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Karen Devereaux Melillo, PhD, A-GNP-C, FAANP, FGSA (UML Website Bio), is Professor Emerita, UMass Lowell’s Solomont School of Nursing (SSON) UMass Lowell Solomont School of Nursing and former Director, Center for Gerontology Research and Partnerships Center for Gerontology Research and Partnerships (2014-2021). She was Interim Dean (2014-2019) and Chair (2005-2014) for the SSON, before appointment as Special Advisor in the Office of the Provost, Fall 2019, where she led the Age-Friendly University (AFU) initiative UMass Lowell Age Friendly University Initiative. Her major research focus is gerontological and geropsychiatric nursing, with an emphasis on the Nurse Practitioner (NP) in caring for older adults in primary care and long-term care (LTC) settings. She was Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I) on federal, state, and private foundation grants to promote innovative models of clinical and interprofessional education at the baccalaureate and MS NP levels. She served nearly 10 years as PI on U.S. DHHS, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)- and Mass. Department of Public Health-funded nursing workforce diversity projects to bring diversity to nursing with recruitment, retention, and graduation of educationally and economically disadvantaged students UMass Lowell Bring Diversity to Nursing. She was Co-I on the HRSA-funded Advanced Nursing Education grant, “DNPs Caring for the Underserved”. She is Co-I and Co-PI on interdisciplinary Age Friendly Lowell (Tufts Health Plan Foundation, 2020-2023) and AFU (Gerontological Society of America/AARP/Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education, 2021) grants. She received the inaugural National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Excellence Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing Award, 2018, and the AJN Book of the Year Award AJN Book of the Year Award for Geropsychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Geropsychiatric and mental health nursing (2nd ed.) (Melillo & Houde, 2011). In 2020, Dr. Melillo was selected as a Living Legend in Massachusetts Nursing by the ANA-Massachusetts [https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.anamass.org/resource/resmgr/newsletter/Massachusetts_Report_on_Nurs.pdf Living Legends Mass. Report on Nursing Feb 2022, p. 15]. She currently Chairs the Research Committee of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (2021-2023) AANP Research Committee Chair, is an Accreditation Evaluator for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) CCNE Evaluators, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing Journal of Gerontological Nursing Editorial Board and Journal of Professional Nursing Journal of Professional Nursing Editorial Board. Additional publication information can be found at ORCID Karen Devereaux Melillo