ENDVR Fellowship

The Emergency Nursing Diverse Voices Research Fellowship program seeks to support and mentor beginning researchers who are members of underrepresented communities.
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Launched in 2022 through support from the ENA Foundation and in collaboration with the ENA DEI Committee, the ENR Advisory Council seeks to mentor the next generation of researchers by ensuring all voices are at the table.

Successful applicants engage in an 18-month experience in identifying and answering clinically based research questions. The ENA Foundation supports ENDVR Fellows with funding for hotel and travel to required meetings, registration for events and grant funding for research projects up to $500.

ENDVR Eligibility Requirements

  • Must be a licensed nurse or nursing student.
  • Must be a member of an underrepresented community.
  • Research line of inquiry must be applicable to the emergency care setting; it does not require that you are interested in researching specific communities or groups of patients.

Applications for 2025 are no longer being accepted.

Meet the 2025-2026 ENDVR Fellows

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Christopher John Fernandez, BSN, RN, CEN, MN, is a Filipino-Canadian and internationally educated nurse. With 20 years of international nursing experience, he brings a unique perspective to the ENDVR Fellowship. His background as an immigrant and a male in nursing helped shape his research interest to include exploring workplace stressors and barriers impeding emergency nurses’ access to mental health support.

Currently, Christopher is a clinical supervisor at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada, and as an ED nurse at Scarborough Health Network, which serves a highly diverse community.

Through the ENDVR fellowship, Christopher is driven to explore what prevents emergency nurses, specifically male nurses, from utilizing mental health services and workplace stressors. He has observed firsthand how neglecting the well-being of emergency nurses creates harmful consequences. This neglect escalates psychological distress and often jeopardizes patient safety. Furthermore, it fuels the nursing shortage and ultimately threatens public health. Christopher is excited to collaborate with ENA experts and other ENDVR Fellows as he imparts his multifaceted lived experiences and extensive international nursing background into actionable research. 

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Jasleen Faith Moran is a dedicated nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is expected to graduate in January. She brings hands-on experience from her roles at Baystate Medical Center and Holyoke Medical Center, where she has supported patient care through cardiac monitoring and telemetry and worked as a patient care technician on an IMC Trauma floor. Fluent in English and Spanish, Jasleen excels in communication and teamwork within fast-paced clinical environments.

As the first in her Puerto Rican family to enter the medical field, Jasleen is passionate about delivering compassionate care and giving back to her community. She is eager to advance her skills in emergency nursing and contribute to high-acuity patient care through the ENDVR Fellowship.