Fang Yu, PhD, GNP-BC, FN, FGSA

Professor, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University

Adjunct Member, Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Fang Yu, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN is Professor, Edson Chair in Dementia Translational Nursing Science, and Director of ASU Roybal Center for Older Adults Living Alone with Cognitive Decline at Arizona State University Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation.

Yu received her BS from Peking University Health Science Center and MS as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner and PhD in gerontological nursing from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She completed a 2-year John A. Hartford Claire M. Fagin Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Pennsylvania State University College of Nursing. She joined the University of Minnesota School of Nursing as an Assistant Professor in 2006 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and Professor in 2018. She held Long-Term Care Professorship and was Chair of the Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative. Dr. Yu is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of the America and American Academy of Nursing. Her proliferative research focus on developing exercise and cognitive interventions to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease. Her research findings have led to many peer-reviewed papers, a book titled Alzheimer’s Rx: Aerobic Exercise (Use the Approach AD S.A.F.E.ly™ Protocol to Engage Purposefully), and the FIT-AD™ Certificate Program to increase exercise access for people with AD.