Faculty Biographical Sketches
Ellen Abate, Department of Nursing
Professor Ellen Abate joins the nursing faculty at WestConn full time in the fall of 2007 as Associate Professor. Dr. Abate comes to WestConn with 25 years of experience in nursing higher education. She was previously on the faculty at SUNY New Paltz, where she taught in the RN–BSN and graduate programs, and served as Nursing Director from 1999-2004. Her teaching responsibilities included family and community health, leadership and management, nursing research, health education, cultural diversity, and the professional and ethical issues related to nursing and health care delivery. Dr. Abate received her BS in Nursing from Mount Saint Mary College, MA in Nursing from New York University and her Ed.D from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Her doctoral research focused on professional autonomy of registered nurses. Her clinical expertise and current research activities are in family and community health nursing.
