People Group Archives: Quality, Safety & Patient Outcomes

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 […]

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, […]

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 cancer outcomes. In a previous faculty role at […]

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 […]

Vivian Schutz, a clinical associate professor at UCF’s College of Nursing, has more than 21 years of experience in nursing education in Brazil and the United States. Schutz has extensive clinical, administrative and leadership experience in intensive care, emergency nursing and healthcare management. Prior to and during her academic career, she served as a nurse […]

Instructor Kate Dorminy is a dual alumna of UCF’s College of Nursing who is passionate about mentoring future Knight nurses. She currently is a full-time teaching faculty member and serves as faculty co-advisor to the Student Nurses’ Association at UCF Orlando. Prior to her academic role at UCF, Dorminy worked for more than a decade […]

Healthy aging; fall prevention in older adults; and aging education.

Brian C. Peach is an associate professor in the University of Central Florida College of Nursing and a nationally recognized critical care researcher inspired from his nearly 20-year career as an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse. His past research focused on sepsis epidemiology and the impact of organizational factors on septic patient outcomes. More recently, […]

Health economist and health outcomes researcher Boon Peng Ng is an associate professor at UCF’s College of Nursing and UCF’s College of Medicine, and is a member of the UCF Disability, Aging and Technology Faculty Research Cluster. Prior to his appointment at UCF, he was a Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness fellow at the Centers […]

Instructor, Faculty Consultant for Student Nurses Association Chapter at UCF Daytona Beach