Mary Aruda

Dr. Aruda’s research has focused on unprotected sexual activity in adolescent females and identified a new motivator, fertility fears in at-risk populations. In addition, she has assessed parental concerns for their children with special health care needs. She serves as Chair of the Content Expert Panel for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners for the American Nurses Credentialing Center and serves as a HRSA reviewer for the Maternal Child Health Bureau. Dr. Aruda is a pediatric nurse practitioner with over twenty years of clinical experience in Adolescent Health at Children’s Hospital Boston, where she was also nursing faculty in the Maternal Child Health Bureau’s Leadership Education in Adolescent Health multidisciplinary training program. Dr. Aruda continues a long standing relationship as an educational consultant with Boston’s anti-poverty agency, Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), Boston Family Planning Program. She was recently appointed to the board of the Lupus Foundation of New England.