April Ancheta, PhD, RN (she/her)

🩺🏳️‍🌈 Happy #NursesWeek & #SchoolNursesDay. Meet @AprilAncheta_: nurse researcher at @PennMedicine & @ChildrensPhila. Passionate about tackling health disparities, her research investigates how legal & school policies impact the health of LGBTQ+ youth.

Just finished a few days in DC with @NationalCSP scholars meeting with health policy leaders at @OurHospitals @WHFellows @PCORI and the HELP committee! @NCSP_Penn

Special thank you to my @ColumbiaNursing faculty mentors @tonda_hughes, @JM_Bruzzese, and @billycaceres_ for all the guidance, support, hand holding, mentoring, and opportunities you had provided me during my predoc. Everything I know about research is bc of you! #PhD #nursing

This wk I was awarded the Dissertation Excellence Award by @ColumbiaNursing for my work on school climate/antibullying policy on LGBTQ youth—& what an honor this was! TY to mentors, friends & fam who have supported me. It was great being back at CU & being recognized in this way!

Happy Nurses Week from a couple of my favorite nurse researchers, @JaneMuir__ @rachel_e_french!!! Love learning from and with you 🩺📈 @NCSP_Penn @PennNursing

In DC for the NCSP health policy trip! Excited to meet leaders in healthcare and meet scholars from other sites. ⁦@AprilAncheta_⁩ ⁦⁦@djzhengMD⁩ ⁦@NCSP_Penn⁩ ⁦@NationalCSP⁩

We kicked off our Visiting Policy Speaker series @NCSP_Penn today with senior policy advisor @WhiteHouse Dr. @CameronWebb46! Great discussion about making policy impact, cultivating a “Life Board of Directors”, engaging with community, media skills & more!👏

BREAKING: The Senate has passed the Respect for Marriage Act, a historic move forward in the rights of LGBTQ families. The bill ensures federal recognition of marriage regardless of the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of either spouse.

It was great meeting nurse scholars from all sites at the National Clinician Scholars Program Annual Conference! @NationalCSP @NCSP_Yale @ncspMICHIGAN @NCSP_Duke @NCSP_Penn @NCSP_UCSF @NCSP_UCLA

Penn nurse scholars are excited to be here! @NCSP_Penn @PennNursing

@SarahZollweg Congrats, Sarah!! 🎉🎉

Grateful to have presented at #APHA2022 on my @ColumbiaNursing work on the importance of positive LGBTQ school climates! Also had a collab poster w/ @ColumbiaMSPH + colleagues on a school-based MBIH intervention to improve teen sleep quality. Always a lovely time at APHA!

Happy to be live from #APHA2022 in Boston, Mass., connecting with some amazing colleagues in public health!

@JaneMuir__ Aww congrats, Jane! 🎊

Passed my boards today so no longer feel imposter-ish using this amazing gift a student gave me 😂😅woop #FNP-BC

Happy and grateful to be here! A bit of what I’m interested in, mixed with casual inference and school-based intervention designs 😄 (& sprinkle in almost anything queer pop culture, and we’re virtually bffs)

@oni_blackstock @DrMichaelMensah @NCSP_Yale Haha I totally misheard that, but love either one!

What a treat to have @oni_blackstock talk 2 @nationalCSP Scholars today. Instant mood booster & inspo! Fav commnt re gaining confidence: “We’re never going 2 feel rly ready. If its sm you feel passionate abt, take a leap. Align w/ ur values, rock in ur purpose, u cant do wrong.”

The first new students we’d like to introduce are @DoriAbel, @AprilAncheta_, @EmnaBakillah, and @AaronBennett!

We would like to introduce the new 2022-2024 Penn CSP Cohort. Each day we will be sharing one scholar's profile. Excited to welcome you all to Penn! Let’s start with…