Dr. Dittus is Executive Vice President, Senior Associate Dean, Werthan Professor of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Medicine and Public Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Director of the VA Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research, Education and...
Dr. Judith Pechacek has served as a professional nurse in a variety of settings for forty years. Her practice career was spent as a general staff nurse, nurse leader, manager and nurse executive. In 2013, she accepted a faculty position at the University of Minnesota,...
Dr. Wilson is co-directing the Rural Scholars Program Fellowship through the Office of Rural Health. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice in Health Systems from the University of Iowa in May 2018, and recently completed the VAQS Fellowship in May 2019. Her...
Dr. Farag is an Associate Professor at the UI College of Nursing. She completed her PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Dr. Farag’s research focuses on understanding reactive and proactive approaches to enhance...
Dr. McConnell’s program of research focuses on factors that influence functional decline in very frail older adults. She has been funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct a series of studies designed...
