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Karen Devereaux Melillo, PhD, A-GNP-C, FAANP, FGSA (she/her/hers)

Professor Emerita
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States


Karen Devereaux Melillo, PhD, A-GNP-C, FAANP, FGSA, is Professor Emerita, UMass Lowell’s Solomont School of Nursing (SSON) and former Director, Center for Gerontology Research and Partnerships (2014-2021). She was Interim Dean (2014-2019) & Chair (2005-2014) for SSON, before appointed Special Advisor in the Office of the Provost, Fall 2019, where she served as lead for the Age-Friendly University (AFU) initiative. Her major research is on gerontological and geropsychiatric nursing, with an emphasis on the NP in caring for older adults in primary care and LTC settings. She was PI or Co-Investigator (Co-I) on federal, state, and private foundation grants to promote innovative models of clinical and interprofessional education at the baccalaureate and MS NP levels. She served nearly 10 years as PI on HRSA- and Mass. Department of Public Health-funded nursing workforce diversity projects to bring diversity to nursing with recruitment, retention, and graduation of educationally and economically disadvantaged students currently underrepresented in nursing. She was Co-I on the HRSA-funded Advanced Nursing Education grant, “DNPs Caring for the Underserved”. She is Co-I and Co-PI on interdisciplinary Age Friendly Lowell (Tufts Health Plan Foundation, 2020-2023) and AFU (Gerontological Society of America/AARP/Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education, 2021) grants. She received the inaugural National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Excellence Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing Award, 2018, and received the AJN Book of the Year Award for Geropsychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (Melillo & Houde, 2011). In 2020, Dr. Melillo was selected as a Living Legend in Massachusetts Nursing by the ANA-Massachusetts.

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