School of Nursing
The mission of the School of Nursing is to make significant contributions to health and the discipline of nursing by advancing science, demonstrating leadership and innovation in practice excellence, and embracing the values of diversity, inclusion, and equity.The School of Nursing provides a caring environment to foster scientific inquiry and prepare students to become leaders, nurse scientists, educators, advocates and clinicians to provide equitable and culturally competent healthcare to individual patients, families, communities and populations locally and globally.Tracey K. Gosselin ‘93, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Senior Vice President, Chief Nurse Executive and Chair of Nursing at
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Tracey Gosselin leads more than 5,000 nurses and nursing support staff at Memorial Sloan Cancer Center across 25 sites in New York and New Jersey. The senior vice president and chief nursing executive implements relationship-based care models, shared governance structures and evidence-based practices. In addition, Gosselin shapes clinical redesign efforts, quality and safety initiatives, and caregiver support programs. She is a member of the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Nurses Association, among other organizations. Gosselin is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the New York Academy of Medicine.
She spent 28 years at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, including the last five years as chief nursing and patient care services officer.
Cynthia Orofo, BSN , RN
Registered Nurse
Ph.D. Candidate at Northeaster University’s School of Nursing
Co-Founder of Culture Care Collective
Boston, MA
Cynthia Orofo is a registered nurse, PhD candidate at Northeastern University’s School of Nursing, and is the co-founder of Culture Care Collective. She has served as an ICU nurse and COVID ICU nurse during the height of the pandemic. Cynthia has also served minoritized populations as a student nurse and currently functions as a public health nurse on a mobile health van across Massachusetts. Merging the two domains of public health and hospital-based care has been a passion of hers, inspiring her doctoral research interests, and ultimately igniting the creation of Culture Care Collective. As a current PhD candidate, she has contributed to a number of scholarly projects related to health disparities and clinically-integrated community health worker programs. As an entrepreneur, Cynthia leads Culture Care Collective, a hybrid chronic disease support program dedicated to battling disparities in healthcare delivery.
Culture Care Collective leverages face-to-face and interactive digital app support through partnerships with community health workers (CHWs). CHWs are integrated into clinical care teams to communicate with and coordinate care for marginalized groups in order to increase access to socially supportive healthcare at low costs.
By implementing a collaborative clinical care model inclusive of CHWs as well as licensing the software to healthcare organizations, the program continually strives to: improve the health and social capital of marginalized communities, increase cultural awareness of health systems, lower avoidable healthcare utilization & expenditures, and reduce healthcare disparities.
Lucia Jenkins, BSN , RN ‘75
Registered Nurse
Founder, Baby Cafe USA
Boston, MA
“I am a Northeastern Nursing School graduate (1975). In 2011, I founded an award-winning non-profit organization, Baby Cafe USA, that assists communities to establish free, drop-in breastfeeding support sites called Baby Cafes. Baby Cafes are staffed by lactation professionals and are proven ( paper published in breastfeeding Medicine) to be effective at increasing breastfeeding initiation rates and duration. Individual Baby Cafes are funded by national and local grants, and encourage community collaboration and supportive family connections. Baby Cafes are an excellent, inexpensive, and flexible public health model that utilizes available community resources to improve health outcomes in efforts to reduce disparities in our population.”
- Lucia Jenkins ‘75
Stephen Wood, RN ‘75
Acute Nurse Practitioner
Director of Advanced Practice Providers, Pulmonary and Critical Care at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Clinical Instructor, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Faculty, School of Nursing
Brighton, MA
Stephen P. Wood is an acute care nurse practitioner and director of advanced practice providers in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, Mass. Prior to this, he spent 11 years practicing as a nurse practitioner in emergency medicine.
His roots are in emergency medical services and he has more than 30 years of field experience, including 10 as a flight paramedic. He is an instructor in the graduate nursing program at Northeastern University’s School of Nursing and is a graduate scholar of the Harvard Macy Institute program for Healthcare Educators.
Wood is a former fellow in bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a current visiting researcher at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. Wood holds a Master of Science in Nursing as well as a Master of Science in Toxicology. He is a fellow and podcaster for World Extreme Medicine.
“I graduated from Northeastern University in 2002 with a Master of Science in Toxicology. I returned in 2010 as a nurse practitioner and taught in the undergraduate nursing program. In 2022, I started full time as the program director of the Acute Care NP program as well as the Extreme Medicine program. I teach a variety of courses from pharmacology to acute care theory courses, but my favorite is Magic and Healthcare. I'm an amateur magician and I teamed up with professional magician Jeanette Andrews to teach this course, which explores how magic and art can inform us about bias, decision making and teaching methods. I am also passionate about environmental and social justice and have developed a number of programs to engage students on these topics. Finally, I am back as a student studying for my DMSci in Healthcare Leadership.”
- Stephen Wood
Nadege Tan, MSN, CFCS, ANP-C ‘12
Podiatric Nurse Practitioner
Founder and CEO, Nyota Medical Footcare, PLLC
Quincy, MA
Nadege Tan ‘12 graduated from Northeastern University (NU) with a Master of Science in Nursing degree in 2012. She is an experienced and accomplished Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 11 years in healthcare, with 6 of those years in podiatry. She saw a need and wanted to do more as a distinguished healthcare professional and started her journey as the visionary founder and CEO of Nyota Medical Foot Care PLLC. With her remarkable commitment to delivering exceptional podiatry care, Nyota continues its success and growth with Nadege's hands-on approach as a Podiatry Nurse Practitioner. Her interests include mentoring and teaching in the field of podiatry to fellow nurse practitioners who aspire to develop their own or specialize in podiatry practice.
“Northeastern University (NU) was instrumental in shaping my career as a nurse practitioner and subsequently as the Founder and CEO of Nyota Medical Footcare, PLLC. With my passion for patient wellness, NU’s comprehensive and rigorous curriculum equipped me with the essential knowledge and skills needed for a career in healthcare and providing a strong foundation in adult primary care. Furthermore, NU's emphasis on experiential learning and clinical rotations allowed me to gain invaluable practicum experience and patient-focused insights, which are pivotal to my ability to offer exceptional podiatry care at Nyota.
“My academic journey and hands-on training continues to be the cornerstone of my successful podiatry practice, and it also fuels my aspirations to educate and mentor fellow nurse practitioners interested in establishing their own podiatry practice.”
- Nadege Tan ‘12
Rossana Encalada, DNP, RN, NEA-BC ‘12
Nurse Director, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Rossana Enaclada ‘12 is a nurse director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She supports clinical practice and nursing operations throughout the Ambulatory Specialty clinics and is responsible for quality & safety, financial stewardship, and strategic initiatives throughout the Ambulatory Division. Her focus involves leveraging partnerships for optimal nursing care delivery and optimization of theBrigham Experience for patients and employees.
Prior to pursuing nursing as a second degree, Rosy received a BS in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Boston University. She then completed the direct-entry nursing program at Northeastern University where she received her BSN and a MS in Nursing Administration. In January 2021, Rosy received her Executive Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the MGH Institute of Health Professions.
Rosy is a Co-Active coach and has a passion for leadership, diversity, building relationships, lifelong learning, and is also certified as a Nurse Executive, Advanced from the ANCC. She is an animal lover, enjoys spending time with her family, is a mom of 2, and considers herself a“foodie”!