Health & Community Systems

The Department of Health and Community Systems includes faculty who have expertise in both inpatient and community settings and statistics.  The department includes the MSN nursing informatics area of concentration and the DNP areas of concentration in psychiatric-mental health nursing and adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner.

Administration

Department Chair  Heeyoung Lee, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FAAN 412-624-5073 leehee@pitt.edu
Vice Chair for Administration Young Ji Lee, PhD, MS, RN 412-624-7886 leeyoung@pitt.edu
Vice Chair for Research Jennifer H. Lingler, PhD RN FAAN 412-383-5214 linglerj@pitt.edu
Department Coordinator Kyonghwa Ryu, MS 412-383-1742 kkr18@pitt.edu 

3500 Victoria Street
415 Victoria Building
Phone: 412-624-2469
fax: 412-383-7293

Undergraduate

Accelerated 2nd Degree BSN Joshua E. Palmer, DNP, PMHNP-BC, RN 412-383-9913 jop74@pitt.edu
Community Health Nursing Jonna L. Morris, PhD, RN
Na-Jin Park, PhD, MSN, RN
412-624-6058
412-383-9913
jlm356@pitt.edu
parknj1@pitt.edu
Gerontological Nursing Yurun Cai, PhD, RN  412-383-0766 yuc199@pitt.edu
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing  Jamie Zelazny, PhD, MPH, RN
Brayden Kameg, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CARN, CNE
412-624-9647
412-383-5732
jmz22@pitt.edu
bnk13@pitt.edu

Masters Nurse Specialty Role Area of Concentration

Nursing Informatics Young Ji Lee, PhD, RN, Coordinator 412-624-7886 leeyoung@pitt.edu

Doctor of Nursing Practice Areas of Concentration

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Brayden Kameg, DNP, PMHNP-BC, CARN, CNE 412-383-5732 bnk13@pitt.edu
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Joshua E. Palmer, DNP, PMHNP-BC, RN 412-383-9913 jop74@pitt.edu

PhD Program

PhD in Nursing Heidi Donovan, PhD, RN 412-624-2699 donovanh@pitt.edu