Department of Health Sciences

The mission of the Department of Health Sciences is to improve the health and wellbeing of all people of North Carolina, the nation, and globally through exemplary and culturally sensitive teaching, innovative research, and person-centered care.

  • Exemplary Teaching: To produce a diverse, interprofessional, and culturally competent workforce of health care practitioners, educators, researchers, and health care leaders.
  • Innovative Research: To conduct research aimed at generating new knowledge that advances the practices and policies of health care.
  • Person-Centered Care: To advance the science and practice of person-centered care with a focus on patient outcomes, families, communities, integrative health care, health promotion/disease prevention, and the improvement of overall quality of life.

Throughout our teaching, research, and clinical care, we are committed to engagement with diverse student, faculty, and patient/client populations and to creating an inclusive and equitable environment in which to work and learn.

Professor

Elizabeth R. Crais, Karen Erickson, John Grose, Katarina Haley, Tara C. Moon, Jordan B. Renner, Stephanie Sjoblad.  

Associate Professors

Lisa Domby, Sarah Hess, Adam Jacks, Nancy McKenna, Brenda Mitchell, Joy J. Renner, Devon Weist, Mary Ellen Wells, Sharon W. Williams.

Assistant Professors

Lindsey Byom, Amy Dela Cruz, Julia Drouin, Kenya Haugen, Kimberly Jenkins, Patricia Johnson, Bai Li, Shawn Luby, Hannah Hodson McLean, Lauren Noble, Hannah Siburt, Katrina Steinsultz, Laine Stewart, Sara Taylor, Susan Taylor.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Melissa Culp.

Instructors 

Kristine Barnette, Randy Gay, Caroline Henderson, Susan MacNeela, Wendy Ross.

Professors Emeriti

Charles B. Burns, Janice C. Keene, Robert L. Thorpe.

Department of Health Sciences

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Bondurant Hall, CB #7120

(919) 843-4495

Chair

Christopher Ingersoll