People Group Archives: Faculty

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 […]

Piotr Lagod is a postdoctoral scholar in the Human Health Outcomes of Exposure to Environmental Toxins Lab. His current research focuses on the negative health outcomes associated with harmful algal blooms, specifically blue-green algae and red tide, and investigates possible multisystemic adverse effects. In this research, he collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to correlate symptoms […]

Megha Parikh is a postdoctoral scholar at the Healthy Aging Lab in UCF’s College of Nursing. Her research focuses on machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision with applications in the segmentation and recognition of handwritten conjuncts in the low-resource Gujarati language. She has also applied machine learning techniques to healthcare-related problems, including medical image […]

Ania Lipat is a postdoctoral scholar in the Healthy Aging Lab at UCF’s College of Nursing. Throughout her educational training, she has gained extensive experience in gait analysis with a specific focus on aging and chronic pain populations. During her studies, she has helped develop and assess novel quantitative gait technologies for preclinical models of […]

Olajumoke (Jummy) Ojeleye is a nurse‑midwife, maternal and child health nurse scientist, and perinatal mental health professional, whose work spans clinical practice, academic scholarship, and community‑engaged research. Her research focuses on advancing maternal and perinatal mental health, with a particular emphasis on improving the experiences and outcomes of pregnant and parenting adolescents. Her scholarship reflects […]

Alumna Joy Baylis is a dedicated pediatric nurse practitioner whose multifaceted career reflects a deep commitment to child health, education and clinical excellence. She has nearly two decades of clinical experience spanning emergency care, school health and private pediatric practice. As an educator, she is bringing her real-world experience and passion for pediatric nursing into […]

Jian (Frank) Zou is an associate professor of statistics at UCF’s College of Nursing. His research interests include time series, high dimensional statistical inference, biosurveillance, spatial statistics and Bayesian analysis for risk management, as well as applications in AI (artificial intelligence) and data science. His work has been published in both statistics journals and data […]

Linda Foley is a certified nurse educator and associate lecturer at UCF’s College of Nursing. Her clinical experience has spanned various healthcare settings, including critical care, medical-surgical acute care, community health and home healthcare. She began her role as a nurse educator during her doctoral studies and discovered a passion for teaching undergraduate pre-licensure BSN […]

Kaitlyn Rechenberg is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing. She is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner and pediatric mental health specialist with 10 years of clinical experience working with adolescents and young adults. She is an expert in conducting interventional research with adolescents and young adults living with chronic […]

Sergi Garcia-Retortillo is an assistant professor at UCF’s College of Nursing with expertise in exercise physiology, electrophysiology, exercise testing, and physiological network analysis. His research centers on the emerging field of network physiology, which seeks to understand how physiological systems interact as an integrated network to sustain function. He investigates the fundamental principles regulating interactions […]