Every VUSN graduate has exciting things happening in her or his life, both professionally and personally. Class Notes – printed twice a year in the Vanderbilt Nurse Magazine and available online on this page – is an opportunity for you to not only learn what other alumni are doing but also share news about your life. We would love to hear what you've been up to! Please contact us with any updates, or call 615-322-4836. And, when posting on social media please tag us! #VUSN

Look below for news from your classmates as of December 31, 2022. Items received since July 1, 2022 are shown in red font.

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Casey Albritton, MSN'11, is an acute care nurse practitioner in the bone marrow transplant unit at the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver (2016).

Kim Allen, MSN'11, presented a poster at the International Pediatric Simulation Symposia and Workshops conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in May 2016. She is a pediatric critical care nurse practitioner at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

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

Tiffany Atkinson, MSN'11, is the executive director of Freedom's Promise, a non-profit organization fighting human trafficking in Cambodia (2019).

Lisa DeLille Bolton, MSN'11, is a care management nurse practitioner at Nashville General Hospital's outpatient clinics (2021).

Stephanie Hunt Boyd, MSN'11, DNP'15, was named among the About Stark Twenty Under 40 list in June 2018, and received the Northeast Ohio Organization for Nurse Executives 2015 Aspiring Nurse Leader Award.  

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.

Heather Campbell, MSN'11, is assistant director of nursing workforce at the Vanderbilt Adult Hospital (2021).

Carrie Carretta, PhD'11, was named senior vice president of clinical development and medical affairs at NRx Pharmaceuticals in December 2022. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Elizabeth Cooper, MSN'07, DNP'11, is an associate professor at the Jeanette C. Rudy School of Nursing and Health Professions at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. She was named dean of the Aquinas College School of Nursing in Nashville in 2016. 

Cara Costner, MSN'11, is a clinical nurse in the office of Brian Biesman, MD, in Nashville (2020).

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.

Deborah Currey, DNP'11, became a medical acupuncturist and a battlefield acupuncture instructor through the U.S. Army. She moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, to work for the Veterans Health Administration as a pain management nurse practitioner at the William V. Chappell, Jr. Outpatient Clinic. She introduced medical acupuncture to the Orlando VA system, traveling throughout the region and credentialing providers in battlefield acupuncture as a means of helping veterans transition from high dose opioids (2018). 

Erin DeBruyn, MSN'11, is co-author of "Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: Screening and Treatment," published in May 2021 in Advances in Family Practice Nursing .

Allie Hush Deckard, MSN'11, is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Division of Developmental Medicine at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt (2021).

April Fortenberry, MSN'11, completed the first year as a fellow in the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program in 2019, where she participated in intensive leadership retreats and distance-based learning activities, executive coaching and a leadership project. She served as president of the Georgia chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.

Greta Fowinkle, MSN'94, DNP'11, is co-leading a population health course for bachelor of nursing science-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).

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.

Mark Graves, MSN'11, is a nurse practitioner at Rainy Lake Medical Center in International Falls, Minnesota, where his scope of practice is primary, emergency and inpatient care for a remote and rural critical access hospital (2018).

Candace Harrington, DNP'11, was inducted as a fellow by the American Academy of Nursing in October 2022. She was chosen in November 2018 by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence to be a member of its inaugural Distinguished Educator Class. 

Lauren Gingles Harrison, MSN'11, PMC'12, was honored in May 2022 as one of 50 outstanding graduates of Belmont University School of Nursing in Nashville. She is a nurse practitioner at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's' Hospital at Vanderbilt.

Jane Miller Hearnsberger, BS'10, MSN'11, was interviewed by My Southern Health for, "Going Back to School Can Literally Be a Headache," published in August 2022. She received an Excellence in Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2021, and was interviewed by My Southern Health in July 2019 for a story about children's headaches triggered when they return to school after summer break.

Abigail Hillard, MSN'11, is a clinical nurse annotator in the Center for Improving the Public's Health Through Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2020).

Michelle Irwin, MSN'11, is assistant in medicine at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, specializing in pulmonary and critical care medicine (2020).

Cathy Ivory, PhD'11, is co-author of "Encouraging and Facilitating Research Opportunities for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses," published in The Journal of Nursing Administration in May 2022, "Using a Learning Health Care System to Advance Nursing and Patient Care," published in Nurse Leader in November, and "Impact of COVID-19 on New Graduate Nurses' Transition to Practice: Loss or Gain?" published in the July/August 2021 Nurse Educator . She was named to the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in November, and was interviewed on the Healthcare's Missing Logic podcast, Episode 29: "The Tension between Technology and Practice: Where We Started, Where We are Now and What's at Risk without Both/And Choices." Cathy presented at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses regional section conference in Nashville in April 2019, and was named senior director of nursing research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October. She was honored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society-Alliance for Nursing Informatics with the Nursing Informatics Leadership Award in March 2018. Cathy was named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in October 2017.

Nneka Jon-Ubabuco, BS'08, MSN'11, was a panelist for "SANE: Improving Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Assault (Part 2)," in April 2022, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. She is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Well Minds, Healthy Living and at Mood Health, both in the Dallas-area, and founder of Blended Corners.

Erin Keckley, MSN'11, is director of health services at Lipscomb University in Nashville (2020).

Kasey Kohring, MSN'11, joined CHI Memorial Women's Health Associates in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a women's health nurse practitioner, in September 2021.

Charmaine Jackson Krupka, MSN'11, is a nurse practitioner at Saint Thomas Medical Partners' Holy Family Health Center in Nashville (2020).

Kim Kuebler, DNP'11, was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in October 2020. She received the American Journal of Nursing's Textbook of the Year Award for 2017 for Integration of Palliative Care in the Management of Chronic Conditions: An Interdisciplinary Approach, published by the Oncology Nursing Society. That year, she wrote "U.S. Health Policy and Practice: The DNP and Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions," published in the Journal of Doctoral Practice Nursing, and "Health Policy and Clinical Practice in the New Era of Quality," published in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners . Kim is founder and director of the Multiple Chronic Conditions Resource Center.

Mary Lambert, DNP'11, presented "Experiences and Lessons Learned from a U.S. Army Nurse Who Has Served City Government to the White House" in February 2022, hosted by the VUSN Military/Veterans Student Nurses Affinity Group for Diversity Month. She was appointed director of community health for the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in April 2021, news of which was covered by Chattanooga Times Free Press , The Pulse and WRCB-TV, among other outlets. She was one of the speakers at a press conference hosted by the city in July 2021, announcing a Health and Human Services grant for COVID-19 mitigation. Mary is an associate professor at VUSN and adjunct faculty member at Kentucky State University in Frankfort.

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.

Natasha McClure, MSN'11, is co-author of "Nurse Practitioner Transition to Practice: Recommendations and Strategies for Designing and Implementing a Nurse Practitioner Fellowship," published in the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development in January 2022. She co-presented, "Strategies to Adapting a Pediatric Abuse Simulation from the Face-to-face to the Virtual Environment for Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Specialties," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April, and received the VUSN DAISY Award for Small Group Facilitator at the DNP Level in May. She co-authored "Exploration of Vaccination Attitudes among Parents and Caregivers in a Rural Appalachian Health Clinic," published in the Journal of Appalachian Health in July and " Adaptation to Virtual Format of an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Pediatric Physical Abuse Simulation," in the November issue of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners . Natasha is co-author of "Utilizing Academic-community Partnerships with Nursing Students to Improve Hand Hygiene in Elementary Students to Reduce Transmission of COVID-19," published by NASN School Nurse in January 2021, and "Interactive, Case-based Teaching Design Strategies for Nurse Practitioner Students," in June in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners . That month, she was promoted to associate professor at VUSN. Natasha received funding from the VUSN Faculty Scholarship Program for "Exploring Measurements of Competencies and Outcomes among Accredited NP Fellowships," in April 2020. She was featured in MyVU in July for her role as a resident life head of house at Vanderbilt University, and is lead author of "Child Abuse Response Simulation for Advanced Practice Nursing Students," published in the July/August issue of Clinical Nurse Specialist . That month, Natasha co-authored "Supporting Student Success: A Meaningful and Efficient Teaching Strategy to Document Practice Hours," in Nurse Educator and is in a video, "Strategies and Activities to Promote Inclusive Patient Interactions," in the same issue. In September, she was interviewed in a video made by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation regarding its Air Quality Flag Program. She is lead author of "Evaluation of Two Academic Practice Partnerships for Chronic Disease Management in Nursing Education," published in November in Public Health Nursing . Natasha co-wrote "Leveraging School Nurse Expertise to Meet Children's Health and Nutrition Needs in Afterschool Programs," published in NASN School Nurse in September 2019, and "Using Academic Community Partnerships to Improve Asthma Care in Elementary Schools with Limited School Nurse Services," in the Journal of School Health in December. She received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency for the Tennessee Asthma Coalition project "School Air Quality and Asthma Evidence-based Interventions" that month. Natasha was featured by the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching in its January 2018 Junior Teaching Spotlight and was appointed that April to serve as a faculty head at the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons on the Peabody campus. In 2017, she received the VUSN Tradition Meets Innovation Award for Faculty. She received the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Education Nurse of the Year award in December 2016, and successfully defended her doctor of nursing practice project on asthma care in schools, at Chicago's Rush University that year. 

Jocelyn Stauffer McGuire, MSN'11, is a nurse practitioner at Middle Tennessee Neurology Associates in Hermitage, caring for adult and adolescent patients with stroke, seizures, dementia, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, headache/migraine, neuropathy and other related issues (2017).

Kate McReynolds, MSN'11, was featured on the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's website in its Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight. She is a nurse practitioner at the Vanderbilt Hereditary Cancer Clinic (2017). 

Megan Merrigan, MSN'11, is a nurse practitioner specializing in urology at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock (2021).

Susan Mogan, MSN'11 , of Nashville, passed away January 9, 2020.

Elizabeth Morse, MSN'11, DNP'14, is on faculty at Belmont University School of Nursing and a nurse practitioner at East Nashville Family Medicine (2017).

Meredith Anne Morgan, MSN'11, got married in October 2015.  

Tara Mudd, MSN'11, was featured in a Norton Healthcare story in 2020 about using Apple Watches to detect irregular heartbeats. She is a nurse practitioner at the Norton Heart and Vascular Institute Atrial Fibrillation Clinic in Louisville, Kentucky.

Emily Williard Nardone, MSN'11, is a family nurse practitioner in Nashville (2017).

Ken Nelson, MSN'11, DNP'13, moderated the VUSN Alumni Board's annual DNP Know Your Value in March 2021 and in April, was a panelist for "Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus: Stories from the Top," part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum. He was interviewed in January 2020 by WFRV about the early stages of coronavirus in the United States. He served as moderator for DNP Know Your Value that month, and was interviewed in September by Up North News about the rising number of COVID-19 cases in rural areas of Wisconsin. Ken is chief nursing officer at both HSHS Saint Vincent and Saint Mary's Hospitals in Green Bay.

Heather Whaley O'Dell, BA'09, MSN'11, MMHC'16, presented "Multispecialty Collaboration Benefits: Efforts at Expanding Donor Pools," during Vanderbilt University Medical Center's 2018 Octoberfest and spoke at VUMC Aprilfest in 2016. She is advanced practice manager for abdominal transplant in the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. 

Elizabeth Ogunnaike, MSN'11, DNP'17, was recognized in The World in a January 2018 story about Southern Coos Health Center in Bandon, Oregon, where she is nurse practitioner.

Sarah Osborne, MSN'11, is an advanced practice registered nurse with the Owensboro Health Medical Group in Kentucky (2021).

Shaunna Parker, MSN'11, is co-author of "Creating Collaborative Relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Approach to Diversifying the Nursing Workforce," published in Nurse Educator in April 2021, and "Opioid Use Disorder Screening for Women across the Lifespan," published in Advances in Family Practice Nursing in May. She co-authored "Smoking and Maternal Health: Evidence that Female Infertility Can Be Attributed to Smoking and Improved with Smoking Cessation," in that same issue. Shaunna was moderator for "Building Organizational Resilience in Turbulent Times," in September, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and co-presented, "Opioid Use Disorder Screening across the Women's Health Lifespan," at the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health conference in October. She is co-author of "Generational Learning Preferences," published in American Nurse in December. Shaunna co-authored "Sexual Violence Screening for Women across the Lifespan," published in Advances in Family Practice Nursing in May 2020, and "A Summer Professional Immersion in Nursing Program for Underrepresented Minority Undergraduate Students," published in the Journal of Nursing Education in October. She was interviewed by VUMC Reporter in July 2018 for an article about VUSN hosting undergraduate students from Fisk and Vanderbilt universities and the Undergraduate Health Sciences Academy at Morehouse School of Medicine. The programs expose them to nursing as a career choice. Shaunna participated in a VUSN women's health nurse practitioner alumni panel in August 2017. She is an instructor at VUSN and a member of the VUSN Alumni Board.

Rachel Patso-Crosby, MSN'11, received the Patient Experience Award from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November 2022.

Mary Lauren Whitehead Pfieffer, MSN'11, is co-author of "Management of Mental Health Disorders in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in February 2022. In April, she co-presented, "Maximizing the OSCE Simulation Experience: Evaluation of Oral Presentations, Clinical Reasoning and Documentation Skills of Family Nurse Practitioner Students," and "Strategies to Adapting a Pediatric Abuse Simulation from the Face-to-face to the Virtual Environment for Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Specialties," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference. She is lead author of Recurrent Vulvovaginal Candidiasis: Implications for Practice," published in Advances in Family Practice Nursing in May, and was promoted to associate professor at VUSN in June. She is featured in the podcast, "Consequences of Dietary Sugar Consumption," hosted by The Nurse Practitioner . Mary Lauren co-presented, "Implications for Managing Coinciding Heart Failure and Liver Disease in Primary Care," at the American College of Nurse-Midwives conference in May 2022, and presented a poster, "Managing Coinciding Heart Failure and Liver Disease in Primary Care," at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners conference in June. In July, she co-presented, "Primary Care Management of Special Populations with Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders and HIV," at the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium. Mary Lauren co-presented a poster, "Diagnostic and Management Considerations for Co-occurring HIV and Mental Health Disorders for Psychiatric-mental Health Nursing Providers," in October at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association conference, and co-authored "Adaptation to Virtual Format of an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Pediatric Physical Abuse Simulation," published in the November issue of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners . Mary Lauren 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, and welcomed a baby in September. She wrote "How to Care for Adults with Low Back Pain in the Primary Care Setting," published in Nursing in February 2020, and is co-author of "Update on Guidelines for Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment and Management in the Adult and Adolescent Population," published in Nursing Clinics in September. Mary Lauren was featured on the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching website in May 2019 for her part in developing an innovative Pediatric Simulation Day at VUSN. That year, she was promoted to assistant professor at VUSN, published "Evaluating and Managing Low Back Pain in Primary Care," in The Nurse Practitioner , and co-authored "Assessment and Treatment of Dizziness and Vertigo," published in The Nurse Practitioner in October. Mary Lauren was featured by the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching in its January 2018 Junior Teaching Spotlight. She received the VUSN Sara K. Archer Excellence in Teaching Award from students in the Family NP specialty that August, and welcomed babies in June 2016 and November 2018. 

Courtney Young Pitts, MSN'09, DNP'11 , co-authored "Forty Years of HIV Care: Optimism and Challenges," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in January 2022 and wrote a guest editorial in the same issue. She was a panelist for "Supporting Nursing Students of Color: Success Strategies from Academia to Practice," in February, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and, in March, was quoted in the Fort Campbell Courier for "Vanderbilt, BACH Open Doors for Nursing Students through Leadership Tour." She co-presented, "Promoting Health Equity in Rural and Underserved Communities," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April, and "Unravelling Bias and Building Cultural Sensitivity in Day-to-day Work Culture," at the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved STAR² Center's workforce symposium in May. Courtney co-authored "Building a Culturally Responsive Workforce: Faculty of Color in Nursing Education," published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners that month, and was promoted to professor at VUSN in June. Courtney co-presented, "Pharmacologic Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Common Chronic Conditions," at a preconference workshop of the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium in July. Courtney was named a 2021 Rising Star Nurse Leader in February by the Tennessee Action Coalition, Tennessee Nurses Association and Tennessee Hospital Association, and was inducted as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in June. That month, she co-presented, "Bolstering Diversity in the Health Professions Applicants' Pool," at the Academic Units for Primary Care Training and Enhancement Conference. In August, Courtney was appointed for a four-year term to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Education and Practice by the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and co-presented, "Connecting with Readers through Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity," at the International Association of Nursing Editors conference. Courtney was interviewed in February 2020 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education about two Health Resources and Services Administration grants received by VUSN to grow the number of nurse practitioners in rural, underserved areas that lack primary care providers. She welcomed a baby in June and edited an e-book, Sexually Transmitted Infections, An Issue of Nursing Clinics, published by Elsevier Health Sciences in August. Courtney co-authored and "Pharmacologic Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Common Chronic Conditions," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in March 2019, and presented "HIV and Primary Care: Clinical Updates for the Nurse Practitioner," and a poster, "Hand Pain during and after Pregnancy," at the AANP conference in June. That October, she co-authored "A Checklist for Faculty and Preceptor to Enhance the Nurse Practitioner Student Clinical Experience," published in Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners . She co-authored "Writing a Diversity and Inclusivity Statement: Guidelines for Nursing Programs and Faculty," published in November by Nurse Educator . Courtney welcomed a baby in August 2017.

Leigh Guinn Powers, MSN'04, DNP'11, is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Bluewater Behavioral Health in Niceville, Florida (2021).

Jennifer Prager, MSN'11, is an assistant in medicine specializing in endocrinology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2020).

Angela Quinn, MSN'11, was elected to the American Health Council Nursing Board in 2018. She is owner and provider at Mobile Skin Screening in Phoenix. 

KarlaAnne Rella, MSN'11, joined the medical staff of Penobscot Community Health Care in Bangor, Maine, in July 2015, as a pediatric nurse practitioner.

Malinda Rivas, MSN'11, is an adult nurse practitioner at Murfreesboro Medical Clinic and Surgery Center in Tennessee (2020).

Jayme Rosenberger, MSN'11, is owner and provider at IRevive Health & Wellness in Nashville (2020).

Ben Smallheer, MSN'04, PhD'11, is consulting editor of Burnout in Nursing: Causes, Management and Future Directions, published by Elsevier in March 2022, and he received the Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity in Simulation Leadership Excellence Award from the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning in June. He was invited to join the advisory committee for the King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, College of Nursing—Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in early 2021. He was a panelist for "How the Media and Entertainment Industry Perpetuate Stereotypes of Nursing (and Why That Hurts Everyone)," in May, part of the VUSN Dore to Door Alumni Forum, and wrote a chapter, "Early Recognition of Preventable Factors Associated with Delirium Saves Lives and Costs," for the book, Best Practices in Nursing: An Issue of Nursing Clinics , published by Elsevier in September. Ben co-sponsored a challenge gift incentive during the 2019 Vanderbilt University Giving Day, and presented "Using the Revised INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Simulation SM," and "Strategies for Effective In-Situ Simulation," at the Saudi Health Simulation Conference, in November. Ben is lead faculty for the adult gerontology nurse practitioner-acute care program and an assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina.

Doug Smith, MSN'11, is lead author of "What the American Journal of Critical Care Junior Peer Reviewers Were Reading during Year 2 of the Program," published by the American Journal of Critical Care in September 2022. He is lead author of "Brugada Syndrome: Fatal Consequences of a Must-not-miss Diagnosis," published in Critical Care Nurse in October 2021, and was selected for the American Journal of Critical Care Junior Peer Reviewer program in February 2020. Doug is an instructor at VUSN. 

Mary Rogers Sorey, MSN'11, is an assistant in medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertension at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2016).

Tricia Stanley, DNP'11, was featured in VUSN professor Bonnie Pilon's blog, Healthcare in the Shadows , in August 2015, for her work as director of clinical operations for Wellness for Life Medical in Crawsfordsville, Indiana. 

Cameron Stephenson, MSN'11, is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing in Lexington (2022).

Emily Rhea Swett, MSN'11, is a nurse practitioner at Middle Tennessee State University student health services, in Murfreesboro (2018). 

Jannyse Starks Tapp, MSN'09, DNP'11, co-presented, "Promoting Health Equity in Rural and Underserved Communities," at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties conference in April 2022, and presented the poster, "What's the SKINny? A look at Racial Disparities in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis and Asthma," on behalf of Courtney Young Pitts, MSN'09, DNP'11, Julia Martin Steed, MSN'10, PhD'18, and herself at the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium in July. She was inducted as an inaugural fellow of the National League for Nursing/Walden University Institute for Social Determinants of Health and Social Change Leadership Academy in August. Jannyse welcomed a baby in August 2021 and is co-recipient of the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Award, presented by VUSN and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, for her work educating students, faculty and staff about the effects of poverty on health. She published "Vaginal Irritation in Prepubertal Girls: Age-Specific Considerations in Primary Care," in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners in September 2019, and was featured in November in a WTVF-NewsChannel 5 story about VUSN's poverty simulation, which she co-leads. Jannyse is an assistant professor at VUSN.

Lucy Tucker, MSN'11, completed her doctor of nursing practice at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in December 2018. Her project is "Apneic Oxygenation in the Emergency Department." 

Jordan Vaughan, MSN'11, is an in vitro fertilization nurse practitioner at Nashville Fertility Center and treasurer of the board of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (2019).

Cindy Waller, MSN'97, PhD'11, was interviewed on Main Street Nashville "Mornings on Main Street" program in December 2021.

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.

Nicole Weihrauch, MSN'11, is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Children's Minnesota in Minneapolis (2022).

Vanessa Wilson, MSN'11, is manager of population health at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia (2023).

Briana Witherspoon, MSN'11, DNP'13, co-presented "Advanced Practice Fellowship: Supporting Transitions to Practice," at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in May 2018 during Aprilfest, and presented at the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Critical Care Bootcamp at VUMC that August. 

Katie Wright, MSN'11, presented at the American College of Nurse-Midwives annual meeting in May 2021.