Associate Dean for Practice & Clinical Professor
University of California-Davis
Davis, California, United States
Deb Bakerjian, PhD, APRN, FGSA, FAANP, FAAN is the Associate Dean for Practice and clinical professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. Her research focuses on healthcare workforce development, patient safety, quality improvement, and collaborative practice in primary care, with a special focus on older adults. Currently, she is the PI for fiveHRSA workforce grants developing including one of the first federally funded Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Residency programs, a Nurse-Led Mobile Clinic to provide care to underserved populations, and a Department of Labor grant .
Dr. Bakerjian was a Pat Archbold Predoctoral Scholar and Claire M. Fagin Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSF where she was also an assistant adjunct professor. She earned a PhD in Nursing in 2006 and a master’s in science of Nursing in 1992, both from UC San Francisco SON and her Family Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant certificate from UC Davis. Her doctoral study, “Utilization of Nurse Practitioners in Nursing Homes: A Comparison with Physicians,” received the 2006 Dissertation of the Year Award at UC San Francisco.
Prior to academia, Dr. Bakerjian owned a collaborative practice for over 20 years that provided care to nursing home residents. She is active in both state and national organizations associated with older adults, quality improvement and patient safety. She is a past president of CALTCM, a past president of GAPNA, and served on the founding steering committee of Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes. She is the current Vice-Chair of the Health Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America and the Chair of the Board of Directors for HealthImpact, the California nursing workforce center.
Dr. Bakerjian is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the Western Academy of Nursing, and the Gerontological Society of America.
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Friday, November 10, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET