LINC Faculty & Staff Development Initiative

Laura Sisk D.N.P., RN is an Assistant Professor/Clinical in the School of Nursing, Office of Faculty Excellence. Her contributions to the educational mission at UT Health San Antonio include her expertise in clinical teaching for the maternal/child population. She teaches in Caring for the Childbearing Family, Population Health, and in Family Nursing Care. She is the coordinator for the Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) for Mother/Baby, Woman’s Health, and Neonatal Intensive Care Units. She has been instrumental in the ongoing success of this clinical model. She serves as the course coordinator in several courses, as well as serving as a mentor and advisor to students in the undergraduate nursing program. She is actively engaged in community health and serves as a faculty mentor on multiple community service-learning projects, most of which focus on maternal and child health. She serves on the Community Service Advisory Board and assists as a grant reviewer for Interprofessional Community Service-Learning grants. She has received several recognitions for her contribution to nursing in the community, including outstanding community service award, and the UT Nurse Imagemaker award. She was also the recipient of The Excellence in Compliance Award. In addition to her educational and community service-learning projects, she has expertise in interprofessional simulations and caring for families with substance abuse disorders. She is highly collaborative and works with faculty from several programs of our institution. Projects include interprofessional health promotion education, perinatal loss, and simulation. She serves in several departmental committees, such as the Committee on Inter Professional Education, and the Committee on Faculty and Student Matters. Additionally, she is active on committees at the institutional level, elected as a Senator on Faculty Senate and on committees of national organizations, including the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), International Association of Human Caring, and Sigma Theta Tau. She has received educational grants and has given regional and national presentations. She is highly committed to interprofessional education and its ability to positively impact patient outcomes. ×

Emily S. Wang, M.D. is an associate professor at UT Health San Antonio LSOM, Department of Medicine and serves as an Associate Program Director for the UT Health internal medicine residency with over 100 residents. Her clinical experiences include inpatient internal medicine as a hospitalist in private and academic practice and outpatient primary care. Her areas of interest are peri-operative medicine, consultative medicine and transitions of care and patient flow into the hospital. She has received medical educational grants, given regional and national presentations and workshops and has multiple publications in these areas. She is a clinician educator and member of the UTHSA LSOM Academy of Educational Scholars and serves on institutional and national committees for medical education, scholarship and research. ×