Leadership
Advancing health and healthcare for all, through excellence in practice, teaching, research, and outreach.
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."
Leadership
Gregg E. Newschwander
Dean and Barbara S. Witt Professor
Dr. Newschwander has been an administrator, teacher, and clinician for more than four decades. He has taught in undergraduate and graduate programs at Marquette University, the University of Virginia, The Catholic University of America, and The University of Vermont. He was appointed Dean of the Auburn University College of Nursing in 2009.
He has published in nursing and education journals, presented scholarly papers at conferences in the US and Canada, and directed the Comparative Health Care Summer Program at Oxford University through the University of Virginia.
He is active in several national professional organizations including the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau and has been elected to honor societies including Delta Epsilon Sigma, Pi Lambda Theta, and the Raven Society.
Caralise Hunt
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and St. Francis-Emory Healthcare Professor
Dr. Caralise Hunt has over twenty years of nursing experience including medical-surgical and maternal-child nursing. Dr. Hunt joined the Auburn University faculty in 2000 as a clinical associate. She became a full-time nursing instructor for Auburn in 2005 and began an appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor in 2007.
After completing a doctorate in 2011, she entered a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor. She was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 2018 and was promoted to Professor in 2023.
Pao-Feng Tsai
Professor & Associate Dean for Research
Dr. Pao-Feng Tsai has over 27 years of experience in the academic field. Before moving to the U.S., she held several teaching and research positions in Taiwan. In 1999, she began a tenure track appointment as assistant professor in the College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, Ark., and was promoted to full professor in 2013. During her tenure at UAMS, she served as the research leader of the Arkansas’ Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, was the recipient of the Alice An-Loh Sun Endowed Professorship in Geriatric Nursing, and was selected Graduate Faculty of the Year and Best Ph.D. Faculty of the Year. She joined the Auburn University (AU) College of Nursing as Professor and Associate Dean for Research in 2020.
Dr. Tsai is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She was the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Scholarship conferred by Kaohsiung Medical University and serves as a member of the Biotechnology, Health and Innovation Research Center Advisory Board at the Hungkuang University, Taiwan. She has received several National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA,) and foundation-funded research grants as principal investigator or co-investigator in the past 20 years focusing mainly on pain and geriatric care.
Dr. Tsai has sponsored several undergraduate, predoctoral, and postdoctoral fellowships, has made presentations at national and international conventions, and published more than 50 articles.
She serves as the chair of the research committee in the College of Nursing and as a member of several College of Nursing and Auburn University committees. She also reviews grants for NIH, VA, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, American Nurses Foundation, Southern Nursing Research Society, Alzheimer’s Association, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and the Dunhill Medical Trust, London, England.
