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Expert is an Assistant Professor at Employer’s School of Nursing in Chicago. Her interests include community based participatory research in CVD risk reduction and determinants of cardiovascular health and disease. A graduate from Vanderbilt University with a BA in English and Political Science, she went on to pursue a MSN also from Vanderbilt and was ultimately board certified as an acute care nurse practitioner. Her clinical experience includes the subspecialties of acute cardiac care, heart failure, interventional and preventive cardiology. In addition to clinical care, she coordinated investigator initiated and multi-center trials.
She earned her PhD in 2011 from Loyola University Chicago, Niehoff School of Nursing. Expert’s dissertation project was a community assessment of cardiovascular health and risk in people of Mexican descent in Berwyn, Illinois. During her PhD program she was awarded a year long fellowship for the Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Graduation Award for demonstrating a strong commitment to the prevention of CVD through excellence in nursing research.
As a faculty member at DePaul she teaches courses in research, medical/surgical nursing, pharmacology, and critical care nursing. In addition she conducts research in perioperative device management as well as CVD prevention in vulnerable populations.
Expert is an active volunteer for the American Heart Association. Her involvement includes membership on the Metropolitan Chicago Board of Directors, Advocacy Committee, and Multicultural Committee. She is Chair of the Go Red for Women Ambassador Committee and Employer School of Nursing Team Captain for the Heart Walk.