Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC
Kimberly Souffront, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, Associate Director, Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at Mount Sinai, has been selected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). The induction ceremony will take place at the Academy’s annual Health Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., in October.
Academy fellows are inducted in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to improve health locally and globally. With nearly 3,000 fellows, AAN comprises nursing’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, administration, practice, and academia.
Dr. Souffront has made many novel and influential contributions to health equity, nursing research, and health care delivery locally and globally. Her research has centered around the treatment of Black emergency department patients with hypertension, and the application of innovative interventions that include blood biomarkers, bioinformatics, and telehealth.
Dr. Souffront, who is also Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was the first in her field to document the attitudinal and organizational barriers to hypertension recognition among multidisciplinary emergency clinicians across the United States. This study influenced the development, implementation, and evaluation of an informatics intervention to improve nurse- and physician-recognition of uncontrolled hypertension and clinical outcomes. She recently documented that Stage B heart failure is ubiquitous in Black emergency department patients with asymptomatic hypertension—research expected to influence practice and policy throughout the United States.
Dr. Souffront is passionate about advancing the role that nurses play in translational research and improving health outcomes. To assure research initiatives align with the needs of clinical nurses, Dr. Souffront designed, led, and implemented a large, multi-center study that found clinical nurses are willing to participate in research and evidence-based practice initiatives, if given the time, opportunity, and support to learn the needed skills. This work has been disseminated nationally and internationally and has informed several significant educational initiatives.
Dr. Souffront is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing and a founder and current Editor-in-Chief of the journal Practical Implementation of Nursing Science.
“Congratulations to Dr. Souffront for this well-deserved and prestigious honor,” said Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, FAAN, Chief Nurse Executive and Senior Vice President, Cardiac Services at the Mount Sinai Health System.