Sonenberg, Andrea
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Assistant Professor Lienhard School of Nursing 861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570 Phone: (914) 773-3534 Fax: (914) 773-3345 Email: asonenberg@pace.edu |
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Education: Professor Sonenberg holds the following degrees: DNSc from Columbia University, New York, NY; MS (Nursing) from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; BS (Nursing) Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; BA (Biology/Neurobiology and Behavior) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Areas of Expertise: Nurse-Midwifery and Women’s Health Advanced Nursing Practice
Current Area of Research: Health policy related to the regulation of advanced nursing practice; global regulation and utilization of advanced practice nurses for the expansion of access to care to vulnerable populations.
Professional Experience: Professor Sonenberg joined the Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University in 2008 as an Assistant Professor and is currently teaching Essentials of Professional Nursing, Fundamentals of Nursing Practice, Professional and Therapeutic Communication, Women’s Health, Maternal, and Newborn Nursing, and the Prenatal Care module in the Graduate FNP Program.
From 1999 to 2008 she was a clinical instructor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University, School of Physicians and Surgeons, with a clinical position practicing full-scope nurse-midwifery in the MIC-Columbia Women’s Health Services. Professor Sonenberg also held the position of Adjunct Faculty in the Graduate School of Nursing, Columbia University. She was a Nurse-Midwife at the Midwifery Group of the Hudson Valley in Cold Spring, NY; The Family Birth Midwifery Group in Peekskill, NY; and at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center Nurse-Midwifery Service in New York, NY. Dr. Sonenberg began her nursing career as a staff nurse in a high-risk antepartum unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
Publications:
Sonenberg, A. (2010) Medicaid and state regulation of nurse-midwives: the challenge of data retrieval. Politics, Policy, and Nursing Practice. 11(4):235-239.
Presentations:
June 2011 2nd Annual Conference of the European Transcultural Nursing Association, “Transcultural Introduction Of Health Care Delivery Models To Health Care Delivery Systems In Developing Countries”
November 2009 Sigma Theta Tau (Omega Zeta at Large Chapter) Research Night “State Regulation of Practice and the Utilization of Nurse-Midwives for Medicaid Funded Prenatal Care”
June 2009 Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, “State Regulation of Practice and the Utilization of Nurse-Midwives for Medicaid Funded Prenatal Care”
July 2009 Sigma Theta Tau International Research Congress “State Regulation of Practice and the Utilization of Nurse-Midwives for Medicaid Funded Prenatal Care”
Spring 2005 Eastern Nursing Research Society “Depression Screening in Primary Care”
