Faculty Practice & Consulting

As active practitioners, clinical faculty maintain their work in a variety of healthcare settings, making them ideally suited to inform and inspire the students following in their footsteps.

Healthcare consulting

UIC College of Nursing faculty are available for hire on a consulting contract basis by organizations in need of health-related assessments or wishing to implement health initiatives.

To inquire or learn more, email Dr. Charles Yingling at cyingl1@uic.edu.

 

“The [UIC] College of Nursing is clearly committed to providing high quality, comprehensive and compassionate care to all individuals. This commitment is demonstrated in the words and the actions of every individual I have encountered in building relationships to provide care to our inmates. We very much look forward to developing a long and robust relationship with the College of Nursing. We could not ask for a better partner in service.”

– Steve L. Meeks, Agency Medical Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, on contracting UIC College of Nursing faculty to provide health education and and systems assessments in Illinois prisons

Current faculty practice in these fields

Addiction/Substance use:

  • Marsha Snyder
  • Cynthia Handrup

Critical Care:

  • Olga Amusina

Dementia:

  • Valerie Gruss

Diabetes:

  • Denise Bockwoldt
  • Laurie Quinn
  • Kelly Vaez

Evidence-Based Practice:

  • Cathy Ryan

Geriatrics:

  • Valerie Gruss

Global health practice:

  • Kamal Eldeirawi
  • Carrie Klima
  • Rebecca Singer
  • Susan Walsh
  • Charlie Yingling

HIV/AIDS/PrEP:

  • Karen Cotler
  • Charlie Yingling

Informatics:

  • Kamal Eldeirawi
  • Martha Bergren
  • Janet Thorlton

Interprofessional Practice:

  • Susan Corbridge
  • Valerie Gruss

Lactation:

  • Gina Juliano

Lung Disease/COPD/Asthma:

  • Kamal Eldeirawi
  • Susan Corbridge

Lung Transplant:

  • Sara Fitz

Maternal Nutrition:

  • Mary Dawn Koenig

Mental Health:

  • David Alvarez
  • Cynthia Handrup
  • Marsha Snyder

Neurodevelopmental Disabilities:

  • Angela Lepkowski

Observation Unit Practice:

  • Leah Burt

Obstructive Sleep Apnea:

  • Melissa Carlucci
  • Susan Corbridge

Palliative Care / Hospice:

  • Geraldine Gorman

Pediatrics:

  • Kamal Eldeirawi
  • Gina Juliano
  • Paige Ricca
  • Susan Walsh

Policy:

  • Natacha Pierre

Population Health:

  • Kamal Eldeirawi
  • Martha Bergren
  • Krista Jones
  • Virginia Reising

Pregnancy:

  • Karen DeCocker
  • Carrie Klima
  • Kylea Liese
  • Patrick Thorton

Prematurity/birth:

  • Carrie Klima

Primary Care:

  • Denise Bockwoldt
  • Elizabeth Bolanos
  • Donna Calvin
  • Karen Cotler
  • Natacha Pierre
  • Marlene Sefton
  • Kelly Vaez
  • Ruth Woroch
  • Charlie Yingling

Quality Improvement:

  • Marianne Durham

Quality/Patient Safety:

  • Marianne Durham
  • Susan Vonderheid

Renal Health:

  • Donna Calvin

School Nursing:

  • Martha Bergren
  • Angela Lepkowski
  • Eileen Moss
  • Robin Shannon
  • Cathy Yonkaitis

Sexual-Minority Health:

  • Karen Cotler
  • Charlie Yingling

Stem Cell Transplant:

  • Amy Morgan

Systems Leadership:

  • Martha Bergren
  • Marianne Durham
  • Sheryl Stogis
  • Janet Thorlton

Women’s Health:

  • Karen DeCocker
  • Carrie Klima
  • Kylea Liese
  • Kelly Rosenberger
  • Patrick Thorton