NYU Meyers names Mary Brennan Program Director of DNP

Dean Angela Frederick Amar at the New York University (NYU) Rory Meyers College of Nursing, has appointed Mary Brennan, DNP, AGACNP-BC, ANP, CNS, FAANP, as the new director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at NYU Meyers. “I am very excited to lead the DNP Program into the future and prepare nurses who will improve healthcare outcomes, implement policies to mitigate health disparities and ensure evidence-based practice for all,” says Dr. Brennan. The DNP program enables clinical scholars to function as 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.

Dr. Brennan is a distinguished nurse practitioner and educator, who serves as the Program Director of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Meyers. With a passion for advancing nursing education, Dr. Brennan has a multi-faceted interest in utilizing evidence-based practice, experiential learning, and innovative technologies to engage students and foster clinical decision-making. She has received  several curricular development challenge grants, notably for designing a groundbreaking virtual hospital named “Acute Care General Hospital.”

As a prominent figure in the field, Dr. Brennan has integrated progressively challenging simulations throughout the AGACNP Program. She chairs the Simulation Committee at NONPF and has co-authored a simulation guide for nurse practitioners, and is a founding developer of the NONPF simulation podcast. She serves as the co-chair of the Evidence-Based Practice Research Interest Group at the Eastern Nursing Research Society.

Dr. Brennan has demonstrated leadership in the realm of interprofessional collaboration. She has published on integrating compassionate, end-of-life care into interprofessional simulations and the culture of safety in global settings to improve cardiac care. In her clinical practice at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, Dr. Brennan provides advanced practice nursing care for patients with acute, critical, and chronic cardiovascular illnesses. Recognizing her outstanding contributions to nursing education, Dr. Brennan was honored with the inaugural Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of Science from Boston College.