People Group Archives: Dissertation Chairs

Associate Professor Rebecca Koszalinski investigates the relationships between air, water, the environment, and health outcomes and leads the interdisciplinary Human Health Outcomes of Exposure to Environmental Toxins Lab at UCF’s College of Nursing. Her harmful algal bloom research seeks to evaluate significant health care implications of potential toxin exposures. She is currently the primary investigator […]

Assistant Professor Jennifer Crook is a nationally recognized nutritional epidemiologist and nurse scientist whose work investigates how nutritional insecurity becomes biologically embedded to drive inflammation, symptom burden and cancer disparities. Her research integrates omics‑based biomarkers, nutritional epidemiology and community‑engaged methods to develop clinically actionable tools that advance equitable cancer outcomes. In a previous faculty role […]

Associate Professor Rui Xie holds appointments in both UCF’s College of Nursing and College of Sciences, and is the principal investigator at the university’s Artificial Intelligence and Statistics for Health and Nursing Research Lab. His research encompasses the domains of statistics, biostatistics, machine learning and public health. His primary focus revolves around advancing statistical sketching and […]

Alumna Joy Parchment is a veteran nurse executive, executive leadership coach and speaker, and assistant professor at the UCF College of Nursing. Parchment publishes in the areas of professional nursing practice and leadership science, including the nursing work environment, nurse manager role, and leadership competencies. The focus of her research targets belongingness, well-being and inclusivity […]

Ayse Malatyali is a Jonas Scholar with a research priority in cognitive aging. She focuses primarily on risk and protective processes of cognitive decline in the continuum of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias among underserved older adults. Her additional areas of research include healthcare utilization and end-of-life care among persons living with dementia and dementia […]

Mona Shattell is the chair of the Department of Nursing Systems, the Hugh F. and Jeannette G. McKean Endowed Chair, and a professor in the UCF College of Nursing. An internationally recognized mental health and psychiatric nursing expert, Shattell is the editor of the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, and the author […]

Carmen Giurgescu is a UCF Pegasus Professor, the Chatlos Foundation Endowed Chair and associate dean of research at UCF’s College of Nursing, which is named among the nation’s top nursing schools for NIH funding. Giurgescu is a world-renowned maternal health researcher who focuses her efforts on reducing preterm births to improve outcomes for new mothers […]

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 research focused on physical activity support, promotion and habit formation to improve health and patient outcomes. Davis is particularly […]

Virtual and augmented reality; human tracking systems; and human surrogates for training and telepresence.

Immunizations, including immunosuppressed populations; evidence-based practice; the DNP role in implementing process improvement.