Advisors

Deborah Witt Sherman, PhD, APRN, ANP, PCM, BC, FAAN

Dr. Sherman is an associate professor with tenure in the Division of Nursing at New York University where she is the program coordinator of the first nurse practitioner palliative care master’s program in the United States. Dr. Sherman’s background in critical care nursing, hospice nursing, and her certification as an adult nurse practitioner, as well as her research focus on populations with life threatening and terminal illness, are foundational to her expertise and commitment to palliative care. Dr. Sherman currently coordinates and teaches in the Palliative Care Master’s and Post-Master’s Certificate Programs, teaches undergraduate health assessment, and a nursing science and social science theory course in the graduate nursing program. She serves as chairperson or dissertation committee member for several doctoral students.