People Group Archives: Expertise

Angela Wheat is a lecturer at UCF’s College of Nursing Daytona campus. A healthcare professional with 15 years of experience, Wheat specializes in diabetes education, diabetes management and diabetes care management. She combines chronic care management expertise with healthcare navigation to assist in disease management, medication management and patient education in promotion of optimal healthcare […]

With 17 years of experience as an emergency room nurse, including in leadership roles, Danny Hernandez has extensive knowledge of emergent and critical care. He is also keenly interested in the future of nursing education — especially the role of augmented and virtual reality — and focused on healthcare simulation while earning his MSN. Danny’s […]

Instructor Darcy Vetro Ravndal is a public health nurse practitioner and educator with more than 18 years of clinical experience in caring for children and adolescents. She is passionate about preparing future nurses through evidence-based education that emphasizes compassionate, patient-centered care. Her clinical, teaching and research interests include pediatric primary care, adolescent health, public health, […]

Lecturer Ashley Faulkner served as an ICU nurse for eight years and an adjunct faculty member at UCF for a year prior to joining the full-time faculty in 2024. A double alumna of the UCF College of Nursing, she is excited to work with the undergraduate nursing students and UCF faculty. Education Selected Professional Activities

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 […]

Kaylee Nettles is a double alumna of UCF with clinical expertise in bone marrow transplant and perianesthesia care. Prior to joining UCF as faculty member, she worked as a bone marrow transplant registered nurse at AdventHealth Orlando and a pre-op/PACU registered nurse at Orlando Regional Medical Center. She has a passion for the field of […]

Lisa Linville is the director of the Leadership and Management MSN program at UCF’s College of Nursing. She has held administrative, legal and clinical roles in health care systems for more than 25 years and has taught in graduate nursing programs for more than 15 years. Her legal experience includes medical malpractice, health care law […]

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 […]

Janet Lopez is an assistant professor at UCF’s College of Nursing and a nurse scientist dedicated to promoting healthy aging. Her work focuses on improving outcomes for older adults, caregivers and veterans, and her research and scholarship integrates community-engaged approaches to address fall risk, frailty, mental health and caregiving outcomes, as well as digital health […]

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 […]