Lusine Poghosyan, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, is the Stone Foundation and Elise D. Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health. She is also the Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Delivery Research and Innovation. Dr Poghosyan is an internationally recognized nurse scientist with expertise in primary care, the nurse practitioner workforce, and the quality and outcomes of patient care. Her studies produce evidence on eliminating policy and organizational barriers facing the primary care nurse practitioner workforce so these clinicians can maximally contribute to patient care and health equity.
Dr. Poghosyan is the Principal Investigator on multiple federal- and foundation-funded research projects, including those funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute on Aging, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Nurses Foundation, and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing among others. She has published about 150 manuscripts.
Dr. Poghosyan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the New York Academy of Medicine, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She has received multiple awards, including the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame from Sigma Theta Tau International and Mentorship and New Investigator Awards from AcademyHealth’s Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues.