Angela Starkweather, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN

Dean and Professor

Division of Nursing Science

angela.starkweather@rutgers.edu

Newark

ACK 302A and SSB 1433

(973) 353-5149

Executive Assistant to the Dean: Rosario Reyes-Urbina, 973-830-0031; rosario.reyesurbina@rutgers.edu

Angela Starkweather, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, is Dean and Professor of Rutgers School of Nursing. Dean Starkweather has a long trajectory of academic administrative leadership having previously served as a department chair, PhD program director, endowed chair and Assistant Dean of Research Development, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and founding director of the Center for Advancing Pain Management, with an interdisciplinary and cross-institutional quadripartite mission of research, education, practice and community-engaged service.

Dr. Starkweather received a BSN from Seattle Pacific University, an MSN and PhD in Nursing from Loyola University Chicago and served as the first nurse practitioner hired in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. Dr. Starkweather has been a catalyst in promoting the role of advanced practice nursing and was instrumental in advancing legislation for nurse practitioner scope of practice in several states. She is an avid nurse educator who has taught across undergraduate and graduate curriculum and especially enjoys bridging her work in clinical practice with the learner experience, using simulation as a learning pedagogy and spurring interprofessional education in classroom and clinical settings.

As an adult acute care nurse practitioner and nurse scientist, Dr. Starkweather has an ongoing program of research focused on elucidating the biopsychosocial mechanisms of pain and other distressing conditions, developing multi-level interventions to improve health, quality of life, and health equity, and implementing research and evidence into practice and systems of care. Dr. Starkweather has been continuously NIH-funded over the past decade amassing over $20M in research support, has over 200 peer-reviewed publications, is editor of three books, and co-editor of Topics in Pain Management. She serves on the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Clinical Practice Guidelines board, the American Academy of Nursing’s Genomic Nursing and Health Outcomes Expert Panel and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Genomics and Precision Health Roundtable. Dr. Starkweather has been a member and chair of various NIH and Department of Defense study sections over her career.

In 2014, Dr. Starkweather was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing for her contributions to nursing science and later received the Virginia A. Henderson award for her outstanding contributions to nursing research. In 2020, she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Starkweather has a long history of mentorship, serving as a mentorship facilitator at the university and school-level, on NIH-funded T32 programs, and to individual students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. In 2024, she received the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Mentorship Award, and the Southern Nursing Research Society’s Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award. She was inducted into the Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2024.