Joanne on an educational trip in Guatemala.
Dr. Peters Steele has a wide range of experience working throughout the United States in various nursing capacities, including maternity nursing, office ob/gyn, public health, and school nursing. As a certified nurse midwife, Steele has served primarily underserved, rural communities including Mennonite and Amish populations. She was the owner and practitioner of her own integrative women’s health practice for 10 years.
As a nursing professor for the last five years, she has enjoyed teaching health assessment, evidence-based nursing. She chaired a transcultural nursing course, taking students to Arusha, Tanzania, in 2017.
Mary Ellen Giambona MS, RN, is the Dean of Nursing at Memorial College of Nursing and is working with our nursing program (years two and three) at The College of Saint Rose.
In this role, Cannistraci oversees all aspects of the nursing education program from strategic planning and curricular development to personnel, fiscal, and physical plant management. Cannistraci has a long history in nursing education.
Most recently, she has served as Assistant Dean of the Excelsior College School of Nursing and Assistant Professor of Nursing at The Sage Colleges. She has also held appointments at Hudson Valley Community College, Maria College, and American Sentinel University. Prior to her long tenure in academia, Cannistraci spent more than a decade as a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse at both Albany Medical Center Hospital and Crouse Irving Hospital in Syracuse. Most recently, she has focused her care on the elderly, working as a Home Care Nurse at a Capital Region group home.
Joanne on an educational trip in Guatemala.
Dr. Peters Steele has a wide range of experience working throughout the United States in various nursing capacities, including maternity nursing, office ob/gyn, public health, and school nursing. As a certified nurse midwife, Steele has served primarily underserved, rural communities including Mennonite and Amish populations. She was the owner and practitioner of her own integrative women’s health practice for 10 years.
As a nursing professor for the last five years, she has enjoyed teaching health assessment, evidence-based nursing. She chaired a transcultural nursing course, taking students to Arusha, Tanzania, in 2017.
Mary Ellen Giambona MS, RN, is the Dean of Nursing at Memorial College of Nursing and is working with our nursing program (years two and three) at The College of Saint Rose.
In this role, Cannistraci oversees all aspects of the nursing education program from strategic planning and curricular development to personnel, fiscal, and physical plant management. Cannistraci has a long history in nursing education.
Most recently, she has served as Assistant Dean of the Excelsior College School of Nursing and Assistant Professor of Nursing at The Sage Colleges. She has also held appointments at Hudson Valley Community College, Maria College, and American Sentinel University. Prior to her long tenure in academia, Cannistraci spent more than a decade as a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse at both Albany Medical Center Hospital and Crouse Irving Hospital in Syracuse. Most recently, she has focused her care on the elderly, working as a Home Care Nurse at a Capital Region group home.
