Dr. Sheldon D. Fields
PhD, RN, CRNP, FNP-BC, AACRN, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Season 09 - Episode 01
Dr. Sheldon D. Fields
PhD, RN, CRNP, FNP-BC, AACRN, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Dr. Fields is a Research Professor and inaugural Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion in the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing at Penn State University. He is also the founder and CEO of “The S.D.F Group, LLC”, a health innovation consultant company. He has over 30 years of experience in the health sector as an educator, researcher, clinician, administrator, consultant, health policy specialist, and entrepreneur/business owner. Dr. Fields is a well-known and respected HIV/AIDS prevention research scientist with a significant focus on young men of color. He is an Advanced AIDS Certified Registered Nurse and a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. He worked for over a decade as a primary care provider in a federally qualified health center with historically underserved disenfranchised populations. He is a lifetime member of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. (NBNA) and is the organization’s 14th National President. He was the first ever male Registered Nurse selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship Program, in which he served as a policy adviser to then-Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) on the Senate HELP committee during the historic healthcare reform debates and passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Dr. Fields is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the National Academies of Practice. He is the former dean of the Mervyn M. Dymally School of Nursing at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and the former dean of the School of Health Professions at the New York Institute of Technology. He has held other academic and administrative positions at Binghamton University, University of Rochester, Florida International University, and Long Island University-Brooklyn. Dr. Fields received his Ph.D. in Nursing Science from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.S. in Family Nursing, and his B.S. in Nursing from Binghamton University. He completed his post-doctoral work in the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California San Francisco.
