Dr. G. Adriana Perez
PhD, CRNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, FGSA
University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
Season 01 - Episode 12
Dr. G. Adriana Perez, PhD, CRNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, FGSA
University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing
Adriana Perez is an Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow, at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing. As a current Scientist funded by Penn’s Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA)/National Institute on Aging, her research is focused on the influence of community- level factors on the well-being of Spanish-speaking older Latinos with Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias.
Dr. Perez served as Policy Chair for the National Association of Hispanic Nurses; and elected Congressional Fellow supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthy Aging Program. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and the American Academy of Nursing where she currently serves on the Academy’s Institute for Nursing Leadership. As a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner at Mercy LIFE, she provides community-based long-term care for diverse, frail elders who reside in North Philadelphia.
Dr. Perez has received numerous awards in recognition of her sustained contributions to research, education, policy and practice. In 2018 she received the Senior Service America, Senior Scholar Award for Research Related to Disadvantaged Older Adults by the Gerontological Society of America. This year she was named winner of the annual University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Graduate Student Organization Outstanding Nurse Educator Award.
Adriana is originally from Yuma, Arizona - a predominantly migrant Latino, farm-working community at the U.S.-Mexico border. She received her BSN, MSN and PhD from Arizona State University, College of Nursing & Health Innovation where she also completed a Claire M. Fagin Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence.
