Patricia A. Reidy

Patricia A. Reidy serves as Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, School of Nursing, where she drives academic strategy and interprofessional education initiatives. A board-certified family nurse practitioner (FNP-BC), she maintains active clinical practice at Worcester’s Family Health Center serving underserved populations.

Her educational trajectory spans a nursing diploma from Fall River School of Nursing, BSN from Fitchburg State College, MS from University of Lowell, and DNP from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Research priorities center on:

• Team-based chronic disease management models
• Academic-clinical partnership frameworks
• Vulnerable population care innovation
• Health equity curriculum integration
• Interprofessional practice dissemination

Major accolades include American Academy of Nursing Fellowship (2020), National Academies of Practice Distinguished Fellowship, and the US Public Health Service’s Interprofessional Collaboration Award. As Principal Investigator for a $2.3M HRSA grant, she pioneered a student-faculty practice model delivering primary care for multi-morbid patients—now nationally adopted as a standard for interprofessional training. Her leadership catalyzes systemic change in nursing education through evidence-based academic partnerships and equity-focused clinical training pipelines.