Congratulations to five members of the GW Nursing faculty on their recent promotions to professor and associate professor, respectively. These promotions remind us of how exceptional our faculty are and how they’re driving excellence through their research and teaching, which has a profound impact on our students and the communities they serve.
Dr. Catherine Cox - Professor
Catherine Wilson Cox is a retired U.S. Navy Nurse who came to GW Nursing in 2016. She started her career as a Navy nurse in the ICU at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD; was stationed at Cherry Point, NC; transferred to the U.S. Navy Reserves; and retired in 2014 as a Captain (O-6). From 2012-2016, she was the director of programs at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in Washington, D.C. She previously taught nursing students at Marymount University, Georgetown University, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Dr. N. Maritza Dowling - Professor
N. Maritza Dowling is a biostatistician who earned her doctorate in quantitative methods with majors in statistics and psychometrics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Dowling’s research focuses on measurement issues in the longitudinal assessment of cognitive decline in older adults and the application of novel statistical approaches to model the complex interplay between risk and protective factors in Alzheimer’s disease-related brain changes and biomarkers for disease prognosis. Her research also aims to optimize cognitive outcome measures for early diagnosis and patient selection in clinical studies of Alzheimer’s disease-modifying therapies.
Dr. Cameron Hogg - Associate Professor
Cameron Hogg has been a faculty member at GW Nursing since 2014. Dr. Hogg has been a nurse since 2002 and a board-certified family nurse practitioner since 2004. Her clinical experience is varied, including family practice, internal medicine, endocrinology and diabetes management, and orthopedics. Dr. Hogg's research interests lie in interprofessional education for health professions students, virtual simulation in NP education, and wellness in health professionals. Dr. Hogg is also active in the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and Sigma Theta Tau International.
Dr. Karen Kesten - Professor
Karen S. Kesten is director of DNP Scholarly Projects and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Kesten received the GW Nursing 2024 and 2025 Excellence in Graduate Student Mentorship Award and the GWU 2019 Morton A. Bender Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Kesten served as the Chair of the GW Nursing Essentials Competency-based Education Task Force for phases II, III, and IV. She served at the national level on the AACN Implementation of the DNP Task Force, the AACN Task Force on Defining the Scholarship of Academic Nursing, and as a member of the NONPF National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education Standards, 6th Edition: A Report of the National Task Force.
Dr. Sherrie Wallington – Professor
Sherrie Flynt Wallington is a tenured professor and associate center director of outreach and community engagement at the GW Cancer Center. She is also an affiliated faculty member at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health and an affiliated faculty member of the Global Food Institute at GW. Dr. Wallington teaches and conducts research on health communication, social determinants of health, health equity, and both mixed-methods and community-based participatory research. Her work centers on prevention, health disparities, and strategies to improve clinical trial recruitment and engagement. She has a particular interest in cancer prevention and control, with a focus on prostate, breast, and HPV-associated cancers.