Mathy Doval Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN, received her undergraduate and graduate education at Columbia University. She taught at Lehman College of the City University of New York and at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she directed the geriatric nurse practitioner program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Teaching Nursing Home Program. Since 1991 she has been the Independence Foundation Professor and Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for the Advancement of Geriatric Nursing at New York University. Dr. Mezey has authored 5 books and has over 60 publications that focus on the preparation of advanced practice nurses to care for older adults, nursing practice with older adults and bioethical issues that affect decisions at the end of life. She is Editor for the Springer Series in Geriatric Nursing and of the Springer publication The Encyclopedia of Elder Care. Dr. Mezey is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, sits on the board of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and is Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University.
Ivo Abraham, PhD, FAAN is the president and CEO of the Epsilon Group, an international healthcare research and consulting company and Clinical Professor of Nursing at the University of Virginia. Over the past two decades, Ivo's clinical research and development efforts have focused on aging, mental health nursing, and the integration of quantitative methods in nursing research. Previously, Dr. Abraham was on the faculty in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine at the University of Virginia and founding Director of the Center of Aging and Health and the NIMH Rural Mental Health Research Center.
DeAnne Zwicker, DrNP, APRN, BC, is an ANCC certified adult primary care and geriatric nurse practitioner. She is currently a Senior Advisor for The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University's College of Nursing and a doctoral student at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She was managing editor and co-author of two chapters in Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice, 2nd Edition (awarded Geriatric book of the year, 2003 by AJN) and editor of the Hartford Institute's on-line Gerontologic Nursing Certification Review Course. Her clinical practice includes being a Clinical Services Manager for a managed care company providing nurse practitioners in long term care and clinical faculty at NYU Division of Nursing in the advanced practice adult and geriatric nurse practitioner programs. Ms. Zwicker has been a registered nurse for over 30 years in acute care including medical ICU, oncology, and general medicine. She has been a nurse practitioner for 15 years with extensive clinical experience working in adult primary care and with geriatric populations in multiple settings including long-term care, primary care, subacute care, and rehabilitation.
Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, is The Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at New York University. She received her bachelor's degree from Skidmore College, her master's and doctoral degrees from Boston College and her Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Post-Master's Certificate from New York University. Dr. Fulmer joined the faculty of New York University in 1995 and is currently a member of the Executive Committee for the new Medical School curriculum and also serves as an attending in nursing at the NYU Langone Medical center. Her annual honors colloquium entitled "Comfort and Suffering," an interdisciplinary course in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as the College of Nursing, is highly subscribed. Dr. Fulmer's program of research focuses on acute care of the elderly and specifically, elder abuse and neglect. She served on the National Research Council's panel to review risk and prevalence of elder abuse and neglect and has published widely on this topic. She has received the status of Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the Gerontological Society of America ,and the New York Academy of Medicine. She has served as a member of the National Committee for Quality Assurance geriatric measurement assessment panel and is currently on the Veteran's Administration Geriatrics and gerontology Advisory Committee. She completed a Brookdale National Fellowship and is a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academies of Practice. Dr. Fulmer was the first nurse elected to the board of the American Geriatrics Society and the first nurse to serve as the president of the Gerontological Society of America. She is a trustee of Skidmore College, Bassett Hospital, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
