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Associate And Assistant Deans

Full-Time Faculty

Christine Denhup

Associate Professor

Nursing

Mackenzie Gordon

Visiting Assistant Professor

Clinical Nutrition

Janet Hiser

MOE, RD, CNSC

Director of Clinical Nutrition

Stephanie Welsh

Clinical Midwifery Faculty Specialist

Erica Wuchiski

Professor and Director of MEPN

Special Faculty Appointment

Christine Aloi ’12, DNP’19

Simulation Coordinator & DNP advisor for the Nurse Anesthesia Program

Dave Bogen

CRNA, MS Clinical Coordinator for Nurse Anesthesia Program

John Orazietti

Academic Coordinator

Nursing

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B. Jamie Stevens

Academic-Practice Partner
EDICT Grant Administrator

Palliative Care Scholar-In-Residence

Nurse Scholar-In-Residence

Moreen Donahue

P'96, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
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Moreen O. Donahue is the Beatrice Hofstadter White Endowed Chair for Nursing Education and Research, System Senior Vice President & System Chief Nursing Officer at Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN), which includes Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, Western Connecticut Home Care (formerly The Danbury Visiting Nurse Association) and Western Connecticut Medical Group.  Prior to joining WCHN, Dr. Donahue was Sr. Vice President, Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at Greenwich Hospital and has held executive leadership positions in home care and hospice. 

She also was the Project Coordinator for a federal grant, “Transitioning Advanced Practice Nurses to the Practice Doctorate: The Doctor of Nursing Practice Program”.

Dr. Donahue’s areas of research include patient safety, patient satisfaction, nurse empowerment and transitioning advance practice nurses to doctoral education.  She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society of Nursing.  She is the recipient of the Dean’s Legacy Award, Case Western Reserve University and the Visionary Leader Award, Greenwich Hospital.

Dr. Donahue was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2011, and was selected for the 2015 Fellowship in Innovative Health Leadership offered by Arizona State University and the American Organization of Nurse Executives in partnership with the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation.

Dr.  Donahue completed her BSN degree at Boston College.  Following this, she earned an MS degree in education from the State University of New York and her MSN in nursing and DNP degrees from Case Western Reserve University.  She is also Board certified as a nurse executive at the advanced level and has achieved national certification as a Home Care and Hospice executive.

Dr. Donahue has made significant contributions to nursing and health care delivery.  Specific areas of focus include patient safety, preventing workplace violence and advancing quality care through development of innovative partnerships across a variety of settings.  She has provided leadership for several grants: a project focused on empowering nursing assistants to use SBAR communication funded by the Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, a Geriatric Family Centered Care initiative funded by the Division of Nursing, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and grants from the State of Connecticut focused on providing educational opportunities for nurses.  She is also responsible for helping to develop a hospital-based cohort model for DNP degrees from Case Western Reserve University (funded by HRSA).  Dr. Donahue is widely published in nursing and health care literature and has presented her research nationally and internationally.

Selected awards and honors

  • 2012  VHA Travel Scholarship Recipient
  • 2011  American Academy of Nursing Fellowship
  • 2005  Dean’s Legacy Award, Case Western Reserve University
  • 2004 Visionary Leader Award, Greenwich Hospital
  • 2001  Quality Award, Greenwich Hospital  

Administrative Staff

Bonnie Candee

Assistant to the Associate Dean

Diana Chevrette

Administrative Assistant

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Elizabeth Denby-Callahan

Simulation Instructor

Donna Ormsbee

Operations Assistant

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Susan Reynolds

Director of Simulation

Michelle Saglimbene

Clinical Placement Coordinator

Clinical Adjunct Faculty

Laura Strang

Administrative Assistant

Simulation and Health Studies

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Dakota

Emotional Support Dog

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VA Nursing Faculty

Laura Conklin

MSN, RN, CHSE

Assistant Professor

Patricia D. Giannelli

DNP, APRN-BC, FNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, ACNS-BS

Mary Murphy

PhD, APRN, FNP

Assistant Professor

Veterans Administration Special Faculty Appointments

James Cyrus

MSN, RN-BC VACHS

Karen DiDomenico

MSN, RN

Carol Radovich

MSN, RN, VACHS

Rebeka Seaburg

MSN, BSN, VACHS

Keiko Muto

MSN, RN, VACHS

Jancee Pust-Marcone

RN, MS, CCRN

Lindsay Steele

MSN, RN, CCRN

Joanna E. White

MSN RN, CNL, CCRN-CMC, RN-BC

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