Experts Guide

Rossiter's focuses include parental military service on the physical and psychological health of military-connected children, transitioning needs of medics and corpsmen into the professional nursing role, and educating nurses and healthcare providers to care for Veterans, military members and military families.

Duffy's research and interests include stress response during pregnancy, women's responses to infectious diseases, and perinatal and postnatal outcomes in mothers and infants.

Focus areas include nursing education, curriculum, accreditation and interactive learning.

McGuire studies depression and cardiac disease with a focus on screening and cognitive behavioral therapy intervention.

Curtis is director of the Cognition, Aging, Sleep, and Health (CASH) Lab at the USF College of Nursing and an expert in sleep health and sleep and cognition. Her current research explores how brain training affects sleep, thinking and related abilities. It also looks at differences between men and women, as well as other factors like pain and medication, that can influence sleep and mental function at different stages of life.

Parthasarathy's research focuses on developing novel biophotonics techniques for the monitoring and imaging of tissue hemodynamics (blood flow and oxygenation), and the clinical translation for applications such as bedside diagnoses/monitoring of brain injuries, including strokes.

Rodriguez's specialties include speech issues, head and neck cancer and communication intervention.

Nadeau focuses on primary care, cardiology and women's health.

Lengacher holds faculty appointments in the University of South Florida College of Nursing Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Health Outcomes, and Behavioral Program, Breast Cancer Clinical Program, and Population Sciences Division. She is an internationally recognized nurse scientist, with expertise in bio-behavioral clinical trial intervention research, including psycho-oncology, psychoneuroimmunology and complementary alternative medicine.

McCrae's areas of expertise include autism, insomnia and chronic pain. She can also discuss topic including non-sleep deep rest, cognitive shuffling, circadian rhythm and sleep patterns.

Tometich studies cancer-related cognitive impairment, health behavior change for symptom management and patient-reported outcomes of novel cancer treatments.

Turner is a leading expert on HIV/AIDS. She studies access to care and prevention, working towards reducing health inequities in populations disproportionately impacted by the HIV epidemic.

Pandis' areas of expertise include vaccines, infectious diseases and travel medicine.

Areas of expertise include cancer screening intervention, refugee and immigrant health, social determinants of health and community-engaged research.

Areas of interest include Nursing Education, Undergraduate Nursing, Maternal-Child Health Nursing, Neonatal Nursing and Nursing Faculty Development.

Aul is Interim Assistant Dean of Simulation and Experiential Learning, College of Nursing.

Wofford is a retired Navy Nurse Scientist who has conducted research in postoperative outcomes, fluid and airway management and student nurse anesthetist success.

Szalacha is a statistician, nursing and research enterprise professor.

Connors is a leader in national and global initiatives to expand genomic competency. Her research focuses on biobehavioral research, workforce skilling, population health, environmental health, and translational genomics -- bridging the gap between genetic discoveries and applications to improve person-centered care and health outcomes.

Areas of expertise include Pediatric Sleep, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Insomnia, Parenting, Stress Health Disparities, Behavioral Interventions and Disruptive/Oppositional Behaviors

Canale's research interests include pandemic response, use of simulation to improve emotional competence at end-of-life care for healthcare professionals and students, standardized handoff for anesthetized patients, emotional intelligence and the graduate school admissions process, barriers to implementing emotional intelligence in the nurse anesthesia program admissions process, strategies for dealing with unsuccessful students in a litigious society, importance of documentation and the prosand cons of paper vs. electronic evaluations.

Areas of Expertise include Nursing Education, Pediatric Nursing, Clinical Leadership, Transition to Practice and Mentorship.

Letourneau's research interests include nursing, nursing workforce and the transition to professional practice.

Koerner's areas of expertise include adolescents with Type 1 diabetes, pediatric and maternal mental health, maternal-child nursing and oral microbiome.

Pace studies how the microbiome relates to human health and development with a focus on the first 1,000 days of life. His current research investigates diverse aspects of maternal-infant health, including relationships among maternal diet, human milk composition and maternal/infant microbiomes. He is also interested in the role of human milk in modulating immunological risks and benefits to mothers and infants.

Prescott was a neonatal intensive care bedside nurse and educator for fifteen years before becoming a board-certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. While working at INOVA Children’s Hospital, a top 40 ranked, 108 bed, Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, she attended the University of Virginia to obtain her PhD, and then worked at the National Institutes of Health in the Laboratory of Integrative Immunology as a research fellow and then a postdoctoral trainee studying the microbiome and immune response to immunotherapy in the setting of advanced melanoma.

Beckie’s research focuses on improving the health behavioral and health outcomes of women with cardiovascular disease. With NIH funding, she developed an innovative motivationally tailored cardiac rehabilitation program specifically for women.

Oruche studies child and adolescent mental health, parent-family caregiver and health provider interactions, treatment engagement, social determinants of health and global mental health.

Menon joined USF Health in September 2018 as vice dean of Research for the College of Nursing. In February 2020, she was named interim dean of the college, and in November 2020, she was named dean and senior associate vice president for USF Health.

Before coming to USF Health, Menon served as a tenured professor and associate dean of Research and Global Innovation at the University of Arizona-Tucson College of Nursing. She was co-PI of the NIH-funded All of Us Research Program, which was designed to speed up health research and medical breakthroughs by creating a one-million-person detailed clinical database. She previously served as vice dean of the Ohio State College of Nursing.

Marshall's research interests include adherence, self-symptom management and integrating technology to support the self-management of oral oncolytic therapies. She has developed technologies to support the self-management of oral oncolytic therapies among older adults and is interested in how cancer patients' beliefs and perceptions of their health care are formed and changed over the course of their treatment in order to improve their decision-making ability as they approach end of life.

Torres can discuss critical care, nursing education/bilingual education, home care and program development.