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Elisa Giaquinto received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Brenau University in Gainesville Georgia and her Master of Science in nursing from Georgia State University with a specialization in gerontology. In addition, Elisa studied social gerontology at Georgia State University and received a Certificate of Graduate Study in gerontology. While working as a clinical nurse specialist in gerontology, Elisa designed and directed an acute care medical unit for elders on Cape Cod, created a gerontology nurse resource program for acute care nurses, organized community based wellness clinics for seniors in residential retirement communities, designed and led an inpatient unit for community based elders with dementias, and helped a variety of hospitals in Georgia, Massachusetts and Rhode Island to create patterns of care delivery systems for frail acutely ill elders.

Elisa returned to school to explore the role of cultural values and systems of belief in the formation of health policy and their role in the structure of community life for older people. She earned a Master of Arts in anthropology from Brown University and continued on with doctoral studies where she examined the everyday life of older people and the relationships between social institutions, rural community life, social integration and independence in central Italy.
Elisa’s research interests continue to involve community institutions and their relationship to health and independence through the life course and specifically as they affect the lived experience of old age. Currently she is conducting ethnographic research in rural Nova Scotia.

Elisa has taught nursing, sociology, anthropology for Regis College, Lasell College and Pine Manor College in Massachusetts before joining Husson University and moving to Bangor Maine in the fall of 2011. She also has a home in Southwest Nova Scotia where she is active in the Gerontology Association of Nova Scotia and in her local community. She is an avid photographer and plein air painter.

Sandy has been a member of the Husson admissions staff since 1993, although she has been involved with college admissions since 1980.

Sandy visits high schools, participates at college fairs and other recruiting programs in Southern Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont and also does an occasional trip to Massachusetts or Rhode Island to cover various admissions events held farther south.

Following a busy fall travel season, she enjoys spending quality time at home with her family and friends, in and around Portland, Maine.

Cathi received her BSN from the University of Connecticut and her MSN in Oncology Nursing from Rush University in Chicago, IL. She has practiced for 26 years in the areas of medical oncology, bone marrow transplant, home infusion, pediatrics and home health and hospice. She recently received her certification as a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse and is a Home Health/Hospitce nurse and teaches orientation classes for CHCS.

I’ve worked at Husson as adjunct faculty in the past and I am very excited to have accepted a part time faculty position in Nursing. I live on the Maine coast with my husband and 2 daughters. I am very active in social justice activities and I hike, bicycle, cross-country ski, and read for enjoyment.