ELNEC Faculty

ELNEC | End-of-life nursing education consortium | Advancing Palliative Care | Since 2000

Faculty 2024-2025

Vanessa Battista, DNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP)
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA

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Ashley Leak Bryant, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Global Initiatives
Assistant Director
Cancer Research Training Education Coordination
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Chapel Hill, NC

Alice Bass

Alice Bass, MSN, APRN-CNP, CPNP-PC
Nursing Professional Practice Specialist, Center for Nursing Excellence
Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Illness Management Team
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH

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Abigail G. Cohen, ANP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, NY

Carrie Cormack, DNP
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Patrick J. Coyne, MSN
Clinical Nurse Specialist,
Assistant Professor and
Director for Palliative Care at the Medical
University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Constance Dahlin, MSN
Co-Director of the Palliative Care APP
Externship
Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Salem Hospital
Salem, MA

Andra Davis, PhD
Associate Professor and ELNEC Co-Investigator
Investigator
University of Portland, School of Nursing
Portland, OR

Betty Ferrell

Betty Ferrell, PhD
Director of Nursing Research & Education and Professor
Principal Investigator of ELNEC
City of Hope
Duarte, CA

Laura Fennimore, DNP
Professor of Nursing
University of Pittsburgh
School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, PA

Amy Haskamp, MSN
Pediatric Palliative Care
Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
Hospital
Indianapolis, IN

Megan P. Lippe, PhD
Associate Professor
UT Health San Antonio, School of Nursing
Hospital
San Antonio, TX

Sarah Lowry

Sarah Lowry, DNP
Associate Professor & Outpatient Palliative Oncology Nurse Practitioner
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR

Judith Paice, PhD
Director of the Cancer Pain Program,
Research Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Shila Pandey, DNP
Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Supportive Care Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Dorothy Wholihan, DNP
Nurse Practitioner
JJ Peters Veteran’s Medical
Center Bronx, NY

Clareen Wiencek, PhD
Professor of Nursing
University of Virginia, School of Nursing
Charlottesville, VA

Alex Wolf, DNP
Assistant Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
Boston, MA