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» FacultyD.N.P. FACULTY Judy Beal, D.N.Sc., R.N. Dr. Beal has been on the faculty since 1983. For the first seventeen years of her tenure at Simmons College, she was the Director of Research in the Graduate Program. She coordinated the Research-Theory core and has advised over 650 master's research projects. Since 2000 she has served as the chief academic officer of the combined graduate and undergraduate Nursing Programs. Dr. Beal has a well-funded program of research focused on nurse practitioner role identity and outcomes. She serves as a collateral research reviewer for the Eastern Nursing Research Society and Sigma Theta Tau International, and is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Pediatric Nursing, the American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing, and the Journal of Nursing Education. With more than 30 referred publications and 100 presentations, she is sought after nationally and regionally as a speaker. Dr. Beal received The Mary Ann Garrigan Award for Excellence in Leadership from Sigma Theta Tau and has been a Sigma Theta Tau Distinguished Lecturer since 1997. Dr. Beal is actively involved in leadership activities of the Eastern Nursing Research Society and Sigma Theta Tau International. During her tenure as Chairperson of the Nursing Department and Associate Dean of the School of Health Sciences, she has been successfully funded in programmatic support of over 1.5 million dollars. Recent grants include support from the Helene Fuld Trust for a Community Nursing Initiative and Health and Human Services for an Infant Behavior Institute. Dr. Beal is currently working on expanding Simmons' partnerships and new program development for nurse educators, clinical nurse specialists, and several hospital-based initiatives. Recent agreements include a partnership with Emerson Hospital to develop their research infrastructure for AACN Magnet designation. Rebecca Koeniger-Donohue, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., BC. Dr. Donohue is recognized widely for her breadth and depth of knowledge in the primary care of women. A publication, in the Journal of Clinical Nursing, "Nurse Practitioner-Client Interaction as Resource Exchange in a Women's Health Clinic", exemplifies her interest in empirical work that provides clear linkages between nursing practice, applied theory in nursing and nursing research. Because of Dr. Donohue's expertise in qualitative research, and women's health, Dr. Donohue's textbook, Women's Health Case Studies, published by Appleton & Lange, is used extensively in the United States and Canada to prepare women's health nurse practitioners for the National Certification Exam. Dr. Donohue has worked as an advanced practice nurse while and pursuing ongoing educational and research opportunities for over 25 years. She teaches at all levels of the nursing program, though primarily at the graduate level. Her NP clinical practice for the last several at the Simmons College Health Center resulted in her writing and editing a new textbook for advanced practice nurses in college health. Dr. Donohue has also investigated the use of personal digital assistants at Simmons College nursing programs, specifically (Palm pilots and Pocket PCs), as a resource tool for bringing evidenced based practice to enhance client encounters.
Dr. Duty is an assistant professor in the nursing program and director of the Occupational Nursing Core for the NIOSH Education and Research Center at Harvard School of Public Health. She is certified as an Adult Nurse Practitioner with specialization in occupational health and prior to becoming a nurse practitioner was certified in critical care nursing. She conducts research at the Harvard School of Public Health about the relationship between environmental exposures to phthalates and male reproductive outcomes and occupational exposures to phthalates among manicurists. Dr. Duty has presented her research both nationally and internationally and published one of the first studies on the human health effects of phthalates. She is the nurse research scientist at South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, a member of the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners, and is the Simmons College Vice President to Sigma Theta Tau-Theta at Large Chapter.
Assistant Professor McGee has many years of clinical practice in community health nursing specializing in health care for homeless populations. Dr. McGee completed her doctoral degree at the Boston College School of Nursing. Her research interests include nursing clinics as models for health care delivery, spirituality in nursing and substance abuse recovery strategies with homeless populations. Dr. McGee is involved in professional organizations including Sigma Theta Tau and Eastern Nursing Research Society.
Dr. Neary has been a member of the Simmons faculty since 1989 and is also the Associate Chair for Graduate Nursing. She maintains a clinical practice in Primary Care at the Neponset Health Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the Eastern Nursing Research Society, and the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners.
Dr. Rissmiller is the coordinator of the Parent-Child concentration. She has focused many of her energies over the past year in the area of interdisciplinary collaboration within the health care community. She is currently a director for the U-Mass Simmons School Health Institute which is a funded project implementing regional continuing education for school nurses. She is also actively involved on a collaborative project with the Brazelton Group at Children's Hospital to develop an assessment tool based on the Brazelton Scale. She also has a joint appointment at Children's in the Institute for Community Inclusion as a director for training for nurses working with developmentally disabled children and families. Research interests include high risk children and families and school health. Dr. Rissmiller practices in the Maternal-Child Health Department at Cambridge Visiting Nurse.
Dr. Volkman is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Simmons, who has been involved in preparing nursing students in the basic science content since 1989. She teaches Normal and Abnormal Physiology as well as the Integrative Sciences Curriculum for the Direct Entry Program including Biochemistry, Microbiology and Anatomy and Physiology. She holds a joint appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Immunology and Infectious Diseases. In addition to her teaching at Simmons, she continues to teach Infectious Diseases and the Human Organism at Harvard University, where her scientific research interests involve understanding the mechanisms of drug resistance in the human pathogen, Plasmodium falciparum. Besides her teaching and research interests, Dr. Volkman is currently writing a textbook on Human Pathophysiology, which uses clinical case scenarios to examine the mechanisms of human disease. She has received several awards including the Young Investigator Award by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and was a Senior Teaching Fellow and a Christensen Fellow at Harvard University.
Ms. White has been teaching at Simmons College in the Nursing Programs since 1987. She has maintained an ongoing clinical practice as a nurse practitioner since 1983 and currently practices in primary care and in the long term care and rehabilitation setting. She teaches primarily in the Graduate Program with responsibilities coordinating the Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Programs. Since 2004, she has worked with a number of Masters Students in their research on the use of advanced directives in planning end of life care investigating patients', families' and nurse practitioners' perspectives. In addition, she has been teaching in the undergraduate research course and is clinical faculty in the community health nursing course.
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