Ashleigh Holmes, PhD, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC, is a clinical assistant professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her research interests include chronic pain and mental health in older adults, data science methodologies, and models of care. She is passionate about the older adult population and enjoys teaching about the art and science of managing complex chronic conditions, palliative care needs, and geropharmacology.
Prior to joining the faculty at NYU Meyers, Holmes was a preceptor and adjunct lecturer in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute. Certified as an adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner, she worked in primary care for several years before transitioning to subacute rehabilitation.
Holmes earned her BSN from the University of Pittsburgh in 2016 and her MSN and palliative care minor from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. She completed her PhD in nursing through the University at Buffalo in 2025. Her doctoral research explored the longitudinal trajectories of psychosocial phenotypes in older adults with pain.
