UPINHF 2024 International Nurse Awardee

Dr. Minerva Salinas Guttman, EdD, RN, APN

 

Dr. Minerva S. Guttman is a respected nursing professional with over five decades of experience in the field. On August 28, 2023, she was selected as the founding associate dean of the School of Nursing at William Peterson University. In her role, Dr. Guttman works to expand partnerships with healthcare providers and create academic and professional opportunities for nursing students.Dr. Guttman spent more than two decades at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU). From 1999 to 2021, she was director of the Henry P. Becton School of Nursing and Allied Health, and since 2011, she held the Ferguson Endowed Chair. Prior to joining FDU, Dr Guttman served as an assistant dean at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of Nursing (UMDNJ) School of Nursing and chair of the UMDNJ/Middlesex County College associate’s degree program in nursing. Previously, she was a nursing professor and administrator at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn and an instructor at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center College of Nursing, Beth Israel School of Nursing, and the Philippine General Hospital School of Nursing in Manila.

She served as editor-in-chief of The International Forum for Nursing and Healthcare, the official journal for nursing practice, education, and research at the University of the Philippines. Dr. Guttman has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and has been the recipient of numerous public and private grants to facilitate research and support nursing programs, faculty, and students. Her many awards and honors include the Diva and Don Award from the New Jersey State Nurses Association Institute of Nursing and the J.V. Sotejo Award for Exemplary Alumni Achievement from the University of the Philippines College of Nursing Alumni Association International.

Dr Guttman is a graduate of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of the Philippines, class of 1968. She earned a master of arts in nursing, a master of education in adult education, and doctor of education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds an adult nurse practitioner post-master’s certificate from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She was an executive educational leadership fellow at The Wharton School Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the University of Pennsylvania.