Student Profiles
Symposium 2022 Student Panel Bios
Emily Lugdon, PhD Candidate, DNP, MS, BSN, BSSW, FNP-C, RN
Emily Lugdon (she/her) is an Active duty U. S. Army family nurse practitioner with a background in emergency and forensic nursing. Her client population includes service members, veterans, their family members from neonate through older adults. Her research interests include stress, trauma, healing, individual and community wellness, health behaviors.
Contact Information: elugdon@nursing.umass.edu
Linda Young APRN, MS, FNP-BC, PhD Student
Linda Young (she/her) has 40 years’ experience in Maternal Child Nursing. Her bedside nursing experience includes NICU (26 yrs), visiting nursing (2 years), school nursing (2 years), teaching in AD and BSN programs (7 years), np in primary care pediatrics (6 years) and currently np in developmental behavioral pediatrics (6 years). She is currently working in a developmental behavioral pediatric practice as a nurse practitioner with an interdisciplinary team caring for infants and children 2 months old to age 21.her research interests include childhood trauma, developmental outcomes, and autism.
Contact Information: ldyoung@umass.edu
Sabriye Abban, Ph.D. Candidate, MPH, MHA, RN, MFT, SW
Sabriye Abban (she/her) is a registered nurse from Eskisehir Osmangazi University at Faculty of Medicine in Eskisehir in Turkey. Her clinical experiences include Department of Chest Diseases, Surgery, Radiation Oncology, and Dermatology. She is currently a PhD candidate and Teaching and Research Assistant in the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests include public health, health promotion, youth tobacco prevention, obesity prevention, vulnerable population, chronic diseases, school nursing, public health nursing, geriatric nursing research.
Contact Information: sabban@umass.edu https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabbann
Jasmine Da Silva, MS, RN, PMH-BC
JD has been a nurse for 4 years working in psychiatric mental health nursing. She has her AA, ADN, BS, MS and is currently a PhD Student at Umass Amherst. Her interests are nursing suicide and nurses with psychiatric illness. When she’s not working she enjoys time with her 8 year old daughter.
