Cheryl Dellasega, PH.D.
Cheryl Dellasega, PhD, RN, CRNP, is a Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine and a nursing research consultant to Penn State Health. She obtained her RN at Lancaster General Hospital, her BSN at Millersville State University, her MS and CRNP at the University of Delaware, her PhD from Temple University, and her MFA from Rosemont College. She is the award-winning author of the nonfiction books Surviving Ophelia, Girl Wars, Mean Girls Grown Up, The...See more
Cheryl Dellasega, PhD, RN, CRNP, is a Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine and a nursing research consultant to Penn State Health. She obtained her RN at Lancaster General Hospital, her BSN at Millersville State University, her MS and CRNP at the University of Delaware, her PhD from Temple University, and her MFA from Rosemont College. She is the award-winning author of the nonfiction books Surviving Ophelia, Girl Wars, Mean Girls Grown Up, The Starving Family, Forced to Be Family, and When Nurses Hurt Nurses, now in its second edition. Her current clinical work is with adolescent girls through her programs Club and Camp Ophelia. Her research on geriatric nursing, psychosocial aspects of health, and relational aggression has been widely published and presented to international audiences. See less