2025 brings new faculty faces to the UCLA School of Nursing

The UCLA School of Nursing is proud to welcome two new faculty members, Dr. Ian Holloway and Dr. Gerardo Flores.

Ian Holloway, PhD, LCSW, MPH, joins the school as a tenured full professor. Prior to joining the School of Nursing, Dr. Holloway was a professor in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and worked with and mentored nursing faculty members on research projects. Dr. Holloway earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, San Diego, Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health degrees from Columbia University in New York City, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Southern California. Over the last five years he has received six new multi-year awards for research funding from multiple sources, including the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program, Heluna Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, and the California Department of Public Health. In his role at UCLA Nursing, Dr. Holloway will work closely with faculty researchers as the director of research, alongside Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Dr. Dong Song An, to continuing advancing nursing research.

Gerardo Flores, PhD, RN, MSN, MSK, joins UCLA Nursing as an assistant professor of teaching. Dr. Flores earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology/Spanish at California State University, Fullerton; his Master of Science in Kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton, specializing in Gero-Kinesiology; and a second master’s degree in nursing at UCLA. He was awarded his PhD in Nursing at UCLA in 2021. Dr. Flores’ teaching experience has included nursing clinical skills lab, medical-surgical nursing theory, and clinical practicums for prelicensure students.

Dr. Flores is the second teaching assistant professor, a new faculty classification, at UCLA Nursing. He joins Stacey Green, DNP, AOCNP, GNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, who was appointed in 2024 as the school’s first assistant professor of teaching.