BIOGRAPHY

Mathy Mezey, Ed.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.

Biography

Mathy Mezey, Ed.D., received her undergraduate and graduate education at Colombia University. She worked as a public health nurse and at Jacobi Hospital in New York City. Dr. Mezey taught at Lehman College of the City University of New York. For 10 years she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she directed the geriatric nurse practitioner program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Teaching Nursing Home Program. Since 1991 she has been the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing Education, Division of Nursing, Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. In 1996, Dr. Mezey assumed the position of director of the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University.  

Dr. Mezey has authored 10 books and has contributed to more than 60 publications that focus on the preparation of advanced practice nurses to care for older adults, nursing practice with older adults, and bioethical issues that affect decisions at the end of life.  A member of the American Academy of Nursing, Dr. Mezey is editor for the Springer Series in Geriatric Nursing and of the Springer publication The Encyclopedia of Elder Care. Her current research and writing focus on quality of care for older people in hospitals and long-term care facilities.

Dr. Mezey is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America, sits on the board of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and is Trustee Emeritus, Columbia University.