Experts Guide

Susan Prion, EdD, RN, CNE, CHSE is the associate dean of and a professor in the nursing department. She holds baccalaureate degrees in biology and chemistry from Muskingum College and a BS in nursing from Case Western Reserve University. She has a master’s degree in nursing from the University of California San Francisco and an MEd in instructional technology from San Jose State University. Professor Prion also holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction. She is actively engaged in research…

Professor Protas holds the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair. Professor Protas studies the freshwater crustacean, Asellus aquaticus, that lives in both cave and surface environments. Her current research investigates the genetic basis of eye and pigment loss in multiple cave dwelling populations of the Asellus aquaticus species complex. She investigates whether the same genetic regions are responsible for similar phenotypes in independently evolved cave populations. In addition, her goal is to…

Richard Puntillo, Professor Emeritus, is an expert witness in numerous litigation matters involving initial public offerings (IPOs), mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, venture capital, and private equity deals. Professor Puntillo uses his personal experiences when teaching corporate financial decision making within his MBA finance courses, giving students the opportunities and tools to leverage their success as business professionals.

Kishore Pusukuri has over 18 years of R&D experience. His PhD thesis work covers developing software systems at the intersection of Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Distributed Systems. Kishore is passionate about teaching BigData, Data Engineering, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Data Science, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, and C/C++/Python/Java.

Professor Emeritus C. Delos Putz served as dean of the law school from 1971 to 1975. His courses included Civil Procedure, Remedies, Complex Civil Litigation, and Administrative Law. He has served as a mediator, evaluator, and arbitrator for the U.S. District Court in San Francisco since 1988. He also served as an accreditation inspector for the American Bar Association for many years. He has been a member of the State Bar of California Committee on Continuing Legal Education, vice chair of the…

Gary Quan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years of experience working to support a variety of couples, families, and groups across cultural and socioeconomic spectra in private practice, community mental health agency, acute psychiatric hospitals, and varied correctional settings. Gary serves as Adjunct Faculty at the Master’s level for University of San Francisco, Holy Names University, Golden Gate University, William Jessup University, Western Seminary, and Samuel…

Dr. Radasa graduated from New Mexico State University with a BSN in 1999 and an MSN in 2002. Her MSN track was as a Medical-Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist. Between 2011 and 2016 she attended University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), where she received first her Post Master's Certificate in the FNP, then a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree and a second Post-Masters Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Radasa has taught in the BSN & MSN programs at New Mexico…

Professor Rader has authored or co-authored eleven books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named a “Best Poetry Book” by The Barnes & Noble Review. Recent poems have appeared in The New York Times, Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Best of the Net, and many others. Professor Rader also writes and reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, BOMB, and the Los Angeles…