Juliette Shellman, Ph.D., APHN-BC

Dr. Juliette Shellman recently joined the faculty as an Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing. Dr. Shellman is a certified community health clinical nurse specialist with a focus on improving care to older adults. She has had a broad range of community experiences including international work involving collaborative projects with colleagues at the University of Cartegna, Spain and graduate work with Dr. Bette Gebrian in Jeremie, Haiti.

While at the University of Connecticut, she was instrumental in the development of the award winning CARELINK model of care for older adults in the community. In this community-university partnership nursing students, during their community health practicum, provide services to older adults no longer eligible for compensated care through the regular visiting nurse services. CARELINK, has been noted as one of the top 20 community-university partnership programs by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and has been successfully replicated by the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and NYU. She presently serves as a consultant to agencies and academic institutions throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts in the development of community-university partnerships.

Dr. Shellman, a recipient of a John A Hartford Foundation, Claire M Fagin Fellowship and a 2007 Yale Center for Clinical Investigation Clinical Translational Scholar Award, focuses her community-based program of research on the development of a peer reminiscence program to decrease depressive symptoms in older African-Americans.