Mattia Gilmartin

Mattia (Tia) Gilmartin is the executive director of NICHE and a senior research scientist at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She also serves as the director of the Center for Continuing Nursing Education, where she oversees the College’s portfolio of continuing education programs for practicing nurses. She is a leader dedicated to improving healthcare services. She brings 20 years of firsthand experience with organizational and management forces that drive performance improvement. Her background as a clinician, researcher, and teacher makes her particularly skilled in analyzing complex problems and translating theory into practice. She favors entrepreneurial approaches and thrives in complex environments that require creative and flexible solutions. 

Gilmartin emerged as a thought leader in the areas of organizational change and health system effectiveness. She has a broad background that spans both nursing and management, with expertise in the areas of strategic management, economics, quality improvement, chronic disease management, and organizational design and change. She has published widely for both academic and practitioner audiences. Her ability to bridge the worlds of research and practice has enabled her to design and teach leadership and organizational development programs for nursing and general management audiences.

Prior to joining NYU Meyers in 2011, Gilmartin managed an interdisciplinary research group at INSEAD, a leading international business school in France. She also implemented a three-semester specialty track for the master’s degree program in clinical nurse leadership at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing.

Among her many honors, Gilmartin received the Raven Award in 2000 for her outstanding achievement and service to the University of Virginia. She is the chair-elect for the Academy of Management, Health Care Management Division, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the National Academies of Practice.

Gilmartin holds a PhD degree from the University of Virginia, a Master's of Business in administration from the University of San Francisco, and a bachelor's and master's degree in nursing. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge Judge Business School in organizational improvement and comparative health systems.