• BS Nursing, St. Louis University
• EdD, CAGS, MS , Boston University
• Post-Doctoral Study , Harvard University

Margery Chisholm, RN, EdD, CS, ABPP

BS, (magna cum laude) St. Louis University; MS, Boston University; CAGS, Boston University; EdD, Boston University; post-doc Harvard University School of Education

mchisholm@mghihp.edu

Office phone: 617-724-0480

Fax: 617-724-6321

Dr. Chisholm, an experienced nursing education administrator, joined the Institute in 2003 as Director of the Graduate Program in Nursing. Prior to that, she served as Interim Dean for the School of Nursing and Associate Dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, where she previously had served as Coordinator of the psychiatric mental health nursing specialty and Director for the Graduate Program in Nursing. She served as Associate Dean at Boston University School of Nursing responsible for Academic Affairs and Programs, and she taught at Harvard University Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital.

Dr. Chisholm is a child adolescent psychiatric-mental health Clinical Nurse Specialist  and a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in the area of family psychology. She has served as the President of the Society for Education and Research in Psychiatric Nursing and Chair of the Education Council of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses. She received the Excellence in Education Award from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association for her work addressing the integration of mental health into primary care. She has worked to address diversity leadership opportunities with professional nursing organizations, advocating for mentoring relationships between students, diverse professionals and nursing faculty.  Her research interests include substance abuse and psychobiological aspects of mental illness, aggression and the elderly, and reactions to catastrophic illness.  Dually licensed as a nurse and clinical psychologist, she has participated in interdisciplinary teaching and curriculum development throughout her academic career.

Selected Presentations

“Depression: Relation to Chronic Disease in the African American Population”, presented at New England Regional Black Nurses Association, Norwood Ma, April 22, 2005.

“Curriculum for Nurse practitioners in the US: Specialty Areas and Roles in the US”, presented at the “International Forum—Science and Art of Nurse Practitioners”  Sasakawa Kinen Kaikan, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, August 29, 2004.

“Activities of Nurse Practitioners in the US in Comparison with other Nurse Professionals and Physician Assistants”, presented at the “International Forum—Science and Art of Nurse Practitioners” Sasakawa  Kinen Kaikan, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, August 28, 2004

“Educational Collaboration between Nurse Practitioner and Medical Students:  A pilot project for Increasing Quality Health Care Outcomes at Harvard Medical School and the MGH Institute of Health Professions” co-chairperson of project with Dr. Gordon Harper, presented at National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, April 22-25, 2004.*

 “Integrated Practice Guidelines: Utilization of a Template to address essential categories in Guideline Development for Family Violence and ADHD”, chairperson, Workshop Sponsored by the Center for Mental Health Services, May 2000, Washington, D.C.

Psychiatric advanced practice nurses and nurse practitioners: Role delineation and differences in practice, presented at Primary Care for the Underserved: Bridging the Gap, San Francisco, April 2000, CA*

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