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Professor
Division of Advanced Nursing Practice
Newark Health Sciences
SSB 1438
(973) 972-6659
Specialty: newborn screening, inborn errors of metabolism, pediatric genetics, neonatology, pediatrics
Sharon Anderson, DNP, APN, NNP-BC, AGN-BC, CNE, holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Rutgers School of Nursing (Division of Advanced Nursing Practice) and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics (Division of Medical Genetics) at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Drawing on more than four decades of experience across clinical practice and higher education, her scholarship, teaching, and clinical practice focus on high-risk infants and children with genetic and inherited metabolic disorders.
Dr. Anderson’s scholarly program centers on newborn biochemical and genomic screening, inborn errors of metabolism, and pediatric genetics. A widely recognized expert, she has presented extensively at state and national forums and authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. Beyond her joint professorships, her interdisciplinary leadership extends to faculty roles in the New Jersey Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NJLEND) program at The Boggs Center and the Master’s Program in Genetic Counseling within the School of Arts and Sciences.
Her career in higher education began at the UMDNJ School of Nursing (now the Rutgers School of Nursing) following more than two decades of full-time clinical practice. Alongside her teaching and clinical commitments, Dr. Anderson has served in key administrative leadership roles at Rutgers, including Assistant Dean and Associate Dean of the Division of Advanced Nursing Practice.
Dr. Anderson earned her BSN and DNP from La Salle University and her MSN in Perinatal Nursing (Neonatal Nurse Practitioner track) from the University of Pennsylvania. Triple-certified as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Practice Nurse in Genetics, and Certified Nurse Educator, her post-doctoral and executive training includes the NIH/NINR Summer Genetics Institute, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) leadership programming, and the HERS Institute.