Lisa Fisher Germano

Biography

Dr. Lisa Germano is an Instructor in the undergraduate nursing program at Belmont. Courses taught in the undergraduate program includes health assessment, foundations of experiential learning, preceptorship, and family nursing (aging adult). Graduate program courses include advanced health assessment, primary health care I and II, and intensive practicum. Dr. Germano has experience in educational nursing simulation, developing and implementing simulations across the undergraduate experiential learning curriculum. Her professional clinical experiences include working as a registered nurse in the Pediatric Heart Institute at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt (MCJCHV) and as a family nurse practitioner in the Division of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine at MCJCHV. Dr. Germano’s areas of expertise and interests include pediatrics, cardiology, genetics, newborn screening, and simulation.

Dr. Germano lives in Nashville with her husband, Rich, and her son, Luca.  They have two Labrador retrievers, Vito and Mico.  Prior to living in Nashville, they lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, and they are originally from northeast Ohio.

Posters

Germano, L., Hallmark, B., Jackson, A., Longhi, J., & Rickman, L. (2023). Gen ed meets simulation. Presented at the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Annual Conference.

Germano, L., Hallmark, B., Jackson, A., Longhi, J., & Rickman, L. (2023). Unfolding case simulation, observation and clinical judgment. Presented at the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Annual Conference

Phillips, J. A., Robertson, A. K., Bican, A. G., Cogan, J. D., Rives, L. C., Germano, L. F., Hannig, V. L., Fairbrother, L. C., Pfotenhauer, J. P., Brokamp, E. K., Clark Pollock, P., Cassini, T. A., Pomerantz, D. J., Small, B. A., Sergent, J. S., Newman, J. H., & Hamid, R. (2017).  Precision medicine successes from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Presented at the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting.

Publications

Tong, H. H., Fisher, L. M., Kosunick, G. M., & DeMaria, T. F. (2000). Effect of adenovirus type I and influenza A virus on Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal colonization and otitis media in the chinchilla.  The Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology, 109(11), 1021-1027.

Tong, H. H., Fisher, L. M., Kosunick, G. M., & DeMaria, T. F. (1999). Effect of tumor necrosis factor α and interleukin 1-α on the adherence of Streptococcus pneumoniae to chinchilla tracheal epithelium. Acta Otolaryngology, 119, 78-82.

Tong, H. H, McIver, M. A., Fisher, L. M., & DeMaria, T. F. (1999). Effect of lacto-N-neotetraose, asialoganglioside-GM1 and neuraminidase on adherence of otitis media-associated serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae to chinchilla tracheal epithelium. Microbial Pathogenesis, 26, 111-119.