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Tara West, MSN, ARNP, FNP-BC Clinical Instructor of Nursing Phone: 253-535-7344 Email: twest@plu.edu Professional Biography Education MSN, Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner, Murray State University, 2008 BSN, Nursing, Medical College of Georgia, Agusta, 2002 Biography I began my nursing career as an active duty army nurse working in Med/Surg. I gained experience also working in ER, ICU, and Deployment Health/Preventive Medicine. Following leaving active duty in 2007, I returned to school to

became a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2018. I have two daughters who are my pride and joy and keep me very busy. I have been teaching at PLU since January of 2019 where I started teaching in the traditional BSN program but as of last year have been working primarily in the ABSN program. In addition to teaching at PLU, I also work as a nurse practitioner in aesthetics as well as internal medicine.

emergency department and hospital case management, helping patients discharge successfully after an acute illness.  She currently works at Tacoma Central Internal Medicine, with a focus on primary care of adult/geriatric patients with complex health conditions.  She loves to spend extra time with her patients teaching them about their health conditions.  Her goal as an instructor at PLU is to teach her students to do this as well.  Knowledge about health can empower people to make better decisions about

, stoicism, Cartesianism History of science and medicine: imagination, melancholy, mechanism Early modern French Catholicism: mysticism, mission, colonialism Books Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections, co-translated and co-edited with Angela Hunter (Oxford University Press 2023) : View Book Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France, co-edited with Lewis Seifert (Routledge 2015) : View Book Gabrielle Suchon, A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected Philosophical and Moral

Dr. Karen McConnell, C.H.E.S. Associate Vice President and Chief Institutional Effectiveness Officer Phone: 253-535-7169 Email: mcconnke@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 121 Professional Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Kinesiology Education Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction in Exercise and Wellness, Arizona State University M.A., Exercise Science, University of the Pacific B.A., Sports Medicine, University of the Pacific Certified Health Education Specialist

Alternative Medicine 2017: Accolades Employee of the Quarter, Unigen, Inc. September 2022 University of Arizona Molecular and Cellular Biology Department Outstanding Teaching and Mentorship Award, 2013 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Scholarship, 2012-2013 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Scholarship, 2011-2012

Jeremy Reimers Resident Assistant Professor of Biology he/him/his Phone: 253-535-7128 Email: reimerjm@plu.edu Office Location: Rieke Science Center - 146 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm (On Campus) Wed: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (On Campus) Thu: 10:00 am - 11:00 am (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Education Ph.D., Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, 2010 B.A., Biology & Neuroscience, Carthage College, 2004 Selected Presentations STEM

following Sprint Interval Training." Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments 2018: 14(1), Article 8. Katica CP, Wingo, JE, Herron, RL, Ryan, GA, Bishop, SH, and Richardson, M. "Impact of precooling the upper body during warm-up on subsequent time trial paced cycling in the heat." Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 2017: 21(6): 621–62. Dassoff, AS, Forward, NR, Katica, CP. "Differences Between the Grab Start and Track Start in Collegiate Swimmers." Int J Exerc Sci 2017: 10(4): 515-521.

Chicago. In addition to teaching and scholarship, she is also Managing Editor of the scholarly journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and Book Review editor of Victorian Periodicals Review, both published by Johns Hopkins University Press. She is the editor of the anthology A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Broadview Press, 2003) and author of a recently published textbook on the history of print culture, The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture

employed in diverse non-music careers from arts administration, film direction, film production, screenplay writing, law, medicine, and urban planning.