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Practice and Community Collaboration

Academic Clinicians: Our Impact

Practice and Community Collaboration represents the following health care disciplines: 

  • Academic-Practice Leaders
  • Behavioral Health
  • Bereavement Care
  • Correctional Health Care
  • Employee Health/Urgent Care
  • Primary Care
  • Public Health Care
  • Specialty Care

Practice Providers

    Caring Connections

    Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake (UICSL)

    Leslie Crandall, MSN, RN
    Nursing Care Manager
    leslie.crandall@nurs.utah.edu

    Student Health Center (DFPM)

    Tek Kilgore, DNP, APRN
    Assistant Professor (Clinical)
    Tek.Kilgore@nurs.utah.edu

    Suzanne Talken, DNP, FNP-C
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    Associate Professor (Clinical)
    suzy.talken@utah.edu

    South Main Clinic (DOP)

    Jessica Leavitt, DNP, FNP-BC
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    Assistant Professor (Clinical)
    jessie.leavitt@utah.edu

    Wasatch Canyons (DOP)

    Summit County Health Department

    Sara Simonsen, PhD, CNM, MSPH

    Associate Professor
    Certified Nurse Midwife
    sara.simonsen@nurs.utah.edu

    Lyndsay Wixom DNP, FNP-BC
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    Lyndsay.Wixom@hsc.utah.edu

    Joshua Twitchell DNP, FNP
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    Joshua.Twitchell@nurs.utah.edu

    RedMed Employee Health Clinic

    Katie Davis, DNP, FNP-C

    Assistant Professor (Clinical)
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    Katie.Davis@nurs.utah.edu

    Carrie Huntsman Jones, FNP-BC
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    Carrie.Huntsman-Jones@nurs.utah.edu

    Lyndsay Wixom DNP, FNP-BC
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    Lyndsay.Wixom@hsc.utah.edu

    Morgan West, MA
    Patient Services Coordinator
    u6048810@utah.edu

    Juvenile Justice and Youth Services (JJYS)

    Tom Rowley, DNP, FNP-C, CCHP

    Assistant Professor (Clinical)

    Clinical Director
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    tom.rowley@nurs.utah.edu

    Courtney Taylor, DNP, FNP
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    courtney.taylor@utah.edu

    Four Corners, A/D Psychotherapy

    Zoe Robbins, DNP, PMHNP-BC
    Assistant Professor (Clinical), Director of PMHNP Clinical Practice
    Specialty: Addiction Medicine, Telemental Health Care
    zoe.robbins@nurs.utah.edu

    Urban Indian Center

    Karen Dearing, PhD, PMHNP
    karen.dearing@nurs.utah.edu

    Juvenile Justice and Youth Services (JJYS) 

    Valois Feneziani, PMHNP
    Clinician
    Specialty: Child, Adolescent, Community Mental Health
    valois.feneziani@nurs.utah.edu

    Uintah Basin Medical Center

    Megan Hopkins, DNP, PMHNP-BC
    Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
    megan.hopkins@nurs.utah.edu

    HMHI Farmington (HMHI)

    Utah Behavioral Health Innovation and Dissemination Center (BHIDC) 

    Liz Greene, DNP, PMHNP-BC
    Assistant Professor (Clinical)
    Specialty: Adolescent Mood Disorders, Nuerodevelopmental Disorders, Community Mental Health
    liz.greene@nurs.utah.edu

    South Jordan Clinic (SJ Clinic)

    John Sensiba, DNP, PMH-NP
    Specialty: 
    john.sensiba@nurs.utah.edu

    Sheila Deyette, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC
    Associate Professor (Clinical), Director of the DNP PMHNP Track
    Specialty: Psychodynamic and Existential Psychotherapy
    sheila.deyette@nurs.utah.edu

    Sugar House Clinic (SH Clinic)

    Sara Webb, DNP, PMHNP-BC
    Assistant Professor (Clinical)
    Specialty: Peripartum Mood Disorders
    sara.webb@nurs.utah.edu

    Endocrinology

    Gastroenterology

    Keisa Lynch , DNP, APRN, FNP
    Family Nurse Practitioner
    Associate Professor (Clinical)
    keisa.lynch@nurs.utah.edu

    Pediatrics

    Primary Children’s CNS

    Academic Practice Partnership

    Behavioral Health Services

    The clinical behavioral health services offered by the College of Nursing provide counseling for individuals, families and groups. The psychotherapy is evidence-based and is conducted in a sensitive and confidential manner.

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    Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program

    Caring Connections is a bereavement care program sponsored by the University of Utah College of Nursing. Our service mission includes care of grieving persons, education of health care students in the care of the bereaved and research in loss and grief.  We offer a variety of grief support groups through out the years that help individuals cope with different kinds of loss.  

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    Correctional Health Care

     Since 1998, Juvenile Justice and Youth Services (JJYS) of the State of Utah has contracted with the University of Utah College of Nursing (CON) to provide medical care for youth in statewide facilities. Our goal is to provide optimal care for the physical and mental well-being of incarcerated youth while educating future health care providers. We work in a holistic manner to address current and potential health problems for the youth under our care. The CON/JJYS nursing staff and faculty also serve as clinical mentors for registered nurse, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant students and medical school residents.

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    Employee Health/Urgent Care

    RedMed, the University of Utah's employee health clinic, is located on the ground floor of the Union Building. Care at the clinic is be provided by College of Nursing faculty and staff. Nurse practitioners and nurses bring clinical expertise in individualized patient care, by assessing and treating work related injuries and other non-emergency medical conditions.

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    Primary Care

    Primary Care offers a variety of health services through 11 practice sites along the Wasatch front and back:

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    Public Health

    College of Nursing faculty provide advanced practice nursing services at the Summit County Health Department in Park City where they serve patients who are underinsured or uninsured. They implement, coordinate, and deliver services to county residents in the areas of women’s health, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer screenings, family planning, patient education, immunizations, and other clinical services. Faculty see scheduled patients for primary care and acute illnesses in Park City and in rural Kamas and Coalville.

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    Meet the Associate Dean

    Jennifer Clifton, DNP, FNP-BC, CCHP-CP, CCHP-A, FAANP

    Professor (Clinical)
    Associate Dean of Practice and Community Collaboration
    jennifer.clifton@nurs.utah.edu
    (801) 581-5276

    Contact Us

    Matthew Horn
    Administrative Assistant
    matthew.horn@nurs.utah.edu 
    (801) 585-6835