Tracy Evanson, PhD, APRN, BC
Public and Community Health Director
College of Nursing, Room 313
701-777-4559
tracyevanson@mail.und.edu

Dr. Evanson is an Assistant Professor at UND College of Nursing, Department of Familyand Community Nursing, and Director of the Public/Community Health Clinical Nurse Specialist project. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Minnesota; an MSN in Community Health Nursing, with a concentration in vulnerable populations, from Seattle University; and a BSN from the University of North Dakota.  Her clinical background is in public health nursing, and she is a certified clinical nurse specialist in community health nursing.  Dr. Evanson has worked in multiple public health settings including local and state health departments, and in corrections.  She has experience with numerous vulnerable populations, including children with special health care needs, homeless, immigrants and refugees, substance abusing pregnant and parenting women, battered women, prisoners, and youth at risk for gang involvement.  She is a qualitative researcher, with expertise in descriptive phenomenology.  Her primary research interest is in the area of domestic violence, specifically looking at the role of public health nurses in prevention and intervention.  Tracy grew up in western North Dakota, and after 12 years of living in the Seattle area, and then Minneapolis for four years, she was happy to return to her North Dakota roots when she came to UND in 2003.  She is an avid knitter and whenever possible, picks up a pair of needles and yarn for relaxation.  However, as the single-parent of a beautiful and busy toddler, Gabrielle, the long, relaxing knitting sessions are fewer and farther between!  In addition, Tracy is a foster parent. 

Elizabeth Tyree, PhD, MPH, RN
College of Nursing, Room 319
701-777-4522
liztyree@mail.und.edu

Dr. Elizabeth Tyree has a broad background in public health including urban and rural health departments, the Wisconsin Division of Health and Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. She has taught at UND for 17 years and chaired the Family and Community Nursing Department for 16 years. She directs the Family Nurse Practitioner Program and UND Nursing Center. All of her teaching has been community focused involving undergraduate and graduate nursing students. Her students have engaged numerous communities and population groups in service learning projects including coalition building, assets/needs assessments and health oriented campaigns in the Grand Forks region.

Lucy Heintz, RN, MS, COHN-S, CCM, CDMS
College of Nursing, Room 337
701-777-4536
lucyheintz@mail.und.edu

Lucy recently joined the Department of Family and Community Nursing faculty as a clinical instructor.  She brings with her 22 years of experience as an occupational health nurse.  During that time, she developed and implemented a variety of health and safety programs in industrial settings. She enjoys the learning process and completed her Masters of Science degree at the University of North Dakota in 2002 as an “older than average but younger than some” student.  Her credentials include certification as an occupational health nurse-specialist (COHN-S), case manager (CCM) and disability management specialist (CDMS) and is a member of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses. She enjoys interacting with a variety of people, a really good cup of coffee (several times a day), reading novels with intriguing court room dramas, and spending time with her wonderfully entertaining husband, Wayne and her daughter and son-in-law, Claire and Jeff.

Donna Morris, DrPH, CNM, AHN-BC, NBCR
College of Nursing, Room 345
701-777-4529
donnamorris@mail.und.edu

Dr. Donna Morris is a tenured Associate Professor in her sixth year of teaching at the UND College of Nursing. Her teaching focuses on epidemiology and family theory, research and practice. She also teaches an elective in complementary therapies and an undergraduate course in the Childbearing Family. Dr. Morris’ research focuses on two areas: (1) noninvasive interventions to treat menopausal symptoms and (2) on the integration of holistic nursing practices and complementary and alternative therapies into Schools of Nursing curricula.

Elizabeth Anderson, D.Ph., RN, FAAN

Bets Anderson moved to Galveston, Texas, to chair the Department of Community Health and Gerontology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1988. She taught community health nursing in both the baccalaureate and master’s programs, pioneering the community health portion in the nurse practitioner track. She was the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Primary Health Care at the university which gave her an opportunity to travel and work with nurses worldwide. She currently holds the title of Professor Emerita. Her community health text, Community as Partner: Theory and Practice in Nursing, has won numerous awards and is currently available in a Canadian edition, in Japanese, in Indonesian, and in its 5th Edition. The sixth edition is already being planned with her co-author, Judith McFarlane. She loves to be in, on, or near water [she grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida, and attended school in Miami where she worked as a nurse for several years before moving to Texas]. Her love of nature is manifested in daily walks on the beach of the Gulf of Mexico [a few blocks from her home which she shares with a 15 year old granddaughter, 5 cats and 4 dogs]; paddling her kayak in both the Gulf and the bay; and painting with watercolor or oil or devising linocuts. She is actively involved in her community and has been the president of the Galveston Historical Foundation [the largest in the U.S.]; is a “Master Naturalist” which extends her passion for preservation to the ‘natural’ world as well as historic buildings and sites; will be president of the Rotary Club of Galveston in July; is president of her church [Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Galveston]; and supports animal rescue efforts as well as health promoting events in her community.