College of Nursign & Health Innovation

Leadership of the Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice

Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP - Director


Ellen Fineout-Overholt
  • Promotes EBP with nurses and other healthcare professionals in acute care, the community, and education through teaching EBP, educational assistance to faculty, publishing and presenting evidence
  • 20 years combined experience as critical care nurse, advanced practice nurse, researcher and educator
  • Refined the ARCC model, an EBP mentorship model for Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) and systems
  • Co-editor: recurring column, Teaching EBP, in Sigma Theta Tau International’s Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing
  • Co-editor: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Kathleen Williamson, PhD, MSN - Associate Director
Kathleen Williamson
  • Promotes EBP with healthcare professionals and educators through community partnerships, mentoring workshops, conferences, and educational coursework
  • Over 25 years combined clinical and educational experience as a critical care nurse, home health care nurse, educator and researcher
  • Develops EBP initiatives to strengthen community partnership and advance EBP
  • Advances EBP through innovations in technology
  • Develops EBP mentors to foster sustained EBP in systems, organizations and educational agencies
Susan Stillwell, MSN, RN, CNE - Coordinator,
Nurse Educator EBP Mentorship Programs
Susan Stillwell
  • Expert EBP Mentor
  • Certified Nurse Educator
  • 35 years combined experience as critical care nurse and nurse educator.
  • Promotes EBP with healthcare professionals and integration of EBP in nursing curricula through workshops, conferences, and consultation
Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/NPP, FAAN, FNAP
Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing

Bernadette Melnyk

  • Promotes EBP with nurses and other healthcare professionals across the US and globally with a focus on generating evidence about preventive interventions for children, teens, and parents experiencing stressful life events and transitions
  • Co-developed and refined the ARCC (Advancing Research and Clinical practice through close Collaboration) model, an EBP mentorship model for APNs and systems
  • Founder and Chair of KySS (Keep your children/yourself Safe and Secure), a national mental health promotion campaign for children and teens
  • Editor: recurring columns, Evidence-based Practice in Pediatric Nursing Journal & Evidence Digest in Worldviews in Evidence-based Nursing
  • Associate Editor Worldviews in Evidence-based Nursing
  • Co-editor: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins