Experts Guide

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.

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.

Liller's research focuses on public health and injury prevention, including a textbook, "Injury Prevention for Children and Adolescents: Research, Practice, and Advocacy," published by the American Public Health Association.

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.

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.