Prof. Mary Jo Vetter named DNP director

After an extensive search, NYU Meyers is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Jo Vetter DNP, AGPCNP-BC, as director of the DNP program. Vetter is a clinical associate professor at the College and teaches Research and Evidence Based Practice in the master's and DNP programs. As one of the authors of the Evidence Based Practice Improvement Model, she collaborated with colleagues to define and disseminate the framework which has been adopted by multiple provider and academic settings as a framework for DNP projects and to guide organizational improvement work. She is a long-term member of the Institutional Review Board of Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) and also leads the EBP Academy at NYU Langone Hospital for Joint Diseases to teach staff nurses the requisite skills to engage meaningfully in evidence based practice improvement projects.

Vetter maintains an active clinical practice as a provider of community-based care to homebound elders. She is the chair-elect of the Telehealth Nursing Special Interest Group of the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing and an active member of the American Telemedicine Association with demonstrated leadership in promoting adoption of virtual care technology in practice. She is a current participant in the Venture Support Program offered by the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute focused on building a virtual telemedicine platform to deliver interprofessional clinical services and recently completed the Lean Launch Pad Educator training program in order to integrate this evidence based start-up methodology in nursing education.

Prior to joining us, Vetter was vice president of clinical development at VNSNY. In this role, she was responsible for leading an interprofessional team in the creation, deployment, clinical, and business oversight of new clinical models of care encompassing strategies for the delivery of integrated medical and behavioral primary healthcare, transitional, and palliative care. She has administrative experience in nurse managed primary healthcare centers and, most recently, was the nursing administrator of a professional corporation designed to provide home based primary care.