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  • Resident Assistant Professor | Marriage and Family Therapy | ginnq@plu.edu | 253-535-7599 | Quantas Ginn (he/him) is a marriage, couples, and family therapist and AASECT Certified sex therapist.

    Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. He operates his own private practice, Quantas Ginn Therapy. Quantas attended Seattle Pacific University and resides in the Greater Seattle area with wife and two kids.

  • Professor of Constructive and Lutheran Theologies | Religion | marit.trelstad@plu.edu | 253-535-7232 | Marit Trelstad is Professor of Constructive and Lutheran Theology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.

    , the doctrine of God, and science and religion (including economics, geoengineering and ecology). As a contributor and editor, she published Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today (Fortress, 2006) and contributed to Transformative Lutheran Theologies (Fortress, 2010) and Lutherrenaissance: Past and Present (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015) along with several other journals and books. Summer Theological Conference: Presentation Two - Dr. Marit Trelstad Summer Theological

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  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | matyacca@plu.edu | 253-535-7694 | Dr.

    while Precepting 3/2020 PLU CCNL: Holistic Opioid Addiction Prevention Program 6/2019 PLU CCNL: Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care 5/2018 PLU Research Day: Implementation of an Interdisciplinary Pain Management Pilot Patient Education Program 4/2018 Western Institute of Nursing Poster Presentation: Implementation of an Interdisciplinary Pain Management Pilot Patient Education Program

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  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | szhai@plu.edu | 253-535-7649

    Shumenghui Zhai, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Nursing Phone: 253-535-7649 Email: szhai@plu.edu Professional Education PhD, Nursing Science , University of Washington MPH, Community and Behavioral Health Science, University of Pittsburgh BSN, Nursing Science , Nanjing Medical University Selected Publications Analysis, evaluation, and reformulation of social cognitive theory: Toward parent-child shared management in sleep health A Comparative Trial of Improving Care for Underserved Asian

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor | Department of Biology | cmschiller@plu.edu | 253-535-7004

    & Paleoenvironments Research Projects Paleobotany and paleoenvironments on Cenozoic to Quaternary timescales; Disturbance ecology of ancient ecosystems; Vegetation response to ancient climate change. Selected Presentations Zahajská, P., Stamm, F.M., Baldermann, A., Schiller, C.M., and Conley, D., The stubborn silica: Undissolved diatom frustules during sequential leaching: Isotopes in Biogenic Silica, Louvain-La-Neuve, BELGIUM (May 2024) American Geophysical Union (Lowe, A.J., Schmitz, M.D., Dillhoff, R

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  • Resident Assistant Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | reimerjm@plu.edu | 253-535-7128

    with face validity for autism and altered striatal and hippocampal function." Autism Res. 2016: Jaramillo TC, Speed, HE, Xuan Z, Reimers JM, Liu S, Powell, CM . "Altered Striatal Synaptic Function and Abnormal Behaviour in Shank3 Exon4-9 Deletion Mouse Model of Autism." Autism Res. 2016: 350-375. Speed HE, Kouser M, Xuan Z, Reimers JM, Ochoa CF, Gupta N, Liu S, Powell CM . "Autism-Associated Insertion Mutation (insG) of Shank3 Exon 21 Causes Impaired Synaptic Transmission and Behavioral Deficits

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  • Resident Instructor of Business | School of Business | pfaffcm@plu.edu | 253-535-7244 | Cosette Pfaff brings 25+ years of business practitioner experience, working on both the revenue generating and operational side of business and has a passion for growing healthy organizations.

    , interpersonal communications, leadership skills, organizational behavior, management and supervision, and behavioral change through methods that provide sustainable results, not the motivational “quick fixes” typical of seminar based trainings. Her diverse background includes executive management in engineering, manufacturing, telecom, HVAC and running a business incubator; company composition ranged from Fortune 500 to national, multi-site and multi-division, to small, single entity start-ups. Her client

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  • Assistant Professor of Social Work | Department of Social Work | rwinnett@plu.edu | 253-535-7144 | Dr.

    over 22 years and focuses on adult populations with acute health conditions and comorbid psychiatric, addiction, and behavioral needs. Dr. Winnett is an editor and chapter author of Health Care Social Work: A Global Perspective (Oxford, 2019), as well as a co-author of Navigating Human Services Organizations: Essential Information for Thriving and Surviving in Agencies (4th ed., Oxford, 2020). His recent works include, “Homeless and hospitalized: A case study of intervention to support

  • Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.

    Pennsylvania Press 2015) : View Book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture Chapters 4, pgs. 71-90 (Pickwick Publications 2011) : View Book Diversity and Dominion: Dialogues in Ecology, Ethics, and Theology Chapters 14, pgs. 157-165 (Wipf & Stock 2010) : View Book Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the New South Chapters 13, pgs. 246-268 (University of Georgia Press 2009) : View Book Biography Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Wendy Call (she/her) is the co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and the new annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024).

    , anthropology, sociology, and ecology. I open the box, pass around the tools, and we build things (good, not-so-good, and most of all, instructive) together.