Bouvé College welcomes 40 new full-time faculty for fall 2023
The start of a new academic year is a very exciting time! At Bouvé College of Health Sciences, we’re pleased to introduce and welcome 40 new full-time faculty to our community.
Please continue reading to get to know our newest faculty members.
Meet our new full-time tenure/ tenure track faculty
Camron Bryant
Title: Professor
Department: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research: Dr. Bryant’s research program is focused on determining the genetic basis of behavioral and molecular traits relevant to substance dependence in mice. The ultimate goal is to improve our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction and to translate these findings toward treatment and prevention strategies in humans.
Darla Castelli
Title: Professor and Chair
Department: Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences
Research: Dr. Castelli is an internationally recognized expert in the well-being of children, with a particular interest in the cognitive benefits of physical activity and healthy eating as protective health factors to reduce the risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome. Over the course of her research career, she has led 26 funded research projects as a PI and/or Co-I, totaling over $24 million in total research funding from sources including: National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and United States Department of Education.
Joshua Curtiss
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Applied Psychology
Research: As a clinical scientist, Dr. Curtiss’ research interests pertain to leveraging state-of-the-art statistical approaches to address questions relating to the nosology and treatment of emotional disorders. Specifically, his research embraces statistical procedures that foster idiographic and precision medicine approaches to clinical psychology (e.g., machine learning, intensive time-series approaches, network theory, etc.). Additionally, he has substantive interests in emotion regulation and mindfulness research.
Neha Gothe
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences (75%) and Department of Applied Psychology (25%)
Research: Dr. Gothe’s research agenda has focused on promoting physical activity, including non-traditional modes such as yoga, as a means to improve health and quality of life.
Larry Han
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Health Sciences
Research: Dr. Han focuses on developing novel statistical methods to leverage real world data to improve decision-making in public health and clinical medicine. Specifically, his academic interests include robust and efficient estimation and inference of treatment effects using large-scale data generated from electronic health records and clinical trial data.
Tamara Jimah
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Health Sciences (75%) and Pharmacy & Health Systems Sciences (25%)
Research: Dr. Jimah’s research seeks to identify the different psychosocial and contextual factors that influence patients’ adherence to treatment for tuberculosis.
Winston Kennedy
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences (75%) and Department of Health Sciences (25%)
Research: Dr. Kennedy is a physical therapist (DPT) and also has a master’s degree in public health (MPH) and a PhD in Kinesiology with a concentration in adapted physical activity. He was funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education to pursue his research training. Dr. Kennedy is committed to conducting research that supports the health and well-being of people with disabilities at their intersecting identities.
Aston McCullough
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences (75%) and Department of Music (25%)
Research: Dr. Aston K. McCullough studies human activity in relation to health across the lifespan. He programs and evaluates methods for analyzing human activity and health-related signals within single and multi-person movement paradigms using sensors (e.g., accelerometers, 2D/3D cameras, EKG, and others). McCullough examines associations between wellness and dance exposures both quantitatively and qualitatively. His specific research areas include- movement & health, motion analysis, wearable sensors & 2D/3D camera systems, biometry, children & families, dance behavior.
Jie Shen
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research: Dr. Shen’s research is mainly focused on: the development of novel drug delivery systems to improve bioavailability and reduce side effects of a variety of therapeutics, with particular interests in sustained and/or targeted brain and ophthalmic drug delivery, as well as oral drug delivery. Additional focus on in vitro and in vivo performance testing, as well as the development of in vitro-in vivo correlation (IVIVC) for complex dosage forms (such as microspheres, implants, and nanoparticles) and manufacturing of advanced drug delivery systems (such as liposomes, and microspheres).
Patrick Skosnik
Title: Professor
Department: School of Nursing (75%) and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (25%)
Research: Dr. Skosnik directs the Psychophysiology Laboratory within the VA-CMHC-Yale Schizophrenia Research Clinic. He has been the recipient of two NARSAD Young Investigator Awards, was invited to participate in the NIH Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program, was the 2016 Yale Nominee for the Charles A. Dana Foundation Neuroimaging Grant (awarded), has received The Brain and Behavior Foundation (Formerly NARSAD) Independent Investigator Award. and his work has been featured on the covers of Biological Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology, and Clinical Neurophysiology.
Idia Thurston
Title: Professor
Department: Department of Health Sciences (50%) and Department of Applied Psychology (50%)
Research: Dr. Thurston’s research explores causes of health inequity among adolescents, young adults, and parents by examining how and why BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and other minoritized individuals experience a greater health and disease burden. Framed by an academic womanist lens, Dr. Thurston’s research explores multilevel individual, relational, and contextual risk and protective factors that contribute to varying health outcomes among minoritized and underserved populations.
Xiao Yang
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Health Sciences (75%) and Khoury College of Computer Sciences (25%)
Research: Dr. Yang is a Quantitative linguist studying how humans understand sentences, dialogs and conversational contexts. Dr. Yang has a strong background in statistical analysis and quantitative methods, R/Python programming and research project organization and 6 years of experience in developing and documenting programs for measuring language comprehension and cognitive abilities. and communicating research findings at conferences and outreach events.
Meet our new full-time non-tenure track faculty
Kaye Bemis
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: In addition to being responsible for the management of many multicenter studies, Kaye Bemis has an interest in multidisciplinary quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
Caitlin Bradley
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Dr. Bradley works as a Newborn Infant Specialist as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Jennifer Cocio-Thompson
Title: Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Jennifer has over 27 years of nursing experience with over 5 years of teaching in both didactic and simulation-based nursing education and 2 years of experience as the Director of Nurse Education at Bunker Hill Community College. She has taught didactic in both pediatrics and medical-surgical nursing, have done clinical in pediatrics, lab for medical-surgical skills and assessment and have done simulation for both pediatrics and maternal newborn.
Domenic Corey
Title: Senior Lecturer
Department: Department of Health Sciences
Background: Professional and clinical experience has been in the arena of Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
Jennifer Deese
Title: Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing (Charlotte)
Background: Jennifer Deese is an educator and nurse, committed to providing the same quality of care and education to students and patients, regardless of their background, age, or race.
Savanna DiCristina
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences
Background: Throughout a two-year clinical pharmacology fellowship, Savanna SanFilippo designed and performed several observational studies and one randomized controlled trial with a focus on complex pharmacotherapy regimens in the aging population.
Joseph Elijah
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences
Background: A variety of oncology specific rotations, most of which were heavily focused within the outpatient setting, allowing for the opportunity to further enhance and practice skills relative to patient education for chemotherapy and oral oncolytic agents, order verification, drug toxicity management, drug information, and drug therapy recommendations for oncology and non-oncology related indications.
Kelly Gallant
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Dr. Kelly Gallant is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (crna) Specialist. She has more than 13 years of diverse experiences. Kelly spent 8 years working in the surgical intensive care unit as a Registered Nurse while researching pediatric pulmonary hypertension and caregiver reactions as part of her PhD, which she completed at Northeastern in 2017.
Samantha Garbers
Title: Teaching Professor
Department: Health Sciences
Background: Samantha Garbers, PhD works with a diverse range of clinical- and community-based stakeholders to develop, adapt, implement, and evaluate innovative interventions to improve public health for diverse populations including sexual and gender minority youth and adults, adolescent males and women seeking reproductive health care, Latinx and Black communities, and individuals with limited health literacy.
Dalena Gleaton
Title: Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing (Charlotte)
Background: Expert registered nurse and successful mentor/educator with more than 30 years of experience in acute and community care settings. Experienced in supervision and coaching of clinical nursing staff and undergraduate nursing students. Knowledgeable in best practices in clinical education and assessment and student engagement including online learning, simulation training, integration of technology, and clinical supervision and evaluation.
Gretchen Hamn
Title: Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Gretchen Hamn has over 26 years of clinical work as a certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. Additionally, she has 15 years of service in her part-time role in Bouve’s School of Nursing providing advisement and support to neonatal advance practice nursing students throughout the process of completing course requirements for their degree.
Catrina Jaime
Title: Associate Clinical Professor
Department: Department of Health Sciences (Oakland, CA)
Background: Dr. Jaime’s scholarly and professional experience spans over 15 years, conducting research and implementation of R01 community-, school- and clinically-based sexual and reproductive health and violence prevention interventions.
Nia Johnson
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Background: Nia Johnson is a speech-language pathologist (SLP) with over 20 years of experience working with both adults and children with a wide range of communication challenges in various settings.
Marie Maloney
Title: Senior Lecturer and Associate Program Director for Health Informatics
Department: Department of Health Sciences (50%) and Khoury College of Computer Sciences (50%)
Background: Marie Maloney is an information technology and healthcare informatics educator. Maloney collaborates with clinical leadership to develop and support innovative care management approaches for dual-eligible populations and government programs.
Amy McGreevy
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Dr. McGreevy has a diverse nursing background including Neonatal intensive care nursing, pediatric nursing, newborn nursing, obstetrical nursing, community health and school nursing, and pediatric hematological oncological Health, including rare tumors and sarcomas and pediatric urgent care. She is board-certified through the PNCB for primary care pediatrics.
Syamak Moattari
Title: Associate Teaching Professor
Department: Health Sciences
Background: Dr. Moattari has expertise in the following subject areas: global health, environmental health, and Non-Profit Organizations. He also has an extensive background in the following methodologies: community-based participatory program development and participatory learning and action methodology.
Janet Monagle
Title: Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Dr. Monagle has dedicated much of her research to advancing the science of nursing education in clinical judgment development and is part of a research team, focused on teaching and evaluating clinical judgment.
Pamela Morrison
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Pamela Morrison is an experienced family nurse practitioner, with strong experience in pediatrics and hospital care.
Aimee Perron
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences
Background: Aimee Perron guides and directs consistent and efficient evidence‐based practice in patient identification, comprehensive assessment using standardized tests and/or objective measures, and patient‐centered interventions in order to achieve targeted clinical outcomes and also directs regional leadership in establishing an education plan and provides access to educational and mentoring resources.
Leah Prasse
Title: Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing (Charlotte)
Background: Leah Prasse is an experienced faculty and clinical instructor and a content expert for Women’s and Children with focus in Obstetrics.
Glenna Regan
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Department of Medical Sciences
Background: Glenna Regan is a Physician Assistant with 4.5 years of full-time clinical experience in a variety of critical care subspecialties, with a particular focus on cardiac critical care. In collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, managed peri-operative heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support patients at large academic institutions in Rochester, NY and Boston, MA. In addition, Glenna has experience as a medical educator both in the classroom and clinical setting.
Lisa Rinke
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Dr. Rinke is an advanced practice Registered Nurse with more than 30 years of extensive experience academic and professional experience developing and executing care plans for patients in a variety of healthcare settings.
AC Goldberg
Title: Visiting Snell Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Background: Current research is all centered in equity and justice. From vocal congruence to research directly related to healthcare disparities, Professor Goldberg is committed to serving diverse populations and to making systemic change.
Lori Solo
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences
Background: Lori Solo has been a licensed physical therapist for 33 years concentrating her clinical work in the areas of pediatric and adult neurology and neuro-oncology. Her research interests are in movement disorders and pediatric treatment as a specialty. Lori’s primary teaching responsibilities are in pediatrics and neurology. She is a Board-Certified Neurologic Specialist and is certified in neonatal touch and massage.
Dawn Swain
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences
Background: Dawn Swain is a health care professional with 14 years of experience in inpatient hospital pharmacy, 4 years of experience in anticoagulation management, 7 years instructing in comprehensive disease management skills lab, and 2 years of experience working in clinical research studies educating and monitoring patients in a randomized trial regarding patient teaching for anticoagulants, and interviewing patients in an observational trial involving adverse effects from opioids.
Kisha Thompson
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Kisha Thompson’s research program is focused on health promotion and reducing social determinants of health. Kisha has been involved in a continuous international research collaboration on instrument development for Bodyknowledging theory, which centers on empowerment within chronic illness. The independent research efforts focused on resilience and social determinants of health in young American Blackmen, including a quantitative pilot study with funding from Sigma and a dissertation, which entailed narrative inquiry.
Thomas Williams
Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Department of Medical Sciences
Background: A PA educator for 34 years, Professor Williams has been active with clinical and formal classroom teaching, curricular design and implementation, recruiting and mentoring of core and external program faculty, coordination and direction of didactic accreditation and reaccreditation activities and budgetary maintenance.
Stephen Wood
Title: Visiting Associate Clinical Professor
Department: School of Nursing
Background: Stephen P. Wood is an acute care nurse practitioner and director of advanced practice providers in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Mass. Prior to this, he spent 11 years practicing as a nurse practitioner in emergency medicine.