Lisa Hopp
Lisa Hopp (born October 21, 1956) is Dean and Professor of nursing at Purdue University Northwest. She founded and directs the Indiana Center for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: A Center of Excellence of The Joanna Briggs Institute. Education. Hopp was born in Sioux City, Iowa but grew up in nearby Moville, Iowa. She graduated with a BA in French from Grinnell College in 1978, a BSN in Nursing from Rush University in 1979, a MS from the Clinical Nurse Specialist Program at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Nursing from University of Illinois  at Chicago in 1992. Teaching. Hopp, a Purdue Northwest teacher of the year award winner, has adapted video, video conferencing, and distance learning technologies such as interactive learning objects and podcasting to her courses. She won a Purdue Curriculum Innovation grant on the uses of podcasting and has presented on evidence based practice, innovative teaching strategies, and technology integration at international and national conferences. In 2014, she was appointed Interim Dean of the College of Purdue Northwest and now serves as the Dean of the College of Nursing after formal appointment in 2016.