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The UVA Board of Visitors has approved the promotions of four UVA School of Nursing faculty members: Dr. Ha Do Byon and Dr. Beth Quatrara are now associate professors, while Dr. Meghan Mattos is a tenured associate professor, and Dr. Ishan Williams has earned the rank of tenured full professor. Read more:

Ha Do Byon, PhD, MS, MPH, RN

Byon — a former community health nurse in Harlem, New York — studies workplace violence in healthcare settings, and is particularly interested in violence experienced by home health professionals, more than half of whom report non-physical violence and 15 percent of whom are physically threatened.

His expertise in biostatistics, epidemiology, and community health positions him well as both an educator and creator of reporting and tracking systems to ensure home visiting nurses’ safety and well-being.

Beth Quatrara, DNP, RN, CMSRN, ACNS-BC

Quatrara — director of the DNP program and coordinator of the CNS master’s track— has taught, mentored, and practiced across a variety of environments: from working with nurses at UVA Health to change pediatric platelet administration protocols to developing finance- and business-related curricula for doctoral students.

Winner of an All-UVA Teaching Award earlier this year, Quantara also oversees and mentors students enrolled in the school’s CNS master’s track, and has taught students, faculty, and staff emergency response skills through “Stop the Bleed” and suicide awareness programs. 

Meghan Mattos, PhD, RN, CNL

Mattos — an alumna of our CNL program whose NIH-funded research focuses on the prevention and treatment of cognitive impairment in older adults — works across community health spaces as well, having earned grants to assess home-visiting programs for rural elderly residents, improve patients’ sleep while in the hospital, and to understand whether digital health interventions promoting sleep hygiene slow the onset of dementia among individuals with mild cognitive decline.

Ishan Williams, PhD, FGSA

Williams is a social and behavioral scientist who studies topics related to aging, quality of life, and support of those with dementia and their caregivers. Her science is wide-ranging and important: from her work in end-of-life and palliative care, caregiver stress, and care transitions, to her engagement with communities of color, including her latest NIH-funded work that seeks to ensure that healthcare AI is fed by diverse, trustworthy data.