Angela Marie Gerolamo, PhD, APRN, BC
Associate Professor
Contact
130 South 9th Street,
Edison Building, Suite 846
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-503-8054
215-503-0376 fax
Angela Marie Gerolamo, PhD, APRN, BC
Associate Professor
Research & Clinical Interests
Clinician consultant to Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton NJ—current projects include the Evaluation of the New Jersey Nursing Initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Development and Testing of Behavioral Health Quality Measures, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; and Partnership for Patients, funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Research interests include assessing interventions to improve the quality of care for individuals with mental health problems and complex chronic conditions; mental health policy; nursing workforce.
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania (2006)
MSN, Temple University (2002)
BSN, Bloomsburg University (1997)
Publications
Most Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
Patient-Identified Needs Related to Seeking a Diagnosis in the Emergency Department
Long-term outcomes of the New Jersey nurse faculty preparation program scholars
Who will educate our nurses? A strategy to address the nurse faculty shortage in New Jersey
Workload and the nurse faculty shortage: Implications for policy and research
Measuring Adverse Outcomes in Inpatient Psychiatry: The Reliability of Nurse Recall
Core data elements tracking elder sexual abuse
Profiling the hospital-based psychiatric registered nurse workforce
State of the science: Women and the nonpharmacological treatment of substance abuse
State of the science: Outcomes of acute inpatient psychiatric care
Certification
American Nurses Credentialing Center, 2002
Professional Organizations
American Psychiatric Nurse’s Association
Eastern Nursing Research Society
Sigma Theta Tau
National League for Nursing
Awards & Honors
Ann Burgess Endowment Award, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Nurse in Washington Internship Program, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 2005
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, Temple University, 2002
Podium Presentations
Gerolamo, Angela M., Jung Y. Kim, and Jonathan D. Brown. “Lessons from Three Models of Integrated Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries.” Presentation at the Center for Studying Disability Policy Research Forum, Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC, June 2013.
Kim, Jung Y., Tricia Collins Higgins, Dominick Esposito, Mark Flick, Angela M. Gerolamo, and Allison Hamblin. “Behavioral-Physical Health Integration Pilots Show Promise for Reducing Emergency Department Use and Psychiatric Hospitalizations.” Presentation at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 2012.
Gerolamo, Angela M., Grace Roemer, and Amy Krilla. “Evaluation of the New Jersey Nursing Initiative.” Presentation at the New Jersey Nursing Initiative Annual Conference, Princeton, NJ, October 2010.
Gerolamo, Angela M., and Grace F. Roemer. “U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program Quality Review Project.” Presentation at the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program: Continuing the Transformation Conference, Dallas, May 2009.
Washington Internship Program.” Presentation at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Conference, Nashville, TN, November 2005.
Research
Emergency Medicine Foundation / Emergency Nurses Association, PI: Rising/Gerolamo, 7/2016-8/2017
The objective of this study was to develop and test a scale to measure patient uncertainty during episodes of acute illness. Findings from this study will inform subsequent work designed to develop and test interventions to decrease uncertainty during acute care episodes.