Dr. Annie Rohan is a dual-certified Nurse Practitioner whose academic achievements rest on the foundation of a 25-year clinical career caring for critically and chronically ill infants and children and high-risk families.
Dr. Rohan has been awarded more than $10 million in federal grant funding to develop scalable, sustainable educational programs that address the shortage of primary care providers in medically underserved regions. These programs have engaged dozens of students drawn from underserved and remote neighborhoods, through graduate education, and back to their communities where they collectively impact thousands of families as primary care providers, healthcare mentors, and role models. She has studied and published several papers on developing evidence-based practice and writing competencies in healthcare students, and the mentorship of environmentally or educationally disadvantaged healthcare students.
Dr. Rohan has served in leadership roles for many national organizations. She is a member (in perpetuity) of the March of Dimes National Nurse Advisory Council, and a member of the American Academy of Nursing’s Expert Panel for Maternal and Infant Health and Global Nursing and Health. She has also served as co-chair of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioner’s Pediatric Special Interest Group, alumni advisor for Jonas Philanthropies, and vice-chair of the ANA Individual Member Division. She is Associate Editor of MCN: The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, for which she coordinates a nationally disseminated bi-monthly practice column, is a co-Editor for AWHONN’s Perinatal Nursing textbook (now in 5th ed.) and has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles.
As a researcher, Rohan currently serves as the Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (NSF-EPIIC) Program (NSF 2433183), participates as a NIH K-Award mentor, and has been PI or co-PI on many other awards. She continues to enjoy a voluntary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University (SUNY) where she is a co-investigator of a successful, interdisciplinary NIH-funded R25 educational program pairing nursing and biomedical engineering students, and volunteers as a health-sector mentor for the Long Island Biomedical Incubator (LIBMI).