Christy Kane, PhD, RRT, RRT-NPS, RRT-ACCS, AE-C, FAARC
Dr. Kane serves as the chair of the Ph.D. in Health Professions Education program as well as the chair of the graduate and undergraduate Respiratory Therapy Programs. In addition, Dr. Christy Kane currently serves as the Associate Dean of the Donna and Allen Lansing School of Nursing and Clinical Sciences. Since coming to Bellarmine in 2001, her primary teaching responsibilities have included adult critical care, pharmacology, and capstone. Her research focuses on exercise’s influence on cognitive function, smoking cessation, and topics in adult critical care. Her work has been published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, Physiology and Behavior, American Journal of Health Promotion, as well as Preventive Medicine. In addition to the Registered Respiratory Therapist credential, she has also earned credentials as a Neonatal Pediatric Specialist, Asthma Educator Certification, and Adult Critical Care Specialist. She is actively involved in her professional organizations and is an AARC Fellow. In 2023, Dr. Kane was inducted as a Distinguished Scholar Fellow to the Respiratory Care Academy of the National Academies of Practice.

Barbara Jackson, Ph.D., RN
Dr. Jackson is an Associate Professor of the Lansing School of Nursing and Clinical Sciences. She was elected to the Editorial Board with the Kentucky Nurse’s Association. Dr. Jackson earned her BSN at Indiana University Southeast and her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Louisville. Her research interests include a focus on vulnerable populations, including homelessness, poverty, and incarceration. She has worked with mothers who live in urban settings, mothers in prison, as well as rural and urban pediatric populations. She works with a hospital research council on topics related to patient education and staff development. Her primary teaching responsibilities have included health policy, evidence-based practice, scholarship and pedagogy in HPE, and Qualitative Research.

Megan Danzl, PT, DPT, Ph.D., NCS
Dr. Danzl teaches in the following courses: Introduction to Acute Care, Service Learning Clinic, and Neurological Rehabilitation for the Adult Patient. Her current scholarship interests include examining the practice of patient and caregiver education in physical therapy practice, the use of qualitative research methods in physical therapy research, and neurorehabilitation. She serves as the research and education coordinator in the Bellarmine University and Norton Healthcare neurologic physical therapy residency.