Effective as of January 1, Cathrin Carithers, DNP, has taken over as the new Assistant Dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Nursing Kearney Division. Carithers is succeeding two previous interim assistant deans who served from 2014 to 2016.
With previous experience as a clinical associate professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science in Little Rock and director of their doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program from 2014 to 2016, UNMC is excited about the knowledge she brings. She also previously served as director of the DNP program at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center from 2002 to 2011 and co-director of the DNP program from 2011 to 2013.
Carithers’ education background includes a BSN degree from the University of Kansas in 1981, a MSN degree from the University of Oklahoma in 2002, and her DNP from the University of Arizona in 2011. UNMC is pleased to welcome Carithers as Assistant Dean as she brings her experience leading doctor of nursing practice programs and a strong background as a registered nurse as well as in advanced practice nursing.
Discussing her new position with the UNMC Newsroom, Carithers says, “I’m excited to be part of the rich academic environment with growing student enrollment and programs to address the nursing shortage to meet the health care needs of Nebraskans and beyond.”
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