People Group Archives: Women's Health

Betty Myrick is a visiting instructor at UCF College of Nursing’s Daytona Beach campus with nationally recognized expertise in obstetric nursing and perinatal education. She has extensive clinical experience in labor and delivery and obstetric care, and is certified in inpatient obstetrics, inpatient antepartum nursing and electronic fetal monitoring. With a commitment to excellence in […]

Danielle Sterner is a postdoctoral scholar at UCF’s College of Nursing, working with Jean Davis on a behavioral clinical research program focused on improving physical activity and health outcomes during pregnancy. In her role, Sterner supports clinical trial operations, wearable device data management, participant engagement, data analysis, manuscript preparation and grant development. Sterner is passionate about bridging science, healthcare and executing […]

Lecturer Caroline M. Griffin’s nursing career began in the rural Andes of Ecuador where she volunteered for two years with the Peace Corps. Afterward, she worked as bedside nurse in a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient settings in the U.S. As a family nurse practitioner, she has provided care in Florida and Haiti, volunteering […]

Kimberly Navarro is a certified nurse midwife and board certified women’s health nurse practitioner who is passionate about providing high quality care, combating maternal mortality and promoting the normalcy of pregnancy. She has more than 15 years of experience in women’s health and has been involved in serving her community and providing education and healthcare […]

Sharon Tucker, a distinguished scholar in psychiatric mental health nursing and evidence-based practice, is the dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida and Orlando Health Endowed Chair in Nursing. Tucker joined UCF as a professor and chair of the Department of Nursing Practice in 2024. Her leadership experience spans more […]

Lecturer Latonia Green has held a variety of clinical appointments as a registered nurse, head nurse and nurse manager at hospitals in Tennessee and Florida. Most recently, she served as a nurse manager at AdventHealth East Orlando, directing and managing 24-hour clinical operations of two observation and medical telemetry units. After earning her DNP degree, […]

Jennie M. Wagner is a lecturer at UCF’s College of Nursing who previously has led and taught RN to BSN and RN to MSN programs at institutions in North Carolina. She has actively served on several accreditation agencies and currently is an appointed member of the National League for Nursing accreditation review committee and evaluator […]

Carmen Giurgescu is a UCF Pegasus Professor, the Chatlos Foundation Endowed Chair and associate dean of research at UCF’s College of Nursing. Giurgescu is a world-renowned maternal health researcher who focuses her efforts on reducing preterm births to improve outcomes for new mothers and their babies. Her pioneering research, which is built upon more than […]

Associate Professor Jean Davis’ passion for community health promotion grew from listening to her aunt and her mother, both nurses, discuss and solve community health challenges when she was a child. Davis channels that passion into implementation science research using coaching, wearable technology and artificial intelligence (AI) for physical activity support, promotion and habit formation […]

Childhood obesity prevention and intervention; School nursing; Teaching strategies in nursing education.