Emerson Ea, APRN, DNP, FAAN

Chair and Professor, Department of Nursing, New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York

Adjunct Member, Rutgers Center for Healthy Aging Research

Dr. Emerson Ea earned a BS in Nursing from the University of St. La Salle, in the Philippines, an MS in Adult Health from Long Island University-Brooklyn, a DNP from Case Western University, and a PhD from Duquesne University. Dr Ea has more than 20 years of experience in academia as a classroom and clinical instructor and in leadership positions. He has established faculty development, mentorship and interdisciplinary programs that support faculty to become regional and national leaders in education, scholarship and practice. He has led curricular innovations such as the integration of Design Thinking in an undergraduate curriculum. Dr. Ea is also an accomplished scholar with a focus on immigrant health and health equity. Currently, he is co-investigator of the Community Engagement core of an NIH P50 Center, the Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity (CAHPE), focused on addressing health inequities in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the New York-New Jersey area. He was Primary Investigator of previous studies on aging, immigrant health, hypertension among Filipino immigrants, and nursing education. He has widely published and presented his work in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and lay publications, and local and international conferences. Dr. Ea is also a recipient of numerous honors, awards, mentorships, fellowships, grants, and leadership positions in professional and community organizations. Most recently he served as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in Washington, DC from 2022-2023 working with the US Department Health and Human Services.