School Welcomes New Nursing Faculty

Summer 2024 welcomed several new general, tenure-track, and tenured faculty members to the School of Nursing, including:

Kelley Anderson
PhD, RN, FNP, CHFN

Associate professor Kelley Anderson conducts research on innovations for patients with heart failure, cardiovascular health, assistive technology for patients with heart failure, and innovations in teaching and mentoring. A long-time family nurse practitioner, Anderson also studies nursing in global and under-resourced contexts and earned a Fulbright Program Scholarship to the Czech Republic.

Editor of The Advanced Practice Nurse Cardiovascular Clinician (Springer), on the editorial board of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, and a reviewer for Heart and Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, JMIR Cardiology, Nursing Forum, SAGE Open Nursing, and Circulation: Heart Failure, Anderson earned a BSN from UVA School of Nursing, an MSN from the University of Texas, Austin, an FNP certificate from the University of Florida, and a PhD from the Catholic University of America. A member of the Raven Society and on the School’s Alumni Council for more than a decade, she serves on the Blue Ridge Medical Center board of directors and is deeply involved in the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses.

Prior to her arrival at UVA in 2024, Anderson was an associate professor at Georgetown University School of Nursing where she developed its PhD curriculum, established a post-doctoral fellowship in nursing program, developed an experiential program for students in rural Tanzania, and mentored DNP, CNL, BSN, and family nurse practitioner students. 

Alanna Bergman
PhD, MSN, AGNP-BC, RN

A post-doctoral research fellow in the Office for Nursing Research, Alanna Bergman, a nurse practitioner, arrived at UVA having just completed the PhD program at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing where she studied the impact of structural, institutional, and interpersonal stigma on care engagement and quality of life, and developed and deepened her interest in global health, health equity, stigma reduction, and infectious diseases including HIV, tuberculosis, and infectious hepatitis.

An HIV specialist and certified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, she’s worked as a substance use nurse practitioner with the Behavioral Health Leadership Institute, an infectious disease nurse practitioner, with Spectrum Health Services, driving quality improvement at a Ryan White program and as an adult NP focused on people with HIV at Einstein Immunodeficiency Center.

An NINR F31 grantee, a Sigma/Association of Nurses in AIDS Care grantee, assistant editor for the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, and a peer reviewer for AIDS and Behavior, Alanna has taught courses in pharmacology, epidemiology, and health assessment. With more than a dozen publications to her name, Alanna’s also been part of research teams led by nurse scientists in both domestic and international environments.

Amanda Datesman
MLIS, BA, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC

A former neonatal ICU and student health nurse, Amanda Datesman, the School's library liaison with Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, and its deputy librarian, helps nursing student researchers at all levels navigate literature and resources specific to evidence-based practice and the critical role of information in clinical and research settings.

Datesman interfaces with nursing students in class, at the library, and one-on-one for support.

Louise Fleming
PhD, MSN-Ed, RN, FAAN

Louise Fleming is the School's inaugural associate dean for academic operations, and brings expansive experience in academic and operational leadership, research, and advocacy. An award-winning educator and scholar, she is deeply engaged across a variety of practice and research communities, including as a nurse scientist and scholar of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) who creates systems, technological supports, and care and training protocols that support families and children with CAH.

Because of her research in and connections to CAH communities, Fleming was appointed in 2019 to the American Psychological Association’s seven-member Task Force on Differences in Sex Development (DSD), where she continues to collaborate on work to guide increased education, training, practice, and policy related to many DSD conditions, including CAH. She is also a consultant for the CARES Foundation and is its immediate past chair. 

Fleming comes to UVA from UNC Chapel Hill, where she was associate dean of its School of Nursing's undergraduate division and programs. She earned a PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, an MSN-Ed from Duke University, and baccalaureate degrees from both the University of South Carolina and Clemson. Named a UNC Nursing Faculty of the Year and among the “Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina” for her work during the pandemic, she is an AACN Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing Fellow alumna, and, in fall 2023, was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Jeanel Little
DNP, RN, CCRN, AGACNP-BC

The School's new adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner specialty coordinator, Jeanel Little holds a joint position as a UVA Health nurse practitioner in the Medical ICU. A long-time single-course faculty member, guest lecturer, and mentor to our students.

Little is also on the advanced practice provider orientation committee at UVA Health and helps orient new nurse practitioners hired in the MICU and at UVA Health in Culpeper. A preceptor to more than a dozen nurse practitioner students and three nurse practitioner fellows across her partnership with the School, she is a two-time alumna, too, having earned both a master’s and a DNP at the School.

Paula Sherwood
PhD, RN, FNRN, FAAN

Professor Paula Sherwood is a nurse scientist with an expansive, impressive career mentoring developing faculty members, students, and future nurse scientists. With four R01 grants totaling more than $8 million, and disseminated findings in more than 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, she has been tapped for leadership roles with the National Institute for Nursing Research, the National Cancer Institute, the Oncology Nursing Society, and the Neuroscience Nursing Foundation.

A Fulbright alumna connected to a host of international research collaborators, Sherwood also served as the United States leader on a multi-nation grant sponsored by the European Union designed to evaluate the quality of cancer care, and is currently lead investigator on another multi-country evaluation of healthcare utilization for neurology-oncology care. In addition to becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2011, Sherwood earned a CANS “Investigator with a Brilliant Future Award,” a New Investigator Award from the American Psychosocial Oncology Society, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing's Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Sherwood earned a PhD from Michigan State, an MSN from the University of Iowa, and a BSN from JMU, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh before accepting a faculty position there in 2005, until her 2024 arrival at UVA. A Clinical Nurse Specialist and a certified registered neuroscience nurse, she is a member of and leader in the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, the National Brain Tumor Foundation, the European Association of Neuro-Oncology, and many other professional organizations. She co-founded and is an active member of the International Consortium of Neuro-Oncology Caregivers, an organization designed to unite supportive care researchers in neuro-oncology caregiving across the globe.

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