Faculty honors and awards
Experienced educators teaching our students

Avery Anderson, PhD, PMHNP-BC, APRN
Assistant Professor
Endowed Early Scholar in Psychiatric Mental Health

Amy Barton, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Students
Daniel and Janet Mordecai Endowed Chair in Rural Health Nursing

Kerry Peterson PhD, DNP, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC
Associate Professor of Clinical Teaching, Specialty Director of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program
Endowed Professorship in Psychiatric Mental Health​

Kelly Stamp PhD, NP-C, RN, CHFN-K, FAHA, FAAN
Associate Dean of Academic Programs
Loretta C. Ford Nurse Practitioner Endowed Professorship

Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)
​​Amy Barton Sharon Giarrizzo-Wilson Teri Hernandez Jacqueline Jones Suzanne Lareau	Mary Beth Makic Mona Pearl Treyball Ginette Pepper Elias Provencio-Vasquez Lori Trego
Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP)
Elias Provencio-Vasquez Laura Rosenthal
Fellows of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
Suzanne Carrington Denise Smith Jessica L. Anderson
Faculty Fellows
Amy Barton: National Academies of Practice, Western Academy of Nursing, and Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow Scott Harpin: National Institute of Child Health Catherine Jankowski: American College of Sports Medicine Jacqueline Jones: Royal College of Nursing Australia Elias Provencio-Vasquez: Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow

President’s Excellence in Teaching

Patricia Abbott (2024)
Patrick Luna (2023)
Tammy Spencer (2000, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Jane Kass-Wolff (2008)
Teresa Connolly (2015, 2022)

Chancellor’s Teaching Recognition Award

Kate Coleman-Minahan (2024)
JoAnn Crownover (2022, 2023)
Teresa Connolly (2017)
Tammy Spencer (2015, 2016)
Gail E. Armstrong (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Jane Kass-Wolff (2011)
Mary Beth Makic (2009)

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Kathy Foss (2024)
Teresa Connolly (2023)
Catherine Jankowski (2023)
Patrick Luna (2022)
Denise Smith (2022)
Mary Beth Makic (Grad 2018)
Susan Bonini (Undergrad 2018)
Gail Armstrong (2017)
Laura Rosenthal (2013)
Kathy Shaw (2013)
Mary Weber (2012)
Paul Cook (1991, 2011)
Diane Skiba (2010)
Mary Beth Makic (2010)
Paula Nelson-Martin (2005)
Tammy Spencer (1991)

Graduate School Mentoring Award

Diane Skiba

Veritas Award from the Center for Bioethics and Humanities

Paula Nelson-Martin (2011)