Evelyn Lauder Associate Dean of Nurse Practitioner Programs and Professor

Email: maya.clark-cutaia@hunter.cuny.edu

Telephone: 212-481-4348

Office: Brookdale Campus, W811

Dr. Maya Clark-Cutaia is the inaugural Evelyn Lauder Associate Dean for Nurse Practitioner Programs and Professor at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. She is a nurse scientist and health equity researcher focusing on the syndemic aspects of chronic illness.

Dr. Clark-Cutaia is interested in the impact of racism, discrimination, and social determinants of health on the risks of high symptom burden and adverse clinical outcomes. She is particularly interested in minoritized individuals living with end stage kidney disease, who have been largely overlooked and are understudied. She has developed an interdisciplinary program of research focused on disparate outcomes in chronic kidney disease utilizing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies. Her research is in the community, of the community, and conducted by the community of invididuals it is meant to serve.

Dr. Clark-Cutaia has a clinical background as an acute care nurse practitioner and U.S. Air Force flight nurse and community health nurse. She feels that her clinical experience and lived experience as an underrepresented minority and disabled veteran gives her a unique lens. In addition to her role at Hunter, she continues to practice as a nurse practitioner in the fields of urology, general surgery, and colorectal surgery.

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Research on Vulnerable Women, Children, and Families. University of Pennsylvania, 2014

PhD, Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, 2012

MS, Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

BS, Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2003

Honors and Awards

Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine, 2022

Nephrology Nurse Researcher Award, American Nephrology Nurses Association, 2022

Researcher of the Year Award, Greater New York Black Nurses Association, 2021

Scholar, PRIDE Summer Institute in Cardiovascular Disease Comorbidities, Genetics and Epidemiology, 2021

Dear Pandemic Visiting Scholar, 2021

Scholar, NIH-funded Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) and Older Americans Independence Centers (OAICs) AGING Initiative Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCCs), 2020

Outstanding Young Alumni Award, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, 2020

40 Under 40 Award, National Black Nurses Association, 2019

Inductee, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society, Eta Chapter, Xi Chapter, 2011

Fellow & Scholar, ThinkSwiss Fellowship & Scholarship, Universitaet Basel Pflegewissenschaft - Nursing Science (INS) Summer Program, 2011

Fellow, Jewish Healthcare Patient Safety Fellowship, 2010

Sojourner Truth Award (Perseverance Despite Adversity), 2003

Nursing Award for Special Achievement, 2003

Research Areas

Grants and Publications