About the Authors
Editor
name: Elizabeth Heavey, PhD, RN, CNM
Elizabeth Heavey, PhD, RN, CNM is currently a professor and chairperson of graduate nursing in the School of Nursing at SUNY Brockport. She has practiced as a registered nurse, a certified nurse-midwife and an epidemiologist for more than thirty years. She is an expert colposcopist and a mentor for the ASCCP colposcopy program. She coordinates and supervises nurse practitioner students in the sexual and reproductive health clinic of the Hazen Center for Integrative Health. She teaches Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nursing, Using Information Systems and Analytical Methods, Community Based Epidemiology, Professional Writing for DNP, and Women’s Health Clinical Content in the FNP and AGPCNP clinical courses. In 2013, she was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2016, she was awarded the SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE) Faculty Ambassador Award and serves as a COTE Fellow for New York State. In 2017, she was awarded the Faculty Advisement Award for Student-Faculty Mentoring and Engagement and has received the Faculty Influencer Award each year since its inception in 2020. Dr. Heavey is an early Open Educational Resource (OER) adopter and serves as an OER ambassador on campus. She is a leader in online and hybrid education initiatives and continuously develops online learning environments that foster student engagement and active learning. She is also a member of a faculty learning community focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote learning in educational settings. She has been exploring how to effectively utilize AI to support faculty in creating additional learning opportunities for students.
Dr. Heavey wrote and traditionally published Statistics for Nursing: A Practical Approach. It is a textbook designed to teach statistics in the context of nursing, currently in its fourth edition. It is being utilized by more than 130 nursing programs nationwide. It was the winner of Best Book of the Year from the American Journal of Nursing in 2018 and has been translated into Indonesian and Spanish with a global readership. Because OER options are now widely available, she is able to publish this new text with free access to help prepare all nurse practitioner students for their clinical readiness exam. She has assembled a team of expert nursing authors dedicated to the project, including faculty from nurse practitioner programs at SUNY Brockport, SUNY Upstate, and St. John Fisher University. The teamwork and collaboration of this group have been a true testament to the dedication of nursing faculty to promoting student success.
Authors
name: Elizabeth Heavey, PhD, RN, CNM
Elizabeth Heavey, PhD, RN, CNM is currently a professor and chairperson of graduate nursing in the School of Nursing at SUNY Brockport. She has practiced as a registered nurse, a certified nurse-midwife and an epidemiologist for more than thirty years. She is an expert colposcopist and a mentor for the ASCCP colposcopy program. She coordinates and supervises nurse practitioner students in the sexual and reproductive health clinic of the Hazen Center for Integrative Health. She teaches Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nursing, Using Information Systems and Analytical Methods, Community Based Epidemiology, Professional Writing for DNP, and Women’s Health Clinical Content in the FNP and AGPCNP clinical courses. In 2013, she was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2016, she was awarded the SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence (COTE) Faculty Ambassador Award and serves as a COTE Fellow for New York State. In 2017, she was awarded the Faculty Advisement Award for Student-Faculty Mentoring and Engagement and has received the Faculty Influencer Award each year since its inception in 2020. Dr. Heavey is an early Open Educational Resource (OER) adopter and serves as an OER ambassador on campus. She is a leader in online and hybrid education initiatives and continuously develops online learning environments that foster student engagement and active learning. She is also a member of a faculty learning community focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote learning in educational settings. She has been exploring how to effectively utilize AI to support faculty in creating additional learning opportunities for students.
Dr. Heavey wrote and traditionally published Statistics for Nursing: A Practical Approach. It is a textbook designed to teach statistics in the context of nursing, currently in its fourth edition. It is being utilized by more than 130 nursing programs nationwide. It was the winner of Best Book of the Year from the American Journal of Nursing in 2018 and has been translated into Indonesian and Spanish with a global readership. Because OER options are now widely available, she is able to publish this new text with free access to help prepare all nurse practitioner students for their clinical readiness exam. She has assembled a team of expert nursing authors dedicated to the project, including faculty from nurse practitioner programs at SUNY Brockport, SUNY Upstate, and St. John Fisher University. The teamwork and collaboration of this group have been a true testament to the dedication of nursing faculty to promoting student success.
name: Renee Biedlingmaier, DNP, MNE, RN, FNP-BC
name: Colleen Burgoyne, DNP, RN, FNP-BC
Colleen Burgoyne, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the State University of New York–Brockport. She also practices as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) in the Infectious Diseases Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. Prior to becoming a nurse practitioner, Dr. Burgoyne practiced as a registered nurse in adult critical care.
Dr. Burgoyne’s clinical and research interests include understanding and documenting the patient experience of illness and health, the clinician experience of caregiving, and how these experiences shape and are shaped by healthcare systems.
She teaches Advanced Health Assessment, Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing & Leadership, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Diverse Populations, and Advanced Clinical Practice Populations and Systems I & II.
name: Carnel C. Jackson, DNP, RN, FNP-BC
Carnel C. Jackson, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at SUNY Brockport and the co-owner of Jackson’s Health of Rochester, New York. Dr. Jackson practiced as an inpatient internist in the Hospital Medicine and Solid Oncology and Hematology specialties for several years prior to opening Jackson’s Health. Through his years practicing as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner, he mastered the integration of evidence-based practice and person-centered care to optimize patient outcomes. He regularly hosts community educational sessions to increase awareness of preventive health screenings and other topics, such as sexual health and awareness, cardiovascular disease, and men’s mental health. He has partnered with organizations such as the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Rochester Black Nursing Association, Men of Color Health Awareness Project (MOCHA), Trillium Health Center, Action for a Better Community, Common Ground Health, Forward Leading IPA (FLIPA), Outloud Sports, and more. These partnerships continue to increase access to equitable physical, mental, and general healthcare for those in both rural and urban regional communities. He currently teaches Advanced Health Assessment, Outcome Evaluation, Organizational Leadership and Finance, Health Policy, FNP Clinical Practicum III, and Advanced Clinical Practice Populations and Systems I & II. He is a community preceptor for FNP and AGPCNP students from SUNY Brockport, Utica University, University of Rochester, and St. John Fisher University. Prior to teaching at Brockport, Dr. Jackson instructed courses at the University of Rochester, University at Buffalo, and St. John Fisher University.
Contributors
name: Kelly E. Cumella, DNP, RN, FNP-C
Kelly E. Cumella is a nursing instructor at SUNY Brockport, where she teaches in both the Master’s in Nursing Education program and the Nurse Practitioner Master’s degree programs. She is also the Clinical Coordinator for the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Program.
Clinically, Dr. Cumella has over a decade of experience as a family nurse practitioner, as well as leadership experience as a registered nurse and administrative clinical leader on a medical-surgical unit at Rochester General Hospital. She currently practices as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) in long-term care, providing comprehensive and end-of-life care for patients with complex medical conditions. Her scholarly interests include professional well-being in nursing and the practical application of clinical guidelines in primary care.
name: Corey Jackson, DNP, RN, FNP-BC
Corey Jackson is an assistant professor of nursing at St. John Fisher University. Dr. Jackson continues to practice in Hospital Medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital and co-owns a primary care clinic, Jackson’s Health, in Rochester, New York. As a clinician, Dr. Jackson provides expert patient-centered care to promote physical, mental, spiritual, and social well-being. He is an active member of the community and regularly engages through organizations such as the International Nursing Association, Action for a Better Community, Common Ground Health, Men of Color Health Awareness (MOCHA), Rochester Black Nursing Association, Outloud Sports, Forward Leading IPA (FLIPA), and Rochester Regional Health. These partnerships help him increase access to care for a diverse patient population.
Dr. Jackson currently teaches in the graduate nursing program with courses focusing on adult health, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical practicums. In addition, Dr. Jackson is the Family Nurse Practitioner Program Coordinator and Director of Nurse Camp at St. John Fisher University. Prior to teaching at his current institution, Dr. Jackson instructed courses at Monroe Community College, SUNY Brockport, and University of Rochester. As a clinician and educator, Dr. Jackson aims to provide knowledge that improves patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
name: Nichole Lopez, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, PMGT-BC
Nichole Lopez, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, PMGT-BC, is an assistant professor at SUNY Upstate College of Nursing. She provided holistic, patient-centered care as a Chronic Pain and Headache Specialist in Neurology at Northwell Health Systems for over twenty years. She began her career as a hospital volunteer and then earned her LPN and RN degrees. Soon after, she earned her BSN, FNP, and DNP degrees from SUNY Upstate Medical University. She has published work on chronic pain management and the importance of its inclusion in nurse practitioner curriculum. She continues in her efforts to improve the lives of individuals living with chronic pain and headaches.
name: Kathleen Peterson, PhD, RN, PNP, CNE
Kathleen Peterson is the inaugural dean for the School of Nursing at SUNY Brockport and is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, which is the highest rank for faculty in the SUNY system. She has served SUNY Brockport since 1985 and has taught various courses in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Dr. Peterson is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) and has worked with children and their families in both rural and urban settings. She no longer practices as a PNP, but her skills are often used by the parents of her seven grandchildren!
Dr. Peterson has published many articles, both as a result of research regarding asthma in children and evidence-based clinical articles. She also has presented at both local and national conferences. Dr. Peterson is a member of New York Organization for Nursing Leadership (NYONL), the Finger Lakes Organization of Nurse Executives (FLONEL), the American Nurses Association (ANA), ANA-NY, and the Genesee Valley Nurses Association (GVNA). Dr. Peterson serves the profession of nursing as an evaluator for the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). She currently provides service to the community as a member of the Brockport Health Foundation, which provides grants for health care initiatives in the greater Brockport area.
Dr. Peterson received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998, Outstanding Service Award to SUNY Brockport in 2017, and most recently the Genesee Valley Nurses Association (GVNA) Nurse Administrator Award in 2025.
