Theresa Bucco

Theresa Bucco's recent research interests include studying the impact of menopause and perimenopause on working women, and what support they are receiving in the workplace, a project she is working on with Prof. Karla Rodriguez.  Together, they are launching a survey of NYU Meyers faculty and staff on these issues, with plans to potentially expand their efforts to the larger NYU community. Prof. Bucco teaches core courses including Fundamentals of Nursing and Pathophysiology and Pharmacology, and highly popular elective called Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness. She has been a fellow of the NY Academy of Medicine since March 2023, and a member of the Menopause Society since 2025.

Among her awards, Bucco received the Daisy Award for Outstanding Faculty at NYU Meyers in 2022. She also received the Team Finalist, President’s Award, North Shore LIJ-Staten Island University Hospital in 2015, Nurse of the Year for Staff Development at North Shore-LIJ -Staten Island University Hospital in 2010, and  the Constance Byron Memorial Award for Excellence in Nursing from Wagner College in 2006.

Prior to joining NYU Meyers, Bucco worked as an adjunct professor at The Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing at Wagner College in Staten Island. She taught in the undergraduate and graduate nursing program there for 12 years. She received her PhD in nursing from Seton Hall University, her MS in nursing education from Wagner College, and her BSN from Hunter College- Bellevue School of Nursing.