Prof. Dorritie is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. His teaching and learning are grounded in communication, connection, and trust. This critical pedagogy approach aligns with his research, professional, and scholarly activities that are focused on developing and advancing nurses as policy leaders, from bedside to congress, shaping our social justice and determents of health. Prof. Dorritie also spends time exploring interests at the intersection of poverty and racism with the quality of surgical care, and safety of surgical providers. His service is and has been connected to the NYS Nurses on Boards Coalition, as well as serving at the local, state, and national levels of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). Clinically, he has worked as an emergency nurse, quality nurse, transplant coordinator, and perioperative nurse, and began his nursing career with an associate’s degree from Borough of Manhattan Community College. He currently holds board certifications in both perioperative nursing (CNOR) and nursing education (CNE), and was previously both a CEN and TNCC.