Madeline Naegle

Madeline A. Naegle, CNS-PMH, BC, Ph.D., F.A.A.N. is nationally and internationally known for contributions to addictions nursing, a subspecialty of psychiatric-mental health nursing. She was federally funded to develop a comprehensive curriculum in substance abuse education for nursing and an online course on Substance Use Disorders. Dr. Naegle is founding editor of the Journal of Addictions Nursing. She has participated in numerous interdisciplinary projects on substance use disorders, served in the training core of the NYUCOM Center for Excellence in Addictions, the NYU Interdisciplinary Consortium on Substance Abuse and Project Mainstream, implemented by the Association of Medical Educators and Researchers in Substance Abuse. She is the author of reference book, Addictions and Substance Abuse: Strategies for Advanced Practice Nursing and over 50 publications on nursing education in mental health and the addictions, impaired practice as a professional issue, and clinical issues related to mental health and addiction. She has been honored for her leadership by several organizations and is active in interdisciplinary groups for substance abuse education. Professor Naegle is also Director of the WHO Collaborating Center in Geriatric Nursing Education. She is the recipient of two J.W. Fulbright Awards and served as a peer reviewer for Fulbright Public Health Senior Specialist Awards (2007-2008). She served as Chair (2005-2007) and Treasurer (2007-2009), Pan American Nursing and Midwifery Collaborating Center Network.Research interests: Substance Abuse Disorders in vulnerable populations ;Substance related disorders in elders ;Evaluation of educational materials and programming, and education in geropsychiatric nursing .

doctorate at Division of Nursing Steinhardt from New York University (1980). Has experience in Nursing, focusing on Psychiatry Nursing