Susan Weber Buchholz PhD, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Susan Weber Buchholz, PhD, RN, FAANP, FAAN, is a Professor, Associate Dean for Research, and Director of the PhD Program in the College of Nursing at Michigan State University. She is an Adult Nurse Practitioner who synergistically engages in research, teaching, practice, and service, in order to improve the health of adults.
Dr. Buchholz is funded by the NIH National Institute of Nursing Research, and the long-term goal of her research program is to develop cost-effective strategies to increase physical activity among sedentary adults. Within her research, she uses innovative mHealth strategies to promote physical activity. Globally, she is one of the first researchers to use a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial design to explore how to optimize adaptive interventions to improve physical activity (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03558828). She has conducted and published on her quantitative and qualitative research, including integrative and systematic reviews. She has expanded her writing to the public realm and is a 2017-2018 Public Voices Greenhouse Fellow.
She is committed to high-quality nurse practitioner education and is currently serving as President-Elect on the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Executive Board. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She is also a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and served as the Chair of the inaugural American Association of Nurse Practitioners Research Committee. She has completed work as a Mentor in Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy.
Her vision for nursing is grounded in the belief that every nurse is a healthcare leader. She believes that each nurse and each nursing student brings to that healthcare leadership, unique and important gifts. Her energy and passion for nursing have promoted a successful and sustained professional career as a researcher, educator, clinician, and nursing leader.