Academic Clinicians: Our Impact
The University of Utah College of Nursing has a robust and growing faculty practice. Faculty Practice and practice sites are essential to the college's academic, clinical, and research missions.
Faculty Practice has four primary areas of healthcare:
- Women's Health
- Adolescent and Family Care
- Grief Through Loss: Caring Connections
- Behavioral Health
These four arenas of care provide practice sites for 49 CON faculty to engage in clinical practice and provide excellent sites for our students to gain knowledge. Faculty Practice employs 24 registered nurses in both clinical and clinical leader roles and a team of five administrative staff.
Clinical Services Faculty
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
Valois Feneziani, PMHNP
Staff Clinician
Specialty: Child, Adolescent, Community Mental Health
valois.feneziani@nurs.utah.edu
Liz Greene, DNP, PMHNP-BC
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Specialty: Adolescent Mood Disorders, Nuerodevelopmental Disorders, Community Mental Health
liz.greene@nurs.utah.edu
Amos Grim, PMHNP
Staff Clinician
Specialty: Community Mental Health, Juvenile Justice
amos.grim@nurs.utah.edu
Deborah Morgan, DNP, PMHNP-BC
Adjunct Instructor (Clinical)
Specialty: Geriatric Psychiatry, Cognitive Disorders
deborah.morgan@nurs.utah.edu
Zoe Robbins, DNP, PMHNP-BC
Assistant Professor (Clinical), Director of PMHNP Clinical Practice
Specialty: Addiction Medicine, Telemental Health Care
zoe.robbins@nurs.utah.edu
Sara Webb, DNP, PMHNP-BC
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Specialty: Peripartum Mood Disorders
sara.webb@nurs.utah.edu
Kathie Supiano, PhD, LCSW, FT
Director, Caring Connections
u0510274@utah.edu
Juvenile Justice Services (JJS)
RedMed Employee Health Clinic
Jeff Atkinson, APRN
Family Nurse Practitioner
u0743497@utah.edu
Summit County Health Department
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake (UICSL)
Van Gip-Duran, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
Family Nurse Practitioner
Van.Gip@nurs.utah.edu
Danielle Puri, APRN
Family Nurse Practitioner
u6026200@utah.edu
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.
BirthCare HealthCare
BirthCare HealthCare (BCHC) Midwifery and Women’s Health Faculty Practice provides obstetric, gynecologic, primary care, and mental health services for women across the lifespan. Our faculty practice group helps meet the needs of women throughout Utah while providing clinical practice opportunities for faculty and students. With eight outpatient locations, BCHC provided 13,000 outpatient visits and 614 births in 2020.
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.
Primary Care
Primary Care offers a variety of health services through 11 practice sites along the Wasatch front and back:
Jennifer Clifton, DNP, FNP-BC, CCHP-A, FAANP
Interim Associate Dean of Faculty Practice
jennifer.clifton@nurs.utah.edu
(801) 581-5276
Donnie Benson
Executive Assistant to the Interim Associate Dean of Faculty Practice
donnie.benson@nurs.utah.edu
(801) 585-6835