SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

Dyan Summers is DNP program candidate at Columbia University. She earned her MSN and MPH degrees at Columbia and has specialized in tropical disease, travel medicine and home care. Dyan works both in private practice and in home care for VNSNY, where she has been an integral part of the field team for 21 years. Dyan is the founder and director of HealthShare International, a non-profit organization that provides health care advocacy for indigenous people in the upper Amazon. Dyan has extensive international development experience. Dyan is an active fitness competitor and uses her fitness experience to benefit patients in her clinical practice settings.