Faculty

Jacqueline LaManna is the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program Director and an associate professor at UCF’s College of Nursing. LaManna is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner and nationally recognized expert in diabetes care across the lifespan with more than three decades of experience as a clinical provider and educator focused on diabetes self-management education and advanced diabetes management. Her current research examines post-pregnancy care transition needs of women following diabetes-complicated pregnancies and associated lifelong cardiometabolic risks. LaManna is a certified telehealth educator who directed a federal grant-funded project to prepare primary care nurse practitioner students and helped develop a national competency-based telehealth education toolkit for nurse practitioner programs. LaManna is currently a member of UCF’s Mobile Health steering committee and part of a state-funded interdisciplinary team providing cardiometabolic screenings through mobile health. In addition to her academic appointments, LaManna maintains a clinical practice with the Florida Department of Health providing care to individuals experiencing diabetes-complicated pregnancies.

Education

• PhD, University of Central Florida
• MSN, University of Florida
• BSN, Purdue University

Selected Editorial Activities

• Editorial Board, Diabetes, Obesity, and CardioMetabolic CARE
• Reviewer, The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care
• Reviewer, Geriatric Nursing
• Manuscript Reviewer, The Journal for Nurse Practitioners

Selected Awards & Honors

• Fellow, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2024
• Outstanding Nurse Practitioner Education Award, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, 2023
• Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing, National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence, 2022
• Fellow, Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists, 2020

Selected Professional Activities

• Board of Directors, Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists
• Chair, Specialists Research Committee, Association of Diabetes Care and Education
• Scientific Advisory Committee, Women’s Health: Improving the Diabetes Care Continuum, American Diabetes Association
• Reviewer, Innovative Research for Enhanced Diabetes Prevention and Care in Primary Care Settings, American Diabetes Association
• Telehealth Committee, National Association of Nurse Practitioner Faculties