Dean's Message: New Faculty Announcements

It is my pleasure to announce two new appointments to the School of Nursing's faculty:

Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD, MPH, RN, CPH, FAAN  will join DUSON on July 1, 2016 and will be a member of the Division of Healthcare in Adult Populations.   Gonzalez-Guarda comes to Duke from the University of Miami School of Nursing where she was co-director of the Training and Community Cores of their school’s P60 Center of Excellence for Health Disparities Research: El Centro, which is funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the NIH.  She employs mixed methods and community-based participatory research approaches to understand the intersection of intimate partner violence, HIV and mental health among Hispanics in the U.S. and address health disparities experienced by this group through culturally tailored interventions.  Gonzalez-Guarda was one of the five nurses that served on the Institute of Medicine Committee that produced the landmark Future of Nursing Report (2010), was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve on the National Advisory Council on Nursing Education and Practice (NACNEP), and serves on the steering committee of the FL Action Team on the Future of Nursing.  She is also the PI of a NIMHD funded grant where she aims to train the next generation of health disparities scientists from underrepresented minorities.  Gonzalez-Guarda is an alumnus of the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Pamela H. Wall, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC  will join DUSON on September 1, 2016 in the Division of Healthcare in Adult Populations.  She is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who has served with the United States Navy for more than 19 years.  Her clinical expertise is in traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and caregiver fatigue and resiliency. Her program of research is focused on sleep disorders in the military especially in those with traumatic brain injury.  Wall has been a member of a congressionally appointed panel that developed the curriculum for DoD/VA caregivers of patients with traumatic brain injury and has authored and co-authored several publications that focus on mental health disorders and TBI in the military.  Wall joins Duke from the Navy Health Clinic in Cherry Point, Marine Corp Air Base in Cherry Point N.C. where she served as the United States Navy Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Specialty Leader, and is acting department head.