Core Faculty

Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, RN
Director, Center for Integrative Science in Aging and the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence; Shearer Term Associate Professor for Healthy Community Practices, Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Practice and Community Affairs

Research Initiatives: Health Promotion and Community Health

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Mary Ersek, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Director, Center for Integrative Science in Agingand the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Associate Professor
Research Initiatives: Palliative Care

Pamela Cacchione, PhD, APRN, GNP, BC
Associate Director, Center for Integrative Science in Aging and the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence; Associate Professor of Geropsychiatric Nursing - Clinician Educator

Christine Bradway, PhD, RN, CRNP
Director, GNP program, Assistant Professor of Gerontological Nursing – Clinician Educator
Research Initiatives: Incontinence

Lois Evans, PhD, RN, FAAN
van Ameringen Professsor in Nursing Excellence Research Initiatives: Geropsychiatric Nursing

Neville Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN
Advisor, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Professor Emerita
Research Initiatives: Palliative Care, Falls, Minority Aging, Nursing Home Care

Valerie Cotter, DrNP, CRNP, FAANP
Advanced Senior Lecturer and Director, Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Program
Research Initiatives: Early Stage Dementia Care

Sarah Kagan, PhD, RN, FAAN
Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Abramson Cancer Center, Secondary Faculty Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, Ralston House Term Professor of Gerontologic Nursing
Research Initiatives: Geriatric Oncology

Joseph Libonati, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nursing

Research Initiatives: Exercise Training and Cardiology

Therese Richmond, PhD, FAAN, CRNP
Associate Professor of Nursing
Research Initiatives: Injury and Violence