Judith B. Dyne recently joined the nursing faculty as an Assistant Professor of Nursing. Judy is also the RN-BS Liaison for Utica College’s nursing program in Syracuse. She received a diploma in nursing from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, a BSN at Troy State University in Alabama, a MS as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and a Post-Masters Certificate as an Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) from Syracuse University. She is board certified as an ANP by AACN, and maintains a faculty practice in cardiology where she was in full time practice prior to her appointment. Judy has recently written a chapter on End Stage Heart Disease in a book on End–Of–Life issues published by Mosby. Her previous teaching experience was at Syracuse University’s College of Nursing where she taught both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.