Our Preceptors
Meet Our Preceptors

Douglas Fien, MSN, FNP-C
Family practice primary care provider
Medical Associates of Penfield

Lynn Firendino, RN, MS, PNP-BC
Site Leader at School 9 - Dr. Martin Luther King Junior
Rochester Regional Health School-Based Health Center

Becky Meritt, RN, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner,
Hillside Family of Agencies

Michael Mendoza, MD, MPH, MS, FAAFP
Commissioner of Public Health
Monroe County Health Department

Sarah Lesniak, MS, RN-BC, CSPHA
Senior Nurse Educator
Center for Nursing Professional Development, URMC


Katherine Tarkulich, MS, RN, CNOR
Clinical Director,
University of Rochester Sawgrass Ambulatory Surgery Center

E. Kate Valcin, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, NEA-BC
Associate Director of Adult Critical Care Nursing
Strong Memorial Hospital

Ann Syrett, MS, FNP-BC, ACHPN
Nurse practitioner for Inpatient Adult Palliative Care team
Strong Memorial Hospital

Brian Caldwell, MS, RN, AGPCNP-BC
Adult geriatric nurse practitioner
St. Ann's Community


Become a Preceptor
Are you ready to take the next step in helping to develop future generations of nurses or health care leaders? The UR School of Nursing is in need of highly-qualified clinicians from across the Western New York region with with a minimum of one-year experience as a certified health professional (e.g., NP, CNM, PA, or MD/DO).