Health & Community Systems
- 3500 Victoria Street
- 415 Victoria Building
- Phone: 412-624-2469
- Fax: 412-383-7293
The Department of Health and Community Systems includes faculty who have expertise in both in-patient and community settings. This department provides courses in nursing care of older adults, psychiatric-mental health nursing, and community health nursing in the undergraduate program, as well as oversees the RN Options and Accelerated 2nd Degree Tracks in the BSN program. Additionally, this department includes several master’s program advanced specialty role areas of concentration and the master’s and DNP area of concentration in psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Administration
| Department Chair | Judith Erlen, PhD, RN, FAAN |
412-624-1905 | jae001@pitt.edu |
| Vice Chair for Administration | Ann M. Mitchell, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN | 412-624-9005 | ammi@pitt.edu |
| Vice Chair for Research | Carol Stilley, PhD, RN |
412-383-7284 | css100@pitt.edu |
| Department Administrator |
Janeen Laforce | 412-624-6706 | laforcej@pitt.edu |
Undergraduate
| Accelerated 2nd Degree Track | Michael Beach, DNP, ANCP-BC, PNP |
412-624-9654 | beachm@pitt.edu |
| Community Health Nursing | Kyeongra Yang, PhD, MPH, RN |
412-383-7946 | yangk@pitt.edu |
| Gerontological Nursing | Linda Garand, PhD, GCNS-BC |
412-383-7946 | ligst4@pitt.edu |
| RN Options Track | Irene Kane, PhD, MSN, RN CNAA,HFI, |
412-624-9908 | irk1@pitt.edu |
| Psychiatric/Mental Health | Ann M. Mitchell, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN |
412-624-9005 | ammi@pitt.edu |
Master's and Doctor of Nursing Practice Areas of Concentration
| Clinical Nurse Specialist - Psychiatric Mental Health | Kathryn Puskar, DrPH, FAAN |
412-624-6933 | krp12@pitt.edu |
| Psychiatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner | Heeyoung Lee, PhD, APRN- BC |
412-624-5073 | leehee@pitt.edu |
Master's Nurse Specialty Role Areas of Concentration
| Nurse Education | Susan A. Albrecht, PhD, RN, FAAN |
412-624-2403 | saa01@pitt.edu |
| Nursing Informatics | Elizabeth LaRue, PhD, MLS, AHIP |
412-624-3801 | eml17@pitt.edu |
| Nursing Research | Elizabeth A. Schlenk, PhD, RN |
412-624-4103 | els100@pitt.edu |
| PhD | Catherrine M. Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN |
412-624-3594 | cbe100@pitt.edu |