4 School of Nursing faculty promoted

Sarah Hoffman, PhD, MPH, RN, was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Hoffman’s program of research considers the longitudinal health of refugees post-resettlement and the intergenerational effects of trauma and torture. Hoffman is a sexual assault nurse examiner, serving survivors of sexual assault.

Martin Michalowski, PhD, FAMIA, was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Michalowski's domain of expertise is artificial intelligence (AI) with research interests spanning several AI areas of particular importance to medical informatics including data integration, data modeling, machine learning, clinical decision support and knowledge representation. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Lisiane Pruinelli, PhD, RN, FAMIA, was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Her research leverages innovative nursing informatics tools and cutting-edge data science methods to investigate acute disease conditions, such as liver transplantation, sepsis and pain. Pruinelli serves as the co-chair for the Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science Initiative and is a member of the JAMIA Editorial Board. She is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Barbara Peterson, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, FNAP, was promoted to clinical professor. She holds Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist certification, serves as the specialty coordinator for the psychiatric-mental health Doctor of Nursing Practice program, and serves as the school’s director of Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity. She is a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice.