MCN - Key Persons


Allison Braden

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Amanda Slepicka


Amy Irving

Job Titles:
  • Director for Events

Annette Hubbell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Antonio Kayamba

Job Titles:
  • IT Service Lead

Ashley Turner

Job Titles:
  • Office Support Specialist

Barbra Oldenburg

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor and Coordinator of Student Success and Engagement

Caitlin Eckhart


Carle BroMenn

Job Titles:
  • Carle BroMenn Medical Center Endowed Professor

Clint Smith

Job Titles:
  • Administrator
  • Springfield Site Administrator

Danielle Boudeman

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Diane Folken

Job Titles:
  • Director of MCN Business & Finance

Dr. Cherrill Stockmann

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Denise Hammer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Erin Reitz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Jessica Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Judy Neubrander

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Dr. Kirsten Clerkin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Marilyn Prasun


Dr. Mary Dyck

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Dr. Michele Shropshire

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Mindy Finch

Job Titles:
  • Director of Undergraduate Nursing Programs

Dr. Myoung Jin Kim

Job Titles:
  • Director, Office of Nursing Research, Scholarship, and Innovation & Professor

Dr. Nancy Novotny

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Patricia Pence

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Sheryl Henry

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Susana J Calderon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Susie Watkins

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Dean of Academics & Associate Professor

Dr. Teresa K Novy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Theresa Adelman-Mullally

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Valerie Wright

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Elizabeth Kosuth

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager, ANEW Grant

Emily Erickson


Emily Mixson


Harrison Krebs

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor
Harrison Krebs is an alumnus of the Mennonite College of Nursing of bachelor's and master's programs. He has received his specialty certification in Critical Care Nursing and has spent most of his career in critical care in various intensive care units, including general, neuro, medical, surgical and cardiovascular. He has experience in bedside nursing, nursing administration, and nursing education. He has presented at the Midwest Nation Research Society and implemented a procedure for initiating, titrating, and monitoring neuromuscular blocking agents. This policy is utilized for the West Region of Northwestern Medicine.

Heather Wiegand

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Holly Ng

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, NSL

Janet LoVerde

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jen Walston


Jessie Casida

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jill Howell

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Joanna Willett

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Nursing Simulation Lab

Jodee Cesario

Job Titles:
  • Office Administrator - Prelicensure Admissions and Compliance

John Blakeman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Nurse
Dr. Blakeman has been a nurse educator since 2015, recognized in 2019 as a Nurse Educator Fellow by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. He conducts research related to symptom science and cardiovascular disease, having published multiple peer-reviewed papers and presented regionally and nationally.

Julie Schaffer

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellowship

Jung Eun Kim

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Jung Eun Kim received her PhD from Azusa Pacific University, California, USA. She studied for MSN and BSN degrees at Ewha Women's University, Seoul, South Korea. She has worked as a registered nurse in diverse areas, including Med-Surg units, home health care, long-term care settings, and community-based health facilities in the United States. She is a member of International Sigma Nursing, the Midwest Nursing Research Society, the National League for Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America, the American Association of College of Nursing, and the Global Korean Nursing Foundation-USA.

Kate Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Kelly Rosecrans

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Kileigh Guido

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Student Services

Kirsten Crow

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Krista Donnelly


Kyler Ummel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Business & Finance

Laura Killingsworth

Job Titles:
  • Nursing Librarian
  • Nursing Librarian / Milner Library

Lindsey Prior M.

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor and Coordinator of the EMPOWER Program

Lissa Bevins


Maria Castiblanco


Matt Rutherford

Job Titles:
  • Director of Technology

Megan Berry


Megan Rappleyea

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Melissa Calvillo

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Melissa Moody

Job Titles:
  • Director, Admissions and Compliance

Michelle Maurer

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Ms. Jill Stoops

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Muriel Bean

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Academic Recruiter

Nina Ford

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Paula Porter


Rachel Rotramel


Robin Trost

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Sandy Nielsen

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Sarah Van Alebeek


Shawna Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Office Administrator for Compliance and Admissions

Shayla Dennis


Susy Marcum

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Tabithia Buggar


Tom Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Urszula Szpila

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, NSL

Whitney Canterbury

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing & Recruitment