Overview
Education
- PhD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
- MPH, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX
- BA, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX
- BSN, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
- ADN, Houston Community College, Houston, TX
Areas of Research, Teaching, And Clinical Expertise and Scholarship
- Dr. Wagner completed her PhD at University of Texas Medical Branch in 2020 with a dissertation
focused on
Planting Seeds: The perceptions and experiences of WIC peer counselors as they interacted with mothers making their infant feeding decisions.
- Dr. Wagner's teaching philosophy is influenced by her interests in policy, ethics, public health, the intersection of population health and nursing concepts including humanitarianism and sharing evidence-based nursing knowledge and experiences with students. Dr. Wagner has experience in baccalaureate nursing education and perinatal nursing.
- Clinical Practice: Dr. Wagner has practiced in a variety of roles within perinatal nursing since 1994. In 2015, she opened the first donor human milk depot in the Houston Methodist Hospital system at that time. She networks to increase breastfeeding rates and donor human milk donations in the US. As a full-time faculty member, she continues to contribute to clinical practice through her role as a bedside nurse primarily in the NICU setting.
Poster Presentations
- May 2021, Sigma Theta Tau International, UTMB, Wagner, L. Planting Seeds: The perceptions and experiences of WIC peer counselors as they interacted with mothers making their infant feeding decisions
- May 2021, National Student Research Forum, UTMB, Wagner, L. Planting Seeds: The perceptions and experiences of WIC peer counselors as they interacted with mothers making their infant feeding decisions
Selected Accomplishments and Professional Memberships
Selected Accomplishments
- 2021-CNE certified
- 2020-Recipient of UTMB School of Nursing Alumni Assoc. Fund
- 2020-Recipient of UTMB 2020 School of Nursing Scholarship
- 2019-Recipient of Crawford and Hattie Foundation Scholarship
- 2018-Recipient of Regina R. and Alfonso J. Mercatante Memorial Scholarship
- 2017-Recipient of John McGovern Healing in Nursing Scholarship, UTMB
- 2017-Infant Mortality: Preconception Health-developed curriculum under HRSA Grant
- 2017-Breastfeeding curriculum developed under HRSA Grant Developed curriculum: Breastfeeding Support under HRSA Grant
- 2017-Maternal Child Fellowship, UTSPH
- 2016-2018-Ambassador, UTMB GSBS PhD Nursing Program
- 2016-Houston Chronicle Salute to Nurses-Houston’s Top 100 Nurses
- 2016-Exemplar for Nurse Autonomy, Magnet designation
- 2015-Daisy Award
- 2010-Daisy Award
- 2004-National Certification Corporation, Inpatient Obstetrical Nursing Certification
- 1999-Neonatal Resuscitation Program Instructor
