Susan Crocker Houde, PhD, APRN, BC

Professor, Director of MS and Graduate Certificate Programs

Phone: 978-934-4426

Office: O'Leary 313Q

Email: Susan_Houde

Dr. Susan Crocker Houde received a PhD from Brandeis University in social policy with a specialty in aging, a MS degree from University of Lowell in gerontological nursing preparing a nurse practitioner, and a BS degree in nursing from Lowell State College.

She is certified from the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a nurse practitioner. Dr. Houde is a gerontological research scholar with the Hartford Institute. She serves as a public policy editor for the Journal of Gerontological Nursing, as well as reviews for several professional journals in the area of aging.

She is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and has served on the Education Committee of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. She has numerous publications and has presented research findings at national and international meetings. Presently she is co-editing a text with Dr. Karen Devereaux Melillo on geropsychiatric and mental health nursing and editing a text on vision loss in the older adult.

Research interests include family caregiving of functionally impaired older adults, physical activity in older adults, and age-related vision loss.

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