Faculty and Staff

Emily Palladino, DNP, FNP-BC, RN, CPEN has spent all of her nursing career working with the pediatric population. She is very passionate about working with pediatric patients and their families. She has spent most of her career working as a nurse in the pediatric emergency department at Yale and CMC Main. After earing her doctorate, […]

Dr. Tiffany Jackson DNP, NP-C, ACHPN is a Clinical Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Nursing. Dr. Jackson has been a nurse practitioner since 2012 board certified in family health, hospice, and palliative care. She received her BSN from Waynesburg University, MSN from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh), and DNP from Chatham […]

Kathleen S. Jordan, DNP, MS, FNP-BC, ENP-C, SANE-P, FAEN, FAANP has been an advanced practice nurse in emergency care for over thirty years. During this time, she has had the privilege of working in the roles of clinician, educator, mentor, author, and researcher. She is nationally certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Nurse Practitioner, […]

Areas of Research Domestic violence; safety planning; danger assessment; bullying in schools; qualitative research methods. Teaching Specialty: Community Health, Family Health Education: DNSc. University of California, San Francisco (1994) Clinical Specialty: Community and family health Education DNSc, 1994, University of California, San Francisco External Affiliation N/A

Dee A. Langford, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, CNE, earned a Master of Science in Nursing degree with a specialty in Psychiatric Mental Health from UNC Charlotte in nursing in 2004 and is certified as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. She has been a Lecturer and Course Coordinator at the School of Nursing at the University of North […]

Currently serving as the Associate Director of the Undergraduate Programs, Susan Lynch, PhD, RN, CNE oversees the facilitation of both the upper division prelicensure and RN to BSN curriculums. Dr. Lynch has worked in nursing education since 1997, since her MSN graduation at both the university and community college levels. Clinically, after earning her BSN […]

With a passion for the profession of nursing and for life-long learning, Laura Magennis, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB, NPD-BC  was led to the role of Strategic Partnership Coordinator at UNC Charlotte’s School of Nursing. In this role, she works closely with clinical partners across the region to promote and elevate clinical experiences for the nursing students […]

Dr. McCoy is a cross-disciplinary researcher, an educator and a family nurse practitioner. She has a research platform that is centered around reducing HIV-related health disparities, HIV prevention, treatment adherence and symptom management. Her research activities incorporate mixed methods to reduce the effects of stigmas on the health-seeking of those at risk for HIV. Her […]