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

Education BA in Business Administration, UCF

Instructor Sara Snyder is a healthcare professional with a background in emergency nursing and a passion for advancing healthcare practices. A certified emergency nurse, Snyder has served in emergency departments and ICUs across the country for nearly two decades. In addition to her teaching roles, Snyder is currently working toward her doctorate in nursing at […]

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, […]

Kimberly Scalise is a lecturer and serves as director of the post-licensure undergraduate programs at UCF’s College of Nursing. Experienced in a range of teaching modalities including online, didactic and simulation, Scalise is especially passionate about online education and preparing post-licensure nurses as they seek higher education. A certified healthcare simulation educator and certified nurse […]

Frances Armstrong, clinical assistant professor and graduate simulation coordinator at UCF’s College of Nursing, is a dual-certified adult-gerontology acute care and primary care nurse practitioner with a passion for critical care. As a nurse practitioner, she has a diverse clinical background including sleep medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. She continues to maintains a clinical […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lecturer Sandra Kirkland served for 15 years in Veterans Affairs medical centers, serving as a family nurse practitioner and chief nurse for mental health at facilities in Tennessee and Florida, and a nurse executive for the VA Medical Center in Alexandria, Louisiana. Broadly experienced in mental health, family medicine, gerontology, wound care, nurse education and […]

Education BA in International and Global Studies, UCF