Jyu-Lin Chen, PhD, RN, PhD, FAAN, co-Director of global programs for the Leadership Institute; Program Director of the COVID-19 Era Minkun Yang Memorial Global Initiative; chair of the Department of Family Healthcare Nursing; and TT and WF Chao Presidential Professor in Global Health Nursing. Chen is an implementation nurse scientist leading interdisciplinary research teams to develop and test technology-based interventions to reduce health disparities in diverse pediatric populations and their families, both locally and globally. She has developed programs to train nursing students and nurse leaders on evidence-based practice and leadership development across the globe.
Adam Cooper, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, co-Director of global programs for the Leadership Institute; Program Director of the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital Medical Group (HKSHMG) Partnership and Director of Nursing Continuous Improvement and Affiliate Nursing Quality, UCSF Health. In his full-time role, Cooper oversees the development of nursing continuous improvement strategies, frequently collaborating with the UCSF Health Continuous Improvement team. In addition, he leads nursing quality initiatives across the UCSF Health Affiliate Network in addition to serving as the director of the UCSF JBI Center. He has a passion for evidence-based continuous improvement and professional development, is married to a nurse, has two kids, and loves jazz hands.
Lisa Lommel, PhD, MPH, FNP, RN is a nurse leader with extensive experience as a direct service provider, educator, and administrator across various settings. She currently serves as Interim Director of the Master’s in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership (MS-HAIL) Program at UCSF and clinical professor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program within the UCSF School of Nursing. Dr. Lommel also hold a visiting professorship at Xiangya School of Nursing in Central South University in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Dr. Lommel received a PhD in Nursing from UCSF, a master’s degree in Public Health from UC Berkeley, and is board certified as a Women’s Health and Family Nurse Practitioner. As a reproductive health specialist, Dr. Lommel has co-authored three books on obstetrics and women’s primary care for which she received several awards. Her current research is focused on health outcomes of rural-to-urban migrant women in China.
Lauren Williams, RN, DM has extensive experience working in both the community and academic settings as a senior leader, professional development specialist, and a clinician.In addition to teaching, she provides global advisory services as Director of Global Programs, MassGeneral Brigham Global Advisory, and acts as the Director of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Nightingale Fellowship (Boston, MA). She previously held the position of Vice President of Patient Care Services/CNO at Yale New Haven Health’s Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and Westerly Hospital. Prior to joining the University of California San Francisco faculty, she held tenure track academic positions at Providence College (Providence, RI) and Suffolk University’s Sawyer School of Business (Boston, MA). Dr. Williams became a Registered Nurse after graduating from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing. In addition, she received a Bachelor of Science from Salve Regina University (Newport, RI); a Master of Science in the Administration of Nursing Services from Boston University (Boston, MA); and a Doctor of Management awarded by Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH). She holds a certificate in advanced graduate studies in Global Health from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.
Alexandra Duke, DNP is a nurse educator with clinical specialties and national certifications in emergency (CEN) and medical-surgical nursing (BC). Additional areas of her expertise include evidence-based practice (EBP-CH), academic clinical nursing education (CNE®cl), and healthcare simulation (CHSE). In her former roles, she has worked as a Nursing Education Consultant for the California State Board of Registered Nursing and an accreditor for the American Nurse’s Credentialing Center (ANCC) accreditation review of nurse residency programs across the country.
As a Certified Nurse Educator, Alexandra has taught across various programs and levels of nursing education and seeks to respond to complexities in higher education by leveraging liberal arts strengths in programmatic evaluation, innovative curricular practices, analytical methods, and clinical scholarship. Additionally, she has established herself as an esteemed leader, mentor, and advocate for quality and excellence in nursing education. Alex dedicates her career to advancing the science of nursing education and generating knowledge to support the work of nursing institutions and regulatory agencies in translating evidence to prepare the future generation of nurses—her research interests and scholarship center on developing scientific pathways to bridge intersections between nursing regulation and education. Alexandra’s aim is to strengthen her scholarship of discovery and integration while building a research program as a nurse scientist.
In 2020 Alexandra joined UCSF faculty in the DNP program. She has chaired and co-Chaired various DNP projects spanning diverse phenomena, including topics focusing on protocol development for tick-borne disease specialists, stress reduction initiatives for critical care nurses, provider knowledge, attitudes, and confidence regarding accelerated diagnostic protocols, and anesthesia considerations for chronic marijuana clients in surgical settings.
Aurora Snyder, RN, MAS is the Program Lead for UCSF’s Population Health Management Certificate Program. She is also the Lead Outreach Nurse on the Care Transitions team in the Office of Population Health at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has been with the Care Transitions Outreach Program since its inception in 2013, a program that has received awards such as UCSF’s Patient Safety award and Team PRIDE award. She participates in the design and implementation of innovative interdisciplinary transitional care models for UCSF Health, including specialized follow-up phone calls for high-risk Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A). She has been a nurse at UCSF for 16 years and is a DAISY award recipient. She is Orthopaedic Nurse Certified (ONC) and completed her Masters of Applied Science in Population Health Management from Johns Hopkins.
Justin Pohl is the Director of the UCSF Leadership Institute. As the former director of Strategic Initiatives at The George Washington University School of Nursing, Pohl has a background in higher education administration, health professions education and leadership development. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Georgia and is currently completing his doctorate at GWU.
KT Waxman, DNP, RN, FAAN, is Co-Director of the UCSF Leadership Institute. In addition, Waxman is a professor and Director of the DNP program at the UCSF School of Nursing. She also serves as Director of the California Simulation Alliance and Editor-in-Chief of Nursing Administration Quarterly. An internationally known nurse leader, author and speaker, she is a mentor and coach to many nurse leaders on financial management and simulation, having written two books on healthcare finance and budgeting and one book on simulation. She is known by many as an innovator and disruptor.
