Creighton News
Clark named dean of the College of Nursing
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Jessica Clark, DNP, was named dean of the College of Nursing and began her role in January. Clark succeeds Catherine Todero, PhD, BSN’72, who retired last September after serving as dean of the College of Nursing since 2015 and vice provost for Health Sciences Campuses since 2019.
“I am thrilled that Dr. Clark is bringing her extensive academic, professional and clinical leadership skills to Creighton,” said Creighton Provost Mardell Wilson, EdD, RDN, “and I look forward to the advances she will facilitate in the College of Nursing for faculty, staff and students.”
The former dean of the College of Education and Health Sciences at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, Clark had also served as associate dean and director of the Department of Nursing at Bradley.
I am thrilled that Dr. Clark is bringing her extensive academic, professional and clinical leadership skills to Creighton.
— Mardell Wilson, EdD, Creighton Provost
At Bradley, Clark was instrumental in relaunching a second-degree accelerated nursing program and developing and implementing new programming in psychiatric mental health and two concentrations for adult-gerontology nurse practitioners.
She also has extensive teaching experience, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and a proven track record for developing and promoting local and extended partnerships that support quality programs and cocurricular activities for students.
Clark earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, with an administrative/education concentration, from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, a master’s degree in nursing administration from Indiana State University, and her BSN also from Indiana State.
