Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP is a Professor in the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, co-directs the Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Program and the Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan Research Center of Excellence, holds the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology, and does clinical work at Roland Park Place. Her research program is focused on optimizing function and physical activity among older adults, facilitating healthy behaviors among older adults across all settings of care, exploring resilience and genetics on function and physical activity, and testing dissemination and implementation of interventions in real world settings. This work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Care Quality, and Foundations such as the Helen and Leonard Stulman Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Resnick has over 200 published articles, numerous chapters in nursing and medical textbooks, and books on Restorative Care and Resilience in Older adults. She has held leadership positions in multiple organizations including the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Omnicare Pharmacy and Therapeutics Advisory Board, Gerontological Society of American and the American Geriatrics Society. Currently she holds leadership positions on the following boards: Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Foundation, the American Medical Directors Association Foundation, the National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Excellence, the Omnicare Pharmacy and Therapeutics Advisory Board and is the Vice President elect of the Gerontological Society of America.
As both a clinician and academician, Dr. Resnick has received a number of honors the most recent of which include a 2014 Honorary Doctor of Science from State University of New York on behalf of the SUNY Board of Trustees; the 2015 Dennis W. Jahnigen Memorial Award from the American Geriatrics Society; a 2015 inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame; and the 2015 University of Maryland Regents Award for Mentoring. In addition to her own publications, Dr. Resnick is actively engaged in helping others disseminate their research and clinical work. She has been the editor of the journal Geriatric Nursing since 2006, is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, Translational Behavioral Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. She has presented on clinical as well as research related topics nationally and internationally.
Dr. Resnick has an extensive history working across disciplines in teaching, research and in practice settings. This translates into policy initiatives and she works among interdisciplinary groups at the policy level. She was a member of the Assisted Living Workgroup, currently represents the American Geriatrics Society on the Eldercare Workforce Alliance and has worked on focused initiatives relevant to care of older adults with the American Geriatrics Society, the American Medical Directors Association, the Gerontological Society of America and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. She is well recognized for her expertise in multiple areas and has served on numerous Technical Expert Panels addressing quality measures across all settings of care as well as those specific to nursing homes and programs such as the PACE program. Examples of involvement include serving on the Technical Expert Panels for the development of measures that will be aligned with the IMPACT Act of 2014; to revise the Late Life Loss in Function Quality Indicators for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (served as Chair); and the Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Prevention Tool development. She has worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid on the implementation of numerous initiatives related to the Minimum Data Set development and implementation and implementation of quality initiatives such as decreasing antipsychotic use in nursing homes and other settings of care.
Dr. Resnick’s involvement in behavior change and health promotion activities has been central to all of her work. Further she is an active member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and was on the board for two terms as Member-at-Large, served as their Special Interest Group Chair for multiple terms, is on the editorial board for Translational Behavioral Medicine and was on the conference planning committee for multiple terms.