Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, obtained her BSN from the University of Connecticut, her MSN from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD from the University of Maryland. She is currently a Professor, the Associated Dean of Research, and holds the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology at the University of Maryland, School of Nursing. She has over 40 years of clinical experience as a nurse practitioner across all care settings. Her research program is focused on optimizing function and physical activity and adherence to healthy behaviors among older adults, exploring resilience and genetics on function and physical activity, and testing dissemination and implementation of interventions in real world settings. This work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Care Quality, and Foundations such as the Helen and Leonard Stulman Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her current research is involved with optimizing function and physical activity among older adults living with dementia when hospitalized; implementation of a Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines for residents in nursing homes; implementing an interdisciplinary wellness clinic in senior housing.
Dr. Resnick has over 350 published articles, numerous chapters in nursing and medical textbooks, and books on geriatric medicine and care of older adults, restorative care, assisted living, and resilience. She was the editor of Geriatric Nursing for 16 years and is currently the co-editor of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, an associate editor and on editorial boards for numerous other journals such as the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and the Journals of Gerontology Medical Science. She has held leadership positions in multiple nursing, aging and interdisciplinary organizations including the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the Fellowship of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the American Geriatrics Society, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the Gerontological Society of America and the American Medical Directors Association.
She has been recognized for numerous national awards the most recent of which include the 2017 David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award, the 2018 Johns Hopkins Leader in Aging Award, the 2018 Loretta Ford Award, the 2019 Lawton Powell Award, the 2020 Dodd Award, and the 2022 University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Award and the Elkins Professorship and the 2023 Lamy Lecturer for the American Society for Consultant Pharmacists.
All of us at GAPNA are proud of her vision, passion, and commitment to the field of gerontology.