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Annemarie Dowling-Castronovo is an Associate Professor of Nursing at The Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York. She taught in the Learning Community, Emerging Global Health Concerns, in the First Year Program of the Wagner Plan in which she implemented a project supported by a Fox Family Grant for Civic Engagement. She served as a member of the college-wide Academic Policy Committee for two terms, a year of which as Chairperson. She has taught undergraduate nursing courses including: health assessment, medical–surgical nursing, and community nursing; each of which she integrates best nursing practices for the care of older adults. In addition, she teaches an evidence-based course at the graduate level each fall.

She earned her AAS and BS degrees from The College of Staten Island, City University of New York, MA from New York University, and PhD in nursing from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She was a Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar, 2008-2012. Her dissertation, funded by the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veteran’s Healthcare and Epsilon Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, revealed the substantive Grounded Theory of Regaining Control that illuminated how older adults responded to episodes of new-onset UI during their hospitalization. She served as Chairperson of the Inaugural Alumni Advisory Council for Jonas Philanthropies 2016-2018.

A nurse since 1989, she has practiced as a staff nurse and a gerontologic nurse practitioner in settings such as organ transplant, cardiothoracic acute care, long-term care, ambulatory care, home care, and a continence program. Prior to her appointment at Wagner College, she held academic appointments at New York University and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. At NYU her work as Project Director, for an American Association of Colleges of Nurses Grant on Enhancing Geriatric Nursing Education for Undergraduate Baccalaureate Nursing Programs, was instrumental in receiving The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing/American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Award for Baccalaureate Education in Geriatric Nursing – 2003. She serves as an advisor to the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing.

Annemarie has published about topics, such as teaching nurses about geriatrics, lower-urinary tract symptoms, and urinary incontinence in older adults. Having served as a reviewer for Urological Nursing Journal, she currently serves on the editorial board. She also practices as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner on the Palliative Care Team at Staten Island University Hospital, Northwell Health.