Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx

Dr. Eileen Sullivan-Marx is Dean Emerita and Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She also holds the title as Professor Emerita of Scholarly Practice and Clinician-Educator at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Prof. Sullivan-Marx is known for her research and innovative approaches to primary care and for her creative redesign of payment structures for nurses, particularly through the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Throughout her nursing career, she has been actively involved in the design of sustainable models of care using advanced practice nurses at both the local and global level, and with the development and implementation of health policies within the context of larger community-based settings. Her focus has been on frail older adults, particularly among high-risk, vulnerable people experiencing health inequity.

Sullivan-Marx was named a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) in 1997, and is a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America and the New York Academy of Medicine. Currently, she is a member of the Board of United Hospital Fund, VNSHealth, and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation where she serves on the Executive Committee. She is active in the American Academy of Nursing military and veterans expert panel and represents AAN at the National Academy of Medicine’s Fellowship Program and the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing. From 2010-2012 she was a Senior Advisor to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of Medicare & Medicaid Coordination where she was actively involved in bringing promising models of care to scale. Of particular note is Sullivan-Marx had oversight of a Program of All-Inclusive Care for Elders in West Philadelphia which was expanded over a period of five years from 75 to 525 persons, saving the state of Pennsylvania fifteen cents on the dollar in Medicaid funding. Sullivan-Marx was  the first nurse to serve as the American Nurses Association representative to the American Medical Association’s Resource Based Relative Value Update Committee, a position she held for 11 years. 

As the dean of NYU Meyers, she raised the profile of the school to an independent entity at NYU, raised more than $50 million in scholarship and research donations, including the largest naming gift to a school of nursing at that time in the U.S., grew the research portfolio to a sustained top ten ranked status, and steered the school through several natural crises including Superstorm Sandy and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sullivan-Marx is widely recognized for the many contributions she has made to improve both the delivery and quality of healthcare services. This includes American Academy of Nursing”s President’s Award the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Best of Image Research Award (1993), and the Hippensteel Founders Award for Excellence in Practice Award (2011). She is also the recipient of the Springer Publishing Research Award (1998), the Eastern Nursing Research Society Gerontological Research Award (2008), and the Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award (2013). Sullivan-Marx is recognized as a Distinguished Alumni at both the University of Rochester School of Nursing, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and Outstanding Alumna University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. In 2019, she was the recipient of a Special Tribute from the United Hospital Fund and in 2023 was awarded as a Gold Medalist Winner by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. She was inducted into the Fellowship of Leaders in Diversity Nursing in 2024 through the National Black Nurses Association.

Dr. Sullivan-Marx was a member of the American Academy of Nursing Board of Directors (2011-2013) and served as President (2019-2021) leading this international nursing professional organization through the recent social justice and pandemic upheavals. She has appeared in numerous media outlets and currently hosts The Nurse Practitioner Show on NYULH Doctor Radio Sirius XM Channel 110.