People Group Archives: Nursing Systems

Visiting Lecturer Brigit Zamora is an accomplished nurse executive, educator, executive coach and healthcare consultant whose career spans clinical practice, nursing and executive leadership, leadership development and healthcare transformation. Her clinical background includes critical care, surgical services and women’s health. Zamora has served in progressive leadership roles from nurse manager through chief nursing officer with […]

Latiena F. Williams is a senior lecturer at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing. Williams is an educator, clinician, researcher and public health professional with more than 20 years of experience in education and healthcare. Her scholarly work has focused extensively on health policy, child health and addressing healthcare challenges to help people […]

Cindy Thompson is a senior lecturer at UCF’s College of Nursing. With more than 20 years of experience in nursing practice, education and leadership, Thompson is dedicated to advancing student success through innovative teaching, simulation-based learning and evidence-based practice. Her background includes cardiovascular critical care nursing, staff development, curriculum design, accreditation and academic program leadership. […]

Senior Lecturer Chaka Brittain is a nurse practitioner, educator and scholar whose work focuses on hospice and palliative care, serious illness communication and culturally responsive end-of-life care. Her scholarship explores topics including cultural humility, spirituality in healthcare, advance care planning, and improving communication between clinicians, patients and families facing complex medical decisions. She has presented […]

Instructor Cheryl Howard is a nurse educator who is passionate about creating engaging, student-centered learning environments that help nurses build confidence, strengthen clinical judgment, and develop into leaders within the profession. Howard has taught a variety of undergraduate nursing courses in the classroom and online, and facilitates NCLEX reviews to help nursing students develop clinical […]

Senior Lecturer Deb S. Peterson is a certified academic nurse educator with more than 40 years in the nursing profession and over 25 years of experience in nursing education, including several academic leadership roles. She has extensive expertise in curriculum development, online learning, program accreditation, faculty mentoring and student success initiatives. She played a key […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nurse, researcher and educator Michael Joseph “MJ” Dino specializes in health informatics, gerotechnology, educational technologies, robotics, human-computer interaction (HCI), extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI), and academic integrity. He is part of the Delphi Group, which pioneered the new definition of Nursing and Nurses at the International Council of Nurses, and past president of the […]

Professor Susan Mac Leod Dyess has more than 30 years of academic, clinical and administrative experience, and is a nationally recognized leader in interprofessional education, curricular design and holistic nursing. She is known for her solution-oriented leadership and impactful community-based participatory action research. Her work integrates caring science, human-centered design, and systems thinking to transform […]