College of Nursing

Victoria Niederhauser, Dean
Shelia Swift, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Tami Wyatt, Associate Dean for Research
Nan Gaylord, Associate Dean for Practice and Global Affairs
Allyson Neal, Assistant Dean, Graduate Programs
Phillip Moore, Interim Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Programs
Tracy Brewer, Chair of DNP Program
Sandra P. Thomas, Chair of PhD Program

https://con.utk.edu

Professors
Barton, D., PhD – Indiana University
Beebe, L., PhD – Kentucky
Brewer, T., DNP – Case Western Reserve
Gaylord, N., PhD – Tennessee
Groer, M., PhD – Illinois
Hardesty, P., PhD – Barry University 
Hutson, S., PhD – Pennsylvania
Lasater, K., DNP – Tennessee
Niederhauser, V., DrPH – Hawaii
Thomas, S., PhD – Tennessee
Thompson, K., PhD – Maryland
Wyatt, T., PhD – Virginia

Associate Professors
Abdoli, S., – Iran (Shadid Beheshti)
Anderson, J., PhD – Wake Forest
Arring, N., DNP, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University
Bailey, C., PhD – Tennessee
Barroso, C., PhD – Texas
Bonom, J., DNP – Tennessee
Davenport, L., PhD – Tennessee
Harris, R., PhD – Tennessee
Lindley, L., PhD – North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Moore, P., DNP – Tennessee
Neal, A., DNP – Tennessee
Newnam, K., PhD – Virginia
Norris, C., DNP – Alabama (Huntsville)
Swift, S., PhD – Tennessee

Assistant Professors
Ahn, S., PhD – Minnesota
Alberding, J., DNP – Tennessee
Alspaugh, A., PhD – South Carolina
Bauer, S., DNP – Nebraska Methodist College
Beeler, L., PhD – Tennessee
Berg, T., PhD – Tennessee
Brown, C., DNP – Tennessee
Brown, K., DNP – Tennessee
Bulgin, D., PhD – Duke
Carr, C., DNP – Tennessee
Crawford, K., DNP – Tennessee
Embler, P., PhD – Tennessee
Gibson, J., DNP – Alabama (Birmingham)
Harper, A., DNP – Tennessee
Hessock, M., DNP – Tennessee
Johnson, M., DNP – Tennessee
Jones, K., DNP – Tennessee
Malone, M., DNP – Illinois (Chamberlain)
Mills, J., DNP – Yale
Morgan, K., PhD – Tennessee
Neller, S., PhD – Utah
Roberson, P., PhD – Tennessee
Sagherian, K., PhD – Maryland
Sarkar, A., PhD – Manipal University (India)
Miller, J., PhD – Tennessee
Smith, J., PhD – Kentucky
Son, H., PhD – Duke
Starkey, C., DNP – Virginia (Marymount)
Svynarenko, R., PhD – Kentucky
Talley, Thomas, DNP – King University
Yoo, J.Y., PhD – Kyunghee University (South Korea)

The College of Nursing was established in July 1971. The master’s program was initiated in 1976; the PhD program approved  in 1988; and the DNP program launched in 2011. For more information, contact the office of Student Services Graduate Advisor, The University of Tennessee, College of Nursing, 1200 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4180; (865) 974-4151.

College research efforts are coordinated through the Office of Research Administration.