Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk,
PhD, APRN-CNP, EBP-C, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Co-Founder & President, EBP Solutions
Dr. Bernadette Melnyk is an inspirational speaker, author, leader, innovator, entrepreneur and recognized expert in evidence-based practice, mental health, population health and well-being, intervention research and organizational culture change. She also is CEO and founder of COPE2Thrive, LLC. and president and co-founder of EBPSolutions, LLC. For 13 years, she served as Vice President for Health Promotion and Chief Wellness Officer at The Ohio State University, the first at an institution of higher learning in the nation in which she conceptualized, where she also was the Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Evidence-based Practice (EBP) in the College of Nursing and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry in the College of Medicine. In addition, she founded the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare.
Bern is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences, and has presented hundreds of motivational workshops on EBP, mental health, organizational culture change, intervention research, leadership, and health and wellness throughout the nation and globe. She is editor of 10 books focused on EBP, child and adolescent mental health, intervention research, evidence-based health assessment, leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship, and wellness. Dr. Melnyk has more than 600 publications and over $36 million dollars of sponsored funding from NIH, AHRQ and foundations as a principal investigator. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nursing that has recognized her three times as an Edge Runner, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Melnyk served a four-year term on the United States Preventive Services Task Force, the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Nursing Research, and the Behavioral Health Standing Committee of the National Quality Forum. In addition, she served as dean of The Ohio State University College of Nursing and Arizona State University’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation where she led the colleges to top U.S. News & World Report and NIH research funding rankings. Dr. Melnyk currently serves as an elected board member and chair of the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and received honorary doctoral degrees from the State University of New York and Frontier Nursing University. Her evidence-based COPE cognitive-behavioral skills building programs for depression and anxiety are being used in primary care practices in all 50 states with reimbursement, K-12 schools, and universities across the country as well as five other countries. Dr. Melnyk is editor-in-chief of Sigma’s top ranked journal Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing. She was appointed to the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience in 2017 on which she still continues to serve, on the advisory board for the ANA’s Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation initiative and is the founder and immediate past president of the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities.
She received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from West Virginia University, her Master of Science in nursing degree and pediatric nurse practitioner education from the University of Pittsburgh, and her PhD in clinical research and psychiatric nurse practitioner education from the University of Rochester.