Meredith Wallace Kazer

Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN, A/GNP-C, is Associate Professor, Fairfield University, School of Nursing. Dr. Kazer earned an MSN in medical-surgical nursing with a specialty in geriatrics from Yale University and a PhD in nursing research/theory development at NYU, where she won a pre-doctoral fellowship, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. In this capacity she authored and edited the book series, Try This: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing. In 2001, she won the Springer Publishing...See more

Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN, A/GNP-C, is Associate Professor, Fairfield University, School of Nursing. Dr. Kazer earned an MSN in medical-surgical nursing with a specialty in geriatrics from Yale University and a PhD in nursing research/theory development at NYU, where she won a pre-doctoral fellowship, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. In this capacity she authored and edited the book series, Try This: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing. In 2001, she won the Springer Publishing Company Award for Applied Nursing Research. She was the Managing Editor of the Journal of Applied Nursing Research and is currently the research brief editor for the journal. Dr. Kazer has also authored numerous journal articles and book chapters. At Springer, she published Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment Management and Care (2002), an AJN Book of the Year Award winner; Essentials of Gerontological Nursing (2007); Gerontological Nurse Certification Review (2008), and acted as associate editor on another AJN Book of the Year Award winner, Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, 2nd edition (2006). In 2002 she was Associate Editor, The Geriatric Nursing Research Digest. She is a recent recipient of the ENRS/John A. Hartford Foundation investigator award. She is an adult and gerontological NP and currently practices in primary care with a focus on chronic illness in the elderly. See less