EXERCISE SCIENCE

Peter Ronai, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor

Professor Ronai joined the Exercise Science program in January 2011. He comes to us from Bridgeport's Albin Center and Southern Connecticut State University. He is the past president of the New England chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and serves as an editor and reviewer for the ACSM's Certified News and the Strength and Conditioning Journal. 

He is the brainchild and cofounder of the NEACSM's College Bowl competition where exercise science students compete regionally, and which has grown into the ACSM's Student Bowl where the regional winners compete nationally at the ACSM annual meeting.  
 
He teaches Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Introduction to Health and Fitness, Exercise and Aging, and will teach in the clinical track of the graduate program in Exercise Science and Nutrition. 

NURSING

Linda L. Cook, DNP, Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Cook joined the On Line Nursing Program in February 2011. Dr. Cook’s clinical specialty for the past 34 years has been neonatal nursing which led her to Danbury Hospital where she was a neonatal nurse practitioner for the past 22 years. Previously, as an adjunct at Western Connecticut State University, she taught undergraduate nursing clinical in pediatrics and obstetrics.

In 2009 Dr. Cook was conferred the degree of Doctorate of Nursing from the University of Connecticut and was also the recipient of the Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing that same year.

She teaches the following courses, Evidence Base Nursing Practice, Prinicples of Health Care Research, Theory and Professional Roles and Family and community Context for Health Care

Harriet A. Fields, Ed.D., RN, Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Fields joined the on-line nursing program in January 2011. Dr. Field’s expertise is Health Care Policy and Professional Nursing Education and Practice.

Throughout the more than 30 years of academic and consulting work, Dr. Fields has organized, developed and chaired numerous continuing education programs for directors of nursing, nursing home administrators, professional staff, educators, regulators, and policy makers, as well as speaking extensively throughout this country and Canada. She is responsible for the development of visionary educational programs for nurse aides, nurse supervisors and professional nursing staff to help achieve quality humane care giving and quality of life for our nation’s elderly.  

As a nurse educator, Dr. Fields developed a baccalaureate nursing program at the College of Mount St, Vincent, Bronx, New York, and coordinated the master’s and doctoral programs in gerontological nursing and long term care at the University of California, San Francisco. She has had extensive experience with community based delivery of care in inner city urban areas, in neighborhood health centers, clinics, senior centers, and the home setting and nursing homes.

Dr. Fields teaches Health Care Policy courses at the RN-MSN, and DNP levels, and the Capstone course for the RN-BSN students.

Michelle I. Johnson, Ed.D., BSN, Assistant Professor

Dr. Johnson joined the on-line nursing program in January 2011. Dr. Johnson’s clinical specialty was pediatric nursing which led her to be a pediatric nurse practitioner and clinical nurse manager for many years at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Northwestern School-Based Adolescent Health Center prior to moving to academia.

Dr. Johnson previously taught at Nevada State College and on-line classes at various other institutions. She teaches courses in the graduate nursing core, Nursing Education and RN-BSN.

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