Kathryn Fiandt PhD, APRN-NP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Dr. Fiandt has been a family nurse practitioner since 1976. Since then she has maintained an active practice with clinical expertise is in the areas of chronic disease management and practice improvement. She is particularly interested in innovative models of care for “high need, high cost” patients. She has been active in the nursing managed health center movement since 1990, serving as the clinical director of three nurse-managed health centers since 1990. In all three nurse managed centers she supported an active interprofessional practice and education model. She was at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 1993 until 2007. During that time she directed the Family Nurse Practitioner Program and became the Director of the Morehead Center for Nursing Practice. She was one of the founding faculty advisors for the SHARING Clinic. In 2007 she moved to Galveston TX where she served as the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University Of Texas Medical Branch College Of Nursing. In 2014 she returned to the University of Nebraska Medical Center where she currently serves as the Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships. In addition to being active in several nursing organizations, Dr. Fiandt is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow (2004 Cohort). She currently serves on the boards of the National Nursing Center Consortium and the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow Alumni Association.
Dr. Fiandt received her BSN from the Univ. of Maryland (WRAIN) and her MSN, Specialist in Clinical Nursing (Primary Care) and PhD (Nursing) from Indiana University.