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Holistic health and wellness
Health equity and social justice is a cross-cutting philosophy that underpins research within the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing. Within this, faculty have three broad areas of research. Research focuses on approaches to treating the whole mind, body, and spirit.
Related faculty
Gabrielle P. Abelard
Clinical Associate Professor
Masters, Certificates, Psychiatric Mental Health Specialty Graduate Program Director
Gabrielle Abelard is a Clinical Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director: Masters, Certificates, Psychiatric Mental Health Specialty at EMCON.
![nursing professor](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-05/Abelard2.jpg?h=88b45caf&itok=vc34DLlQ)
Pamela Aselton
Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Aselton teaches in the DNP and Masters programs. She has clinical experience in college health, homecare, primary care and hospice.
![a portrait of Pamela Aselton](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2022-06/aselton_pam2-320-256-3.jpeg?h=36a460f5&itok=9Fac2D7K)
Ann Becker
Clinical Associate Professor
International Programs Nursing Advisor
Ann Becker is a Clinical Associate Professor and International Programs Nursing Advisor at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing.
![Becker profile](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-05/IMG_9042%20%282%29%20%281%29.jpg?h=f4e0b6ca&itok=L1NlM7tN)
Carrie-Ellen Briere
Associate Professor
Carrie-Ellen Briere is an Associate Professor at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing.
![a portrait of Carrie-Ellen Briere](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2022-06/Headshot_2021.jpeg?h=b5f9c877&itok=uaS_k-j4)
Constance Flynn
Clinical Associate Professor
Constance Flynn is a Clinical Associate Professor at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing.
![portrait of Constance Flynn](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-02/2023_Constance_Flynn_IMG_8535_John_Solem.png?h=d8227952&itok=c31CfCsb)
Katharine Green
Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Green teaches in the undergrad and grad nursing programs. Her research interests are maternal outcomes in pregnancy, nursing education, health care policy.
![Katharine Green](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2024-08/katherine%20green.png?h=9f1220da&itok=E5_ey9vg)
Favorite Iradukunda
Assistant Professor
Dr. Iradukunda's research focuses on multi-culturalism, immigration, and health outcomes for African disaporic women and addressing maternal health disparities.
![nursing professor](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-05/Iradukunda%20EMCON.jpg?h=a09bda25&itok=Kk3nNZZJ)
Karen A. Kalmakis
Professor
DNP Graduate Program Director
Karen Kalmakis is a Professor and Director of the DNP Program at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing.
![portrait of Karen Kalmakis](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-02/2023_Karen_Kalmakis_IMG_8786_John_Solem.png?h=bcafa2cd&itok=LRjitW4f)
Lori Anne Lyne
Lecturer
Lori Anne Lyne is a Lecturer at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing.
![Lori Anne Lyne](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2022-06/Lyne-320x256.jpeg?h=36a460f5&itok=FN0IrQuK)
Sheila Pennell
Clinical Assistant Professor
Sheila Pennell is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing and a practicing Hospice care nurse.
![a portrait of Sheila Pennell](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2022-06/Pennell%202020%202.jpeg?h=b3660f0d&itok=nzSut3tn)
Kristy Pereira
Clinical Assistant Professor
Kristy Pereira PhD, MSN, RN, CPN is a full-time Clinical Assistant Professor at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing.
![portrait of Kristy Pereira](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-02/2023_Kristy_Pereira_IMG_9118_John_Solem.png?h=9af555df&itok=_KRCaS9H)
Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar
Associate Professor
Dr. Poudel-Tandukar teaches in the graduate program. Her research focuses on intervention design and evaluation of mental health, nutrition, and HIV infection.
![portrait of Kalpana Poudel Tandukar](/nursing/sites/g/files/ijdqth141/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-02/2023_Kalpana_Poudel_Tandukar_IMG_8499_John_Solem.png?h=251f2610&itok=y_W1k7lX)