… & Staff … Nursing Faculty & Staff … Brenda Chan, DNP, RN-BC, FNP, PHN Assistant Director/Professor Aspired to become a teacher at a very young age, Professor Brenda Chan joined ELAC Nursing as a faculty member in 1998 which provided her … Du is provided a platform to teach and mold the nursing students to be the nurse that the community deserves. Jennifer M. Figueroa, MSN, RN, PHN Professor Professor Jennifer Figueroa joined East Los Angeles College in 2013 as a full time … the ANCC as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Ms. Merino’s clinical experience includes medical surgical and telemetry nursing, with specialties inkidney transplant, stroke, neurosurgery, and family practice. Her career also includes positions as a …