Nurse Leadership Institute (NLI) 2024-2025

Lynn Marie Bullock, DNP, RN, NEA-BC Related Seminars and Products

Assistant Professor, Director of OPE & NLI Program Co-Director

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Lynn Marie Bullock is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Office of Professional Education at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Dr. Bullock has an extensive background in nursing education and executive leadership. She currently teaches in the DNP Project Courses.  As director of OPE, she oversees the School’s professional education and continuing education offerings, including symposia, conferences, institutes, lectures, and online continuing education courses. The office also offers Interprofessional continuing education programs in collaboration with other University of Maryland, Baltimore schools. UMSON is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Linda Costa, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Related Seminars and Products

Associate Professor & NLI Program Co-Director

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Linda L. Costa, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.  She is Co-Director of the Nurse Leadership Institute.  Dr. Costa participated in interviewing 35 nurse leaders in practice and academia to develop the 2020 curriculum for NLI.  She is a health services researcher focused on care transitions and patient outcomes. She developed a care coordination/population health curriculum for clinical nurses as part of an academic-practice partnership.  She teaches in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program and the Master of Science in Nursing in the Health Services Leadership and Management specialty. Dr. Costa received a BSN from the University of Maryland, her MSN and PhD from The Catholic University of America.

Jana Goodwin, PhD, RN, CNE Related Seminars and Products

Assistant Professor

University of Maryland School of Nursing Program at the Universities at Shady Grove

Dr. Goodwin is Assistant Professor and Chair @UMSON@USG. She received her BSN and MSN from Temple University, and a PhD with an emphasis in nursing education from Villanova University. During her career, Dr. Goodwin has specialized and practiced in medical-surgical nursing including as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. In her current role as a nurse educator, Dr. Goodwin has taught in the undergraduate curriculum, advised students, served on various committees, and served as the Director of the BSN Program. Dr. Goodwin’s areas of interest are Cultural Competence and interprofessional education (IPE). Through an interprofessional collaboration, she co-developed and implemented an IPE clinic, in which nursing, social work, and pharmacy students provide care for medically complex patients in a safety-net clinic. Her dissertation research focused on the inpatient experiences of limited and non-English speaking Hispanic patients. Dr. Goodwin has presented nationally in the area of culture competence and IPE. She serves on a Nurse Residency Advisory Board for a local health system and as a reviewer of Journal of Professional Nursing.

She has presented nationally on implementing IPE, cultural diversity in healthcare and transition to practice.

Katrina Coleman, BSN, MSN Related Seminars and Products

Leadership and Engagement Strategist

Maryland Healthcare Education Institute

Katrina has been in the health care industry for 20 years during which she has consulted and coached with hundreds of leaders and staff assisting them in developing and implementing skills to help them achieve their goal of running a productive and quality-driven department/unit that provides a positive patient experience. As a master’s prepared nurse and, with many years of hospital experience behind her Katrina understands the needs of managers and staff as well as the environment in which they operate. Katrina’s goal is to assist others in using their own talents to create quality outcomes. Katrina is also certified in Myers-Briggs and is an ATD-Certified Coach.

Barbara Jacobs, MSN, RN Related Seminars and Products

Barbara Jacobs, RN, MSN retired in 2022 after 45 years in nursing and 7 years in her position as VP/CNO of Nursing at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center.  Prior to working at Anne Arundel, she also was Chief Nursing Officer at Suburban Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine for 5 years.  In addition, she was the Director of Critical Care at George Washington University Hospital for 18 years and she worked many years in critical care in Philadelphia and New Jersey.  She graduated from the University of Rochester with her BSN and obtained her MSN from George Washington University.  She was a past president of Maryland Organization of Nurse Leaders and was co lead of the Beryl Institute's Nurse Executive Committee and has been an advisor to the Nursing Leadership Institute for many years.  She currently is on the Board of Directors of Meritus Medical Center.  

Cheryl A. Fisher, EdD, MSN, RN Related Seminars and Products

Director and Associate Professor Nursing Informatics Program

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Cheryl A. Fisher, EdD, MSN, RN, is the specialty director for the nursing informatics program at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON). She has a research background focused on teaching with technology, translating evidence into health care practices, and evaluating the integration of technology into practice. Dr. Fisher developed new programs for a clinical setting to meet identified learning needs using computer-based training and competency validation. She has taught nursing informatics in undergraduate and graduate levels for 10 years and has mentored many graduate students in evidence-based practice projects using technology in the clinical setting. Dr. Fisher developed a fellowship in evidence-based practice and led the UMSON faculty in the redesign of the new nursing informatics graduate program.

Charlotte Seckman, PhD, RN, NI-BC, CNE, FAAN Related Seminars and Products

Co-Director, Associate Professor Nursing Informatics Program

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Charlotte Seckman, PhD, RN, NI-BC, CNE, FAAN is a board-certified informatics nurse with a PhD in nursing informatics, a master’s in nursing administration and education, and a master’s certificate in Aging and Thanatology. As a leader in nursing informatics, with over 30 years of practice experience, Dr. Seckman’s work to explore ways to improve care using innovative and emerging technologies has been disseminated, published, and recognized nationally and internationally. She has extensive experience in the analysis, design, testing, implementation, and evaluation of a variety of EHR and digital health systems in both the government and private sectors. Her recent endeavors involve the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare to include invitations as an expert speaker at international conferences. As an Associate Professor at the UMSON, Dr. Seckman coordinates, develops, and teaches nursing informatics courses at the masters and DNP level, mentors and advises graduate level students, and prepares future generations of nurses to leverage informatics competencies for leadership roles in health care.

Melanie Moon Related Seminars and Products

Vice President

Mel works hand in hand with Spitfire’s clients to build lasting communications capacity, helping progressive organizations mobilize and move their audiences to act and ultimately achieve success. As a vice president based in Washington, D.C., she carefully guides her clients’ strategic vision across a variety of projects and issue areas, including education, digital civil rights, criminal legal reform, racial and economic justice, and reproductive justice. Mel is a senior member of Spitfire’s Learning Team, developing and leading highly tailored, virtual, hybrid and in-person trainings on Spitfire's communication tools; designs new communications curriculum; and provides coaching support for organizations seeking ongoing strategic counsel and/or communications guidance to reach their goals. Mel holds an Executive Certificate in Facilitation from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership at the School of Continuing Studies. Prior to joining Spitfire, Mel co-managed a 30-plus grassroots public relations network for a global financial services client at Burson-Marsteller. She previously supported Dewey Square Group’s Grassroots Practice Team with campaign research on a range of issue areas, including open health care enrollment, opioid addiction and recovery, and green energy. Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Mel graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.