Core Faculty

Kathy Richards, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director,  Center for Integrative Science in Aging and the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence; Professor of Gerontological Nursing; Director, Polisher Research Institute
Research Initiatives: Sleep and Cognition

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

Lois Evans, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Director, Center for Integrative Science in Aging and the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence,van Ameringen Professsor in Nursing Excellence; Chair, Family and Community Health Division
Research Initiatives: Geropsychiatric Nursing

Mary Ersek, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Director, Center for Integrative Science in Aging, Associate Professor
Research Initiatives: Palliative Care

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

Pamela Z Cacchione, PhD, APRN, GNP, BC
Associate Professor of Geropsychiatric Nursing - Clinician Educator

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

Sarah Kagan, PhD, RN
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

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

Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, RN
Shearer Term Associate Professor for Healthy Community Practices, Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Practice and Community Affairs
Research Initiatives: Health Promotion and Community Health