Newark, New Brunswick, & Blackwood, NJ
Clinical Associate Professor, Specialty Director of Adult Gerontology Primary Care NP Program
Division of Advanced Nursing Practice
Newark Health Sciences
SSB 1136
973-353-3692
Specialty: Cardiology, Integrative Health
A practicing board-certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner who specializes in cardiology, Dr. Kimberly Prado is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Specialty Director of the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program.
Dr. Prado earned her master’s degree in Nursing as an Adult-Gerontology Primary and Acute Care and is board certified as Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner. Furthermore, she earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Rutgers University (formerly the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey). Prior to joining Rutgers, Dr. Prado taught in both divisions of undergraduate and graduate nursing students at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and William Paterson University. In addition to her robust experience as a clinician and academician, Dr. Prado is a paralegal and has served as an expert witness upholding safe nursing standards of care.
With over thirty years of experience, Dr. Prado was the first Nurse Practitioner in Cardiology at Morristown Medical Center. As such, she was instrumental in developing and implementing policy and practice guidelines for Nurse Practitioners throughout the medical center. Currently, she maintains a robust clinical practice in Cardiology at Summit Health, New Jersey.
An expert in cardiovascular health, Dr. Prado’s scholarship focuses on improving health outcomes for adults and older adults. Her areas of interest include dyslipidemia, preventative cardiology, nutrition, and integrative health. She has presented at local, regional, national, and international conferences and has several peer-reviewed publications surrounding these phenomena of interest. Rounding out this passion, she also serves as co-chair of the Northern NJ Chapter of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association.