Dr. Carolyn Sabo is a full professor in the School of Nursing at UNLV. She received both her baccalaureate and masters degrees from the University of Utah specializing in physiologic nursing at the masters level. She received her doctorate from Brigham Young University in higher education administration; educational leadership. She has over 20 years of teaching experience, primarily at the graduate level and specializes in pathophysiology, nursing education, and nursing education leadership. She received the College of Health Sciences Outstanding Teacher of the Year award while teaching in and coordinating the graduate program. Dr. Sabo chaired 16 masters theses before leaving the teaching ranks to become Dean of the College of Health Sciences at UNLV where she served for eight years. She returned to teach in the School of Nursing in fall 2003.

During Dr. Sabo’s 20 years at UNLV, she served as graduate coordinator in the department of nursing, acting chair of the department of radiological sciences and acting director of the department of physical therapy prior to becoming Dean. She has published 19 articles in refereed journals and has served as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and book reviewer for C.V. Mosby and W.B. Saunders companies. She has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences and continues to focus her clinical research on HIV/AIDS prevention, women and HIV, and alternative and complementary therapies associated patients and/or care providers in the areas of diabetes education, HIV/AIDS, and cancer. She has received external grant monies for research in alternative and complementary therapy and has received sixo HRSA grants to provide traineeship money to graduate students (2002-2007).