Dr. Norful is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner and health services researcher with a focus on interdisciplinary care delivery models and the impact of work environment factors on physiologic stress that precipitates adverse psychological outcomes in nurses. She is jointly appointed as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University School of Nursing and as a nurse scientist across the New York Presbyterian Hospital enterprise. Dr. Norful has been recognized as a leading international researcher and expert consultant in latent construct measurement, care delivery model analysis, nurse work environments and psychometric testing. She is the developer of several instruments including the Provider Co-Management Index, now being used across 5 countries in both research and clinical settings. Dr. Norful has served as a content expert for PressGaney Associates, LLC and was named co-chair of an NIH CTSA Working Group. She has served on several boards including the Tri-State Clinical and Translational Science Consortium, Eastern Nursing Research Society, and AcademyHealth’s Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues. Dr. Norful has received national accolades for her research and clinical efforts including fellowship in the New York Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Nursing. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Norful has held several clinical, administrative, and academic positions. She earned a BSN from La Salle University in Philadelphia in 2002 and joined the Department of Cardiology and Critical Care at North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, NY) as a staff nurse and then as a nurse manager and assistant director of patient care services until 2009. After earning a MSN from New York University College of Nursing she became board certified as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and practiced as a primary care provider at North Coast Internal Medicine, in Sea Cliff, NY, for over a decade. She earned a PhD in 2017 from Columbia Nursing’s Center for Health Policy and then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at CUIMC’s Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. In 2019, she was dually appointed within Columbia’s academic-practice partnership (LINK), as faculty at Columbia Nursing and a nurse scientist in New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Institute of Nursing Excellence and Innovation. Her training and research has been funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Centers for Advancing Translational Science (CTSA), Sigma Theta Tau International, Rockefeller University Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing, among several internal Columbia grants.