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Rebecca Carlson, APRN, CPNP-PC

Assistant Professor, Nursing

Associate Professor, Department of Nursing

Grace Gao earned her DNP degree in Nursing Informatics and Integrative Health, and PhD in Nursing from University of Minnesota. In addition, Grace is a public health nurse and ANCC certified Informatics Nurse. Grace has worked in a variety of roles in both public and private sectors across extensive health care settings, including case manager in home care, care plan coordinator in long-term care, staff nurse in hospital, nurse educator in the academic setting, and clinical informatics specialist and consultant.

Grace’s nursing experiences showcase expertise in public health, nursing informatics, and integrative health.

Associate Professor, Nursing

Renee Colsch has a passion and specialty in the area of neuroscience nursing. Her professional experience includes acute care nursing in the intensive care unit, emergency room, and the United States Air Force deployment in Balad Iraq, 2007. She teaches courses in undergraduate and graduate pathophysiology, leadership and serves as a DNP ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ mentor. She views the teacher as the facilitator of learning. Her teaching focuses on cultural awareness and sensitivity, holistic nursing, bringing technology into the classroom and practice, evidence-based practice, research, learning, and retention.

Sarah White

MSN: Nurse Educator Option Coordinator - Assistant Professor

Sarah White is the Assistant Professor and the MSN: Nurse Educator Option Coordinator who has been teaching at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥â€™s School of Nursing since 2019. Sarah is an alumnus of St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University’s MSN: Nurse Educator and received her bachelor of arts in nursing from Luther College (Decorah, Iowa). Sarah is a current PhD in Nursing Education ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ at Villanova. Her research program focuses on barriers and facilitators to ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ success, faculty development, and nursing education. 

Assistant Professor, Nursing

Katie Molitor currently works at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University as an Assistant Professor of Nursing. She completed her MA at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University in 2010 and has been working in nursing education (much of it in simulation education) since that time. She has recently earned a graduate certificate in Healthcare Simulation from Boise State University in June 2019. Katie's specialty areas of practice include teaching and care of childbearing families and simulation learning.

Katie has facilitated simulation learning with multi-disciplinary teams in the acute care setting at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, and has spent her most recent practice working with nursing ´ºÓêÖ±²¥s in the University setting.

Emily W. Nowak PhD, RN, CNE

Assistant Dean of Graduate Online Programs, Professor

Professor Nowak is the Interim Assistant Dean for Online Nursing in the School of Nursing as well as the Program Director for the MSN: Nurse Educator program of study. She is a full Professor serving the St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ community since 2009. Dr. Nowak completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and her BAN from the College of St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ (now St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University). As an undergraduate alum of the baccalaureate nursing program, Professor Nowak fully embraces the St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ mission and values. Her work at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ has largely focused on developing and implementing nursing curriculum to reflect the rapidly changing landscapes of healthcare and education.

Clinical Experience Liaison, Assistant Professor

Katherine has worked as a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit RN at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital since 2008. In 2012, Katherine completed her Master's Degree in Nursing Education through St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University. She began teaching at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University the following fall in 2013 in the Baccalaureate Degree Program in the College for Women. During her time at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University she has primarily taught in Pathophysiology, Pediatric, and Pharmacology courses.
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