CAPNA Practitioners

Founder

Primary Care Providers

Mary O'Neil Mundinger, DrPH, RN

Mary O'Neil Mundinger is the Centennial Professor in Health Policy and Dean of Columbia University School of Nursing. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the New York Academy of Medicine.In 1994 the Association of Academic Health Centers named Dr. Mundinger an AHC Scholar in Academic Administration and Health Policy. In 1993 President Clinton appointed her to the Health Professionals Review Group, which analyzed the President's plan to reform the health care system before he presented it to Congress. Dr. Mundinger also serves as a member of the Commonwealth Fund Commission on Women's Health. Dr. Mundinger was President of Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research in 1995-96. In 1984-85, she received a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship and worked as a staff member for Senator Kennedy on the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Dr. Mundinger holds a doctorate in public health from Columbia University School of Public Health, and in 1996 she was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary) from Hamilton College. She is a noted health policy expert, primarily known for her work on workforce issues and primary care. She is the author of Home Care Controversy: Too Little, Too Late, Too Costly (1983) and Autonomy in Nursing (1980). She has led Columbia's nursing school since 1986.

Karen Desjardins, DNP, ANP, GNP

Dr. Desjardins is Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing and Director of the Combined BS/MS Nursing Program at Columbia University School of Nursing. She holds a BS in Nursing from the Medical College of Georgia, and an MS, MPH and a DrNP from Columbia University School of Nursing. She is certified in Geriatric Health by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and in Adult Health by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Dr. Desjardins research and practice interests include chronic care in the elderly, travel medicine and informatics-based nursing education.

Melissa Kramps, MS, ANP, GNP

Melissa Kramps is Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing and Director of the Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Program at Columbia University School of Nursing. She holds a BS in Nursing from Fairfield University and a Master of Science from Columbia University School of Nursing. She is certified in Adult Health by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and in Geriatric Health by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Ms. Kramps practice interests include the interdisciplinary approach to meeting the needs of the aging population and travel medicine.

Caroline Sullivan, MS, ANP

Caroline Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. She received a BS from Boston College School of Nursing, an MBA from Suffolk University and an MS from the University of Connecticut School of Nursing.  She is certified in Adult Health by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Ms Sullivan’s practice interests include occupational health, travel medicine and women’s health.

Kristine Takamiya, DNP, ANP

Dr. Takamiya is Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. She received a BS in Nursing from the University of Rochester and an MS and DrNP from Columbia University School of Nursing. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in Adult Health. Ms. Takamiya’s research interests include nutrition, occupational health and infectious diseases.

CAPNA's Nurse Practitioners are listed as Primary Care Providers (PCPs) with most of the major healthcare insurers and are recognized Medicare providers. We are fully credentialed to provide adult primary care with the following managed care organizations:

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