Practice Programs
A commitment to practice is deeply embedded in the fabric of our college.
The UT Health Science Center College of Nursing has a national reputation for preparing top-notch practitioners and integrating practice as a key element of our mission. From professional entry through doctoral education, from operating rooms to primary care clinics, and from rural communities to big cities, our faculty members are forging new pathways in the delivery of health care. Our practice sites are quite varied, representing the background and preparation of faculty and staff who engage in faculty practice.
Department of Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention
Dr. Ricketta Clark's faculty practice in gastroenterology at Regional One Health provides specialized care for underserved patients in the Mid-South area with digestive system disorders such as GERD, inflammatory bowel disease, liver disorders, and gastrointestinal cancers. As part of a level one trauma center, her clinical practice integrates clinical care with teaching and research. Dr. Clark collaborates with an interprofessional team, including social workers, physicians, and pharmacists, to optimize health outcomes for all. Her holistic approach emphasizes individualized treatment plans that address medical conditions, lifestyle factors, and various social drivers of health impacting gastrointestinal well-being.
Dr. Laura Reed is an Associate Professor in the DNP FNP concentration as well as the Interim Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs. She has practiced in a wide variety of primary care settings including end-stage renal disease, transplantation, and internal medicine. She currently practices as part of the Rural Health Initiatives/Mobile Health team where her practice focuses on complex chronic disease prevention and management. Dr. Reed is an expert clinician who is recognized nationally as a content expert and leader.
Dr. Nina K. Sublette is a family nurse practitioner at The University of Tennessee-Regional One Physicians Group’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine clinic. Specializing in perinatal HIV, she provides comprehensive care for pregnant women living with HIV. She provides extensive HIV education and counseling and serves as an advocate for patients as they navigate pregnancy, delivery, and care of their HIV-exposed infants. She is responsible for the initiation and management of antiretroviral therapy. In addition to comprehensive prenatal care, she provides gynecological care and contraception management for women living with HIV. Dr. Sublette has been a co-investigator for multiple NIH perinatal and neonatal clinical trials and a health care provider for this specialty population since 1999.
Department of Acute and
Tertiary Care
Since 2001, Dr. Dwayne Accardo has been working in the Memphis area as a practicing Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist providing all aspects of anesthesia care. He currently works with Gastro One in Germantown, TN, and Lifelinc Anesthesia in Memphis. Over the past 20 years he has served as faculty, Assistant Director, and Program Director in the Nurse Anesthesia Concentration. Dr. Accardo is a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (FAANA) and a recent recipient of the Tennessee Association of Nurse Anesthetists Patty Cornwell Practitioner of the year award.
Dr. Jordan Isaac practices as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologist in several clinical settings in the Mid-South. Dr Isaac has spent the past 10 years in the Methodist Healthcare System providing anesthesia for surgical and labor/delivery patients. He has also spent time practicing in surgery centers including Semmes-Murphy, Conrad/Pearson urology center, Methodist Germantown, and Campbell Clinic.
Dr. McClinton is an adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner who practices as an infectious disease specialist with the Infectious Disease Associates of Memphis. She has periodically managed patients encountering infectious diseases since 2014, in inpatient and outpatient settings. She is regularly consulted to manage critically and acutely ill patients with various infectious disease diagnoses in the cardiovascular intensive care unit, medical intensive care unit, and those in myelosuppression. Her clinical expertise encompasses the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of infectious diseases, including infections in immunocompromised patients, postoperative infections, septicemia, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), other complex bacterial, viral, and emerging infectious diseases. Dr. McClinton is credentialed and actively practices at multiple hospitals throughout the Memphis and Collierville areas, where she collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive, evidence-based infectious disease treatments.
Department of Community and Population Health
Dr. Rebecca Burrow is a family nurse practitioner at the Wilder Youth Development Center (WYDC) where she provides correctional health services to youth at the facility. WYDC is a juvenile detention center that offers treatment programs for adolescent males aged 14-18 years of age. Dr. Burrow's practice has been focused on rural communities and improving access to healthcare for underserved communities.
Dr. Diana Dedmon is Director of Clinical Affairs for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing and serves as principal investigator for a $3.98 million, four-year Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant that funds a Nursing Mobile Health Unit serving two rural West Tennessee counties, Lake and Lauderdale. She also recently received an additional $3.6 million grant from the Tennessee Department of Health to establish a second Mobile Health Unit in Dyer Hardeman, and Haywood counties, further expanding access to care in underserved communities. Dr. Dedmon’s faculty practice centers on the mobile health unit, where she provides primary care and forensic nursing services to residents of these counties.
Meghan Madea, DNP, MSN, APRN, CNM, WHNP-BC
Katie Sabatier, DNP, CNM, WHNP-BC, FACNM