CLASS NOTES RANY AHMAD (MS, ‘18) joined Lake-
LINDSEY GRYCH (BS ‘15, MS ‘18)
MICHAEL MURPHY (BS ‘07, MS ‘07)
land Regional Health as an urgent care
joined the Watson Clinic and serves
received a PhD in nursing education from
nurse practitioner. He is certified by the
patients at the clinic’s south location in
the University of Colorado in May 2020.
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
Lakeland, Florida. As a registered family
He has been living in Paris, France for
nurse practitioner, she is a member of the
10 years. He still maintains contacts in
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Florida and is proud to be a USF alum.
ANGELLA BENSON (MS ‘07) is a Board-Certified Aesthetics Nurse Prac-
and the American Nurses Association.
titioner who specializes in non-invasive
SARAH NICOLA (BS ‘18) is a CNM/
medical aesthetics. She practices in the
ABBY JACKSON (BS ‘17) works at
WHNP student at Georgetown University
Fort Myers, Florida area.
Tampa General Hospital in the medical
and is on track to graduate in August
ICU. In March 2020, her unit was trans-
2021. She worked at Sarasota Memorial
BRETT JENKINS (BS ‘14, MS ‘19)
formed into the designated COVID-19
Hospital for nearly two years before
joined Lakeland Regional Health Physi-
ICU, where she saw some of the sickest
leaving to focus on school.
cian Group as a family nurse practitioner
patients ever seen in her nursing career.
seeing walk-in care patients at the
She regularly reflects on her days at USF
LAURA PELLEGRINI (BS ‘12, MS
Gateway location. He most recently served
and about how much she learned in nurs-
‘16) joined the Watson Clinic and serves
as a Registered Nurse in the Bannasch
ing school. She wouldn’t be the nurse she
patients at the clinic’s medical spa in
Institute for Advanced Rehabilitative
is today if she wasn’t a USF Bull Nurse.
Lakeland, Florida. As a certified family
Medicine at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center.
BRANDY GARCIA-ASHE (MS ‘19)
nurse practitioner, she is a member of the
MARY MITCHELL (BS ‘11, MS ‘11,
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
DNP ‘18) started working remotely for
and the Polk County Advanced Practice
Grand Rounds, a health care technology
Nurses Association.
joined Plant City Pediatrics in Plant City,
company since December 2019. She
Florida. For the past 11 years, she has
wanted to share how nurse practitioners
LAURA GONZALEZ (MS ‘96) will be
lived in the Tampa Bay area with her
in telemedicine have helped bridge the
inducted as a member of the 2020 class
husband and their three children. She is
gap for patients with COVID-related
of fellows in the American Academy
certified through the Pediatric Nursing
guidance and education. Despite not
of Nursing.
Certification Board as a primary care
being on the front lines, we are able to
nurse practitioner.
provide the support patients need during the pandemic.
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