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The fellows program provides aging-related research and educational opportunities for faculty and students throughout the entire nyu campus..

Rebecca A. Betensky  NYU School of Global Public Health

Dr. Rebecca Betensky is Professor and Chair of the Biostatistics Department at the NYU School of Global Public Health. She conducts research in statistical methodology related to censored and truncated data, biased sampling, biomarkers and clinical trial design. She has collaborated with the Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers at Harvard and NYU in the development and application of statistical methods for analysis of Alzheimer's studies.

She was recently awarded an R25 from the National Institute on Aging to support a pipeline program for undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds who are interested in MSTEM fields with application to aging studies. She received her A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard College and her Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford.

Abraham A. Brody NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Abraham Brody, PhD, RN, FAAN is associate director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing and associate professor of Nursing and Medicine at NYU Meyers College of Nursing. He is also the founder of Aliviado Health and the Pilot Core Lead of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory . His work focuses on the intersection of geriatrics, palliative care, quality, and equity. The primary goal of his research, clinical, and policy pursuits is to improve the quality of care for older adults with serious illness wherever they reside. His primary mode for doing so is through the development, testing, and dissemination of real-word, technology, and informatics supported quality improvement interventions. He is currently the principal investigator of two NIH-funded large-scale pragmatic clinical trials to improve the quality of care and quality of life for persons living with dementia and their caregivers in the community and a co-investigator on several other pragmatic trials and health services research projects in geriatrics and palliative care. From a leadership perspective, Brody works across disciplines to help advance geriatrics and palliative care nationally. As pilot core lead of the $53.4 million nationwide Collaboratory, he is responsible for heading the pilot program, which, in collaboration with the National Institute on Aging, reviews and awards funds to help investigators prepare for large-scale pragmatic clinical trials for persons living with dementia and their caregivers. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the NINR Funded Palliative Care Research Cooperative, the policy-setting body for the organization.

In addition to his research and national leadership responsibilities, Brody is passionate about mentoring and developing a diverse nursing and scientific workforce. To this end, he developed and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Leadership Development Program and is the technology core director of NYU Meyer’s P20 Exploratory Center for Precision Health in Diverse Populations, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Training, Research, and Education Core of the NYU-HHC Clinical Translational Sciences Institute. He mentors faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and PhD students across multiple disciplines and institutions. Brody also maintains an active practice in the Geriatric and Palliative Consult Services at NYU Langone Health.

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Tracy Chippendale NYU Steinhardt

Tracy Chippendale, PhD, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist whose clinical background and research interests are in geriatrics. Her research, published work, teaching and professional service investigates, assesses and promotes aging in place that is, the ability of older adults to live and remain active in their homes and communities safely, independently, regardless of age, income, or ability level. Her scholarship focuses on three key areas including: Outdoor fall prevention, promoting psychosocial well-being, and preventing loss of function. Her foundation funded research has been published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and The Gerontologist. She received her PhD in occupational therapy from NYU in 2011 and before joining the faculty at Steinhardt, held a position as assistant professor in the department of occupational therapy at Tufts University.

Daniel David NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Daniel David, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and National Palliative Care Center Kornfeld Scholar. His research investigates older adults and their informal caregivers in the context of serious illness. He is particularly interested in technology-based interventions that improve caregiving, communication, palliative care, and advance care planning.

David is the principal investigator of the PC-CRAFT Assisted Living Project (Palliative Care – Connecting Residents And Family through Technology), which uses video technology to support palliative care consultation between providers, residents of assisted living, and their informal caregivers.

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, David was an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Systems at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing and a postdoctoral fellow in the VA Quality Scholar Program in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

David received his PhD in nursing from Northeastern University, MS from the University of Colorado, and BSN from the University of Virginia.

Chris Dickey NYU School of Global Public Health 

Dr. Chris Dickey is an international development innovator and public health entrepreneur whose work seeks to develop sustainable public health models and to forge bonds between the academic community and practitioners in the field. He sees the challenges facing public health - vast health inequities, applied skills gaps among public health professionals, weak community health systems, and shrinking research budgets - and seeks to reimagine sustainable solutions through a multidisciplinary approach. This is reflected by the fact that he has worked in more than 20 countries with the United Nations (UN) and other agencies and co-founded a company that provides clean water and primary care in villages in India. 

Dr. Dickey is developing a public health entrepreneurship program to address the demand for a new generation of public health practitioners with the skill sets and opportunities to create innovative and sustainable business models as stand-alone entities or within a larger corporation.

Through a learning model that combines lectures, group exercises, real-time simulations, and implementable course projects and in partnership with the UN and World Food Programme, Dr. Dickey leads an Applied Food System and Nutrition course in which international public health professionals and public health students learn and work together on real world problems. Additionally, Dr. Dickey coordinates the  Applied Global Health and Development Lab , where have the opportunity to work on universal health coverage policy, a new data-driven decision support tool, supply chain and logistics analysis,  social network and knowledge management analyses, and the development of a business model for online public health programs. 

Shannon Doherty-Lyons NYU Langone Health

Shannon Doherty Lyons is a New York University GSAS Alumni who has been working in the Zelikoff Lab in the Department of Environmental Medicine for the last 14 years. Shannon is currently a Research Scientist with a Master’s degree in Environmental Medicine and an NIEHS Center Grant Community Engagement Core (CEC) Associate. As a CEC Associate, Shannon has focused on outreach and engagement regarding environmental health issues in our partner communities. Most recently, she has established a partnership in the Bergen County Boro of Fair Lawn, NJ to develop and host a community research survey with their new age friendly initiative, Fair Lawn for All Ages . She has also been working with the community of Garfield, NJ on their Age Friendly initiative, entitled Generations for Garfield . The initiative was created in 2016, following the completion of an NYULMC IRB-approved ‘Aging in Place Community Survey’, and was recently awarded membership in the AARP-WHO Network of Livable Communities. Shannon has played an integral role as community partner in the Initiative, representing the  NYU Department of Environmental Medicine CEC  and focusing on important environmental and public health issues for older adults.

Arlene Ducao NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Arlene Ducao (they/them/zey) is a creative engineer who develops and analyzes technologies that examine the relationship between the natural landscape, our built environments, and ourselves. They are the CEO and co-founder of Dukode's affiliate company Multimer , a spinoff from MIT Media Lab. At Multimer, they developed their invention MindRider , the geospatial brainwave-mapping system profiled in WIRED, New York Times, Discovery Channel, MSNBC, Fast Company, Science Channel, and many more. A recipient of the South by Southwest Winburne Community Service Award for their work on satellite mapping in Indonesia and Kenya, they teach at NYU and MIT , where they present a range of topics, from multidimensional data visualization to digital fabrication and its cultural underpinnings.

Their work has been published in books including Data, Architecture, and the Experience of Place (Routledge, 2019) and Instrumental Intimacy: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control (JHU Press, 2017), and through scholarly outlets including the Association of Computing Machinery Digital Library. Their latest research article, on modeling neurophysiological experience in public urban space, including aging populations, is forthcoming in an Artificial Intelligence Special Edition of the International Journal of Community Well-Being (Springer). They are also active as an organizer-advocate in the Working Families Party and FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality). Arlene Ducao holds degrees from the UMD, SVA, and MIT.

Karyn E Faber NYU School of Global Public Health

Dr. Karyn E. Faber has over 15 years of experience conducting research, teaching, and implementing policy in applied public health. Her areas of expertise are program planning, implementation, management, and evaluation in varied settings including community-based organizations and philanthropic entities. Dr. Faber earned a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of Public Health in Sociomedical Sciences from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a Doctor of Education from Teachers College Columbia University.

Dr. Faber’s research employs program development and supportive services designed to enhance the quality of life of minority elders living with chronic and/or serious health conditions. Her framework conceptualizes strengths, resiliency, and coping strategies; examines underlying cognitions that contextualize health behaviors; and investigates the mechanisms and policies that sustain disparities in health. She has conducted research with grants from the Health Resource and Service Administration Special Projects of National Significance; the National Institute of Mental Health; and the National Cancer Institute to examine the psychological, social and practical issues facing family members of individuals who are chronically and/or seriously ill or dying.

Prior to joining GPH, Dr. Faber was a Research Scientist in the Psychosocial Research Unit on Health, Aging, and the Community at the NYU College of Dentistry, where her expertise in creating and implementing health education programs for at-risk populations was instrumental in crafting a skills-training program for a cancer survivorship initiative. She also continues to engage in extensive outreach activities with community-based organizations to address health disparities in resource-poor communities, with the goal of assisting community residents with identifying and defining varied and complex reasons for health, social, and economic disparities.

Ernest Gonzales NYU Silver School of Social Work

Dr. Ernest Gonzales is an Assistant Professor at NYU Silver. He is a scholar in the areas of productive aging (employment, volunteering, and caregiving), health equity, and social policy. His research advances our understanding on the relationships between healthy aging, social determinants of health, productive activities, and intergenerational/multigenerational contexts. His research has been supported by The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute on Aging, U.S. Social Security Administration, AARP Foundation, Fox and Samuels Foundation, and other public and private funders. Dr. Gonzales publishes in leading scientific journals and he is on several editorial boards.

By invitation, Dr. Gonzales serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE), with shaping a research and policy agenda on the aging workforce and employment at older ages. He has been invited to review grants for the National Institute on Aging, as well as other international federal agencies. He is the Co-Lead of the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare’s Grand Challenge on Advancing Long, Healthy, and Productive Lives . He is also a Senior Fellow of the NYU Aging Incubator, a university-wide initiative bringing together faculty and students from across the University from all disciplines who are involved in the study of aging and its impact on society. He is also a member of the Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work, Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), the Association for Latina/o Social Work Educators, and Gerontological Society of America.

Prior to coming to NYU Silver, Dr. Gonzales was an Assistant Professor at Boston University’s School of Social Work where he received the Peter T. Paul Career Development Award, a highly competitive and prestigious honor given to promising tenure-track scholars. During his doctoral studies, he received the Brown School of Social Work’s Dissertation Award and the Teaching Excellence Award for Doctoral Teaching Fellows; the John A. Hartford Pre-Dissertation Fellowship and Dissertation Fellowship; and the Washington University Chancellor’s Fellowship.

Dr. Gonzales earned his PhD from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, his MSSW from Columbia University School of Social Work, and a BA in Sociology from Hunter College at the City University of New York.

Simona Kwon NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Simona C. Kwon, DrPH, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Section for Health Equity, Departments of Population Health and Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Kwon is a social epidemiologist whose research examines the social and cultural contextual factors that influence health and health outcomes among racial and ethnic communities across the lifespan and with a particular focus on Asian Americans. Using a social determinants of health framework, Dr. Kwon engages in the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based strategies in community settings with a focus on assessing cultural relevancy and impact, and identifying innovative channels to disseminate and translate findings and outcomes for priority end-users. She works collaboratively and in partnership with multi-sectorial coalitions made up of local and national community-based organizations, governmental agencies, service delivery organizations and multi-disciplinary researchers to address community-level health disparities. Dr. Kwon directs the NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities-funded, Center for the Study of Asian American Health and serves as the Director of the Integrating Special Populations Unit of the NYU-H+H Clinical Translational Science Institute, Associate Director of the Community Outreach and Engagement Core of the NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center, and the Associate Director of the Section for Health Equity.  She was awarded her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from Yale University, her doctorate in the Division of Sociomedical Sciences from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and served as a W.K. Kellogg Community Scholars Post-doctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Behavior & Society.

Fidelindo Lim NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Fidel Lim, DNP, CCRN, is a clinical associate professor and has been a faculty member at Meyers since 1996. He has worked as a critical care nurse for more than 18 years. As the faculty advisor to various student-led groups, including the Asian Pacific-Islander Nursing Students Association, Men Entering Nursing, and the LGBT-NSA group, he has, among other things, fostered salience in nursing education through high-quality extra-curricular programming. His work as a nurse educator in a magnet-designated hospital provides sustainable staff-focused educational support. He is particularly interested in bridging gaps in nurse engagement and practice excellence. Lim has published articles on an array of topics ranging from clinical practice, nursing education issues, LGBT health disparities, reflective practice, men in nursing, and Florence Nightingale among others. Lim is a faculty advisor for the Honors Program.

Lim completed his DNP at Northeastern University, MA at New York University, and BSN at Far Eastern University, in Manila, Philippines.

Chenjuan Ma NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Chenjuan Ma is an assistant professor and health services researcher at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her research, which focuses on understanding how to optimize nursing care and patient outcomes, particularly in the home healthcare setting, utilizes theories and methodologies from different disciplines, including but not limited to sociology, statistics, medicine, and nursing. Ma also has expertise in large data sets and quantitative methods.

Prior to joining the NYU Rory Meyers faculty, Ma was a post-doctoral fellow in the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators at the University of Kansas.

Ma holds a PhD from University of Pennsylvania and MSN and BSN from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.

Donna E McCabe NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Donna McCabe is a clinical associate professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and a Fellow in the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU Meyers. She is a board-certified geriatric nurse practitioner and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Dr. McCabe has spent her career working with older adults in acute care, nursing home, and community settings. Her clinical work focuses on improving the quality and safety of care for the aging and older adult population.

McCabe received her DNP from Case Western Reserve University, MA from NYU College of Nursing, Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from Stony Brook University and BSN from Mount Saint Mary College.

Alexis Merdjanoff NYU School of Global Public Health 

Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences at New York University’s College of Global Public Health. Trained as a sociologist, she explores how population health is affected by exposure to disasters, including hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and bioevents such as COVID-19. Dr. Merdjanoff is particularly interested in how social inequalities shape the impact of disasters and climate change on health, recovery, and resilience for socially vulnerable populations like older adults. To do so, she collects and analyzes qualitative and quantitative data to form a holistic understanding of how individuals and communities are affected by these events.

As Director of Research for the Population Impact, Recovery and Resilience (PiR2) research program, she is currently working on several studies, including the longitudinal Katrina@10 Program, the Sandy Child and Family Health (S-CAFH) Study, and SCALE-UP East Boston to answer questions related to improving the health and well-being of populations exposed to disasters and climate change. Additionally, as an Early Career Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, her work has explored how older adults can successfully age in high-risk coastal areas. Using in-depth interviews, she aims to identify the resources that older adults need to be resilient, including the social and physical infrastructures needed to successfully prepare for and recover from acute and chronic disasters. Her goal is to understand how older adults can successfully adapt to and prepare for coastal erosion, frequent flooding, heatwaves, and disasters.

More recently, she has been working on a research project in collaboration with the Transport Workers Union (TWU), Local 100, to examine the occupational risk, health, and resilience of New York City bus and subway workers. With a median age of 57, this older workforce has been particularly susceptible to the effects of COVID-19. Along with Dr. Robyn Gershon, they just completed data collection for their pilot study and are currently analyzing results.

Sonja Molfenter NYU Steinhardt

Dr. Sonja Molfenter is a clinically-trained Speech Language Pathologist whose research specializes in understanding the physiological features of both normal swallowing and disordered swallowing (known as dysphagia). Swallowing function is commonly disrupted after many conditions including stroke, brain injury, head and neck cancer and spinal cord injury.

Her over-arching research goal is to produce clinically-relevant research to inform front-line clinical practice. Her research focuses on naturally-occurring muscle loss in the pharynx as the result of aging. Dr. Molfenter's work aims to understand the impact of these age-related changes on swallowing function and explore methods to prevent or reverse these changes.

Jeannette M. Beasley NYU Langone Health

Jeannette, PhD, RD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and registered dietitian. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at New York University, she trained in biology at the College of William and Mary (BS), nutrition at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (MPH, RD) and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (PhD). She previously held academic appointments at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also served on the faculty for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Certificate in Weight Management training program for three years. Her research focuses on understanding the role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention, particularly in refining recommendations regarding the protein needs of older adults and furthering the understanding of the role of nutrition in the prevention of cardiovascular disease in diverse populations. This work has resulted in over seventy peer-reviewed publications.

Glenn A. Okun NYU Stern School of Business

Glenn A. Okun is a clinical professor of management and entrepreneurship and an adjunct professor finance at New York University Stern School of Business where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship, private equity, venture capital, investment management and corporate finance.  Mr. Okun advises corporations on financial and investment matters.  He was President of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, a merchant bank and broker dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California from 1998 to 2001.  He previously served as a Director of Allen & Company Incorporated in New York.  Mr. Okun invested in early and later stage financings of private companies in various industries.  He also ran a small cap emerging growth stock hedge fund and a special situations portfolio.  Mr. Okun has advised corporate clients on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings and has underwritten public offerings and private placements of securities.  Mr. Okun began his investment career at the IBM Retirement Fund where he invested in mezzanine private placements, real estate, public emerging growth equities and oil and gas assets.  Mr. Okun holds JD and MBA degrees from the joint degree program of Harvard University and a BA degree from Wesleyan University.

Nuray Ozu NYU College of Dentistry

Nuray Ozu, D.D.S. is a clinical assistant professor at the NYU, Dentistry, Department of Cariology and Comprehensive Care. Dr. Ozu earned doctor of dental surgery degree from NYU, Dentistry, an advanced general dentistry fellowship from Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, and a post graduate certificate from NYU School of Medicine, NYU Langone Clinical and Translational Research Program. Additionally, non-degree applied statistics from CUNY, Department Mathematics and Statistics.

She currently teaches in the pre-clinics and clinics, mentors students for ADEA/NYU program, facilitates for the student success network/peer assessment program, a reviewer of scientific manuscripts for journal of dental research and journal of dental education, a former clinical faculty at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine Section of Adult Dentistry. She was awarded Dean’s Faculty-Columbia University and, Excellence in Clinical Teaching-NYU Academy of Distinguished Educators.

Dr. Ozu is a member international association of dental research, American association for dental research, American dental education association, and greater New York dental meeting society. Her primary areas of interest are the relationship between systemic and oral health, sleep disorders, evidence-based health care, and health related quality of life included new mathematical modeling for heath systems research, applied statistics. As a health care educator, she interested in implementing innovative technologies, developing creative interdisciplinary curriculum.

Her recent collaborative pilot project of “dynamic mechanism in childhood conditions and edentulism/severe edentulism among older adults “will be starting to collaborate with biostatistics consulting course. She participated research studies with the NYU, Dentistry department of epidemiology and health promotion, presented at American dental education association, international association for dental research, NYU academy of distinguished educators, greater New York dental meeting, and NYU dentistry research scholarship.

Nina S Parikh NYU School of Global Public Health 

Dr. Nina S. Parikh has years of public health research experience, methodological expertise, and academic training in health services research and medical sociology. A continuing theme of Dr. Parikh’s research involves the examination of social, psychosocial, and cultural factors related to the health needs of ethnic-racial populations and developing evidence-based strategies that address and mitigate health inequities for these and other underserved groups, in particular immigrants, the uninsured, those with inadequate health literacy, and the elderly.

At NYU GPH, Dr. Parikh collaborates with scholars examining the social determinants of health, particularly social network mechanisms and how they relate to primary and secondary prevention of vascular diseases. This work builds on her previous research experience that has been community-based, grant-funded studies in partnership with local agencies and organizations that explore the well-being of older adults and their families, including social cohesion/social support, access to and utilization of health care services of immigrant populations, health disparities, community-based palliative care for chronically ill elders, and the promotion of healthy aging with a particular emphasis on developing and implementing behavioral strategies to combat some of the most prevalent chronic conditions for this group. In addition, Dr. Parikh developed and teaches the two-semester thesis course to MPH candidates.

Prior to coming to NYU, Dr. Parikh served as the Director of Research (Interim) at the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging of Hunter College where she provided oversight and guidance on all research and evaluation studies conducted by the Center. Her work has received grant support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the NYC Department for the Aging.

Smita Rao NYU Steinhardt

Smita Rao, PT, Ph.D., is a physical therapist, researcher and author. She is currently an Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at NYU and a Research Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at NYU School of Medicine. Smita is one of the founding faculty of NYU Steinhardt's Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Sciences, and also co-directs the Center for Health and Rehabilitation Research.

Smita earned a Bachelor of Science (Physiotherapy) and Master of Science (Orthopedic Physiotherapy) at the University of Mumbai, India. She obtained her academic doctorate at the University of Iowa in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Her research agenda focuses on improving physical therapy and rehabilitation care in individuals with musculoskeletal conditions such as diabetes and osteoarthritis.

Her dissertation examined foot and ankle changes in patients with diabetes. She completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Arthritis Foundation, with Drs Deborah Nawoczenski, PT, Ph.D. and Judith Baumhauer, MD. At NYU, her project examining the effects of soft tissue mobilization in individuals with foot pain was funded by the Rheumatology Research Foundation. Current projects include a collaboration with colleagues Dr. Patricia Kluding from Department of Physical Therapy at The University of Kansas Medical Center and Dr. Ryan Brown from the Department of Radiology at NYU Langone Health. In this federally funded study, Dr. Rao and her colleagues will examine the effects of exercise in individuals with diabetes and neuropathy.

Tina Sadarangani NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Tina Sadarangani is an Assistant Professor in the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She is also a board certified adult and gerontological primary care nurse practitioner. Her research focuses on using adult day centers to integrate care for older adults with complex health and social needs in ethnically diverse communities, particularly those with cognitive impairment. She maintains strong academic/community partnerships with adult day centers across the country. She works closely with the Hartford Institute of Geriatric Nursing, the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, and is a leading member of the National Adult Day Services Association research committee. She is a recent recipient of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Career Development Award Program and will be using design thinking to create mobile health technology that improves communication between adult day centers and primary care providers to reduce avoidable healthcare utilization in persons living with dementia.

Nisha Sajnani NYU Steinhardt

Dr. Nisha Sajnani, RDT-BCT, is the Director of the Program in Drama Therapy and the Founder of the Theatre & Health Lab. Dr. Sajnani is the Principal Editor of Drama Therapy Review, and a founding member of the World Alliance of Drama Therapy, the Critical Pedagogy in the Arts Therapies think tank, and the NYU Creative Arts Therapies Consortium and International Research Alliance. She is a faculty advisor in the Rehabilitation Sciences Ph.D., Educational Theatre Ed.D and Ph.D. program, and teaches on Improvisation and Leadership in the Management Communication Program in NYU Stern.

Dr. Sajnani's primary research interests relate to the psychological, physiological, and social benefits of pretending, improvisation, and performance in varied contexts and across the lifespan. Dr. Sajnani’s research flips the script on aging by focusing lifelong possibilities for creative expression. She led innovative research on the benefits of musical theatre with older adults in partnership between JASA, an innovator in aging services in New York, and Penn South, the first naturally occurring retirement community (NORC), and Music Theatre International which resulted in a pilot production of Fiddler on the Roof Sr. She also leads research on the benefits of drama therapy with adults with Parkinson’s Disease.

Dr. Sajnani is the co-author of two books, including Intercultural Drama Therapy: Imaginings at the Intersections of Otherness (forthcoming Routledge), and an Introductory Guide to Research Methods for Drama Therapists (under contract). She is the co-editor of Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy: Transforming Clinics, Classrooms, and Communities. She has been published in Frontiers in Psychology, The Arts in Psychotherapy, The Journal of the Applied Arts and Health, Canadian Theatre Review, Europe Now, and Canadian Women's Studies and has been featured in the Boston Globe and on NPR. She is the series creator and producer of a series of films documenting drama therapy practice as it has been used to reduce stigma and address the impact of racism, sizeism, ableism, and ageism among other areas of concern.

Dr. Sajnani was awarded the Gertrud Schattner Award from the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) for distinguished contributions to the field of drama therapy in education, publication, practice, and service and her efforts to promote research and diversity in the field. She was awarded the Corann Okorodudu Global Women's Advocacy Award from the American Psychological Association (Div. 35) and the first Diversity award from the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama.

Thomas M. Wisniewski NYU Langone Health

Dr. Thomas M. Wisniewski is a board-certified Neurologist and Neuropathologist. He is the Director of the NYU NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) since 2014. He is also the Director of the Conformational Disorders Laboratory, the Center of Cognitive Neurology, the New York State Center for Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease (CEAD), the Pearl Barlow Memory Disorders Center, the Division of Aging and Dementia, and the Neuropathology Fellowship program. For over 30 years, Dr. Wisniewski and his team have been working on elucidating the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and prion diseases, with an aim to develop possible therapeutic strategies. His work has helped develop novel therapeutic approaches to AD, in particular, immunotherapeutic approaches that affect both the adaptive and innate immune systems. As Director of the NYU ADRC, he has also been PI of multiple clinical trials.

Kathleen Woolf NYU Steinhardt

Dr. Kathleen Woolf focuses her work on the integrated role of nutrition and physical activity for lifelong health throughout the lifespan. For both individuals and populations, nutrition and physical activity contribute to overall quality of life and play major roles in protecting health and delaying the progression of disease. Hippocrates wrote: “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” Her research is multi-dimensional, involves human participants, and responds to key health and nutrition concerns of high priority in New York, the nation, and globally, supporting the current national dietary guidelines for nutrition (2010) and physical activity (2008). She has expertise in the assessment of nutrition and physical activity patterns (sedentary behaviors, physical inactivity, and physical activity) in healthy individuals (recreational/competitive athletes) and individuals with chronic disease (musculoskeletal, skin, & kidney disorders, obesity). Some of these studies have examined the health disparities experienced by individuals from different race and ethnic backgrounds, including Hispanic and Native American populations. She has designed and implemented randomized clinical intervention trials and is currently a co-investigator on a large Social Cognitive Theory-based behavioral intervention (diet, physical activity) using technology-based self-monitoring for patients with complex chronic disease.

Dr. Woolf has held leadership positions within the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics at the local, state, and national level. She is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American College of Sports Medicine's Health and Fitness Journal. She has written a regular nutrition column for the USA Swimming magazine, SPLASH!, and has contributed to the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Topics in Clinical Nutrition, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Obesity, and Public Health Nutrition.

Dr. Woolf completed her bachelor’s degree in Food and Nutrition from Arizona State University and her dietetic internship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She holds a master’s degree in Nutritional Sciences from the University of California, Los Angles and a PhD in Exercise Science from Arizona State University.

Lawrence Wu NYU Arts & Science

Lawrence Wu is an NYU Professor of Sociology and Director of the NYU Population Center. His areas of interest are Social Demography, Nonmarital Fertility, Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior, Family, Poverty, Life Course, Social Change, and Event History Methods. Lawrence holds a Ph.D. from Stanford in Sociology and A.B. from Harvard in Sociology and Applied Mathematics.

Yanyue Yuan NYU Shanghai

Yanyue is an Assistant Arts Professor of Interactive Media + Business (IMB) at NYU Shanghai where she works with the Program on Creativity and Innovation (PCI). She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, she worked as Rutherford Curatorial Researcher at London Science Museum and taught in ShanghaiTech University as an Adjunct Professor. She serves as an Advisory Board Member of Intellect China Library Series and External Expert at XNode (Startup and Corporate Accelerator). Yanyue is passionate about bridging disciplinary boundaries and experimenting with innovative research methods and pedagogies.

Anat V. Lubetzky NYU Steinhardt

Anat Lubetzky, PT, PhD, CSCS is an Associate Professor at New York University, Department of Physical Therapy. For the past decade, Dr. Lubetzky has been investigating sensory integration for postural control and its implications to balance performance given sensory loss and aging. The majority of her publications and presentations (national and international) are in the area of postural control and how virtual reality can expand our view of balance. For her innovative work in technology and rehabilitation, Dr. Lubetzky received the Steinhardt School Gabriel Carras Research Award for a promising young scholar in 2017-2018 and the NYU Technology Acceleration and Commercialization Award in 2017. Her work has been funded by the NIH and the Hearing Health Foundation. Her current focus is studying the contribution of sounds to postural control given hearing or vestibular loss in different context and applying the knowledge gained to balance rehabilitation of people with vestibular disorders and fall prevention in people with hearing loss across the life span.

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NYU Meyers offers diverse master's nurse specialty programs for nurses seeking advanced roles in clinical practice, preparing students to navigate dynamic healthcare systems.

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“Is nursing for me?” This is the question I asked myself again and again as I neared the end of my second year in nursing school. Unable to answer it, I carried the same question into my summer at NYU Langone Health, where I had the opportunity to work on a Med-Surg unit as a Student Nurse Extern. After immersing myself in the role and learning from the most passionate group of nurses I know, I rediscovered, or perhaps truly discovered for the first time, my passion for nursing.

As a nurse extern, I was paired with a nurse every shift and worked to assist them with their patients of the day while learning the technical and interpersonal skills needed to be a successful nurse. In the beginning, I found myself fumbling to even introduce myself to patients. The rapport between the nurses and their patients and care that came so naturally seemed very foreign and hard to achieve; not to mention the countless awkward encounters as I clumsily took vital signs or performed finger sticks.

As I mimicked the nurses and patient care technicians (PCTs) around me and learned under their guidance, the speed at which I worked increased, and interactions with patients grew more natural. The nurses also entrusted me with more responsibilities, from participating in rounds to administering medication to drawing blood. 

As much as this experience has sharpened my skills and boosted my confidence, it has also been incredibly humbling. There’s no glorifying it; a big part of the job is cleaning patients to ensure that they’re as comfortable as they can be. Wiping a 90-year-old’s bottom at 8 am is not how I’d imagined I would start my morning, but that’s the unique aspect of this job that I learned to embrace and take pride in. In my application to Penn, I wrote that I wanted to “bring comfort to those at their most vulnerable,” unsure what that would look like. For the first time since I wrote down those words, I understood their true meaning and found what I was looking for as a clueless highschooler.

After the past two months and countless lifelong lessons, I feel prepared for the next two years at Penn. More importantly, I feel more certain than ever that nursing is the right path for me. My heart longs for the day I get my license so that I can continue bringing care to those who need it most. This summer has given me more than I could have ever asked for, and none of it would’ve been possible without the support from Career Services and the nurses on Tisch 16 West.

This is part of a series of posts by recipients of the 2023 Career Services Summer Funding Grant. We’ve asked funding recipients to reflect on their summer experiences and talk about the industries in which they spent their summer.  You can read the entire series here

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Nursing Rises in ‘U.S. News’ Best Graduate Schools Rankings

April 9, 2024    |   By Mary Therese Phelan

Continuing its mission of shaping the nursing profession and the health care environment by developing leaders in education, research, and practice, the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) has again ranked in the top 10 across the board for public schools of nursing — and moved up in all six categories in which the school is ranked — in the newly released 2024 edition of U.S. News & World Report ’s “ America’s Best Graduate Schools ,” out of 651 accredited nursing schools surveyed.

Both UMSON’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) programs climbed in the rankings among all schools surveyed, with DNP tied at No. 8 (up from No. 15 last year) and MSN at No. 20 overall (up from No. 25 last year). Among public schools of nursing, the DNP program is tied at No. 4 and the MSN is ranked No. 9.

Two UMSON specialties lead the way in the rankings, both ranked No. 1 (tied) nationwide among public schools of nursing:

• The DNP Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty, tied at No. 4 among all ranked schools
• The MSN Health Services Leadership and Management specialty, No. 2 among all ranked schools

UMSON also is ranked in the top 10 among public schools of nursing for its:

• Family Nurse Practitioner Doctor of Nursing Practice specialty (No. 3)
• DNP Nurse Anesthesia specialty (No. 7, tied)

“It is gratifying to continue to be recognized nationally for our Doctor of Nursing Practice program and our Master of Science in Nursing program,” said Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN , the Bill and Joanne Conway Dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing. “The School of Nursing plays a vital role in our collective efforts in Maryland and nationally to increase the number of nurses with advanced education, particularly at the doctoral level. It is essential that we have nurses who are well prepared to meet the changing needs of patients, their families, and our communities at a time when we face increasing complexity in our health care system, growing diversity in our population, and persistent gaps in access to needed care.”

The U.S. News & World Report rankings are based on a variety of indicators, including student selectivity and program size, faculty resources, and research activity, and on survey data from deans of schools of nursing that are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing.

In fall 2023 and early 2024, U.S. News surveyed 651 nursing schools with master’s or doctoral programs. In total, 292 nursing programs responded to the survey. Of those, 216 provided enough data to be included in the rankings of nursing master’s programs and 188 provided enough data to be eligible for inclusion in the ranking of DNP programs. Many institutions were ranked in both, using overlapping data.

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UC College of Nursing ranks highly in U.S. News & World Report rankings

The UC College of Nursing's programs were once again recognized by U.S. News & World Report's 2024 Best Graduate Nursing Programs rankings.

The rankings — pulled from surveying programs offered by public, private and for-profit institutions — are based on factors such as graduation rates, academic and career support services offered to students and admissions selectivity. The College's rankings include:

• No. 11 Best Nurse Anesthesia Program , climbing 11 positions from the previous ranking and placing in the top 9% of accredited programs in the country
• No. 37 Nurse Midwifery Program
• No. 41 Master of Science in Nursing , placing in the top 7% of accredited programs in the country
• No. 49 Doctor of Nursing Practice , climbing 13 positions from last year and placing in the top 13% of accredited programs in the country

“We are proud to consistently offer quality nursing education to a growing number of students across the country,” says the college’s Interim Dean Gordon Gillespie, PhD. “Our strong history of and commitment to providing quality, innovative and affordable education for both our on-campus and online students is reflected in our continued placement in these and other rankings.”

The UC College of Nursing was the first in the U.S. to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and remains a nationally recognized institution for its academic standards, diversity and inclusion efforts, technology application and research activity. Today, the college's more than 20,000 living alumni proudly reflect its tradition of leadership and core values as they work to improve the health of individuals and communities around the world.

These recognitions confirm the college’s commitment to preparing advanced-practice nurses ready to have a positive impact on their patients’ health and well-being by designing, providing and assessing quality and safe care to all.

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These are the best graduate school programs in Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World

Top graduate schools in Wisconsin landed on the latest U.S. News & World Report list ranking more than 2,000 programs across the country. U.S. News & World Report published its 2024-'25 report in April, ranking graduate programs in business, education, law and nursing, among other fields.

University of Wisconsin-Madison's the School of Education tied for first overall with Teacher's College, Columbia University, according the report. That's up from third overall and second among public universities last year.

Several of Marquette University's graduate programs moved up on the list, including the master's program in the College of Nursing, which moved up from 66 to 58.

Schools were evaluated based on expert opinion and statistical data measuring the quality of the school's faculty, research and post-graduate outcomes. You can find the full list on the U.S. News website for graduate rankings on their website www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools .

Top business graduate programs in Wisconsin:

• University of Wisconsin-Madison: #43

Top law graduate programs in Wisconsin:

• University of Wisconsin-Madison: #36 (tie)
• Marquette University: #68 (tie)

Top nursing graduate programs in Wisconsin:

• Marquette University: #58 (tie)
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: #82 (tie)
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: #107 (tie)
• University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh: #118
• Alverno College: #119 (tie)
• Milwaukee School of Engineering: #153-169

Top medical graduate programs in Wisconsin:

• University of Wisconsin-Madison: #35 (tie)

Top education graduate programs in Wisconsin:

• University of Wisconsin-Madison: #1 (tie)
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: #169 (tie)
• Marquette University: #192

Top Engineering graduate programs in Wisconsin:

• University of Wisconsin-Madison: #27 (tie)
• Marquette University: #142 (tie)
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: #177 (tie)

RELATED: Here's how Wisconsin universities ranked in the 2024 Best Colleges list

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Students who complete the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program at NYU Meyers are prepared at the highest academic level for advanced clinical practice. The DNP enables clinical scholars to function as organizational systems thinkers and leaders in practice innovation, quality, and safety. As experts in translating evidence-based knowledge into clinical practice, graduates lead interprofessional teams in the transformation of healthcare by improving population health outcomes utilizing skills and essential competencies in ethical decision-making, healthcare policy, informatics, business, finance, and economics.

The  application for our DNP programs  is now available. All applicants to our DNP programs are required to submit the following documents at the time of application:

• One (1) transcript from each post-secondary school attended. We can review applications with unofficial transcripts. Admitted students will be asked to submit official transcripts prior to beginning coursework at NYU Meyers.
• A two- to three-page personal statement.
• At least two (2) letters of recommendation.
• RN (and NP, where applicable) license and registration certificate. You may submit an application with an out-of-state license, but admitted students must obtain a New York State RN/NP license prior to beginning coursework at NYU Meyers.

Our DNP admissions process also includes a series of interviews and a written essay.

Applicants who have attended a post-secondary institution outside of the United States are required to upload one (1) transcript from each post-secondary school attended and submit one (1) official course-by-course evaluation of each foreign transcript directly to our office at the time of application. Your application will not be reviewed without these documents. Please mail your official course-by-course evaluation(s) to:

NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing Office of Student Affairs and Admissions 433 First Avenue, LL1 New York, NY 10010

For applicants whose native language is not English, a copy of your latest TOEFL or IELTS score is required. Admitted students will be asked to submit official test scores prior to beginning coursework at NYU Meyers. We require a minimum TOEFL internet-based score of 100 and an IELTS Band score of 7.

Eligibility

There are three points of entry to the DNP (underlined below).

Post-BS to DNP

• RNs with a BS in nursing or associate’s in nursing with BA in other field
• NYS RN license and registration
• Undergraduate coursework in statistics and research
• One year of full-time RN work experience preferred

Advanced Standing DNP: For NPs and CNMs

• MS in nursing
• NYS NP license in adult acute care, adult primary care, mental health, pediatrics, family or nurse-midwifery
• Graduate coursework in statistics and research
• One year of full-time NP or CNM work experience

Advanced Certificate to DNP: For nurses who have an MS, but are not NPs or CNMs

• One year of full-time RN work experience
• Technical Standards Requirements
• Applicants must meet the Technical Standards for Core Professional Nursing Competency Performance in order to be eligible for admission to, progress in, and graduate from the nursing program.

Program Requirements

The program requires the completion of 78 credits and 1480 clinical hours, as follows:

Note: The remaining 400 clinical hours are completed with the DNP Project.

Advanced Standing DNP

This program requires the completion of 36 credits and 400 clinical hours completed with the DNP Project.

Advanced Certificate to DNP

The Advanced Certificate to DNP mimics the Post-BS to DNP program requirements and plan of study. Transfer credit from a previous Master's degree will be evaluated and applied toward the Advanced Certificate via gap analysis at the time of admission. This pathway to the DNP requires 1000 clinical hours spread across the Master's-level coursework and DNP Project.

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Note: 400 clinical hours are completed in years 4 and 5, related to the DNP Project.

Following completion of the required coursework for the PhD, students are expected to maintain active status at New York University by enrolling in a research/writing course or a PhD Advisement ( NURSE-GN 3400 ) course.  All non-course requirements must be fulfilled prior to degree conferral, although the specific timing of completion may vary from student-to-student.

Following completion of the required coursework for the PhD, students are expected to maintain active status at New York University by enrolling in a research/writing course or a PhD Advisement ( NURSE-GN 3400 ) course.  All non-course requirements must be fulfilled prior to degree conferral, although the specific timing of completion may vary from student-to-student. 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will:

• Lead the design, implementation, management, and evaluation of improvement projects using an evidence-based practice/practice improvement framework to promote health equity, address health disparities, and further excellence in practice.
• Synthesize the best available evidence, coupled with clinical expertise, patient preferences, and consideration of resources to improve clinical practice and health care delivery systems.
• Lead interprofessional teams on initiatives that promote patient-centered quality health care to improve patient outcomes.
• Explain strategies for engaging in health policy at the organizational, local, state, or national level.
• Integrate the use of information technology to support clinical decision-making for quality patient outcomes.
• Evaluate health disparities among individuals or populations based on the determinants of health.
• Demonstrate practice management competencies.
• Demonstrate role competencies defined by national organizations for nurse practitioners or nurse midwives.
• Disseminate relevant practice outcomes orally and in writing.
• Integrate ethical principles into advanced nursing practice, health care delivery systems, and health policy discussions.
• Foster the application of cultural humility principles, attitudes, and behaviors into nursing practice, health care delivery system, and health policy.

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UR Nursing Lands at No. 21 in National Ranking of Master’s Programs

  By Nora Williamson   Monday, April 8, 2024

The University of Rochester School of Nursing has been ranked No. 21 among U.S. nursing schools for its master’s programs, according to the 2024-25 Best Graduate Schools guide produced by U.S. News and World Report. Designed for prospective students looking to advance their nursing education, the Best Graduate Schools rankings evaluate programs based on academic quality and research success.  

“We are incredibly proud of the recent rankings that highlight the excellence of our master’s programs,” said Dean Lisa Kitko, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN . “While we are pleased with these results, they are just one measure of our ongoing progress and dedication to shaping the future of nursing. We continue to focus our efforts on equipping our students with the skills, knowledge, and resources they need to thrive in their careers while providing flexible ways to study as practicing nurses.”  

The No. 1 program in Upstate New York for five years, the UR School of Nursing is one of only two institutions in the state — and the only one outside of New York City — ranked in the top 30 for its master’s programs. It features one of the oldest and most prominent nurse practitioner programs in the country and currently enrolls nearly 300 students across six NP specialties and degree concentrations in nursing education and leadership . 

The recent rankings feature an increased emphasis on program size, research activity, student excellence, and faculty resources while reducing emphasis on reputation from previous year’s rankings.   "Our faculty's expertise and the high quality clinical and experiential learning that our programs offer have been instrumental in the success of our master's nursing programs,” said Lydia Rotondo, DNP, RN, CNS, FNAP, associate dean for education and student affairs. “Our faculty’s commitment to educational excellence combined with strong academic-practice partnerships enriches our learning environment. Working closely with our students and an extensive network of clinical partners, we are redefining nursing education to prepare our master’s graduates for the challenges of tomorrow's health care." 

Other metrics considered in the rankings include student to faculty ratio and percentages of faculty with important academic achievements in the nursing profession and who are active in nursing practice. About 86 percent of faculty at the UR School of Nursing actively practice in various clinical settings.

In addition to smaller class sizes and guaranteed clinical placements – in the UR Medicine system and other health care facilities across New York – master’s students can access one-on-one faculty support on career planning, writing, or test-taking through the school’s Center for Academic & Professional Success. UR Nursing master’s students hold an average 3.74 GPA from their undergraduate program and, in 2022, more than 90 percent of students successfully passed their national certification exam on the first try.    Prospective students can review master's programs offered by the UR School of Nursing, and read how the school compares to other institutions and how the rankings are calculated on USNews.com .  

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