Program Director

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Alicia Kletter recently completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice here at the University of San Francisco with emphasis as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her professional background includes 22 years as a nurse and family nurse practitioner with much of her career spent working with substance use disorders including methadone and buprenorphine maintenance. She further specialized within this field when she was the director of the City of San Francisco’s perinatal opioid use...

Education:
  • USF, DNP Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, 2022
  • Samuel Merritt University, MSN Family Nurse Practitioner, 2004
  • Rensselear Polytechnic University, BSN Biochemistry/Biophysics, 1999
Expertise:
  • Addiction medicine
  • Perinatal opioid use disorder

Full-Time Faculty

Kristen Lombard, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, AHN-BC is an Associate Professor at University of San Francisco (USF) in the School of Nursing and Health Professions where she teaches psychiatric-mental health, Quality Improvement, Health Policy/Ethics/Advocacy, and leadership to nursing graduate students in the Master Entry Option. 

Dr. Lombard’s 43-year career has been diverse and has taken her from large to small hospital systems, acute & primary care, long term care, residential settings, home and...

Education:
  • Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) PhD, 2012
  • University of Virginia, MSN, 1987
  • Syracuse University, BSN, 1982
Expertise:
  • Holistic Nursing Education Curriculum Development
  • Relationship-based Care®
  • Caring-healing consciousness
  • Caring science
  • Innovations in human-centered leadership
  • Reflective practice
  • Gero-psychiatric nursing
  • Holistic/integrative care
  • Cir...

Faculty Emeritus

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Dr. Robin Buccheri is a Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco (USF) in San Francisco. In 2010, she was admitted as a fellow to the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Buccheri has published over twenty-five articles in scholarly journals and is on the Editorial Board for Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services. She has received the School of Nursing & Health Professions Teaching Award, the University of San Francisco Research Award, and twice...

Education:
  • PhD, University of California, San Francisco
  • MHNP, California State University, Long Beach
  • MSN, California State University, Long Beach
  • ADN, El Camino College
  • BSN, California State University...