Wendy Garvin

UConn School of Nursing

I am a Boston native and have worked as a Registered Nurse for nearly five years. After graduating from St. Joseph College in West Hartford, I worked at a variety of health care facilities in positions ranging from staff nurse in medical/surgical and emergency medicine units to assistant director of nurses in the long-term care arena.  My passion is to work with oncology patients, which is why I am pursuing an advanced practice nursing degree at UConn.  My ultimate goals are to teach on the university level and to obtain a PhD.

UST fulfills a two-fold mission for me: to teach about health promotion and to delve deeper into communities in need.  What I bring to the UST is an open mind and the willingness to collaborate and create synergies with medical, dental, nursing and pharmaceutical students, with the objective of improving the quality of care in communities.