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Dr. H. Michael Dreher is a tenured associate professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is Chair of the Doctoral Nursing Department since 2004. He was the chief creative designer of the Drexel Doctor of Nursing Practice degree – the DrNP, the only clinical research doctor of nursing practice degree (and only true hybrid nursing doctorate) in the country. He is also the architect of the MSN in Innovation in Intra/Entrepreneurship in Advanced Nursing Practice, also the only degree of its kind in the US which just graduated its first student in 2008. In 2007 he instituted the first and only mandatory study abroad program for doctoral nursing students in the US and has sent doctoral students to London and Dublin. In 2003 he completed a two year postdoc in sleep and respiratory neurobiology, an interdisciplinary sleep fellowship offered by both the School of Medicine and School of Nursing at Penn. He currently serves as Chair of the Pennsylvania Nursing Congress and is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (ADN ‘84, BSN ‘88 and MN ‘91) and Widener University (PhD in Nursing Science, 2000). He currently is under contract to publish three books: Philosophy of Science for Nursing Practice (with Dr. Michael Dahnke) and Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice (with Dr. Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow), both to be published in 2010 and Contemporary Legal Issues Confronting Nursing Faculty (with Dr. Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, and university attorneys Carl Toby Oxholm and John Gyllenhammer) in 2011. |
