People Group Archives: UCF Academic Health Sciences Campus, Lake Nona

Carla Leinbach is a first-year Ph.D. student at UCF’s College of Nursing and works as a community outreach coordinator in the Healthy Aging Lab. Leinbach plays a key role in connecting with research participants and developing partnerships across Florida. Leinbach’s research interests include motivation, cognitive reframing, and how neural-net-based artificial intelligence adoption impacts intrinsic motivation. […]

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Kimberly Navarro is a certified nurse midwife and board certified women’s health nurse practitioner who is passionate about providing high quality care, combating maternal mortality and promoting the normalcy of pregnancy. She has more than 15 years of experience in women’s health and has been involved in serving her community and providing education and healthcare […]

Lecturer Hannah D. Binding has more than 14 years of combined clinical and academic experience. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in pediatrics, adult health and critical care, clinical reasoning, and professional nursing practice, and serves as a preceptor and faculty advisor to master’s and doctoral nursing students. Her scholarly interests include nursing documentation and […]

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, […]

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 […]