Full Name
Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN, FAAN
Job Title
Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion
Organization
Penn State Nursing
Speaker Bio
With more than 25 years of experience in nursing, research, higher education, and health policy analysis, Sheldon D. Fields, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, served as dean of the School of Health Professions until August 2018.
Fields received his Ph.D. in nursing science from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and B.S. degrees in nursing from Binghamton (N.Y.) University. He also completed post-doctoral studies at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned a Legal Nurse Consultant certificate from the University of Rochester. He is a nationally board certified Family Nurse Practitioner and an advanced HIV/AIDS certified registered nurse.
Prior to joining NYIT, Fields served as chief wellness officer, dean, and professor of the Mervyn M. Dymally School of Nursing at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California (2015 – 2016). From 2011 to 2015, he was assistant dean of clinical affairs and health policy, associate professor of nursing, and co-director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program in the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He also has held faculty positions at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) School of Nursing and Binghamton University. Fields’s extensive research on HIV prevention and treatment among black men has spanned decades, resulting in an impressive record of conference and poster presentations, scholarly articles, book chapters, seminars, invited lectures, webinars, and newspaper articles, as well as radio and television appearances.
In addition to his academic and research accomplishments, Fields was the first ever male registered nurse selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship Program. As a fellow, he worked in Washington, D.C. for United States Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions—Subcommittee on Aging during the historic healthcare reform debates and 2009-10 passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Fields’s professional contributions have been recognized with inductions as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners; the National Academies of Practice—Nursing Academy; and the American Academy of Nursing. He is a lifetime member of the National Black Nurses Association and a former national director of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC).
Fields received his Ph.D. in nursing science from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and B.S. degrees in nursing from Binghamton (N.Y.) University. He also completed post-doctoral studies at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned a Legal Nurse Consultant certificate from the University of Rochester. He is a nationally board certified Family Nurse Practitioner and an advanced HIV/AIDS certified registered nurse.
Prior to joining NYIT, Fields served as chief wellness officer, dean, and professor of the Mervyn M. Dymally School of Nursing at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California (2015 – 2016). From 2011 to 2015, he was assistant dean of clinical affairs and health policy, associate professor of nursing, and co-director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program in the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He also has held faculty positions at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) School of Nursing and Binghamton University. Fields’s extensive research on HIV prevention and treatment among black men has spanned decades, resulting in an impressive record of conference and poster presentations, scholarly articles, book chapters, seminars, invited lectures, webinars, and newspaper articles, as well as radio and television appearances.
In addition to his academic and research accomplishments, Fields was the first ever male registered nurse selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship Program. As a fellow, he worked in Washington, D.C. for United States Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions—Subcommittee on Aging during the historic healthcare reform debates and 2009-10 passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Fields’s professional contributions have been recognized with inductions as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners; the National Academies of Practice—Nursing Academy; and the American Academy of Nursing. He is a lifetime member of the National Black Nurses Association and a former national director of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC).
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