan Christos McKenney, MSN'92, is a nurse practitioner at Pardee Internal Medicine in Hendersonville, North Carolina (2018).

Cheryl Nail, MSN'92, is chief nursing officer at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Roni Abernathy Nylander, BSN'89, MSN'92, was featured on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's website in its Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight. She is a nurse anesthetist at Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital (2018).

Anna-Gene Chalfant O'Neal, BSN'88, MSN'92, MBA'92, was interviewed in March 2019 by Nashville Public Radio for a story about the state of palliative care in Middle Tennessee. She received the Alumni Award for Innovation in Health Care presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2018, and is in a video about that year's Nashville Business Journal's Health Care Awards. Anna-Gene was interviewed in September 2017 by the Tennessean about a program to help providers talk with patients about death, and was honored as Nurse of the Year by the Tennessean in 2015.

JoAnn Rietveld, MSN'92, of Clarks Grove, Minnesota, passed away January 1, 2021.

Patty Scott, BSN'88, MSN'92, is co-author of "Quality Initiative to Reduce Extrauterine Growth Restriction in Very Low Birth Weight Infants," published in Hospital Pediatrics in January 2022.

Sandy Seidel, MSN'92, presented "Reflective Practice," during Vanderbilt University Medical Center's grand rounds in February 2016, where she is an associate in ambulatory psychiatry.

Carolyn Wood Smeltzer, MSN'92, is a pediatric and family nurse practitioner at Desert Shores Pediatrics in Gilbert, Arizona (2020).

Debbie Snedegar, MSN'92, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Carolyn Wood Snider, MSN'92, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, passed away in June 2017.

Pam Waynick-Rogers, MSN'92, PMC'96, co-authored "Bridging Didactic Learning and the Complexity of Practice through Clinical Immersion: Evaluating the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Trainee Experience," published in the Journal of Forensic Nursing in January 2022, and was moderator of "SANE: Improving Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Assault (Part 2)," in April, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She was moderator of "SANE: Improving Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Assault (Part 1)," in October 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and is co-author of "Quality Improvement Projects Conducted by Interprofessional Teams of Learners: Implementation and Impact," published in December in the Journal of Interprofessional Care. Pam was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in January 2020, and co-authored "The Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning: Sustaining a Longitudinal, Clinical Experience that Aligns Practice with Education," published in Academic Medicine that April. She was named treasurer of the Tennessee chapter of the International Association of Forensic Nursing in December. She co-authored "An Educational Tool for Promoting Transitional Health Care Planning by Nurses from the Hospital to the Community," in the May 2019 issue of Nursing Education Perspectives, and co-presented "Sustainability Conceptual Model: Three Pillars to Support Interprofessional Collaboration," and "Implementation of a Longitudinal Standardized Patient Encounter: How Do You Evaluate Individual Students and Student Teams?" at the Collaborating Across Borders conference in October. She received an American Interprofessional Health Collaborative Scholar Award in October 2017. Pam is project manager for the Vanderbilt Nursing Education Program for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners as well as a women's health nurse practitioner and SANE-A at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Beth Angelea Youngblood, MSN'92, was honored in May 2022 as one of 50 outstanding graduates of Belmont University School of Nursing in Nashville, and was named director of Nashville State Community College's nursing program in November. The news was covered by Clarksville Now, Ledger and The Tennessee Tribune. She had been an associate professor of nursing at Freed Hardeman University in Dickson, Tennessee.

Tanya Fager Boswell, MSN'93, co-presented a poster, "Decreasing Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections by Increasing Bundle Compliance in the NICU: A Quality Improvement Project," at the 2019 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nursing Research Day poster session.

Pearl Bransford, MSN'93, of Franklin, Tennessee passed away November 27, 2020. She had served as an alderman for 13 years at the time of her death, which was covered by the Tennessean, the Tennessee Tribune, Williamson Source, Williamson Herald and WTVF.

Gina Bullington, MSN'93, was honored In May 2022 as one of 50 outstanding graduates of Belmont University School of Nursing in Nashville. She was featured in StyleBlueprint in October 2019 in an interview about her position as chief nursing officer at TriStar Horizon Medical Center in Dickson, Tennessee.

Matt Bumbalough, MSN'93, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Carol Callaway-Lane, MSN'93, DNP'11, is co-author of "Operationalising Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship to Reduce System-wide Antibiotics for Acute Bronchitis," published in BMJ Open Quality in September 2021. She co-authored "P2.11-33 Organizational Readiness for Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in a Veterans Affairs Healthcare System," published in Journal of Thoracic Oncology in October 2019.

Donna Elrod, MSN'93, was named to the Great 100 Nurses Foundation's annual list of Top Nurses in Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas in April 2019.

Ellen Fiesinger, MSN'93, received a doctor of public health from University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas in December 2021.

Leslie Folds, MSN'93, is on faculty at the Belmont University School of Nursing in Nashville (2016).

Susan Honeycutt Furtwengler, BS'91, MSN'93, is a nurse practitioner at Family Practice of Madison in Alabama (2019).

Lee Ann Hanna, MSN'93, was recognized by Marquis Who's Who Top Doctors in July 2019. She is clinical professional development educator at HCA TriStar Division in Nashville.

Julie Tipton Higdon, MSN'93, leads a Baptist Health walk-in clinic for the Lone Oak School community in Paducah, Kentucky, where she is on the leadership team of school officials to pioneer a model to implement educational programs, act as a valuable resource for immunization and school/sports physical requirements, and work to lessen truancy in both children and staff (2015).

Leslie Welch Hopkins, MSN'93, was a panelist for the VUSN Alumni Board's MSN Know Your Value, "Best Practices for Virtual Interviewing," in March 2022, and for its "Salary and Contract Negotiation for New NPs," in April. That month, she presented, "Preceptor Incentives: A Survey of the Program Director Special Interest Group," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference and received its Outstanding Service Award for her work as the chair of the program director special interest group. Leslie is co-author of "Suicide Detection and Treatment in a Nurse-led, Interprofessional Primary Care Practice: A 2-year Report of Quality Data," published in The Nurse Practitioner in April 2021. She was promoted to associate professor at VUSN in June, and co-authored "Increasing Human Papillomavirus Immunization in the Primary Care Setting," in The Nurse Practitioner in October. She is lead author for a chapter on hepatitis C treatment in an e-book, Sexually Transmitted Infections, An Issue of Nursing Clinics, published by Elsevier Health Sciences in August 2020. She received the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty that same month. Leslie was recognized in August 2019 for 25 years of service at Vanderbilt University. She co-authored "Consequences of Dietary Sugar Consumption: A Historical Perspective," published in The Nurse Practitioner, and presented "Suicide Risk and Prevention among Nurses" at the Tennessee Nurses Association conference, both in October. She co-presented a poster at Vanderbilt University's Health Professions Education Research Day in October 2017. She was named an Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program fellow in October 2016, and was vice chair-elect for the Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate for 2016-17. Leslie is director of the AGPCNP specialty and associate professor at VUSN.

Marion Maury Jones, MSN'93, and her husband were the subject of an April 2018 article in the Star News Online about her life as a student and nurse and his as a professional songwriter. They live in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Katie Dremann Justice, MSN'93, PMC'14, is on staff at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City (2018).

Betsy Babb Kennedy, BSN'89, MSN'93, was voted by VUSN doctor of nursing practice students to receive the Dean Colleen Conway-Welch Award for Contributions to DNP Student Learning in January 2022. She co-sponsored a challenge gift in memory of late professor Tom Christenbery, MSN'87, PhD'04, during Vanderbilt Giving Day in April, and received the VUSN Ingeborg Mauksch Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award in May. Betsy co-authored "Utilization of Phone Simulations to Assess Competency within Nursing Education," published in the July 2022 issue of Nurse Educator, and "Advancing Faculty Diversity in Nursing Education: Strategies for Success," in the September issue of the Journal of Professional Nursing. That month, she was inducted as a fellow in the National League for Nursing. She is co-author of "Identifying Mental Health Issues Associated with Infertility," published in the November issue of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Betsy is co-author of "Goals for Collaborative Management of Obstetric Hemorrhage," published in Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinics in March 2021. She co-presented, "Scholarship in Progress Peer Support: A Faculty Initiative to Promote Best Practices in Publishing and Presenting," at the International Association of Nursing Editors conference in August, and is lead author of "Educational Theory and Cognitive Science: Practical Principles to Improve Patient Education," published in Nursing Clinics in North America in September. She co-authored "Advancing Clinical Scholarship among Non-tenure Track Faculty: A Faculty Scholarship Program," in the November/December issue of the Journal of Professional Nursing. Betsy is co-author of "Development and Pilot Testing of a Multidimensional Learning Environment Survey," published in the April 2020 issue of Nurse Educator, and was promoted to associate dean for nontenure track faculty affairs and advancement at VUSN that September. She co-presented "Speak Up Culture and the Academic Nursing Environment: The Junior Faculty Perspective," at a Sigma International conference in January 2019, and spoke at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses regional section conference in April. She co-authored "Mentoring Nursing Faculty: An Inclusive Scholarship Support Group," published that September in Nurse Educator. Betsy co-edited Intrapartum Management Modules, 5th ed., the runner-up in the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year in 2016 for the maternal-child health category, and received the Ingeborg Mauksch Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award at VUSN that year.

Nancy Kraft, MSN'93, received the Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner specialty in August 2018.

Karla Luker, MSN'93, is a family nurse practitioner specializing in internal and family medicine at Murfreesboro Medical Clinic and Surgicenter in Tennessee (2020).

Jenny Maffett, MSN'93, is an instructor at Tennessee Technological University's Whitson-Hester School of Nursing in Cookeville (2021).

Betty Sue Minton, MSN'93, is featured on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center website for her 45 years of service.

Bo Mistak, MSN'93, presented "Importance and Impact of the Advanced Practice Leader," in spring 2016 during Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Leadership Excellence in Advanced Practice program.

Susan Mott-Coles, MSN'93, retired from VUSN at the end of the spring 2018 semester. She had worked with oncology patients since 1987.

Sandy Spellings Myers, BSN'77, MSN'93, of Nashville, passed away in September 2017.

Geri Reeves, MSN'93, retired as associate professor of nursing at VUSN in May 2022. She led the family nurse practitioner program for many years and took on other key projects, including serving as the director of the Vanderbilt/Lipscomb bachelor of nursing science partnership program. She was clinic director and provider at the VUSN Primary Care Services at Madison, Tennessee for more than a decade. Geri was interviewed by Prevention in March 2020 for an article about shortness of breath, anxiety and the coronavirus. She received the VUSN Award for Faculty Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion in June 2019, and co-authored "Writing a Diversity and Inclusivity Statement: Guidelines for Nursing Programs and Faculty," published in Nurse Educator in November. Geri is editor of Advances in Family Practice Nursing.

Diana Ruzicka, MSN'93, is president of the National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA (2019).

Diana Storey, MSN'93, of Mount Juliet, Tennessee, passed away June 22, 2020.

Kelly Ambrosi Wolgast, MSN'93, was a panelist for "Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus: Stories from the Top," in April 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and was named a Visionary Leader by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing that same month. She is editor of Building Innovative Nurse Leaders at the Point of Care, published in March 2020, and was named director of the Pennsylvania State University's COVID operations control center that July, where she is assistant dean for outreach and professional development and associate teaching professor in the college of nursing, in State College. Kelly was named a fellow of the American Association of Nursing in 2015, and received the President's Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives of Middle Tennessee.

Margaret Anderson , MSN'94, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and co-authored "Child Abuse Response Simulation for Advanced Practice Nursing Students," published in the July/August 2020 issue of Clinical Nurse Specialist. She successfully defended her doctor of nursing practice project at the University of Alabama at Huntsville College of Nursing in March 2017.

Sonya Barbour, MSN'94, is a family nurse practitioner at Grace Pediatrics in Smyrna, Tennessee (2020).

Mike Briley, MSN'94, received the Best of Jackson Award–Primary Healthcare Clinic in 2020 and 2021 for his practice, Primary Care–Bemis, in Tennessee. The award is presented by Jackson Entrepreneurs.

Amy Lee Bull, MSN'94, is a family nurse practitioner at Covenant Medical in Fairview, Tennessee, and on faculty at Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies in Washington, D.C. (2017).

Misty Sperry Chambers, MSN'94, presented, "Ensuring Safe Spaces," for the American Nurses Association's COVID-19 Nurse Innovation Stories blog, posted in 2021.

Shannon Cole, MSN'94, co-authored "Quality Improvement Projects Conducted by Interprofessional Teams of Learners: Implementation and Impact," published in December 2021 in the Journal of Interprofessional Care, and is featured in a podcast, "Consequences of Dietary Sugar Consumption," hosted by The Nurse Practitioner. She co-authored "The Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning: Sustaining a Longitudinal, Clinical Experience that Aligns Practice with Education," published in Academic Medicine in April 2020. Shannon was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in 2019 and presented "The Patient Voice: Interprofessional Educational Activities that Promote Patient Involvement," and "Evaluation of the Impact of a Longitudinal 2-year Interprofessional Program on Students' Perceptions of Health Professions Other Than Their Own," at the Collaborating Across Borders conference. That year, she co-authored "Consequences of Dietary Sugar Consumption: A Historical Perspective," published in The Nurse Practitioner, and was acknowledged in a Kentucky New Era story for her care of a breast cancer patient. Shannon was named co-director of the Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning in June 2018.

Cheryl Bridges Cooper, MSN'94, of New Concord, Kentucky, passed away February 3, 2021.

Susan Roberts Cooper, BSN'79, MSN'94, was featured in the June 2016 issue of Memphis Medical News. She is senior vice president and chief integration officer at Regional One Health in Memphis, Tennessee.

Amy Wimmer Cox, MSN'94, is a nurse practitioner with Tennessee Oncology in Gallatin, where she specializes in medical oncology and hematology (2020).

Terri Crutcher, MSN'94, co-authored "Improving Efficiency within a Trauma Nurse Practitioner Team," published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in May 2020. She was published in the March 2019 issue of Nursing Clinics and retired as assistant professor from VUSN later that year. Terri received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Clinical Practice in May 2018.

Sarah Fogel, MSN'94, PhD'01, retired in June 2021 from her role as professor and director of the Associate of Science in Nursing-Masters of Science in Nursing PreSpecialty program at VUSN. She received the Spotlight Award from the Vanderbilt University Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Life in May 2020 for her advocacy of LGBTQI health, and co-authored "Perceptions of Sexual and Gender Minority Content in Graduate Nursing Curricula," published that month in Nursing Education Perspectives. Under Sarah's leadership, the ASN to MSN program was ranked by RN to MSN as the top registered nurse to MSN program in the United States in 2019.

Greta Fowinkle, MSN'94, DNP'11, is co-leading a population health course for bachelors-level registered nurses at the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing in Charleston, where she is director of case management/care transitions (2016).

Jack Garrett, MSN'94, is a nurse practitioner with Maury Regional Medical Group Pain Management in Columbia, Tennessee (2021).

Tricia Ten Haaf, MSN'94, became director of the John J. Pershing Veterans Administration Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, starting in January 2016.

Beth Fentress Hallmark, MSN'94, was honored in May 2022 as one of 50 outstanding graduates of Belmont University School of Nursing in Nashville, where she is an associate professor and director of simulation.

Missy Smith Hayes, MSN'94, completed the Walt Disney World Marathon in Orlando, Florida, in January 2022. She co-authored "Evaluation of Two Academic Practice Partnerships for Chronic Disease Management in Nursing Education," published in November 2020 in Public Health Nursing.

Mayme Hickman, MSN'94, was mentioned by Columbia, Tennessee's The Daily Herald in October 2019 for a piece about her husband's retirement with honors from the U.S. Army.

Amy Hall Hull, MSN'94, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She received the Alumni Award for Clinical Achievement in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2017, and that year, co-authored "The Impact of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause on Quality of Life," in the November/December issue of Urologic Nursing. She is an assistant professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at VUMC.

Francie Likis, BS'93, MSN'94, co-edited a book, Gynecologic Health Care, which received an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award in January 2022, and is cited as one of AJN's most valuable texts of 2021. She is lead author of "Compensation for Nurse Editors: A Cross-sectional International Survey," published in Nursing Economics in March. Francie co-authored "Nurse Editors' Roles and Practices," published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship in November 2021, and "Addressing Racism in Editorial Practices," published in Nurse Author & Editor in December 2020. She received the Frontier Nursing University Nurse-Midwife Award for Distinguished Service to Society in October 2018, and published the 3^rd edition of her textbook, Women's Gynecologic Health, in summer 2016. Francie is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

Hollie Potts, MSN'94, is on the core faculty at the Cumberland Institute of Holistic Therapies in Brentwood, Tennessee (2020).

Greg Ross, MSN'94, joined Merit Health Medical Group in Brandon, Mississippi, in November 2015 as a family nurse practitioner.

Gwen Sweeney Shockley, BSN'64, MSN'94, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away October 21, 2022.

Bridget Wilson, MSN'94, was elected in March 2016 to the Accreditation Board of Specialty Nursing Certification. She is a nurse practitioner in the department of neurological surgery at the University of California Davis Health System and serves on the American Board of Neuroscience Nursing as secretary/treasurer.

Julie Lott Wood, MSN'94, is owner of and provider at Diabetes Management Associates in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, a practice which specializes in adult care (2022).

Alyce Goodman Abraham, MSN'95, received the 2020 American Association of Nurse Practitioners State Award for Excellence for Kentucky. She is an NP with University of Louisville Physicians—Urogynecology.

Shelley Atkinson, MSN'95, DNP'19, was named co-chair of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Advanced Practice Professional Development Committee in February 2021, and is lead author of "Improving Efficiency within a Trauma Nurse Practitioner Team," published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in May 2020. Shelley is director of advanced practice, acute surgery, at the Vanderbilt Adult Hospital.

Suzanne McMurtry Baird, BSN'84, MSN'95, is lead author of "Goals for Collaborative Management of Obstetric Hemorrhage," published in Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinics in March 2021, co-author of "Current Key Challenges in Managing Maternal Sepsis," in the April/June issue of The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, and author of "Maternal Sepsis: Key Challenges," published in the Symposia Medicus blog in July. She is one of two presenters on the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses podcast, "COVID-19 in the Perinatal Space," and co-authored "Statewide Quality Improvement Initiative to Implement Immediate Postpartum Long-acting Reversible Contraception," published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in April 2020. Suzanne was elected president of the AWHONN board of directors in October 2019 and received the AWHONN Excellence in Clinical Education Award in June 2017. She co-edited  Intrapartum Management Modules, 5th ed ., the runner-up in the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year in 2016 for the maternal-child health category. Suzanne is founder of Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Ellen Tosh Benneyworth , MSN'95, is a hospice/palliative nurse practitioner at Alive Hospice in Nashville (2019).

Kim Bodie-Farley, MSN'95, is a nurse practitioner at Middle Tennessee Plastic Surgery in Franklin and Murfreesboro (2020).

Julie Caldwell, BS'93, MSN'95, is a nurse practitioner at TriStar Medical Group's Frist Clinic in Nashville, specializing in internal medicine (2020).

Chris Kristufek Crabtree, MSN'95, is a family and pediatric nurse practitioner at VIP Midsouth Children's Clinic in several locations throughout Middle Tennessee (2020).

Allison Dehart, MSN'95, is a family nurse practitioner in the Vanderbilt University Student Health Center (2020).

Jeannie Booher Giese, MSN'95, DNP'11, was honored in May 2022 as one of 50 outstanding graduates of Belmont University School of Nursing in Nashville, where she is an associate professor.

Valerie Griffin, MSN'95, presented at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April 2022, and was appointed a member of the VUSN Alumni Board in September. She is director of nurse practitioner specializations and an associate professor at Southern Illinois University's Edwardsville School of Nursing, and nurse practitioner at Heartland Pediatrics and Madison County Health Department, all in the Saint Louis area.

Gina Haldeman, MSN'95, and her husband created and launched an app called Step-by-Step Pregnancy Care (2016).

Linda Howerton, MSN'95, retired from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in February 2018 and became a part-time heart failure nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute in Nashville.

Robert Hudson, MSN'95, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away January 14, 2020.

Chris Hulin, MSN'95, was interviewed in April 2016 by WSMV in Nashville for a story about an alternative to opioids for surgery, and was quoted that September for a story in the Tennessean about full-practice authority in Tennessee. He was named president of the Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia in February 2015.

Laura Hunter, MSN'95, is a nurse practitioner at Glacier Medical Associates in Whitefish, Montana (2016).

Mary Ann McCasland Jessee, MSN'95, is co-author of "Current Practices for Teaching Clinical Judgment," published Nurse Educator in August 2022, and "Evolving the Assessment of Clinical Judgment: An Individual or Collective Competency?" in the September issue of Nurse Educator. In October, she presented, "Building Capacity for National Understanding of New Graduate Competency," at the National League for Nursing Education Summit. A poster she and colleagues created, "Evaluating Collective Competence to Promote Safe, Effective Care," received first place in the research category at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's Transform 2022 conference in December. Mary Ann is co-author of "Impact of COVID-19 on New Graduate Nurses' Transition to Practice: Loss or Gain?" published in Nurse Educator in August/September 2021, and author of "An Update on Clinical Judgment in Nursing and Implications for Education, Practice and Regulation," published in the Journal of Nursing Regulation in October. She and her colleagues were awarded funding from the VUSN Faculty Scholarship Program for "Educational Innovation to Assess PreSpecialty Students' Ability to Demonstrate Clinical Judgment, Effective Communication and Teamwork during an Escape Room Simulation," in March 2020 and "Clinical Evaluation Improvement Project: Assessing Student Clinical Competency" in December 2019. Mary Ann was recognized by Vanderbilt News in May 2020, for leading PreSpecialty faculty in innovative thinking that allowed VUSN students to continue simulation lab work in spite of COVID-19 challenges, and is lead author of "Development and Pilot Testing of a Multidimensional Learning Environment Survey," published in the September/October Nurse Educator. She was promoted to associate professor and named assistant dean for academics, generalist nursing practice, at VUSN in August 2019, and had a paper cited that year in the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Environmental Scan. Mary Ann received the Christine A. Tanner Scholarly Teaching Award from the Journal of Nursing Education in September 2018 for her article, "Pursuing Improvement in Clinical Reasoning: The Integrated Clinical Education Theory."

Heather Wareing Keimig, BS'94, MSN'95, teaches natural family planning (2021).

Tammy Shockley Keown, MSN'95, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She was named 2019-20 VUSN Women's Health Preceptor of the Year, the second time she has been recognized with this award.

Rochelle Miller Lamb, MSN'95, is a nurse practitioner at Highlands Dermatology and Surgical Associates in Cookeville, Tennessee (2022).

Michele Lerner Martens, MSN'95, is lead author of "Identifying Mental Health Issues Associated with Infertility," published in the November 2022 issue of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

MaryLee Pakieser, MSN'95, was interviewed in January 2017 by 9&10 News in Cadillac, Michigan, about a law to grant full-practice authority in that state. She is a nurse practitioner at the Traverse Health Clinic.

Tena Simmons, MSN'95, is a family and pediatric nurse practitioner at VIP Midsouth Children's Clinic in Hendersonville and Portland, Tennessee (2020).

Jan Coughlan Stables, MSN'95, is head of and nurse practitioner at ANP Family Care in Fairbanks, Alaska (2018).

Candy Fruin Stefansic BS'94, MSN'95, was featured among "Pioneers of Hope" in the April 2019 issue of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital Hope magazine. The interview mentions her mother who was also a nurse at Vanderbilt, Carol Cousins Fruin, BSN'66, who passed away in 2011. Candy is a nurse manager in the pediatric hematology/oncology clinic and infusion at MCJCH.

Clare Sullivan, MSN'95, co-authored "Advancing Community-engaged Research through Partnership Development: Overcoming Challenges Voiced by Community-academic Partners," published in Fall 2020 by Project MUSE.

Donnie Taylor, MSN'95, of Chickamauga, Georgia, passed away February 18, 2022.

Jody Tennyson, MSN'95, was named a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in May 2021 and is featured on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's website in its Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight. She is director of the obstetrics triage/maternal special care unit at VUMC and an instructor at VUSN.

Regina Udo, MSN'95, has a private practice in Las Cruces, New Mexico, called Greeg Family Healthcare (2016).

Shirley Griffith Viscarello, MSN'95, founded Shirley Delicious Confections, a chocolate and toffee company in Stamford, Connecticut, with her two daughters (2019).

Rachel Goldstein Zetouni, MSN'95, is an elder law attorney in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (2022).

Wendy Johnson Araya, MSN'96, DNP'12, was featured in a March 2020 VUMC Voice article about Leap Day babies born at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, where she is a neonatal nurse practitioner. She co-authored "Assessing and Addressing Practitioner Burnout: Results from an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Health and Well-being Study," published in November 2019 in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Wendy started working at Vanderbilt in 1984 as a licensed practical nurse in the newborn nursery.

Debra Arnow, MSN'96, DNP'11, was named director of VUSN's Nursing and Health Care Leadership specialty, effective in January 2021, and was elected treasurer of the board of directors for the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, 2020-23. She had been senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer of Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.

Linda Baker, MSN'96, is a family nurse practitioner in the Lovelace Health System in Albuquerque, New Mexico (2020).

Linda Beuscher, MSN'96, is co-author of "Field Testing of Ro-Tri, a Robot-Mediated Triadic Interaction for Older Adults," published in February 2021 in the International Journal of Social Robotics, and "Can Robots Encourage Social Engagement among Older Adults?" published in Innovation in Aging in December 2020. She retired from her position as assistant professor at VUSN in July 2019, collaborated to create a robot-guided video game that assists people who have dementia, and presented a poster, "Barriers to Transition from SNF to Home: Discharge Team's Perspective," at the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association conference that October. Linda received the outstanding research podium presentation award at the GAPNA national conference in September 2018 for her qualitative research on elderly residents recently discharged from skilled nursing facilities to home. She co-authored "Socially Assistive Robots: Measuring Older Adults' Perceptions," published in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing in November 2017. She was elected to distinguished fellow in the National Academies of Practice and the Nursing Academy in 2016, and, in 2015, Linda received both the GAPNA Award for Excellence in Research and the Rebecca Culpepper Education and Mentorship Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Martha Brinson, MSN'96, is a family nurse practitioner at the Southern Joint Replacement Institute in Nashville, specializing in orthopaedic surgery (2020).

Jonathan Cole, MSN'96, is associate medical director at Saint Thomas Medical Group's Hypertension Institute in Nashville, an adult practice with emphasis on hypertension, prevention of cardiovascular disease and general internal medicine (2017).

Katherine Sheridan Crocker, BA'73, MEd'89, MSN'96, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at West Nashville Psych Associates (2020).

Mary Darden, MSN'96, is a nurse practitioner at Tennessee Oncology in Nashville, where she specializes in medical oncology and breast cancer (2020).

Claire Srouji Davis, BS'95, MSN'96, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Chris Marcou Eighmey, MSN'96, is an instructor of pediatric surgery at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine in Portland (2020).

Melissa Geist, MSN'96, EdD'04, co-authored "How Do You Do Creative Inquiry? Integrating Research and Practice into Campus Culture," published in July 2020 in the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching. She received the Alumni Award for Innovation in Health Care presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October, and was recognized in November in the Upper Cumberland Business Journal and by Belmont University in Nashville. Melissa is a professor at the Tennessee Technological University Whitson-Hester School of Nursing in Cookeville, and a board-certified family and pediatric nurse practitioner.

Donna Hamby, MSN'96, was named to the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence's Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing Program in December 2021. She is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Sharon Heinrich, MSN'96, traveled to Nigeria in December 2015 with a team of Rotarians from the U.S. and Canada to support polio eradication. 

Anthony Lathrop, BA'87, MSN'96, PMC'97, is a certified nurse-midwife in Indianapolis (2020).

Angie Long, MSN'96, is a certified nurse-midwife in a private, all-female provider practice in Nashville called Women Obstetrics and Gynecology, offering midwifery, well-woman and obstetrics/gynocological services (2017).

Shelley Lott, MSN'96, is a nurse practitioner at the University of Tennessee Medical Center's Cole Neuroscience Center in Knoxville (2020).

Bernard McCarty, MSN'96, of Smyrna, Tennessee, passed away in November 2015.  

Lisa Milam, MSN'96, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Sheridan Whalen Miyamoto, MSN'96, was a panelist for "What a Nurse Can Do: The Surprisingly Broad Range of Expertise among Nurses/Nurse Practitioners," in May 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in October 2020. She is an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University College of Nursing and Child Maltreatment Solutions Network, principal investigator for the PSU Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Telehealth Center, and Fellow in the Betty Irene Moore Fellowships for Nurse Leaders and Innovators, all in State College.

Kathryn Moore, MSN'96, is chief executive officer at Acute and Critical Care Consultants in Tucker, Georgia, where she practices as an adult-gerontological acute care nurse practitioner in an intensive care setting. She earned her doctor of nursing practice from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and her PhD from University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Kathy Reese, MSN'96, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Jamie Spicer, MSN'96, is director of home-based primary care in Nashville for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and adjunct instructor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2020).

Brooke Taylor, MSN'96, is a women's health nurse practitioner at Austin Regional Clinic in Texas (2022).

Sonia Vishneski, MSN'96, is on faculty at the Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke, Virginia (2016).

Ken Watford, MSN'96, DNP'11, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Pam Waynick-Rogers, MSN'92, PMC'96, co-authored "Bridging Didactic Learning and the Complexity of Practice through Clinical Immersion: Evaluating the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Trainee Experience," published in the Journal of Forensic Nursing in January 2022, and was moderator of "SANE: Improving Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Assault (Part 2)," in April, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She was moderator of "SANE: Improving Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Assault (Part 1)," in October 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and is co-author of "Quality Improvement Projects Conducted by Interprofessional Teams of Learners: Implementation and Impact," published in December in the Journal of Interprofessional Care. Pam was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in January 2020, and co-authored "The Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning: Sustaining a Longitudinal, Clinical Experience that Aligns Practice with Education," published in Academic Medicine that April. She was named treasurer of the Tennessee chapter of the International Association of Forensic Nursing in December. She co-authored "An Educational Tool for Promoting Transitional Health Care Planning by Nurses from the Hospital to the Community," in the May 2019 issue of Nursing Education Perspectives, and co-presented "Sustainability Conceptual Model: Three Pillars to Support Interprofessional Collaboration," and "Implementation of a Longitudinal Standardized Patient Encounter: How Do You Evaluate Individual Students and Student Teams?" at the Collaborating Across Borders conference in October. She received an American Interprofessional Health Collaborative Scholar Award in October 2017. Pam is project manager for the Vanderbilt Nursing Education Program for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners as well as a women's health nurse practitioner and SANE-A at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Mark Young, MSN'96, wrote an article, "Heads Up! Phones Down!" for the Vanderbilt University faculty and staff Connections newsletter in summer 2017. He is assistant manager for programs at Vanderbilt's occupational health clinic.

Robin Mobilia Berman, MSN'97, is owner and gerontological nurse practitioner at NP Housecalls in Nashville (2020).

Katherine Bechtle Broadway, MSN'97, of Nashville, passed away September 15, 2020.

Stacy Batson Brown, MSN'97, is a family nurse practitioner specializing in endocrinology and diabetes at Heritage Medical Associates in Nashville (2017).

Sherri Randolph Bruff, MSN'97, is the subject of a story in VUMC Voice about marrying her college sweetheart in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center COVID unit, days before he succumbed to the virus. Sherri is a nurse practitioner in Springfield, Tennessee.

Debi Camp, MSN'97, is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Informatics Nursing (2020).

Connie Chenosky-Miller, MSN'97, works at the Cheyenne Veterans Administration Medical Center in a satellite clinic in Fort Collins, Colorado (2016). 

Kuei-Ru Chou, PhD'97, received the Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Award for Distinguished Career in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association during the school's annual awards ceremony in October 2020. She was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in October 2019, and into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in May 2018. Kuei-Ru is distinguished professor and dean of the Taipei Medical University College of Nursing in Taiwan.

Deana Morgan Clapper, MSN'97, was featured in the Tennessean in January 2020 for helping to build the Donate Life Rose Parade float and traveling to Pasadena, California, for the parade itself. She is associate executive director of Tennessee Donor Services.

Katherine Walls Colvin, MSN'97, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, passed away August 22, 2022.

Stephanie DeVane-Johnson, MSN'97, was featured for co-founding the Alliance for Black Doulas for Black Mamas in March 2022 in NC Policy Watch, and, in April by ABC News. In May, she co-presented "Nutrition Basics for Midwives," at the American College of Nurse-Midwives conference. Her work to mitigate Black maternal death rates was featured by the Duke University School of Nursing, Mirage.News and VUSN, and was featured in The Tennessee Tribune in "Vanderbilt, UNC and Duke Nurse-Midwives Join Forces to Reduce Black Maternal Health Risks," in July 2022. Stephanie co-authored "Breastfeeding Sisters that are Receiving Support: Community-based Peer Support Program Created for and by Women of Color," published in Breastfeeding Medicine, and had her funding for the project "Decreasing the Breastfeeding Disparity among African American Women: Expanding a Research Trajectory at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing through Community Engagement," renewed by the VUSN Faculty Scholarship Program, both in February 2021. Her work to improve birth outcomes for Black women was featured in March in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Health and Medicine. In April, she was interviewed by Good Morning America about the benefits of Black doulas and presented at the Flourish Fund. She was named a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in May, and was featured on the Milk Minute podcast episode, "Black Breastfeeding Equity and Opportunity for Change," recorded in August. She presented, "Embodied Conversational Agents: Potential Acceptance for HPV Vaccine Promotion among Black Men," at the International Cancer Education Conference in December. Stephanie was named Public Health Nursing Researcher of the Week by the American Public Health Association—Public Health Nursing in February 2020, for her work establishing community partnerships and infant feeding choices in black communities in Nashville. She was quoted in The Philadelphia Tribune in April about challenges experienced by Black women seeking reproductive health care, and interviewed by Reconfigure in September for an article about Black mothers and breastfeeding. In October, Stephanie was named to the Vanderbilt University Diversity Council, and in November, she spoke at "Empowered to Flourish Series: A Healthy Balance for a Confident Motherhood Journey" hosted by the Flourish Fund. She was interviewed that December about treating persistent patients in an episode of the WHYY podcast, The Pulse. Stephanie received funding from the VUSN Faculty Scholarship Program in December 2019 for "Decreasing the Breastfeeding Disparity among African American Women: Expanding a Research Trajectory at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing through Community Engagement." She received her PhD in nursing from UNC-CH in May 2016. Stephanie is as associate professor in VUSN's nurse-midwifery program.

JoAnn Ferland, MSN'97, is a family nurse practitioner at NorthCrest Family Healthcare in Springfield, Tennessee (2020).

Carol Groninger, MSN'97, of Franklin, Tennessee, passed away December 3, 2021.

Carrie Harvey, MSN'97, is an associate professor in nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis (2017).

Alisa Haushalter, MSN'97, was honored in May 2022 as one of 50 outstanding graduates of Belmont University School of Nursing in Nashville, and was named Communicator of the Year by the Memphis Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America in January 2021. She is an associate professor of nursing at University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.

Mike Huggins, MSN'97, was a panelist for "What COVID-19 Taught Us about Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners...and Their Patients," in May 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. He is an associate professor at the Seattle University School of Nursing, where he leads the adult gerontological primary care NP program.

Jenny Hannagan Kim, MSN'97, received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Social Justice in May 2022, and served on the United Health Foundation advisory council, offering commentary on the  America's Health Rankings: Senior Report 2022. She is lead author of "Patient-reported Barriers and Enablers to Deprescribing Recommendations during a Clinical Trial," published in The Gerontologist in July, and was quoted in The New York Times in August in Donald Jonas' obituary, founder of the Jonas Nurse Scholars initiative. That month, she was appointed to a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine planning committee to explore the work-force needs of the older adult population. In September, she was named president of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association, and co-presented "Assessment of the Older Adult Driver in the Primary Care Setting," at its conference. Jenny is lead author of "Teaching Nurse Practitioner Students about Polypharmacy through a Novel Simulation," published in Nurse Educator in October, and co-author of "Changes in Telehealth Experienced by Advanced Practice RNs during COVID-19," in Computers, Informatics, Nursing in November. She co-presented a four-part educational course for family caregivers of individuals with dementia or Alzheimer's, hosted by the Vanderbilt University Child and Family Center in winter/spring 2021. She was voted president-elect of GAPNA that August, presented, "Managing Medications in Older Women: The Role of the Nurse Practitioner," at the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health conference in October, and co-presented, "Using Simulation to Teach Office-based Screening of At-risk Older Adult Automobile Drivers," in December at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Health Professions Education Research Day. Jenny served as moderator of "COVID, Quarantining and Geriatrics: How Can We Help Elders Stay Safe and Strong This Winter?" in December 2020, part of the VUSN Dore to Dore Alumni Forum, and received the VUSN DAISY Award for Small Group Facilitator at the MSN Level in June 2019. Jenny was named a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in June 2018, and received the Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty. Also in 2018, she was chosen by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence to be a member of its inaugural Distinguished Educator Class. She was named a Rising Star by GAPNA in spring 2017, and she published her doctor of nursing practice scholarly project in the Annals of Long Term Care in 2016. Jenny is a professor at VUSN.

Anthony Lathrop, BA'87, MSN'96, PMC'97, is a certified nurse-midwife in Indianapolis (2020).

Latisha Lochabay, MSN'97, of Henrico, Virginia, passed away October 19, 2020.

Amanda McGraw, MSN'97, of Hobbs, New Mexico, passed away February 5, 2017.

Tammy Jackson McKay, MSN'97, retired after working as an oncology nurse/nurse practitioner, mostly at Tennessee Oncology in Nashville. She got married in 2008.

Jacqi McMillian-Bohler, MSN'97, was featured as a National League for Nursing/Jonas Scholar in the spring 2016 issue of Villanova Nursing magazine.

Janna Vick Miller, MSN'97, earned her doctorate of nursing practice in May 2021 at Murray State University in Kentucky. She is a family nurse practitioner at a Tennova Family Practice rural health clinic in Dover, Tennessee, and an adjunct nursing professor at Austin Peay University in Clarksville.

Rebecca Isley Miller , MSN'97, is a pediatric nurse at Vanderbilt Home Health in Nashville, where she makes daily visits to pediatric patients with various diagnoses and ages (2017).

Kathy Simmons Moss, MSN'97, MBA'97, received Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Five Pillar Award and was an editorial board member of The Empowered Nurse: Peer-Reviewed Journal for Innovative VUMC Nursing Research, Volume 1, Issue 1, both in May 2018. She is administrative director of ambulatory nursing and clinical support services at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.

Gayle Botbyl Pitts, MSN'97, is a family nurse practitioner at the Allergy, Asthma & Sinus Center in Knoxville, Tennessee (2020).

Cherie Robbins, MSN'97, is a nurse practitioner and director of health at the University School of Nashville (2020).

Royce Ryker, MSN'97, joined the Corvallis Clinic Gastroenterology Department in Oregon in January 2016 as a nurse practitioner.

Jennifer Scroggie, MSN'97, PMC'16, received the DAISY Award for Small Group Facilitator at the MSN Level at VUSN in May 2021.

Kristin Sohn, MSN'97, completed a neonatal-perinatal fellowship at University of California Davis. She is a neonatologist in Reno, Nevada (2017).

Julie Sumner, MSN'97, presented her poetry at Williamson County (Tennessee) Public Library's "poets who heal" event in April 2016. She is a nurse in the intensive care units and the liver transplant service at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Charlotte Swint, MSN'97, was a 2016-17 scholar in the Sigma Theta Tau Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy, and co-chair/founder of the Health Policy Education Special Interest Group for the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. She is interim director of the undergraduate nursing program at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia.

Donna Lee Venters, MSN'97, of Ruston, Louisiana, passed away April 8, 2022.

Ellen Volpe, MSN'97, of Rochester, New York, passed away June 8, 2017.

Cindy Waller, MSN'97, PhD'11, was interviewed on Main Street Nashville "Mornings on Main Street" program in December 2021. She is dean of healthcare professions at Nashville State Community College. 

Cynthia Haynes Wasden, MSN'97, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.

Jennie Weaver, MSN'97, is co-author of a book, Healing Begins with Us: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Abuse and Rebuilding the Sibling Bond, published independently in March 2022, and of "Inadequately Trained Therapists Pose a Risk to Childhood Trauma Survivors," in Mad in America in November.

Courtney Watson Wilson, MSN'97, is a family nurse practitioner at Consults in Wellness in Wilmington, North Carolina (2020).

Todd Ambrosia, MSN'98, is dean of the Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City (2016).

Allison Ankuta Broomall, MSN'98, is a nursing professional development specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina Children's and Women's Hospital in Charleston (2021).

Margaret McKinney Buxton, MSN'98, co-authored "A Collaborative Model of a Community Birth Center and a Tertiary Care Medical Center," published in the March 2020 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and "A Multimethod Improvement Project to Strengthen Intermittent Auscultation Practice among Nurse‐midwives and Nurses," published that May in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. She co-presented "A Tale of Two Births: Newborn Resuscitation and the Use of CPAP in the Out-of-hospital Setting," at the American College of Nurse-Midwives in May 2018. Margaret is clinical director of Baby + Company in Nashville.

Rozalinde Browne Christodoulos, MSN'98, is founder and owner of Advanced PICC Specialists, a company that provides peripherally inserted central catheter service to hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers (2021).

Lynnette Berggren Clancy, MSN'98, is a nurse practitioner in endocrinology with Prevea Health in Green Bay, Wisconsin (2016).

Amy Small Culbertson, MSN'98, DNP'11, presented "Treatment Resistant and Depressive Disorder," at the American Association of Nursing Practitioners conference in June 2019. She is assistant professor at Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies in Washington, D.C.

Patricia Detzel, MSN'98, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021. She presented "Healthcare for Transgender and Nonbinary Patients," at VUMC in April 2018. She led a table talk discussion at the American College of Nurse Midwives conference in May 2017 about transgendered and nonbinary patients, and received the public and community health Nurse of the Year Award from the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter that November. She co-manages and staffs the Vanderbilt Center for Women's Health clinic that opened in July 2016 in Thompson's Station, Tennessee.  

Jessica Manke Dieseldorff, MSN'98, is associate director of advanced practice clinicians/training at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in California, where she trains in medication abortion, ultrasound and early pregnancy complication management (2020).

Barb Duffy, BSN'80, MSN'91, PMC'98, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022. She was a panelist for "The Evolving Role of Nursing in Transgender Care," in March 2021, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC that October.

Eva Dye, MSN'98, was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June 2021, and co-authored "Association of Time of Day and Extubation Success in Very Low Birthweight Infants: A Multicenter Cohort Study," published in the Journal of Perinatology in July. She co-presented a poster, "Decreasing Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections by Increasing Bundle Compliance in the NICU: A Quality Improvement Project," at the 2019 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nursing Research Day. Eva is quality improvement projects manager for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital neonatal intensive care unit.

Carol Foley, MSN'98, is a family nurse practitioner at Marshall Center for Primary Care in Placerville, California (2020).

Anna Rabetoy Fong, MSN'98, is an assistant in anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2021).

Anne Marie Beeler Galloway, MSN'98, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Beth Levi Garrison, MSN'98, is a clinical educator at Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois (2017).

Becky Goldwasser, MSN'98, is lead certified registered nurse anesthetist for obstetrics at three hospitals in the Sheridan Healthcare system in Jacksonville, Florida, where she oversees hiring, scheduling and related policies (2017).

Kim Isenberg, MSN'98, received the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Five Pillar Award in April 2021 for "leadership, wisdom and determination to help Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital during the pandemic."

Rolanda Johnson, PhD'98, appeared in the inaugural American Association of Colleges of Nursing Diversity Digest newsletter in January 2022 as chair of AACN's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Network. In May, she moderated a panel that followed a presentation by U.S. Congressperson Lauren Underwood to members of the VUSN community. She was featured in August by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education for "The Academy for Diverse Emerging Nurse Leaders to be Held in November in Nashville," about a new program she co-chairs at VUSN. She is co-author of "Advancing Faculty Diversity in Nursing Education: Strategies for Success," published in the September-October issue of the  Journal of Professional Nursing, and, in November, was interviewed by Diverse Issues in Education about the Academy for Diverse Emerging Nurse Leaders, in "Changing the Face of Nursing." Rolanda co-authored "Creating Collaborative Relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Approach to Diversifying the Nursing Workforce," published in Nurse Educator in April 2021, and was promoted to professor at VUSN in June. She co-presented, "Connecting with Readers through Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity," at the International Association of Nursing Editors conference, and participated in a panel discussion, "The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Officer's Role in Dismantling Educational Inequities," hosted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association Intensive Summer Institute, both in August. In September, Rolanda was elected chair of the steering committee for the AACN's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Network, and invited to serve on the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing, a joint effort of the ANA, National Black Nurses Association, National Association of Hispanic Nurses and National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations. In August, 2020, Rolanda was interviewed by All Nursing Schools for an article about diversity in schools of nursing and was promoted to associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at VUSN in September. She is lead author of "A Summer Professional Immersion in Nursing Program for Underrepresented Minority Undergraduate Students," published in the Journal of Nursing Education in October, and was named in December to represent VUSN as a member of the Vanderbilt University Dean's Diversity Designates. In July 2019, Rolanda was the keynote speaker at the Tuskegee University School of Nursing and Allied Health summer capping, pinning and white coat ceremony, and presented a poster, "Distance to Pharmacies, Medication Adherence, and Health Status in a Low-Income Community," at the Sigma Theta Tau Congress. She co-authored "Writing a Diversity and Inclusivity Statement: Guidelines for Nursing Programs and Faculty," published in Nurse Educator that November. Rolanda was named assistant dean for diversity and inclusion at VUSN in September 2018. The news appeared in many media outlets, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, Daily Nurse, Nashville Medical News and Nashville Post. That year, she served on the Nurse Faculty Scholars Selection Committee administered by AACN and the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future, and was honored as a Vanderbilt Pioneer with a portrait unveiling.

John Killgore, MSN'98, joined the Halifax County Public Health System in North Carolina in June 2019 as a family nurse practitioner.

Norma Wall Krantz, MSN'98, received the 2019 Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Preceptor of the Year Award from VUSN in July 2019.

Steve Leonard, MSN'98, serves patients in long-term care facilities in Western Kentucky through his private practice, Leonard Health Services. He has similar patients in Middle Tennessee as well as those who are homebound (2020).

Susan Lewis, MSN'98, is lead author of "Elective Induction of Labor or Expectant Management: Outcomes among Nulliparous Women with Uncomplicated Pregnancies," published in February 2022 in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. She was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in May. Susan was featured in a December 2017 Patient Daily story about her work to improve maternal outcomes at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Rene Love, MSN'98, DNP'10, PMC'12, presented at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April 2022, and was inducted as a fellow by the American Academy of Nursing in October. She was named associate dean for academic affairs—graduate clinical education at the University of Florida College of Nursing in Gainesville, starting in February 2020. She received a grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration in October 2018, funding a partnership between the University of Arizona and MHC Healthcare, to increase the pool of psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner doctor of nursing practice graduates able to assist patients with opioid use disorder. Rene was named a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2015, and is a member-at-large of NONPF's board of directors.

Diane Rockwell Merrill, MSN'98, presented "Lung Cancer Screening," at the American Association of Nursing Practitioners conference in June 2019.

Robyn Hardin Moore, MSN'98, works as a minister with Least of These, an organization that provides care in Kenya (2022).

Megan von Gremp Morgan, BS'97, MSN'98, is a nurse practitioner at Mercy Clinic Family Medicine and Obstetrics in Rogers, Arkansas (2020).

Leah Barker Moynihan, MSN'98, is a women's health nurse practitioner in the division of urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island (2016).

Cathy Mukherji, BA'93, MSN'98, is a nurse practitioner at the Rapha Centre in Manchester, Tennessee (2020).

Pam Nelson, MSN'98, DNP'20, was interviewed by Psychiatry Advisor in February 2021 about suicide prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic, and opened Nelson Psychiatric Associates, a private practice in Nashville, in March. She is lead author of "Role of Primary Care in Suicide Prevention during the COVID-19 Pandemic," published in July 2020 in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

Melissa Ott, MSN'98, is co-author of "Management of Mental Health Disorders in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in February 2022, and was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN in June. She co-presented, "Primary Care Management of Special Populations with Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders and HIV," at the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium in July, and a poster, "Diagnostic and Management Considerations for Co-occurring HIV and Mental Health Disorders for Psychiatric-mental Health Nursing Providers," at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association conference in October. Melissa received the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Excellence Award from APNA's Tennessee chapter in April 2021, and co-authored "Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: Screening and Treatment," published in Advances in Family Practice Nursing in May. She is owner of Genesis Psychiatric Services in Murfreesboro.

Carol Parsons, MSN'98, presented "Cardiac Overview: Old and New," during Vanderbilt University Medical Center nursing grand rounds in July 2018, and "Is All Chest Pain Cardiac?" during VUMC nursing grand rounds in February 2017. She spoke about heart disease and diabetes at VUMC's One Hundred Oaks Campus nursing grand rounds that July.

Heather Robb, MSN'98, of Memphis, Tennessee, passed away May 1, 2020.

Tracey Robinson, BS'95, MSN'98, is the founder of Trace Skin Care and Garza Plastic Surgery in Nashville (2020).

Laura Rutledge, MSN'98, received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021.

Kyle Rybczyk, MSN'98, was featured by the Tennessean in November 2021 in the article, "The Tight-knit Team behind Vanderbilt's Moderna Vaccine Trial Fights to Stay Grounded," and in December, "One and 100: Kyle Rybczyk, Nurse Practitioner," part of a series on the impact of COVID-19 in the South. He presented "Preparing for PrEP," at VUSN during LGBTQ+ History Month in November 2020, where he explained how to educate patients and prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce the risk of human immunodeficiency virus infection.

Kim Kinghorn Steanson, MSN'98, was promoted in August 2021 to academic director of the pediatric nurse practitioner-acute care specialty at VUSN, where she is an assistant professor. She received the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the PNP-AC specialty in August 2020, and was named to the Center for Teaching Junior Faculty Fellows program at Vanderbilt University in August 2019.

Julie Thomas, BS'97, MSN'98, is a women's health nurse practitioner at Woods Gynecology in Nashville (2020).

Molly Payne Ainsworth, MSN'99, is a nurse practitioner at Birmingham Heart Clinic in Trussville, Alabama (2020).

Rob Allison, BA'89, MSN'99, of Nashville passed away November 3, 2021.

Julie Barnes, MSN'99, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Marcia Spear Barnes, MSN'99, DNP'10, wrote "Does TNA Need a Political Action Committee (PAC)?" published in the August 2022 issue of Tennessee Nurse. She spoke about wound care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in May 2017, and published "Leadership and Emotional Intelligence: Does It Matter?" in Plastic Surgical Nursing, an electronic journal of American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses in 2015. She edited the book, Skin Grafts: Indications, Applications and Current Research, published by IntechOpen in 2011. She is director of government affairs for the Tennessee Nurses Association and District 15 president , as well as treasurer of the Tennessee Nurses Political Action Committee.

Erika Benson, MSN'99, is a family nurse practitioner living in Finland as a Fulbright Scholar conducting research on sex education at a non-governmental organization (2021).

Leah Garrett Bowen, MSN'99, is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at the Nashville Center for Hope and Healing (2021).

Sharon England Bryant, MSN'99, was interviewed by Clinical Advisor in August 2021 for the article, "Spotlight on Non-ventilator-associated Hospital-acquired Pneumonia." She co-authored "Postintensive Care Syndrome," published in Critical Care Nursing Clinics in December 2019.

Christina Chisenhall Dozier, MSN'99, is a family nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Primary Care in Clarksville, Tennessee (2020).

Charisse Fizer, MSN'99, is chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at AtlantiCare, located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

Amy Helmes Fortner, MSN'99, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Tracy Privette George, MSN'99, is lead author of "Virtual Collaboration in Academia," published in Creative Nursing in August 2020.

Martina Harris, MSN'99, was named interim dean of Chattanooga State Community College's division of nursing and allied health in Tennessee, effective July 2022. She was interviewed in July 2019 by the Chattanooga Times Free Press for an article about the shortage of nurses in that city. Martina is president of District 4 of the Tennessee Nurses Association.

Laura Hein, MSN'99, PhD'06, is an associate professor at University of South Carolina College of Nursing in Columbia (2018). 

Sharon Karp, MSN'99, PhD'08, is co-author of "Choking, Allergic Reactions and Pickiness: A Qualitative Study of Maternal Perceived Threats and Risk Avoidance Strategies during Complementary Feeding," published in April 2022 in Appetite. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in June. Sharon co-authored "Clinical Strategies for Addressing Obesity in Infants and Toddlers," published in The Nurse Practitioner in February 2021, and was named director of program evaluations at VUSN in June. She co-authored "Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices: Effects of Maternal Personal Characteristics," published in the Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing in May 2020, and "Family-Centered Care: How Close Do We Get When Talking to Parents of Children Undergoing Diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorders?" published in November in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Sharon was published in the March 2019 issue of Nursing Clinics and received the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award in May 2018. She is chair of the Acute and Chronic Care Community at VUSN.

Brenda McFarlin, MSN'99, was named a Woman of Wilson by The Wilson Post in May 2020. She is a nurse practitioner at Bradshaw Health in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Stephen Miller, MSN'99, is lead author of "Update on Cardiogenic Shock: A Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Approach," published in February 2022 in The Nurse Practitioner.

Sean Moore, MSN'99, is a partner with Cerity Partners in New York City (2022).

Julia Cain Phillippi, MSN'99, co-authored "Innovations in Prospective Perinatal Research as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic," published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health in February 2022, and "A Comparison of Methods to Identify Antenatal Substance Use within Electronic Health Records," in the March issue of American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In April, "Hypothyroidism: Diagnosis and Evidence-based Treatment," which she co-authored, was published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. Julia co-presented "Sexually Transmitted Infections: Updates and Gender Inclusive Care" and "I Have No Choice Here: Experience of Decision-making for Home Breech Birth," at the American College of Nurse-Midwives conference in May, where she was named JMWH Peer Reviewer of the Year 2021 and had an article honored as JMWH Review Article of the Year. That month, she was featured in Vanderbilt University Research News in "Moms Who Research Moms: Spotlighting VU Research on Motherhood," and was promoted in June to professor at VUSN. Julia co-authored "Challenges in the Triage Care of Low-risk Laboring Patients: A Comparison of 2 Models of Practice," published in the April/June 2021 The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing. She was a panelist for "What a Nurse Can Do: The Surprisingly Broad Range of Expertise among Nurses/Nurse Practitioners," in May, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and co-authored "Review of Evidence-based Methods for Successful Labor Induction," published that month in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. She is the subject of "'Secret Shopper' Study Sheds Light on Barriers to Opioid Treatment for Women," that June in VUMC Reporter, and lead author of "Reproductive-age Women's Experience of Accessing Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: 'We Don't Do That Here'," published in Women's Health Issues in September. Julia gave a grand rounds talk at Carle Health in October and, in November, the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health named her and 15 others recipients of the inaugural Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award for the decade 2011-20. She was invited by Obstetrics & Gynecology to write an editorial, "Community Birth: The Value of Collaboration," which was published in the November print edition, a unique honor for a nonphysician. She was featured in a video on why it is important for women of childbearing years to still seek preventative care during a pandemic, part of the Vanderbilt University Ask an Expert series. In February 2020, Julia co-authored "Group B Streptococcal Bacteriuria in Pregnancy: An Evidence‐based, Patient‐centered Approach to Care," published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, and "A Collaborative Model of a Community Birth Center and a Tertiary Care Medical Center," in the March issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In July, she co-authored "The Association between Longer Durations of the Latent Phase of Labor and Subsequent Perinatal Processes and Outcomes among Midwifery Patients," published in Birth Issues in Perinatal Care. Julia gave the keynote address on "Integrated, Person-centered Care: Building Systems that Facilitate Inter-professional Collaboration," at the Innovative Models of Care for Reducing Inequities in Maternal Health workshop hosted by the National Institute on Nursing Research, and co-authored "Receptivity of Hospitalized Older Adults and Family Caregivers to Prognostic Information about Aging, Injury and Frailty: A Qualitative Study," published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, both in September. In December, a commentary she wrote, "COVID‐19 and Perinatal Care: Facing Challenges, Seizing Opportunities," was published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. Julia shared a Top 5 Blue Ribbon Award at the 2019 Vanderbilt Health Professions Education Research Day for a poster, "Interprofessional Simulation between Nursing and Divinity Students: Learning beyond Roles and Checklists," and was appointed to the Vanderbilt Leadership Academy. That year, she wrote "You MUST Read Dreyer's English," on the Edge for Scholars blog in April, co-authored "Applying a Physiologic Partograph to Consortium on Safe Labor Data to Identify Opportunities for Safely Decreasing Cesarean Births among Nulliparous Women," published in May in Birth Issues in Perinatal Care, and became director of the VUSN nurse-midwifery specialty in June. She co-wrote two items for Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health: "Preventing Cesarean Birth in Women with Obesity: Influence of Unit‐Level Midwifery Presence on Use of Cesarean among Women in the Consortium on Safe Labor Data Set," published in August, and "Using the Robson 10‐Group Classification System to Compare Cesarean Birth Utilization between U.S. Centers with and without Midwives," in September. In 2018, Julia was named a fellow by the American Academy of Nursing, was quoted in Daily Beast about the increasing popularity of midwives, and received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to study an interdisciplinary team-based maternity care model. She received the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Research Nurse of the Year Award, wrote a chapter in the textbook Women's Gynecologic Health, 3^rd ed., and co-authored a chapter in Best Practices in Midwifery, 2^nd ed., all in 2016. She is chair of the Family Care Community at VUSN.

Brenda Truman Pun, MSN'99, is co-author of "Effects of a National Quality Improvement Collaborative on ABCDEF Bundle Implementation," published in January 2022 in the American Journal of Critical Care. She was interviewed by the VUMC Reporter in January 2021 for co-authoring an international study that has shown a substantial degree of acute brain dysfunction among COVID-19 intensive care unit patients. She co-authored "Monitoring for Delirium in Critically Ill Adults," published by Delirium in February 2020, and "Organizational Characteristics Associated with ICU Liberation (ABCDEF) Bundle Implementation by Adult ICUs in Michigan," published that August in Critical Care Explorations. She was quoted in a February 2016 University of California San Francisco Science of Caring article about delirium. Brenda is director of data quality at the Vanderbilt Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship Center.

Kathleen Quinn, MSN'99, is chief healthcare officer at Discovery Integrative Healthcare and Psychotherapy Centers, with offices in Pass Christian, Mississippi, San Antonio and New Orleans (2018). 

Clay Satterfield, MSN'99, is a family nurse practitioner at the Franciscan Prompt Care–Canyon Road Clinic in Puyallup, Washington (2016).

Kristin Brandt Stovern, MSN'99, is a nurse practitioner specializing in obstetrics and gynecology at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Missouri (2020).

Melissa Bailey Swinea, MSN'99, has served as president of District 10 of the Tennessee Nurses Association (2018). 

Todd Warren, MSN'99, is a nurse practitioner at Orthopeadic Specialists in Arrington, Tennessee (2017).

Angela Weaver, MSN'99, is co-author of "Utilization of Phone Simulations to Assess Competency within Nursing Education," published in the July 2022 issue of  Nurse Educator, and of "Evolving the Assessment of Clinical Judgment: An Individual or Collective Competency?" in the September issue of Nurse Educator. A poster she and colleagues created, "Evaluating Collective Competence to Promote Safe, Effective Care," received first place in the research category at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's Transform 2022 conference in December. Angela is co-recipient of the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Academic Endeavors in May 2021, and co-presented a poster, "Cracking the Code: Building an Escape Room Challenge Using Innovative Strategies through a Team-building Approach," at the National League for Nursing Summit that September. She is a member of a team whose project, "Educational Innovation to Assess PreSpecialty Students' Ability to Demonstrate Clinical Judgment, Effective Communication and Teamwork during an Escape Room Simulation," was accepted for funding from the VUSN Faculty Scholarship Program in March 2020.

Helen Weems, MSN'99, is founder and director of All Families Healthcare in Whitefish, Montana (2020).

Carl Wherry, MSN'99, is president of the West Los Angeles North Chapter of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners as well as speaker of the house for its annual House of Delegates (2016).

Angela Wilson-Liverman, MSN'99, received the Mary Jane Werthan Award from the Vanderbilt University Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center in March 2018 for her contributions to the advancement of women at the university. In 2017, she received the Alumni Award for Excellence in Nursing presented by the VUSN Alumni Association at the school's annual awards ceremony in October, and the Advance Practice Nurse of the Year Award from the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter. Angela presented "Initiating Medication in your Gestational Diabetic Patient," at that year's American College of Nurse-Midwives conference. She is director of advanced practice for obstetrics/gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine.

Jennifer Ezell Wilbeck, MSN'99, PMC'06, is co-author of "Bridging Didactic Learning and the Complexity of Practice through Clinical Immersion: Evaluating the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Trainee Experience," published in the Journal of Forensic Nursing in January 2022, and is lead author of "Postpartum Hemorrhage: Emergency Management for Uncontrolled Vaginal Bleeding," in the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, and of "Utilization of Phone Simulations to Assess Competency within Nursing Education," in Nurse Educator, both in July. She is co-author of "A Collaboration to Unify Emergency Nurse Practitioner Competencies," published by The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in August, and lead author of "Consideration of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner as a Population within the APRN Consensus Model: A SWOT Analysis," in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in October. Jennifer was interviewed in the summer of 2021 for the NP Schools blog on "Day in the Life of an Emergency NP: Two Experts Share Their Perspectives." She is co-author of "Revisioning the ENP among Emergency Workforce Changes: Specialty or Population?" published in Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, in July/September, and a contributing author for the first edition of Emergency Nurse Practitioner Core Curriculum, published by Springer in August. She presented at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conference in September and was interviewed for the NP Pulse: The Voice of Nurse Practitioners podcast in November. She led a group in authoring the 2021 Emergency Nurse Practitioner Competencies, endorsed by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Jennifer was featured by Prevention in March 2020 in an interview about fevers and what to look for regarding COVID-19. She moderated a panel, "Recommendations for Improving National Nurse Preparedness for Pandemic Response: Early Lessons from COVID-19," hosted by the American College of Medical Toxology in June, and received a Certified Nurse Award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She co-authored "Ensuring Relevance and Currency for the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Profession: A Call for Collaboration," published in the October/December issue of the Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal. In April 2019, Jennifer co-presented "Trauma-informed Care for the Sexual Assault Survivor," at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses regional section conference, and co-authored "Dental Pain Relief in the Age of ALTO," published in the July/September issue of Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal. Also that year, she co-published "Supporting Program Rigor in Newly Developed Specialty Academic Programs: Use of a Self-evaluation Reporting Tool for Emergency Nurse Practitioner Academic Programs," for Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in August, and a poster she co-presented received first place at the International Association of Forensic Nurses conference that September. Jennifer was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in October. She became director of VUSN's emergency nurse practitioner program in June 2018, and received the VUSN Dean's Award for Faculty Achievement in Academic Endeavors and the Advance Practice Nurse of the Year Award from the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter, both in 2017. She was named fellow by AANP in 2016.

Melody Riggenbach Wilkinson, MSN'99, co-presented "Teaching Academics," at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conference in June 2019, and was named a fellow of the AANP in June 2018. She is assistant professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Dana Wirth, MSN'99, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022, and an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from VUMC in October 2021.